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To have done the most embarrassing thing ever

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faceonfire · 08/03/2022 11:46

Happened about an hour ago and I think I’ll need to go home and never come back to the office again

I work with a very very very handsome man. He was on the phone in the office this morning trying to sort out someone to come and fix his boiler.

He happened to say his postcode and me being the creepy wee lady I am put it into maps on my phone to see where he lived Blush

For some reason (and I still don’t know why) my phone blared

STARTING ROUTE FROM current location TO handsome man’s postcode

I was 6 feet away in a quiet office. He turned to look and I couldn’t even look up for wanting the ground to swallow me whole.

How do I come back from this? 😂

Please someone else tell me you’ve done something equally as embarrassing

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spongedog · 08/03/2022 19:09

@faceonfire

Happened about an hour ago and I think I’ll need to go home and never come back to the office again

I work with a very very very handsome man. He was on the phone in the office this morning trying to sort out someone to come and fix his boiler.

He happened to say his postcode and me being the creepy wee lady I am put it into maps on my phone to see where he lived Blush

For some reason (and I still don’t know why) my phone blared

STARTING ROUTE FROM current location TO handsome man’s postcode

I was 6 feet away in a quiet office. He turned to look and I couldn’t even look up for wanting the ground to swallow me whole.

How do I come back from this? 😂

Please someone else tell me you’ve done something equally as embarrassing

I do solemnly promise I will read the rest of the thread (currently 250+ posts) but I am howling at this. Sorry tears streaming.

No - I have had some embarrassing moments - but this caps them all!!

Jewel52 · 08/03/2022 19:10

Exactly the kind of thing that’d happen to me Grin! Not sure any cover story is going to work in this situation!

JudgeJ · 08/03/2022 19:10

@DomesticatedZombie

I went up to Rory McGrath in the street and said 'Hello,' and waved enthusiastically in his face. He looked really baffled and taken aback and it was only then that I realised I didn't know him, I just recognised him off the TV.
Oh, I almost did that! A well known soap used to film in our school, usually at the weekend. As I was leaving at about 6 30 I saw a pupil in the playground and started to say Why are you still here, when I recognised a person from the soap, they were doing an after school shoot!
FlibbertyGibbitt · 08/03/2022 19:19

🤣🤣🤣🤣 hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

WhiteKinderBueno · 08/03/2022 19:20

A few years ago I was getting my eyes tested at the opticians. I was sat in the chair and the optician was sat right in front of my face with the torch holding her finger in front of my eyes saying "look left" "look right" etc whilst she checked my pupils.

She then said to look down, and said what I heard as "just blow on my finger". So I sat there and started blowing on this lady's finger like how you'd blow on a bowl of hot soup. My heart absolutely sank when I realised she hadn't asked me to blow on her finger and had actually said to look "just below my finger". Sitting through the rest of the eye test was absolutely excruciating and it still haunts me to this day.

CBFA · 08/03/2022 19:23

Say that you had the listening Google thing on and it automatically plotted directions!

collieresponder88 · 08/03/2022 19:26

Ah don't worry it's really common to just be interested in peoples houses I think I've done it myself with people at work doesn't mean I fancy them !

Jellybellywellysmelly · 08/03/2022 19:27

Oh wow! I don’t normally laugh out loud at these posts but that got me! I’d do something like that! You poor thing

TarcasticSwat · 08/03/2022 19:29

@TristesseDurera thanks! I knew I wasn't going crazy. Tbh that scenario is probably worse, having to actually respond to the colleague there and then!

Pamlar · 08/03/2022 19:37

Was working alone in one of the boardrooms. Totally engrossed so didn't hear the lovely cleaner come in to empty the bin. Did a bum tilt in my chair to lift a cheek and produced a loud fast just as he bent down to replace the bin bag.

Poor man never said a word. I laughed and cried from my own disgustingness and total embarrassment.

thepeopleversuswork · 08/03/2022 19:39

@Pamlar

Was working alone in one of the boardrooms. Totally engrossed so didn't hear the lovely cleaner come in to empty the bin. Did a bum tilt in my chair to lift a cheek and produced a loud fast just as he bent down to replace the bin bag. Poor man never said a word. I laughed and cried from my own disgustingness and total embarrassment.
I've done that.

This thread is making me howl.

reallyworriedjobhunter · 08/03/2022 19:42

@ColonelPine

Right you just need to turn up at his house tonight in overalls with a spanner and try to fix his boiler Grin
100 per cent this. And it could also be your new job.
cavalier · 08/03/2022 19:45

Well you didn’t f*rt … at least lol

WeatherwaxOn · 08/03/2022 19:45

@RosiePosieDozy

Wow. That's funny Grin I feel for you.

Many years ago, an extremely handsome man approached me in the street and asked for directions to the train station. I was meant to point and say 'over there'. I still to this day do not know why I did this but I pointed in the region of his crotch and shouted 'under there'.

Sitting around, lethargic with covid and this made me snort-laugh.
HikingforScenery · 08/03/2022 19:45

You should’ve just blamed it on Siri GrinWink

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faceonfire · 08/03/2022 19:47

I don’t care anymore. I emigrated to Antarctica after work 🤣🤣

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swallowingrazorblades · 08/03/2022 19:50

@faceonfire

I don’t care anymore. I emigrated to Antarctica after work 🤣🤣
The only reasonable and proportionate action available to you. Good luck!
Notallcatsarenicecats · 08/03/2022 19:52

Hahaha. This gave me the giggles I needed. Grin

RockingGazelle · 08/03/2022 19:54

I have had such a horrible stressful day at work and this has really amused me and made me laugh so thank you @faceonfire

I think I would just have to avoid him forever. But it is a good story to tell!

HoliHormonalTigerlilly · 08/03/2022 19:54

@Playplayaway

This was many many years ago but I still cringe. My boss bought his dog into the office briefly one day. The dog was sniffing my shoes and I said 'Oh he can probably smell my pussy' (meaning my cat). I was mortified and made an excuse to leave the room and could barely look him in the eye again. I was young and very easily embarrassed Blush
🤣🤣🤣
TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 08/03/2022 19:55

most embarrassing thing ever?

You've obviously never agreed to inflate a ballon, with your bottom, at a company christmas do. On a stage.

Mif4 · 08/03/2022 20:01

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coodawoodashooda · 08/03/2022 20:03

@Rodedooda

Grin that's awful and yet so funny.

I'm dying for you Grin

Me too. Hahaha
100problems · 08/03/2022 20:04

I'm not sure Antarctica is far enough.

But we will be neighbours because I moved here after biting a male colleague at a party and my front crown broke off on his neck.

What can you do Blush

LincolnshireYellowBelly · 08/03/2022 20:17

Really sorry…but this made me snort with laughter!
Obviously, not only do you need a new job now, but you also need a new identity and a new country!

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