Page 7 | Embarrassing moment 😳

ConnieHeart · 2026-05-11T19:45:08+00:00

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 🤣

FIFIBEBE · 12/05/2026 12:32

I misjudged the height of a friend as I went to hug him goodbye. I left a huge foundation mark on the lapel of his beautiful navy blue suit jacket. It looked dreadful, I then made a fuss of trying to remove it and made the whole thing worse.

Noshowlomo · 12/05/2026 12:33

Linenspots · 12/05/2026 09:38

On the first day of my new job, nerves had kept me awake until the small hours the night before.

Part of the 'settling in' programme was a meeting with the leadership team followed by a buffet lunch. When lunch was done, and seizing a lull in the chat around the table, I opened my mouth to say thank you to everyone for making me feel so welcome, and instead a massive yawn came out.

I was so mortified, I tried to lightheartedly brush it off by boldly announcing "I'm so sorry, I should have warned you about my necrophilia at the interviews".

Cue a silence that seemed to go on for an hour and horrified faces all around the table. It wasn't until a stoney-faced HR director quietly asked "Is narcolepsy the word you were looking for?" that realisation hit.....

This is INCREDIBLE

Calliopespa · 12/05/2026 12:36

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.

Came to reassure op "it happens all the time" but not sure that comment can apply to wheelchair story!😂

Csb1611 · 12/05/2026 12:38

Having to take the handles back is the ismcing in the cake for me, I actually laughed out loud and am still smiling as writing this reply! 😅

PuppyMonkey · 12/05/2026 12:41

The wheelchair one should be on the next Naked Gun film.

AhBiscuits · 12/05/2026 12:41

When I met DH's grandma she was in a chair as very elderly. I leant down to hug her and sort of put my hand on her side and found that I was holding her boob. It just wasn't where I'd expect a boob to be.

ilovepixie · 12/05/2026 12:41

ChaseMePortlyPC · 12/05/2026 08:23

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 😳

Roaring here 😂😂

DuckbilledSplatterPuff · 12/05/2026 12:44

PurpleLovecats · 11/05/2026 23:45

I was shopping and returned to find my car had been stolen. Reported it to the police who came out to the car park.

Realised a few minutes after they arrived that I had parked it in the identical car park on the other side of the shopping centre.

Mortified.

@PurpleLovecats! i've done that exact thing! sleep deprived with my then tiny baby, wandering about ... thinking I must have had the wrong floor. First visit and I had no idea it was a car park in two halves.
I went down to the street again and stood there concentrating really hard on rethinking my steps. I must have had a wierd puzzelled expression on my face, as this really loud shouty woman started following me around firing questions. (stopping me from retracing my steps I might add)

She went from
Was I OK?
"is the baby OK?"
"Why couldn't I remember where I parked my car?"
"no one forgets where they parked their car!!!"
to
Is it my baby?
"Are you on Drugs!!!!"
just making up her own crime spree story and said she was going to call the authorities as people stopped and stared.

Obviously I got away and found the car eventually but I've had a thing about remembering where I've parked ever since.
Sorry just realised thats more horror than humour.. but I think I know which car park purplelovecats was talking about so dived in.

FreightNot · 12/05/2026 12:47

I started my new job during the tailend of COVID, when everything was still online at my office. After a few months, precautions started easing and my (male!) boss and I were finally in the office for the first time. I meant to say, "It's great to see you in person!" But somehow totally blanked and said, "It's nice to see your...erm...body." All while vaguely gesturing at him. Mortifying.

Swimshady2 · 12/05/2026 12:47

I was out shopping and went into Boots to pick up some foundation. I was browsing aimlessly around the perfume area, when a guy walked past. He smelt amazing, so I kind of ended up following him around, sniffing the air around him. It was like I was in a trance, lol, as in I wasn't doing it consciously.

At one point, he'd stopped and I leant in to get a better whiff of him, when he turned around and caught me.

The look he gave me was priceless, and he asked if I was okay.

I was so embarrassed that I just said, " sorry, I was trying to work out what you're wearing as it smells amazing".

