What’s The most embarrassing thing which has ever happened to you

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I was early thirties. Car was in for an MOT so I had to catch the bus to work. Early summer, I’m wearing a long floaty skirt and sandals.

The bus arrives and it’s packed with secondary school kids, standing room only. I decide to make up way upstairs in hopes of a seat. Just as I get to the top step the bus lurches off, I step into the aisle, step on the hem of my elasticised waist skirt, pulling the whole skirt down and promptly fall over showing 50 teenagers my bare arse in a pair of knickers which had seen better days. This was 10 years ago and I’m still considering leaving the country

Haha that made me laugh out loud!

mine was when I was about 18, sitting at the bus stop and this white van pulls out and guy shouts my name, take a quick glance and think great there’s my BIL in his work van ( we stayed together at the time so thought perfect a lift home) gets in the van grabbed the seat belt over me and then turned around…the guy was NOT my BIL. He was looking at me confused saying is “insert name” not coming? and pointed over to this confused looking guy getting on the bus. Turns out me and this guy have the same name (my name is unisex) he called his friend to give him a lift and thought I was the gf until his friend started getting on the bus. I’m horrified at this point apologising, tried to get out quickly to tell the shout the guy who’s on the bus at this point but the bus pulls away! The bus in question was also my bus and meant I had to wait another 40 mins. Poor guy on the bus also missed his free lift home! I still cringe picturing the confusion on both of their faces

Last Summer I was taking a late morning shower. To my surprise my window cleaner rocked up and startled me with the brush against the window. I ducked even though our window is frosted and managed to somehow turn off the shower and get out. I could only grab the small hand towel. (Otherwise I’d have to stretch up high to reach bath towel!)… Only to walk into the bedroom to see window cleaner had moved along to my bedroom window at the same time. He saw me wrapped up in a tiny hand towel 🤣

He now texts me before coming to our house. And I now close bedroom blinds before showering regardless of who could be where.

Put me off bungalows for life!!

I should probably add that the hand towel didn’t cover very much. At all

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Similar story OP. Crossing a very busy road in Rome (here to be exact) during lunch time rush when a gust of wind blew my skirt in the air for all to see. Nuns saw my thong! My fault for trying to be adventurous with my underwear choice that day but to this day I have to cross the road every morning to get to work and I still cringe thinking about it, almost two years later.

I was 16, this was in the mid 80s and I had a boyfriend who my mother didn’t like, my dad was okay with him though.

He phoned me one Saturday night to ask if I wanted to go to a party so he picked me up and off we went. To avoid a row I told my parents we were meeting friends, not exactly a lie.

It wasn’t a party but his friend’s parents were away and it was just the friend and his girlfriend and the two of us. I knew I was going to miss my 10.30 curfew. I’d left school, had a job and went out every weekend, usually staying with friends whose parents didn’t set a curfew but I still had one.

Unfortunately, and this could be quite common still in the 80s, there was no housephone and the house was down a country lane miles from anywhere so I didn’t even know if there was a phone box anywhere nearby to call my parents. Boyfriend had been drinking so couldn’t drive me home.

Got back the next morning to find a police car outside our house. Even though my parents knew who I was with they reported me missing and the police were looking for me, as were family.

What was really embarrassing was that my mother went through my address book and woke all of my friends’ parents at stupid o’clock on a Sunday morning by phoning to ask my friends if they’d seen me.
She also located my diary and looked in that for clues.

I get why she worried but, again, she knew who I was with.

These have really made me laugh. Mine is horrific and not sharable but please take consolation in the fact that mine is a thousand times worse!

oh go on!

Oh God, I have several that still haunt me. In no particular order:

1. 20 ish years ago I was picked up by a friend with a carload of other mates going to a social evening at someone's house I'd never met. Stomach had been dodgy (I have a condition, nothing contagious) but I'd taken my tablets, realllly wanted to go, took a chance. Had to get them to stop the car so I could go behind a hedge on the way. Fucking mortified. Got to the total stranger lady's house, dived in the loo and basically stayed in there all evening. Rang my then husband to come and collect me. My friends were v kind about it but you can imagine how I felt. So stupid to go but I was so fed up of missing out on things. Many years later I have a diagnosis, better treatment/management and yet am still hugely avoidant and anxious about going anywhere.

