AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?

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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.

Not that stupid - in some areas they are only open for limited hours.

I called the engineer out because the central heating was not coming on. He came in, immediately turned the thermostat on the wall up from the frost setting and it came on. I was so embarrassed.

I called a drain repair company out twice as they couldn’t find anything wrong with our drains but there was a rotten smell emanating from our utility room….which backed onto a lean-to greenhouse where we had forgotten about a bucket of fish heads after taking DC “crabbing” down at the pier 😝

My DC & I walked to the local shops to buy a gift for my older DC, leaving DH at home as he wanted do some gardening.
We found a possible gift but I wanted to see what DH thought so I FaceTimed him.
He took a while to answer his phone- when he did he was out of breath and his shorts were around his knees, the phone was waving about.

Apparently he had gone into the shed to get the lawnmower and a wasp had followed him inside (he hates wasps). At that point I called him, he felt the wasp fly up the leg of his shorts so he frantically unzipped them to get the wasp out and ran out of the shed onto the lawn. The ‘buzzing wasp’ was of course his phone in his pocket.😂

As we have cctv in the back garden we all enjoyed watching the whole show repeatedly later. 🐝

It's a shame you can't post a link to that video here! I loved the way you wrote about it too - thanks for the laugh. 😆

I would have loved to have been there, op. Brilliant.

Take heart. You have made many people laugh!

I was up on a chair in the kitchen trying to find where the water was dripping from around the ceiling light. After an embarrassing amount of time I realised it was my freshly washed hair dripping down me 🫢😳

Oh give it a rest fun killer.

OP that’s brilliant 😂 my mum once called the builder back because there was black dirt all along the inside of her extension ceiling edge. It was a shadow!

Just remembered one Summer when my glasses' lenses looked very odd with stripes on them. Took me a while to realise that they were photochromatic and there had been something across them on the coffee table in the sun so they'd had darkened unevenly.

I once phoned the electrician as I had complete loss of electrics randomly. Sat hours waiting for them to arrive with not one bit of electric (I’m in a rural area so it’s essential for WiFi calling, data etc). Well they came and it turns out my suitcase I had put in the cupboard that morning had flicked the switch accidentally and I didn’t even know it was there 😂. Felt like a right idiot as the guy travelled for 2 hours just to toggle a switch back on, but I guess he got payment for it 🤣

That’s hilarious. I don’t know how old you are but the older I get (now 56) the more I value having anecdotes like this to tell people! Comparing embarrassing stories seems to become more of a bonding thing as you get older. In fact Dawn French recently wrote an entire book and stage show about embracing and owning this stuff - called “The Twat Files” and “Dawn French is a Massive Twat” - so you’re in good company!

Not at all. I didn't even expect an answer - and still don't have one. And I try not to post hysterically.

My sister opened a bag of Tesco swingbin liners. She pulled the first one off the roll, and shook it, it was half the length she expected, so was the second one. She went back to Tesco to complain. The assistant took the bag, gave it a vigorous shake, and it was indeed the right length! They all just needed a proper shake.😁

The first time my parents bought plastic bags on a roll, they took them back to the shop to complain because they were faulty - it was just a long sheet of plastic. The assistant had to show them how to rub the top of each bag to open it.

I did the same. Come home to a dark house. Checked fuse board, all looked normal, all switches on. Called round loads of electricians, found one that answered who asked about the fuse board. I was all ‘yes of course that was the first thing I checked, I’m not an idiot’. He left his dinner to drive 40 minutes to see me went straight to the fuse board only to point at the switch that was down. Flicked it up and power restored.
How I didn’t see it I don’t know.

These tales are brilliant. 👏

I wrote an angry email to B&Q telling them that the lawnmower I’d just purchased had come with no wheels. They were in the grass collecting bit. I

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MsAmerica · 16/08/2025 23:14

Not at all. I didn't even expect an answer - and still don't have one. And I try not to post hysterically.

Aah, bless you. Was your humourectomy elective, or did a doctor recommend it?

This one gave me the biggest laugh out of the whole thread 🤣

That's really made me laugh 😂 😂

I had very similar, knocking noise when I hit 50 mph after having had the car serviced. Took it straight back went out with the mechanic to try and suss it

He heard the noise and pulled up, looked all around the car, the popped his head in and asked how long I'd had the aerial topper

They'd turned the stereo off and I forgot to put it back on, I usually had it quite loud so had never noticed Mickey's head walloping the roof of my car

My dad couldn't get the car radio to tune to any other station. Till i found there was a tape i had recorded of a radio program in the tape slot ( that I had given him and he had inserted himself then forgotten about )

@NinaGeiger my first thought is he meant can you imitate the noise 🤣 and tbh I still don't understand what your mechanic meant instead!

Many years ago my bf at the time & I had nowhere to go for any alone time. As it was a nice summers day we drove to a very remote lane, thinking noone will ever go there midweek during the day. The lane we parked in was so tight you would have to slowly squeeze past sideways.
We were very engrossed, but thankfully were only topless. We came up for air & there in the distance was a jogger jogging away from our car! Can't articulate enough the embarrassment I felt 🙈🙈 still haunts me to this day. I have no idea if he'd squeezed past discreetly, or if he'd stood & watched for a while before continuing his run 🤣🤣