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Public embarrassment!

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NotSoSlimShady8 · 29/06/2022 12:57

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 ! …

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SenoritaNaturista · 29/06/2022 22:28

Once went by mistake to Portsmouth - when I should have been in Plymouth.
(I had been warned prior that I was the first woman to be allowed on the course - and I had to make the right impression if other women were to follow me…)

Incontinent in a broken down ski-lift with my legs wedged between 2 French men…

Accidentally attending an ultra formal graduation ceremony, from which I couldn’t then escape, - when I should have been in a training class being held on the floor above.

nellytheelephant1980 · 29/06/2022 22:35

I was on my weekly online team's call last week and honestly, the meeting is so boring I die a little inside. My DH rang me, so I turned my camera off and answered it and said 'I literally cannot cope listening to these boring twats for another day of my life'. Then I heard the big manager say 'Nelly, please could you put yourself on mute' BlushBlush It's not been mentioned - yet, but I have my supervision tomorrow Confused

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NotSoSlimShady8 · 29/06/2022 22:44

@nellytheelephant1980 I LOVE this and you should be proud of yourself 😂 good luck tomorrow , play it off as they misheard And you’ve no idea 🤷‍♀️

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EarringsandLipstick · 29/06/2022 22:48

Ohtoberoavingagain · 29/06/2022 14:13

I was put in charge of a group of adults with special needs to take them to a craft place where I’d booked a tour. Off we went in the minibus. I did think the place seemed very quiet and the owner seemed a bit surprised to see us but was happy to give us a tour. I thanked him at the end, off we went for a pub lunch and got back to find a frantic manager demanding to know where I’d been. This was pre mobiles and the owner of the place we were supposed to visit had phoned, concerned when we didn’t show up. To this day I’ve no idea where we went.

I keep re-reading this & laughing, especially at the last line: 'to this day I've no idea where we went'😂😂😂

EarringsandLipstick · 29/06/2022 22:49

Glitteratitar · 29/06/2022 14:59

I was having a sex filled afternoon with my bf at the time. The parking ticket was going to run out on my car so I had to pop out and buy another one. As the car and ticket machine was just a few meters from the front door, I simply put on my coat and buttoned it up. As soon as I walked out a man and pre teen boy walked past, looked at me and the man said to his son “just carry on walking”. I was confused but sorted out the car, went back in and realised in the mirror that I hadn’t buttoned my coat up fully and was flashing my vajayjay.

This was 13 years ago and I’m still mortified.

'Just carry on walking'

God that's brilliant (and mortifying!)

mumiscool1967 · 29/06/2022 22:51

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Squiff70 · 29/06/2022 22:51

Joyfultoes · 29/06/2022 21:09

My Indian colleague explained that instead of writing 'BME groups' in the email, I'd mistakenly put 'BMW groups'. I was young and didn't think a simple typo was office crime of the century until they pointed out that 'BMW' stands for 'black man's willy

wtf. In whose word does BMW mean black man’s Willy? And what’s your colleague being Indian got to do with anything? Was this the 1950s?

I don't even know! I'd never heard of BMW standing for that before that day and have never heard of it since either. Maybe they were just trying to wind me up or maybe it was an 'in joke', who knows? This was nearly 20 years ago so not the 50s. I'm just glad I hadn't offended anyone. It was an innocent mistake and I was so baffled because the only thing I related to BMW was the make of car!

nellytheelephant1980 · 29/06/2022 23:02

NotSoSlimShady8 · 29/06/2022 22:44

@nellytheelephant1980 I LOVE this and you should be proud of yourself 😂 good luck tomorrow , play it off as they misheard And you’ve no idea 🤷‍♀️

Perfect idea, I'll deny all knowledge 🤣😆

Famousinlove · 29/06/2022 23:10

When i was 9 on a family trip to the zoo, i went to the toilets with my mum and thought it would be hilarious to jump out and scare her when she left her cubicle.
I got the wrong one and i can still hear that poor old lady's scream to this day.

Popsicle33 · 29/06/2022 23:24

So funny but I don't believe some of them. Especially the vibrator in the school one 🤔

catandcoffee · 29/06/2022 23:27

@Ilikenewbedding Omg this is the funniest thing I've read. Honestly I've had to grab a tissue for the tears. 😂

spiderlight · 29/06/2022 23:28

@Famousinlove - you've just reminded me of one! Wheni was about 10, I was in the garden at home and I heard our side gate opening and someone coming up the path. I figured it had to be my dad, because anyone else would have gone to the front door, so I hid behind a wall and jumped out to scare him. It wasn't my dad. It was an elderly friend of my mum's, coming round the side way because she had a heart condition so severe that she couldn't manage our three front steps 😳 I was lucky I didn't kill her!

ThirtyThreeTrees · 29/06/2022 23:32

Happened 20 years ago and I still cringe when I remember it.

I was 16, our local under 18 football team won the league and were having an awards night in the hotel I was working. I was all excited as I fancied a lot of them. All set up like a wedding with a dance floor in the middle first the disco afterwards.

It was silver service and I was carrying one of those large silver trays full of potatoes and veg. As I walked across the dancefloor I somehow slipped and my legs went from under me. The tray went up in the air and some how I ended up covered in potatoes and vegetables. The sound of the tray hitting the floor make sure that any one who hasn't seen it happen turned, looked and laughed. I had to be helped up and hid in the kitchen for the rest of the night!!

