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To ask what's the most embarrassing thing you or someone else has said in public.

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Sadbri · 23/12/2018 20:06

A bit of a fun thing to do in the run up to Christmas.

What is the most embarrassing thing you have said out loud or someone around you has said out loud.

For me in was in America in a target store. I was 20 and with my American friend. We were in the stationary isle and they had some amazing erasers. I very loudly shouted to my friend in the adjacent row "OMG come over here and check out these rubbers!! This one smells amazing!" It was very loud and not hidden at all. A few people looked at me funny and I was none the wiser. My friend very abruptly came over to me, took me away and told me what I had just said 😳😳

Tell me I'm not the only one who's mouth just runs away!! 😂😂

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lidoshuffle · 23/12/2018 20:16

In a meeting with my managers and outsiders I said "wanking it off" instead of "yanking it off" Blush

Chocolate50 · 23/12/2018 20:23

I'm sure I've said tons of things but one 'incident' springs to mind that was super embarrassing. Carpark - nowhere to pee very dark. Crouched behind a parked car, rear facing it so to speak. It drove off mid pee! Suddenly people walking across the car park - me - very embarrassed.

littleleeleanne · 23/12/2018 20:37

I used to work in a call centre and instead of saying 'please check your spam and junk folders' I said 'please check your spunk and jam folders' numerous times in my later careers I've also said 'love you' instead of lovely! Blush

SheDoneAlreadyDoneHadHerses · 23/12/2018 20:39

I accidentally told a male manager dealing with a shitty customer to "strap your big boy balls on and tell them no" last week.
I regret nothing.

HeffalumpsDaughter · 23/12/2018 20:45

I was walking to the park with my baby ds and my naice new nct friends a few years ago. My parents drive past, slow down and dm shouts ‘hello’ out of the passenger window. The car then disappears into the distance with dm very clearly doing the wanking hand sign.

I’m baffled and mortified as to why my very middle class, polite dm was wanking her way through the village. It turns out the neighbours always did it to my parents when they saw them and my parents thought it was a friendly way of waving that they hadn’t come across before. They’d been happily wanking at their neighbours for years, completely oblivious to the fact the neighbours fucking hated them.

Birdshitbridgegotme · 23/12/2018 20:45

Hahaha these are brilliant. I'm sure i have said something but can't think right now. Placemarking

BillyAndTheSillies · 23/12/2018 21:02

DS was about a week old and I was in the high street with MIL who seems to know all and sundry around here.
She bumped in to a lady she knew. The lady peered in to the pram and asked whether DS was born via c section because he wasn't "squished" (her exact terms). MIL, quick as a flash "no, he wasn't, Billy just has a massive fanny!". I was mortified. No idea why that even came out of her mouth!!

wallyfeatures · 23/12/2018 21:13

Can't think of anything now. Still incoherent with laughter at HeffalumpsDaughter account.

Withasideofbeans · 23/12/2018 21:21

wanking her way through the village

Crying laughing at this one!

KTCluck · 23/12/2018 21:24

I was walking to my DGM’s house the other day, with some leftovers for her dinner. A young lad was walking his dogs and they suddenly ran towards me. “Don’t worry, they are friendly, just nosey” he shouts. “Aww they are fine, they obviously just got a whiff of my fish pie”. Not sure who went redder Blush

cooblanket · 23/12/2018 21:47

"GAY PORN!" shouted in my ear at high volume during a lull in the music in a crowded pub. Nothing inherently embarrassing about gay pron but why we were talking about it, neither she nor I can recall.

Fluffyears · 23/12/2018 22:20

Crying with laughter here, damn you all i’m Trying to drink!

noraclavicle · 23/12/2018 22:24

please check your spunk and jam folders
Top Spoonerism Grin

AGHHHH · 23/12/2018 22:28

The wanking through the village one 😂😂😂😂

pinkiepie1 · 23/12/2018 22:35

Dd 5 in tesco grabbing the last bit. Dd spots the crisps and nuts aisle.
Dd: mum daddy never let's me touch his nuts.
Me:
Dd:why won't daddy let me touch his nuts (louder)
Me:
Dh walks up: Daddy you never let me anywhere near your nuts.
Me: Should we go look at the toys

We did get a funny looks

SerenDippitty · 23/12/2018 22:41

Once at the supermarket I was going to burp very quietly but instead was caught unawares by a thunderclap of a belch. Blush. Several people in the pet food aisle looked round in surprise.

Highlowpo · 23/12/2018 22:47

I was pregnant and desperately trying to to throw up on a busy commuter train and ran into a colleague who isn't known for subtlety. For 20 long minutes she talked to me (loudly and with lots of colourful language) about her teenage daughter's periods, her snogging boys and the messages she'd round on her phone. I wanted the ground to swallow me whole.

Neededastealthname · 23/12/2018 22:48

In a supermarket with my husband, slightly giddy with the freedom of browsing toddler free, I am going at a very leisurely pace and notice my Husband is clearly waiting for me to move on so I go slower to which he jokingly says "come on, come on!" I retort very loudly "Did you just come on me?" it wasn't until I saw the shock and horror on my Husbands face that I realised how it had sounded, I promptly made it worse by literally collapsing to the ground in a fit of hysterics Grin

anonymousss · 23/12/2018 22:50

on the phone at work using phonetic alphabet and said" y for WANKY " by accident instead of Yankee, whole office heard

ThorsMistress · 23/12/2018 22:56

I'm led in bed crying at wanking her way through the village absolutely brilliant! 😂

Whatelsecouldibecalled · 23/12/2018 22:57

Lol! @anonymouss I was just going to type exactly the same thing! Still haven’t lived it down in the office? Are you secretly Brenda from section 3??! 😂

Colourfullanguage · 23/12/2018 22:57

Does in the classroom count?

When in primary school I once read “Mrs Tit” instead of Twit to a class. A few children got it but one innocent soul said “why are they laughing? A tit is just a bird”

In high school- teaching English. There is one particular example of a high grade answer where the student has written that the child yells “Faster daddy faster!”
I’ve stopped using that example now...

Disclaimer- my grammar is better in the classroom.

han01uk · 23/12/2018 23:05

My son today declared with delight as presents were being unwrapped that part of my brother in law's Xmas present was from my Reece's chocolate advent calendar! 🙈

justilou1 · 23/12/2018 23:23

We were on a very crowded, but almost silent train when my four year old son pointed at a very rotund gentleman and said at the top of his lungs, "Look Mum, There's the Fat Controller!"
Mortified.

Angelika321 · 23/12/2018 23:35

My child when giving my elderly neighbour an 80th birthday card said, "You're old, you'll be dead soon". Said child has ASD and luckily the neighbour is hard of hearing. I had a sense this was coming and was desperately trying to herd my child back home and praying the neighbour didn't hear!

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