Page 9 | AIBU to shrivel up and die of embarrassment?

Mistyglade · 14/08/2025 00:44

Fucking hell this is amazing 😆

MrStragglyFox · 14/08/2025 00:53

Gliblet · 13/08/2025 20:15

Brilliant 😁

My DM once took her car back to the garage after a service and complained about it making a knocking noise, going on at some length about the fact it hadn't been doing it before the service and all she'd done since was a 12 mile round trip for groceries.

After the garage had removed the rogue tin of beans that was rolling around under the passenger seat she did apologise...

I took my car to the garage for a funny tinkling noise… they had bonnet open, poking and prodding at everything.

It stopped when I moved my bag ( with its tinkly buckle) off the passenger seat…

Nearly 30 years ago, and I still roll my eyes at myself…

Fourcandleforkhandle · 14/08/2025 00:55

About a week ago my Tenants said there water mark in the corner of the bedroom. I asked the Lady to send me a photo. She sent it and after looking at it I called a roofer who came the same day.
He climbed on the roof and told us there were a few slates which had slipped and broken. Replaced them and went on his way with £160. The following day I ask the lady if I can have a look if the leak has dried ( I live nextdoor). Well I only go and take a look and realise the wall is bone dry and that the white paint roller wasn't even put near that corner. And in fact there is no leak at all.

Mistyglade · 14/08/2025 00:56

My dishwashers’ red lights were flashing and wouldn’t turn on so I called my very kind posh landlord who popped in, got dishwasher salts from under the sink, poured them and hey presto. Highly embarrassing.

nopiesleftinthisvehicle · 14/08/2025 01:28

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 13/08/2025 20:08

Who’s heard about the bloke who phoned up Asda customer service saying that he’d bought a pizza. When he opened the box there was no topping. It turned out the pizza was upside. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes! I heard the live call. It was posted on YouTube I think. 😂

MsAmerica · 14/08/2025 01:47

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.

This is another example of how, to me, there is an insane level of melodrama here.
Things like this happen all the time. I would have just said, "Oh, my god, I'm so embarrassed. This is like called the television repairman and finding that the problem is that the set isn't plugged in. Sorry - what do I owe you?"
And then I would have told it as a funny story to my friends.

PeonyRoseDahlia · 14/08/2025 02:06

Car broke down. Got lifted onto tow truck and taken 20 miles to the nearest garage.
Turns out that keeping your car key and your husbands car key on the same key ring is not so smart.
I had opened the car door with my key but had been trying to start it with his.
I can still hear the guy at the garage laughing as he said “try using the right key!”

Kitjo · 14/08/2025 02:54

Some years ago I was renting a bedsit. It became clear that the mattress had bed bugs. I contacted the company to complain and they sent the fumigators around. The two men both declared there was no evidence of bedbugs, I showed them the red itchy spots on my legs, so they fumigated anyway.

It was only after they left that I realised the red spots were from having my legs waxed 😬

ChocolateCinderToffee · 14/08/2025 04:56

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 13/08/2025 20:08

Who’s heard about the bloke who phoned up Asda customer service saying that he’d bought a pizza. When he opened the box there was no topping. It turned out the pizza was upside. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

The twat boyfriend of someone I used to know called the chef out of the kitchen in an Italian restaurant to explain what the shiny black thing on his pizza was.

An olive.

It was an olive.

bouncydog · 14/08/2025 05:31

Hired a car at Gatwick airport. Collected the keys, found the car in the car park with DD. Traipsed all the way back to the desk to report and get various dents and scratches logged. Went all the way back to the car again with our bags in tow. Clicked the key fob - and a vehicle six cars down unlocked!! 🤣🤣🤣

Horsie · 14/08/2025 05:34

Ha, ha, ha OP! You're gonna be top of his list of "dumb bird" stories for years! 🤣🤣🤣

Horsie · 14/08/2025 05:39

Saponarium · 13/08/2025 22:52

This was around the time of the terror attacks in London. I was staying at my boyfriend's flat in central London. He was in a ground floor flat with mysterious neighbours above that always seemed to walk around in the middle of the night. One night, along with the heavy footsteps, we started hearing some awful fizzing and popping sounds, as if someone was mixing chemicals! We were frozen in bed, listening and terrified. We couldn't think what else it could be apart from someone making bombs, so we decided to call the police. I got up to look for my phone. It was then that I stumbled across a jam jar under the bed which contained a fermented salsa that I'd made at a local fayre about a week before. I'd completely forgotten about it and the gases had popped the lid of the jar and it was fizzing away noisily! Thank god we didn't call the police.

The idea of your vibrator on its most disco setting is giving me the 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's for this reason that I turn around one of the batteries whenever transporting a vibrator!

