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This is my most embarrassing moment ever.

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Lobsterquadrille2 · 19/06/2019 09:52

Tell me you've had worse. Walking home, the spoke of a man's umbrella knocked my wig off. Right by the traffic lights. Someone wound his window down to shout "I think you've dropped something, love".

Ok it seems funny now 😀

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IceAndASlice123 · 08/08/2019 17:57

Cried at Wembley arena when the security guy laughed at me as I emptied my pockets of loose change (Thought the metal detector would go off.) No idea why I cried, just felt embarrassed at him laughing about it and was feeling a bit over emotional anyway. 😐

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Shouldhavebeenkat · 08/08/2019 20:37

When I was around 18 my then bf and I went shopping in a major city. In one of those large bookshops I headed to the books I read, bf was reading the oversize transport type ones in the middle.

Having exhausted the books and wanting to encourage him to move on I wandered back to bf, still where I had left him... I stuck my arm around him, and kind of up and down his back under his jacket ( thinking of even doing that now makes me cringe full stop!)

I happened to glance up to the opposite back corner and suddenly realised my bf was actually there NOT beside me with my hand on him Blush

I VERY hastily removed my hand, head down and made my way to the back without looking to left or right thinking I wanted to die of humiliation. We left the store a few minutes later, my face still flaming but thinking I had a lucky escape...this guy caught my eye. “ that was very nice actually” Blush I still cringe nearly 30 years later!

Shessobrave · 15/10/2019 02:51

Years ago I was living in a first floor flat....

Just got out of shower and as I lived alone, was wandering around the flat naked, whilst looking for clothes. Flat over looked a road with a park at other side, so I never had to worry about anyone seeing me. As I was stood in hall way with living room door open, opposite living room window, a double decker bus came to a halt................

Exact same height. Man's seat lined up perfectly with my flat's Georgian window. I froze. It was about 15 seconds before the bus moved.

BillHadersNewWife · 15/10/2019 03:37

My skirt once fell off in a very hip bar in London. It was quite empty as was early in the evening. I was wearing a shiny, satin mini skirt....that wrapped round and tied with a silky tie thing.

I was waiting to be served, standing in my shiny 90s tights and platforms when I suddenly became aware that something felt "off" down below.

Look down to see entire skirt pooled around feet.

Spaceprincess · 15/10/2019 17:32

Not mine but last year people kept putting daft challenges in a WhatsApp group me & DP are in. One was to buy the most outrageous/ridiculous item from Wish or similar for under a fiver for another group member.
I'd had a few wines, and thinking I was hilarious bought DP a fox tailed butt plug from Chinese Ebay, then forgot all about it.
4 weeks later he opened it in front of his mum & brother

AnneTwackie · 15/10/2019 17:41

My mum went to a veteran selling poppies, purse in hand.
Rummaging for a pound she said ‘ooh, you don’t mind taking a load of old shrapnel do you?’
Mortified she then ran away.

danmthatonestakentryanotheer · 15/10/2019 17:59

I got new glasses fitted, walked out of the opticians straight into a bollard.

VictoriaSpongeBob · 15/10/2019 18:08

The first time I ever voted man at polling station extended his hand for my polling card. I interpreted this as him wanting a handshake but for some unexplainable reason I gave him my hand and did a deep curtsey. I still cringe when I think about his confused face

Raspberrytruffle · 15/10/2019 18:34

When I was 16 and living at home, I had been on antibiotics that week due to a dental abscess and my side affect was shit scary dreams and sleepwalking, que me sleep walking up our drive with not a single item of clothes on to be reported off my neighbor, aswell as arsehole neighbor my big sister was being dropped off by mates at the end of the drive, my poor parents had to hide the door key Blush

Raspberrytruffle · 15/10/2019 18:36

Oh that same week I slept walked naked again only to have a stupid argument with my dad in the buff. I only found out because my bitch mum revels in telling me the next morning as bless my dad didn't want to humiliate me

shiningstar2 · 15/10/2019 18:36

Many years ago when I was about 45 and my daughter was home from university we had a problem with the plumbing in the bathroom and had to send for a plumber. Not thinking that the plumber would come all that fast we didn't hurry to get dressed that morning. Big surprise. The plumber arrived to find us both in our dressing gowns. I was standing at the top of the stairs in ancient dressing gown...not a pretty sight. Daughter in pyjamas and dressing gown ...looking marginally more respectable at bottom of stairs let him in.

