To STILL be embarassed 2 weeks later (Firemen related)

[OMGwhyohwhy]

Hi Ive namecanged as IRL this is TOTALLY identifiable (sp??)

Two weeks ago I was just about to turn in for the night when I decided to put into our loft a large piece of loft flooring.

2.4m by 80cm or so.

I stood on the ladder and got DS1 (13) to help me.

All was going well untill the board went past the "tipping point" at which point it over balanced and trapped me.

I had started the whole thing wrong and so ended up facing backwards on the loft ladder with the (bloody rather heavy) board trapping my neck against the lost hatch surround.

NOT a good situation to be in. I was carrying the weight of the loft board and was slipping further and further down so was getting more and more trapped.

The DCs got my nephew round to help but when he moved the board it just trapped me futher.

Que calls to 999 and me shouting from the loft to their request for an ambulance " I AM breathing, do NOT send a paramedic !!!"

Soooooo, much to my relief the firemen arrived and I am quickly freed.

TWO engines ( shame , shame) and a paramedic car ( double shame)

BUT........

and here is my AIBU fot STILL cringing every time I think of it.

I was wearing my swimming costume .

Im just cringing as I sit here, sigh ... will it EVERY go away

come on.. you have to tell us why you had a swimming costume on... had you been practising standing on a diving board using this loft board???

HAHAHAHAHAHA! That's not what you want to hear, but hahahahahaha!

As I came down the ladder to 5 firemen in full rig I said
"Oh its like a fantasy, Ill cross it off my bucket list "

sorry, can only titter at this

Why why why? You were about to turn in for the night - is that what you sleep in?

I did see the funny side , once id calmed down a bit ( got a bit wobbly for moment)
but OMG of ALL the days !!!

WHY !!!

I dont sleep in a swimming costume

I'm crying, I'm sorry, DH thinks it's perfectly normal to wear a swimming costume to fit loft boards. Keeps the dust off your clothes

hahahahahahahahaha

So why? Oh why?

pmsl that all i can say, and in my family this would be a story that comes up with all the other old stories are told.

It was one of those moments when you think

"Ive been looking at the blasted board for a WEEK, Im going to put it in the Loft NOW "

How awful for you

Swimming costume?

LOL at 'cross it off my bucket list'

Heeheeheeheeheehee sorry that's the funniest thing I've ever read!!!!

Oh,that is priceless!Well done.Well done.

The swimming costume followed a ( I like to think) logical sequence.

a) Decided to try on new costume for DD to "OK"
b) Decide to put board in loft
c) Think , no point in getting dressed, Im off to bed in a mo.
d) Think, Dont put on robe, it will get in the way.

OBV c and d were taken with out the thought of 5 firemen.

they were treated to my lower portion only on the ladder, as hairy as a yetti (I could have PLATTED my leg hair) and my first word to them ( even before i was rescued ) was

"I can explain the swimming costume"

DH and I laughing! Were you trying on your swimming suit and suddenly decided that the loft floor just couldn't wait?

Omg actually crying now!!

YANBU. Reckon you should be embarrassed for a bit longerlike twenty years yet.

So, why a swimming costume?

Go on, you know you want to tell us.

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Thanks o telling [ grin]

Priceless!!!

Id only bought the blasted thing that day.

Its not even that it was figure hugging and well cut.

It was sized for 12-13 year olds ( A very "fetching" multicoloured version from asda) but it wa cheap and i was only "just" outside the height range.

Que ddrollign eys at me as id be in the same costume as her friends.

Not so much angelina jolie as angleina balerina ( oh the leg hair was terrible !!!)