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To ask you to tell me your embarrassing stories.

26 replies

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 16/08/2017 14:24

So I was hanging some washing outside today whilst DD played on her slide. I'm on my holidays and taking it very easy so I am in my pjs. Can't see into our garden so I figured I was fine.

Nope! Around the corner comes the window cleaner and his young apprentice. Blush Hair unbrushed and in Christmas pjs that are a bit on the short side. Cringe!

Help me feel better. Please tell me your embarrassing tales. Grin

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Mrscropley · 16/08/2017 14:27

Going into a newly refurbished club with a friend. .

Tripped up newly installed steps. .
Grabbed the first thing at hand to try and save myself...
Was a lad young enough to be my ds..
And his jeans went Due South..
Glad he had boxers on underneath....

Blerg · 16/08/2017 14:27

Flashed the gardener in our flats communal garden - lower half. He just appeared out the window.

Flashed elderly upstairs neighbour - upper half. Same scenario.

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BeingATwatItsABingThing · 16/08/2017 14:33

Mrscropley

At least it wasn't your trousers that went south. Grin Knowing my luck, I would be the one with my knickers on show.

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ShotsFired · 16/08/2017 15:01

Used to slob round the house in a baggy old white vest top/no bra and trackies.

Did it several times and each time, the doorbell would go and I would answer looking like something out of shameless.

I no longer have that vest.

Mrscropley · 16/08/2017 15:06

Oh I haven't mentioned the shop refurbishment story. .
Behind the till was uneven - it had a safe in the floor and outer flooring had been removed.

Cue supervisor (male) tripped and left me standing in a Sainsbury's blouse and a thong. .
I carried on serving like a true professional.

shivermytimbers · 16/08/2017 15:13

A few years ago my daughter had to make a model of the acropolis for her homework. I'm not a 'do it for them' kind of parent so I found her the glue, a pile of old boxes and cardboard and let her get on with it. It was only as I was saying goodbye in the playground that I realised all of the pillars were made from tampon applicators.
I was mortified for the rest of the school year Shock

Redadmiralflyer · 16/08/2017 15:14

Yesterday at Morrison's car park I had realised I had forgotten my shopping bags. I had a swim bag in that had my swim stuff and clean underwear for after a swim. I emptied it out into the boot so I could use the bag.
I dropped my pants and bra on the floor and the wind blew them up and they ended up by the trolley bay. I had to chase them.

Katedotness1963 · 16/08/2017 15:14

Fell asleep on a tour bus. Woke up drooling on a strangers shoulder.

Knicker elastic went as I was walking along the street, while I was wearing a skirt. Had to do an odd knees together walk till I could find a place with a bathroom to sort the problem.

Answered the door while wearing just a dressing gown (just out of the shower). It was the postie with a parcel, as I opened the door far enough to get the parcel the door handle caught in the lapel area of dressing gown, the further the door opened, the further the dressing gown opened...

Standing locking my front door, iPod on, earphones in. Farted loudly. Turned round to find (different) postie standing behind me holding out letters.

Mrscropley · 16/08/2017 15:18

Went to work a few weeks ago - parked on a hill and when I opened the boot ds football fell out and rolled out of a cul de sac and onto a main road.

Rather than attempt to outrun it I left it to come to a standstill out on the bottom road (not really main road - goes to another cul de sac).
As I casually strolled up to it an elderly lady said oh I wondered who's that was!!
I am 46ffs!!
Coz grown women often tootle about the streets playing keepy ups!!

pinkiepie1 · 16/08/2017 15:22

Was getting changed in bedroom, didnt close then curtains next thing I turn around and window cleaner is getting a right view. Obviously grabbed clothes and ran out of the room. Couldnt look him in the eye when I had to pay him.

Another, just had dd and first time out the pram, walked into clothes shop and managed to get wheel caught on the rail, pushed harder and the whole thing fell down.

ooh and one that happend few week ago, getting my car removed at dh and me had to push the back while the guy who was collecting it steered. Next thingni know I slip on the bottom of my trousers smashed my chin on the boot and smashed my knees. Im sure the guy saw cos I swearni heard him laugh.

Have fell over when running to catch the bus.

Slipped on ice with heels on and i couldn't get back up, I looked like bambi on ice lol.

I dont know why I leave the house lol.

Bluntness100 · 16/08/2017 15:28

Went to a party dressed in a toga as Cleopatra. On the dance floor it fell down and my left breast popped out. My friend reassured me no one had seen.

Standing on platform waiting to catch train home from work the next day and a man approaches and said " oh you're that girl whose left tit popped out on the dance floor last night"

Skirt fastenings came undone, skirt started slipping down, ran into a clothes shop clutching it at my waist and said can I use your changing room, my skirt is falling down. Went in, sorted myself, come out and the assistant looks at me snootily and says

" does that happen often then".