2. Crowded economy flight to somewhere, France maybe, with two youngish dds and exh. Someone had been farting horrendously all the way (NOT me) - everyone was green and complaining about the smell. Plane noise was really loud or so I thought. I was so uncomfortable and had been holding in a massive fart for AGES. Decided to let it out carefully seeing as someone was already doing exactly that and I knew (correctly) it wouldn't be smelly. But it was SO LOUD. I hoped against hope that the plane noise had disguised it. My husband looked at me in utter horror. I realised that a) it had been extremely audible and appeared completely blatant, and b) everyone would think the previous ones were me. The looks of utter disgust I got from the people around me haunt me to this day.

3. On a quiet train coach on way back to Devon from London, early evening, with a friend. We are country mice and genuinely thought quiet coaches meant talk v quietly to each other and not on your mobile. I was talking (genuinely extremely quietly) about a massive crush I had on a guy at the time (we were both married, I did NOT ever do anything about it, it was more a symptom of the abusive marriage I was in at the time). A woman marched up to me and said something like YOU might think your conversation's fascinating, but it's not to the rest of us. Can you please shut up? I was, once again, absolutely mortified. Obviously we didn't say a word for the rest of the journey and stuck to texting! That was a lesson learned - I really had been almost whispering and thought nobody would be disturbed.

4. As a very young graduate I was doing some freelance marketing work for a London company. Sending out press releases etc. Had to go into Town for a meeting with them. The manager, quite reasonably, asked me if I'd kept a hard copy of all the ones I'd sent out. I quoted an old manager of mine in a previous role (who looking back was an unprofessional twat lol) and said something like "no, they're all on the system but hard copies would have been filed in the bin". Cringe. They were so unimpressed. Same person, I think in a different meeting, had just got married. I asked her her married name when I hadn't been told it and then addressed her as that several times when she was still using her previous name, it was none of my damn business, and made me look a complete twat. Eventually they "decided to bring the marketing in house". I had written some excellent stuff for them, but I was SO green and am SO embarrassed at my lack of professionalism looking back.

Thanks for this thread! I'm now cringing inside out even 30 years after some of them!!!!

At a big international airport. I opened my suitcase to put some last minute souvenirs in.....and all my dirty washing fell out!!! Including knickers!!! 😂😂😂 Lesson well learnt, all dirty washing gets put in a carrier bag now

OMG! Exactly the same happened to me in the '70s.
All my friends parents had been phoned in the night and I came home to find the police.
I explained that I couldn't find a phone box.
I was v embarrassed and grounded for a week.

This happened about three weeks ago so it’s still fresh in my mind. I was on the loo in one of those trains with the stupid buttons that you press and the door slowly slides open. I was minding my own business thinking I had pressed the button to lock the door when to my horror I hear and click and the door slowly slides open. I’m greeted by 2 lads probably late teens standing there while I’m sitting on the loo with my pants around my ankles going bright red. They quickly apologised and pressed the button and the door closed again. But I have not recovered from the embarrassment. I will NEVER trust using those loos again.

At the time I lived in a cute little rural village, everyone knows everyone, everyone is on first-name terms with the wonderful village postie.
In the haze of sleep deprivation and cluster-feeding my newborn DC3, the doorbell rang. I went to answer it, DC3 in tow and it was friendly village postie. I engaged in the usual friendly chit-chat but he seemed very at odds.
It was only after I’d closed the door and put baby in her bouncer so I could open my parcel that I realised one of my boobs was still fully out 🫠🫠🫠🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣

I don’t think you were wrong about the quiet coach. As far as I know, it means keep conversation quiet and to a minimum, and definitely no phones or music et cetera. She was just being bossy and officious.

This happened only a year or so ago.
I was shopping in our local Tesco with my kids and they kept jumping on the trolley/leaning on the handle with their feet off the floor. For some reason unknown to intelligent people (ie, not me) I decided to try it too. So I pushed up on the handle and lifted my feet off the floor. Obviously I’m not a 5 year old child so the whole trolley tipped backwards on top of me, pinning me to the floor whilst a full weeks worth of shopping fell all over me. I had to be rescued by other shoppers and Tesco staff. Honestly mortified.

