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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

OP posts:
BonzoDooDah · 04/01/2015 21:34

As a student I arranged to go swimming with my boyfriend. We got changed and were to meet in the pool. I wore glasses but didn't have.them on so just loitered by the side. It was a big pool and quite busy. After ten minutes I was getting worried that he'd seen me in my costume and done a bunk. After about 15 minutes a dark haired stranger swam up to me. It was my boyfriend who had been waiting at the other end of the pool. Without his glasses he was more incapacitated than me! It was made worse as our hair colour was darker when wet so his blonde curly head was flat and brown.

thewomaninwhite · 04/01/2015 21:41

I did mistake a bunch of keys for a small dinosaur figure on top of our photo frame earlier. DH did look at me strangely when I asked why a toy dinosaur was up on the frame?

DH mistook a cardboard cut out of Alan Titchmarsh outside a shop for the real thing once. :)

FrenchieMum2Be · 04/01/2015 22:02

Only a few weeks ago I mistook a stranger for my husband in the queue at the supermarket... I pinched his bum! Well I hadn't realised that he'd moved away to get a last minute bottle of water... Talk about embarassing and I did go to Specsavers for my current glasses Blush

Hockers68 · 04/01/2015 22:24

My cousin asked me to check her lottery ticket online. I entered the numbers into the online checker. To my great surprise the words appeared - you've won!

In my eagerness, I scrolled down the screen, where I saw the total £2500. I shouted out to my cousin, you've won £2,500! You can imagine the excitement in the room....

...that was until my cousin wanted to see for herself. Turns out it wasn't £2,500 but £25.00 - I hadn't seen the decimal point. How stupid did I feel and a reminder, its time for new glasses!

Petallic · 04/01/2015 22:27

I'm back with another one - this weekend I confronted a woman in the supermarket car park for using a parent & child space when she was clearly on her own. Except she wasn't, baby was in car seat on front passenger seat, right in front of me. I'm never going back and will be booking a new eye test this week!

QOD · 04/01/2015 23:45

I have mono vision ... fascinating to opticians who can't stand to not correct my very poor sight in my right eye
Spec savers found my eyeballs interesting too as I have an uncovered nerve or something

Roofp · 04/01/2015 23:52

This was an embarrassingly drunk moment, but could easily be adapted as a 'should have Gone to specsavers' advert. Simply, it was Halloween, and waiting in queue for a nightclub I got on famously with a guy in a chicken costume standing next to me . We hit it off big time. We laughed, we joked, we read the same books. He was hours away from becoming my new boyfriend, I was sure.
later, once in the club I saw and stalked the chicken: provocatively dancing over and, let's be honest, throwing myself at him. (The music was too loud for any subtle approach)
Imagine my horror at untangling myself to find a horrified man, gorgeous, with yellow chicken body, chicken head under his arm and holding 2 drinks. Yes , I had seduced the wrong chicken. Worse, side by side, the two chicken suits looked nothing like each other. Definitely, the two chicken men didn't either. It would have been too embarrassing to explain. Chicken no.1 then disappeared and I had the rest of my night compromised by chicken no.2 chasing me around the dance floor.

ShatnersBassoon · 05/01/2015 10:57

I came home one day to a really strong perfumey smell that hit me as soon as I stepped through the door, and a very pleased-looking DH. He'd dusted and polished every surface in the house, using air freshener Hmm. He reckoned the cans were confusing.

MummyBtothree · 05/01/2015 11:15

I was with my elderly grandma in the local supermarket a few years ago, just before Christmas so it was heaving with shoppers. She sneezed bless her & her dentures shot out & she lost them!. We were rummaging around like crazy, she even roped in other customers and staff, eventually the store manager came up trumps and found them nestled amongst the loose potatoes!. Ive never been so embarrassed in all my life!! Shock

ikkle87 · 05/01/2015 12:57

Two things come to mind.

We'd bought some of the new Bisto gravy that comes in a jar, I got it mixed up with the jar of coffee and served it to my family.

The secon instance I'd grabbed trousers off the airer and gone to work, 2 busses a walk and a rush to the look when I got to work and I noticed my trousers had been on inside out the whole time and nobody had told me

carole1002 · 05/01/2015 13:36

Ran into the local KFC while my hubby went round the block in the car, came out and got in chattering away about how busy it was - it wasn't our car, it was even a different make and model. The guy was really nice and said it was nice to meet me as I sloped off with my red face!

