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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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MannyTeddy · 14/08/2025 13:52

I once parked up on the road outside the post office, went to post a letter and came out and saw my tyre was going flat so I gave it a push with my foot to check it. Looked up and saw a bemused person looking at me, from the driving seat. It was then I realised my red car was parked further down the road. 😂

WalkingWavy · 14/08/2025 14:04

Phoned Apple customer support because my week old brand new AirPods had suddenly stopped working… turns out you need to charge them after 4 hours-ish of use. Oops

Whylurkwhenicanjoinin · 14/08/2025 14:25

These are epic, marking place!

Phoebesparrow · 14/08/2025 14:41

I forgot about the time my parents had been on a day out,my father had taken them on his (then new) motorbike

Anyway,she decided that on the way home she needed to stop at a corner shop so he pulled in and she got off and wandered into the shop

He moved a few meters down the road while he waited for her,figuring she'd see him on his 'massive new BLACK bike' (his words)

She came wandering out,clutching her carrier bag and jumped onto the back of a smaller black and yellow motorbike while jabbing him in the ribs,screeching 'come on you slow arsehole,we need to get home!'

Yep,a poor bloke had pulled into the spot my father had left and it just happened to look vaguely like my father's old motorbike

The penny dropped when this poor soul turned to look at her and that's when she saw my father sat about 5 meters down the road and laughing at her

I don't think she's ever forgiven him

Zoopet · 14/08/2025 15:02

Way back, when video recorders were fairly new in the classroom I was trying to find the right place on the video tape to show the class a prerecorded schools programme.
I couldn't work out why I had a random cable left over and spent ages looking all over the tv and video recorder.
In desperation I found the headteacher and asked him to help.
It took him 2 seconds.
The cable belonged to the electric kettle which wason the side table next to the giant TV on wheels!

lotsofpatience · 14/08/2025 16:00

Lol, the poor guy is going to crack a few jokes off you from a few weeks.
Don't worry lovely, you are not the only one who has made a fool of themselves. Hardly an oddity.

VeterinaryCareAssistant · 14/08/2025 16:10

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.

Ha ha I only knew what this meant because my partner is a mechanic.

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 16:51

Just remembered a recent incident. I had to sit in a meeting at a bank to accompany a guy I work with. We walked into the meeting room with the bank manager, there were 2 seats at a desk which they sat at & the bank manager pointed to a chair for me that was like a metal camping chair fixed to the wall folded up. I opened it and sat on the seat. About 10 mins later the bank manager turned to look at me and said "I thought you were a bit high up. You're supposed to take the chair off the wall before you sit on it!!!" 🤣

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 14/08/2025 17:53

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 16:51

Just remembered a recent incident. I had to sit in a meeting at a bank to accompany a guy I work with. We walked into the meeting room with the bank manager, there were 2 seats at a desk which they sat at & the bank manager pointed to a chair for me that was like a metal camping chair fixed to the wall folded up. I opened it and sat on the seat. About 10 mins later the bank manager turned to look at me and said "I thought you were a bit high up. You're supposed to take the chair off the wall before you sit on it!!!" 🤣

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I have genuinely just drawn quite a few glances my way by cackling loudly out loud over this!

Original poster
redbusbeepbeep · 14/08/2025 18:09

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 16:51

Just remembered a recent incident. I had to sit in a meeting at a bank to accompany a guy I work with. We walked into the meeting room with the bank manager, there were 2 seats at a desk which they sat at & the bank manager pointed to a chair for me that was like a metal camping chair fixed to the wall folded up. I opened it and sat on the seat. About 10 mins later the bank manager turned to look at me and said "I thought you were a bit high up. You're supposed to take the chair off the wall before you sit on it!!!" 🤣

Hahaha I am cackling at this! what did you do? Just hop down? Or stay there? 😆

OP posts:
ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 18:21

redbusbeepbeep · 14/08/2025 18:09

Hahaha I am cackling at this! what did you do? Just hop down? Or stay there? 😆

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I hopped down, yanked the chair off the wall & sat on it, inwardly trying not to piss myself laughing whilst also wanting to die....!

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 18:24

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 18:21

I hopped down, yanked the chair off the wall & sat on it, inwardly trying not to piss myself laughing whilst also wanting to die....!

