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Knickers lost in Super Market!

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Bella23 Fri 03-Nov-23 18:15:04

This afternoon when I was in the supermarket. I felt something bunched in the right leg of my cords. I shook my leg and saw last night's pants coming out.
I lent on DH and quickly pulled them out and stuffed them in his pocket. I had to explain, he laughed and asked if I had got any on.
Have you ever done anything similar? I was so embarrassed. shock

crazyH Sat 04-Nov-23 15:40:25

In the days when I wore skirts , I walked out of the house, and down the road , with just my top and tights - no skirt - thank Heavens I realised it before I got on the bus 😂

Tizliz Sat 04-Nov-23 16:26:20

Happened to my husband. His brother gave him some padded under pants when they went cycling and he changed in a hurry. Couple of miles down the road he felt his ordinary pants in his jeans leg - can’t remember what he did with them. Luckily they were on their own and not with the cycling club.

Ali08 Tue 07-Nov-23 07:54:56

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh my, you lot have had me in fits of laughter, the neighbours must think I've gone totally mad!
I, personally, haven't had a knicker mishap but I do remember my friend when we were around about 8 ish. We'd been out all day and had gone home a different way, up a big hill to get to the main road. We'd climbed over half a wall, and she had said she thought her knicker elastic had pinged.
Surely enough, just a few minutes later, right in the middle of a back street her knickers fell to her ankles!
We absolutely laughed our little heads off & she picked them up & just threw them away - no pockets!
My aunty, who had been in the WAAF during WWII had been seeing a captain or something, someone she wasn't meant to be seeing because of rank. On the way back from a date they climbed over a barbed wire fence, and she got her French knickers caught on a barb. She had to tell him what was holding her up and he replied, "Would you like a hand?" Poor old girl, she was young at the time and very blustfully told him, "No thank you, I'll manage!"
And hold-ups, ha, fall-downs more like!
Yes, I've had a mishap with those. Going out with my DD one night, in the middle of town mine both fell down!
We ducked into a side street to sort them out but as soon as I'd taken a couple of steps they were down again, so off they came!
Well, I prefer bare legs anyway. Lol

So, ladies who've had to shove the offending underwear etc into your husbands pockets, or indeed your own, have you been fortunate enough to not pull them out while paying for shopping or anything?

Bella23 Tue 07-Nov-23 15:55:27

when I was a teacher we often had to help the children with their coat zips. One little girl asked for help and I found her mother's strings caught on the velcro that was beside the zip. I put them in her reading book bag. She ran out shouting look what Mrs? found stuck to my coat. Her mum just came and thanked me and assured me they were clean they had been in the tumble drier together.smile

biglouis Wed 08-Nov-23 02:16:23

I walked all around Delhi airport with my skirt tucked into my knickers at the back until a kind woman told me. Thats about the only knicker mishap Ive had.

Curtaintwitcher Wed 08-Nov-23 07:25:47

Interesting that so many people take off their knickers and trousers at the same time. I remove my trousers in the bedroom but then go into the bathroom and take off my knickers and put them in the laundry bin.
My problem is tissues....I forget to remove them from my pockets and they end up in the washing machine.

Nannagarra Wed 08-Nov-23 08:12:55

At my MiL’s 80th, at a very naice venue, I managed to have my dress tucked into my knickers and have a piece of paper stuck to my shoe! My niece was speechless with laughter!
Oh, yes, those balled up nicks in leggings. They sneak in, silently lurk, whisper to others not to warn of their presence then spring an appearance at peak embarrassment time.
🤣🤣🤣

DeeDe Wed 08-Nov-23 11:11:38

Yup! 😂

Alypoole Wed 08-Nov-23 11:17:51

This happened to me as a very young teacher. There they were on the floor of the children's cloakroom. Eek!

Rhinestone Wed 08-Nov-23 11:25:16

I was passing out papers to my class when my front hooked bra popped apart. Not sure if the students noticed but I sure did . Just held things up over my chest until lunch .

Gangan2 Wed 08-Nov-23 11:31:17

Sorry, do idea what happened to my punctuation in post , gremlins got in obviously!

CrazyMazy Wed 08-Nov-23 11:39:23

I was very glad that I DID have my knickers on the day I walked into my son’s play school and my skirt fell down around my ankles! I had made myself a ‘hipster’ skirt! To my embarrassment it slid to the floor and I tried to look nonchalant when I bent over to pick it up. Luckily my son was too young to remember!

Secondwind Wed 08-Nov-23 11:41:05

Oh dear - this made me chuckle!
Not quite the same, but in my younger days, I went to the toilet to change my tampon. I had no idea that I was advertising this fact to the entire workforce until someone pointed out that I’d got most of the paper wrapper caught inside the back of my tights for everyone to see!

