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?

Going on a Health and safety course and walking through the door and slipping on the floor and landing flat on my face

The most embarrassed I felt was when I was around 20. Worked at Westfield in retail, had a ridiculously busy understaffed shift to the point that I couldn’t actually take a lunch break, I was the most senior/competent amongst lots of new starters. So essentially worked 9 hours straight, looked and felt awful by the end of it. Felt stressed, tired, unappreciated etc. Walking through Westfield to go home and ran into my ex and his new girl, out of all possible people, I just completely hated my life at that moment in time.

I've told this one before.....

I went with my DH on a work trip to Spain. He was giving a speech in an art gallery and afterwards he mingled with the crowd. I desperately needed a wee so indicated with my head that I was going out of the room and forgot to take my handbag. The gallery was emptying fast as the business event was over and the ladies loo when I found it was totally empty.

It had large black and white tiles on the floor and on the walls and the loo doors were black, it was quite disorientating. I went to the loo, washed my hands and went to open the door to leave the loos. Except it wouldn't budge. I rattled the handle for ages and realising that I was locked in, I started banging on the door like mad. I was aware that the gallery was emptying rapidly, my DH didn't actually know where I had gone and I'd left my bloody phone downstairs. The staff had clearly thought the loos were empty and they'd obviously locked them up for the night.

I started to get a bit panicky, tears in eyes sort of thing, and all I could think to do was hammer on the door like mad and yell out to try and catch someone's attention. So there I was, busy yelling and banging for a good few minutes as I kept rattling the handle and half crying when suddenly the door behind me opened and two women strolled in. They looked at me very curiously and quite shocked. With the black and white everywhere I hadn't seen the door to get out and I'd been frantically hammering away on the door to the cleaning cupboard.

God knows what those poor ladies thought of me.....it doesn't bear thinking about. I must have looked absolutely insane. The only saving grace was that I don't speak Spanish so I couldn't understand what they were saying. I was MORTIFIED and when I explained to my puzzled husband why I'd been gone so long, he looked at me and then began to laugh. And he didn't stop for a very long time.

I got out of that gallery as quickly as I could!!

That is why I sometimes google videos of ski lift fails, Weapon!

Shopping in TKMaxx with my mum when I was about 15. Wandered about on my own in the teen section for a while, and then found my mum by the trousers. She had a pair of burgandy leather trousers over her arm. I went “HAHA! Why did you pick those up?! They are horrible!”, and got a very icy stare back from a complete stranger.

When I decided to doll myself up and my fake Ponytail fell off at a BBQ. Almost killed one guy with laughter, but I found it hilarious myself

When I was 20 I was on holiday with my family in an extremely fancy hotel in the Middle East. On our first morning there, we went to the dining room for breakfast. There was a vast array of every kind of breakfast food imaginable laid out. We all started helping ourselves, and across the room I saw my dad serving himself baked beans from a big tureen.

To this day I have no idea what possessed me, but for some reason I walked up behind him and in a stupid, comedy accent yelled the word ‘BEANS!’ right in his ear.

He turned around and... it wasn’t my dad. It was a total stranger. He looked at me in complete and utter bewilderment and then said ‘yep... can’t get enough of em’ and backed away slowly.

I nearly died on the spot. To this day I can’t think of it without getting sweaty palms.

Asked a friends new girlfriend, who was on crutches, if she'd hurt her leg by falling over drunk ( trying to break the ice by being funny)- then realised she hadn't actually got a leg....

Years ago, living in Brussels, went shopping with a friend. We popped into a shop and, as she was notorious for buying clothes, I joked "we're here for me, don't you go mad". Five minutes later I spied her on the other side of a display, clothes draped over her arm, pointed at her, went 'ah-ha!' and started laughing. Only it wasn't her. I was just pointing and laughing at some poor woman minding her own business in a clothes shop.

At a museum and tried to hold my boyfriends hand who was behind me. Only he had walked off and I ended up sticking my hand on the crotch of the bloke behind

Was talking to my older male boss, in the office about work, who was quite attractive and a bit intimidating. I reached up to push my hair out of my eyes, my top got caught on my bracelet and it lifted my top right up exposing my right boob - I had a bra on, but it was still quite embarrassing.

In the office chatting with three other people, I came out with the most offensive, sickening jokey comment imaginable. No particular reason. It entered my head and just emerged from my mouth with no pause between. It was one of the most vile things I've ever heard anyone say. And it was me who said it.

They all stared at me horrified, I stared back horrified. I apologised repeatedly and said I didn't know what had come over me, but it couldn't be unsaid.

Obviously I won't repeat it here. It was about the Holocaust.

Oh I have a few

Aged about 14 decided to try unsung one of my mums leg waxing strips to wax my top lip. Being a complete novice I had failed to warm the wax strip and just stuck it to my face, attempted to remove it quickly as your supposed to and ended up ripping half of the skin from my upper lip. I was a scabby mess for weeks!!

Aged about 19/20 at my friends uni halls, I was making them all a fancy meal and was caramelising onions. The kitchen was tiny and very hot so I had unzipped my top, only had a bra in underneath but was ok as I was with friends....that was until the steam in the kitchen set off the fire alarm and being uni halls that (unknown to us) this meant a visit from the fire brigade to check it out. Well in all the commotion I had completely forgotten about my unzipped top and exposed boobies. The firemen arrive and I politely show them to the kitchen to prove it was not on fire whilst apologising for all the fuss. It wasn’t until I waved them off and shut the door behind me did I realise my boobs had been on display the whole time....god only knows what those firemen thought! Not one of my mates told me I might want to zip up my top either!!!!