Bless him, he did actually tell me 😂

He was only in his late 20s, and probably went home wondering what the hell had happened 😳

Calliopespa · 12/05/2026 12:56

FreightNot · 12/05/2026 12:47

I started my new job during the tailend of COVID, when everything was still online at my office. After a few months, precautions started easing and my (male!) boss and I were finally in the office for the first time. I meant to say, "It's great to see you in person!" But somehow totally blanked and said, "It's nice to see your...erm...body." All while vaguely gesturing at him. Mortifying.

😂

KoalaBlue1 · 12/05/2026 12:58

We have a French brother in law.
I find the double cheek kiss so awkward. Over the years sometimes he goes for the double cheek, but sometimes the single cheek.
Just can’t pick it, geared up for the double and it’s only one side.

Calliopespa · 12/05/2026 12:59

AhBiscuits · 12/05/2026 12:41

When I met DH's grandma she was in a chair as very elderly. I leant down to hug her and sort of put my hand on her side and found that I was holding her boob. It just wasn't where I'd expect a boob to be.

My DH did something similar to a rather large and very elderly lady who needed help getting up from her chair. She had a sort of frail-looking upper body and face, so he just didn't gauge it right, and as she heaved on the arm he had proffered he overbalanced and ended up being pulled on top of her in the chair.

aquitodavia · 12/05/2026 12:59

This is absolutely brilliant, I've been crying with laughter for about half an hour 😂

I have also grabbed my ex's sister's boob when going in for a hug the first time I met her 🤦‍♀️

Witnessed my boss say 'love you' when ending a call to a client - he was mortified, and tried to claw it back, saying 'no I don't love you, of course', while we were all in absolute stitches around him.

But one of the funniest stories I ever heard, and it was on the radio in about 1998 yet I still remember barely being able to breathe I was laughing so hard.... The man who called in with his embarrassing moment said he was going into a shop and there was a car parked outside with a woman in the front seat holding her head in a a bit of an odd way. He didn't think too much of it though until he came back out sometime later and she was still there frozen in exactly the same pose. He went over to her to ask if she was ok and without moving she whispered in terror 'I've been shot in the back of the head'. Cue him summoning help and a crowd gathering etc etc.

It transpired that one of those pressurized dough cans had exploded in her shopping bag in the back seat and what she thought was her exposed brain was actually the dough that had been cannonballed on to the back of her scalp....

Shrinkhole · 12/05/2026 13:00

I saw a guy who I thought I vaguely knew but couldn’t place walking towards me on a narrow pavement in the City centre. I smiled a bit at him in a non committal way and he grinned back which made me feel sure I definitely knew him. I still couldn’t place where from but that’s not unusual for me so as he got nearer I say ‘Hi’ and he says ‘Hi it’s nice to see you’. By this time we’ve stopped on the narrow pavement and a conversation seems inevitable so I decide to come clean and say ‘I’m so sorry I can’t quite place where I know you from’ and he says ‘I actually don’t think I know you either!’ And then we just head on our way with my just burning up with the social embarrassment (no idea what he thought as I definitely did not look back)

Calliopespa · 12/05/2026 13:02

aquitodavia · 12/05/2026 12:59

This is absolutely brilliant, I've been crying with laughter for about half an hour 😂

I have also grabbed my ex's sister's boob when going in for a hug the first time I met her 🤦‍♀️

Witnessed my boss say 'love you' when ending a call to a client - he was mortified, and tried to claw it back, saying 'no I don't love you, of course', while we were all in absolute stitches around him.

But one of the funniest stories I ever heard, and it was on the radio in about 1998 yet I still remember barely being able to breathe I was laughing so hard.... The man who called in with his embarrassing moment said he was going into a shop and there was a car parked outside with a woman in the front seat holding her head in a a bit of an odd way. He didn't think too much of it though until he came back out sometime later and she was still there frozen in exactly the same pose. He went over to her to ask if she was ok and without moving she whispered in terror 'I've been shot in the back of the head'. Cue him summoning help and a crowd gathering etc etc.

It transpired that one of those pressurized dough cans had exploded in her shopping bag in the back seat and what she thought was her exposed brain was actually the dough that had been cannonballed on to the back of her scalp....

Oh bless her. Imagine the terror in her mind while she was sitting there all that time ...

