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To ask for your embarrassing moments of the week?

53 replies

Winterdaysarehere · 11/12/2019 14:56

Had my metal braces removed recently.
It has been restricting in as much as zero nuts /crusty bread etc.
I am a cleaner and my customer has just arrived home. He is a healthy eater and always has bags of nuts /dried fruit in..
He offered me some Turkish delight.
I refused but said I was keen to get into his nuts...
Blush
Roll on 4pm and I can get out of here!!!

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LipUpFattyReggee · 11/12/2019 21:07

I got BOTH heels stuck in a grate on the tram track. After struggling desperately to get away, I pulled the whole grate away with my shoe Blush

FenellaVelour · 11/12/2019 21:08

Was this you, Fenella?

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I’d referenced that particular audition 😂

JumpyLiz · 11/12/2019 21:15

MissKittyFantastico84

I tend to live by the rule that you don’t comment on potential pregnancy unless you can actually see the baby’s head.

EnglishRose13 · 11/12/2019 21:16

I was showing my colleague a photo of my dress for the Christmas party (he'd asked what I was wearing so he could let his girlfriend know how dressy to go) and I swiped across to a close up of my cleavage that I'd forgotten was there!

I'd taken the photo to show my friend how low it was and how I'll be stitching it up!

Clevs · 11/12/2019 21:23

I walked into the men's toilets when I was Christmas shopping today.

Papergirl1968 · 11/12/2019 21:37

Went round the Burger King drive thru just a little too fast and managed to whizz past the post where u place the order, just as “it” started talking.
Got to two or three cars waiting at the payment/pick up window and realised what I’d done, and reversed round a tight corner and back to the talking post, hoping another car didn’t come belting along and slam into me.
Gave my order in between mortified giggles...Blush

81Byerley · 11/12/2019 21:43

I'm currently very embarrassed and will be for several weeks. My crown on one of my front teeth was pushed out by an infection. The dentist says I can't have it back In, and I have to have a denture. I look like a refugee from the Jeremy Kyle Show...

HanginWithMyGnomies · 11/12/2019 21:46

@Pancakeflipper so YOU’RE Becky with the good hair 😂

Original poster
Winterdaysarehere · 11/12/2019 21:46

Was discussing my braces a while back with a fellow brace wearer. She proclaimed she looked like a Hillbilly previously as she had a tooth missing.
I was with dh who has missing teeth!!
She was oblivious!! Ribbed dh ever since!!

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Wearywithteens · 11/12/2019 21:50

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belay · 11/12/2019 21:54

I accidentally sent a text to my son's martial arts instructor instead of to my son. It said "please meet me at 3.40 and hurry up no messing about" 😳

DontFearTheReaper · 11/12/2019 22:07

@Janicejaniceahmfallin thank you for that I am crying with laughter Grin

Skittlesandbeer · 11/12/2019 22:16

I was juggling a large full trolley, a hungry kid and wrestling the Xmas hams at the supermarket last night. Kid tried to reach across me towards the display of Xmas sweet treats. In my best Mamma Bear voice, I said ‘Hands off, those aren’t for you!’.

A man in his 70’s who had been just behind me in my blind spot, snatched his hand away from the tin of chocs he’d been aiming for, and put back the shortbread he was holding with the other hand! It was practically in his basket, and he put it back on the shelf! Grin

I kindly restored his goodies to him, and gave him my express permission to eat them all himself, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

My kid (and I) have new respect for my clearly very effective Mum tone. Anyone need a recording of it? Should I charge? Xmas Blush

carlywurly · 11/12/2019 22:21

Someone at work musically farted in a very serious, very important work meeting yesterday.

Suppressing the giggles and avoiding eye contact with colleagues for the next hour caused me actual physical pain.

Pumpkinandpeas · 11/12/2019 22:35

Accidentally let my boss spoon feed me instead of taking the spoon off him. Really not looking forward to seeing him again 😂

Pieceofpurplesky · 11/12/2019 22:46

Pumpkin I need to know more!

ChristmasTurkey1 · 11/12/2019 22:49

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runabath · 12/12/2019 00:42

I was having a text message banter with an important client and sent him the "whistling" emoji as I was joking with him about something I needed him to do. When thinking about it shortly after I realised it's not actually whistling, it's a kiss 😗. Needless to say he promptly completed the task I wanted him to do and it took me two weeks to get over my embarrassment and contact him again Blush

flyingspaghettimonster · 12/12/2019 01:19

Today my dogs stole a pair of dirty knickers out of the bathroom laundry bin. They were having a huge fight over their purloined pants, growling and snarling like wolves at each other. I got involved hoping to end the fight, the knickers were a dead loss by now with the crotch eaten away. I cornered one dog in the entrance hall and managed to snatch them off him, raising them high above my head. Both dogs leapt up hoping to grab them back, so I opened the front door and with a triumphant "haHA!" yeeted the now crotchless knickers out on to the porch.

Right at the UPS driver delivering my Amazon packages.

JustACog · 12/12/2019 03:04

Ripped the arse out of my work trousers taking lunging 2 steps at a time strides up a set of stairs at a busy rail station.

Not a small tear, full knicker and arse cheek exposing shred.

Damn you mince pies!

OldElPasoHadAChicken · 12/12/2019 03:29

I did a @JustACog earlier this year after we had driven a very long and confusing route to some popular but in the sticks historical thingy. Amphitheater ruins of something. Happened just as we started the walk and the split was so bad we had to leave because it was hot and none of us had a shirt with long enough sleeves to tie round my waist.

Festival in another country this summer, just me and a bunch of others from Britain who all went en masse, I'm not much of a drinker but managed to mix my drinks badly while very dehydrated and I also took the wrong medication, I was extremely very sick like an inexperienced teenager. I'm nearly forty and the next morning when we had to leave for our coach, I could have died from embarrassment as I was useless and everyone promptly put my tent back into its bag and got me to the vehicle. They're a good bunch thank god.

There are so, so many but I need to get up and have a pee because I've got pre-voting nerves, can't sleep and ergo for some reason that means I've spent the last day and night on the loo. That in itself is probably sadly amusing. Stupid reason for nerves and insomnia.

BryanAdamsLeftAnkle · 12/12/2019 05:28

I caught a poo.... I'm a very very new nurse.. I was taking my lovely patient to the loo and I have no idea why I did it, my hand just stretched out before my brain could kick in. It was fairly sizeable...

Thankfully I always put gloves on when I know I'm doing a bathroom run with my patients.

I think this makes me a proper nurse now. 🤔

highheelsandweathercocks · 12/12/2019 07:54

@Papergirl1968
That had me howling. I can't think of any right now as I'm distracted by a farting cat, but I'll be back

MarianaMoatedGrange · 12/12/2019 08:35

I can't think of any right now as I'm distracted by a farting cat, but I'll be back

Ah, just one of many of their attention seeking antics Grin

MarianaMoatedGrange · 12/12/2019 08:38

Apologies for weird bold fail Xmas Confused