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

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KathrynMumsnet · 29/12/2014 15:08

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

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skildpadden · 30/12/2014 15:44

I was on my phone, and I thought my cousin's profile pic on fb was a nappy flung in to a hedge. how weird I thought. later, when i was on my lap top I clicked on it to enlarge on it and peered at it closely and realised it was his precious cat.

vixxx666 · 30/12/2014 15:54

I was shopping at the supermarket one day when I thought I saw a friend from school, I sneaked from behind and tickled her ribs..she screamed and jumped around and nearly punched me - it wasn't my friend, it was a complete stranger. I nearly died!! Shock

nettymay · 30/12/2014 16:22

I went out with the family and thought I had a terrible growth on my leg. I was ashamed to find yesterdays pants inside the leg of my jeans!

Listopad · 30/12/2014 16:24

A colleague of mine was driving home along the back lanes in Cambridgeshire and spotted a small owl lying helpless by the side of the road. She phoned the RSPCA, a local vet, and her son to come out and help this owl. By the time her son got there she had her coat over the owl trying to keep it warm. Her son moved the coat to get a better look. It was a turnip.

Ethan260908 · 30/12/2014 16:42

Before I had my son I was upwardly mobile thrusting exec (I know bit boring compared to nowadays). Late for a meeting, I quickly grabbed the files, asked the reception which room I was in, she chirpily confirmed room 8, and rushed in greeting the new sales person with one of the those strong handshakes. Sadly, my sales person was still in room 8 [sic] I had gone into room 6 by mistake and I endured the whole meeting gritting my teeth and then apologised sincerely to my actual sales person in room 8 for my tardiness. Worst still until I left the company, I still bumped into the first sales person as regular as clock work as my own. I am cringing now just thinking about it.

compy99 · 30/12/2014 16:43

Many years ago, we went to a remote part of Spain, with very little English being spoken, I quickly skimmed through a phrase book )this was pre internet days!) as I wanted to know the equivalent to "I am a vegetarian" however, I had a real issue ordering food for the entire stay with meat being brought out for me despite my best Spanish. Anyway, on the flight back home I looked through my trusty phrase book and my Specsavers moment dawned when I realised that I had mis-read the small print and had spent the entire time announcing "I am a veterinary Surgeon!" instead of "I am a vegetarian". I did get reading glasses very soon afterwards.

hermancakedestroyer · 30/12/2014 17:14

I have two stories for you - firstly my daughter was at the edge of a swimming pool and she jumped in and tapped a man she thought was her dad on the head (then turned and spotted her dad across the pool!)
My friend lived in Cyprus (next to a mountain range) for a few years and she took her young daughter to the opticians and the optician said to her 'how do the mountains look for you?' she replied 'mountains? there are mountains?!'

shawbarbara · 30/12/2014 17:42

The worst for me was over Christmas - family and I were out for meal in busy hotel bar when I suddenly needed to go to the bathroom -(something to do with age lol)- anyway up I got walked straight into the first bathroom - yes you guessed it I walked straight into a man as he was leaving(the said Male toilets) - the worst was I shouted at him lol -then had to retreat to safety - red faced and tail between my legs!

finleypop · 30/12/2014 17:53

On holiday with hubby, dad & his wife. It was April, the swimming pool was freezing, but hubby & I braved it along with a very elderly gentleman. My dad dived in the water to join us & didn't come up. We looked around for him but all we could see was the elderly man who seemed to be in difficulty, he kept sinking under the water so we set off to help him. All of a sudden, my dad surfaced with a huge grin, gotcha he said to my hubby. OMG, because we had not got our shoulders under the freezing water, my dad had decided to grab hubbys legs & pull him under to shock him, however he had grabbed the elderly man by mistake! We were mortified!! The man was absolutely great about it & saw the funny side, however his wife was not at all impressed!

WrappedInABlankie · 30/12/2014 18:05

Went shopping with my sister went into the changing rooms to try on a t-shirt and some dresses and my sister a couple of jeans and was chatting away through the curtains.

I went out to get a different size and stopped at what I thought was my sisters curtain. Opened it laughed and told her her arsed looked ridiculously fat in those jeans and to get a different pair.

