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To ask about your most embarrassing stories ever?

63 replies

navteexo · 12/03/2020 19:58

I walked into Starbucks yesterday and slipped on my backside infront of everyone. No matter how much i tried to laugh it off, it was so bloody embarrassing. People just awkwardly acted like they didnt see it Blush lol! Urgh

Whats yours?

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Cheeeeesecaaaaakkkeeee · 12/03/2020 20:01

Similar to yours but I slipped down a massive muddy bank in the park 😫 not only did everyone see I then had to walk home with my entire back covered in mud 😂

DivGirl · 12/03/2020 20:03

I once got my toe stuck in a pair of pre-ripped jeans and lost.my balance, falling backwards out of the changing room curtain in front of an entire queue of people.

redwinefine · 12/03/2020 20:05

I worked in an office for a couple of years and there was a woman who was calling me by the wrong name (but correct first letter so e.g. margaret and my name is mary). This kept happening but she was in a different team and it was only in passing so I didn't know what to say. After a year, she went to use one of the phones at the bank of desks I sat at - it wasn't working, so she started calling down to get my attention 'MARGARET, the phone's not working. Margaretttt, Maggieee! Magggieee can you hear me? Megs Megs Megs!!!!'

My colleagues were a bit wtf is going on and in the end I just answered to Margaret and told her I would sort it. Next time I saw her I explained it wasn't my name but she just said 'oh really? You look like you should be a Margaret'. UMMMMMMMMMM I'm not????

namechangearooney · 12/03/2020 20:33

I'm menopausal which creates excess 'flatulence', I'm also a teacher. This afternoon I had held in as many 'pumps' as possible, a couple snuck out but I rammed my bottom into my chair to muffle them ... which resulted in them 'diverting' up my chuff

When I stood up to walk to the board, all the diverted air came tumbling out of my chuff ... Leading to a loud fanny fart ever step I took.

Luckily I teach Year 1 who just tittered slightly and wouldn't have dared comment on it!

navteexo · 12/03/2020 20:47

LOL!! Love all these stories! Made me laugh Grin

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NotAnotherNameChangePlease · 12/03/2020 20:49

My 4yo went to preschool yesterday with a pair of my (very skanky but clean) pants stuck to the Velcro on the hood. The teacher very kindly told me at the end of the day she’d put them in his book bag for me Blush

NotAnotherNameChangePlease · 12/03/2020 20:50

*on the hood of his coat

RunningAwaywiththeCircus · 12/03/2020 20:52

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Shopkinsdoll · 12/03/2020 21:24

I was laughing with my boss the other week and gave a huge grunt noise. Embarrassing

Musicalmistress · 12/03/2020 21:26

@NotAnotherNameChangePlease
Same thing happened to my OH but it was a pair of DDs tiny, skimpy, lacy pants (so clearly not mine!) - he teaches with a mainly female staff who haven’t let him live it down!

LameSword · 12/03/2020 21:32

I slipped walking down a hill. It had been raining and there was loads of leaves and mud and my foot just slid. One foot went forward and the other went back. The thing is it happened so slowly but there was nothing I could do to stop myself because I had bags of shopping in each hand so I had to slide slowly into the splits and into a heap on the floor with one foot underneath my back. I then just laid on the floor laughing. A man stood at the other side of the road keeled over laughing at me. Dd carried on walking and left me.

LameSword · 12/03/2020 21:34

@namechangearooney I'm crying at yours 🤣

TheArtfulScreamer1 · 12/03/2020 21:42

@runningawaywiththecircus I'm strangely envious of your story my post C sec BM took a lot of build up, a small foot stool, a breast feed inbetween I'd been in there that long and when we did finally part company it was a similar size to my newborn and left me equally exhausted Shock

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 12/03/2020 21:50

I tried on a dress in M&S and the zip stuck so I couldn't undo it. I asked the assistant for help but it wouldn't move so she called out to her colleague to have a go and when she couldn't do it they decided on scissors. The colleague couldn't find the scissors and so had to phone up to menswear to see if they had any. Scissors were finally found and I was cut of of the dress and it was at that point that I realised that not only had I got stuck, I'd had the dress on back to front!

