Share Your Embarrassing Moments

[stracci2000]

I was at a small Chinese restaurant with I only one restroom for all genders. Well, by the end of my meal, in had to go pee because it was a long drive home. I went into the restroom, looking long and hard for a place to hang my purse, and for seat covers and proceeded to pee. Midstream, the door handle rattles and in walks this guy, who gets a full frontal view of me! I screamed, he screamed and he quickly shut the door and went back to his table which happened to be really close to the restroom! I could hear his whole table screaming with laughter when he told them what happened. I literally came out, red-faced to a whole table clapping for my full frontal performance! I took a quick bow, and said “all yours” to the guy and quickly left the scene. To this day I check and recheck the locks before I drop my pants! I was mortified from that event!

I visit a lot of public restrooms everyday,
because I drive to many locations for my work.
I always knock first!!

 

[jaysonsmom]

I visit a lot of public restrooms everyday,
because I drive to many locations for my work.
I always knock first!!

Thank you for that!!! I would have screamed "Occupied" really loudly, but I didn't even realize I forgot to lock the door.

 

[jaysonsmom]

Oh my goodness! Yes double and triple check the lock. The toilet is definitely a very vulnerable place to be especially when we are out in a public place.

I had the opposite experience. I opened the bathroom door (it was unlocked) and I walked in on a boy peeing. I was just a youngster myself. It happened at my house when we were having a party. The bathroom door did have a lock but J just didn't use it. LOL we both were shocked and I quickly closed the door and we never spoke of it. I think we were about 12 or 13. Not an easy age to begin with

The worst part was the toilet was facing the door!!!!! You don't usually find that kind of configuration in home bathrooms....

 

[Matata]

Going home from my part time job when I was in high school -- Teetering to the bus stop on my snazzy 6 inch bright blue suede platform heels, a blue mini skirt with a giant front zipper that had a giant metal ring pull and my prized dark brown knee-length suede coat. Stepped up into the bus and my skirt fell off. Due to the crush of people rudely pushing their way onto the bus, the only one who saw was the bus driver whose shocked expression I'll never forget -- eyes round, eyebrows thrust high under his hairline and mouth open in a perfect "O". We locked eyes, I bent over and picked up the skirt, buttoned the coat, and stumbled into the first available seat. All the way home I kept testing the buttons on the coat to ensure they were secure and that I would not be arrested for public indecency.

 

[missy]

The worst part was the toilet was facing the door!!!!! You don't usually find that kind of configuration in home bathrooms....

True. It was a side view.

 

[canuk-gal]

This wasn't mine, but I witnessed it and I still cringe thinking about it.

My uncle and aunt aren't close (they are half-siblings, really) and don't even live in the same country

My uncle was in town and i was staying with my aunt, and the first words out of his mouth when he arrived to her were..."CONGRATS! When are you due?"

She replied, "...I'm not pregnant."

I have, unfortunately, done this. I was mortified and apologetic!

 

[TooPatient]

Oh, so many
I have been reading through each of these and struggling to not laugh too hard (herniated disc again ) and remembering various embarrassing moments in life.

Skirt caught in backpack during high school as I was walking home. Back side out for all to see (yay for full coverage underwear and nylons!) as every single bus from the school drove past me. At least I didn't know who was on the bus and not many people knew me anyway!

Chiropractor asked me to hold my hands out in front of me. When he put his out, I grabbed hold of his fingers without thinking. My neurologist does that every few months and it is always squeeze the fingers. Chiropractor just wanted to push down and up to see muscle strength.

Kids.... They are a whole special collection of embarrassing moments. My step daughter told everyone who would listen that she didn't want to get done with her homework as quickly as she could because we made her watch adult movies with us when she wasn't busy. OMG. No. Had to explain to people (including principal, counselor, and physician) that she doesn't mean *that* sort of adult movie. She just meant not animated cartoon and sometimes even a documentary. Yeah, that was bad! I did have to talk with her (she was probably 15 at the time) and explain that adult movie usually means something specific and we definitely did NOT want everyone at school thinking we were making her watch s*x tapes with us!

 

[AprilBaby]

Was winter and snowing and freezing cold. We went to a restaurant and I had to pee really bad so as we went to the table I ran past and right into the restroom. I sat to pee and heard the door open. A father and small son came in and I thought OMG they are in the ladies room! I heard them pee and realized I was in the mens room in the only stall. Wearing heels. What must they be thinking? And how will I get out? I just sat quietly and waited full of embarrassment for them to leave so I didn’t catch them at the urinal and prayed no one else came in. Then I got the hell out of there as fast as I could.

 

[elle_71125]

It’s the salsa one for me.

