Most embarrassing moments!

[blinc]

Ok, we've all had them. Those moments when you just wish the ground would open up and swallow you. I've laughed hardest at hearing some of the stories people have told about their "graceful" moments. I'd love to hear yours.

Ntexas had me in stitches for a good two weeks with a story of tripping over puppies. Ya got to tell that one Ntexas! I miss reading that one!

[jamesglewisf]

Boy, I screw up so often it is hard to identify a most embarrassing episode. I'll think about it on the way home from work.

[blinc]

Ok.. I'll tell one that just happend this past summer. We were getting ready to load the boat back up on it's trailer after a day of fishing. It's a 19' boat and is HEAVY!! The hubby had backed the trailer down the ramp. I threw him the bow rope, which he uses to pull the nose of the boat in alignment with the trailer. I'm standing on the dock and have this brilliant idea to push the back of the boat out away from the dock, with my foot. I pushed with too much force... lost my balance, ended up with one foot on the dock one on the boat, kind of teeter-tottering. I'm doing a slow case of the splits as the pressure is pushing the boat further and further away from the dock.

I ended up falling in the water, split my kahki shorts all the way up from the crotch to the waistline. I wade up to about waist deep water, spitting out water and getting the wet hair out of my face. Then I realize I can't get out of the water any further, because of my split shorts. There's about 5 guys standing around on the docks, holding their stomachs and roaring with laughter.

My hubby looks at me like I'm some sort of doofus and then starts cracking up. I'm frantically trying to "hand-language" my predicament. He's trying to get me to come out of the water - I'm trying to tell him I can't. Finally just have to shout above the laughter going on, that he needs to get me a shirt out of the truck because my shorts are torn. Of course, the guy closest to us on the docks heard.. he just HAS to tell the other guys, which sets them off again.

I finally receive the shirt... wrap it around my waist. Come sloshing out of the water, my tennis shoes making that squilch, squish sound with every step. I climb in the truck... dripping all over the front seat. Sit there, totally humiliated... Just staring straight ahead, pretending not to hear those guys still busting a gut on the docks.

[heartcall]

Hehehe... I am too embrassed to share my stories ;).

[In_His_Shadow]

Would going into the mens bathroom this weekend at the RV show in Houston not once but twice by mistake count?

I lucked out the first time when I came out of the stall I happen to see all the urinals. No men in that one thank God.

The second one I wasn't so lucky. I came out with one standing there. Don't know if he was just starting, during or finishing. But, he looked as embarrassed as me.

CJ

[jamesglewisf]

That was a classic!

[jamesglewisf]

I'm not sure this qualifies as a most embarrassing moment, but it sure was one of my stupidest moments.

I was at my wife's parent's house (before we married), and she had cooked rice for us. She cooked it in broth for some reason. She didn't cook it long enough, and it was kind of wet with broth and still a bit crunchy. I asked a sincere question, but a stupid one. I asked, "Is this safe to eat?"

When I was out of the room, her mom told her not to kill me. She still likes to tell that story.

[blinc]

Oh my goodness! Yep - the mens bathroom would definitely count there CJ! *giggle* How embarrassing!

Jim... uhm, she STILL married you? She must be one heck of a woman. Oh gosh, cracking up over here! Open mouth and insert foot huh? {toothy}

[In_His_Shadow]

Once was embarrassing, twice classifies itself in the dimwit department.

Ok so now I can include poor eyesight into the aging thing.

CJ

[jamesglewisf]

I've worked in the same building for 12 years, and I'm still paranoid about walking into the ladies room. I always check. That's kind of weird, isn't it?

[blinc]

Awwww... c'mon Heartcall, you've got to tell us at least one! Let us know we aren't the only clutz's roaming the forum! {toothy}

[Karenluvs6]

Oh boy...

two incidents come to mind with this one.

Once I went into a public bathroom, and I got locked in the stall!
public bathrooms seem to be quite a nuisance when it comes to embarrassment
I was going nuts trying to get out. I was pulling and pulling on that stupid door, and it wouldn't budge!
Goodness, I was hoping that no one would come in because I was ready to just knock it down...I shoved against it as hard as I could and BOOM, I went through the door and onto the floor....right at the feet of some woman.