Blush
TheWernethWife · 16/08/2017 15:29

Having some work done on the garden, came back from shopping and looked at my now tidy ceanothus and said "oh good he's trimmed my bush" cue young gardeners mate going bright red - I ran in the house most embarassed.

TheWernethWife · 16/08/2017 15:30

Gardeners young mate that should be

pinkiepie1 · 16/08/2017 15:31

And another, in morrisons car park and forgot my bags, ran back to the car and noticed that someone had hit the boot, on phone to dh telling him what id found, still talking to him I tried to open the car but it wouldn't open, tried key in lock still nomluck getting quite flustered then saw people looking at me strangely, walking over to me.
Something made me turnaround and thats when I saw my car 2 bays down. I got in and drove around the car park and found a different spot lol.

disneydatknee · 16/08/2017 15:55

I was on the bus with my DS once, who was in a buggy at the time and I was in one of those fold down seats near the front. DS dropped something so I got up to fetch it. Returned to seat, arse missed the seat as I had forgotten it was a folding chair! I went to grab for something to steady myself...grabbed DS's face by mistake. The bus was absolutely packed as well. So I was definitely seen.

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BeingATwatItsABingThing · 16/08/2017 15:59

Haha! I'm loving these. Making me feel a lot better about being braless and pj clad for the window cleaner. Grin

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BillBrysonsBeard · 16/08/2017 16:04

Shat on my bedroom floor when I was 18 and very drunk. Neat piles and everything BlushGrin

Cocklodger · 16/08/2017 16:06

Few years ago now but I used to have vertical blinds and a dog. My blinds were closed, I was almost naked (recovering from a bug and very ill and it was a warm day)
Neighbour wish it was the postman knocked on the front door. I slowly got up and as I grabbed some clothes but hadn't put them on the neighbour knocked again.
Dog ran to window, stuck his head through the blinds. My neighbour saw the blinds move and presumed it was me... came to the window to see me naked hissing at the dog trying to get him to move.
I've never seen him run so fast, but I had to live there for a while.
I moved countries Blush Grin

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BeingATwatItsABingThing · 16/08/2017 16:11

Cocklodger

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Moving countries was literally the only option there!

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CardsforKittens · 16/08/2017 16:15

While pregnant, in a busy shopping centre, my skirt suddenly slid down onto the floor and tripped me up leaving me on my knees with my bum in the air. Thankfully I was wearing big knickers.

You would think that would put me off shopping, but a few weeks later I was in a menswear shop waiting while my partner tried on a pair of jeans when my waters broke. It looked like I'd wet myself all over the floor.

Loyly · 16/08/2017 16:20

I went to grab for something to steady myself...grabbed DS's face

Grin Grin

Disney, that really made me laugh. Sorry!

BaggypantsCrimplesnitch · 16/08/2017 16:21

Hot morning earlier this year (we did have some, remember?)

Just about to get into shower; hear dog barking.

Go (naked) into kitchen to shout at dog, see dog chasing blackbird fledgling around garden, followed by irate mother blackbird screaming at dog.

Grab dressing gown, don't bother to do it up. Our garden is generally quite secluded as long as you're facing away from the house.

Picture the scene - squeaking fledgling being poked around the garden by barking terrier being chased by angry screaming mummy bird, all being followed by me, barefoot, with my dressing gown untied and flapping open in the slipstream. At least some of the chase was directly towards the neighbours' houses - both sides. Anybody who was about will have got a right eyeful of pubes and bouncing boobs.

(At least baby bird was returned unharmed to Mum, dog shut in kitchen and peace restored...)

WhooooAmI24601 · 16/08/2017 16:25

I took DS2 shopping when he was small and while he sat in the trolley I'd park my handbag next to him. I wandered about getting bits and bobs and was looking for something when I hear a man say a loud "Oh" and a very naughty-sounding giggle.

DS2 had removed two sanitary towels from my handbag, stuck them vertically to his temples and was sat in the trolley shouting "I am Thor" at a very handsome young lad who was attempting to get on with his shopping. The shame still makes me cringe to this day.

PollyFlint · 16/08/2017 16:30

Before the days of chip-and-pin when you had to sign your name to pay by credit/debit card, I was out shopping and reached into my bag for a pen to sign a credit card slip.

Then realised I was trying to sign my name with an applicator tampon.

Needless to say the assistant serving me was a young man who looked utterly horrified.

YoungChowFriedRice · 16/08/2017 16:31

I tripped up the steps at the cinema, showering the people sat near with all my popcorn from my mammoth popcorn bucket.
When I was 19 I worked and lived in in a hotel and I was having sex with my boyfriend when the manager walked into my room Blush