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To ask what's your most embarrassing moment?

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HeartStrings · 23/08/2017 14:06

I'm bored, tired due to lack of sleep and could do with something to put a smile on my face..
Here's mine...
So I was on a bus once wearing stupid stiletto heeled boots and it had been raining outside. I sat at the front of the bus so we're no seats in front of me. The driver pushed his foot in the break really suddenly and hard and because my boots were slippery and wet they wouldn't grip the floor and I slipped straight off my seat onto my arse on the floor! 🙈
I tried so hard to not make eye contact with the other passengers behind me but what made it worse was the driver coming out of his cubicle and popping his head round and stared at me like he's just seen a ghost.

Your turn...Wink

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chowmeinchick · 25/08/2017 12:59

@storynanny I'm so scared that will happen to me so I never go 🙈

That happened to my mum in costa once.

SabineUndine · 25/08/2017 13:06

That nearly bloody happened to me the other week. I couldn't work out the instructions on the door. It's probably a regular thing.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 25/08/2017 13:07

storynanny - a similar story to yours but...

I needed to loo on a train so went to the end of the carriage - the door lock sign was green and so on, pressed the button - and the door slowly opened to reveal a woman sitting on the loo, trousers round her ankles. I just stared at her in horror and exclaimed: "I'm so sorry, I assumed that if there was someone in here, they would've locked the door!" whilst scrabbling to press the button again.

I never realised how slooooooooowly those doors closed until that day...

Toolchest13 · 25/08/2017 13:09

My bag was in one section of a revolving door and I was in another with bag still on shoulder. I still don't know exactly how I did it! Needless to say the door stopped revolving and I was stuck. Maintenance had to be called. I'm still scared to use them to this day

storynanny · 25/08/2017 18:05

Re the train toilet, the sign which says lock is really small! I am glad to hear it has happened to others not just me! That sounds really mean of me but every time I retell the story everyone looks astonished as if they can't belief I was stupid enough not to lock the door.
Yes, the door is slow , very very very slow.

catgirl1976 · 25/08/2017 18:55

Probably walking down the Southbank, heavily pregnant, HUGE due to eating 1,987 cornettos a day (legitimate craving) blissfully unaware my skirt was tucked into my knickers and my white, wobbly, massive arse was on show until a nice, if slightly mortified for me lady put me straight.

catgirl1976 · 25/08/2017 18:56

Or possibly the time, in a naice restaurant I put my hand over a flaming Drambuie to extinguish the flame and the heat caused a vacuum, welding my hand to the burning glass. I shrieked and flailed with it stuck to my hand still burning whilst other diners looked on agahst.

I could be here all night.

babybigapple · 25/08/2017 19:00

GlitterBallSacks wins GrinGrinGrin

babybigapple · 25/08/2017 19:01

Closely followed by Toolchest13.... Grin

HeartStrings · 25/08/2017 19:59

@catgirl1976 ouch, hope ur hand was ok

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PurpleNurple69 · 25/08/2017 20:13

Oh god there's so many incidents in my past. One of the most embarrassing ones happened at work. I was covering Reception and I had to deal with a visitor. I was sat in the chair - one of the standard wheeled office chairs - and was skidding around behind the desk checking various things for him when the chair got snagged up on the (H&S) non slip mat - oh the irony.

The chair stopped but I didn't if you know what I mean and I ended up on my hands and knees with the chair on top of me like a turtle shell. I had to crawl out and answer the switchboard with the chap asking if o was alright! Oh yes sir, just give me a second!

God knows what he thought about me!

Mileymoocow · 25/08/2017 20:15

I called my boss 'dad' in a very important department meeting. My colleagues never let me forget it.

HeartStrings · 25/08/2017 21:12

@PurpleNurple69 aww sorry but I'm sitting here laughing to myself just picturing that

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Redadmiralflyer · 25/08/2017 22:32

Last week me and dp were messaging each other on Facebook. I was in the toilet and he was downstairs. (I know weird)

Anyway I opened the message and it was a thumbs up symbol so I took a selfie on the loo with my thumbs up and sent it.....only I didn't send it to him I sent it to the family group chat with dps grandparents, parents, sisters and aunt who were organising a family birthday dinner for dp.
Oh god

PurpleNurple69 · 26/08/2017 05:24

The worst thing is strings this only happened a few years ago so I was like 43! A semi middle aged woman making an arse of herself 😀

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 26/08/2017 08:15

Was once walking my dog in local big park, in one of the well wooded bits, and talking to her in the sort of babytalk I often did, 'Who's a lovely doggie, den, Mummy love oo!' etc, thinking there was nobody near, when I heard explosive laughter and realised there were 2 blokes sitting up in a big tree pissing themselves...

Another time, walking to work, our postman saw me and said, 'Got a new top on, love?' So I said yes, thinking how clever of him, 'How did you guess?'
'The label's hanging out the back, love!'

wildbhoysmama · 26/08/2017 09:04

At university, walking in a well known, busy, city square I spotted a good, male friend of mine in the distance. He was a bit of a joker and a good pal so I quietly ran up behind him and squeezed his bum to give him a little fright. You guessed it, it wasn't him! Poor guy was confused, embarrassed and rather scared I think. I slunk off and almost wept with embarrassment!

waitaminutemrpostman · 26/08/2017 09:27

I'd been for a job interview in the morning and had a call the same afternoon to say I'd been successful. We discussed the start date etc and at the end of the call I was going to say 'Lovely, Thank you' but decided at the last minute to just say 'Thank you' but ended up saying 'Love you'. Awkward

HeartStrings · 26/08/2017 12:48

@wildbhoysmama oh no!! It's bad enough waving at someone who turns out not to be who you thought they were but you pinched his bum, oh no!!!

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