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In thinking theres nothing more humiliating..

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whimsicalmess · 14/03/2013 14:24

than having your card decline...several times, due to lack of funds in front of a whole shop.ShockSadAngry

I was buying some pizza, drumsticks etc for a birthday tea for my DP I had to put everything back,Sad

I just want someone to really piss me off so I would be justified in hitting something/crying.

Is there anything more humiliating?

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RevoltingPeasant · 14/03/2013 21:20

Oh God, where to start.

Aged 13, going for my first babysitting job working for a single dad who'd moved in down the road and was taking a rather glamorous lady out for dinner. After DC went to bed, sat there having odd tummy pains. V glad when they got home and couldn't understand why they both had odd expressions on.

Got home: first proper period: EVERYWHERE down the back of my shorts. I still don't know whether I left anything on their leather armchair Blush

Visiting my sister who lives on a college campus in very rural area. We went skinny dipping in the daytime in a shallow stream next to an isolated footpath.

The college also runs a summer circus acrobat training course. As we frolicked in the stream, a line of people appeared on the footpath, looking directly down at us as they went past and totally able to see everything through the very clear water.

It was, indeed, an entire circus staring at us.

NippyDrips · 14/03/2013 21:27

An ex and I were visiting my dad one weekend. I was very very drunk and went to the toilet naked. I then went into the wrong room an tried to get into bed with my dad. He had to deliver me back to my room. Naked!
I was 17!

Mumsyblouse · 14/03/2013 21:37

Thanks so much for the laugh, ladies, just hilarious or I'm hysterical, wouldn't like to say which

Skygirls · 14/03/2013 21:55

fancypuffin truly terrible but I have to say hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Having breathing difficulty now. Grin

My tale of woe is dull in comparison
Skiing holiday, on the slopes far away from nearest facilities, desperate for a wee, find likely looking clump of trees. Didn't take skis off as thought it would be quicker not to. Pull down pants and start to be relieved, which then turns into immediate horror as skis started to move.
Didn't react quick enough and before you know it, was back on the piste in squat position, mooning everyone behind me, not to mention the eyeful people got when I stood up to pull my pants back up.
(Was wearing really bright colours too, so didn't exactly blend in) Blush

ButTheButtons · 14/03/2013 22:33

A few years ago I was working in another town which required a lengthy bus journey to get there and back. Heavy traffic sometimes meant the journey could sometimes take up to 2 hours. One day I'd been suffering all day with cystitis and been drinking water to try and sort it out. Half way through the very, very long journey home I was in agony due not only to having horrible cystitis but also from the fullest bladder ever known to man.

I had two choices; get off the bus and find somewhere to have a wee (diffucult as it was all housing estates and no one would have let a deranged looking cystitis sufferer use their loo!) or just let it all out on the my seat....

How I wish I could say I went with the former.

As a final flourish I decided for someone godforsaken reason to tell the driver that I'd unknowingly spilt my water on the seat hence the large wet patch on the back of my coat.

I'm cringing so much now. Aaa argh!

Theshriekingharpy · 14/03/2013 23:13

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Yfronts · 15/03/2013 00:31

I had the runs last month and I mean totally watery poo! It started out of the blue and I managed to poo my pants on the way to the loo at work. After about 45 mins on the loo I managed to bin the pants and go home. thankfully nobody else saw

ThreadWorms · 15/03/2013 00:43

At school one time, after arriving late for the lesson, I went to sit on my chair but it had been pulled out and I sat on the floor. I turned around at shouted at the boys who were sat behind me 'who pulled my chair out?!'. They looked all confused and said 'you did'. I was mortified to realise that I'd played the chair removal trick on myself Blush.

I've had my card declined a few times op, I think most people have. I've been so mortified by it before that I've made a big deal of the fact that my account 'must have been hacked' while the cashier just looked at me like Hmm.

ripsishere · 15/03/2013 00:48

I had my card declined when we first moved to Malaysia. I'd bought everything we needed for our flat including mops, brooms, buckets, hangers, pegs....
All in all it came to around 300 pounds, Lloyds declined to pay because we hadn't told them we were moving abroad.
I went to the cashpoint, still no money to be had. What made it worse was me feeding DD a donut that had gone through the till and not having the 15p in local money to pay for it. We had to stay in the shop till DH could get there by taxi to pay for the bloody donut.
I dont' shop there now.

kiwimumof2boys · 15/03/2013 00:51

hahaha loving this thread !
-Soon after having my last DS my credit card kept declining - went to bank with DS and explained to the nice lady, who rang someone else on the credit card phone line . . . it turned out my card had long expired and they sent me a new one (which was in my handbag and I'd completley forgotten about) bank lady was very nice about it and said recently having a baby was a totally reasonable excuse !

  • Doing jazz ballet class as a teenager and realising my period had arrived and we were doing a routine with high kicks
  • Worst: Staying at my new boyfriend's flat as a 17 - year old, removing a tampon in toilet and trying to flush it away - but it wouldn't flush !! didn't realise until a few hours after the fact when I went back and saw it bobbing in the toilet, and realising all his flatmates would've seen it too ! Blush
DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2013 00:51

Years ago, DH & I were on holiday in Jersey and I'd booked a very posh restaurant for our last night there.