One other time, I was walking down Spring Garden street to the subway...the block was lined with trees....Trees with squirrels!!!!
They doodied on my head.....right on top!
That was disgusting!! {pukeface}

[ntexas]

By request, here's the story of poor woman (who chooses to remain anonymous ((okay, it's me)) on the grounds it may prove she's more blonde than most) .... well, this poor woman was just having an average day, when next thing you know ...

Picture this: 42 yr old grandma, carrying her grandson (3 yrs old) out to the car to wave bye-bye as he is getting ready to head home. We get him all strapped in the car, and away they go. Nana (that's me) is waving frantically, and smiling her chipmunk smile while walking backwards toward the front door. Of course, one of my puppies almost trips me, and in avoiding falling on him, I do the ''scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz'' dance.....my grandson is laughing hysterically and waving.

I bend down to pick up the puppy, and my pants split wide open....I get embarassed and whip around so the whole neighborhood isn’t watching me in my undies.....when I whipped around, I tried to sidestep one of my other puppies, and wound up falling flat on my exposed butt, with puppies licking my face.

Hey....my son (who was driving) had to pull over to the curb because he was laughing so hard. My grandson found this all hilarious, and was clapping his hands together and laughing.

My neighbor, who unfortunately witnessed this, rushed over to help me to my feet. As he reached down and pulled me to my feet, I accidentally let go of the perhaps the loudest pooot I've ever heard, which made HIM drop to the ground laughing with glee!!!

I was sooooo humiliated that I turned around to go hide in the house, forgetting that my drawers were exposed. When my neighbor saw my undies flashing....well, he started laughing all over again. My son and grandson had to pull back in the driveway so they could regain their composure!!!

Thanks, Blinc, for the reminder of one of the funniest, and most humiliating, events in my life. The face of my grandson, red with giggles, still makes me almost laugh out loud. I was just waiting for him to say ""Do it again, Nana, do it again !!!""""

[blinc]

Oooh Ntexas and Karen... between the two of you I'm gasping for breath over here! {toothy} Oh my... bombed by a squirrel *snork* Ntexas... puppies... *agg* Can't breathe!
Heeeeeellp. {toothy}

*gasP*

[Karenluvs6]

I have another one which came up in conversation last night....something I was trying to forget, but my friend thought she would remind us all about it!

My friend Tracy's mother passed away about two years ago, and she was quite a mess....I went to spend the day with her because I didn't want her to be alone. Towards to end of the night, she asked me to have some drinks with her...well mind you, I do not drink!
I decided to drink with her, if it would make her feel better...By the time Beezwax came home that night, I was gone!! drunk....well, he took me home and took me right up to get a shower, hoping it would sober me up some...well it sure did!!!!!!
After I fell backwards and landed in the bathtub full of ice cold water...slammed my head on the ceramic tile...and couldn't get up. Beezwax came running up to the bathroom to see what the bang was....he started cracking up laughing so hard, I thought he was going to have a stroke.
He took me in to go to bed and he was still laughing!
He got into bed and was laying there listening to me rambling on about who knows what....I was trying to tell him something and in the process of trying to describe it to him, I got up on my knees and was using my hands to explain....the next thing I knew I was laying on my back, on the floor!...I fell off backwards. I hit my head on the door and broke my toe!
He has never let me live down that night.

[Anat]

Okay, here's mine...

It happened a few years ago, while I was doing my officers' course. There is a final exercise, where we had to walk/run for 6 miles or so and get to some hill. The whole point was about navigating the way and yours truly was in charge of a group of 10 caddetes (sp?). It was supposed to be some kind of test for me.

Anyways, I wasn't very good at navigating and we had... well... I guess you would say we kinda lost our way and ran out of water :o.... This was not the embarassing thing - more to come...

Okay, we were rescued by one of the course commander and arrived safely at the gathering point. Obviously we were the last team to arrive and everone else were eating and drinking and relaxing. We hardly had any time to get something to eat and drink.

I was really thirsty and I knew I had to drink a lot, because I tend to get dehydrated. So I drank and drank and drank and then... they told us to get on the bus because it was time to had back to base.

Well, you can imagine what happens to a girl who's had A LOT to drink (water that is!), can't you? It was a long drive back to base (about 90 minutes) and I was really trying to hold till we get there.