Horsie · 14/08/2025 05:40

MrBeanMustBeMyDad · 13/08/2025 23:26

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.

Painted like a lion! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Januaryclouds · 14/08/2025 06:07

Gliblet · 13/08/2025 20:15

Brilliant 😁

My DM once took her car back to the garage after a service and complained about it making a knocking noise, going on at some length about the fact it hadn't been doing it before the service and all she'd done since was a 12 mile round trip for groceries.

After the garage had removed the rogue tin of beans that was rolling around under the passenger seat she did apologise...

I once drove straight back to the mechanics after a service as the car was making a new noise and it was a stone in the tyre . I had even checked for that!!
The mechanics were very kind to me - I clearly wasn’t the first person to do it!!!

YellowZebraStripes · 14/08/2025 06:26

WanderingWisteria · 13/08/2025 21:15

We were on holiday in Portugal when DD was a toddler & came out in a rash. I had no idea if it was heat stroke, an allergy or something else. I knew there had been cases of chicken pox at her nursery so I wanted to rule that out. We went to a pharmacy where I tried to explain the situation. I speak no Portuguese and the pharmacist spoke very little English so I did my best impression of a chicken. From the facial expression of the pharmacist and the other customers, I quickly gathered that, whatever the Portuguese is for chicken pox, it doesn’t include the word for chicken or, indeed, any other bird.

😂😂😂

Original poster

redbusbeepbeep · 14/08/2025 06:48

MsAmerica · 14/08/2025 01:47

This is another example of how, to me, there is an insane level of melodrama here.
Things like this happen all the time. I would have just said, "Oh, my god, I'm so embarrassed. This is like called the television repairman and finding that the problem is that the set isn't plugged in. Sorry - what do I owe you?"
And then I would have told it as a funny story to my friends.

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That’s pretty much what I’ve done to be fair (I aren’t actually going to shrivel up and die)

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Thefaceofboe · 14/08/2025 06:51

This is hilarious 😂

Saponarium · 14/08/2025 06:55

littlegreydevil · 14/08/2025 00:03

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.

This one's really got me 😂I can so easily imagine doing this.

Sunblocker · 14/08/2025 07:01

I took a packet of ‘Happy Birthday’ individual letters cake candles back to Asda and complained because it didn't contain the right letters. I was genuinely fuming, until the assistant silently arranged them into the words ‘Birthday Boy’ on the counter.

PsychoHotSauce · 14/08/2025 07:07

Sunblocker · 14/08/2025 07:01

I took a packet of ‘Happy Birthday’ individual letters cake candles back to Asda and complained because it didn't contain the right letters. I was genuinely fuming, until the assistant silently arranged them into the words ‘Birthday Boy’ on the counter.

This is fantastic

KarmaKameelion · 14/08/2025 07:12

Once in a rental our hot water stopped working. Landlord sent a plumber round…. On a Saturday so out of hours call out… who pointed out of the switch on the wall that someone had accidentally hit and turned the water off. Plumber took pity on me and made me a deal… he would tell landlord it was water pressure so I wouldn’t get charged the call out fee, I would allow him to watch the football in my flat as his wife wasn’t going to let him 😂😂😂

Funnywonder · 14/08/2025 07:13

MsAmerica · 14/08/2025 01:47

This is another example of how, to me, there is an insane level of melodrama here.
Things like this happen all the time. I would have just said, "Oh, my god, I'm so embarrassed. This is like called the television repairman and finding that the problem is that the set isn't plugged in. Sorry - what do I owe you?"
And then I would have told it as a funny story to my friends.

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Where’s the melodrama? The OP was embarrassed and shared her story on here. That’s not unlike you claiming you would share a similar story with your friends (why bother if it’s such a boring, everyday occurrence?) And the great thing is, other people have shared their embarrassing experiences and probably made the OP feel a bit better, while entertaining some folk on Mumsnet. Win all round.

TimeForATerf · 14/08/2025 07:21

Ha ha ha, I had similar but it was a stain the decorator hadn’t got rid of. It dried funny, so when he’d left for the weekend I repainted the coving myself. Twice. Said stain didn’t go, but decorator was coming back on the Monday, so I mentioned it to him, asking if there was anything we could do.

”Yeh Terf, switch the light off, it’s the shadow from the smoke detector”

FFS.

LastKnownSurvivor · 14/08/2025 07:23

I took my cat to the vet for his annual check-up and mentioned that I'd noticed 'a ridge on his head'. "That's his skull" the vet told me somewhat wearily

Ginandpanic · 14/08/2025 07:25

MrBeanMustBeMyDad · 13/08/2025 23:26

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.

This wins 🤣🤣🤣