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What’s the most mortifying situation you’ve ever found yourself in?

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RosieLemonade · 06/10/2020 19:00

I was once round my MIL and FILs having Christmas drinks when MILs affair came out. It was excruciating. All the (adult) children were crying and I just wanted the ground to swallow me up. DH wouldn’t come home because he wanted to stay with his dad so I just keep making cups of tea and doing washing up! what’s been your most mortifying situation.

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Iwantafuckingbreak · 01/11/2020 14:15

I was in new look in the bull ring a few years ago. Not local so I didnt know the layout.. I was walking towards someone and we did that dodging thing. You know when you both step right and then left then right again? After doing that and apologising I realised it was my reflection in a mirror 🤣🤣🤣 I had to turn around and walk off like nothing happened 🙄

Livebyfaithnotsight · 01/11/2020 14:29

When both of my daughters aged 3 or so , have loudly commented on strangers weight in public (Dd2 aged 3: Mummy, why is that man so fat? Me: Shh dd , Dd2 : But why is he Mummy? ) Blush

Mishmased · 01/11/2020 15:22

@HotPatootiebootie

When I was about 20 I was a single mum, full time career for my nan, full time uni student and part time waitress. I needed a smear test and the nurse could only fit me in between dropping my kids at my mums and me going to work. It was the very start of the men's health hour but I didn't mind at all. Went into see the nurse and it was really uncomfortable after she removed the speculum. She said to wait in the waiting room for a prescription for my nan and so of I went. I sat in a waiting room with half a dozen men and it was filled with those horrid plastic chairs with the metal legs. The floor was tiled. I moved in my seat as my uniform was digging in me and I let go the longest, most elephant sounding Fanny fart ever. It shuddered down the chair leg and I swear I felt it spread out along the floor. I went day glo red. A man guffawed at me and every body looked at the corners of the room while I scrambled to find cover. I picked up a leaflet from the table and hid behind it. Another person laughed in a "omg" manner and then an older man tentatively asked me if I was ok.

Id picked up a Leaflet about sexually transmitted diseases 😬😱.

It was a very long few minutes waiting for that prescription.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mishmased · 01/11/2020 15:26

@OhioOhioOhio

Asking a Japanese friend if she celebrated VJ day.
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Mishmased · 01/11/2020 15:30

@myusernamewastakenbyme

I sent my partner a sexy pic of just me in my knickers one morning.....full length shot....boobs out etc....after 10 mins i was wondering why he'd not replied so checked the message....I'd sent it to my whatsapp work group chat....i felt sick...sweaty etc and quickly unsent the message but pretty sure it was seen....thankfully due to being furloughed ive not seen any of them in person.
Omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙄
Trailing1 · 01/11/2020 15:48

Heavily pregnant and left home in the car for my 45 minute journey to work. I peed before leaving home and felt the urge again ten minutes Into the journey so used the loo at a petrol station. I thought that would be the end of that.
Except that 20 minutes later I was stuck on a red route due to a bad traffic accident, no exit roads, naby on my bladder and then I sneezed and pissed myself. Then I sneezed again and pissed myself, repeatedly. I've never seen so much wee in my entire life.
I panicked but there wasn't much I could do, finally got out of the traffic only to find the rest of my route blocked due to roadworks and in my piss covered panic I didn't follow the diversion signs properly and got lost.
I pulled over and rang DH, crying. Then I rang work and told them i wasnt feeling well. When I finally composed myself I put the Sat nav on and made it back home two and a half hours after I had set out.

I'm still mortified about it (and my very OTT hormonal overreaction) seven years later.

cosmo30 · 14/11/2020 19:59

@Iwantafuckingbreak

I was in new look in the bull ring a few years ago. Not local so I didnt know the layout.. I was walking towards someone and we did that dodging thing. You know when you both step right and then left then right again? After doing that and apologising I realised it was my reflection in a mirror 🤣🤣🤣 I had to turn around and walk off like nothing happened 🙄
Hilarious 🤣
PolytheneHam · 14/11/2020 20:04

Aged 19,I sleepwalked naked into the taxi rank across the road from my flat.

rosegoldivy · 24/11/2020 22:14

Following 🤣🤣

rosegoldivy · 26/11/2020 11:30

@muckandnettles I am actually DYING at thought of you trying to get into your own car 😂😂😂

DumbleDorkReturns · 26/11/2020 16:56

Possibly very outing but anyway.