By the middle of the way I knew I had to do something. I got up, went to the commander (luckily a woman!) and told her very clearly that there were 3 options: I could wet my pants, I would burst in the middle of the bus, or they would have to pull over and let me do my business by the side of the road.

I think she got a bit scares herself because I was absolutely desperate. Obviously, she asked the driver to pull over. A few other girls also had to go, so at least I wasn't alone...

Now luck would have it that we were practically on the busiest road in Israel, very near Tel Aviv and the only place where the bus could stop had very little cover... We girls tried to hide each other, but with the cars constantly passing by (and not too fast too - it was a curve)... well you can imagine...

[RoadRunner]

That was a pretty good one, Anat.

[Debby]

Oh Karen, that is sooooo funny!!!!!! And Blinc, your boat story really cracked me up!!! And poor ntexas....how funny!!

my most embarrassing moment isn't all that funny, but about 10 years ago, I had a friend named Jennifer....but I also worked with a girl named Jennifer.

The one I worked with, I wasn't at all close to, and she NEVER called me, so when I got a phone call from someone who said, Hi, this is Jennifer....I didn't catch the difference in the voices, and assumed it was my friend Jennifer...

I then proceeded to tell her how this total jerk at work...(the husband of the Jennifer I was talking to) was making me really mad, I couldn't stand him, and I thought he was messing with my car...just to make me mad.

Of course this Jennifer immmediately defended him, which I thought was odd knowing that the Jennifer I THOUGHT I was talking to didn't like him either....

after a few bewildered moments....I realized it was this guys WIFE, Jennifer...and it turns out she was only calling to ask me where the bowling alley in our town was.

Boy was I humiliated....of course I a[pologized for all the nasty things I had said about her husband...and got off the phone as quickly as possible!!!!!!!!!

[blinc]

Oh my goodness, I needed a good laugh this evening and reading these latest escapades in ooops goofs has me cracking up! {toothy}

[CommunistPanda]

I just thought of this one. A couple of years back, I was at this water theme park up north. On the day I went, they were opening a new waterslide, and I would have gone on it about twenty times. However, one of the times, my speedos got pulled down to my knees somewhat by the water, and to make things worse - I think they were filming ads for that ride that day.

[blinc]

*cringe*
Oh gosh, I bet that was sooooo embarrassing!! I had a girlfriend in school, back when hiphugger/bellbottoms were popular the first time. We were walking down the hall and someone accidentally stepped on the back of her bellbottoms. Swooomp! Down they came. Bet you and her felt about the same!

What did you do CP? Think I'd have submerged myself for as long as I could have! {toothy}

[CommunistPanda]

Eeek, that would be embarrassing!
Luckily...I don't think anyone saw...(I hope)

[4gvnAngel]

hehehehehehehe!!!

{blush} okay ....here goes...
One of my most emarrassing moments was when I was shopping at Wal mart. We all know how extremely busy Wal mart is at all times. Well, I needed to get going and I had lost my mother in law in the store somewhere, so I went to have her paged. I was looking for someone who worked there. I was in a real hurry. I had been looking for her and i needed to pick my children up from school. So I spotted someone across the isle from me. You know how they have all thoes displays in the middle of the main isle, well only half of it had merchandise on it. It is all on a platform about 6 inches off the floor. I dont see the pallet sticking out, i take a sharp turn after the wall of merchandise, trip over the pallet, try to regain my balance by grabbing anything and everything...nothing worked I went down and took the whole display with me. I was soooooooo embarassed. I fell long and hard!! There was noting quick about it. I fell face down and landed like a dog on all fours. The workers came up to me and asked if I was okay and tried to help me up. I could've died right then. I told them I was fine...just damaged my pride...Then I still had to WAIT while they paged my MIL.

I didnt go back in there for MONTHS!!

What GRACE

What POISE

aaaaaahhhhhh...I am still blushing

[kezzer]

Eek! I would have died!!! Here's one, the only one I can remember right now, it happened last week. I came into work, and one of the guys told me that the lead clerk never came in, she had called out sick and the back up clerk left early because she wasn't feeling well. I went to the back room and immediatly called the manager. I said" So and so never came in and the other left early, what's going on?' He was like " What?!!! What are you talking about??!!" At that very moment the lead clerk walks in and I say to the manager "uh, Nevermind, she's right here!" I told her what had happened and she was cracking up. So she told the manager what was going on and he was laughing about it all day and telling all the other managers about it! When I came in I was the talk of the store, about how I got duped! Yes, I am extremely gullible! Boy was my face red when I saw him!

