Embarrassing moments...

My lovely dreamy granddaughter was working in Argos over the Christmas season one year. The staff had decided that it would be good fun to wear fancy dress on a particular day. My granddaughter was quite excited by this idea and secretly planned her outfit, discussing it with no-one else. She travelled on the bus, fully dressed in the outfit, only to discover when she arrived that the rest of the staff were dressed as assorted pretty Santas. My granddaughter had dressed as a pirate..with a moustache..!.

Knickers falling down round my ankles in Harrods. Just stepped out of them and put them in my handbag, but face – and bottom – were .

Peeing behind a tree in an apparently deserted field in France when a hay wagon came along the road with a group of Frenchmen perched on top shouting "Vive les anglaises".

A friend went back to work in quite a senior position after looking after her four children in infancy. At a business lunch, she leaned over and carefully cut up the client's meat.

yuk!

Talking of Freudian slips I once referred to a colleague called Rod as... Dick. Fortunately not to his face.

Great thread this. OK see if I can dredge up this embarrassing one from a few decades back. Cringe. You lot will probably find it funny.

Having a weekend away with ex husband (he wasnt ex then) in Pembroke while my mum looked after the kids. Staying in a glorified pub. Has sex in the afternoon, as you do. Ex husband - yuk - left a - yuk - PINK durex - yuk - used one - on the sink - yuk etc.

Later on we returned to the hotel and realised we had locked the key in the room. Turns out no-one in the hotel has a spare one but the owner has one and he is drinking in another pub somewhere in town. Ex goes off to look for him and I find a quiet corner in the bar.
Ex comes back, eventually, with tipsy owner. They are now best friends. Does ex manage to get key off him - no. Do I manage to take evasive action - no. Does the owner usher us up to the room open the door, stand aside and say goodnight. No he has to come in too. He didn't stay long though!

Gosh...I haven't laughed so much in ages....thanks to all who shared their moments

My worst moment was as a new member of the local camera club. Went to the loo before the presentation dinner and got the hem of my dress tucked in my tights! What a photo opportunity! One of the men whispered in my ear and after my initial shock we all had a good laugh. They were kind enough not to mention it again, and I am now paranoid after visiting the toilet wearing flowing skirts.

I was just days away from giving birth to my son and we were driving home from London. I was uncomfortable so unzipped my skirt.
We stopped for petrol I got out to stretch my legs and my skirt promptly feel around my ankles exposing both my bump and knickers. I laughed so much that I nearly wet myself the forecourt was full of soldiers coming home on leave. :-))

I was in that loo last year - really scary. There were notices saying that use of the loo was time limited. I didn't know if it meant the door would open when I was in there, or if I would get locked in if I took too long!

The same thing has happened to me with the toilet door.. on a train that was packed and there were people stood outside in the corridor.. i wanted the toilet to suck me up! Another time, I was walking through the factory at work on my way to the canteen with about four other people when I felt something around my ankles tripping me up, yes you have guessed it, there on the floor were my knickers. Id obviously taken them off with my trousers and left them inside the leg.. I picked them up quick and carried on, but it was definitley a scene that was talked about for ages after.

Good one supernana.

Talking of large noses - A friend related the following embarrassing moment - the new vicar to the parish had a very handsome if over-large nose. Friend had grandson with her when vicar came to tea. Friend took grandson to one side and stressed that he was to be polite and not stare at new vicar's nose. Grandson did his best to look elsewhere as friend took tray to the table and enquired..."Tell me , vicar, do you take sugar with your nose..." Oh dear [embarrassed]

A few years ago I was in our church pantomime. A friend of ours was playing a chinese gentleman and the girl doing the makeup had given his face and oriental colour (yellow) emphasising his rather large nose. As we were waiting to go on stage I said "Oh H has given you a false nose, where did she get that from?" to which he replied "No, she hasn't, I've always had a large nose". It was then I wished the ground would open up and swallow me.

