Help am very embarrassed...

[purpleprincess]

Just been to my local Sainsbury's and upon unpacking my shopping phoned to complain about use by date of 20 Aug on some chicken (obviously a mistake) and then also phoned my local trading standards to tell them.......

before realising that it was the chicken I had taken out of the freezer earlier in the day not the one I'd just bought....

I did phone both back and apologise profusely - I can only blame it on half term and the fact that I've had men digging my drive up today and now can't get into the garage as their digger is parked there!

Tell me you have done something similar....I need to get out more!

Yes, stormed off to tescos with copy of "Whats on TV" magazine to complain that they had sold me last weeks copy.

They pointed out the sainsburys stamp on it, and I realised that I had picked up an old copy at home.

I don't have any personal stories to tell , I'm afraid..

BUT one from MIL

'lost' her purse in a black cab
Cancelled credit cards
Initiated an insurance claim]
Reported to police to process insurance claim

5 days later found the purse in her bag - it had slipped between the bag & lining etc.

haha that's great

i once took a hoover back to tesco as it wasn't sucking anymore. then realised when the replacement did the same, that i needed to take apart the filters to empty them.

went round to a friends house and she was decorating and I said
"oooh I'm so glad that you are covering up that bright green colour with the nice pale yellow, the green is just too vivid and its too in your face"
then I noticed that the paint brush in her hand was wet with...bright green paint!!!

ooops

i once asked the waiter in pizza express if he might be able to turn down the very loud jazz music.

cue my dining companion pissing himself laughing and pointing at the live jazz band behind me.

I know someone who during a blonde moment, went into the bank because the cash machine would not let her draw out £20.73p, of course she realised what she has said when it was pointed out to her, but the worse thing was her huusband was the bank manager at the time...........he never lived that one down

I took back a pair of shoes demanding a refund, produced the receipt only for them to say, these are not from here they are from our competitors across the road.

I had my dhs wide car last week and I had to park it very carefully to make sure I could get myself and my bump in and out. I parked outside my ds's sports thing and on the way out there was a very large woman trying to squeeze herself between the neighbouring car and her own. I pointed to my bump and said 'I know how it feels, I have the same problem'! I didn't for a moment think about her size, just the fact she had to wriggle into the car. Thank God she didn't hear me properly as she was half in the car. I repeated some inanity about the weather being crap.....

I told Asda staff their dried fruit was out of date by one day. Turns out was fine for another 364 days.

I once asked for durex batteries

My friend took back a product to Safeway's and ranted to the manager about the poor quality etc. He listened intently then said 'I completely agree, madam. I suggest you take it back to Tesco's and tell them what you've just told me.'

She had her teenage dd with her at the time who was compeletely and totally humiliated and said she'd now have to go out with a paper bag over her head in case anyone recognised her at the dd of that Mad Woman!!

I was on a cruise ship.... and while in venzula i accidently left my bag in the cabin but i thought i had put it in the back of the buggy

we went to the beach and we were pottering around, and when i came back to the buggy my bag had gone (well i thought it had)

took my 4 year old back to the boat in tears.

Went to reception, had to call home to cancel my credit cards..... except as well as no phone signal we had no satellite signal either ..... so used the captains special satelite phone (the ships absolute emergancy phone like yachtsmen take out to see, rather than the ships satellite lines) ... so called home to my dad to get him to cancel cards etc for me

Also all the security giards were going over the CCTV (put it this way in venezuala punishment is so severe that crime almost doesnt happen... also we were in the cruise ship area and it wasnt possible to leave the area without passing through security which no theirf was liekly to have dared risk with stolen property.... and the local police were searching for my bag that had assuemd had been discarded.

It was all officialy done and all the polcie reports doen as well

Then later of found bag in cabin (BUT TO BE FAIR my cabin steward had moved it and then covered it with a blanket so i didnt actually find it til much later)

Brought a suit back to a shop once complaining that the buttons had partially melted while being dry-cleaned and that the label failed to point this out and that if buttons were unsafe to be dry-cleaned there should be a label to that effect on the suit. Girl in shop was very apologetic, took suit back, was going to call supplier.
Got phone call later from same girl to say the buttons were made like that, not melted but had a decorative bubbled effect on them! She could even show me a brand-new suit to prove this!

I called my bank a few years ago in a state because my card must have been cloned as someone had withdrawn 50 quid late at night in a place I'd not been for ages.

The woman asked me very calmly if there were any other transactions I didn't recognise and I said no. So she suggested I might like to check my diary for that day. And it turned out (of course) that I'd been out that night, got horribly drunk and totally forgotten that we'd ended up where we did

She reassured me that it was quite common