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AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?

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redbusbeepbeep · 13/08/2025 19:58

I am quite honestly never going to get over this. It was my birthday yesterday and as my partner works away he arranged for something to be sent to the house, along with flowers and a helium balloon.

A few weeks ago we had a leak from the bathroom, pretty bad, leaking down the walls and through our light sockets. The plumber came and fixed the leak, however 2 days later it’s leaking again, no where near as bad luckily as we caught it in time. He comes again and haven’t had an issue since.

Today I’m sat having a coffee and I notice a patch around the same area. Furious I phone the plumber to tell him the problem STILL isn’t sorted and he needs to come back as soon as possible, as I’m meeting friends in another city at lunch time and I wouldn’t dare leave it like that.

Plumber comes, it’s not a fucking leak, it’s the shadow from the helium balloon.

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mumtoadhdadult · 14/08/2025 09:56

Thank you for making me laugh out loud. It rarely happens.

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 09:56

Hillrunning · 13/08/2025 22:24

DH and I had had our cst for about 3 months when we noticed a very concerning patch of missing fur. We dutifully took him off the the vet and spent a good 6 minutes rummaging about on his tummy to find this worrying patch. The vet looked at us pityingly and said 'that's his belly button'

My cat would have thoroughly enjoyed her "examination"!! 🤣

BigBillyButterBollocks · 14/08/2025 09:57

Pleatherandlace · 13/08/2025 21:27

A few years ago I left the house one morning to find that my car wasn’t outside. After some anxious walking up and down the street I called the police to give a statement and report the car stolen. The following day I remembered that I had parked it elsewhere 😳.

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I read cat and I was really confused 😂

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 10:11

I gave my brother a lift home one day. After he got out I started driving but I could hear this weird loud scraping noise, then every 10 seconds or so an even louder bang on the side of the car. I pulled over as soon as I was able to, to find my DB (who is v overweight) had pulled the seat belt to almost its maximum to go over his belly, then when he got out he'd shut the door on the very loose seat belt hanging out of the door. It was then trailing along the ground whilst I drove then every now & then the silver buckle would fly up & hit the car!

cannyvalley · 14/08/2025 10:15

This thread has me absolutely howling, thank you so much everyone for sharing and making my day!

When my son was newborn , many years ago, I was in a cycle of cluster breastfeeding … he seems to be feeding every 20 mins. I had feeding bras that clipped down, and that day was wearing a v neck top that pulled I down to feed.

I was sat half dozing on the sofa , baby in Moses basket having a snooze, waiting on the postie delivering a parcel.

when he knocked I shot up to answer the door, and couldn’t understand why he was being so weird, giving intense eye contact, stumbling over his words and handing me my parcel before scarpering.

I wondered if I looked as rough as I felt, sleep deprived , hair all over etc.

a few minutes later my baby woke and I went to pull my top down to get ready to feed him.

lo and behold, my v neck was already pulled down, and my feeding bra unclipped.

id answered the door with my boob hanging out the v neck of my tshirt, bra open and on full show like a crazy engorged peekaboo.

poor postie.

BoudiccaRuled · 14/08/2025 10:16

Hillrunning · 13/08/2025 22:24

DH and I had had our cst for about 3 months when we noticed a very concerning patch of missing fur. We dutifully took him off the the vet and spent a good 6 minutes rummaging about on his tummy to find this worrying patch. The vet looked at us pityingly and said 'that's his belly button'

We had similar but it was nipples on our dog 😄

BoudiccaRuled · 14/08/2025 10:19

MsAmerica · 14/08/2025 01:47

This is another example of how, to me, there is an insane level of melodrama here.
Things like this happen all the time. I would have just said, "Oh, my god, I'm so embarrassed. This is like called the television repairman and finding that the problem is that the set isn't plugged in. Sorry - what do I owe you?"
And then I would have told it as a funny story to my friends.

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You are clearly more comfortable with being an imbecile than the rest of us!

AugustSlippedAwayIntoAMomentInTime · 14/08/2025 10:36

Years ago, I went to meet my roommate at Uni once to sit with her in solidarity on a kerb in a parking lot while she waited for a car locksmith ... she'd locked herself out of her car.

Wish I'd checked her car when I got there ... the passenger window was down the whole time.... the car locksmith guy thought it was hilarious.

LillyPJ · 14/08/2025 10:39

cannyvalley · 14/08/2025 10:15

This thread has me absolutely howling, thank you so much everyone for sharing and making my day!

When my son was newborn , many years ago, I was in a cycle of cluster breastfeeding … he seems to be feeding every 20 mins. I had feeding bras that clipped down, and that day was wearing a v neck top that pulled I down to feed.