RicherThanYew · 29/06/2022 23:36

I was using my electric wheelchair and trying to make my son laugh when we were heading to the supermarket. He had brought along a wooden sword so I borrowed it and turned the speed up on my wheelchair, then with the sword held out like in a joust, I started loudly singing the tune to Flight of the Valkyries whilst pretending to be going into battle. I did this and came face to face with an on-foot funeral procession which was very sombrely making it's way to the high street. My son was crying laughing at my daftness but became very confused when I came to an abrupt and silent stop. 😳

AprilMayAnne · 29/06/2022 23:58

Met DH for dinner and asked him to bring me a fresh top from home as we were going out for the evening and it had been a sweaty day at the office. Nipped to the loo and while sitting down, proceeded to change my top. As the result of a single cubicle and dodgy lock, the door suddenly bangs open and some poor woman, upon seeing me pants down and in my bra on a restaurant toilet, fully screams 😂 quickly slammed the door shut and immediately died laughing both through my own embarassment and because her reaction was so extreme. Very awkward to then slip past her (clothed!) to head back to my table.

whiffymissy · 30/06/2022 00:34

RooRem2 · 29/06/2022 15:41

Walking through town one day (market street Manchester if you know is very busy) and went over on my ankle and fell right on the floor. I was obviously very embarrassed so I thought I’d laugh along. I turned around and started laughing as I thought the people behind me would be, to be confronted with a lot of straight faces🙈 So not only had I fallen right on my arse, I probably looked like a mad woman too!

This has happened to me! I fell getting on the bus, looked up with a big grin thinking we’d all have a good laugh and just got a load of stony faces staring back at me. I wasn’t embarrassed until then!

ChickenGotLegs · 30/06/2022 00:47

Squiff70 · 29/06/2022 22:51

I don't even know! I'd never heard of BMW standing for that before that day and have never heard of it since either. Maybe they were just trying to wind me up or maybe it was an 'in joke', who knows? This was nearly 20 years ago so not the 50s. I'm just glad I hadn't offended anyone. It was an innocent mistake and I was so baffled because the only thing I related to BMW was the make of car!

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This was a thing when i was a kid too over 30 years ago. No idea where it started from either!

AmericanWerewolf · 30/06/2022 00:58

Can confirm the BMW thing is still a ‘thing’ now - several men at workplace have BMWs and the comment is always mentioned, and my son bought one 2 years ago and the same comments were made to him

LastMinuteBreak · 30/06/2022 01:07

I'm sorry @NotSoSlimShady8 , I cried with laughter at your post. Would it have helped if someone had started laughing to break the tension?

I once watched a woman fold into a deck chair at a beach bar and I was smiling, gritting my teeth as I watched her. She then came up to me to say "you saw that and laughed, you bitch!" I couldn't hold it in and laughed right at her, thankfully she couldn't hold it in any longer herself and we stood laughing together.

Mine would be leaving work in a lift stood in front of two men and walking out before them then leaving the building and walking 10 minutes down the road. A woman stopped me to say "sorry, I'd want to know if it were me, your dress is up at the back and I can see your knickers." Blush My backpack completely pulled up my dress at the back when I put it on at my desk and my backside was showing. It explained the breeze.

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NotSoSlimShady8 · 30/06/2022 01:34

@LastMinuteBreak absolutely!! I’d have appreciated bein pointed and laughed at tbf as I tend to laugh everything off but the silence made me feel extra twatty. 😂

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NorthernChinchilla · 30/06/2022 07:10

Not public, but still bad...

Years ago, as an 18 year old, I was with my boyfriend and his mates, and we went back to one of his friend's houses, a large farmhouse in the middle of nowhere.

Lads were messing around, so I went first and opened the door, which led straight into the kitchen.

Now, from my point of view, what happened was a totally strange man appeared, naked, with a large erection, and started ferreting in the fridge. I screamed in shock.

What happened from his point of view was that he was having a fun evening in with his girlfriend, and some totally unknown woman had walked into his kitchen, seen him naked and screamed at him.
Funnily enough, he screamed, slammed the fridge door (narrowly missing catching his tackle in it) and legged it.

Turns out boyfriends mate hadn't mentioned to us his elder brother was home, nor mentioned to his elder brother he was bringing a load of friends back from the pub.

Little eye contact was made for the rest of the evening....

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 30/06/2022 07:57

In a busy cafe at Heathrow, waiting for dh to arrive.
Got up to go and check the arrivals board, slipped on a wet floor between occupied tables, very nearly went arse over breakfast time (as my DF used to say) - just managed to save myself but in the process let out a mighty, very audible fart.

Somehow managed to summon the aplomb to carry on as if nothing had happened - God knows how.

MrsR2018 · 01/07/2022 22:45

A few weeks ago I took my son to a friends party in the local leisure centre.

He announced he needed a wee so I marched off in the direction of the toilets, burst in to find 4 very fit men looking back at me. I’d walked right in to the mens changing rooms.

I spluttered “shit. Oh fuck. shit” whilst my toddler said “what’s wrong mummy?” and one of the men helpfully said “wrong changing rooms love”

Thankfully they all had their underpants on! I was absolutely scarlet red and sweating though!

nickthefox · 02/07/2022 15:45

Oh god beet red just reading these
dh and I having a lovely laugh!

Friarclose · 02/07/2022 16:59

Shopping in Sainsburys during the pandemic. Was wearing a mask.

When I got to the till, I found that a bag of peas had split, as well as a tub of yogurt. I must've thrown something else on top of them that caused damage. There was a gross yogurty pea mess everywhere!

However the really embarrassing part happened when I put my hand into the mess to get something else out and got yogurt all over my hand. Something bizarre went off and my head and all I could think was to lock it off. Totally forgot in the carnage that I was wearing a mask.

So, in front of the horrified cashier, I proceeded to wipe a full handful of yogurt down the front of my mask. It was disgusting. I had no defence 🤣