Cue a mortified woman with the same colour hair turning round and looking mortified. My sister was in hysterics. Could apologise enough hid in my cubicle till I was sure she'd left ConfusedBlush

chrin · 30/12/2014 18:10

I was meeting a guy I had only been seeing for a couple of weeks at a very busy bus station I grabbed weho I thought he was to give his a big hug and a kiss and it was a girl with the same colour hair and same style of clothes as him I was mortified

twinklenic · 30/12/2014 19:23

the worse thing i have done is when coming out of the shopping centre i walked up to my dads car opened the door and sat in the passengers seat, only to find id gone to the same colour and make car and sat in it with a total stranger waiting for his wife. After what felt like an age, my dad beeped his horn laughing at me, i could have died

VictoriaSt · 30/12/2014 19:26

Last week I thought it was snowing as (not wearing my glasses...) I thought I saw snow in the air - turns out it was just saw dust in the air from the nearby builders :/

joanf · 30/12/2014 19:29

Going to work in a hurry put my shoes on quickly, jumped in the car and as I walked into the office someone pointed out that I had odd shoes on, too far to go home so had to wear them all day cringe!

devito92 · 30/12/2014 19:35

Sliding down a water slide while on holiday, only to find my speedo's had fallen off. I had to keep under the water while the lifeguard looked for my trunks !!

CatCushion · 30/12/2014 19:46

Went to a crowded Christmas market with DH at a local village. We got separated as I stopped to get some mulled cider and he took the opportunity to buy me a Christmas present. With a mulled wine in each hand I saw him in the distance through a gap in the crowd. He saw me raising his cup of mulled wine and striding towards him, then disappearing as I walked straight into the big ditch/haha that borders the village green!

littleme96 · 30/12/2014 20:35

Before we started dating, but years after we first met as friends (so I really should have known better), I bumped into my now-hubby and was super enthusiastic to see him. Chatting away and catching up with him with a bit of flirting thrown in.

However halfway through the conversation I realised to my dismay that I wasn't actually talking to the object of my affections, but to his identical twin brother instead. Was very awkward when I realised!

Funkyferret · 30/12/2014 20:47

I once held a little housewarming party around Bonfire Night and invited new neighbours. I decided to make a chilli but misread the recipe as I didn't have my glasses on, and ended up putting in 8 level tsp of chilli powder not 3. Needless to say it was inedible and everyone thought I was trying to kill them . . .

rachheap2014 · 30/12/2014 21:13

I have failed badly this Christmas my son kept saying he wanted Skylanders Trap Team for his Xbox and i bought him Skylanders giants, ooops i misread the packaging!

helenthemadex · 30/12/2014 21:15

I was out shopping with my mum a few years back, we had stopped for a coffee, she went to get our drinks while I sat down. I saw a woman I recognised but couldnt think of her name at the table next to ours, so I smiled and said hi how are you, she looked very confused and said good thank you, it was at that point I realised I didnt actually know her she was one of the actors from Casualty, still embarrasses me she probably thought I was a weird fan Xmas Blush

skildpadden · 31/12/2014 01:38

oh my mum did that when she was visiting me when I lived in london. we saw helen baxendale in a café and my mum thought she'd met her on a previous visit. she said 'oh hello, you're a friend of skildpads!" Helen Baxendale looked at me for the briefest moment before I could rearrange my face in to 'im sorry about this'. Blush

But that was nothing to do with eyesight.

CointreauVersial · 31/12/2014 01:39

DSM was at a party once, and offered the chap next to her a bowl of what she thought were crisps.

It was a bowl of pot pourri. Grin He looked at her very strangely.

I did one of those dances in a shop once, trying to avoid colliding with someone. I moved left, so did she, I moved right, so did she.... I ended up walking straight into.... a mirror. Blush

pieceofpurplesky · 31/12/2014 01:55

A camping holiday in the early 80s. Mum and dad, aunty, uncle 3 cousins and me. We had a camper van aunty had caravan and awning. Big hanging contraption in corner where EVERYTHING was stored.

My mum had been constipated terribly for the week. Suffered with stomach ache and had moaned and groaned to us all. So one evening she grabs the toilet roll from the corner contraption and dashes to the toilet block. Returns happily with a big grin on her face, walks in to the awning, flings the toilet roll to the corner contraption and announces "I've been"

To a group of strangers sipping their wine.
Wrong awning - should have gone to specsavers Grin

WowOoo · 31/12/2014 08:22

My children have got into a car that they thought was mine after school. Apparently my eldest said 'you're not my mother' to the elderly lady sitting inside. He said he first noticed that his car seat was different and that the car was much cleaner inside than ours. He has had his eyes tested!

marcc82 · 31/12/2014 08:56

Luckily I have been to Specsavers!