When I was early 20's my friend and I had been swimming, then in jacuzzi, followed by a shower. We then went in steam room, window was naturally steamed up so we couldn't see who was in. Turned out to be what looked like the local rugby team, all hunky big blokes a bit older than us. We felt a bit self conscious in our tight, wet swimming costumes. Unfortunately mine was a bit baggy and saggy around my nether regions and all the soaking in water before hadn't helped. We sat down, after exchanging a glance at each other, to say we would leave shortly. As I sat down, there was a loud wet fart sound from my soggy bottom, silence, then one of the blokes said "better in than out". The whole room erupted in laughter, I was mortified but found it really funny too and absolutely cried with laughter. Still makes me smile now, really glad that I didn't see any of them again.

Similarly I had a window cleaner incident. I lived in a third floor flat and it was a boiling hot summers day, I wasn’t at work on that day and I was lying on my bed completely naked, reading a book.

Then I heard the squeegee and saw the man on the cherry picker at my window.

Never moved so fast in my life 😂

I thought of another one (honestly I’ve probably got loads, I’m a bit if a disaster zone).

I was working as a child protection social worker and I was on duty. A call came in and I had to go out to a home to check the child was OK. Knocked on the door, woman opened it, a massive dog came out and went under my dress and then jumped up at me, taking my dress with it and leaving my knickers on full show in the street.

I suppose it broke the ice…

Many years ago I was watching Crimewatch Roadshow. It was about home security and keeping your house safe. I turned it off and as I was crossing the hall I saw a figure through the frosted glass walking across my lawn towards the side gate. I flung the door open with a flourish and yelled "WHERE THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING?"
The man turned round and very calmly said " Good Morning Mrs J I'm.about to read your electric meter!"
Our meter was on the side of the house through the gate..
I kept seeing him during the day. He stared very beadiily!! 🤣 🤣

To be fair to you, that kind of thing is quite alarming if you don't know the meter meter or similar person is coming.

This happened to me, years ago now but it still makes me hot and cold all over when I think about it. Marooned on the loo while, as the train went round a bend, the door opened slowly and inexorably and a young and attractive man (of course!) sitting on one of those seats outside tried desperately not to catch my eye.
I still check five or six times that I've not only closed but locked the door as well.

I'm sorry, but

Work trip to London. Quite a few years back so I was hauling around a suitcase of printed out binders. It was 10 million degrees in the tube and I was sweating my arse off. Got to the hotel room and literally stripped naked, breathed a sigh of relief then looked up. Directly opposite me was a large window, and there was a young man at the photocopier directly opposite said window looking quite baffled and amused. I think I dropped to the floor and pretty much army crawled to the window to shut the blinds. In retrospect I don't think that got me out of sight at all, and he probably just witnessed a strange, very overheated woman crawling around the floor looking somewhat possessed. He must have been pissing himself laughing.

I've actually cried laughing at these , being ill for the last ten days this was the cheer up I needed!!

So I've got a few myself..

1- I took my ND child to school in nothing but a coat aged 6, she refused point blank to get dressed, so I took her into the office explained and they got someone to come and take her and her bag of clothes to get ready as I was already dashing for work.. As I was about to exit the building the deputy head came running after me 'Mrs X... I believe these are yours in the bag'
I was puzzled looked in the bag and low and behold my period nics are in the bag which I took and ran.

2- I jumped in a pool with my arms in the air did a spin in the water not realising my bikini top was above my boobs and I was flashing everyone aged 15 including my mum and dad who were sat in the cafe waiting for me and my friend to finish swimming (could it get much worse)

3 - down a water slide whilst abroad and my tankini bottoms came off with the friction of the slide (aged 14)

4 - had a friend stay over at my house , someone knocked on my front door early morning so I told said friend to have a nosey out the bedroom window to see who it was, it was my dad who then said 'didn't know you had a new boyfriend' I responded this is just my friend, I really wanted to ground to open up and swallow me whole because my dad knew exactly what I meant 😂.

So many more but these ones stick with me the most barring one I can't post as its totally identifiable x

@ThisHangryHelper omg I would have died of embarrassment!!!! I detest using the loo on a train!!

In 1982 a teenage me on a packed tube turned my head slightly and there was a tarantula on the pole next to me.

As an arachnophobic I screamed and tried desperately to push people to get away from it until I realised it was a gentleman's hand who had very dark skin on the outer of his hand and the insides of his fingers was much paler skin giving a striped appearance.

As we had not long had the IRA bomb in Hyde Park, some people got rattled by my outburst and all eyes were on this poor black guy who didn't have a clue at why I was causing such a commotion and looking in his direction.

Thankfully the train came to a stop and we all piled off but I still cringe at my thinking there was an actual tarantula on a packed tube train!