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!

I have too many to count.

I had just got my first motorbike, and thought I was Jack the Biscuit. Was riding through the high street when I saw a girl I fancied standing at the bus stop, so turned around to ride past and impress her (although how she'd know who it was in the bike gear hadn't occurred to me). While I was preening, I forgot to look in front of me and drove straight into the back of the car in front of me who had stopped in traffic. Said girl then knew it was me when I had to remove bash hat. I can still hear her laughing 40 years on.

Was on holiday in Dominican Republic years ago with various family members and one young child. I was sitting around a pool getting pleasantly inebriated in the hot sun. Went to use the loo which was next to the really packed bar, only to return to my spot with a trail of loo paper hanging out of my bikini bottoms! I only managed to laugh it off because I was slightly under the influence at the time.

Years ago when I lived in London I left work to catch a bus home and was walking down Bishopsgate. If you don’t know Bishopsgate it’s basically a busy as hell street in central London, packed with pedestrians, buses, cars, taxis and this was right outside Liverpool St station.
Saw my bus ahead and started sprinting to catch it. It was the height of summer and I was wearing a very lovely Karen Millen skirt that was a heavy stretch jersey material and had always been a bit too big plus a sort of crop t shirt thing. As I ran parallel to the bus and screeched to a halt the skirt dropped to my feet displaying my arse to all of humanity. Those were the days I could carry off a skimpy thong so it truly was my whole arse. To avoid tripping up I had to step out the skirt and I couldn’t miss the bus so I had to pick it up and get on the bus in just my tiny pants and hurriedly put in on in front of the whole packed bus.
So that was nice.

Part of an old job was to invigilate Citizenship tests. I had a room of 20 people waiting to begin as I read through my script of rules and regulations. Dropped said script, bent down to pick it up and split the arse of my trousers from top to bottom. There was nothing I could do as the test was due to begin and I wasn't allowed to leave the room. After my work colleague had picked himself up off the floor laughing, he kindly gave me his cardigan to tie around my waist. Had to race into town and grab some more trousers during my break and I have never bought £5 Primark work trousers again!

Once had a colleague I crossed paths with very briefly at work and needed to note their number down on my phone, didn't know their name but they had a very annoying habit of regularly sucking air in through their nose (don't know if it was a cold or something they were born with) so I saved him as 'Sniffer' and completely forgot about it. Months/years later we very briefly worked together again and I needed to note their mobile number (forgetting I had already done so), I typed it in and to confirm I had enter it correctly I pressed dial with both of us looking at my screen. The look of confusion when he realised not only I had his number but I had called him Sniffer was incredible

I once nipped behind a tree and dropped my trousers for a quick pee. Didn't realise I was next to a bridlepath and the local hunt rode past. It seemed to last for fucking ever.

Omg🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

At least you had the consolation of brightening a fair few people’s day though! 😁

I went for a job interview once & at the end reached to shake the interviewers hand. I hadn’t realised his hand was missing, panicked & went ahead & shook the stump rather than just changing my hand & shaking his other hand.

The lies that were told were publicly exposed.

We where in aldi one friday when I wandered off to look at something while dp carried on shopping

I wandered back to dp holding a loaf of bread and when I got close to him,I swung the bread into our trolley and hissed 'here's faaatttyyy!' (an in-joke between us)

It wasn't dp nor our trolley-the poor bloke who had a similar haircut/beard and coat to dp just looked horrified at some random woman marching up to him hissing 'here's faaatttyyy!' and swinging loaf of bread at him!

Dp was stood about 5 yards away,gawping at some ice creams and not paying any attention at his girlfriend making a tit of herself

Of course we where nowhere near finishing our shop and bumped into the poor sod everytime we turned a corner

Dp found this hilarious and has never let me live it down

I now refuse to do the aldi part of our shop (we do aldi then tesco) and send dp in on his own

That’s hilarious 😆

Accidently hit the petrol instead of the brake in an automatic car and drove into my local pharmacy. Where everyone knows me...

I felt so so stupid. Luckily no-one was hurt. I was so embarrassed I didn't go back there for ages, until they told my husband to tell me to come back. They have all been absolutely lovely about it, but I still feel pretty dumb.

In primary school my name got called up when we were in assembly. I got up and fell back down as my feet were numb from sitting cross legged

At the beginning of Covid lock-down we had just moved from using Skype to Teams for our video calls at work. I had been playing around with the background function as I'd heard we could choose our own from a saved photo rather than one of the Microsoft ones. Just to test it, I loaded up a profile photo of one of my male colleagues. As luck would have it, another colleague called me and I answered not realising my default was to have my camera on... As I came into full view all she got was a snapshot of me looking absolutely horrified with this guy's face behind me, like I was some sort of weird groupie / fangirl before I managed to turn my camera off. I still go hot when I think about it...

Oh god, who even cares if they're not!

People on here are utterly paranoid about various bodily fluid/child predator "trolls" but I don't get it! Firstly the chances of someone lurking around MN on the off chance a random thread might result in wank fodder for their specific kink, when they have a whole internet of porn to search instead, is pretty low, and secondly, unless your user name is your real name, who cares? They don't know who you are, or even what you look like. Even if there is a creepy poo!troll wanking over someone else's story it has no actual negative impact on anyone.

You are neither sherlock holmes nor the hero of a fairy tale. There's no need to panic about hypothetical troll perverts.

Started my period at school and leaked through my skirt luckily a classmate came over and tied my jumper round my waist very quickly , ill always be grateful to her for that i still cringe now 20+ years later .
And it could be worse you could be the mum that sent nudes in her kids football what's app by accident 🤣

@latetothefisting what a wonderful response

One day I decided to wear a short kilt type skirt and opaque black tights and chunky brogues to work. The office was being refitted in various places, so lots of workmen about. Returning from the coffee shop with a coffee in each hand, i navigated round the workmen on the stairs and I tripped up the first step and couldn't stop from falling face first into the steps, spilling one of the coffees and flashing my arse in the process. Not a word was uttered by the blokes, and I had go back with tissues to clean the fucking coffee up. 😳

He’s probably use to that! Did you get the job?

It’s happened to me before I think it’s down to the size of the poo!!

Yes they say that how worried people are when you fall increases with age

I'm sure there are many, but one that comes to mind in more recent times was walking into the wall of a cinema screen in front of half of the (packed) audience. In my defence, it was dark, and I thought there was a aisle down both sides of the seats, so I walked confidently past the back half of the seats expecting to go down the far aisle.. Smacked straight into the wall, and then had to walk back past all the people sat behind whilst trying to laugh it off... 😳