As the front door swung open I shouted down with a welcoming smile 'thank god you're here we're desperate'. As the poor bloke hesitated panicking on the step daughter, realizing his reluctance to step inside and not wanting to part with a much needed plumber, smiled encouragingly saying 'speak for yourself mam, I'm not desperate'. Don't think he was totally sure and got the job done in double quick time Grin

Me150267 · 15/10/2019 19:10

At primary school aged 10. In gym class with about 40 children and being asked to practice forward rolls, at the apex of my forward roll let out a massive fart. Even the teacher laughed and I swear it took me 20 years to not be embarrassed and laugh about it.

73kittycat73 · 15/10/2019 19:19

@VictoriaSpongeBob that had me laughing like Mutley! Thanks! Grin

FizzyIce · 15/10/2019 19:31

Mine was a couple of years ago .
Helicopter flight over the Grand Canyon, pilot tells us about people being sick and we all laugh at how lame these people are .. journey back, smell of aviation fuel,heat and air pockets causing the heli to bob up and down means I wasn’t quick enough to grab my sick bag so I proceed to projectile vomit down poor pilots back ... lots of cheese and champagne.
That’s was a long 30 mins back!
When we landed I just shuffled off staring at the floor while dh shoved a handful of notes in the pilots hand while cursing me under his breath

Wheat2Harvest · 15/10/2019 20:05

My boss in my first real job had a LOUD voice. Very LOUD.

As the offices were being done up there was only my boss and me on the top floor, in our own adjacent offices, and I had nowhere secure to put my things. One day he called me in for dictation when the window cleaner was in my office. I picked up my handbag discreetly and took it in with me. I can remember the conversation like it was yesterday.

Boss: "WHY HAVE YOU BROUGHT YOUR HANDBAG INTO DICTATION?"
Me [in quiet little meek voice]: "Because the window cleaner is in my office."
Boss: "DO YOU THINK HE IS GOING TO STEAL YOUR BAG?"
Me [in embarrassed quiet little meek voice] "I just didn't want to leave it in there with someone I don't know."

To make things worse, the dictation was a two-line memo and I had to return to my office clutching my handbag with the window cleaner still in there. He didn't say anything and nor did I, but that has to be one of my most embarrassing moments.

Wheat2Harvest · 15/10/2019 22:45

Years ago I was cycling in rural New Zealand with an ex. It was really hot and we were covering our noses Aussie-cricketer-style with zinc cream, which was white and obvious and which stayed put all day.

One morning as we were setting off the ex offered to put my zinc cream on for me, which I thought was very nice of him, and to wipe off something that he said I'd got on my face.

Everywhere we went people smiled and couldn't take their eyes off me, which was very flattering. I guessed they didn't see many female long-distance cyclists.

It was only when we arrived at the hostel and I looked in the mirror that I discovered the ex had used the zinc cream to turn me into a cat. I had very distinct feline features including some very fetching whiskers and eyebrows. I did see the funny side - sort of. Hmm

Milkstick · 15/10/2019 22:46

I'm doomed to read the rest of this thread with a Whitney Houston earworm now, aaaaaargh!

Actionhasmagic · 15/10/2019 22:48

I was in a board preso once and woman gestured with her hand and her hair extension got caught - went flying across the boardroom table !!!!!

Unsureofthescore113 · 16/10/2019 07:24

Soo many incidents with window cleaners, they must see so much on the job!!! Mine never told me when he was coming, it used to sometimes be 4 weeks or 6 weeks, depending on what he had on, the weather etc. Sometimes it was 6am, or even 4pm!! So the first incident was when i was in the bath, I had the window open and he shut it forcefully (I guess to let me know he was there!) and I scrambled out hurriedly; the second I was breastfeeding ds with the back door open and he came in to ask if he could shut it and saw everything, the third I had Norovirus and was being sick with the windows open when he came and he must have heard everything, he hurriedly shoved a note through the door saying you can pay me next time... out of sheer embarrassment I texted and said we can’t afford a window cleaner anymore and to make matters worse he was my school friends cousin and kind of knew him in passing so word probably got round about me !!!

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