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To think someone could have bloody told told me!

174 replies

TempusEedjit · 06/04/2016 14:54

Went into town this morning to buy a bra. Got one in the first shop I went to so I decided to have a mooch round the shops afterwards. I could have sworn a few people were looking at me oddly but I put it down to my usual lack of self confidence.

Just got home and whilst changing into my doghair-friendly clothes I spotted that a sticker on the bra hanger had stuck itself onto my top just near my stomach. I've only gone and wandered round town all day with "matching knickers available" proudly displayed upon my person! Ffs is it really too much to expect that someone could have discreetly told me? Blush

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BibbtyBobbityFeckOff · 06/04/2016 21:03

ThreeFrazzledFandangos you are my peoples! We should start our own support group...or drink until the memories fade WinkWine

cozietoesie · 06/04/2016 21:03

How close did your MIL come to fainting, me? Wink

Groovee · 06/04/2016 21:08

Dh once put a reversible sticker on my bum. I went to a birthday party where everyone kept howling with laughter. Found it as we were leaving and my friend's MIL took pity on me.

SecretWitch · 06/04/2016 21:14

My daughter, once slapped a 2forthepriceof1 Walmart sticker on my very ample backside. I marched through the entire store and out into the parking with it stuck to me before my son kindly peeled it off..

Woobeedoo · 06/04/2016 21:15

Several years ago I was in B&Q and saw they had a few garden benches knocked down to bugger all in the sale. I did a Goldilocks of sitting in each of the different style benches until I settled on one which I purchased.

I walked through the store, through a busy car park and got the bench in my car - a man even came over to help.

It was only when I got home my OH peeled the huge bright yellow sticker off my arse which stated in massive text complete with warning triangle "CAUTION. HEAVY LOAD. 2 PERSON LIFT". Fuckit.

summerdreams · 06/04/2016 21:19

I'd have told you. I once walked out of a pub toilet with my skirt tucked in to my knickers a women came out of no where ran up to me and pulled them out for me and it restored my faoth in humanity.

Papergirl1968 · 06/04/2016 21:28

Smile outcomes

BibbtyBobbityFeckOff · 06/04/2016 21:31

woo apologies, but that made me laugh so hard!

lorelei9here · 06/04/2016 21:35

Bibbity, did the Tube staff find something for you to wear?

Lol at the poster who exposed a nut Grin

Ememem84 · 06/04/2016 21:47

Important meeting with new client today. Smart smart smart dressed. Lovely skirt. Cute jacket. Cute white top. Also temporarily forgot my brain and put a white Lacey bra on today. Bra showed through top. It was only when I ran out half way through to grab something that colleague pointed it out.

age81 · 06/04/2016 22:38

Fluffy, he was adamant that I was aware and was going to sew/mend them before I started work.

Like I carry a sewing machine in my bag, 'just in case'

Fluffycloudland77 · 06/04/2016 22:40

I see. I hope he realises now.

Still agog though.

BibbtyBobbityFeckOff · 06/04/2016 22:46

lorelei9here in all honesty they were lovely and very professional. They helped me keep what little dignity I had left.

I'm sure they had a good snaffle after I had left though.

ThreeFrazzledFandangos · 06/04/2016 22:55

Ha Bibbty I can still remember the sheer panic and fear I felt wondering if I'd have to do the 45 minute train ride home in my knickers.

Hats off to you. At least I got mine back!

Damn the mid-noughties dip dyed gypsy skirt!

lorelei9here · 06/04/2016 23:06

Bibity, but did you have to go home like that? I do hope not!

This thread is an eye opener, I don't wear skirts or dresses...the idea of knickers just falling down has honestly never occurred to me!

age81 · 06/04/2016 23:12

Another one,

I put my top on inside out and need to nip into the shops before I collected ds from nursery, I only noticed as I was about to get out of car, shops were in a square and all cars parked around the front, so
Loads of people walking past.

So for some strange reason, I decided that I could take the top off and switch it without been seen (it worked in my head), but because it was an oversized float summer thing, I managed to get tangled inside with my head stuck in the arm and my bra exposed to anyone in sight.
Needless to say once I flapped my way out I drove off.

MinecraftyMum · 06/04/2016 23:15

A couple of years ago, I was getting ready for work and couldn't decide what to wear. Put on a pair of black leggings and a swishy top that just covered my crotch. Then changed my mind and put a dress and sheer black tights on.