I was sat half dozing on the sofa , baby in Moses basket having a snooze, waiting on the postie delivering a parcel.

when he knocked I shot up to answer the door, and couldn’t understand why he was being so weird, giving intense eye contact, stumbling over his words and handing me my parcel before scarpering.

I wondered if I looked as rough as I felt, sleep deprived , hair all over etc.

a few minutes later my baby woke and I went to pull my top down to get ready to feed him.

lo and behold, my v neck was already pulled down, and my feeding bra unclipped.

id answered the door with my boob hanging out the v neck of my tshirt, bra open and on full show like a crazy engorged peekaboo.

poor postie.

,🤣🤣🤣I can't stop laughing every time I think about this!

Lanzarotelady · 14/08/2025 10:44

Notmyreality · 13/08/2025 21:53

Another one - was an open zoo type place with the kids. Walked past the giant tortoise enclosure which only had a low fence you could easily step over and was shocked to see a family of 5 calmly walking inside the enclosure toward the tortoises. I instantly got the rage and said loudly “What on earth do you think you are doing in there?!!”
Then I saw the Zoo Ranger behind them who was conducting their special guided tour.
They all looked at me with combination of surprise and bemusement and I mumbled some kind of apology and quickly made my exit!

We went to an open zoo, animal place once, it was really busy, but we found an absolutely fantastic place for lunch, loads of space, no one else around, why is no one else here we thought, for a fleeting moment, we put out our blanket, all 6 of us sat down, we had a really nice lunch, people were looking and tutting at us, we thought it was because we had bagged the best spot!

We had lunch - cleared up - then saw a sign, picnics and food forbidden in this area!

Marmaladelover · 14/08/2025 10:47

Very worried and expecting a large bill, we took our cat to the vets with what we thought was a large abscess on her front canine tooth. Horrible to look at : large, bulging, dirty colour which had appeared quite quickly.
I think it worried the vet too , until on examining the abscess a bit more, he realised that it was a clump of cat fur that had managed to wind itself around her tooth!

thisoldcity · 14/08/2025 11:12

My car broke down and had to be towed to a garage. The recovery guy said 'get in' so I started to get in my car and he had to stop me. 'No, get in the truck.' He then hoisted the whole front of my car so it was just resting on the back two wheels to tow it. Really really embarrassing as he must have thought I wanted to sit in it while it was towed like that. I hadn't really noticed how that sort of tow truck works...

The worst part then was after I'd been very red and embarrassed, screeched with laughter when I saw what was happening and did a huge 'omg you must have thought i was so stupid!' kind of routine, we then sat in an uncomfortable silence to the garage.

ickky · 14/08/2025 11:15

As a teenager, I could smell Gas in the kitchen. Got my Dad to come and have a sniff, he could also smell it. Called out the emergency gas man to check our gas meter, which was next to the fridge (relevant).

Took them about half hour to arrive, just as they rung the doorbell, I had opened the fridge and the smell of gas hit me in the face. I discovered that the minted lamb was the source of the very strong smell.

Did I tell the gas man? Did I fuck, I whipped it out of the fridge and slung it out the back door, up the garden.

Gas man checked it all out and obviously found no leak, I apologised for wasting his time, he assured me it was better to check. I was so red with embarrassment I must have looked like a belisha beacon. 😳

rainbowsandwaterfalls · 14/08/2025 11:16

My DH has a knack of putting himself in these situations and it is a constant source of amusement for us, but one that stands out is when he decided that he wanted to get a cat.
He came home with a female cat and called her Jasmine. He had her for approximately 12 months at the time when he took her to the vet’s to get her annual boosters, whilst there he asked the vet’s if he could book her in to get her spayed. The vet look at him like he was crazy and the following conversation followed -

Vet - “no but you can book HIM in to get neutered, your cat is male”
DH - “ but he doesn’t cock his leg when he wee’s”
Vet - “that’s because he is a cat, not a dog”

the cats name was changed to Jazz and we still laugh about it 15 years later 🤣

the5thgoldengirl · 14/08/2025 11:42

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DeedlessIndeed · 14/08/2025 11:47

During COVID I was an essential worker and we set up a mobile food bank for our residents. It was all on the fly, so we used to pick up stock in our work car from a food distribution depot. There was a great spirit of camaraderie and pulling together etc. Plus it was so novel to actually see people in the flesh, so actually it was a really enjoyable experience.

One week, my colleagues and I had loaded up the back of my car as usual. Theirs had already been loaded. I was first in the convoy, so I started driving away and my colleagues were giving me big waves goodbye. I laughed and waved back, grinning like an idiot, feeing really good about what we were doing for our community, and kept on driving out of the depot.

