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Because of my shyness I came out of a chip shop with a portion of fish...

389 replies

MysticTed · 26/09/2017 20:33

Instead of a cone of chips.

Which is what I asked for but was too embarrassed to correct the woman serving me.

So I ended up eating a massive battered cod on its own for lunch.

Can you please share any silly scenarios you've been in because if your lack of assertiveness to make me feel I'm not alone!

OP posts:
TooBadRabbits · 28/09/2017 19:36

....Excuse me please

Can I please ((((HUG)))) everyone on this thread please

I have found my meek people meeple

Thanks sorry sorry

TillyMint81 · 28/09/2017 19:44

Once ate a full slice of butter thinking it was cheese. Tried to brazen it out but all my cousins saw me and knew it was butter. It was horrendous. It was my mum and step dads wedding reception Blush
I've never lived it down. Even now, 20 odd years later it's still mentioned when they all get together.

TillyMint81 · 28/09/2017 19:45

alabasterangel just read down to your post! You are not alone!

valeview · 28/09/2017 19:53

If you only paid for a cone of chips and you got a bloody great piece of cod, then ''winner winner.....er... fish dinner''. Bargain. Fish is brain food anyway, so maybe it will develop the ''outspoken'' part of the brain.

LoveBeingAMum555 · 28/09/2017 20:00

Oh this is me, I could think of loads. A couple of days into my new job someone turned up with these really sweet sticky cakes from the bakery down the road and two years later I still pretend I like them.

But better than that when I met my boyfriend's mother there was a misunderstanding about how l drink my tea and she still makes it extra strong with just a tiny splash of milk (I actually like it quite milky) 27 years later. For years I felt too silly to correct her and now she doesn't listen anyway.

MrsPinkCock · 28/09/2017 20:05

Oh god, I'm reading this thread and thinking I've NEVER tipped my hairdressser, and he's really bloody good! Is tipping hairdressers a thing?!

I also drove back home oop north from Bristol last year. Very busy on the motorway and I was crawling in the wrong lane. I needed to get off at the next exit, but because I was driving a BMW and was scared of being judged for being an impatient asshole, instead of indicating and waiting to be let in, I drove all the way down.... to the fucking M6 toll road.

I then paid to drive down the toll road, and paid again to drive back down it to get back on the right motorway Blush

WillowySnicket · 28/09/2017 20:09

Ooh I just thought of one. My then bf had invited me home to meet his parents. His mum had asked him if I didn't eat anything to which he replied "oh she is a real foodie, she loves everything". Neglecting to tell her that I retch at cooked fruit.

Arrived, trying to make a good impression when she brings a huge, home picked, home cooked apple and plum pie to the table. He pipes up "oh wait, Willowy doesn't like cooked fruit" and I laughed a tinkly laugh and said "oh don't be silly. I love it!"

19 years later she makes one every time we go for dinner (1 or 2 a month). Damnit. I just eat the crumble, mush up the fruit with some custard and hide it under my spoon😕

Penny4UrThoughts · 28/09/2017 20:11

A friend of mine (this genuinely wasn't me!) got together with her boyfriend when she was 15 and he was 17. They got engaged a few years later, and married a couple of years after that.

Lovely.

But about four months before the wedding they had a serious chat about stuff and realised that neither of them wanted to get married - in fact the relationship felt more like brother and sister and they no longer wanted to be together. Very happy mutual decision. Except they didn't want to disappoint everyone and so much money and time had been spent on the wedding.

So they got married and lived as friends until they felt enough time had passed to instigate divorce proceedings.

BlooBagoo · 28/09/2017 20:11

Drinks machines I'm fine with, but it's the toasters in different hotels. Like you're meant to be psychic as to whether it's one you just throw bread into, or one you need to press a random button on. I was delighted at the last hotel I stayed in where they had the exact same one as I have at home instead of the ones where your bread seems to end up on a conveyor belt and I may have made off with other people's toast on more than one occasion when it's one of those.

Thingsiseeinmybathroom · 28/09/2017 20:13

I spent an entire year living with my the MIL saying "excuse me" because I was 18 and I for some reason had this idea that using her first name was rude!

CosMeticulous · 28/09/2017 20:28

I moved to my village 6 years ago and new no one.
I went to the local shop for sanitary towels but they didn't have any, apparently they were waiting on a delivery. I was embarrassed about leaving empty handed so I lifted random items and said "I'll just take these instead then "
On the walk home I was wondering why the woman at the counter looked at me funny. Then I got home and saw what I bought. A bag of cotton wool and cellotape. 😐
She obviously thought I was going to just make my own sanitary towels like a weirdo! 🤣🤣🤣

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 28/09/2017 20:34

Homemade sanitary towels Grin. That's the sort of thing I'd do in a shop, then cringe for days afterwards cos.

MetallicBeige · 28/09/2017 20:43

If I am unlucky enough to be on a day off when the window cleaner comes I have the excruciating dilemma of 'they're right there but haven't looked at me, do I stare until he looks and then acknowledge him or do I stare at the tv, book, wall and pretend that this isn't happening? Please please please hurry up.'

