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Embarrassing moment 😳

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ConnieHeart · 11/05/2026 20:45

Went to a wedding yesterday of OH's nephew. Lots of his distant family in attendance that we hadn't seen for ages. As we were leaving I said goodbye to my SIL's BIL. I wasn't sure exactly how to do it as I don't know him very well so I put my hand out & he shook it(!) & I kind of leaned in for a hug (as I'd hugged his wife goodbye) but it didn't quite work out as he's really tall & I ended up just putting my cheek on the jacket of his lapel and just staying there for a few seconds as I didn't really know how to finish the very awkward move. I then stood back up straight and mumbled "goodbye". There should be a rulebook for how to say goodbye to people you like but don't know very well 🤣

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MyCrushWithEyeliner · 12/05/2026 01:56

When I was in my early twenties I asked the ice-cream man for a 69 🙈

LycheeFizz1972 · 12/05/2026 02:07

Went to the petrol station with DH a few weeks ago and after he had filled up he went inside to pay. I hopped out to get some cash at the machine which was just a few steps away from my passenger door. Took me a little while to faff with my purse and handbag and find the right card so I was flustered he would be inpatient, and I hurried back to the car with the cash in my hand.

As I tried to open the door I could hear some fool beeping his horn but paid no attention, but the door wouldn’t open and I muttered shut the fuck up as I vigorously tried the door handle.

Then I looked across the roof of the car and saw a man I didn’t know staring at me silently. I said ooooooooh and for no good reason waved the wad of cash at him and he just stared back. Then I looked at the beeping car and saw DH leaning out of the window waving. All I could manage was another oooooooh and then I walked to the correct car. Sadly the door would not open as DH had locked it so there was further delay as I stood there jangling the handle and I glanced back at my new friend who was still staring at me until finally DH unlocked the door and I got in. He just said “who’s your mate”?

beeff · 12/05/2026 02:09

was running late for an important train once when i was younger, i’d forgotten my bag with some things i needed, went to a shop to buy replacements, the carrier bag broke, i put what i could into the pockets of my trousers (cargo ones with lots of pockets which were trendy at the time) - by this time i was really late and had to run, the combination of the running gait alongside the weighed down trousers meant they fell down right on the platform as the train pulled away without me 😭 no train and no trousers and no dignity!

Glitchymn1 · 12/05/2026 02:09

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Peakyblinder18 · 12/05/2026 02:26

DreamingOfGeneHunt · 11/05/2026 20:50

The other day I hadn't said anything out loud for a few hours as I'd been by myself in town. A woman held the door for me, I said thank you- but my voice had seized up and came out as a kind of demonic hiss.

I do this too 🤓

Ilovenutellaaaaa · 12/05/2026 02:29

ShakyBake · 11/05/2026 21:44

Once offered to push an old women down a steep slope (wheelchair) as her husband was struggling and both rubber handles came off and I couldn't catch her despite running and she smashed into a removals van.

🤣🤣🤣

ClaireEclair · 12/05/2026 02:55

My manager and VP (both men) of the company kissed each other on the lips once. VP is French and they both went to do the two cheek kiss and it went awry.

LucyLoo1972 · 12/05/2026 03:42

ShakyBake · 11/05/2026 21:44

Once offered to push an old women down a steep slope (wheelchair) as her husband was struggling and both rubber handles came off and I couldn't catch her despite running and she smashed into a removals van.

I don’t laugh much due to severe depression but this made me laugh out loud.

xyz75 · 12/05/2026 03:58

ShakyBake · 11/05/2026 21:44

Once offered to push an old women down a steep slope (wheelchair) as her husband was struggling and both rubber handles came off and I couldn't catch her despite running and she smashed into a removals van.

😂😂 shouldn't laugh but.....😂😂 thanks for that!!!

Nofeckingway · 12/05/2026 04:04

I am laughing @Friendlygingercat saying that she is not a guggy person .

xyz75 · 12/05/2026 04:05

I had just started working in a care home fresh out of uni. I was asked to call everyone for lunch. There was a gentleman sleeping in a wheelchair. So I went over tapped him on his leg and said 'X it's lunchtime', no reply. So I tapped a little harder, spoke a little louder 'X it's lunchtime' no reply. So I tapped a little harder, and his one eye opened 'love you can tap me as hard as you want that's my false leg'

Fatiguedwithlife · 12/05/2026 04:09

@LycheeFizz1972 omg I’m howling

Noodlehen · 12/05/2026 04:13

Great thread, real tears 😂

chatgptmeup · 12/05/2026 04:39

My now FIL walked in on me peeing in our first meeting due to a dodgy lock. Mortified.