Didn't realize my boot was open until a stack of crates fell out all over the road. They hadn't been waving at me. They had been trying to stop me from driving away.

Jevarakh · 14/08/2025 12:29

I once bought a washing machine and it malfunctioned well within the guarantee period. So, I rang Currys to arrange a repair. But they had no record of me ever having bought the washing machine from them. I had the receipt, so quoted the date, and the receipt number - no joy. Becoming infuriated, I got out the guarantee document and quoted the reference number on that to the poor chap on the other end of the line. It was at that point that I noticed the name of the company at the top of the guarantee document. It was Comet. I gasped in utter horror, slammed the phone, babbled 'Sorry! Sorry! Sorry!' and cringed in utter embarrassment.

I had to have two cups of tea before I could ring Comet to arrange the repair.

Pudmyboy · 14/08/2025 12:33

When driving on an unfamiliar road, I saw traffic lights ahead on red and a queue of traffic so I queued with them. Saw someone drive past me up to the lights, I glared at him thinking he was trying to push in.
The lights changed, he moved off, my queue stayed stationary.
Yes dear reader, I was queuing in a line of parked cars.

Thefaceofboe · 14/08/2025 12:34

Pudmyboy · 14/08/2025 12:33

When driving on an unfamiliar road, I saw traffic lights ahead on red and a queue of traffic so I queued with them. Saw someone drive past me up to the lights, I glared at him thinking he was trying to push in.
The lights changed, he moved off, my queue stayed stationary.
Yes dear reader, I was queuing in a line of parked cars.

I’ve done one better than this. Once I presumed a queue of cars waiting at a red light were parked up so I drove down the side of them to the front Blush at least you could just pretend you intended to park up 🤣

AAudreyHorne · 14/08/2025 12:50

I once got on the night bus home after a night out, I had had quite a few drinks.
Saw a man sitting on the back seat with a curly black dog on his knee ... exclaimed very loudly 'oh can I stroke your dog' as i charged down the bus towards him.

It was not his dog ... it was his girlfriends head in his lap as she tried to get some sleep on the way home!!

Mortified.

GinandGingerBeer · 14/08/2025 13:17

NinaGeiger · 13/08/2025 20:23

Took my car to the garage and said it was making a funny noise. The mechanic said "can you replicate it?"
I thought he meant can you do an impression of it.

He didn't.

I love that 😂

Phoebesparrow · 14/08/2025 13:25

AugustSlippedAwayIntoAMomentInTime · 14/08/2025 10:36

Years ago, I went to meet my roommate at Uni once to sit with her in solidarity on a kerb in a parking lot while she waited for a car locksmith ... she'd locked herself out of her car.

Wish I'd checked her car when I got there ... the passenger window was down the whole time.... the car locksmith guy thought it was hilarious.

My mother did something similar years ago

She'd just got her first car and it was a real banger

First time out in it,she'd driven about 90 miles away from home with her friend and stopped for ice cream

Came back and she'd somehow locked the keys in the car

She found a payphone and rang my father and asked if he would ride on his motorbike with the spare key

He's a bad tempered man at the best of times and ranted that he was due his afternoon nap but as she's the boss of their marriage,he knew he couldn't just leave her stranded and set off

He would have been about 5 minutes away when her friend noticed the passenger door was open

Quick as a flash,she locked that door and sweetly accepted the keys when he finally got there

He still rants about it (25 years on) but doesn't know about that door!

We have been under the fear of torture if we ever let on (well I'm not as I'm nc but my brothers dare not blab)

dogcatkitten · 14/08/2025 13:25

Checked in to a rather posh hotel and a guy carried the suitcase upstairs and put it on the stand for me, I could hear a strange sound in the room and was thinking they've given me a cheap room close to some electrical equipment or something, the guy seemed a bit quick to leave and I'm thinking he wants to be gone before I start complaining. I was about to ring down to reception, but just opened the suitcase first, the noise got much louder and I found the electric toothbrush had turned itself on and was buzzing away merrily.

Sahara123 · 14/08/2025 13:30

Absentmindedsmile · 13/08/2025 20:19

That was A Lot less of an embarrassing event than I anticipated. Disappointing

Yes to be honest the first thought that went through my head was she shagged the plumber 🤣
I’ll get my coat …..

JockTamsonsBairns · 14/08/2025 13:33

One morning when I was heading out to do the school run, I couldn't shut my front door over properly. Tried it several times, but there was something stopping it.
Hurriedly took DS to school and, on my return, phoned the council to report it.

They sent out their maintenance team who straight away pointed out that I'd turned the lock before shutting it, so the metal bolt thing was sticking out - which was why it wasn't closing properly.

😳