If I clock him at the neighbours house first, I have been known to hide on the stairs (no windows) so I don't have to experience the above.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 28/09/2017 20:52

God yes Metallic I feel that I have to keep moving rooms to avoid making eye contact with the window cleaner, casually exiting the room each time his head appears.

SunshineLollipopsRainbows25 · 28/09/2017 20:55

the list is endless
"oh yes I love it" (my hair.. no I don't)
"oo yeah they look good" (eyebrows they were awful)
"oo yeah they're nice, let's get those" (trousers for my daughter in M&S because my friend picked them out and they cost half my weekly budget, didn't want to look cheap I usually shop on the sale rail in tesco)
"ohhhh it's fine it's a treat" (buying my friends coffee when I can't afford it but don't want to look stingey)
"yes how much" (buying love stones from a gypsy because she told me to)
"of course, I'll take 3 please" (buying wrist bands off a man dressed as a superhero for charity I asked how much for 3 he said £9... fucking hell. smiled and bought them anyway)
many many more mainly money type stories as I always pay for stuff when I can't afford it but too stupid to say no thanks or sorry I can't.

SunshineLollipopsRainbows25 · 28/09/2017 20:56

Mr half a job window cleaner but I can't sack him I feel snide so I keep paying him for a shit job.

SunshineLollipopsRainbows25 · 28/09/2017 20:59

I've also bought stuff in shops that I don't want if they are small shops with just 1 shop assistant staring at me with just me in the shop I feel so awkward going in looking around and walking back out so I always buy a dog toy or a magnet or just something stupid so I don't have to walk back out not knowing whether to say thanks with eye contact or just walk out and don't acknowledge them

PuppyMonkey · 28/09/2017 21:16

I went out with a lad at uni for about a month as a result of a complete misunderstanding.

My friend had asked me what I thought of him, and I assumed it was because she fancied him, so I said "he seems really nice." Just to urge her to ask him out or etc.

Next thing, she was dragging me over to him and delightedly telling him I liked him too - I was too mortified to correct them so agreed to a date. And another. For weeks.

Shocking I let it drag on - I even ended up going to his 21st party as his special guest, his family all loved me. Grin

BoredOnMatLeave · 28/09/2017 21:33

Ohh I was with DP for 6 months before I knew how old he was. I didn't want to be rude and ask to I waited until I moved in and had a look at his passport

BonnieF · 28/09/2017 22:08

In theory, I support small independent food shops but in practice I hardly ever use them because I find the whole thing absolutely excruciating.

What if there's nothing I want to buy? What if everything is ridiculously expensive? What if the serving person is over-familiar or desperate or pushy? What if they offer lots of samples of stuff I don't want? I can't offend them by walking out without buying anything.

So I go to the supermarket instead.

MinisterForMagic · 28/09/2017 22:12

I have terrible hay fever so pay a local retired man mows the lawn for me. I have previous tried asking him when I saw him to do extra jobs (cutting back shrubs, etc) and he always says yes and then never does it.

He is quite deaf so goodness knows if he has even heard me and maybe he is being polite and saying yes, when he actually can't hear.

If he had a mobile I could text or email I could sort this out in a few minutes but he only has a landline.

I am now so embarrassed that when I see him arrive, I immediately drop to the floor and crawl out of the room and hide upstairs until he has put the note through the door asking for money.

I pay him online so I never have to try to communicate with him again.

Fink · 28/09/2017 22:13

When I was a teenager I went to the hairdresser's on my own for the first time. On arrival, there was no one at the reception desk so I sat down and waited for ages. When someone finally came to the desk, she has me if I was alright and I was too scared to say that I had an appointment booked which was by now overdue, so I said 'Fine, thanks' and continued to sit there for the rest of the afternoon until the shop closed then I walked home again without having had my hair cut.

Skone · 28/09/2017 22:14

Went into SuperDrug today to buy a 8 pack of AA batteries. It was the last pack and there was no price. I assumed it would be about £3. When I get to the till the lady rings it up and says in a straight face"That's 28p". "Oh 28 p" I say "did you take the points from my SuperDrug card?" I don't know I must have 28 p she says again. I hand over my money and pay 28 p for Duracell batteries. The girl at the till must be clueless about the price of things. I look at my till receipt and it doesnt say my points have been used. I felt so bad that i underpaid!

overnightangel · 28/09/2017 22:18

@Smeaton
If I'm going the wrong way and realise , I always pull my phone out of my pocket, look at it and tut as if I've just been texted and I need to go the other way. Been doing it for years , It's actually become a reflex and I find myself doing it involuntarily

sn78 · 28/09/2017 22:21

I was in the bakery getting served and I had a cold, which meant my ears were partially blocked so my hearing wasn't it's 100%
Anyway, the server said something and I misheard and said "Sorry, I'm deaf in one ear". What I should of said was: "my sinuses are playing me up and one of my ears are blocked". Thereafter, whenever I went into that bakery and was served by the same assistant, I would try to imitate a hard of hearing person, by over-focusing on their mouth & pretend I was lip-reading. Now, I don't care. Now I just go in and act normal and the server in question, may watch me & how I shop/interact with other customers and think to himself: "There's no way that woman's deaf". Caught in my own trap!!