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.

Dont sweat it

Our plug circuit kept tripping Sunday

Monday I get home from work , Dh says Ive found the problem - its the pump on the boiler - leaking water into the electrics

Plumber comes out , replaces the pump = all is good

20 mins after hes left, the boiler cuts out

DH then rings an electrician, electrician walks through the door and asks " anyone reset the timer"?

Luckily both plumber and electrician are colleagues of DH

Yesterday I was waiting for Sainsbury's to deliver my shopping before I went to work, 7-8am timeslot. 8 o'clock came and went and I was getting more and more annoyed that they hadn't so much as phoned to say they were going to be late. I ranted to DH about how this was the second time they'd kept me waiting, I was going to be late, blah de blah. Opened the email to find the order number so I could phone customer services and spotted that I'd accidentally booked click & collect... Our Sainsbury's is the other side of town so I arrived at nearly 9 and had to explain to customer services before they would bring out my shopping. Eventually got to work just before 10.

🤣I'm sure the turtoises appreciated your care!

This gave me a good giggle! I hope the red tint is slowly leaving your face😅

Not near as good as yours but one time I booked my car into the mechanic because the electric windows weren't working. He called me a few hours later to say I could come and collect. He, with a smirk on his face, pointed out that I'd simply leaned on the 'window lock' button🙃 I wanted the ground to swallow me up🙈

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Oh dear OP. Have a good birthday! At least you've given the Plumber another pub story to recount.

My mother bought a new car - she'd always had second hand and this was a brand new BMW. It was delivered to her and she left on her first drive to the shops. Before she got to the main road, she phoned the garage in a panic that there was something wrong with it as the engine kept cutting out. Lovely garage sent someone out immediately to a distressed elderly lady and informed her that it had new Start/Stop technology and was totally normal.

This is the best thread ever and it's making me so happy

This is comedy gold and all the other posts show you aren't alone.

I would probably do the same !

How amazing!! 😂😂😂

Ok here's one

Student (me) working in A&E. Cool tattooed male nurse asks little 23 year old me "what did he come in with?" About a patient just admitted from home in an ambulance. "Um, well his pajamas and a dressing gown". No - he meant what condition was he presenting with..aaarrrgghh

A few years ago I got cat called by a builder as I cycled past a building site on my way to work. Being all grown up, I stopped and gave him a very loud piece of my mind. He and his colleagues were utterly confused and it turned out that he'd just been shouting something work-related to his mate 😳I could have died of embarrassment as I hastily apologised and cycled away, very slowly, up the hill. I had to cycle past them every day after that and the building went on for months.

I was that person who called IT to say my camera was broken… nope, I just had the little privacy door shut…

I got the manager of the carpet store to come out as part of the new carpet I had just had fitted was a different colour to the rest.
He was very polite when he told me it was actually the part of the carpet the mirror shone on to, and then to make me feel even more stupid he stood in front of said mirror to prove his point so I get your embarrassment op

That is funny 😂 I once took a chicken back to the shop complaining it was all bone, turned out I’d cooked it upside down 🤦‍♀️

Same 😳

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love posts like this really makes me lol
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This would so be me! I regularly mishear things and talk rubbish in response. Thought it was quite uncommon but you've made me feel I'm not alone 😂

That’s so funny OP. I had an appointment with the nurse yesterday and asked her if my skin swab result was back, they had tested for PVL. Instead of saying PVL I said VPL! She did laugh while my 13 year old daughter was wondering what we were laughing at.

I once called an emergency plumber as the pipes in my bathroom were vibrating badly even when not running water

i googled it and it was so ominous (something like water hammer or something silly sounding)

just before he arrived I noticed DH electric toothbrush was left on and leaning against the towel heater, causing the heater and all the pipes around it to vibrate

i switched it off and told the plumber I had somehow managed to resolve the issue myself

miraculously and kindly he never invoiced me!

I’d feel stupid like oh no bet he thinks I’m a right well, let’s say silly billy 😆 but I wouldn’t class this as embarrassing tbh. Try being me I’ve been through some seriously cringey stuff that has been hard to get over!

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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'

I was once rushed to hospital by my mum, pregnant, after electrocuting myself with a light switch.

Baby was fine but the nurse asked me if I had any exit wounds from the shock. She checked my hands and feet and was horrified at the size of the large circular mark left on the sole of my foot.

A doctor was brought to examine me.

It was a chocolate button I had stepped on.

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My mum had complete hysterics because she noticed a terrible bruise on her leg. She hadn't banged her leg and was convinced it was some terrible affliction. She wanted my dad to take her to a and e immediately and when he wouldn't she rang the GP. She went upstairs to get changed and discovered it was a dirty mark on her tights.