Me and DH have been together since I was 17, mid 30s now.

He came to visit me second year of uni. We were getting "busy" and I had my legs wrapped around him. All of a sudden both my legs seized up in horrific cramp and I started shouting because it hurt so much. My house mates burst in thinking he was hurting me to be welcomed by his naked arse Blush

We installed locks the next day

undercoverhero74 · 26/11/2020 21:01

This is a great thread!!!

It was pouring with rain one morning and I was late for work. I was rushing so I wouldn’t miss the train and managed to trip up the curb. I then proceeded to do that whole awkward run forward, as you try and prolong your fate, before falling head first into a massive puddle. The only word to come out of my mouth as I hit the soggy ground was “oopsie”. To make matters worse a kind man that had been walking behind me came rushing to my aid only for me to proclaim “I AM WET” before running off mortified. I happened to be wearing ripped jeans and had managed to cut both knees pretty badly. I then had to spend the whole train journey to work soaking wet, covered in mud and trying to hide my bloody knees from all the other commuters with my scarf. The icing on the cake was as i stood to get off the train and my scarf had stuck to the bloody mess underneath it. Cue me trying to frantically remove said scarf without crying whilst holding up a bunch of angry commuters waiting to get off the train 😩 and yes I had to then wear the bloody, muddy jeans back home again to add to my already rubbish day

Chutneymaura · 26/11/2020 21:38

My dh works in the music industry and there is one artist I really love. DH introduced me to this person and I was that overwhelmed that I curtsied. Actually curtsied, no idea why, I was just in a flap. Dh was like wtaf.

rosegoldivy · 26/11/2020 22:30

@helporhindrance "looks like rain" I am done in 😂😂😂😂😂

Riddlediddle · 26/11/2020 23:20

Does anyone remember crochet bikinis in the 1990's? The height of fashion except no one told me that as soon as they get wet they expand - mine went from a size 10 to abiut a size 30 in seconds once i got in the pool. It wouldnt even stay on my body and i had to get out of the pool and walk back to my lounger naked through groups of people as a very very embarrassed 18 year old on her first holiday abroad with friends. Oh the shame!!!!

Spasiba · 27/11/2020 14:01

My dad went for a vasectomy. He was wheeled into the operating room, with his 'wedding tackle' on display and heard, "oh, hello Bill. Would you rather I wasn't here?" One of the nurses was a neighbour. He said "you may as well stay now you've seen it all".

Childrenofthestones · 24/12/2020 16:34

During the run up to one Christmas i was involved in a strike action and money was tight to say the least. I bumped into a distant colleague of mine who worked at another location but I knew his wife had been diagnosed with terminal cancer (she was elsewhere in the shop) so I was asking about her.
We were then chatting about what we were doing with what money we had left from our last pay packets to make it stretch over Christmas. Just then his wife walked up with some shopping bags in her hands. Looking at the bags I heard myself say, "Aye aye, spending it while you can hey?"

Obviously i meant before the last pay check runs out but then i realised she hadn't heard our conversation about making it last over Christmas..........
I wanted a hole in the ground to open up for me.😔

Mrsmummy90 · 27/12/2020 18:11

This is probably really outing!

When I was a teen, I used to get the bus to college every day and there was always a sweet old lady at the bus stop at the same time as me so we'd have a little chat before getting on our different buses.

One day we were talking as usual and chatting about Christmas coming in a couple of weeks. My bus came and as I lifted my leg up to the step, I let out the most putrid fart. Like it actually smelled like death. I turned around and she looked horrified.
I didn't know what to do so just said "merry Christmas"

I didn't see her again. My mum says I probably killed her with the fart 😂🙈

YakkityYakYakYak · 27/12/2020 18:24

Had a friend over and he was sat on the sofa having a drink, looked and noticed that he was sat on something bright pink which to my horror I realised was my bullet vibrator which I had stupidly left there and forgot about Blush

Should have just said nothing and grabbed it when he stood up, but instead just went bright red, confessed and made him stand up so I could retrieve it.

