Embarrassing moments that still haunt you

In the 70s the fashion was very much for platform boots. I had some fabulous knee high boots with huge platforms and heels which I wore with mini skirts.

I had an opticians appointment so popped out of work. Once there I had to go downstairs for eye test. I somehow caught my heels on a step and fell from top to bottom. Tried to get up at bottom and struggled. Then realised both my feet were pointing upwards as both heels had sheared off completely. I pulled the boots off, took the eye test and rang work to borrow some shoes from a colleague. Trouble is I was a 5 and she was a 7! The staff in the opticians must have had a good laugh that day but I never forgot that.

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I remember those see through nylon nighties!!

I was in my teens; we all overslept, I was going to be late for school. My mother said " I'll drive you, grab your clothes and get dressed in the car "

By the time we reached school I was fully dressed; but we were too late. The Head Teacher ( a very prim and proper spinster) was lying in wait for late girls and came marching on the warpath to intercept us.

My mother wound down her window, smiled and said goodmorning. Head T went scarlet.

Mother had not had time to get dressed, she just leapt into the car in nothing but her nightie. Which was a tarty number in totally see-through nylon.

It concealed absolutely nothing, she might as well have been stark naked.

Franski It has happened to me too, during a movement class.

It also happened to a woman who was interviewing me for a job. Needless to say I didn't get the job.

You are not alone.

This has happened to me more than once....I am wering skinny jeans or leggings. Then sitting in a meeting or giving a presentation and I feel the lump somewhere along my legs. It's yesterday's knickers caught inside from when pulled them off the night before. Good job GN is anonymous. I am in my 60s now and it happened a couple of months ago...i should have learned my lesson by now. (Don't judge me ladies!)

I was sent out to visit some customers along with the local sales rep. As I got out of his car my briefcase flew open and the whole contents of a packet of Tampax flew across the road. I could have died, especially as he helped me to gather them up!

We were invited to spend Boxing Day with the family of my son’s girlfriend. We had only met them once before, several months previously. I rang their doorbell and a smiling lady opened it. I gave her a hug and said how lovely it was to see her again. To my horror a second lady then appeared who was, in fact, the mother of the girlfriend. The lady I had hugged was actually a family friend who was staying for a couple of days. I felt such a fool.

I went to meet my, then, boyfriend's parents for the first time. They had invited me round for dinner at their house. I had just bought a smart and very fashionable, very loose smock dress.

They took one look at me, visibly panicked and ran off into the kitchen together. I couldn't hear what they were saying but I had obviously upset them. I was left standing in the hall.

It turned out that they thought I must be pregnant because I was wearing, what appeared to them, a maternity dress.

I had been going out with my boyfriend for some months but we broke up soon afterwards.

Sadgrandma This happened to me wearing black holdups 😄 Running for a train first thing in the morning - by the time I reached it I had one white leg and one black leg. That was about the same time I turned up for work wearing one navy shoe and one black one - different heel heights even so I've no idea how I didn't notice before getting to the office.

I once fell flat on my face in front of 12 naval officers and 3 MoD officials while giving a progress report. Ended up with a hole in one knee of my tights. Then got so flustered I dropped all my slides for the overhead and they flew all over the floor. Not my greatest hour.

Years ago, DH's boss asked us to their house for Sunday lunch. I was young and unworldly. I was struggling to make conversation and as we talked about food before lunch, I said to our hostess 'Our neighbour cooks sprout tops. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous?'. She replied 'Well we've got them today but you don't have to eat them.'. I have cooked them myself since but had never heard of them. One very awkward meal ensued.

The breaking wind stories reminded me of Celia Imrie on Wednesdays The Traitors . She broke wind during one of the trials .

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Years ago we booked a very last minute holiday to Majorca - just OH and me (pre-kids). I didn't have much time to do any shopping, so grabbed a couple of dresses and tshirts without trying them on. The second night of the holiday, I decided to wear one of the dresses - a strappy sundress - to go out for dinner, only to discover that I couldn't really wear a bra with it, so decided to go out braless.
On the way back to our hotel after the meal, we stopped to watch some local men playing boules and after a few minutes, I realised some of them kept staring at me. Eventually looked down to discover one of the 'puppies' had managed to escape from the dress, so I had been inadvertently flashing them for god knows how long! I still feel the flush of embarrassment now, more than 40 years later!

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Gingster 🤣🤣

This is a howler Gingster!