YaMasYaDaWithAWigOn · 05/01/2015 14:14

This is my story of what actually happened in Specsavers.

I'd gone in for an eye test as I was really struggling to see the whiteboard in college. I knew I was supposed to wear my glasses all the time but was too vain to do so.
So I goes in for my test and during it the optician asks me if I drive. When I said no she replied with "oh thank god!" Blush I now wear my glasses all the time!

jollyjellybeans · 05/01/2015 15:06

After a late night out I got home and was just awake enough to brush my teeth. Halfway through brushing I realised it tasted a bit funny, looked down and realised I'd put Immac on my toothbrush!

SistersOfPercy · 05/01/2015 17:03

Last year my Mother threw a pound coin into a charity collectors cup of tea Blush

As we were walking past the man, who had his collection bucket at his feet, he lifted his styrofoam cup to take a drink and Mum tossed in a pound. The look on his face was of utter horror. Mum, realising what she'd done said 'oops, try not to choke on it when you get to the bottom!'

I scuttled off.

This is the same woman who superglued her lips together because she mistook the glue for cold sore cream.

LemonMousse · 05/01/2015 20:12

Out looking for my Aunt's Golden Retriever who had wandered off I was pleased to spot him sitting at the side of the road.

'He's here' I shouted happily to the rest of the search party, waving and pointing to him. They started walking towards me looking puzzled - I started walking towards 'Benji' calling to him. When I got closer I realised he was a yellow salt bin on the side of the road Blush

(He did turn up later, safe and well - no thanks to me)

buckley1983 · 05/01/2015 20:46

Loving reading these - hilarious! I wish mine were funnier/more original but alas, all I do is frequently walk into the mens toilets - ALWAYS - don't know how - it always takes me a minute to register that the urinals should not be there & I have, yet again, walked into the wrong toilets.

AshesOfRoses · 05/01/2015 21:03

I went to Spain on holiday all smug with three new pairs of coloured contact lenses. The first night I came a cropper due to Spanish spirit measures and the next day I stumbled into the bathroom to put my lenses in.

I couldn't see. I blinked and blinked, put more saline in and eventually started wailing that "una vodka con coca cola" had been responsible for me drinking myself blind!

Then I realised that I still had last night's lenses in beneath the new ones Blush

AkkerDemik · 05/01/2015 21:31

I walked in to the loo in our local Morrisons - it was the gents. Nothing too bad about that, we all do it - except I was wearing the new specs fitted a few minutes ago....in Specsavers!

addictedtosugar · 05/01/2015 21:46

This was a long time ago, but I still remember it.
Mum had just got a new (cream ford escort) car. We went to get a spare key cut for Dad. Came out of garage with new key, and jumped in the car. Except it wasn't ours, it was some random cream escort. Mum realised when the key didn't work - it can't have been locked?!

ToysRLuv · 05/01/2015 23:08

I did once ask a lady in a shop when her baby was due, as she had, what was in my mind, an unmistakable last trimester size pregnancy bump. Turns out she wasn't pregnant. TBH, I was mortified and puzzled in ewual amounts...

MESSING2 · 05/01/2015 23:14

I once approached a high-end cosmetics counter in a department store, picked up a tester bottle of their latest fancy fragrance, and sprayed it... straight into my eyes. I had to be escorted to a staff sick room.

MiscellaneousAssortment · 05/01/2015 23:39

I'm sure I've done stuff like that but can't remember any as funny as those written in this thread.

daisyduck123 · 06/01/2015 01:46

I was out shopping with a friend and we saw these duffle type coats on a rack. They were an awful yukky deep yellow colour, and I was going on about it saying how horrible they were and why would anyone want to wear something that looked like baby diarrhea. I noticed my friend making funny faces and nodding her head and as I looked round I realised the woman near me was wearing one ! Blush

sweir123 · 06/01/2015 10:31

I approached my man at the bar, pinched his bum only to find out it was a complete stranger!

1ivewire · 06/01/2015 11:10

I was sat on the top deck of a double decker bus one day and it stopped in traffic briefly adjacent to an old victorian type bus shelter. I freaked out when i saw what was on top of the shelter, a little baby girl lying there lifeless, how did she get up there? Is she alive? I immediately rang the police to inform them, but the bus had moved on by this point so i could not get off it to investigate further.

The police were only a couple of minutes away and kindly rang me back to update me. It was a toy doll. Blush

Needless to say i was extremely embarrassed for wasting their time! It did take me all day to calm down from the ordeal however!