Public embarrassment!

[NotSoSlimShady8]

Most embarrassing public moment- I’ll go first …

Sat on a bus on the ‘side on’ seats at the front as the bus was absolutely rammed full. I
stood up to press the stop button on the pole that was opposite me, come back to sit on my seat and unbeknown to me the bloody thing was on springs and had closed back up, i just fully kept going down until I was sat on the floor with my legs in the air. I was on my own which made it worse and every man an his dog was watching as I did my best impression of a turtle on its back trying to stand up whilst the bus was moving around. No one spoke about it which made it hella awkward.

your turn ! …

Age about 18 after having a few afternoon alcoholic drinks with a friend, I accidentally got on a school bus ( god knows why it stopped to let me on, I didn't look anything like a schoolkid) I didn't notice until a load of kids started laughing, and at same moment the cigarette I was smoking ( back when you could smoke on the top deck) made a really loud popping noise and I realised that my friend had planted one of those joke things in the end of my ciggies that make them pop. The school kids were in hysterics and I had to do the walk of shame all the way down the bus to get off
This is well over 40 years ago and I still cringe when I think about it 🤣🤣

Sorry but none are as cringe as this! (Ok maybe the head in skirt one- that's awful!)

www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4499744-To-have-done-the-most-embarrassing-thing-ever

When I was 18 or so I'd been drinking and needed some cigarettes. So off I went to the corner shop for some Marlboro lights! Except I didn't go to the corner shop I went to the fishing tackle shop next door and waited to be served and everything. It wasn't until I got to the till and asked that they told me 😳.

Also fairly recently I needed a transvaginal ultrasound scan. The lady was rooting around with gusto. As soon as I sat up from the scan table I let rip an almighty fanny fart. I couldn't wait to leave.

I was at a boxing class last week. I'm the most experienced person there so the coach often gets me to help with newbies or to help with demos. The general understanding is that I'm very good at it.

So last week there were eight people in four pairs, kind of lined up against a wall. Each pair facing inwards (so both parties facing each other).

The grip on my trainers had completely gone. I moved to land a punch, slipped and fell forwards into my opponent. My both crashed, me on top of my opponent. My opponent fell backwards into the person behind her (they had their backs to each other). This person fell forwards into their opponent. This person fell backwards into the next person. And so on.

The music was really loud and the class is always noisy with the sound of gloves hitting pads so no-one really noticed the ruckus. Only the eight person, at the opposite end of the line to me, was left standing. Please bear in mind that I'm considered the most accomplished and skilled person in this class. The shame.

I used to suffer terrible hayfever and I found myself on a particularly heavy pollen count day having to give a presentation to a lecture room full of students. I was feeling quite snotty but tactically managed to completely blow my nose prior to the grand presentation. Everything was going well but I could feel vast amounts of snot beginning to accumulate, I had a clip on microphone so was very nervous about sniffing my nose. I was nearly finished and thought I could survive but out of nowhere I did a massive sneeze, I managed to cup my hand over my mouth and nose but it could not hide the tsunami of snot that had violently discharged from it. I stood there mortified in front of a few hundred giggling students as long strings of snot were seeping through my hand and bungee diving to the floor. It was like when Bill Murray got slimed in Ghostbusters.

I went for a blood test and was running late so I just chucked a hoodie on, no top or bra underneath. Didn’t think anything of it until I got in the room and the lady said “right take your hoodie off and let’s look at your arm”…. After trying to roll the sleeve up, I caved and sat there with no dignity

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When I saw your title I was going to add my story where I did the exact same thing as you it was years ago and I still think of 🤣 I regularly get the same bus and so does this other lady who saw what happened, we never make eye contact...

I was 17 and seeing this lad from college, he was 19, had a car and I was convinced I'd marry him 😂

We had an amazing time in his parents house basically a one week shagathon, I told my mum I was staying with a girlfriend from college

Anyway we were, doing the business in the lounge and his dad walked in mid week as he'd forgotten a bag of stuff (they were only a couple of hours away) and there I was. Totally naked shagging his son! I wanted the ground to swallow me whole!!!
He was very chilled out about it and said "sorry I interrupted you, just came back for a bag we forgot, see you Sunday, I'm doing a bbq, you'll come won't you worried about money?"
Me I'm like, that would be lovely
Still wanting to die

Bbq was fine I doubt he ever told the mother

Fast forward 25 years me and the lad are still mates we still laugh about it now!

On holiday we hired a four person bike thingy, where the two at the back peddle. The front seats had a metal frame around them. I'm a bit on the chubby side and wasn't sure if I'd fit, but I slid in nice and easily. But when we got back to the hire place I couldn't bloody get out. Couldn't for the life of me, work out how I got in, so couldn't reverse it to get back out. DH, DD and my bestie were of no use as they were too busy pissing themselves laughing, as were all the passing tourists. I was laughing too out of embarrassment. I was beginning to genuinely worry that the fire brigade were going to have to cut me out. Then suddenly I was free and I vowed to never get in one of those feckin things again.

Once I was walking up one of the main streets in Dublin and bent to tie my bootlace. As I bent, the back of one trouser leg ripped neatly in a horizontal line between my buttock and thigh. I had to finish my journey with the hole gaping and my knickers on view. I was only about 19 and could have died with the shame.

