Embarrassing Moments

[Jodee]

Ever felt like hanging your head in shame or wishing the ground would swallow you up?

I felt like that this week - we have a lot of foxes in our town, they seem to outnumber the cats. On binday, many people put their rubbish out the night before and the foxes take great delight in ripping the bags to shreds and leaving a nice trail of decomposing food. I only put out the non-perishables and nappies, leaving the food rubbish for the morning.

I went out early to put out the food rubbish and found to my horror a whole weeks worth of smelly nappies and nappybags strewn up the road! I got dh out of bed and he managed to pick up a lot of them, but most had been mashed by passing cars leaving all that horrible gel stuff everywhere. I could feel the curtains twitching and later in the day people pointing at the mashed nappies! Trust the dustmen not to come until the afternoon which made it worse!

[janh]

um, Mopsy - exactly where was the phone when your DH accidentally rang his colleague, and which button did he press, and what with....my mind is boggling!

[mollipops]

Ok I'm going to admit it - and I think my most enbarrassing moment outdoes 'em all!

It was when we had just moved in to our new house and we had various tradespeople etc coming around. We still had no curtains so I had a mobile curtain salesman come round with all his samples etc. We had done all the living areas and had moved into the main bedroom. We were absorbed in samples/colours/matching the carpet etc, and i didn't take much notice of what dd (then only 2 and a half) was doing when she wandered in. I should have of course!

Next thing I knew, she ran up to us, waved a certain sex toy in the poor man's face, giggled and ran out the room!!! She had been going thru the bedside drawers! I was mortifed and had no idea how to react - ran after her and snatched it away and hurriedly hid it (which I guess we should have done better in the first place!) I had no choice but to return to the bedroom but I couldn't look him in the eye - and I think he was more embarrassed than I was if that's possible! I just muttered something like sorry about that! Needless to say he finished up pretty quickly - he even left a sample book behind! I was tempted to keep it as I couldn't bear to go to his shop to take it back (I did of course - luckily he wasn't there!) And no we didn't end up getting our curtains done thru him!

[helenmc2]

My friend brought her rather nosy beagle round the other day, and said beagle disappeared for a while for a good snuffle around upstairs. When it reappeared, it had something in its mouth which my friend retrieved. 'What's this?' she asked, holding a soggy breast pad which the dog had found in my bin... Eeek!

[Mopsy]

Dp always has his mobile in the pocket of whatever he's wearing and regularly calls people by accident because he forgets to put on the keylock. A work colleague phoned him this evening and said, 'Did you know you rang me at ten past seven this morning?', to which of course dp apologised profusely. Then he said, 'And can you remember what you were doing at ten past seven this morning?' and started laughing...it dawned on dp that that's when we woke up, and it being Sunday morning and all.....

[Jbr]

Yes, that was a bit awful for him. However, I can see how it happened.

It was a genuine misunderstanding. He couldn't hear properly waiting in the wings and when Britney said "Artiste of the Millennium" or whatever, he thought he was getting an award.

Quite why they gave him a birthday cake I don't know. He's got anorexia nervosa and has had that for about 2 decades. Shoving a cake at him isn't going to make him eat. I bet he gave it away.

[GillW]

A guy I work with whose house seems to be occupied by a veritable menagerie of pets, all of which are liable to regular dramatic illnesses, phoned in one day to say he wouldn't be in because of two domestic crises - they'd lost one of the hamsters, and his son's snake had escaped. They never did find the hamster, and I think he was the only one who didn't jump to the obvious conclusion.

[CAM]

That story reminds me of a rather overweight young man at university who had a pet hamster which disappeared one evening when he let it run around his room. After searching fruitlessly for ages he sat down hard on his beanbag on the floor to rest and wonder. As he did so there was a terrible squeak and yes, you've guessed it...! He was upset for weeks at causing the demise (for it was squashed to death) of his much loved friend.

[jodee]

ks!!! I'm more shocked at the parents' response - 'oh it doesn't matter, we do it all the time' sort of thing! Did make me laugh though, I must admit!

[Ghosty]

My mate (way before kids!) was on the tube one busy afternoon. When they stopped at a station she heard a commotion going on at the end of the platform and she stuck her head out of the door to see what was going on. Unfortunately she still had her head stuck out when the door shut and she had to struggle to pull her head back in again.

She was a little bit shaken but managed to calm herself down and smile nonchalantly as if nothing had happened at the other passengers who smiled sympathetically at her.

It was another twenty minutes to her stop and then a 10 minute walk home down a crowded High Street. It wasn't until she got home that she noticed that she had a huge black mark running down her face and neck!