 

[elle_71125]

While I try to remember my embarrassing moments…

Growing up, my mom drilled into my head that I couldn’t date any long haired men. She likened them to hippies. One day we’re at the grocery store waiting to check out when a handsome man stepped in line behind us. He’s chatting with her and then he bends down and tells me I’m as “cute as a button and how if I were only a few years older…” yada yada. I turned, looked directly at him and sternly said “my mom says I can’t date long haired hippies like you!“ Then I dismissed him. My mom about died that day.

 

[Tartansparkles]

My husband broke the flush handle on the WC so we had to buy a new one. Went to a trade store thinking it would be like the box stores where you walk round and pick your own stuff, but no, in this shop you stood at a desk and told the lady what you wanted. The space was about the size of a large elevator with 6-8 people waiting. After DH explained that we wanted a new flush handle, DD, aged 3, announced to the room that "daddy did such a big poo it broke the handle when he tried to flush it.".

 

[Sunstorm]

Oh I have many. One time while working with German speaking customers I decided to use my rusty German and wanted to ask them if they would like some Champagne. Now in German it is called Sekt.

So I went ahead and asked the customers: Would you like some sex?

 

[stracci2000]

Was winter and snowing and freezing cold. We went to a restaurant and I had to pee really bad so as we went to the table I ran past and right into the restroom. I sat to pee and heard the door open. A father and small son came in and I thought OMG they are in the ladies room! I heard them pee and realized I was in the mens room in the only stall. Wearing heels. What must they be thinking? And how will I get out? I just sat quietly and waited full of embarrassment for them to leave so I didn’t catch them at the urinal and prayed no one else came in. Then I got the hell out of there as fast as I could.

I once used the men's room in the Houston airport by accident. Our plane just landed and I had to go! There aren't any real doors, you just walk around a corner to get into the rest room. I guess I didn't look where I was going....

 

[MamaBee]

My husband broke the flush handle on the WC so we had to buy a new one. Went to a trade store thinking it would be like the box stores where you walk round and pick your own stuff, but no, in this shop you stood at a desk and told the lady what you wanted. The space was about the size of a large elevator with 6-8 people waiting. After DH explained that we wanted a new flush handle, DD, aged 3, announced to the room that "daddy did such a big poo it broke the handle when he tried to flush it.".

This one is too funny!

 

[yennyfire]

I was 13 and at my younger sister’s bowling alley birthday party. The older brothers of a couple of the party guests were there (I knew they were coming and had worn a cute miniskirt). Well…it was my turn and I went to release the ball and my fingers got stuck in the holes and the ball pulled me down into the gutter and down the lane. My skirt flew up revealing, well…everything! I heard my Dad gasp and start to come down the alley to help me up. I was absolutely mortified! In hindsight, I’m sure those boys were as mortified as I was!!

 

[Austina]

I was 5 months pregnant when we went on holiday to Hawaii. The Dr. said it was OK for me to go, but on the flight from London to LA I felt really ill, and by the time we changed planes in LA for Hawaii, I thought I was going to die.

The following morning, we went down to breakfast and I still felt really unwell, we sat down, and for some reason I ordered pineapple juice. No sooner had it hit my stomach, I projectile vomited, think Vesuvius erupting, and I just got up and ran out of the restaurant, leaving my extremely embarrassed husband to try to explain to people that I wasn’t drunk, I was pregnant and suffering from extreme morning sickness

 

[Made in London]

Whilst in a bathroom show room a friend of mine had her young son with her. A few minutes went by & she suddenly noticed her little boy walking towards her with his pants round his ankles: he said "Mummy I can't find the toilet paper!"

 

[Made in London]

During WW2 my Auntie lived in a garrison town. She was a teenager at the time. She was walking down the bust High Street. Suddenly, she felt her silk cami-knickers slide down her legs. Quickly she stepped out of them & hurried away. Next thing she felt was a tap on her shoulder & when she turned round, there was a handsome soldier; he said "excuse me Miss you dropped these" She was so embarrassed that she grabbed them, blew her nose on them & stuffed them in her pocket!

 

[Matata]

She was so embarrassed that she grabbed them, blew her nose on them & stuffed them in her pocket!

I was hoping for a fairy tale romance that ended in marriage.

 

[jaysonsmom]

In my 20's I was partying with some of my friends, including my BFF who I have known forever...well, had a little too much to drink, and proceeded to call my BFF over to wipe something off her face, because that's what friends do right? So she comes over and I use my thumb to wipe off the dark thing stuck on her chin, and realized I was trying to wipe off her mole! I was so embarrassed, and said "Got it, you're good" and pretended that I actually wiped off some food or something. Well, I thought she wouldn't catch on, but I guess everyone else did, and told her about it, 'cos the next day she was telling me how I was so tipsy, I tried to wipe off her mole! Luckily we are still bff to this day, and have been friends for almost 30 years.