Aged 31 I’m at work in the branch that I run, the boss of the company is on a brief visit to discuss new stock. I’m in my office on the phone to DH who had rang with a child related question, as I was saying bye on the phone to DH my boss also popped his head in to say bye too. Well my poor brain got confused and as I was saying love you bye to DH I blew a kiss to my boss!!! Boss gave me a raised eyebrow and walked out, I slammed the phone down on DH to run after my boss to explain in case he got the wrong idea, I then had to ring DH back apologise for slamming the phone down and explain the whole mortifying incident. Couldn’t look boss in the eye after that!!

I’ve more but I think I’ve embarrassed myself enough

Haha these are hilarious!

I was walking along a road when I saw a couple I knew that I hadn't seen for years. They were very distinctive looking and I was so pleased to see them, I did a huge comedy wave from about a hundred metres away. They obviously didn't see it, so I started copying their gestures, as they were having a very animated conversation, pointing at houses, poking each other, bending double, laughing (all of which I copied). I was laughing my head off at how funny I was being and couldn't wait for us to converge on the road and all laugh together. Except it wasn't them. I had to walk straight past them, in the days before mobile phones (which at least you can use as a prop to get out of tricky situations).

I don't get embarrassed by falling over etc but I'm generally quite awkward and make a low high level dick of myself on the regular. Like the other day standing in the aisle at the supermarket trying to make up my mind up over what I wanted. I went to casually clear my throat but for some reason a really strange, strangled croak/dying animal's cry came out just as someone walked by.

Once in one of my first jobs, a colleague was recounting a fall-out he and his dad had had with someone. He was telling a crowd of people and I was dipping in and out of listening/caught the end of what he was saying. I quite fancied him and wanted his approval so I chimed in 'urghh what a lunatic, can't believe he carried off like that, just shows what sort of a person he is, I wouldn't even stoop to that level of behaviour, absolute weirdo'....really going on about it. Colleague looked at me and was like, 'no that wasn't him, that was what me and my dad were saying'. Tried to back peddle but failed 😬

I've already said mine but I think I also know my DS's 😂
I was in Tesco trying clothes on in the changing rooms, DS 4 at the time was waiting outside with my mum, being the nosey little boy he his he couldn't resist but come in my changing room by sliding under the door,
I found this out by hearing "I think you want the next one love"
I hope the last wasn't completely naked 😂 but he did not say a word for about an hour 😩😂

Was wearing large granny knickers over tights to keep them up at a party (Superman style) and they fell down and hit the dance floor when I was doing the Timewarp dance.

@TAKESNOSHITSHIRLEY

omg that is nothing to be embarrassed about, it's a medical emergency and quite horrific for you. You poor thing. Hope the surgical repair was good. People forget how childbirth can actually cause major physical damage (even life threatening).

Loving the other stories.

My chicken fillet falling out of my bra when I bent down to pick something up at the supermarket. I was 14.

I've since had a boob job.

I was pregnant with DC2, again suffering from HG and the only thing that settled my stomach was milk. It was DB's birthday. 40 assorted friends and family members were assembled in a private dining room in a local restaurant. I was seated in the middle of a long bench type seat so a quick exit was impossible. Someone broke wind and I projectile vomited. It was akin to a white version of The Exorcist, landing in my sister's hair, drinks, meals. I was mortified.

*I walked up behind him and in a stupid, comedy accent yelled the word ‘BEANS!’ right in his ear.

I went to casually clear my throat but for some reason a really strange, strangled croak/dying animal's cry came out just as someone walked by.*

These had me laughing like Muttley. Thank you for sharing. :)

The year is 1984/5
Girl I fancied was going to the Christmas dance, I was 17 and wanted to make a impression. Decided to have my hair styled like the CHiPs actor Erik Estrada. Told the barber I wanted it wavy. Sends me next door to his wife’s salon who proceeds to do all manner of things, finally putting very tiny rollers in and sticking my head in one of those blower things. I’m sat there between two oap’s...finally the husband comes in, says sorry he’d been busy and had forgotten then leads me back into the men’s. Typically I recognise several faces as I walk in, each staring back open mouthed at me. Sits down in chair and can still see them all crying with laugher!
The barber then starts to remove the rollers- I couldn’t work out why they needed to be so small as I had said wavy. T
I couldn’t see the back of my head as the rollers came out, but everyone was falling around laughing. Finally he starts removing ones in view. I stared blankly as my hair recoiled into tight curls as each roller was removed. I was in some kind of shock, sat there staring at myself with a full perm. One of the lads sat waiting had pissed himself which created even more hysterics
I walked home and passed everyone I had ever known in my life - typical

My mum burst into fits of laugher as did my sister.

Next day went into town and had the flat top.

As for the girl.... she couldn’t t stop laughing. So I went home gutted.

Just thought of another...

Same girl, year before
Valentine’s Day
Goes to florist, extremely embarrassed and asked the woman if I can send the big display to her. She replied something but I couldn’t hear her, so repeated what I wanted and left specific instructions of the address and time I needed it sent. I gave her a massive tip to ensure it arrived.
The day passes and no response, a week passes still no response. Confides with a close mate the following weekend whilst out drinking , who then says she’s on here, she’s stood over there in the corner...and off he marched. Naturally I disappear into the gents. He follows me in and says we’re leaving.

Confused I ask why, tells me to trust him and get out.
Next pub explains said girl is furious. Florist had called to deliver a dozen red roses in fancy glass vase, the sender was adamant he wanted you to have these.

I had sent her a dozen plastic roses!

Had loud drunken sex in my parents bed at the family home thinking we had the house to ourselves. Turns out my Brother was sleeping in his room next door and heard pretty much everything.