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To have done the most embarrassing thing ever

492 replies

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

OP posts:
LaughingCat · 09/03/2022 22:44

[quote AntiHop]@LaughingCat did you get the job though????[/quote]
Yes, @AntiHop 😂. My job relies on me remaining calm in a crisis…which I guess I must have shown. 🤣

chaosmaker · 09/03/2022 22:48

@PlainOldMe80

😂😂😂😂 years ago I was texting (yes, texting no WhatsApp back then 😳) my friend about this boy I really liked and accidentally sent it to him. A few days later I seen him and he asked me if I had something to tell him and I said no and left it at that 😂
Didn't you get the text would have been the perfect answer - delivered with a cheeky wink :D
user1481055867 · 09/03/2022 22:58

@faceonfire

Classic comedy gaffe, LOL. Are you now on Linkedin looking for another job?

Buggersticks · 09/03/2022 23:23

I really fancied a bloke at work, I thought he was lovely and I always went all silly when he was around. He was outside one day talking to a colleague (who happened to be the office joker) I was stood 8 feet away and broke wind really loudly. I don't know wtf I was doing even daring one out. They both spun to look at me and started making jokes about it. I've never been so humiliated. Didn't like him after that.

hightimer · 09/03/2022 23:34

@Chandimum

This happened to me about 6 months ago on a packed bus, except it blurted:

ROUTE TO THE G.U.M. CLINIC

I was actually visiting for a coil fitting with the family planning doctor 🤦🏽‍♀️.

I am deceased Grin
PrincessAnnaOfArundale · 09/03/2022 23:38

Oh god this made me smile. I’m so sorry for your embarrassment but this is so something that would happen to me! Oh I feel for you I really do but try to laugh it off.... or just never ever make eye contact with him again haha.

Yaya26 · 10/03/2022 00:22

@faceonfire

I’m glad I shared my office embarrassment now. Tbh I’ve wanted to weep at the news coming from Ukraine and everything else that seems to make life feel ever so heavy these days.

I’m so happy it’s cracked a smile or a giggle in so many of you 😂😂

Handsome Alan has asked me what I’m doing this weekend so I’m guessing he hath forgiven me for being a creepy wee lady 😂😂

Asking what your doing at weekend!!! 😂Maybe handsome Alan is going to invite you over to his 😉😉 Now that you have his address. 😂
InsanityOf2020 · 10/03/2022 03:35

@LethargeMarg

It's not an invasion of privacy to Google a colleagues address 🙄our work we have all colleagues home phone numbers,next of kin, car details, addresses in a 'in case of emergency' spread sheet that we all regularly get up dates on if details change and everyone admits to street viewing the addresses out of nosiness .
That a breach of GDPR, thats identiffiable information that should only be available to those that need to know, and certainly shouldnt be in a unsecure spreadsheet
Ddot · 10/03/2022 06:43

If you had been the man and you had copied it from oh that beautiful woman, can you imagine the response

DrSbaitso · 10/03/2022 07:12

@Ddot

If you had been the man and you had copied it from oh that beautiful woman, can you imagine the response
The Internet is awash with violent pornography depicting women being raped, choked, strangled and pissed upon, to a very appreciative audience. You can spend some time looking that up if it makes you feel better.
Ddot · 10/03/2022 07:32

DrSbaitso
That makes it ok then.

custardbear · 10/03/2022 07:41

Lol Siri is trying to match make 🤪

eastegg · 10/03/2022 07:45

@londonmummy1966

Thanks for making me laugh..

If you have a front the size of Blackpool you could style it out by accosting him in the kitchen and saying that you've been meaning to have a word with him for some time now about how loudly he talks in the office.

This is a brilliant response! Almost as funny as the OP.
Darlingx · 10/03/2022 08:16

suckingonchillidogs

Now that is genuis !!

DrSbaitso · 10/03/2022 08:22

@Ddot

DrSbaitso That makes it ok then.
It gives it perspective. Which does matter when you're trying to do the 500-year-old "reverse the sexes!" crap to try to obfuscate reality.

Personally I think at least as many men would do something like look up a house, but most people would be smart enough to have the app on silent. I

Ddot · 10/03/2022 08:27

Just seems creepy to me

DrSbaitso · 10/03/2022 08:31

@Ddot

Just seems creepy to me
It is, that's why it's embarrassing. Still, if you're going by the creep factor, men as a class still win the day by quite some considerable margin, which is why the "what if the sexes were reveeeeeeeeersed" bollocks is totally pointless. Like I said, just go online if you want to see what happens when the sexes are reversed. Have you really not noticed?
ukborn · 10/03/2022 08:51

Gosh - yikes don't know how I'd handle that!
I met my incredibly handsome (Paul Newman lookalike) the other day (lives across the street, I've met his wife but never him) and I could barely take in what he was saying. I think my jaw was on the ground and I was practically blinded my his gorgeousness! Can't imagine working with him!

OnTheB · 10/03/2022 12:04

Your story made it to "The Sun" 😳

TechGuy · 10/03/2022 12:50

The Seventh Earl of Oxford would have empathised:

And 'twas the Earl of Oxford. This Earl of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travel [for] 7 years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home, and said, 'My Lord, I had forgot the Fart'.

ImTheOnlyUpsyOne · 10/03/2022 15:14

Just heard this story related on BBC Radio 1Xtra Confused sorry OP....i don't know what i would've done lol

Sparklingbrook · 10/03/2022 15:27

If this is being repeated in The Sun and on the radio isn't the guy going to see it and recognise the story?

DrSbaitso · 10/03/2022 15:35

@Sparklingbrook

If this is being repeated in The Sun and on the radio isn't the guy going to see it and recognise the story?
I expect so, but why does that matter? He knows it happened.
Sparklingbrook · 10/03/2022 15:41

I expect so, but why does that matter? He knows it happened

I didn't say it mattered. Would just be a bit strange at work though.

eastegg · 10/03/2022 17:13

Well it makes it clear that it was OP putting the postcode into maps, and also then telling people that on the internet. I mean I haven’t followed the link, but I presume the story makes those things clear. So a bit more embarrassing now arguably (if that is possible!)