Every other place we'd been to that week was pretty informal and took cash or cheques without a bank card, and I was so busy tarting up it it didn't occur to me to check the contents of my bag.

So we got to the end of our very lovely meal and were lingering over coffee when the bill came and this restaurant required either a card, or cheque and card - and I'd left my bank card in the hotel.

Had to send DH back for it in a taxi so we could pay Blush.

catfourfeet · 15/03/2013 07:34

Two fire engines called out to rescue you from bring trapped by the neck in your loft.

No shame , just a fit accident , but shame aplenty if you are in your swimming costume.

I posted about thus before but the Shane never leaves.

catfourfeet · 15/03/2013 07:48

DIY accident !!! not FIT accident

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whimsicalmess · 15/03/2013 10:32

Aw god some good ones here that period one argh,

I think the first time a 'fannyfart' happens is pretty mortyfying and if you have left johnny wrappers on the side and forgot to bin knowing you've had visitors(elderly, parents) who's bound to have seen them.

I have on quite lighthearted, I'm an Ecup so not massive but can be pretty cumbersome and was wearing a top with a bolero, that I'd had since like 17 or something.
I kept popping out, and well I was in a room with kids , dp his elderly aunt,uncle and their rels, very 'proper' people. After spending all afternoon trying to discreetly shove the sweater puppies back in, enough was enough I decided to go to the loo and tie my bolero back to front Grin I must have looked mental!

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Shodan · 15/03/2013 11:16

"I posted about thus before but the Shane never leaves."

Who is Shane, and does he do odd jobs around the house?

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whimsicalmess · 15/03/2013 11:37

Think she means shame lol

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LizaTarbucksAuntie · 15/03/2013 11:50

Years and years ago (when I had legs in much better shape than now) I used to wear hold up stockings.

I also had a job which involved visiting schools, and often taking with me arms full of resources.

there is NO walk of shame quite so long as the one from your car in the car park, past the window of the class of Sixth formers you're about to teach as the one you do as your black hold up's are slowly sliding down your legs to form a nylon-y pool around your shoes while you attempt to hang on to an expensive, heavy and awkwardly shaped box and stop the lid flying off in the gale force wind...

TSSDNCOP · 15/03/2013 13:03

UKallast yes, I was particularly thankful to my Bank for dinging my card whilst making a purchase in NY. From a fully funded account.

What I especially loved was the fact that none of the men at the Bank could understand why I couldn't ask my DH for money. They just couldn't understand that I was there alone, DH having left earlier in the day on business.

Also, having frozen my account after asking me questions I couldn't hope to answer: transactions DH had made in a week in a different US city and the exact amount I had spent in Sainsburyvand Boots a year later.

So my humiliating moment was bursting into tears in the customer service department of Bloomindales after my account was blocked despite my pleading that I didn't even have enough cash for lunch and a trip to the airport.

Thank you LLoyds TSB.

Umlauf · 15/03/2013 13:08

I can beat the period one :-(

I was forced into buying my wedding dress because when trying it in (in a really posh,pricey London boutique, IN FRONT OF the designer) my period came and bled all over the back of the wedding dress.

Possibly the most expensive humiliation I've ever suffered.

The blood mostly came out so you couldn't see it but I didn't particularly like my dress and my wedding photos just make me cringe now thinking of that :-( it was only this year too!

Umlauf · 15/03/2013 13:10

Oh god and NEVER wear knickers with the suspended bits attached. A I stopped onto a London bus the knee bend action pulling on the stockings pulled the knickers down with them. So I had stockings AND knickers around my ankles.

LittleBairn · 15/03/2013 13:50

PMSL catfourfeet why on earth were you doing DIY in a swimming costume?

catfourfeet · 15/03/2013 14:43

....................... link

Little Bairn : this /\ explains it Blush

NameChangeGirl · 15/03/2013 15:27

Hi it happened to me the other day too. It was actually a fraud, my card had been cloned. The next day in the shop I told the same shop assistant all about it, my local Tesco, just because I thought it was quite interesting. Never occurred to me at the time that she and all the people in the queue probably thought I was making it up lol. I think cards get refused for all sorts of reasons, I wouldn't sweat.

DumSpiroSpero · 15/03/2013 15:57

OP your 'johnnies on the side' reminded me of an...incident in my early twenties.

I had sold my flat and mum and dad were round helping me pack. Mum called from the bedroom ' What's this Spiro...is it a torch?'

My dad and I went to investigate & discovered my rather perplexed 60yo mum brandishing my vibrator! Blush

DinglebertWangledack · 15/03/2013 16:13

There is nothing more humiliating than being about 2 mins away from school, desperate for a wee you've needed for half the bus journey, and pissing yourself.

I didn't know what to do, so went to school anyway and ran straight to the staff block. My mum had to bring me clean pants and trousers. Thankfully not many people saw me I don't think besides the teachers but I was completely mortified and my mother was Not Happy with me :( Blush

I was about 14/15 you'd think my bladder control could have held out for me eh.