 

[smitcompton]

Hi,

I was recovering from a serious illness. My young neighbors suggested I take a part-tine job with them as a school lunch mom, which I did. Within a few weeks a gray haired woman, who was also working as a lunch mom, came over to me and asked if I was Mrs. C from the Holiday Inn at Long Beach(fake), as she thought she recognized me.
I was happy to share memories with her and bits of gossip, but I was anxious to hear if she knew anything about my secretary, Sally. Sally was a wonderful secretary who had a great husband who had helped me out when I bought a new house.. So I leaned over the table and said, "Do you know what became of Sally Kelly.?" She looked at me a bit strangely I thought, and said, "I'm Sally Kelly".
I was so embarrassed. It was about 12 yrs. since we had seen one another..

Annette

Annette

 

[MamaBee]

I was driving home today and remembered another funny and embarrassing thing that happened to me.. When my son was smaller he had a habit of turning the pedestal faucet on and off. I went through so many faucets. He’s autistic so it was one of his obsessions when he was little. The plumber suggested an industrial faucet that he puts in powder rooms in hotels..They’re designed to take abuse. After he installed it I looked at it and started laughing. I asked him, “What does that look like to you?”..He got the oddest look on his face..He just looked at me not knowing what to say. I didn’t understand his reaction until I took another good look at the faucet. It looked like a man’s anatomy! I thought it looked like an elephant with a trunk!

 

[Made in London]

In my 20's I was partying with some of my friends, including my BFF who I have known forever...well, had a little too much to drink, and proceeded to call my BFF over to wipe something off her face, because that's what friends do right? So she comes over and I use my thumb to wipe off the dark thing stuck on her chin, and realized I was trying to wipe off her mole! I was so embarrassed, and said "Got it, you're good" and pretended that I actually wiped off some food or something. Well, I thought she wouldn't catch on, but I guess everyone else did, and told her about it, 'cos the next day she was telling me how I was so tipsy, I tried to wipe off her mole! Luckily we are still bff to this day, and have been friends for almost 30 years.

That is cringe worthy

 

[Made in London]

Same Auntie as before but many, many years later. Two Policemen came knocking at her door & asked to see some documents belonging to her husband. She invited them in while she went to find the papers. As she bent down to look in a cupboard she accidentally broke wind........the loudest, longest, fart she had ever done

 

[Bron357]

I have a couple.
1. Wearing my gold charm bracelet it got caught in the jumper of a lady walking by in the opposite direction on a narrow and crowded footpath. We had to stop blocking everyone’s movement until I could get it unhooked.
2. Asking my dentist when her baby was due and her saying no, she had just put on weight. Cringe.
3. Around lunchtime at work realising I was wearing one navy shoe and the other was black.
4. When young, silly and fit, jogging through the local shops with friends and jumping up high to “tap” the neon sign (showing off) only to dislodge said neon sign and have it crash and smash onto the footpath. Super fast exit!
5. Wearing a white business suit and running late for work so I was applying my make up on the bus (I was in my early 20s - no shame) and the bus driver suddenly braked and the lipstick went up my nose, literally, broke off then fell onto my jacket and then onto my skirt. It was my favourite long lasting bright red lipstick. Dry cleaner could not remove the stains.

 

[Made in London]

I have a couple.
1. Wearing my gold charm bracelet it got caught in the jumper of a lady walking by in the opposite direction on a narrow and crowded footpath. We had to stop blocking everyone’s movement until I could get it unhooked.
2. Asking my dentist when her baby was due and her saying no, she had just put on weight. Cringe.
3. Around lunchtime at work realising I was wearing one navy shoe and the other was black.
4. When young, silly and fit, jogging through the local shops with friends and jumping up high to “tap” the neon sign (showing off) only to dislodge said neon sign and have it crash and smash onto the footpath. Super fast exit!
5. Wearing a white business suit and running late for work so I was applying my make up on the bus (I was in my early 20s - no shame) and the bus driver suddenly braked and the lipstick went up my nose, literally, broke off then fell onto my jacket and then onto my skirt. It was my favourite long lasting bright red lipstick. Dry cleaner could not remove the stains.

If I had been sitting on that bus I would have had to laugh, sorry

 

[MamaBee]

@Bron357 ‘s made me remember one that happened when I was just married. I was out to lunch with my husband’s boss’s wife..who was much older..and other ladies. I was so nervous that I would make a bad impression for my husband..(70’s) haha I was taking to the boss’s wife when I lifted up my glass to drink..not realizing there was a straw in the glass. The straw went up my nose and stayed there! I was mortified but I just froze with it hanging out of my nostril! She never missed a beat. She removed it..and placed it on her napkin never pausing to stop talking.

 

[mrs-b]

I was in my 30's and went to the hairdresser with my best girlfriend. We both had cuts and blow drys and the salon was full and busy that day.

