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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

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!

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 😳😳

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!

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 🤣 🤣🤣🤣

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.

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!

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!

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

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

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 .

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!

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

Yup! 😂

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.
🤣🤣🤣

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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 😂

halfpint1 Sat 04-Nov-23 15:33:10

It happened to my son at school. Changing class and walking down a busy corridor. Underpants suddenly flew out. Poor lad, he was about 14at the time.

buffyfly9 Sat 04-Nov-23 15:17:38

Several years ago I caught an awful skin infection from sandfly bites. It covered both legs from knee to ankle and had to dressed by the GP with large gauze type pads so that the copious amounts of fluid, pus and blood could be absorbed. I couldn't wear trousers because the dressings got caught up in them so I wore a long skirt. We went to look at woodburners in a local DIY shop. I trailed round various rooms looking at them then left and went back to the car. I pulled my skirt up and to my horror two large dressings from one leg were gone. I said "drive!" to my husband and we have never been back. We were the only customers so what the staff must have thought when they found two large blood and yellow stained sanitary looking towels on the floor is anyone's guess. I pass the showroom regularly and still feel awful.

Spuddy Sat 04-Nov-23 14:15:54

HA HA HA! Crying with laughter here!

inishowen Sat 04-Nov-23 13:26:21

My mum loved to tell the story of how her pants fell round her ankles when she was pushing me in my pram. Quick as a flash she hid them under my blanket and carried on shopping.

AreWeThereYet Sat 04-Nov-23 13:22:05

I also once went to a job interview wearing hold-ups and one of them failed.

Hold ups could be a nightmare! I once had to run for a train early in the morning on my way to work. One of my black hold ups fell down, so I had one black leg and one white leg and nowhere to pull it back up until I was hidden in the middle of a load of commuters on the train, when I could discreetly reach down and take them both off. I didn't want to risk one of them falling down again before I got to the office.

Maggiemaybe Sat 04-Nov-23 13:03:26

Fortunately, when I noticed the knickers bunched up in the ankle area of my jeans I was sitting down in a cafe and could extract them discreetly.

Much worse was when I left some pairs of (clean) knickers out in the textile bag for recycling. I’m guessing the collectors thought it was a right laugh to scatter them across the pavement outside the house. blush

Juliet27 Sat 04-Nov-23 11:50:55

Oh yes, I’ve done similar. Walking my dog down a little lane I noticed a pair of knickers lying to the side. They were still there the next day but I didn’t like to touch them. By the third day I suddenly realised that they were mine and had arrived there the way yours had reappeared Bella and by then a fox had pood on them but I felt duty bound then to pick them up with a dog poo bag and deposit them in the appropriate bin.