3within3 · 12/05/2026 13:03

Many years ago when I hadn’t known my (now ex)FIL very long, I walked through the front door of their house and exclaimed “oh I love that smell, it’s one of my favourites!” as there was a whiff of freesia and I assumed there was a bouquet somewhere nearby. It was only then that I realised he had a newspaper under his arm and was coming from the direction of the downstairs loo where he’d obviously sprayed the air freshener after his visit. I’ll never forget the look of disgust on his face

Calliopespa · 12/05/2026 13:06

KoalaBlue1 · 12/05/2026 12:58

We have a French brother in law.
I find the double cheek kiss so awkward. Over the years sometimes he goes for the double cheek, but sometimes the single cheek.
Just can’t pick it, geared up for the double and it’s only one side.

I have lived in a part of London that was very much the triple kiss kind of place.

But every so often someone would stop at one and honestly, you do feel like you are coming on to them or something when they say "Oh goodness: three!!"

But it truly happens a lot op.

Bogofftosomewherehot · 12/05/2026 13:08

Zippidydoodah · 11/05/2026 21:53

Oh my goodness gracious….!!!! The poor woman, was she ok? I have to know if she was ok, so I can laugh my head off! 🤣

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I didn't wait for the confirmation, that is hysterically funny!

Jellybelly80 · 12/05/2026 13:08

ohyesido · 12/05/2026 11:37

Don’t worry, I once kissed my SIL’s BF on the neck when he suddenly turned his head when I was trying to kiss him goodbye in the cheek. (My DH family are the sort who insist that everyone must hug and kiss goodbye)

I did this to two of my sons-in-law on the same day when trying to get used to my new glasses. I still cringe about it.

JuvenileBigfoot · 12/05/2026 13:11

I work in a job where we use open net radios.
Someone called me.
I muttered to myself "ugh person name go away as I was busy.
Picked up thw radio and said "Mycallsign recieving, go away"
Approx 1500 people heard this.

3within3 · 12/05/2026 13:11

Oh god just remembered another one. In my early 20’s, guy at work I’d never actually spoken to before but was quite cute and we’d often smiled at each other in a slightly flirty way. One morning he was queuing in front of me for a coffee and he struck up a conversation about what he’d been doing at the weekend. He said he’d been out on a boat. And then he said “I’m rich by the way.”
I instantly thought, ugh, what a show off. Rolled my eyes and said something like “oh right, good for you”
He then looked confused and said “what’s your name?”
Turns out what he’d actually said was “I’m Rich, by the way”.
Mortifying. We never spoke again.

Pinklombada · 12/05/2026 13:13

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.

Oh my god 😂

Mumandcarer80 · 12/05/2026 13:14

DuckbilledSplatterPuff · 12/05/2026 12:44

@PurpleLovecats! i've done that exact thing! sleep deprived with my then tiny baby, wandering about ... thinking I must have had the wrong floor. First visit and I had no idea it was a car park in two halves.
I went down to the street again and stood there concentrating really hard on rethinking my steps. I must have had a wierd puzzelled expression on my face, as this really loud shouty woman started following me around firing questions. (stopping me from retracing my steps I might add)

She went from
Was I OK?
"is the baby OK?"
"Why couldn't I remember where I parked my car?"
"no one forgets where they parked their car!!!"
to
Is it my baby?
"Are you on Drugs!!!!"
just making up her own crime spree story and said she was going to call the authorities as people stopped and stared.

Obviously I got away and found the car eventually but I've had a thing about remembering where I've parked ever since.
Sorry just realised thats more horror than humour.. but I think I know which car park purplelovecats was talking about so dived in.

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We were looking all over a car park for my brothers car in the pouring rain. His daughter eventually found it then he said oh was looking for my old one in a completely different colour. Yep he forgot he had got a new company car a few days before.😂😂😂

PlimptonInSummertown · 12/05/2026 13:15

3within3 · 12/05/2026 13:11

Oh god just remembered another one. In my early 20’s, guy at work I’d never actually spoken to before but was quite cute and we’d often smiled at each other in a slightly flirty way. One morning he was queuing in front of me for a coffee and he struck up a conversation about what he’d been doing at the weekend. He said he’d been out on a boat. And then he said “I’m rich by the way.”
I instantly thought, ugh, what a show off. Rolled my eyes and said something like “oh right, good for you”
He then looked confused and said “what’s your name?”
Turns out what he’d actually said was “I’m Rich, by the way”.
Mortifying. We never spoke again.

I can see this as a sketch with Dawn French playing you 🤣🤣🤣