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AIBU?

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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?

OP posts:

cozietoesie · 07/04/2016 19:59

lorelei

I've had a very .....varied......employment history.

Fluffycloudland77 · 07/04/2016 20:00

Obviously.

elainemarie375 · 07/04/2016 20:18

I always point these things out.

I'm a walking disaster though. Skirt in knickers through office and halfway through the supermarket before it was pointed out. It was a floaty skirt so the breeze didn't seem unusual. Took a parcel out to my car in my PJs. As I stood back up.....and hadn't spotted Idstood on the hem....I was left naked from the waist down in front of two of my neighbours. Oh the shame 😥

Zuba · 07/04/2016 20:22

My DH once split the front of his work trousers and had to spend the morning walking around with 'warning choking hazard' on display before anyone cared to mention it

DaphneWhitethigh · 07/04/2016 20:40

I'm always the one who walks up to perfect strangers and tells them that their top is inside out, or their skirt is tucked into their knickers. I'd totally have told you.

One evening out with workmates when I'd been dithering about what to wear and putting things on and off multiple times I ended up going out for the evening with my jersey dress on inside out, and only noticed when I got home. DH must be very trusting because some husbands would have been a bit .

I also had an incident with total elastic "holdups" failure while walking down one of the City of London's more eminent thoroughfares. I dashed into the porch of a church and tried to cower out of sight while removing them with the minimum of fuss. I don't think anyone I knew saw me.

bafacchia · 07/04/2016 20:52

Ok, let's see if I can cheer you up: I sat on the stairs to wear my boots and left home in hurry . When I got to work I felt a noise behind me, like if something felt on the floor. When I turned back I saw one of my son's kicker shoe. Basically at home I sat on it and the velcro clinged to my coat. I walked for 30 mins around London with a shoe stuck on my bottom. Feel better now?

Fiendarina · 07/04/2016 21:01

When my son was a baby, I used to take him to mother and baby swimming lessons.

We were several wet minutes into one session when I realised I was still very visibly wearing an enormous flesh-coloured maternity bra under my not-much-more glamorous black swimming costume.

Had to unhook it at the back, haul it out from underneath my swimsuit, and get out of the pool to dump it underneath our towels at the side.

Tried (and failed) to appear nonchalant, while realising with horror that I was due to see the same set of mothers and swimming teacher every lesson for several months. Gaaaaah.

Have entirely wiped from my memory whether I subsequently strapped myself back into the damp scaffolding, or threw caution to the winds and bounced home unsupported.

Thornyrose7 · 07/04/2016 21:09

In my clubbing days I strutted out to the dance floor to throw some shapes only to see everyone staring at my feet. Under the UV lights there was half a yard of luminous white loo paper stuck to my shoe.

I also got up in a drama class at school to improvise with my skirt tucked into my tights. The whole class was in hysterics.

OP I hope you are feeling better now, you are certainly not alone in your shame!

mammamic · 07/04/2016 21:50

16 yrs old thinking I'm the total Viz, running for the bus in my knitted sweater and very short pleated tweed skirt and my knickers ended up round my ankles

I remember every excruciating milli-second. I had to bend down and pull hem back up AND get on the bus to sniggers or looks of empathy

mammamic · 07/04/2016 21:51

Sorry - total biz

The knicker story in the thread brought my nightmare back!

leedy · 07/04/2016 22:00

Friend of mine stood up to give his best man's speech at his brother's wedding and his trousers fell down. He did say after that, the rest of the speech was much less nerve-wracking....

WhoAteMyBiscuit · 07/04/2016 22:08

OP this thread has been making me cackle with laughter! I have a story to share but it's really tame in comparison!

I walk to work and some mornings when there's a cold wind it makes my eyes water. So the other day walking to work, eyes water so I can with some tissue and carry on. Fine.

