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.

All most amusing, but what if it really does start leaking again?

You’ll need to call a different plumber! 😀

I thought my phone was broken, 30 minutes of frustration, I couldn't swipe or do anything on it...turns out having a plaster on your finger prevents you from swiping 😵‍💫

Don't feel bad, I once did the same except the PC was plugged in to one of those extension leads with a switch. I'd switched it off with my foot without noticing and couldn't work out why my computer suddenly went off 😂

I love this!
I went to see my gp last week. I left on a high,because he was lovely to me. Genuinely felt that he thought I was a delightful patient, he was unusually smiley.
It wasn't until I got home, and looked in the mirror I realised why he had been so happy. I put concealer on and didn't get around to blending before DS kicked off and we had to leave...obviously my half done make up slipped my mind.
I looked like I'd had my face painted like a lion for the appointment.

Used to work for a plumbers long ago, when anyone called about a leak around their bath the first thing I'd check was that their shower curtain wasn't outside the bath when the shower was on, as that happened to two customers who then had to pay a call out fee 😋

I am mid 50's, reasonably intelligent and have had 3 children of my own and until I read your post it had never occurred to me cats have belly buttons. I'm off to wake our mog for a look now!!

I rang Bosch because my washing machine wasn’t starting. Kept flashing up a strange symbol. I had tried pressing the 2 buttons together nothing worked and I couldn’t find the manual. I described the symbol to her thank fuck I was speaking to a woman.

It went like this Bosch lady erm your drawer isn’t closed properly. 😂😂😂Me oh my god I feel like a right idiot. Me closes drawer but it’s still not going. Bosch lady yeah now press the 2 buttons.🙈💩

So sorry for laughing 😆But this reminded me of the time my then 4 year old daughter had been doing my hair and make up, and I forgot and answered the door to the postman like that, he must have thought I was Mrs Haversham 😋

So funny. I can see why your were mortified though but plumber would have found it funny. Thanks for posting

We have a winner

This has reminded me of my most recent embarrassing moment. Went to the toilets in the local Wetherspoons after having consumed a few wines. There was a man in the toilets and I said indignantly and rather loudly, ‘No men allowed in the women’s toilets!’ Everyone in the bathroom turned on me and started shouting angrily at me and I ran out of the toilets in fear of my life. For it wasn’t a man at all, it was a gay woman with short cropped hair.

Yes, this might well take the prize 😅

This thread (apart from that one that obviously never happened) has reminded me of so many moments. I once won a mobile phone in a competition for most embarrassing moments - but I fear if I post the juiciest here because it will end up on a Youtube Channel or the Daily Mail 👀

Hope this has helped OP, you are definitely not alone :)

Mum was panicking not that long ago thinking the television had stopped working (was bought in Lockdown 2, so about 4 years old at the time). Good job it was me and not the store that she went to about it, as all that had happened was that the batteries in the remote needed replacing.

I'm heading swiftly into this territory, thank goodness for adult children 😅

'most recent' suggests a pattern @IFeelLikeChickenTonite . Do share the rest 😂

Then there was the time I was expecting 2 ladies from Home start to see DC when I first left ex. I was brushing my teeth when there was a knock at the door slightly earlier than I was expecting. So quickly finished and went downstairs. One of the women kept laughing at me whenever she looked at me but never said why. After they left I went to look in a mirror and had toothpaste smeared on my face.😂😂😂

Our spare freezer broke when we were having work done. We got a guy to come and take a look. DP was blaming the workmen (not to their faces…) and swearing a lot. The freezer guy slid his hand under the front edge and just switched it on. Either DP or I must have knocked it off when we were manoeuvring the freezer out of its space. Didn’t even know it had a switch other than the plug! Fifty squid for that. To be fair he did repair our broken fridge light casing while he was there when DP ‘just happened to mention it’🤣

This isn't funny, but embarrassing.
I went to have a chat with my neighbour and there were vases of flowers and cards. I said that i didn't know that it was her birthday? She replied that it wasn't and her sister had passed away. 😔😪Thankfully, she didn't realise my clumsiness.

I used to edit a newsletter in Mailchimp that had to go out at a specific time every morning. One day, I tried logging in and it wasn’t working. With my deadline looming and in a panic, I called the support desk. Turns out I had my apes mixed up and was actually trying to log into SurveyMonkey using my MailChimp login. I never lived it down.

I was living in Australia in a shared old house with fairly high ceilings. My English mate came over to visit, arriving late. The plan was he would stay on a camp bed next to my bed. Knackered, we both got ourselves tucked up. Then, I noticed a black dot on the ceiling right above our heads. A spider! Terrified that it wasn't very big, and given I'd been told 'the little ones are the worst', I immediately assumed it was deadly and it would inevitably fall on one of us in the night. So, I woke my poor mate up. We tried standing on the bed, trying not to scream, so we could get a better look, but it was too high. We figured there was nothing for it but to rearrange the whole room so that we were as far away as possible, then take turns to stay on 'watch'. Convinced spiders were lethargic, it didn't seem strange to us that it didn't move at all. Two days later, when my Aussie flatmate came home, he grabbed a step ladder, had a look and gleefully pointed out that us useless Poms had been hiding from a bit on the ceiling where the paint had flaked off!

I went on a training course in an area unfamiliar to me. At the end of the day, my car was not where I had parked it. I walked up and down the street, but there was no sign of it; it had obviously been stolen. By now it was getting dark and I had no idea what to do, so I phoned the police. After a very long wait, a police officer turned up and took the details of my car. We walked up and down the street to double check that it wasn't there ... it wasn't. By now I was a bit tearful and the stress was begining to get to me. Which must be why when he commented that the surrounding streets all looked very similar and perhaps we should check them, I snapped at him "Don't be so patronising". The car was, of course, in the next street over.

i rang my friend crying that I was covered in blood, after waking up from a very drunken night out (there is a lot more to this story!)

on getting in the shower I found it was chilli sauce which apparently I had also managed to tip all over my neighbours car

I feel your pain, Op. I once called my dad in a panic saying I had seen a "movement" out of the corner of my eye and I thought it was a rat in the house. He came (10pm at night) as dh was at work. Dad walked round checking the house banging on walls, furniture. Dad declared there was nothing there. He left and I realised it was the shadow the aquarium lights cast onto the carpet. I feel even more stupid writing that down. I did tell my lovely dad the truth!

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