That was 10 years ago and I’m still mortified.

YakkityYakYakYak · 27/12/2020 18:25

I didn't know what to do so just said "merry Christmas"

Haha. Love it.

Biddie191 · 06/10/2021 10:25

HotPatootiebootie - I know this is an old thread, but when I went for my smear yesterday, all I could think about was your story!
Thankfully didn't re-enact it though xx

Justheretoaskaquestion91 · 11/12/2021 15:19

Had a leg MRI in Austria as I’d snapped my cruciate skiing. It was cold in there and I thought I could feel my nipples getting hard. Do not ask me why but I decided to check with my hands to see if this was the case, then keep my hands there to warm them up. Imagine my face when the MRI was over snd I saw the man in the glass room watching me.

EvenMoreFuriousVexation · 22/01/2022 08:25

This thread has cheered me up no end during a miserable sleepless night!

A few choice moments:
Moved into a new block of flats. Had made a mental note that if I bumped into neighbour, ask him about the location of the meters (agents didn't know.) Was coming out of my flat one weekend morning and saw him stood there saying goodbye to a woman who'd obviously stayed overnight. As she went off down the stairs I said "Oh hi!" to him and started asking about the meters. Slowly it dawned on me that he was stood there in his boxer shorts. I brazened it out. He said shortly "sorry don't know" and went back inside 😂

At a different flat, I had been let down by my usual cat sitter and thought I'd ask my upstairs neighbours a favour as I knew they liked my cat. I heard them coming in so quickly opened my flat door just as they were opening theirs. They had their front door next to mine then stairs up to their living room - converted terrace house. For some reason I decided that before I said a word, I'd crane my head so I could see up their stairs and make a sort of thoughtful "mm-hmm" noise. I have no idea why, nor why they didn't then tell me to fuck off when I asked them to cat-sit. But they kindly did and in fact enjoyed it so much that next month they adopted a kitten!

Was having enthusiastic bumsex with an ex one morning and as he pulled out I felt... Something. I said "erm, was that a bit... Messy?" He said nothing. I grabbed a tissue and clamped it to my bum and waddled to the toilet. There was a small bit of poo in the tissue. I was obviously embarrassed, it had never happened before and we had bumsex frequently. Went back in the bedroom and tried to make light of it by saying something like "oh dear, I suppose these things happen from time to time" - he didn't answer. Just completely blanked it and started talking about our plans for the rest of the day. A few days later we were having sex and I suggested anal and said "promise I won't poo!" He just said "No you're alright" 😒 We never had bumsex again 😭

Worst one. Had just got back from a morning gym session, had my shower and enjoying my 2nd coffee, I get a booty call from a very fit guy saying he's 5 mins away if I'm up for it. I said hell yes, ran to put some eyeliner and lipstick on.

15 mins later he's pounding me in missionary, I'm really into it but could feel my stomach sending me messages that I'd be needing a poo fairly shortly. At this point I had my legs drawn up but with my feet flat on the bed. Suddenly he grabs hold of my ankles and folds my legs back up to my ears, compressing my not-inconsiderable stomach and forcing a rather large poo out of my arse.

Unbelievably, he carried on for at least 30 seconds and finished, I have no idea how. He then rather quickly jumped up, checked his phone, and said "oh I gotta run babe, my mum needs me for summat" and made a hasty exit. Leaving me with a sense of burning shame and a load of unexpected laundry 😳💩

Peoniesandcream · 05/03/2022 19:57

@EvenMoreFuriousVexation 😫😫 omg howling

mjf981 · 29/05/2022 06:36

I heard this one on the radio. A woman called in to relay her story. She was stuck in traffic and had the sudden urge to poo. Nowhere to go, traffic wasn't moving, couldn't hold it in so ended up just having an explosion right there in the car. No problem, shes on the way home, will clean things up then. 2 blocks from her house, gets pulled in to an RBT (random breath testing site - Australia). Winds the window down, stares the officer in the face and says 'I'm so sorry about the smell, I've just shat myself in traffic.' Steely faced, he just waves her through!