To ask what has been the most embarrassing moment of your life?

[Pricklypear12]

What has been the most embarrassing moment/event in your life so far?

A tampon dropping out of my handbag in front of male colleagues when I was trying to get my car keys out.

I think getting locked out of my hotel room and trapped on the balcony naked has to be up there.

@ilovesooty

Getting my period as a 15 year old on a sleepover at a BOYS house, all over white trousers and no sanitary products in the house. Painfully embarrassing thing to happen to a teenager.

You first OP...

A senior colleague asking me “so how’s it going with X” - X was my boyfriend and it wasn’t going well so I thought she must have heard this from a mutual friend. So I started (in front of her and several others in the room) talking about my problems with X until I realised she was looking really awkward. Turned out she meant X of the same name, a work contact I’d started working with

I felt like such a tit I just got up and walked out of the room and hid in the toilet. aargh.

The worst part is this is not a one-off, it’s actually typical of me. If I can get the wrong end of the stick I will.

But I suppose at least it’s not shagging on the fireside rug when your mil strolls in having used her own key, as I saw on a MN thread once 😳

I'm not telling you - it's too embarrassing.

I have so many. So, so many. One was blowing a gigantic snot bubble while talking to two male colleagues. I can still remember their fits of giggles laughing at me.

Some of mine:
-ended up going into a v quick labour at home with first child and did a (small) poo on a carrier bag whilst pushing with my DH present and ambulance service on the phone and me shouting "I think I'm going to have an accident!"
-answering the door to the postman with a DIY pineapple face mask on which basically made me look like I had eaten a pineapple with my hands tied behind my back (small bits of pineapple flesh stuck to my face)

@calmama that's hilarious!

When I was a teenager we moved house from one side of the village to the other.
About a week after we moved house my mum sent me to get fish and chips for dinner. I walked to the village square, got the fish and chips and walked home... except I walked back to our old house where the new people lived and were busy having dinner in their new house... 😳 The dad offered to give me a lift to our new house but I was so embarrassed I turned down his offer just to get away quicker. I didn't have a phone with me so had to walk all the way back to our new house with cold fish and chips and confess to my family why it had taken me so long.

With the first boy I did ‘it’ with, out for a drink and I just randomly felt sick rushing into my mouth. Ran to the loo, holding my mouth with sick spurting through fingers.

He was not my boyfriend for much longer.

He was crap anyway.

Going into town nicely dressed and getting off the bus and falling straight onto the floor like a fool

Sneezed on the bus when I was about 16. Couldn't get a tissue in time and snot went everywhere.

I have many but they have all been very public so I’m not playing

When I was about 20 I went to my then boyfriend (now ex's) house. It was a share house full of boys so was a bit yuck, I was on my period and knew they had no bin in the bathroom so I took a plastic bag with me and was wrapping my tampons in toilet paper and putting them in the plastic bag and putting that in my handbag to throw away when I left. I left my handbag on my boyfriends bed.
Myself and boyfriend and all his housemates (probably about 6 guys, I was the only woman) were all sat in the front room when another one of their friends and his dog came over.
Dog disappeared into the rest of the house for a while and when he came he had something in his mouth.
"What's he chewing?" Said one of the boys, and at the moment the dog spat one of my used tampons onto the ground in front of all of everyone. It had gotten into my bag and torn it apart.
Mortifying.
So glad I'm at an age where yucky share houses etc are a thing of the past!!

I can't sing - as I am tone deaf.

A brother and his wife live in north Wales

For some alcoholic reason, at a BBQ at theirs, I decided it was a good idea to sing 'On Ilkley Moor B'ah t'at' as loudly as I could. ... Following a members of the local male voice choir singing the Welsh National Anthem.

Accidentally saying “diarrhoea” in a pitch to a BBC executive (it was supposed to be diverse career)

Once in high school I was walking outside at lunchtime and I noticed a boy behind me that was a foreign student who had recently moved so I decided to turn around and say hello. I was walking backwards for a few steps as I asked how he was and tripped backwards over a ledge somehow. Legs went in the air and everything. I was mortified. The boy mumbled "are you okay" and quickly walked off without waiting for a reply.

Was job hunting when I was about 17 and walking through a busy town centre. Smartly dressed and hair done up, nice makeup. Out of nowhere a pigeon came flying at me and smacked me in my face. I was in total shock. Went to the toilets in BHS and saw that I had a small smear of pigeon poo on my face as well as a scratch from a pigeon toenail :(

The hideous day when I was standing at a bus stop and a cyclist cycled past me (on the pavement I might add) and caught their handlebar in the strap of my cross body bag and proceeded to drag me down the street! Not my finest hour!

Oh god I forgot falling over in the middle of a busy branch of Greggs, as a result of my first attempt to wear boots with heels (not even that high!). It was winter and the floor was wet and sludgy. As I tried to get up a staff member rushed out from behind the counter and tried to pull me up, making getting up much harder and I kept falling back down. It was lunchtime and I hadn’t drunk anything at all but I must have looked pissed out of my skull. Everyone just studiously looked the other way and pretended they were having a normal visit to Greggs.

Was breastfeeding DD whilst she was having some blood taken when she was about 4 weeks old. She unlatched and I was trying to sort her out and didn't realise I was spraying milk all over the cushions on the sofa where I was sitting. A week before that I was at an appointment with a lactation consultant and I accidentally sprayed breast milk onto her desk

I needed quite a complicated root canal done, and my dentist referred me to a specialist, who worked out of a very fancy surgery. I had two very long appointments, and about an hour in to the second one I realised my period had started. I knew my options were to ask for a break, or bleed onto his pale chair, and opted to raise my hand, and stutter through the dental dam that I had to go to the bathroom. He and the nurse were both absolutely lovely, but god, I was dying.

My waters breaking on the platform of a very busy railway station.