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 🤣

We had a similar thing when we stayed at The Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. We managed to park on the top floor facing the lift, feeling very smug, no problems finding it later. However when we went back to the car, got out of the lift, no car! We walked all round the car park and couldn't find it, eventually we went back down to our room, had an hour of panicking then went back up in the lift. We were staggered to see the car, exactly where we'd expected it to be, later we realised later that not all the dozens of lifts go the every floor of the car park and the 'top floor' varies, depending on the lift. When we were talking to a member of staff he said that it happens loads of times and they spend a lot of time helping guests find cars!

He obviously didn't want to be hugged as he shook your hand when you approached him.

So why did you then attempt to hug him?

Oh my DH did this! Got a new barber who asked him how he liked his hair done and he advised the cut and then confidently informed the poor chap that ‘Duncan used to do a quick blow job at the end especially if it was cold like today’ 😅 he never went back…

A friend once recounted the tale of one of her colleagues who bumped into a familiar face at a restaurant bar. She said hello and mentioned she was trying to think where she knew him from - queue twenty minutes of different branches of the family, possible neighbours, places she'd been on holiday etc whilst he smiled and shook his head. Eventually she gave up and admitted she couldn't remember. To which he replied "I'm Des Lynam - I present Match of the Day" 😆

I've got tears rolling down my cheeks at this.

I work at McDonald's

About a year or so ago,we where doing 'adult happy meals' (in other words,you pay £1 more for your meal as you get a toy)

Anywho,I took a blokes order and asked if he wanted 'an adult toy' to go with his meal

The look i got!

He thought i was offering him a dildo to go with his big mac!

As I was desperately trying to explain what I actually meant,I could see two managers just behind a wall,pissing themselves laughing

He didnt want a toy and avoids me when he comes in

This thread is brilliant. Reminds me of my uncle many moons ago. Think the late eighties. Was waiting at a bus stop and there was a woman struggling to get on the bus with a baby in a buggy and a young child. So being helpful, so he grabbed the child and lifted it onto the bus. Only for “said child” to give out absolute shite because it was in fact her husband who had dwarfism. It was a single decker bus too so my uncle couldn’t even escape upstairs away from the states being levelled at him on the bus journey and alighted two stops early out of sheer embarrassment

A friend of mine did this to his fiancée's grandmother. His fiancée was French and he didn't know if they were going to kiss three times or five - that was his story anyway.

Oh I shouldn't 😂 😂 😂

I'm astonished and frankly disgusted that so many people were lolling about this. Without even knowing if the woman was ok. It must have been really frightening for her and she could have been badly injured.

What is wrong with people laughing at this? It wasn't a staged scene in a sitcom. It was real life with real people. People really can't distinguish reality from fantasy can they?

FFS.

Once, I had stopped to grab a drink at a motorway service station and when I walked back to my car, I saw some random guy sat in it eating a McDonald's. "WTAF!!" I thought to myself as I stormed up to the car raging, only to see my car parked 2 spaces away... guy was was sat there wide-eyed as I was marching over, just for me to swerve at the last minute and try to nonchalantly wander to the correct car.

Thank you, I'm fine, it happened a good few years ago! I managed to sprain my wrist and put an elasticated bandage on when I got home. The following day I had an appointment with the Doctor, at the end she asked me about the bandage and I told her how I'd sprained it, she took off the bandage and said Bloody hell, my arm was purple, an x-ray she sent me for showed I had fractured my wrist!

The thing about embarrassing moments is, I think, you comfort yourself that no-one will ever remember. After I fled the Open Air Chalk Museum ( we were there with friends ) we stopped on our way back at Richard's (one of the friends ) parent's house for a cup of tea, where of course someone told the story. Years later I was browsing in an antique shop in Petworth and saw Richard's parents in there. "Hello" I said "you won't remember me but my now husband and I came and had a cup of tea with you after we'd been to the Chalk Museum with Richard". Father looked momentarily bemused and then his face lit up. "Of course I remember you. You're the one who goosed the chap by the greeting cards". Ever to be remembered thus 😊

I feel the same really. It does sound like a scene from a slapstick comedy, so I guess I understand people laughing, but she could easily have been badly hurt (in fact I'm not sure how she wasn't).

I doubt @ShakyBake would have told it as a funny / embarrassing story if the punchline was that the woman had been killed.

@JudgeJ ouch!!!

Give over, it's hilarious, the pp didn't do it on purpose.
I take it you never watch One Foot in the Grave, every episode is like this.

My mum is in a wheel chair and this story made me laugh out loud. It´s just the way she recalls it, and well, her update about having to go back because she ws still holding the handles is a hoot.
Unclench, you only live once.

FFS stop thinking that because you know someone in a wheelchair, you can speak for someone in a wheelchair. You can't. 🙄

Oh, and folks, learn the difference between actors and stunt people and staged scenes in film or television, and real life.

I worked on the staff reception in a supermarket as a student and was used to answering phones all day. I also did tannoy announcements. One day on autopilot I mixed up my telephone and tannoy and proceeded with the announcement "this store is now closing, please make your way to the checkouts". Then followed with a cheery "Okay thanks, bye-bye!!" 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ To the whole store.... 🙈🙈

I also once told a customer her shopping was twelve pounds thirty five because I was looking at the clock to see if it was lunchtime.... 🤣

Came out of a shop which had steps up outside. As I started up the first step, without looking I put my hand behind me to pull the door shut. The “handle” I grabbed was the crotch of the man who had followed me out of the door! 😳😳😳

Woop woop that's the sound of da fun police...

As a teenager, before mobile phones, my Dad dropped me and a friend at a house party then drove off, we let ourselves into the house, walked past two men in the kitchen, through the living room, and when there still was no sign of a party we took ourselves off upstairs and looked around all the bedrooms.

On realising there was evidently no house party in this house we sheepishly went back down to kitchen to apologise. Thankfully the two men were not mass murderers and happened to know the correct address of the party, same house number, next street over.

To this day I don't know why we didn't clock sooner with the lack of both noise and people it was the wrong house.

Former colleague emailed a particularly unpleasant man in another department and accidentally signed off with "love, Mum xx"

😂😂😂😂