Omg genuinely just done the most embarrassing thing ever...

[Pinkbourbon7]

So I ended up going to a skills class...that it turns out, was for children.

Seriously I was like 'I think this might be a safe guarding issue'. And they were like 'nah, it's fine'.
And then they take me aside later on like 'actually this class - is just for kids! We've refunded you'.

So ive went back on to look at the advert and it's like

• all ages welcome (kids grouped into separate age classes).

And I read that as kids will be seperate but what it actually meant was, the kids will be seperated into groups based on age.

Literally going to have to move town now aren't I? xD

I'd assume you meant you'd like to do half of the classes. Not half of the kids xD

Oh OP, that’s really funny! You’ve got a good story to tell. It’s an easy to make a mistake.

Sorry Pink, but you really do have to tell us what skill it was.

As you're leaving the country anyway it can't matter,but curious minds have to know.

Acting class x

I once went to a class for managing mental health needs in young women. I was working towards a healthcare degree at the time and thought it would help me when it came to getting a placement, especially as I had found about about it from a social worker who was organising volunteering opportunities.

I signed up and went, they started by asking the group to introduce themselves. Everyone had stories about their mental health struggles and why they had been referred there. It was basically a class on managing your own mental health that young women were referred to by their social workers. It was blindingly obvious that I wasn’t meant to be there, and honestly would have accepted a quick death when it got to my turn and I had nothing to say.

Dh and I took DS10 to an inflatable fun session. Idea being he would play on the inflatables and we would swim around. Booked tickets for all 3 online.

Realised when we were waiting for the changing rooms to open that we were the only ones in the queue above 4ft or so and asked the man at the desk. It was for kids only and as a small pool the inflatable toook up the whole space. Thank god we found out before we got changed and went into the poolside.

Many years ago I was at a disco ( that alone ages me😁). I was standing by the side of the dance floor kinda moving to the beat when a guy appeared and beckoned me to join him. Off I went giving it my best Pans People and it wasn't until after I did a particularly lavish twirl that I noticed a woman giving me evils. Turns out it was his wife and it was her he had been beckoning ...not me. I wanted the ground to swallow me . I still cringe whenever I think of it and wonder why he didn't put me right immediately.

This does make it even funnier… sorry OP, but I can now PICTURE YOU

I went to collect my DC from holiday club one afternoon, it was one where you watch a short ‘show’ put on by the kids at the end before they go home.
I left the house in a rush and threw on my Birkenstocks, got to the venue took up a good viewing spot and realised something felt odd around my toes. I looked down and I was wearing odd shoes, one black with a toe post and one red slide on. I spent the next 15 minutes kind of standing on one leg trying to hide the red shoe. A bit like a flamingo trying to hide my foot behind my arse.
I couldn’t wait for the show to finish and get on my way.

Ooft aye I've done similar pp. Had a pair of trousers with the knee totally out of them and the arse half out too. I used to wear them around the house. Flung them on without thinking one day when I was 17 and went to school. Only noticed when I was sat in registration. Had to hide in the bathroom till my dad drove in with my school trousers.

Still probably only cracking top 5 of most embarssing moments though. Of a list that is ever growing still apparently.

I signed up for a session about grants from the water company. Was the only non-council person there. Came away with a free bag, pens and post-its. And a box of leaflets about financial help which I dropped at my lovely local library help centre.

I don’t think that’s in any way your fault, OP, or something you should feel bad about. I think you’d be entirely justified in being annoyed with the company running it for taking your money and allowing you to be in that position. If it was for children, surely they need to confirm the ages of said children in advance, and on finding that you’re an adult, telling you it’s not suitable for you.

I once went to a session about helping your kids be confident (I work for a large corporate type company and they organise lots of sessions about all manner of things).

Thing is, I hadn't read the description, and the session was about improving your own confidence to set an example for your children.

It took me a while to twig. We were doing all this group work doing confidence building exercises, and everyone else was so shy and retiring and reluctant to speak. By the time I'd worked it out, it was too late to pretend to be unconfident, because I'd been speaking up a fair bit just to help out the session leader in the many long, painful silences.

It was "a" proper class, but not "the" proper class for the PP. You're thinking of sense 1, but it's more charitable to assume she meant proper in sense 2.

They refunded me so no problems there. Good thing I didn't just leave straight off the bat or I'd be 150 quid poorer and only slightly less embarrassed lol.

But yeah even something simple like stating '18 and under' on the advert or something would have been wise 🤷‍♀️

It’s a shame you didn’t do the full course. You could have had a staring role at the end of course show 😂

Well they'd definitely think she was a pervert if she was just staring at the child performers!

Something similar has happened to me. I went along to a skateboarding class that like OPs class, was "all ages". Well in this case all ages really were allowed, but only 7-10 year old boys had actually signed up. It wasn't too bad until we put on our protective knee pads and they only had kids sizes. And I'm a large sized adult. I was too embarrassed to leave so I squeezed mine on. Of course all the kids were doing great on the skateboards, and I was terrible. I didn't return the next week!

Reminds me of doing compulsory basic training for a moped licence. Everyone else there was a 16yo lad with experience of nipping round the close on their mate's bike. I was a 30yo woman with a driving licence who'd done a preparatory moped course but still wasn't allowed out for the road test part because the instructor didn't think I was safe. They say you can't fail CBT…

I arrived a bit late for a new kids swimming class with my young son, zoomed into the changing rooms where we were alone, changed him into his trunks and arm floats, put my bikini on (and my body was NOT ‘beach ready’) and zoomed out of the changing rooms to the pool side - to join a line of toddlers about to get in the water, while all of their fully-dressed parents were seated on the opposite side of the little pool ready to watch the lesson. The teacher told me to ‘pop back and put (my) clothes on’ and ‘join the other parents’. FFS.

I turned up for a rave a month early recently. Wondered why there was no queue or loud music. Just crickets and a bemused set of bar staff who gleefully told me I was about 4 wks early for that particular event. Couldn't scurry out the building fast enough. Ugh.

@spiderlight
"My friend once turned up at a Spin class at her local leisure centre with her actual spinning wheel and some sheep's fleece 😅"

Shaking with mirth at this

Was your son a baby? Because the only time parents get in the water is when it is a tine baby swimming class. That must have been very awkward.

Yes, wearebob, I realise that now, I didn’t realise it at the time.

This thread is hilarious.