Embarrassing moment 😳

[ConnieHeart]

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 🤣

That made me laugh !

I was at a conference in Munich last year and met a colleague from the middle East who I speak to on a weekly basis, but it was the first time I'd met him in person. I reached out my hand for a warm handshake as he came in for a hug. My hand got stuck between us and I ended up with the flat of my palm snuggly pressed against his meat and two veg.. 🙈🙈🙈

Years ago I bought my first house - a new build on a row of terraced houses and I was the first person to move into my house so the others still empty for about a week. A guy I was seeing came over to see the house but my new estate was massive and quite confusing so I walked to meet him and when we got back to my back door I realised it was locked and I could see the key on the inside so I frantically tried somehow to get the key out the other end and even called site manager telling him I was locked out and needed help. Then I looked into the house and realized it wasn't my stuff in there and that I was holding my own house key. Quickly laughed it off, called matey back to tell him it was resolved and casually walked to my actual house next door trying not to die inside 😂

You were “still holding the handles and had to go back” 🤣🤣🤣 this just keeps getting better 🤣🤣

I think this is the funniest thing I’ve ever read on MN. Proper laughing out loud 😹 😂🤣

This reminds me of the time I asked where the Durex paint was in B and Q.

Oh god I hate these moments. I’m never going to forget the time I reached out to grab someone’s hand for a shake only to realise he was reaching for the door handle. Sooooo awkward.

I kissed decorator on both cheeks when he was coming to give an estimate.

I literally have no idea why to this day but still cringe at the thought.

Sorry but I couldn’t help laughing at that!

My friend asked for cockporn at the cinema once 😆

This made me LOL! Shouldn't have, but did. Hope she was ok

I went for an operation 35 years ago and the nurse told me to go and have a shower to prepare for surgery and gave me a pack with a surgical gown etc in it. I had my shower, put the gown and cap on and walked back through the ward(lots of beds on both sides, old fashioned hospital) and I heard an old lady saying to me ‘excuse me hen but you’ve got your pants on your head’. What I thought was a cap was in fact pants and explained why I was having to hold the gown shut at the back so as not to flash to the whole ward and why the cap had holes…

I was at a posh corporate day out on a yacht last week. A very nice, senior fund manager who I have known for 15 years was hosting us on his boat. He went to help me get onboard over the rail, and I swung my foot across and basically kicked him in the balls.

It’s v recent but I think I’m going to be cringing hard at this for a long time…

My cousin asked for a cheese and ham poonani.

Years ago I had a partner who was a bit of a do-gooder; her heart was in the right place but she really overdid it.

I was driving us through a local town when, across the road, she spotted a blind man that she knew well who was about to cross a side road. He really didn't need any help (white cane, physically fit and a quiet street) but she insisted that I stop the car so that she could rush across and help him.

For some reason she barely spoke when she got to the man - she just grabbed his arm, which took him by surprise, and spun him round as she'd decided he was facing in the wrong direction. As a result they both lost their balance and I watched as they pirouetted round, and round, and round, finally falling off the edge of the kerb and landing flat out on the road, still clinging onto each other. I then had to dash over to get them both upright! The blind man said, "I wasn't even going that way!"

This is not the thread to be reading on the bust to work! Trying to stifle my laughs and not look like a weirdo! Ha!

Oh my God 😂

This and @Lili23 has finished me off 😂

The old lady in the wheelchair yesterday was just brilliant but these have really tickled me

Ohh my fricking God, sorry OP that was hilarious. Poor woman! I once waved someone in traffic who was joining from an adiacent road he was very nice smiling and saying thank you only to rearend him 2 miles down the road 🤣🤣🤣

Sorry I can’t read anymore after the wheelchair one - I’m finished 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂the wheelchair one ( returning with the handles 😂 ) and kissing the elderly man twice are also v v funny!

😂😂😂😂 this happens to me on Teams calls and startles my colleagues

I’m now sniggering in a hospital waiting room 🤣🤣

Bit of background first…

On a very frosty morning I had just pulled out of a side road opposite my house (where I parked) onto a main road to go to work.

I’d only gone a short way along the main road when I saw a policeman standing on the pavement, waving me off to the left to direct me down another side road.

So I obediently did so, and then pulled over to see what he wanted. Sat there for a while and then thought “Well I’m pretty sure I wasn’t doing anything wrong… he must have just been sending me this way because the road ahead is blocked or something” and I pulled out again.

Then thought “No he might have been pulling me over for a reason… better stop…” and pulled over and stopped again.

This happened a couple more times before I dimly heard a loud, angry voice shout “OI!!!!”

I pulled over to the kerb for the last time and waited a bit longer, and eventually a rather large, out of breath policeman arrived at my window.

“WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING AT??”

He’d waved me over because my tax disc, being held inside the windscreen with elderly sellotape, had fallen in the floor due to the dampness inside my elderly jalopy.

From his POV, I’d pulled over, and just as he got to the car I’d pulled out again very slowly, driven a few yards, then pulled over and parked again, then just as he got to the car I’d pulled out again, driven a short distance, pulled over to the kerb again… basically made him chase me down the road 😳

Worse still, his mate who was still sitting in the police car watching the whole thing was absolutely pissing himself.

I got a telling off for not having a visible tax disc and for not clearing my windscreen and windows properly 😳

I once slowed to let an elderly man out of a notoriously difficult junction, not expecting him to just floor it without checking, straight into a car speeding up on the opposite side of the road. Lesson learned but I was absolutely mortified and went home convinced I would be done for dangerous driving

I once went to the Swan theatre at Stratford, which has these weird galleried seats. I was playing about with this large ring I had, when it fell off and went down the back of the trousers of the man in front!
He was more embarrassed than I was but me and my mother practically needed oxygen by that point...

Years ago, DD was going for her first smear so we talked through what it entailed with me saying take your clothes off and lie on the bed, there will be some paper to cover your bits. Got a phone call later that afternoon with DD blaming me as she’d stripped off completely, nurse came in, quickly turned her back saying that she’d come back once she put her top back on 😂 Of course it was my fault but we laugh about it now…15 years later 🤣