Public Apology

[WestCountryLass]

I committed an awful, totally terrible social faux pas, so awful I have to apologise publically to "name and shame" myself.

I was in Ikea this morning and I heard a tannoy announcement but I did not hear what it actually said so completely ignored it and in the process talked ALL the way through the minutes silence DH and I were discussing which wardrobe to get and when to buy it and DS was talking at the top of his voice too.

We were the ignorant family from hell and I truely am mortified and apologise profusely to anyone in the vicinity. I had no idea it was Rememberence Sunday today, had no idea what the time was at the time.

I am so sorry

Oh no, that was meant to be a

never mind

I did the same at the 2 minute tsunami silence

In a restaurant - I thought dd was being cute, singing

THE SHAME

everyone stared at me, I just thought they were miserable child-hating idiots

SO embarassing

I am so glad to hear that I am not the only one, it is a sickening "please let the ground open up and swallow me" moment when it dawns on you.

you lot are hilarious

i was in hmv yesterday had no idea what the time was and the young sales assistant had to tell me to be quiet
to make it worse i have been on threads saying how important the silence is

I wish someone had told me to be quiet.

When i was a teen i had a cleaning job in an old people's home. Me and my pal marched noisily into the communal lounge to hoover and noticed that all the residents were in silence watching the tv with the volume down. We went over to the tv and tried fiddling with it to get the volume up to no avail, so we carried on with our hoovering in and out the chairs full of residents - right up until the tv started blaring and the awful realisation hit that it was rememberance sunday .

These residents were all quite ill with dementia or stroke patients etc which explains why nobody told us to shut up! .

I did something similar back when there was a 2 minute silence after the Soham murders, WCL. We were out shopping and I thought that it was just the old biddies moving at their usual slow pace. It wasn't. They were standing still. Meanwhile I was busy telling dh what we needed to buy.....

its not mandatory to observe a silence you know.

we were in church - dd3 (22 months)sang through the 2 minutes silence I was powerless to stop her.

We did it once too. I think dd1 and ds1 were gently charging around a shop and I was attemptingto bring them under control....didn't realise there was a silence until I asked the sales assistant something and she whispered "Actually we're just having 2 minutes silence,"I'dbeen so wrapped up in our own chaos I had no idea!

Oh dear, I did this during the 2 min (or was it 3 min) silence after 9/11. (Although I didn't feel quite so bad when I noticed that the USA did not observe the silence we had after 7/7 - so much for solidarity ). And today we were out in Frankfurt so I completely forgot about Armistice Day - they don't do it over here, you know. Nevertheless, I feel bit as I usually remember.

I'm cringing along with all of you. I was on a bus with dh after the queen mum died and it suddenly pulled over to the side of the road and stopped. We weren't by a bus stop, no one got on or off, the driver gave no explanation as to why we'd stopped. Dh and I sat there muttering about crappy services and cursing the idiot driver who didn't have the brains to do something. It didn't dawn on us until we heard the driver's radio say '2 minute silence is over, thank you for your patience'. The shame .