[CommunistPanda]

Yikes...that would be soooo embarrassing.

[blinc]

Ok, this seemed like a funny idea at the time... right after Bill and I got married we were supposed to go over to his parent's house one day for dinner. I'm from up north and Bill was born in Alabama... there had been a lot of joking around about Bill marrying a yankee. So, this bright idea for a joke pops into my head.

I dressed up in the raggiest pair of jeans I could find, a checkered shirt and tied it at the waist. Put my hair up in pig tails... slapped an old straw gardening hat on my head. then used a dark brown eyeliner pencil to put freckles all over my face and blacked out several of my front teeth.

On the way there, we were running low on gas so Bill HAD to stop at a gas station... I kept my head turned away from the front of the store until there was this loud bang! Someone had slammed the paper stand door closed. I whipped my head around just as this young boy of about 13 or so was walking right past my window. The look of horror on his face was astounding!

We get to my in-laws house... they were in the front yard. I hop out, wave and say loudly: "Hiya thar Maw and Paw, whatcha all doin out heah?" About then I notice in the background, walking towards us, their new next door neighbors. The look on Bill's moms face was like, "Oh my... how on earth am I going to explain this idiot girl?" I lost it, started cracking up and made a dash for the house to clean up before going back outside. But not before the new neighbors got a good look at My in-laws new daughter in law! {toothy} I really don't know who was more embarrassed, me or ma and pa.

[Swimmers]

I think that the most embarrassing thing to happen to me was that I stalled out in my car in the middle of an intersection...not the greatest place to stop moving...but I made it through and all was okay!

Blinc- that was hilarious!! hehehehehe!! I think the embarrassment was equal between all!

[CommunistPanda]

Blinc: ROTFL!

[kezzer]

Blinc! You are a crazy girl! I don't think I'd ever have the guts!

[TTP]

EEEP!
*Choke*
*Gasp*
Can't....beat...*cough*...those....*GASP*

[CommunistPanda]

Some of these are just hillarious...but I think blinc's takes the cake!

[Debby]

Blinc, that was soooooo funny!!! You sure do have guts, girl!! :)

[PsalmReader]

I'm thinking really hard... think, think, think
I wanted to get updates on the page too, so I posted!{toothy}

[4gvnAngel]

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!! I just got a new one!! I am Forever doing clumsy stupid things, but this time I did it in front of about 250 people. hehehe{blush}huhehehhahaho!

okay I was at the local rescue mission this last friday leading worship service and doing some drama and my husband gave his first message. I was introducing the dram group and intrducing the woman that was going to talk a little about the routine they were doing when I put the mic. back in the stand it fell over. It was still on and landed with a *rhump* when it hit the wall!! and then another when it hit the floor!! Later I found out that Channel 24 was there filming for the 11o'clock news.

need I say more?????


Luckily they didnt show that part on the news!! PRAISE GOD!!

Still embarrassing!!

[blinc]

Oh gosh 4gnAngel... that sounds so embarrassing for you, but I bet the audience got a chuckle, didn't they? At least the tv station took mercy on you and didn't go for the humorous stuff! (Although, it would have been funny as heck to see on tv) {toothy}

[4gvnAngel]

It was pretty funny. I think it served as an ice breaker. You know all thoese homeless men see us and probably think we think we are so much better. Maybe it was good for them to see I'm an idiot too. {toothy} If God can clean me up, He can surly help them!! And I would actually like to see it too...I would get a kick out of it. Humility is a way of life when you are as clutzy as I am. Ive learned to laugh at my self.

[Debby]

I'll bet God was laughing too....not AT you....but with you...I am sure he has a sense of humor....he made us in his image, and we do, so why wouldn't he? That was a funny story!!!

[kezzer]

Just bringing this one back to the top! :)

[Freezerwaffle]

:-o :-o :-o

Long long time ago in a childless galaxy far far away, a sexy young woman decided to welcome her honey back from a business trip by meeting him at the airport in a trenchcoat.
Soooo, our hapless heroine slips on a sexy, lacey, bun crawling teddy & covers it with a big ol' trenchcoat that she felt very secure in. Nary an ankle peeked out from beneath this tarp.............Or so she thought.

