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.

Years ago my key was stuck in the locker after a day of work. I tried to open the door it wouldn't budge. I start kicking at it and a guy saw me asking me if he can help. I told him, my key is stuck and my car keys are in my locker. He spent about 15 minutes in the end he managed to open it by forcing the lock breaking the key in the process. Of course, it wasn't my locker. I told him thank you I need to go to the bathroom hoping he will leave and didn't see me not taking anything out. I came back he wasn't there anymore, phew! Made the walk of shame to security to tell them I no longer have a working key and destroyed someone' else locker. I had to pay £15.

very reasonable, it is ALL his fault

I was once staying with some colleagues in an apartment complex in which we all had our own rooms. We came in after the standard check in time (after a drink or two) and they’d left the keys in envelopes for us. Most of us found our rooms but we could not find room 99 despite looking everywhere in the complex. We decided the only thing to do was to phone the emergency number. An unhappy staff member informed us there were only 80 rooms as we turned the envelope upside down and realised it was the key for room 66.

I met my friend in local coffee shop. Tried to have a chat but their smoke alarm kept going off. We rolled our eyes, tutted and complained to each other. 30 mins later, as we left the shop, I discovered it was a freebie security alarm on a keyring that I had been given by a hospital the day before. Loudly bleeping in my bag.

What a very nice man.
Unlike your husband who gave you a pretend leak for your birthday. LTB.

So glad I posted this, you are all cracking me up 😂

That is funny

Thank you for this thread, to OP and everyone else. It’s all been very grim lately and I’m feeling so much lighter for reading this.

I calked the estate agent for our flat absolutely fuming that the fridge had stopped working. I went on at length about the costly groceries we had just bought and now everything would be ruined and how the flat was so over-priced and how’ landlords were just taking advantage of us …. He reached behind the fridge and simply turned the switch on. I felt mortified. The landlord had sent someone over that morning to clean and she had switched it off by mistake.

Before calling the agent, I had a fleeting thought that maybe it had been switched off and thought naahhh.

Live and learn 😀

Thirty years ago I got BT out as our phone kept beeping, it was the smoke detector above it, the battery was dying.

A few days after getting a new car noticed that the reversing light wasn’t working on one side. Took it back it to the dealer where the service rep took a quick look, agreed and booked it in for then next day for the mechanic to look at. Next day got a phone call from the same rep sounding very sheepish saying the mechanic had had a look and confirmed the reason it wasn’t working is because there is only a reversing light on one side only! Think the service rep felt as bad as I did.

I called an electrician into work because the reception lights weren’t working. Turned out that reception was the only place in the building with a light switch (the rest are on sensors) and my boss who usually switched them on/off was off sick that day.

I once took a laptop into an electronics shop, which also did repairs, to see if they could fix my broken mouse pad. Left it with them and they called the next day. Turns out there was a button on the keyboard to disable/enable the mouse pad.

@Strangerthanfictions
Brilliant 😂

That's a good point! 😄😄

Outstanding!

On my way to work I slung a piece of toast onto the dashboard to eat on the very long commute. All seemed well, I ate my toast in a traffic jam and arrived at work. However, I was annoyed when I had parked and turned to see a chip on the windscreen low down. I called Autoglass, having checked my insurance policy and informed to the work site team they'd be attending, canceled a meeting to meet the guy, feeling very grown up and efficient .....until the man pointed out the "chip" was actually marmalade on the inside of the glass! I was so ashamed of my untidy greed.

I seriously doubt that she is the only person that has happened to. I can see myself doing that

I have a few of these.

Drove to the mechanic unannounced nearly crying begging them to fit me in when I had just had a call to say my mum was ill and I needed to drive 200 miles to see her asap. I explained the engine was making a horrific clinking sound. He dropped what he was doing to discover it was my cutlery clinking around my lunchbag against my glass lunchbox.

Called the electrician for what turned out to be a tripped switch. I don't know how that didn't occur to me.

Accidentally deployed a rape alarm whilst hunting in my bag for change to give a homeless man.

once I kept hearing this beeping noise coming from the cupboard which has the boiler in, so I called up 24/7 my landlord has cover with them, they came out and he found an old carbon monoxide detector the batteries were going 😂 he found it funny and said I wasn’t the first and won’t be the last.

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!

Rang my mum in a panic on my first Christmas Day after leaving home as my large turkey didn’t have any meat on it.

the turkey was upside down and I was trying to carve the bottom.

That is very fucking funny

😂😂😂

Boooo

I once called an electrician out because the socket the heater was plugged into wasn't working and there was no on/off switch. Only there was, it was behind a picture higher up on the wall (and I must have seen it when I hung the picture!).