“Should have gone to Specsavers” – please share your embarrassing moments with Specsavers - you could win £250! *NOW CLOSED*

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We all know the tag line for Specsavers is "should have gone to Specsavers" - now they would love to know what your "should have gone to Specsavers" moments are - when your mouth seemed to move quicker than your brain and you made an embarrassing error - for example - have you mistaken a stranger for your DH, thought someone was pregnant when they weren't or even waved madly at someone across the street only to find you don't know them at all?

Specsavers say "on our stores, you can be sure to find the glasses that are just right for you - our online catalogue of over 1500 glasses is the widest selection in the UK. We're always sourcing the latest materials and following fashions from around the world to bring you an unequalled choice - the latest fashions, designer labels, materials, colours and frame shapes. We also offer a wide range of contact lenses to suit most people".

Share your best "should have gone to Specsavers" moment (or have a LOL about everyone else’s) on this thread and you will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £250 voucher from here.

Please note Specsavers may use your comments - anon of course - on their pages on MN, on their social media or possibly elsewhere - please only post if you're happy with this.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

I'm rather fond of woolly hats, in the colder months, and have a couple of particularly slouchy ones. I've had to vow to check myself in a mirror before leaving the house, after a particularly active morning getting DS2 out of the house, since there's been a couple of times that I've taken him to school and arrived home again, only to see my reflection in my front door and realise that my had has been flopped forward, the entire time, no doubt looking utterly ridiculous!

I went to Specsavers when after walking down the High St with a few girlfriends I tripped over a blind man's walking stick, sending us both crashing to the ground - Cue cackles of hysterical laughter from 'friends' as I struggled to get up off this poor man. Thankfully he saw the funny side and offered me his stick!

DH works next door to an opticians (not SS). He's forever getting people walking in and sitting in front of him thinking he is the Optometrist

Love it!

I once thought I saw my best friends brother so i called out his name. He of course didn't turn around. The embarrassing thing was that my friend was with me at the time so she was looking around for him too. She then realised that I thought someone else was her brother and we had a laugh about it.

I got on the wrong bus once because I stupidly didn't think I would need my glasses. It ended up dropping me in another part of town and I had to go on a long trek back to where my original destination was.

In a hurry to try some clothes on in a busy shop I walked into the men's changing rooms, I rushed out again really quickly when there were half naked men wandering around.

I went to a friend's summer party a couple of years ago. It was a "bring along some food" party and I'd just helped myself to a plateful of various scrumptious delights before turning round to go and join my partner in the garden. Somehow, I didn't realise there were some patio doors separating us and, to my huge embarrassment, walked straight into them, splattering my huge plateful everywhere and also managing to splatter a few people in the process! I'd only had one drink and spent the next half hour apologising profusely and trying to clean up my mess.

I have become increasingly short sighted and I embarrassed myself recently calling out Sue and waving enthusiastically only to find out that it wasn't my friend at all - she gave me a funny look!

Walking through a very large shopping centre, chatting away and then smack! Walked straight into a very large pillar holding the building up!

Am very short sighted and also quite vain so don't wear my glasses as often as I should and can't get along with contacts, annoyingly.

Am frequently squinting at people in the supermarket, not recognising friends etc but at our engagement party I spent all evening all over the mother of my husband's childhood friend ("It's so wonderful to see you" "We must catch up more" "How is uncle Alan" etc. Also tried to make her dance with me and just generally wouldn't leave her alone and made a nuisance of myself) which must have seemed a bit odd as I had never met her before and had no idea who she was.

In my defence she has the same colour hair as my great aunt but other than that looks nothing like her and is about 10 years younger but I didn't realise my mistake until a few days later when said friend remarked to dh that I had seemed very taken with his mum and I had no idea what he was talking about. This woman obviously now thinks I am some kind of weirdo.

The other was during a particularly awkward drive with my senior manager after we had missed our train on our way to a training course which may have been my fault so I ended up driving. We were late and things were a bit tense son I was keen to make conversation. "Aww, look at that cat" I remarked awkwardly to my manager who looked at me a bit strangely and said nothing. A few minutes later she piped up with: "Strawberry, that was a bin bag. Are you feeling alright?"

Posted too soon. At which point I realised I didn't have my glasses on and made a sudden scramble for the glove box which was practically on her knee. Poor woman must have had an alarming morning.

I had a wrap around skirt and as I was pregnant I used to undo the button at the top of the skirt on my drive to work, I was very embarrassed to step out of the car and my skirt fall down to the floor in front of this rather attractive male and very lucky to be wearing tights and underwear at the time.

there are many, but heres one. My husband and i were dropping our kids at school and i dropped thme off got inot the car sat in the passenger seat, it was the wrong car and the man looked at me a though I was insane. it was exactly the same model and colour car and apologised profusely and saw my husband who was waiting behind the the other car looking at me very confusingly.

I madly shouted at my friend Des across Morrisons car park. Ran over and tugged his arm only to find that it was not him. A very specsavers moment, I did not have my glasses on and I am very shortsighted lol

My most memorable time was when I spied my friend Gill in the field on her farm. After waving and shouting to no avail my son told me I had been yelling at a cow!

i mistakenly spoke to a friend's 'boyfriend' until i got closer & realised it was her husband!! you don't want to know what i said!! i now wear glasses

This happened a number of years ago when my partner and I were first going out. We were walking down the hill towards when DP said "Look at the size of those swans!" My reply "They must be huge as I can see them without my specs". As we walked closer I realised they were pedalloes in the shape of swans that can be hired out in the summer. Every time we walk that way he still reminds me and laughs.

Where I used to live buses only came every half an hour. Normally it was a new single decker bus. An old double decker came along so I just let it go past. It wasn't until it was going past I realised it was the bus I was waiting for. It muat have been a replacement but I couldn't see the number.

First day at work I was having coffee with my colleagues and completely misjudged where my cup was and poured sugar and milk in the ashtray. Very embarrasing.

My bf dropped me off at a shop to nip in and get something. I raced back to the car, jumped in and had a huff about how they didn't have what I wanted. Except when I turned to face the driver, it wasn't my bf! I'd jumped into someone's car that had only stopped at a pedestrian crossing! He looked shellshocked!

Many times in the supermarket I have caught sight of my other half "in the corner of my eye" & spoken to him only to discover it was someone in 'similar' clothes.

But on a recent occasion to the person / not my hubbie "in the corner of my eye" & I said " look at the price of those! what a waste of money! although I'm sure some fool will buy them" !

To my horror it wasn't my hubby & the man picked one up & put it in his trolley & walked off. :(

My mum should have gone to Specsavers. She went up to a charity collector while out shopping and tried to put some change into his coffee cup!

If you're a book enthusiast then you'll know that when you're in a book shop you can often spend ages making your way along a book shelf with your head tilted at an odd angle to study the titles...well my boyfriend was doing that one day and decided to rest his head on my boobs, only I was over the other side of the shop and it was another woman standing next to him that had this odd experience! Oops!

I went over to SpecSavers when Dolland & Aitchison became Boots - wish I hadn't. I've now had 2 different pair of Specs from them, and they are awful. I have variable focals and they just can't seem to get them to focus properly. I've been back many times and had them adjusted, but they still look too blurry for me. £350 and 9 months later, I'm still not happy. I'm going back to my old shop in the New Year, not the expense I need just after Christmas.

"Look at the size of those swans!"