Years later, on holidays in France, we went to a bull run in Saint Remy and by the end of the evening, I was standing on a chair looking over a wall at the bull truck and realised that my trousers had split again, in that same spot, and everyone who walked past had an eye-level view of my undies. Though I suppose that time, I could have claimed a bull did it.

@Cir

sorry for laughing - but😆😆😆
this happened to me in a very posh hotel on first day of holiday…
DP & I hit the bar, him on whiskey and coke and me on champagne. Both of us hadn’t eaten either…
I was tottering off to the loo feeling queasy when I did exactly as you described, the burp and the sicky dribble… however I was walking across a busy hotel reception at the time (also heaving but pretending I wasn’t🤢) I just got to the loo in time…

Thanks for reminding me of that horror!😁

Had been dating DD dad for a couple of years. He lived close by.
I would usually walk to work, but if the weather was rubbish he'd stop to give me a lift.
Was walking one day in torrential rain and this little silver Renault pulled up. I was drenched! Opened door, sat down to find some woman looking terrified at me.

There was a lot of little silver cars about at the time 😂

We were going around The Deep in Hull. It was quite dark , I put my arms round DH and tickled his tummy. Of course it was some ransom man! I made actual DH rush off but this man was everywhere.

I was on holiday in France and we hired bikes. I'm not good on a bike, but just about managed until it was time to drop them off. The bike tent had a group outside all sitting cool in the shade with drinks, looking sort of jaded. I skidded to a stop just by them on the gravel and completely slid over, scraping my arm and falling on my knee, twisting and scraping just about everywhere on my body. I sort of smiled as if I do that all the time, but it hurt like hell and i just wantes to sit and cry. I could see they were just worried about the bike and they all looked very unimpressed with me, didn't even get up to see if I was all right. I was so hot and flustered I sort of hobbled off as quickly as I could, all red faced and bloody.

I could read these all day! Keep them coming!

@CinderellyCinderelly where do we get a copy of said tape ? 😂

I went on a learn to meditate weekend at a Buddhist centre . On the Sunday we all stayed for the mass.
At the end the person taking the mass began to read out dedications for prayer.

Most were sad and along the lines of "this prayer is dedicated to xxx who's son committed suicide " and the likes but then he said
"This prayer is for Bobby the dog whose lost the use of his two front legs "

Well I was sat next to a woman I'd got to know over the weekend . As that was read out I began to get the giggles . Then I saw her shoulders going and I just couldn't stop laughing .
I had to cover my face with my scarf and people thought I was crying .....
I had the giggles for what felt like ages and we simply couldn't look at each other . And the room was silent . Apart from me and her howling .

At the end I went up to the guy and said thanks and he said "so what set you off - Bobby the dog ?" He was very gracious about it and said it happens all the time 😂.

@NotSoSlimShady8 my DH keeps joking about sending it onto you've been framed! He knows I'd divorce him haha!!

I love these threads!

Once, in public, I was settling DD on my lap and she was being a bit squawky, I tried to say smth like 'Oh you're being a right fussy britches!' But actually called my darling baby a "fussy bitch" 😳
I tried to smooth it over by saying "I mean fussy britches!" but it sounded horrific and I still cringe when I think what anyone around me must have thought.

I also once had to do an embarrassing little routine in a sort of work get to know each other thing.
At the end I was supposed to shake hands and say to my new boss, who I really looked up to, "Hello, my name's DontBuy, nice to meet you" after she said it to me first.

I did the little cringe routine, she introduced herself, then I said "Hello my name's Hannah. No, you're Hannah. I'm DontBuy"

Excruciating.

So many trips and stumbles I can't even begin...

@Yodaisawally This made me laugh out loud!

Had my thin crepey skirt ripped off of me by a massive swan.
Was left only wearing a crop top, very small pants and boots.
The park bordered a busy high street, complete with taxi rank and a full bus stop worth of people, to see me, half naked, running away from a swan.

About 19. Friend and I went to a nightclub. It was winter so both had long coats on and stiletto heels. Paid our dues to get in, then down a step to get into the club. I got heel stuck in hem of coat and managed to fling myself down the step.

I still cringe and it’s nearly 40 years ago !!! 🤣

Victoria station, rush hour, on the really long escalator. Baking hot day. I was wearing a knee length box pleat skirt. One of those gusts of air you get when a tube comes through happened at the same time as the guy behind me bent down do do a shoelace or something. He stood up and his head was under my skirt. I was embarrassed but he was utterly mortified. I felt more sorry for him tbh.

That is the best story I've read on here yet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

A few weeks ago I got confused by the toilet door signs at a retail shopping place, it was an adult and a child on the door so I assumed it was like a family toilet...

3yr dd was busting for a wee so rushed in there only to walk past 3 men urinating in urinals looking horrified at me, I instantly realised the sign meant it was the mens toilet but also kids?? (Still not 100%) 😑

But dd would not have held it in so I just carried on into a cubicle like I wasn't in the wrong, cue dd asking loudly why were we in the boys toilets about 5 times

Was in town with my OH a couple of years ago and suddenly got an urge to scratch my behind. It was really bothering me, so I quickly backed into a little corner area which I thought was covered in a brick wall, had a quick scratch and left.
My OH had the most shocked look on his face and asked me why on earth I'd just done that. Said that people were staring.
I turned back to the "wall" and realised only one side was brick....the rest was full glass where the poor people in the restaurant were trying to eat...I'd literally ran up to them, scratched my bum and walked away.

This story is constantly retold in our friendship group 😣