Cherylrov Wed 08-Nov-23 11:41:54

Love these made me smile so much. I once stood outside the swing door of a men’s shop changing rooms and was fed up of waiting so peered over the top to find a man with no trousers or pants on bending down to try on some trousers - my husband was in the next cubicle! so I had to apologise and red faced wait by the till.

Jens Wed 08-Nov-23 11:45:06

I remember once, many years ago Seeing a woman, in Oxford St, London, stop, shimmy, step out of her knickers, she bunched them up. Popped them into shopping bag and then carried on walking as if nothing had happened. Remember we mostly wore skirts or frocks in those days, early 50s I was about 6/7. I laugh now, never happened to me tho I did lose a petticoat once, I stepped out of that in the street when I realised the elastic had gone. Lol 🤣 🤣🤣🤣

LouLou21 Wed 08-Nov-23 12:04:33

I went to a cricket match in the summer, my friend and I walked over the field to the toilets during a break , as we were half way back across the field she said your skirt is tucked into your knickers!

Tilly8 Wed 08-Nov-23 12:14:04

Having bladder problems I had padded myself up really well for our day at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. The day went well and we called at Walmart on the way back to the villa. We were wandering about shopping when I became aware of something making its way down my shorts. To my horror the lining of the pads had become soaked with water from the water rides we had been on just before we left the park and was quietly disintegrating and leaving clumps of bluish wet soggy “nappy” up and down the isles. I was mortified and I’m embarrassed to say I just rushed to the loo to sort myself out and ignored the chaos I had caused. Not my finest hour 😳😳

Growing0ldDisgracefully Wed 08-Nov-23 12:14:10

As a primary school child, I once forgot to put any knickers on, and thereafter had to suffer the embarrassment of my Mum hollering out of the door to the whole street as I left for school "have you got any pants on"!
Another wardrobe malfunction is similar to a previous poster, in that I used to dress in the dark to avoid disturbing Mr GO. Sitting in the staff room for a morning coffee break/meeting, saw to my embarrassment that I had odd shoes on - similar style court shoes, but one dark blue, the other a light grey! And anither occasion when, again at work, I realised that I had my dress on inside-out.
I really need supervising before I go out of the house, but at least I've not (yet) lost any underwear in public!

razzmatazz Wed 08-Nov-23 12:15:09

Not me but my husband's trousers fell round his ankles in the supermarket. The family laughed for weeks when he told them.

SachaMac Wed 08-Nov-23 12:17:49

When I was young and working in a bank I had the embarrassment of last nights knickers making their way down my trouser leg!! I’d overlay and just put on the trousers I’d been out in the night before on. The knickers were bright blue and I was stood serving a customer with large bags of change at the time. I had to discreetly pick them up and make my way to the staff room & put them in my bag. It was only a small branch too so pretty obvious when I left the counter, I never told anyone what had happened at the time as I was so embarrassed. It wouldn’t have happened at the branch I worked at previously as the manager wouldn’t allow us girls to wear trousers!

Tuckshop Wed 08-Nov-23 12:29:27

Thank you ladies, having a good laugh today. My waist petticoat fell down once as I walked across a car park near home but I stepped out of it quickly and stuffed it in my bag. When I was age 10 in a school play, I had to dance and my trousers split when I was in mid air in front of the whole audience. I was mortified.

As32 Wed 08-Nov-23 12:30:33

I've had knickers work their way out of my jeans leg in the supermarket, quickly bent down and stuffed them in my pocket!
When I was about 20, I'd stayed over at boyfriends house after a night out (separate bed in spare room in them days)
That evening while boyfriend was in the lounge with his family, their dog a little cavalier spaniel, was behind the TV chewing something, extracted from its jaws, was a pair of my (worn) lace knickers
When boyfriend told me I was mortified, so embarrassed when I next went to his house

grandtanteJE65 Wed 08-Nov-23 12:30:38

Never had underpants adrift, but those wretched stockings that were supposed to stay up without suspenders!

Did they heck!

I tried them once or twice before giving them up at a bad job.

More embarrassingly, I once had a sanitary towel of the kind that had thin (supposedly non slip) foam rubber backing, come adrift and work its way sideways out of my underpants and onto the floor!

ruthiek Wed 08-Nov-23 12:44:12

Was asked at work what I had done to my leg? as I looked down under my black tights just below the knee were my knickers from the night before 🫣

GrannyZoom Wed 08-Nov-23 13:10:38

Twice my knickers have fallen from my trousers whilst playing table tennis. I wondered what on earth I was treading on.I quickly put them in my pocket, if my partner saw he never mentioned it. I think they must have got caught up in the tumble dryer!