What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?

[Tuxmittens]

I’ve just had one of those moments I know I’ll randomly think about at 3am for the next 10 years…

This morning I was walking through the garden into work, talking to my boss, when out of nowhere my sandal catches onto the paving stones and, extremely ungracefully, fully just flop onto the floor, mid sentence She immediately goes into concern mode asking if I’m okay, and I’m just there, picking myself up off the floor, going yes I’m fine! whilst internally wanting to evaporate
The worst part is, it didn’t even hurt. Like physically, I was completely fine, it was just pure, concentrated awkwardness.

Please help me feel better with some of your embarrassing stories!

Both involve falling. Once when I was in a busy bar restaurant and the side of my foot caught this sort of foot rail around the bar. Fell flat on my face. Quickly gathered myself up and did this scurrying, chin up, look straight ahead walk as if it never happened. I don't wear heels so I couldn't even blame it on that.

Another time, our ndns had emigrated overseas a couple of weeks earlier. I was approaching our house (on foot) and saw a pair of suits at former ndns' door, they'd been knocking but obviously no reply. I was too busy gawping to look where I was going and again fell flat on my face. That'll learn me not to be so nosey.

I slipped on some water and landed on my bum in a busy shopping centre, I wasn't hurt but my embarrassment was compounded by the fact I had to do the walk of shame to the bus stop with a soaking wet arse 😂

I have fallen over many times in full view of lots of people.

Slipped down stairs in nightclub
Tried over very low chain railing outside of different nightclub
Tripped over own feet on busy pavement by school
Running fast in PE at school and didn't slow down in time and fell into gymnasium wall. To many to think of and try to push memories down when they pop into my head 😂

Years ago when my son used to go to football training I went to kick the ball back, it rolled under my foot and I went flying back. There was a LOT of parents there. My cheeks still burn at the memory.
I used to work in a shop years ago and the v handsome new manager, first day, was walking past as I jumped on a very stiff cardboard box, the box never dented at all and I tumbled towards his feet. He never even laughed, just looked concerned and helped me up. 😂

Worthing seafront, busy bank holiday. I stepped on a pebble, fell over and displayed my knickers to many, many people. People kindly came to my aid like they do when someone has ‘had a fall’. I’m 62.

Two instances immediately spring to mind:

I squatted down to pick up a file at work and audibly farted in front of a room full of clients in reception.

On a night out with colleagues, we went to a bar where a singer was performing with his guitar on a low stage. I was already pissed at this point, couldn't read the cocktail menu and just randomly pointed at one. When leaving, I tripped over the stage, managed to take out the singer's microphone with my flailing arm (he carried on singing and strumming like a pro) and ended up on the floor in between the stage and the punters. Staff had to help me up. I'm never going to that bar again!

Being told about this amazing naturist beach. It was amazing until we (me and ex husband) noticed everyone else had clothes on and we were getting very dirty looks.
It had been a naturist beach years ago but not any more and we were told to leave in no uncertain terms 😐

I was working in Boston.
Was staying in a flat in Beacon Hill-very neighbourhood-y vibe.

Used to walk to work and went into the same teeny tiny little local coffee shop every day.
Def had a crush on the barista.

It was a very tight space and always a queue.
I was standing at the front and the woman behind me had a horrified look on her face.
Wordlessy she pointed down at my feet (so everyone in the queue's eyes followed to where she was pointing) when yesterday's knickers were hanging out the bottom of my jeans.
I then had to bend over in the very tight space, jostling everyone to retrieve them and put them in my pocket.
It was a very long and torturous reach to the bottom of my jeans. 😵

In my defence it was very snowy and had taken everything off in one go last night and straight in hot bath, then jeans back on for walk to office where I changed.

I got given a wedgie at school.

Walked for half an hour through a city centre with my skirt caught in my knickers 😳 The shame!

Then a couple of years later on a bus a woman gets on with her skirt tucked into her knickers. Thought I’d spare her the shame and tapped on her shoulder and quietly told her. Turns out she was a total nut job who started shouting she didn’t care her arse was hanging out, ‘I have a great arse’, who are you trying to shame me? Etc. Well again I was mortified and couldn’t wait for the next stop.

When I was 15 I was at a swimming training camp. My period came 10 days early. I didn't expect it, and had no cramps ahead of it and literally no other symptoms and I had a regular cycle from when I was about 12.

At the end of a training session, I just got out of the pool and there was a trail of blood dripping down my leg and onto the tiles. None of the coaches had noticed it in the pool because of all the churn in the water. Thankfully, none of the other kids ever said anything (that I knew of) and the coaches were very discrete.

It's every female swimmers worst nightmare come true and I still have flashbacks.

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You need this song OP from Flo and Jo ( starts 32 seconds into the video above)

I flashed, by accident may I add, my whole right boob to the postman. Does that count? 😂

When my DD was little, I opened the door to him to collect a parcel, carrying my small DD on my hip. I had a vest top on, no bra, as it was early morning. My LO decided this was a great time to grab my top and pull it down. Right boob sprang out of my top, and the poor postie just didn't know where to look.