I was really happy with how mine turned out and told me friend how pleased I was. But it was so noisy in the salon that she couldn't hear me. So I repeated. Louder. Loud. Very loudly.

But you know how there's those moments when suddenly everyone stops talking at once and a noisy room suddenly goes silent? This was one of those moments. Just as I went to tell her how much I liked my hair, hairdryers were turned off, conversation stopped, and there was a BIG lull in the noise and the room went silent.

Just as I announced to everyone within earshot that....

"That was the best blow job I've ever had!"

 

[missy]

I can’t go into detail but will say always do your due diligence. A health care professional suggested I do something and I thought it was 100% above board. Why else would he have suggested it? Well turns out no it’s not and wow not embarrassed as much as mortified for reasons I can’t go into. Lesson learned. Trust no one without checking and double checking. I’m sure he thought he was being helpful. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. I am still quite upset about a professional telling me to do something that turns out is illegal.

 

[mrs-b]

I have a lifetime of small incidents, like the one at the hairdresser. I'd embarrass myself to that degree once a week - even now. But this next one was special....

So DH and I adopted a beautiful, beautiful field English Setter. I called her Dapple - because she was white with grey spots, like dappled shadow, and because - as I always told people - she was d'apple of her mommy's eye! Awwwww!

Here's Dapple - aka Dappy - aka the Dapster - aka Princess Dapple:









Dapple was put into rescue because she and her twin brother were both deaf - as is quite common for spotted dogs; the gene that controls hearing is attached to the same gene for spots! Consequently, a lot of English setters and dalmatians are deaf. Despite being completely deaf, tho, Dapple could feel vibrations, so if we stamped on the floor sufficiently, or clapped our hands very loudly, she'd sense the vibration and would come to us, knowing that we were calling her.

So, shortly after DH and I got Dapple, our other dog, a hugely beautiful and successful show dog, had a show weekend up in Canada. We decided that DH would take him to his shows and Dapple and I would stay at home. DH and dog-son left on Friday and the weekend progressed uneventfully. On Sunday morning, I woke up, kinda groggy, dragged myself out of bed, fed Dapple, and went into my office to check my email. So this is where I admit that I sleep in the nick and often wander around my house sans clothes in the morning before I've had my shower.

it was a glorious, utterly still, sunny, quiet Sunday morning, and my office window - that ran from ceiling to about 2ft (think - just above my knees) above the floor - was open. My office was on the second floor, and outside, beneath us, was the verandah that ran off the first floor. That verandah had a roof over it, so if you stood at the window in my office, you looked down directly onto the verandah roof below.

I'm sitting at my desk, and out the corner of my eye, I see something move - and moving FAST. I turn - just in time to see Dapple race across the room and fly - and I mean FLY - out the office window, sailing through the air, and land, stumbling, on the verandah roof below. She slides down the verandah roof, but catches her paw in the gutter, *just* before going over the edge, and stops. She straightens up, shakes herself, trots half way up the roof, and stands, surveying the view around her new home. She's about 15' off the ground.

I think 3 things at once:
"DH is not here - I have to solve this myself."
"If I don't get her off this roof, she will fall and be hurt or killed."
"DH has the car. I cannot get this dog to the vet if she falls."

You'll note that one of the things I did NOT think was - "Oh sh*t - I'm naked."

I throw back my chair and know I can attract her attention if I make enough noise. Remember - it's 8 am on a Sunday morning.

So, leaning waaaaay out the window, buck naked, I start banging the window sill, clapping my hands, doing my super-loud fingers-in-the-mouth type whistle, and SCREAMING her name. Because I know - speaking - calling - even mild yelling - will not attract her attention. So I am BELLOWING and BANGING and POUNDING out a second story window in a tightly packed NY suburban neighborhood on a still and silent Sunday morning - totally naked from top to knees.

For a minute or two, Dapple ignores me (and I KNOW she 'hears' me, because she is giving me side eye - juuuuust avoiding making direct eye contact) - and trots proudly up and down the length of the verandah roof, occasionally losing her footing and sliding down into the gutter, then trotting further up the verandah roof again, before repeating the process. Finally she sits.

But luckily for me, it was high summer, and the verandah roof was metal. After a minute more of me screaming and her ignoring me, she decides the roof is too hot for her tush, she has seen all there is to see, and oh-so-delicately, she stands, shakes herself off, and trots, grinning, up to me at the window, hops over the window ledge, and into the room.

I slam the window closed, and sink, shaking like a leaf, into my office chair. She comes and puts her front paws on my lap, checking I'm ok and letting me know she is "Here for you, new mommy!" I, OF COURSE, give her a treat and a pat and tell her she is a very good girl for coming back inside.

The neighbors never mentioned it. But I know for a fact they were all at home and there is NO WAY they didn't hear me. I was in full view of 5 other houses.

Better than the circus.