Magickl · 12/03/2020 22:15

I managed to get a T-bar of a ski lift trapped in the crotch of my trousers resulting in me being towed up a Scottish mountain by the fanny in front of crowds before I managed to free myself. Thirty years on I still cringe at the memory.

Desperelda · 12/03/2020 22:18

I was cycling back from the school run one day along a narrow foot/cycle path. As someone was walking towards me, I shifted the bike over to the side to let him pass but the front wheel slipped over the raised edging of the pavement onto the muddy border of the woods and I fell in slow motion into the mud and bushes while still sitting on it. I wasn’t hurt, just mortified and told the young guy who rushed to help me up that I was fine and was just going to lay there for a moment Blush so I could get up with a modicum of dignity.

Another one when I was temping in my 20’s for a prestigious financial firm in the city. A few days in and I was in a seniors partners office one day, and bent down to pick up a document that I’d dropped on the floor when a silent fart escaped which I prayed would not be deadly but it was horrendous (nervous anxiety). Partner didn’t say anything but wrinkled his nose and coughed a bit while I made a swift exit. Office was pretty small and windowless being high up in a skyscraper! Luckily it was towards the end of the day and I didn’t go back. Kind of knew the partner wouldn’t think much of me professionally after getting a very pungent whiff of my innardsBlush.

Aposterhasnoname · 12/03/2020 22:29

Drank too much whilst staying in a hotel. Got disorientated going to the loo in the middle of the night and ended up stark bollock naked in the corridor, banging frantically on the room door trying to wake an equally pissed DH, whilst listening to the unmistakeable sound of the lift approaching (he let me in in time, thank god,)

Don’t ask about CCTV, I’ve spent 15 years determinedly not considering that possibility.

RunningAwaywiththeCircus · 12/03/2020 22:34

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mrsBtheparker · 12/03/2020 22:37

Sixth Form Physics lesson, I dropped a pen and bent down to pick it up. I had very long hair and my hair wrapped round the bottom button on the jacket of the teacher who I didn't realise was walking up from the back of the room, I was stuck for some time with my head near his crotch, not wanting to fiddle with my hair to free it for fear of grabbing something else.

GetTheSprinkles · 12/03/2020 22:40

I was staying in a caravan park in Cornwall aged about 7 for a family holiday.
One afternoon I waltzed into our caravan, shouted Hey! and sat down.
Only it wasn't our caravan and a stunned and silent family were staring at me, mouths open.
Still makes me cringe!

DrierThanANunsNasty · 12/03/2020 23:20

These stories remind me of the ‘cringe’ sections in old girly mags... still love them, decades later Grin

I have some that make me turn red just thinking about them, but they’re very outing will go for a tame one.

Second date with my now DH. He decided to see if I was ticklish and was tickling my sides. I laughed so hard I managed to snort and fart at the same time. There was a long pause and then he just cracked up laughing until tears were running down his face. I knew I’d marry him from that moment on.

Mary46 · 12/03/2020 23:33

Loving these! Our path up to the office was quite slippy. I tripped and typical the knee bit in my jeggings ripped a bit. The MD flew over from UK that day so we always tidy up our appearance when he here. I stayed glued to my desk that daySmile

dramaqueenforlife · 12/03/2020 23:49

@DivGirl and @Magickl thank you for making me howl with laughter!!! Grin

MaryBear · 13/03/2020 00:28

Was enjoying a lovely weekend away with then BF. Decided to make use of the jacuzzi. Sat chatting in there for a while with the bubbles doing their thing and having a lovely time. Decided it was time to get out and BF let me go 1st with him close behind. The bubbles must have gone right up my fanny cos as I was climbing out I let out a massive fanny fart within inches of BF face. I was laughing so hard that I couldn't stop the farting. Luckily he found the funny side but I was embarrassed as well as uncontrollably laughing. Not my finest moment.

flameprincess · 13/03/2020 00:47

I once dropped my DS at school, only after walking there from home, and working my way through the crowds of parents doing the same to drop him at class - and back out again to the gates did another mum lightly tap me on my shoulder to inform me my skirt was tucked into my knickers.