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Sonatina7 Fri 12-Feb-21 09:02:22

Am I the only person to have walked the entire length of my high street with my skirt tucked into my knickers. Oh the shame!
Laughed so much yesterday at the thread about the man masquerading as a kitty ? on zoom.
Got me wondering. What's your most embarrassing moment? Have great day all.

WW010 Sat 13-Feb-21 13:24:51

I suspect it had a touch of Legally Blonde about it! ??

Sonatina7 Sat 13-Feb-21 11:31:49

WWOIO hilarious! Loved the feathery pen! I have suspicion that others love a bit of uniqueness and see it as a sign of self confidence. I have had the best time ?reading all these stories.

nadateturbe Sat 13-Feb-21 10:25:14

Me too WW010. Brilliant. I could feel your embarrassment.

Franbern Sat 13-Feb-21 09:19:52

WW010 I did love your story and had quite giggle. Can imagine it all too well.

WW010 Sat 13-Feb-21 09:01:06

Bit of a long one. Work conference. Usual attire at these things was very casual. Invited to HR conf in London. Staying overnight expenses paid so took friend. Didn’t have small case so borrowed DDs which was bright pink. Night before had a great night out ?. Friend headed home next morning. I headed to conference. Bit niggled as discovered I had forgotten plain jeans so had only got sparkly jeans from night out. Coat was pink. Heels from night before. Thought ok it’ll be casual as usual. Walked into a room with a sea of suits. Black with white shirt was the uniform. I took a breath and headed for the back of the room - in my pink coat, sparkly jeans, pink case and heels. Sat at the back table with 4 ladies - out of the way. Looked for a pen - DD had taken mine and replaced with one with pink feathers on the end. Sigh.. par for the course this day.
So Conf started. MC welcomed us and introduced/indicated the key speakers - at my table!!! Everyone turned round to smile at the Chair of ACAS, leader of a big union, and a senior barrister - and me trying to shrink under the table with my feathery pen. It was the most mortifying moment of my life. A lady came to me at break and said how she admired my chutzpah in not following the crowd ?. At the end though the ACAS lady quietly asked me if I thought she would be ok to sneak off early to get her train. I’m thinking ‘you’re asking me??’ She must have thought I was super confident and in control. ?. NB my normal work attire was -yes- suit and shirt. ??

Floradora9 Fri 12-Feb-21 22:07:59

Visiting London as a family and my son was violently sick in the gutter . Unfortunately a man in a lovely pale blue suit running up the street stepped in the gutter to avoid us and slid all his length in and on the sick .

Sonatina7 Fri 12-Feb-21 21:46:06

Hellogirl1 - I wonder if they were eating sausages?

Hellogirl1 Fri 12-Feb-21 21:35:40

We .were on holiday in Cornwall with our touring caravan.
Hubby, who never wore underpants, was standing in the open doorway one morning in his shorts. He raised his arms to stretch, and his shorts dropped round his ankles! The family in the next caravan were eating breakfast at the window. I avoided any contact with them for the rest of that week!

BlueSky Fri 12-Feb-21 18:53:16

These stories are great! Thanks all for a much needed laugh! gringrin

nadateturbe Fri 12-Feb-21 17:37:32

Oh Aveline do tell!

Atqui Fri 12-Feb-21 16:59:24

When I was about 8 , I needed to go to the loo in the middle of a piano lesson. I was sent upstairs ,only to find the teachers husband sitting on the loo , trousers round ankles.
Another one- I was on a training course and a woman was talking about remarrying. I thought she said her ex looked like Alan Rickman ,who I don’t find attractive and said so- trouble was she was talking about her new partner!!!

WishIwasyounger Fri 12-Feb-21 16:03:06

When I was a young teenager, my parents and I stayed in a B&B with no en suite. During the night I woke up desparate for the loo which was along the corridor, and went dashing in without locking the door. The inevitable happened; a man walked in and saw me sat down with my knickers round my ankles. I daren't look at him the next morning at breakfast time.

Sonatina7 Fri 12-Feb-21 15:50:12

I'm not alone then with my blunder of humongous proportions. Nice to know we are all flawed and fantastic human beings and brilliant that we can all laugh at ourselves in our moments of hysterical humiliation!

CornflowerBlue Fri 12-Feb-21 15:45:48

I was walking through town in a hurry, and as I stepped up onto a kerb, my big toe hit the kerb with such force that I catapulted into the air and landed on the ground with my backside in the air and my dress up over my head. To make it worse, it was a hot day, and I was wearing a thong as the dress was thin and white! I was 'picked up' by two teenage boys, and despite having blood running down my leg from a gash on my knee and (it turned out after a visit to hospital later) a broken toe, I scuttled away around the corner as fast as I could go, insisting I was fine. When my colleagues found out what had happened, they wet themselves laughing and when we had a new member of staff start, they told him too! It still gives them much amusement, and that was ten years ago!!