Then thought 'fuck it', the dress made me look chubby so I put the top and leggings back on instead. By this point I was late and rushing.

I was half way across my works carpark when I realised I felt a bit draughty, felt a growing feeling of horror as I looked down and realised I had only changed my top half back - so was sporting a top and a pair of 30 denier tights. Bright pink knicks, clearly on display.

I have never run so quickly in my life to get back to the car!

RoosterCogburn · 06/04/2016 23:23

I was once teaching a lesson and realised that for some reason the usually well behaved class were unsettled and fidgety.
In order to establish control I did a lot of walking around - this only served to make them worse. Lots of whispering and muttering.

The school secretary came in - gasped and whispered in my ear that the back of my dress was tucked into the waistband of my tights.

When I asked the children why no one had said anything the answer was "We didn't want to embarrass you"
Mmmm, cos walking around with my ample backside on display wasn't embarrassing at all.

InlandTiger · 07/04/2016 07:13

I was running late for an MDT meeting so grabbed the nearest mug, made an instant coffee and went in. Lots of senior doctors and nurses present, plus social workers, student, patient and relatives. I noticed people staring at my mug while I was talking. At the end of the meeting I went to wash it up and noticed the word VAGISIL printed on the side in big red letters Blush
(We get a lot of free mugs from drug reps!)

PageStillNotFound404 · 07/04/2016 07:44

The summer before last we had a warm day, warm enough to be able to wear a dress with no cardigan or coat to work. I went about my usual commute - a ten minute walk through the centre of a city, a 20 minute bus ride, a five minute walk across a campus at the other end. I noticed a few people looking at me and prided myself it was because I looked so summery and carefree in my slightly-vintage-style dress and sunglasses. I had a whole "hey, I'm in a music video, I'm so cool" soundtrack playing to myself in my head.

Got into the office and a colleague said "Page, your dress is undone."

Yes gentle reader, I'd sashayed to work with the side zip on my dress unfastened down to hip height, flashing my bra and back fat at every passerby.

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TempusEedjit · 07/04/2016 07:45

These stories are making me feel much better about my sticker faux pax, I think I've gone through life relatively unscathed although I do remember doing PE back in the day in knickers and vest and having to hold my knickers up throughout as the elastic was loose - Christ on a bike could you imagine little kids doing PE like that now?! (Please tell me they don't...)

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billybear · 07/04/2016 11:57

once sat on dogs chair to put on my shoes and hubby glove must of stuck to my bum on top of skirt it had had Velcro at wrist bit went into town no one said a thing had to drop hubby sick note into local job centre was in que when a young chap behind me tapped me on the shoulder and said you have a glove stuck to your bum blushed bright red had been all morning in town in bank etc no one had told me

mrskim123 · 07/04/2016 12:16

Yes, definitely someone should have had the courage to tell you but never mind, it could have been worse - you could've had your skirt caught up in your knickers! Worst thing I ever saw was an old bloke with (wait for it) a long stream of toilet paper 'attached' to the back of his trousers. He got on the bus and we must have all had the same thought 'please don't sit next to ME. Cringeworthy or what.

cozietoesie · 07/04/2016 12:26

I recall having to have my bag searched by a very proper - and suitably short-haired - young security operative once. It was the night - with a certain inevitability - that we were all dressing up at work as French Maids.

He got to the second set of suspenders and then said 'Oh OK - on you go' Grin The bottom of the bag remained unsearched,

Thank Goodness.Wink

LookAtAllThesePhucksIGive · 07/04/2016 12:30

Dh once went shopping with a pair of my knickers stuck to his fleece. I'd just given birth and on his way to pick us up he'd been rummaging through the clean stuff in the dryer, found his Guinness fleece and pulled it on. Then he went to get me some almond croissants. When he arrived he picked his baby up and was walking round with her. The mw comes in and says "ooh what's that?" Then proceeds to peel a pair of my faded black, ancient, ragged, bleachy crotched, supremely comfortable, ribbed belly warmers size20 off his back. I think I was more embarrassed. I'm glad I wasn't with him. I told that story in a magazine and won him a grooming goody bag. :o

As an aside I once walked around with a sticker on my belly saying 'look at my back'. No idea what it was for or where I got it though. Confused

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