Am at work for a couple of hours (in an office with several people) before I need the loo. Go to the bathroom, washing my hands after using the loo I glance in the mirror. Piece of tissue stuck to my face. FFS. No one had said a word.

Feel like my good deed of telling a work colleague earlier in the week that her dress label was sticking out was not repaid. (I will tell if something is sticking out, inside out etc!)

WhoAteMyBiscuit · 07/04/2016 22:10

*dab with tissue that should be, not can!

Lizzzombie · 07/04/2016 23:01

A sticker is nothing! My mum was a practice nurse & one winters mornings fitted a quick upper lip wax in before her surgery. After her waxing she wrapped her turquoise mohair scarf (you just know what's coming right?!) around her neck/chin & went to work. Did a whole shift at work seeing lots of patients & then got in the car to drive home & only then did she notice her turquoise fluffy moustache!!! Why would no one tell her?!!

Liz68mustang · 07/04/2016 23:19

I once came out of airline toilet with a toilet roll tail following on. Didn't find out until about 20 rows down the plane

Whatthefucknameisntalreadytake · 07/04/2016 23:54

I once kicked a pair of my dirty knickers into a group of amateur actors. I didn't realise they were in the leg of my jeans from the day before and when I got a bit enthusiastic with the warm up activity they flew out.
We were standing in a circle and my knickers landed in the middle so no way to pretend it hadn't happened! Had to just brazen it out...'oh silly me there's my knickers, I'll just pop them in my bag'.

LackaDAISYcal · 08/04/2016 01:21

Years ago I had osteopathy on a back problem. I would wear my plain functional underwear as had to strip right down to my scanties. On the day of my fifth appointment, I had actually forgotten about it, but was reminded by my sister when I popped in to see her! Off I ran to my appointment, totally forgetting about the "seeing long distance boyfriend later" undies I was wearing! I had to lay on that table wearing scanty thong and nearly invisible bra, all the while thinking that the osteo (who was young and quite cute) was thinking it was for his benefit. My cheeks (all four of them) still burn in shame st the memory 😂😂😂

Snazzy · 08/04/2016 08:41

When I was at university I lived in halls of residence. Ignoring the "cleaner at work" sign one day I used the toilet before rushing to catch the coach for a weekend visit home. I remember the toilet seat being a bit damp (can't recall why I didn't "hover").

Fast forward to the bus journey. My bottom started to feel a bit "itchy" but I assumed it was rough coach seats. Nearly three hours later I arrive at my destination, a bus station of a large city. I get off the bus and notice the chilly air.

Moving down the street I realise people are looking at me. I decide to smooth my skirt down at the back and touch bare arse!! The cleaning chemicals left on the toilet seat have eaten my knickers and my skirt.

Mortified!

thethoughtfox · 08/04/2016 09:21

My sister got her unexpected and unexpectedly heavy period at a training session for brand new job ( didn't know any one yet so no friendly faces or anyone to ask for help) She bled through her light coloured trousers and onto the chair.

Iona0911 · 08/04/2016 11:00

I had to tell a poor woman in Burger King that there was blood on her white jeans 'there'!!!!

spidey66 · 08/04/2016 12:14

I once went off to work in summer in a new black and white patterned top. I was half way there on the tube before I realised I had a black and white sticker on my left tit bearing the legend '£8-George at Asda.' I'm a classy dresser, me.

adamsam13 · 08/04/2016 12:25

Had a guy come into the gym with his partners bra attached to his rucksack. Poor sod had walked through town with the bra hanging down and nobody had told him. We did mention it to him and he was very red faced but had a good laugh about it.

booklooker · 19/04/2016 18:32

I was teaching a class in Southern Africa, I asked an undirected question to the class and was really pleased when a normally quiet and reserved student put his hand up.

So I had no hesitation in asking his response.

..."Sir, you have a snot on your face."

I suppose I should have been grateful

spica · 19/04/2016 18:38

just imagine being pregnant with a "two for the price of one" sticker....

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