To have done the most embarrassing thing ever

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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

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’ve no input and nor read the other messages but this this is without a doubt the most funniest thing I have read in a very long time. Im sorry but am absolutely pissing myself!!

Wow. That's funny 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'.

OMFG this has just made me feel better about every embarrassing thing I've ever done in my whole life. Thank you from releasing me from my prison.

@PeeAche

Solidarity, OP:

When I was at university, Facebook came out.

One day, I was searching for this guy that lived in my halls. I had such a thing for him because he was so dark and brooding. 🤤

I put his name into FB over and over but every time I hit enter, the page just refreshed and still only showed me my own "wall". So I gave up.

A few hours later, my friend from a few doors down asked me why I had just covered my own FB wall with this guy's name. Over and over and over again as my status.

I realised then that I'd been writing him into my status bar instead of the search bar.

I wanted to die.

Omg I did this too with the object of my limerence!

Thankfully just the once and I caught it quickly.

Yours is hilarious!! Did he ever find out?

Oh god… I’m dying for you 🤣

Oh god, OP I'm laughing and cringing on your behalf. It's totally the kind of thing I'd do.

Several years ago my boss mentioned they were selling an expensive item on gumtree or similar. Of course I went and had a nose as it meant they'd put pics of their new house. Totally forgot I'd been looking and later that day we were discussing something in the news and I said 'here look, I'll show you '.....got out my phone tapped on the Internet browser and what's the page that pops up, their item on gumtree!! They said 'why are you looking at x?'. I wanted the ground to swallow me up. I went very red and admitted I'd been having a nosey. After they left the rest of the room dissolved into hysterics.

Hope he just assumed your phone picked it up on its own. Phones be like that sometimes. You know, you'll just be talking and the phone will randomly go 'here are some recipes for tuna salad'

Siri?

One day a man turned up at the door, carrying a clipboard. I had just had a shower and washed my hair..I turned up at the door in my dressing gown and a towel on my head. Assumed he was here to read the meter I said "upstairs and to the left". He stared at me for a long time and I was getting really scared and uncomfortable, he must have thought he was on to a good thing! I said "have you come to read the meter?" he said "no I have come for the paper money". I could have curled up in a ball! A week later the man had a stroke! Am I to blame?

@Whatterywhat

I'd syle it out and say his voice activated it?

Say that to who? When?

@HedgehogintheFog

You were typing to find a route from somewhere and as he was speaking, you accidentally put what you heard (his postcode) in instead of the one you were supposed to??? Maybe????

Now all we need is a time machine.

In my youth I had a one-night stand with a guy at work after the office party. He worked on a different floor so the first time I saw him afterwards was the following week when he came to give something to the boss, who sat near me. I was walking back from the kitchen at the time and was so busy looking at him to see if he was looking at me, that I tripped over someone's bag and fell flat on my face, heels in the air, coffee all over the floor. Smooth.

I swear somebody posted a very similar story the other day except the OP Google mapped their colleague's address on their computer and that colleague came over at that moment and saw their address on the poster's screen.

@TarcasticSwat

I swear somebody posted a very similar story the other day except the OP Google mapped their colleague's address on their computer and that colleague came over at that moment and saw their address on the poster's screen.

I found it

Another is more embarrassing than anything else. A consultant I worked for was going on a year long sabbatical. He emailed me his home address so that I could forward any non-clinical post to him. Nosey old me decides to put his home address into Google Maps and have a look at his house on Street View. I was full zoomed into the front of his house, when he appeared at my shoulder!! I tried to x the window off quickly but, as I had several tabs open, it did the whole "do you want to close all tabs?" message, leaving his house on screen for even longer. He said something along the lines of, "um, that's my house", to which I replied "lovely and close to the M1, aren't you?". Finally closed the damn screen and pretended none of it had happened.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a4354606-Tell-me-your-hideous-workplace-errors?msgid=111011233

Bad luck OP. But at least it was flattering - could've been "Route to repellant git boilerman's sordid little grief-hole".

My own life is mostly a series of grindingly embarrassing encounters, peppered with attempts to distance myself from them.

One of my particular favourites was spending some time in the company of a lovely genial young Irish man, whom I later found out to be Nicky from Westlife. I knew him to be a celebrity of some kind but had absolutely no idea who he was. I filled the conversation gap by apologising to him for England's appalling treatment of the Irish during the Potato Famine.

I would like to say that this was an isolated incident. It is not. . I don't know why I do it.

In another especial highlight, when interesting ancestry was a general subject in chat, I also apologised - on behalf of a small subsection of my personal DNA - for the Crucifixion. To Shane Richie.

It'll be alright. xx

@Arabellla

Yours is hilarious!! Did he ever find out?

Of course, literally everyone in my halls saw it and I was a laughing stock. 😅

It would be so nice if I could update my post with "he's now my husband" or even "he and I ended up at it like rabbits"

But no. In fact, I don't think I got laid for a full year after this incident. It was awful.

I was already at a disadvantage when I turned up to my university halls. We had to supply headshot photos in advance, which were placed on a "get to know you" board in reception, next to our names and room numbers (this would never fly these days).

My mother had forwarded on a photo of me in extra extra large spectacles, sporting what I can only describe as an afro. And I am not black.

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.

He'll be sitting at home tonight wondering if you are going to turn up at his house, OP.

Oh my ! How hilarious 😆

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Bogofftosomewherehot

I am literally wetting myself!!!

OP: there is still time for a distraction (I was thinking comedy trip up across the office floor breaking a bone) or indeed, wetting yourself

People would remember today alright, but not because of Siri

The afternoon is young … think laterally

Brilliant!!

Oh wowsers OP I read this thinking it won’t be that bad. But…🤣 died for you!!

Love suggestions to blame Siri- almost convincing (apart from timing perhaps…;))

Anyway, it is absolutely the sort of thing I would do, which is why I felt your pain so badly.

During lockdown in a teams meeting, for some UNKNOWN REASON I screenshotted the Home Screen of a man I couldn’t stand but simultaneously sort of fancied… judge away but it showed his wife and kids and I just wanted to be a nosy cow.

Anyway, as soon as I’d done it I had the mortifying fear that everyone would have it flash up on their screens that Builderscrack had just taken a screenshot. I mean, luckily that didn’t happen (I googled the hell out of it afterwards) but the mortification for the rest of the meeting almost finished me off.

You have my sympathies OP 💐

One of those situations where you shouldn't even try to explain or make excuses! Totally agree that style it out is the way to go, you have nothing to explain because his voice activated your phone. End of !!!

Aww that's hilarious but PPs have the answer about it being activated by his voice.

Once when we were in the office my friend sent me a message on our message system re our boss - just saying "why does she always do that? Ask if you are ready to go somewhere with her, so you stand up and pick all your stuff up and she says, I'll just nip to the loo or send an email?!!!" Only, obviously she sent it to the boss and is looking at me over the partition an wanting my response, which was obviously just my blank face and then it dawned on her.....

Boss had a heart of gold but was a "difficult" manager. It took many meetings with her before she understood that it wasn't a big deal and that we weren't sniping behind her back all the time. She never saw the funny side though.