I was mortified but just popped it back in and tried to laugh it off but I am sure my right boob was the joke of the sorting office when he got back from his rounds.

Bournemouth Air Festival. Rented a beach hut and had little picnic tables on the prom. Thousands of people around. I opened my little chair, sat down and went completely backwards as I hadn't unfolded it properly. People just stepped over me until I could get up 😂

Oh, accidently tried to stalk the new hot manager at work. Typed his name into my status bar instead of the search bar. Left it there for hours, completely unaware until my friend messaged to ask me why. FB was relatively new back then. Oh the shame

Many years ago, I was chatting to a new neighbour over the fence at our old house. First time we'd ever met and I had a tiny kitten in my arms (I think he'd been "let go" by his mother's owner too early as he was tiny enough to fit into one palm and he was a ball of black fluff with blue eyes).
NDN and I were chatting and she was cooing over the sleeping kitten but I got a sudden horrendous tummyache and desperate urge to go to the toilet but she was chatting away and I didn't want to appear rude so I sat down to try and ease the pain in my tummy.

The most booming fart I've ever done in my life was released by the bending motion and she stopped mid-sentence staring at me - I froze and then looked at this TINY kitten in my arms to see if I could feasibly blame it on him, realised I couldn't so just blustered in a horrified breathless tone "I am soooo sorry! I haven't been very well!" and rushed indoors.

My DH was roaring with laughter as he'd heard it from our dining room.

She was actually a great neighbour as it happened and we never mentioned it again.

I used to work in Asda. And alone managed the electrical section. Hoovers,watches, irons, also LP’s. I hated the Goblin hoovers as everytime I sold one I knew it would come back.

One week I had for some reason a complete blank when it came to ordering. You ordered once a week. Went round and if you needed some kettles just place a 1 in the box, as a box of four would come. I went round placing 4 instead of 1 against items. From hoovers to light bulbs. So I was getting four boxes of four.
They sent two massive lorries from Liverpool down for my section. In addition to the massive order Head Office sent a concession to add.
I do want to say in my defence the supervisor had signed off my order.
I had to price up 2000 individual lightbulbs.
The store cupboard was heaving. It was embarrassing.

I was moved to menswear.

Years ago in my early 20s, my boyfriend at the time played Sunday league football and the team organised a Butlins weekend (including families).

It had this big pool with slides, really not my thing at all, I hate anything like this. Anyway there was this big bowl slide, you go down the slide, drop into and spin round the bowl and then drop out the middle. Everyone was saying how great it was, kids were doing it, so I pulled up my big girl pants and jumped on.

It was worse than I could have imagined, absolutely no sense of up and down, and when I finally landed in the water at the bottom, I was so dizzy I could barely get out.

Heard my boyfriend call me and turned around and he was there with all the team and they were so sweet, I got a big cheer and round of applause for my bravery, so did a little bow.

Only as I bent forward, I realised something felt odd. I looked down and my bikini top had come loose in the fucking bowl and I had just flashed the entire swimming pool and my boyfriends entire football team (hence the round of applause). My cheeks still burn when I remember.

I have a bladder condition and swimming makes me need to pee urgently as soon as I get out. After a swimming lesson in Year 6 I went to ask a teacher to go to the toilet but before she finished saying “yes” I had started pissing myself. In front of my classmates and 3 teachers. At the age of 10.

Not my finest hour

I fall and trip all the time so I don’t even get embarrassed any more!

My friend has own though - it was a dew years ago now and she had a parcel delivered. Courier said they needed to take a picture. So, she picked up the parcel and posed!!! Courier said “just the box”, and took it from her, took photo and left!!!! 😂😂😂

She was, and remains mortified! I remember her texting me asking if I posed with parcel when getting a delivery. I was confused ha

A friend did this but it was her ex-boyfriend!!! Then her bus went through the Mersey Tunnel so there is stayed for about 10 minues!

I remember being mortified once when I fell in a pub when I was, at that point, heavier than I'd ever been before. I remember part of the humiliated feeling being how differently I was looked at when I fell when I was thin. I've never forgotten that hot embarrassment.

Went to a gig in Brighton and our group were just standing and chatting in the busy bar area before the show, when, to this day I don't know what happened, but my ankle must have just given way, I fell to the floor but somehow managed to grab my friend's huge bead necklace which promptly broke, loudly scattering about 100 large beads bouncing and rolling around the bar floor...then it escalated into a kind of game with everyone in the bar trying to catch these rolling beads, which, once returned, we had to stuff into our tiny hand bags.

I fell into an open grave once. Six feet down. Took four men to get me out.

I had a similar experience postpartum and I am endlessly thankful to the woman who wrapped a towel round my waist and took my baby son off me.