It wasn't until our heroine visits the ladies room, next to the arrival gate, past the security gate, through the airport, up from the parking garage....that she discovers she shouldn't wear other peoples trenchcoats. She didn't realize this trenchcoat had a very large, buttoned slit up the back & since she didn't realize that, she didn't realize that the buttons weren't buttoned & her bare behind had been copping air up from the parking garage, through the airport, past the security gate & the arrival gate.

Mortified lass buttons up, double checks & heads out of restroom, carefully avoiding eye contact with those at the arrival gate. Honey lands, gets off plane, hugs heroine...all is well..........UNTIL she gets back to the security gate area, where she is approached by minimum wage airport rent a cop who pulls them over to a corner and asks the lass what she has on under that coat. Had she been a bit older & wiser & of quicker wit, she would have told him "none of your business" & walked off. Afterall, he wouldn't have asked a woman with a low cut revealing dress what she had on under it would he? But she was young & unexperienced in these embarrassing things so through her redfaced tears she pulls out a bit of lacey shoulder strap & blubbers something about ...buttons...didn't know...undone...so embarrassed...

Moral of this story..........Let honey take a cab home.

DISCLAIMER: Any resemblence to anyone on this board is purely coincedental & you can't prove a thing anyway. {anon}

[blinc]

OOOoooh, Freezerwaffle. Ouch. *cringe*

Geesh, you sure went that extra mile for your hubby. My goodness, I bet you were mortified. You poor woman! I'm sorry, I tried not to laugh, but I couldn't help myself. What an experience! {toothy} sorry {toothy}sorry *snork*

[Freezerwaffle]

Hey you stop that snorkin! I was so humiliated I couldn't even talk about it for years. I can only laugh about it now because it was so long ago. What's worse is, I wonder how long the story circulated amongst airport staff & families...& friends....ooooohhhhhhh, it still makes me cringe!! :-o {anon} :-o

[PsalmReader's Mom]

*DoubleSnort* Freezerwaffle! I posted this story on another thread not having seen this one, but will tell it again anyway.

Once in California when I was very young (and dupit!) I was taking advantage of a day off from work to do some housecleaning. Hadn't bothered to dress . . . had on some little short "house-thingy", sort of thin (and no undies {blush}). Went out the back door onto the porch to shake out a rug when THE DOOR CLOSED AND LOCKED BEHIND ME!!! Well, needless to say, there was NO WAY I was going anywhere for help dressed (or undressed) as I was! Only option was to try to get into the side window. I worked and worked until I got it jimmied open, then began to try to crawl in. The window was rather high off the ground, so by the time I managed to get halfway in, my feet were off the ground. COULDN'T GET IN and COULDN'T GET OUT!! and was displaying my derriere to the whole neighborhood! Struggled and struggled until I squeezed through. Couldn't look my neighbors straight in the face for a WHILE after that one.

There are many other moments, but I'll save some for later.{pinky}

[Freezerwaffle]

oooooooo, CrInGe!! Well, we've certainly learned some lessons huh? {eek}

[PsalmReader]

*ROTHFLMBO* I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading your stories!! It occurs to me that I did not get my modesty from my mother! LOL (Love ya Mom!) {pinky}

This was my 251st post! Wow! I didn't even notice.

BTW, since I'm here editing anyway, I'll tell you guys that I think ntexas' story on the first page is the best! I laugh just thinking about it. :)

[blinc]

Good grief, I can't quit laughing {toothy} over that image PR Mom!! Hee hee! Now that had to have been painful in more ways then one! Tee hee! {toothy}

I'm with ya PsalmReader... the first time I saw NTexas's story I laughed so hard I had tears streaming down my cheeks. Couldn't think of that story for weeks afterwards without breaking into a case of the giggles. That's the most hilarious thing I've ever heard of! {toothy}

[4gvnAngel]

These are tooooooo funny!!!!! Isn't it wonderful the way that God keeps us all humble!! hehehehehehe....too funny PR's mom!!!

Freezer ~ I love the guts it took to even consider doing what you did!! BTW Good to see you again!!

~A