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I also put my story on the work group chat as I thought it would make my colleagues laugh. When I next went into the office, my manager said "now Connie, do you need a hand with your chair?" 🤣

nigel1120 · 14/08/2025 18:25

We were in a hotel in India so when I heard a sort of knocking/buzzing noise coming from the bathroom I was afraid the electrics were going wrong in some way. I woke my DH to investigate as there was no way I was going back to sleep! In the end he called the reception who managed to send the maintenance man about 4am…. I’d left my electric toothbrush on and it was vibrating on the wall

Whammyyammy · 14/08/2025 18:26

My husband way away one (4 months with RAF) and a load knocking noise at the back end of the car started as I went round corners.
Got it booked into the garage, took the day off to take it l. Felt proud taking it myself only to have the mechanics call me to say it's fixed within an hour.

It was a bottle of lemonade rolling out in the boot.
Luckily didn't get charged as it made them laugh

Putneydad7 · 14/08/2025 18:30

Be careful, after 3 callouts the plumber will think you are making a play for him

Bluddyellfire · 14/08/2025 18:37

Zanzara · 13/08/2025 21:12

I can make you feel better OP....

Many years ago, DD had to go to the dental hospital in the city to have two back teeth extracted under anaesthetic. It involved an early start, parking some distance from the hospital, and all the trauma of the extraction with a young and nervous child. Once it was all over, we gratefully drove home to our village and I made her some lunch.

Two hours later she came to me, highly distressed, and showed me her mouth. At the back of her mouth, where the teeth had been extracted, she had two nasty looking boils or abscesses, and was very upset. So we duly got back in the car, drove back to the city, parked a mile from the hospital and walked back there.

The dental surgeon and the team were very concerned when they examined her, and mystified as to what was happening. It was all very worrying. Eventually one of them asked what she had had for lunch.

A cold, clammy hand of realisation seized my heart.

She'd got a baked bean stuck in each cavity.

I couldn't get out of there fast enough...

Fantastic 🤣🤣🤣

VK456 · 14/08/2025 18:40

Easily done!

I booked my car in once because there was an awful rattle in the back once I started to pick up speed. Turns out I hadn’t pushed the rear car seat fully back into position after laying it flat to transport something

NavyRose · 14/08/2025 18:41

Putneydad7 · 14/08/2025 18:30

Be careful, after 3 callouts the plumber will think you are making a play for him

Depressing

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 14/08/2025 18:45

@ConnieHeart In my head you were sitting there like this 😂.

AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?
canyouseemyhousefromhere · 14/08/2025 19:06

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 16:51

Just remembered a recent incident. I had to sit in a meeting at a bank to accompany a guy I work with. We walked into the meeting room with the bank manager, there were 2 seats at a desk which they sat at & the bank manager pointed to a chair for me that was like a metal camping chair fixed to the wall folded up. I opened it and sat on the seat. About 10 mins later the bank manager turned to look at me and said "I thought you were a bit high up. You're supposed to take the chair off the wall before you sit on it!!!" 🤣

Sitting in my garden reading this and just laughed very loudly- I can hear the neighbours whispering behind the fence.
😂😂😂

Pinkrinse · 14/08/2025 19:12

We got a dishwasher repair man out as the bit that spins had come off and neither of us could fix it so assumed it was broke. He walked in, looked at it, and pushed it back on! 10 secs work and we had to pay the call out. (He could at least have pretended it was difficult to fix) 😂😂😂

Gliblet · 14/08/2025 20:09

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.

Ohhh you are not alone! DS was a cluster feeder and one afternoon when he'd been feeding for what felt like hours the doorbell rang. I shuffled to the door, opened it, took the parcel, put it down on the hall floor, signed the thingy, then looked up, saw the postman's face, looked down and realised DS had stopped feeding to examine this fascinating change of circumstances and I'd been standing there with my tit hanging out...

Wildefish · 14/08/2025 20:21

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.

Omg…I laughed so loud the dog jumped of the sofa

ConnieHeart · 14/08/2025 20:35

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 14/08/2025 18:45

@ConnieHeart In my head you were sitting there like this 😂.

Yes, in my head I was like that too but probably nowhere near as elegant! When the bank manager told me I should have put the chair on the floor I sort of made it look like I was thinking "well yes I could, but I'm.quite comfortable like this, thanks" 🤣

Sugargliderwombat · 14/08/2025 20:52

REDB99 · 13/08/2025 21:21

I took my 8 year old DD to the doctor after discovering lumps on her spine which were new and had not been there in the bath the night before. Doctor asked where the lumps were and I duly pointed them out only to be told it was just her spine. Got out a model of a skeleton and made me feel the spine so I knew what one felt like for future reference , mortified.

My OH was worried about the lumps on my babies neck. He asked the midwife. It was her collarbone.