What awkward kerfuffles have you been involved in lately?

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I always seem to find myself in awkward ‘kerfuffle’ situations. It’s like kerfuffle follows me wherever I go.

Some examples include:

Walking into a wheelie bin and saying ‘sorry’ in front of several passerbys

Choosing what seemed to be the quick queue in Aldi, only to find myself behind a woman who forgot her card, machine wasn’t working, manager had to be called, etc

Sending a birthday card via Moonpig with no actual writing inside it

Being called into a GP appointment, sitting down and being asked about my menopause symptoms - I was there because of hip pain, wrong record had been brought up

Bird shitting on the inside of my car (!!) whilst driving with the window down

I could go on 😂 obviously these are fairly trivial things in the grand scheme of life but anyway, what kerfuffles and awkwardness have you been involved in lately?

I do things like this all the time. Off the top of my head, I accidentally ate an acquaintance's lunch the other day assuming it was mine 😂

Oh no! Hope it was something tasty at least? 😂

I'm imagining Ross' sandwich 🤣

Visited a friend in hospital and popped to the hospital shop to get her a magazine.

Upon my return I took the wrong turning in the ward corridor, sat down next to a complete stranger's bed and flung the magazine onto her lap, whilst swearing about the queue! 🙈

I sent a moon pig card last week and forgot to write it was from me on 🥺🫣

Been involved in far worse though, but that sprung to mind

I was speaking to a really important customer this week, one who was about to spend around €20,000 with our company. I suddenly got a hot flush and tore off my cardigan really quickly, I mean like a stripper. He was like 😳

Got in the wrong car in the Supermarket car park. I was some way ahead of DH who had they keys but as I neared a car same make and colour as ours the indicators flashed and it unlocked. I assumed DH had pressed the button for me, I got in. Oh no it was someone else's car and they had pressed the button as they were walking towards it from the other side. Everyone was confused, I did a lot of apologizing and it was just a right old kerfuffle.

Omg 😂

When people drop something off and you both don’t just say thanks bye, but instead try to make small talk and there is a big awkward silence with what to say … you basically have a big long pause then say thanks bye fml

I've had the opposite.

Sitting in the passenger seat waiting, scrolling on my phone, when dh had nipped in Coop for milk.

Driver door opens and a random man quickly bends down and gets in (really big, skinhead, quite intimidating looking man too).

I let out a yelp out of shock and scared the shit out of the bloke who jumped back like he'd been burned and cracked his head on the top of the doorway 🙈

He was so embarrassed and apologetic and was such nice guy. I felt really guilty for the squeal that made him bang his head!

Haha it wasn’t me, but reminds me of a time I was waiting for MIL in a retail park car park, watched her walk out of Next and get into the passenger seat of someone else’s car. I wouldn’t mind but it wasn’t even a similar car 😵‍💫

I probably have loads of kerfuffles, I seem to spend my like permanently embarrassed, will have a think and post later

We recently bought a new car. Going out for the evening and I locked up then walked round to the passenger side of the car parked outside my house.

My neighbour’s daughter just stared at me when I opened the door, realised it wasn’t my car (it was similar to be fair) and sheepishly walked to my actual car which was parked behind.
DH was killing himself laughing and witnessed the entire kerfuffle…

I like the word kerfuffle.

I threw my new debit card in the bin the night before the bin men came.

The bin lorry woke me up and for some reason, I immediately realised what I’d done. Leapt out of bed and got halfway out the front door shouting at them to wait when I realised I was only wearing a T-shirt.

Now I have no debit card and I have to move house.

I accidentally jumped a queue today.

The woman whose spot I (must insist COMPLETELY accidentally) stole and I then caught got in a very British vicious circle of 'no, you first, I insist' until the chap behind the till asked us, very good-naturedly, to please make a decision at some point before Christmas.

(I went first in the end. I am a terrible person.)