Back in the olden days, circa 1948, I was about to have crowded teeth extracted and was asked [prior to a heavy, smelly rubber mask being clamped over my face - "Are you wearing any tight clothing?" I was about seven at the time and although I muttered "No" I had second thoughts and hastily unbuckled my kilt. When a distant voice urged me to "wake up" I stumbled from the chair and my skirt fell around my ankles...I was wearing my navy blue school bloomers with - you've guessed it - a little white hanky in the knicker pocket. A flush crept all over me as I tried to remain aloof!

Got chatting to someone at work many years ago, and found out we had a mutual friend...oh, Mike so and so, I said..the world's most hen pecked husband. Yes, he replied..he's married to my sister . As for 'windy' moments..too many to mention, and they stick in the memory for far too long......When I was having my first baby I was told to go into a cubicle and take off my clothes; was given a dressing gown. Dr came in and I took off dressing gown, and I had nothing on, so everyone looked very embarrassed...if only they'd said, 'strip off to your bra and pants'. I knew he was going to check me out all over, so assumed everything meant everything. Still feel embarrassed about it to this day.

My grandson stands in shops points out and remarks in a loud voice who has a willy and who doesn't

Public loo with two young children in tow. Me changing tampon. Six-year-old at the top of her voice: "Why are you putting that stick in your bottom?" I've always been of the opinion that it's best to answer children's questions with the truth so when we got home I gave her a simple description of ovulation and periods. Glad it was a women's toilet.

BurgandyGran, that was so funny, I am still laughing!

When I was pregnant with my second daughter I had to go to the GP for a check up, taking with me first daughter aged about 3.

Having stripped as requested and got on the couch for an internal examination daughter opened the door from the surgery, looked at the people sitting outside and said 'mummy took her clothes off for the man!' What was worse was the fact the couch was in full view of the wating patients!!!

Having read Magsie's comment I'm so thankful that I'm wearing the super-duper version of tena lady...

My sister and I were in Avignon and about to leave the coach to get on the motor-rail. We stood up and lifted our bags and walked towards the door then I heard a loud gasp, my sister had drawstring capri pants on and they had come loose and descended round her ankles, having her hands full she was helpless to stop it happening and I was helpless with laughter.
If I keep reading these posts I am going to have to get some tena lady

I did get locked in the lavatory- a dreadful old public lavatory at the seaside. I stood on the seat and looked over the the top of the cubicle, squeaking "Errmm, I can't get out...." After a workman had tried & failed to take the lock off, he climbed over the top and appeared beside me- very cosy!! He gave me a "bunk up" and I climbed out over the top myself. I'd been gone for ages but my husband hadn't missed me at all. He just said "Oh you ladies always take ages in the loo..."

On the National Express from Stansted after a flight in from visiting my daughter in Germany - it was a very cold night and the cold goes straight to my bladder. I rushed for the bus and once mobile I decided to use the loo. The light was broken but I went in anyway thinking I'll be OK. Couldn't find the door lock, when I did I couldn't work it. I then started laughing thinking of the old song 'Oh dear what can the matter be 3 old ladies locked in the lavatory'. I used the light from my mobile and finally got the door open and fell through onto the aisle. The astounded looks of the other passengers made me laugh even more. I'm sure they thought I'd been dipping into my duty free

jimswife - if it's the one I'm thinking of, it's inverted one way glass so you can see out but people can't see in (except if you press your nose against the glass and frankly who would want to?

Where the heck was that one? I'll do my best to avoid it!!!! You have to ask: why???

Supernana - your slip up reminded me of the CV we got from a young woman fresh out of college years ago. Under 'Interests' she had typed 'marital arts' - clearly this was before spell-checkers!!! Well, I hope it was only a typo???? Made the boss roar with laughter but she didn't get short-listed oddly enough!

Mollie; me&my son were looking at a website with the oddest toilets in the world (dont ask!). There is a great one with one way glass all the way round, so the person inside can see out onto the shopping area that its in, but people outside just see mirrored glass. How weird would it being having a wee in there???!!!