Curlywhirly Fri 12-Feb-21 14:39:17

I was about 14 and my friend and I were visiting a lad in hospital who'd had a minor operation. When we got there I was nonplussed to see the object of my heart's desire sat at the lad's bedside. I fancied this boy like mad and couldn't even look at him, let alone speak to him, I was just in awe of him. Whilst all the visitors were chatting to the patient, I just sat quietly trying to look cool. I then started to rock backwards and forwards on my chair (God knows why, probably nerves!) and suddenly the chair slipped on the highly polished wooden floor and I shot, like a bullet from a gun, under the bed! I just lay there looking at the underside of the mattress wanting the ground to open up and swallow me. All the visitors were doubled up laughing and my friend wet herself, she laughed so much.. Oh the shame! I never did get to go on a date with that boy, is it any wonder?

Nicegranny Fri 12-Feb-21 14:04:19

I was 17 about to have the first snog with my new boyfriend in the front seats of his car.
As he pulled me into his embrace my butt clunch failed me, I let out a high pitched long squeaky fart and as l tried to put the failed butt clunch breaks on it made it sound worse making little intermittent squeaks. I wanted to die ?
I can feel the embarrassment still to this day almost 50 years later.

annodomini Fri 12-Feb-21 13:49:49

I was teaching part time in a school which was changing from sec mod to comp. I had what is now Year 8 for English one afternoon and two boys were being, to put it mildly, disruptive. I intended to say to one of them, 'I'll have it out with you after class'. What I actually said was, 'I'll have it off with you...' Cue uproar and red-faced teacher saved by the bell.

dragonfly46 Fri 12-Feb-21 13:33:08

I still shudder when I think of this.
I was a young teacher and we used to leave our lunch in the staffroom. I worked with a fellow who was newly married and I didn't have too much to do with. My mum used to make mine so when I went into the staffroom at lunch time I picked it up and started to eat it. I thought it was much better than usual - brown bread instead of white, mustard and nice thick juicy sausages. When the fellow came in an asked where his lunch was I knew immediately what I had done. I offered him my mum's white bread thin sausages in my sandwich but he was not impressed. He didn't speak to me again and fortunately I left soon after to get married!

25Avalon Fri 12-Feb-21 13:29:15

When I was young the dog coming down the stairs with a used sani pad ( the thick ones) in her mouth and my brother telling us.

Grandma11 Fri 12-Feb-21 13:25:13

I once took my young daughters to a Haven holidays site and went to use the water slide wearing a Bikini.
The pool was very busy, and as l shot out of the exit to this flume, I found the water pressure managed to undo my Bikini top, and I was left standing Topless with no Bikini in Sight, and only my arm to try and cover myself as l lead my Children back to the changing room and away from the laughs and geers from other holidaymakers around the Pool at the time!

Grandmabatty Fri 12-Feb-21 12:59:42

Not to me but to a friend. Christmas on Edinburgh. Mad busy streets, no parking, shops were hoachin.( Full of shoppers). My friend had ordered a new artificial Christmas tree from Jenner's. Prince's street was jam packed so her husband said go and get it and I'll go round the buildings as there's nowhere to stop. Friend duly got tree, went outside and spotted her husband's car. She leapt at it, threw the tree in the back, hurtled into the passenger seat and yelled, "Go!Go!"
Yup, wasn't her husband's car. A rather startled stranger looked at her.

DanniRae Fri 12-Feb-21 12:53:03

Walking from the BHS Ladies toilets back to my seat with a trail of toilet paper coming from behind me, as it was trapped in the waist band of my trousers! I think I had gathered it up from the roll as I adjusted my clothing - Well those toilet cubicles can be quite narrow blush

To make it worse, if that is possible, it happened again when I was walking through Boots and a kind lady pointed it out to me blushblush

downtoearth Fri 12-Feb-21 12:18:10

White jeans and a silent wet fart in the pub, and not realising it was wet till I sat down, I had to have a rear escort to the car

kircubbin2000 Fri 12-Feb-21 11:03:28

Similar with the fire brigade. Before I moved in I came over to check the house and discovered the fire alarm had been blasting for hours, possibly days. It was 2 devices, electrically connected to the high hall ceiling.I couldn't reach or see any way of turning it off so I phoned, not 999, the fire brigade for advice. Within minutes they arrived and a squad rushed into the house. They could see no way of turning it off either so one stood on a chair and pulled out the 2 alarms. I have never replaced them and use a battery one that I can keep on the table.

nanna8 Fri 12-Feb-21 10:23:10

I was in a pub and standing at a bar and I took a piece of seafood from my husband’s seafood basket and ate it. Only it wasn’t him, it was a stranger !