When I first started teaching I was living at home and my Mum used to make my sandwiches. One lunch time in the staff room I picked up a lunch and thought wow mum has done me proud this time - sausage sandwiches with mustard in brown bread. Brown bread was unheard of in our house.
After I had eaten them a young member of staff came in an asked where his lunch was . All that was left were my Mum's chipolatas in white bread. I was so embarrassed. Fortunately I left to get married shortly after.
I still cringe when I think about it.

At a busy airport long ago a woman came up to me and asked "Do you speak English?" I was about to brush her off because I thought she wanted money or some favour. So I was a bit offhand. Then she told me that the back of my dress was tucked into my knickers!

Its the only time Ive ever had a dress malfunction in public so I remember it.

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I can’t exactly say it still haunts me, but I once experienced a period ‘flood’ at work when I was wearing white trousers. We were living in the Middle East at the time, and I had just been talking to 2 male (Brit) colleagues (one 20s, one 50s) when I realised.

They absolutely could not have failed to notice, but were too nice/polite to say anything.

Luckily we lived only about a 10 minute drive from work, so I zoomed straight home in my little car (without a word to anyone) where I changed into a similar pair of white trousers and zoomed straight back.

I'm dying with laughter at all the responses here!

I've had a few embarrassing moments over the years! Here's 3!

1-As a bus driver, there was a long queue. I just got my right leg into the cab while clinging to the steering wheel, and the back of my trousers split wide open, revealing knickers with Minions all over them, right in front of everyone, who all laughed! I wasn't overweight, and my trousers were quite loose, so I've no idea why they ripped! The second I was back at the station, I had the embarrassment of running to the office and having to spend a few seconds punching in my passcode to get in with my bum ... and Minions... hanging out of the back, I went to my locker, which was in the staff canteen, having hysterical laughter from various colleagues, then ran straight to the loo for a change of trousers!

2-Another time I was working in a shop, dealing with a woman who looked and sounded like she'd come out of the Dallas TV show, and I accidentally let off a huge fart, burp, then hiccup with a second of each other! I wanted to floor to swallow me up! Thankfully, the lady had a brilliant sense of humour as I stood there, dark red and apologising madly!

3-Working in a cafe, which was doggy/pet friendly, A man came in with the most gorgeous little Pug dog. I was over him like a rash ... the dog, I mean, not the man!... He picked up little Eric and put him in my arms, who then decided to wee all over my t-shirt, and it trickled down to my leggings! I thought it was hilarious, and the man was very embarrassed, but I had to go home for a shower and a change of clothing!

Most of mine are to do with toilets... a recurring embarrassment is queing up and ghen going into a loo and finding someone else's floater there that won't go down. Then having to go out and apologise to the next lady who's waiting. Either saying, 'sorry loo not flushing properly' or ' its not mine!'.. cringe.

Before an appointment for a cervical smear, I went to the toilet. No paper so got a tissue from my bag . As the examination proceeded, the doc said ‘ooo what’s this’? A green shield stamp! It must have been stuck to the tissue 🤬.

When I was a teenager. one lunchtime I went out to a restaurant with a friend (we used to get luncheon vouchers) and as I stood up my suspenders belt came undone and, as I walked down the street my stockings slowly but surely slipped down until I looked like Nora Batty. I was mortified and it wasn’t helped by my friend pointing to my legs and laughing like a drain. It must have affected me deeply to have remembered it all these years later.

I can't say it still "haunts" me but I still remember it!
After a few hours messing about in the sea with a group of friends in small boats and canoes one hot summer when I was about 15 or 16 I decided to take a swim.

I was wearing a very small bikini that my mum had made for me - of the sort that were basically triangles tied together at the hips, waist, back and neck.

One of the lads in the group went to "help me in" by moving closer to shove me in. Screeching (and obviously drawing attention to myself therefore) I leaped off the boat and failed to notice that a leg tie of my bikini had got caught on one of the little cleat hooks.

Yes, it ripped off my body and my "help me in friend" picked it up and waved it about laughing a lot so everyone on the busy beach could enjoy the joke.

I was swimming about in just my bikini top for what felt like an age until eventually another lad waded in with a big towel to rescue me.
The whole beach rose up in a cheer as I waddled out!
My mum was asked repeatedly "was that your daughter whose bikini was ripped" for days afterwards".

Oh thank you for your comments it has made me smile. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend

I used to work with this terribly handsome man who I thought was gorgeous. One day I was walking out of a shop when my stiletto heel got caught in a man hole cover and my shoe was stuck and I walked out of it barefoot. He only happened to be leaning on the wall outside the shop making a phone call. He dissolved into fits of laughter at me and I never lived it down in the office.