To cringe everytime I think about it

[cheekybarsteward]

Had the BT man around earlier to get my phone line back on after storm.
Very chatty pleasant man, having a bit of a gossip etc and getting on nicely when he suddenly comes out with "Why aren't you working?".
I was 'ed!!!!
I blurted out that I did in fact work, do not sit around watching Jeremy Vile all day but had been off sick blah blah (too much information really )
He then looked at me and said "Not you love, I was talking to my line machine"
Oh god, I am soooo embarrased

Ha ha ha ha ha!

That is hilarious

ROFL :o :o :o

Oh god, and now you are all laughing at me too. I can just see him telling his customers about me

for your embarrassment

Look at it this way, you have made his week, he can tell that story to all his colleagues and will be more careful how he speaks to his equipment in future.

Hysterical!!

At uni my cd player had broken so only music I had was tape of Achtung Baby.

Had two friends over getting ready, drinking wine, listening to music, all happy until I said "God, I'm so fed up of U2"

Couldn't understand why they were so shocked, so not just you that misinterprets that someone is talking to you when you are only one in room :)

Oops, bit of a stream of consciousness there

Hilarious, cringe away... I'm cringing for you

Bless!

You should have given him a really funny look and then said: 'that was your line machine talking.'

Double cringe and point of gossip here

I work from home sometimes, usually when I'm meeting with people in India, so I tent to roll out of bed throw on whats closest nad not dress till later in the day.

Anyway a few weeks ago I had a day off and was heading out for lunch so nicely dressed, make up when a delivery man knocked and asked me to take a package for next door, as I was signing for it Postie arrived and commented

'Oh it's nice to see you with your clothes on'

Delivery guys eyebrows shot up
I went BRIGHT red.
Postie looked like he wanted the ground to open up, while stammering what I mean is all dressed up, not with nothing on, I've never seen you with nothing on. . . etc etc.

I'm afraid to (a) open the door to any delivery men now in case they're dissapointed

And me and postie won't be chatting anytime soon

Oh thank god its not just me. We are due another storm this weekend, I will just have to go without a phone and wi-fi if it blows up again.
What are the odds of being hit by lightening twice?

these stories are making me cry with laughter!

Similar thing happened to me a few years ago It was a (quite attractive) salesman, trying to get me to change electricity provider. Chatting a bit, he then said " Why are you a mess?"
I was looking ok I thought, so I presumed he must have meant the conversation or lack of organisation about my service provider bills etc. I retorted that I was doing ok really, and he should have seen me a while ago, etc etc, I've come a long way (all true but none of his business). He then said " No, why are you a MISS?" He had a South African accent and was making a pass!! I think he had found the answer to his question!! Oh dear.

I love it pig

Actually I think the BT man should feel more embarrassed for asking his line machine a question in the first place, what sort of answer was he expecting?

I once worked in a call centre. In my first week, a man phoned regarding a query about a payment, so I proceeded to ask him some security questions starting with "Can you confirm your postcode please?", to which he responded "why", I was little taken aback by this and told him that we had to ask security questions before accessing his account in order to prevent fraud. He then repeated "Why!", and I explained to him again, trying to remain calm as possible as I was getting a bit irritated as this point. Once again, he replied "Why!", so I said to him "Look, if you are not going to answer the security questions I will not be able to help you and I will need to terminate this call" to which he replied "I am answering your bloody question! My postcode begins with the letter Y!"

:o