OOH, we laughed!

[bossykate]

lol,Willow2!

btw - what's brio, is it like duplo?

[Willow2]

Same thing happened to me yesterday - my girlfriend called in a state, anxious to check that I was ok. My mobile had somehow called her, got though to voicemail, and all she could hear when she listened to the message was an arguement and the sound of breaking glass. In fact, what she heard was me putting away the brio while Eastenders was on in the background!

[emsiewill]

We had a concerned call from someone who had come home and found an answerphone message which consisted of a child screaming and crying down the phone. They dialled 1471, and got through to us. Needless to say, it was just dd1 having one of her tantrums, because she had been happily playing with the phone, and daddy had taken it off her.
The woman on the other end found it terribly distressing, though.

[Chinchilla]

Rhubarb - I have been on the other end of that situation. I was buying some make up from a counter and assistant that I visit when needing a pamper. The woman was trying to be nice when she said 'Are you expecting again'. You could hear the wind blowing and see the tumbleweed rolling across the landscape during my measured silence!

I managed to laugh, and said, 'No, it's just my fat!' She couldn't apologise enough, and said that it was because I was wearing all black, and had my jumper tied around my waist. Because she was so embarassed, it made me feel a bit paranoid, and I whined, 'These trousers are a size 10 you know', in a pathetic manner!

Having said that, I got loads of freebies from the counter.

[Azzie]

My ds (when he was about 12 months) once phoned my MIL (programmed button on the phone) without me realising. When the poor woman got home late that night and played her answerphone messages, she thought she'd got a heavy breather! It gave her quite a turn (she lives alone). It was only when she finally dialled 1471 that she realised what must have happened.

[Joe1]

Pam T had a similar experience recently with ds when he phoned the emergency services on my mobile, having a lovely chat he was.

[PamT]

I walked into my bedroom one day to find DD (then 2) listening to someone on the telephone. When I took it off her to find out what was going on I found myself talking to the emergency services control room - she'd dialled 999. I couldn't apologise enough. Not as bad as a friend's DD who actually rang the police to tell them that her mummy had shouted at her and sent her to bed (quite justifiably because she had been really naughty). My friend was called to the phone to explain herself!

[jessi]

I answered the door to the postman yesterday at 11.45am and cringingly was still in my pj's! Had to answer it though and he said I bet your husband dosen't know you do this!
Later on in the day I saw him in the street (this time I was dressed) and he just burst out laughing and so did I.

[Rhubarb]

I just had a VERY cringy and embarrassing moment! I went to Office World to pick up my printer cartridge and the woman at the checkout was cooing over dd. I noticed she had a sizable bump and so asked her when hers was due and yes, you guessed it! She gave me the dirtiest look and told me that she wasn't pregnant! I wished the ground would swallow me up! I have never done that before in my life - I never comment on women's bumps just in case they're not, but this woman really looked like she was! I've probably ruined her day now and she'll be booking herself into Weightwatchers!

[Mel]

having said that the embarrassing moments never happen to me, I have remembered a pretty excruciating one. Eldest son (then about 4 and a half/five) and I were in Safeways express lane in front of a guy about 25. All he had was a large (read cheap) Safeways pizza, bottle of cheap plonk and a jumbo packet of Durex. It did cross my mind that he should be trying harder than a cheap pizza, when ds picked up the packet of Durex, wafted them over his head yelling: "What are these Mummy?!" All I could do was say "Not our shopping Darling!"

[Nickiw]

My hubby and I were travelling around Australia and ended up on a campsite near Sydney. RSL clubs are very cheap for food and beer in Aus and there was one just over the road. After a few beers I went to the loo feeling very happy and this girl in the other cubicle struck up and conversation. I was used to forward but nice Aussies and continued the following conversion - how are you - fine, having a good time - yes great, where are you staying - over the road, blah blah blah, until I had finished my business only to realise she was on her mobile phone to a friend, god did I run...

[Robinw]

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[Dm2]

A few years ago, I was at work, at a desk opposite an older 'gorgeous' (so his reputation had it) male. The job I was doing involved standing up and sitting back down at regular intervals (machine operating).
Every now and then I could see my two close friends appear at the doorway, giggle and run off. I thought they had some gossip to share but were too intimidated by the bloke to come in and tell me.

They did.... I had spent the morning with all but the top button of my blouse undone and had been jiggling my ample chest at gorgeous bloke for hours! He was either too gentlemanly to tell me or was enjoying the view.

When the girls finally told me they explained that they thought I had done it on purpose!!