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I just said 'bye bye. love you lots'

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AmyDudley · 29/09/2021 16:55

on the phone to the garage mechanic who has just done my MOT when he phoned to tell me when to get the car.

Why? Why did I do that ? he will think I am mad won't he? He already thinks I'm odd because my mileage is so low because I just pop to the shops and back in the car.

My DD was in the hallway and overheard me and was wetting herself.

Every day I find new ways to embarrass myself. Grin

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Yesitsbess · 29/09/2021 21:14

I do it on purpose if I have to phone a company where I think the call handler may be having a boring day, "love you byeee"

They always say it back and it usually makes us both laugh.

Lifeandsole · 29/09/2021 21:18

I meant to say ‘lovely. Bye.’ To the insurance woman in the phone yesterday and said ‘love you, bye’ instead. Fml!

Notaroadrunner · 29/09/2021 21:18

I once said 'love you' to a barman instead of thank you. It was my first drink so can't even blame booze.

tickledtiger · 29/09/2021 21:19

I was on the phone to the bank last week and my baby ripped a loud burp down the phone. I insisted it wasn’t me but I don’t think he believed me.

Chickoletta · 29/09/2021 21:20

I’m a teacher and a yr 7 girl did this to me today as she left the room. ‘Thanks Miss. Love you!’ 😂

annacondom · 29/09/2021 21:21

I was walking up the road with my neighbour and when we got to my house he said "Bye, love you!". He must've seen the look of shock on my face but didn't say anything!

I am forever telling people to shut the living room door. When ddog was alive I was forever telling her to fetch the ball because she'd chase after it but then just abandon it. Once, at the park, I yelled at her "Shut the door"! There were people around and I couldn't look at them.

antoniawhite · 29/09/2021 21:22

@Bollindger

I once said see you tomorrow Dad, love you loads. to the Managing Director of a Multi-million pound firm. He turned up for the meeting he had arranged with my boss, with flowers, chocolates and a box of cream cakes. Seems his daughter had died a year before and he was touched to hear the words , love you dad.
How sweet and heartbreaking.
IJustLovePirates · 29/09/2021 21:24

Years ago in my misspent youth, on more than one occasion I handed my fare to the bus driver and instead of telling him where I was going said “ Can I have 10 Benson and Hedges please”

Alwaysfuckingsick · 29/09/2021 21:24

I thought I was hilarious as I teenager answering the home phone saying 'hello, joe's crematorium, you kill 'em, we grill 'em' and it was the police officer ringing to let my mum know about the boy who has smashed our window to frighten us Blush I didn't answer the phone like that again!

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AmyDudley · 29/09/2021 21:29

@Bollindger - that's very lovely - we never know what our words may mean to someone Smile

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Echobelly · 29/09/2021 21:30

DH once put his hand on his best mate's thigh in the cinema once because he forgot he was there with BF and not me! I think the fact they were watching a 'Dawn of the Dead' film should have been a clue I wasn't there :D

Fetchthevet · 29/09/2021 21:32

I was doing teacher training and was leaving work for the day. I used the back door which was always very stiff. I shoved it to shut it and said "For fucks sake, this bastard door" to my fellow student teacher who was leaving at the same time. Only it wasnt the student, it was the headteacher 😟 Lucky for me she paused for a second then burst out laughing. We never mentioned it again but I was mortified that I'd sworn like that in front of her.

honeyfox · 29/09/2021 21:34

I am laughing so much at these I can't breathe 🤣 Thanks all for a great giggle.

IveGotASongThatllGetOnYNerves · 29/09/2021 21:35

I have done similar a time or two and just managed to stop myself lots more times.

My most embarrassing phone incident was when I rang my husband because I needed him to check something for me. He said ok, I'll call you right back.

I used to have a habit of answering the phone to him by saying "Busty Betty's Massage Parlour, how may I service you?" In the most ridiculously over the top 'seductive' voice.

Now, normally I would check caller id but not this time because he was literally to call me straight back.

You already know where this is going.

It was the pharmacist.

I have never told my husband this.

Busty Betty's Massage Parlour also ceased trading that day.

Offmyfence · 29/09/2021 21:36

Oh that is brilliant, made me LOL!!

SunShinesBrightly · 29/09/2021 21:36

@girlmom21

If he's anything like my mechanic he'll be completely oblivious - don't worry!
I was just thinking the same! Brilliant mechanic and really great bloke but if you say anything to him that isn’t car related he just zones out! 🤣 He won’t have even heard you OP!
SunShinesBrightly · 29/09/2021 21:37

@Echobelly

DH once put his hand on his best mate's thigh in the cinema once because he forgot he was there with BF and not me! I think the fact they were watching a 'Dawn of the Dead' film should have been a clue I wasn't there :D
OMG! Haha!
SunShinesBrightly · 29/09/2021 21:41

@Chickoletta

I’m a teacher and a yr 7 girl did this to me today as she left the room. ‘Thanks Miss. Love you!’ 😂
Oh I love it when the children do it! I often get called Mum by mistake - even by the older ones (Y10/11) - usually boys I have to add. I just laugh! They do too. I was not impressed when someone called me Nanna though! The cheek of it.
LittleOverWhelmed · 29/09/2021 21:43

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AmyDudley · 29/09/2021 21:44

I've just remembered another awful one I did years ago when DD and I were on holiday in Dublin. We went to the botanic gardens and needed to use the loos. I went in one cubicle and DD went into the one next to me (or so I thought). I finished first, flushed and came out into the sink area. DD shouts out at me 'Mum there's no paper in this loo can you throw a roll under the door to me.

So I grab a roll from an empty cubicle and throw it under the door. few seconds later she says 'Where is it? Throw it under the door' so I get another roll and throw it under the door.

Again she says 'You're not giving me any paper'. So I shoved my foot under the door (I was wearing green leather boots) and shout 'are you in this one' and she says 'what are you doing?' so I say 'my boot under the door' and shove it under again.
Then DD says 'I'm in the end cubicle, what are you doing?'

At the same time a woman comes out of the cubicle I've been flinging stuff under the door of. Stares at me, and her gaze slowly works down to my green boots.
Then she washed her hands and left. Before I had the chance to gather myself and apologise for being a total lunatic while she was trying to go to the loo.

It happened twenty years ago and it still makes me practically writhe with embarrassment

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chaosrabbitland · 29/09/2021 21:49

i did once when i was tired say thank you to the cash dispenser at tescos after id taken out a tenner , it just slipped out , thankfully nobody behind me waiting to use it !

TarpaulinEyes · 29/09/2021 21:54

I regularly used to call my ex boss Mum. I always knew when she was annoyed with me because she would call me by her daughter's name in that particular Mum voice.

LittleDoritt · 29/09/2021 21:58

I've called my DH a good girl a ridiculous number of times.

NYEdoctor · 29/09/2021 21:59

In quite a stressful resuscitation I briefly dipped into toddler mum mode and asked a colleague to ‘ say please ‘… haven’t lived it down- People in the team still say that I expect excellent manners during a resus’