Sugarsugarcane · 12/05/2026 04:41

Loving this thread

Mumofmarauders · 12/05/2026 05:12

CrackInTheGlass · 12/05/2026 01:18

I crossed paths with an acquaintance while doing the school run. She said “I haven’t seen you for ages!” I had expected her to say “How’re you doing?” as she usually did. I managed to “Yep, haha absolutely great HAHAHAHAA” and kept on walking. Took me about 5 minutes to realise what I’d said and it still pops into my mind to crucify me a little a couple of years later 🙈

😂😂😂😂😂😂

FriendlyMedusa · 12/05/2026 05:17

Crying laughing at these stories so hard that I've had to hide in the bathroom so I don't wake everyone up.

Mine is the time where I stood up to get off a busy bus and trod on the end of my elasticated maxi skirt, pantsing myself in one fell swoop.

Villanousvillans · 12/05/2026 05:26

ShakyBake · 11/05/2026 22:14

I felt awful but she was ok but the bang when she hit was massive. What made it worse is I had never met them before and just remember saying sorry over and over and when I left realised I was still holding the handles and had to go back again.

🤣🤣🤣 stop

Newcybrown · 12/05/2026 05:33

Posts like this make me feel relieved I am not alone in the stupid embarrassing things I do that keep me up at night cringeing 🤣

Gatekeeper · 12/05/2026 05:44

DreamingOfGeneHunt · 11/05/2026 20:50

The other day I hadn't said anything out loud for a few hours as I'd been by myself in town. A woman held the door for me, I said thank you- but my voice had seized up and came out as a kind of demonic hiss.

Genuinely LOLed at this Grin

ChocolateCinderToffee · 12/05/2026 06:03

honeylulu · 11/05/2026 23:57

The wheelchair ... the smash ... Then walking off with the handles. Pahahahaha!!!

Not as funny but I once kicked a man up the bum by mistake. Going down the steps at Moorgate tube station, rush hour, very crowded. The man in front of me paused briefly. I dont have great balance (and I was heavily pregnant so even worse than usual). I couldn't stop my stride in time and my leg flew forward and my boot planted firmly right between his arse cheeks. I felt terrible. He turned around and apologised to me, how very English!

I once accidentally touched a guy on the bum because he stopped to cross the road and I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t stop in time. Then I had to wait for the pedestrian crossing while he was giving me side-eye and I was desperately trying to pretend nothing had happened. He obviously thought I’d goosed him on purpose.

MyballsareSandy2015 · 12/05/2026 06:14

Another wheelchair one, but not as funny 🤣

I was on a train and as I got up to get off I noticed a guy struggling with his elderly father and a folded up wheelchair … so I offered to take the wheelchair whilst he helped his dad off the train.

I stepped onto the platform and one of the wheels on the wheelchair fell off and dropped in the gap between the train and the platform.

The train pulled away and the three of us just stood there looking at the wheel on the track … I was very apologetic, opened up the wheelchair but it was obv useless without this wheel. Nobody at the station to help so I ended up walking off 😳

BehindTheMirrorAgain · 12/05/2026 06:46

ShakyBake · 11/05/2026 21:44

Once offered to push an old women down a steep slope (wheelchair) as her husband was struggling and both rubber handles came off and I couldn't catch her despite running and she smashed into a removals van.

😂🤣🤣😅. this is awful but hilarious- such a frank Spencer moment

craycray431 · 12/05/2026 06:55

I'm never going to offer to help anyone in a wheelchair again, i'm too scared too!
Seriously, this thread has made me laugh so much, wheelchairs, wrong cars, touching bums, 69 . . . needs to go into classics!

Gall10 · 12/05/2026 07:01

ShakyBake · 11/05/2026 21:44

Once offered to push an old women down a steep slope (wheelchair) as her husband was struggling and both rubber handles came off and I couldn't catch her despite running and she smashed into a removals van.

OMFG…embarrassing (but dare I say also hilarious)!