Embarrassing Moments

[Flash Gordon]

A couple of weeks ago I was walking up a path. There were hedges all along the way, and a tree line going off into the distance.
There was no-one around as I strode my merry way, so I let off a gigantic beer burp of monumental proportions. Why not?
Except that the moment I did, I passed the tree-line and on the other side there was a funeral going on. This is not a gag, this actually happened.
I'm sure I saw one lady giggling, but I shielded my face from the rest of proceedings as I hurried past. Very embarressing.
Any stories like this?

[vanhelsing]

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Sick in the back of an ambulance (athma attack). I don't know what the paramedic injected into me but it felt like pins and needles on the inside and I still had the nebuliser on. A few minutes later i puked up WITH THE NEBULISER ON!!

[n3llyo]

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no one ever rings me on my mobile apart from my wife so when she was out shopping (spending all our money on handbags or shoes like she tends to do)one morning the mobile rang i picked it up with out a care in the world or second thought and said " hurry home dear im on the bed with nothing but a smile on and im raring to go " the voice on the other end said "hello this is dolland and aitchisons opticians your new specticals are ready to collect" i made my daughter get my glasses from the shop i just couldnt face the receptionist

[Marine Boy]

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When I left drama school in the early nineties, I wrote to an actor who lived quite near me. I asked whether I could help him with the youth drama group he ran. He had been quite a famous actor in the 70s and was once again on TV regularly in the 90s. And I was a bit of a fan.

Within about a week, the phone rang one evening. The caller said who he was, thanked me for writing to him, and said he'd like to talk to me about helping with the group. Unfortunately, his voice sounded exactly like a friend of mine who enjoyed playing practical jokes on me. So I said, "Ha ha, OK, you're sussed. I know it's you Paul." The actor calling me said, "No, you wrote me a letter. I was just responding..." I laughed and said, "It's OK, you can stop now. I know you're winding me up."

Taking a deep breath, the poor guy read out a bit of the letter and I realised it really was him! I apologised profusely and said I had a friend who used to ring me up and pretend to be someone else.

I've never forgotten the excruciating awkwardness I felt.

I went on to work with the guy for a long time and about ten years later, I reminded him of the incident. He didn't remember it. So it obviously had a bigger impact on me than it did on him. Thanks goodness.

[Flash Gordon]

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Isn't it funny how it's so often the little details that send our toes curling!
I went into a well-known electrical store for a ribbon for an electric type-writer (before they were obsolete).
The slick, unlikable guy asked, "Is it for a Brother?", referring to one of the main manufacturers.
I promptly replied, "No, it's for me"
A nothing, non-event...but
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR(bites fingers).

[Trickyvee]

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Isn't it funny how it's so often the little details that send our toes curling!
I went into a well-known electrical store for a ribbon for an electric type-writer (before they were obsolete).
The slick, unlikable guy asked, "Is it for a Brother?", referring to one of the main manufacturers.
I promptly replied, "No, it's for me"
A nothing, non-event...but
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR(bites fingers).

Similar one happened to me just last week. I've been living in Birmingham but moved a couple of months ago and accidentally rang a Birmingham taxi company for a cab. When I stated my new address the woman sounded puzzled and asked me to repeat it, still not twigging I repeated it and she replied "Oh is that Shirley?" (a district of Birmingham) to which I replied "No, it's Victoria!" Aaaaaaarrrrgggghhhh idiot!

[Richard1978]

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I remember hearing that my Grandad was visited by a political candidate in the run up to the 1992 general election, who ask him if he wanted a lift.

My Grandad's reply was "No thanks, there's already one at the end of the corridor"!

[wispa lover]

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I sure had a crazy mind as a wee kid. I used to call the foam mushroom sweets 'condoms'. I didn't even know what a real condom was back then, I was so laughed at. Just thinking about this little memory makes me want to blush.

[Trickyvee]

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I sure had a crazy mind as a wee kid. I used to call the foam mushroom sweets 'condoms'. I didn't even know what a real condom was back then, I was so laughed at. Just thinking about this little memory makes me want to blush.

off topic but this reminds me of my gran who used to make up her own words for things. For years she'd go to the greengrocers and ask for 'capookas'. She was after capsicums, but they never bothered to correct her she wouldn't be told either!

[stud1al]

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off topic but this reminds me of my gran who used to make up her own words for things. For years she'd go to the greengrocers and ask for 'capookas'. She was after capsicums, but they never bothered to correct her she wouldn't be told either!

Wasn't really embarrassing for me but when i was a kid my mother asked me to go into a shop and ask for "toilet paper"I asked for "Bum paper "

[Flash Gordon]

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Wasn't really embarrassing for me but when i was a kid my mother asked me to go into a shop and ask for "toilet paper"I asked for "Bum paper "

That is embarressing.
We all know that toilet paper should be referred to as BOG ROLL.

[n3llyo]

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off topic but this reminds me of my gran who used to make up her own words for things. For years she'd go to the greengrocers and ask for 'capookas'. She was after capsicums, but they never bothered to correct her she wouldn't be told either!

my mother in law forever queuees up in mcdonalds for a "cod o`lay " she can never get it in her head the thing is called a "fillet o fish"

[Jingbang]

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Mine was when i went in Supercigs to pay my Water on my little plastic credit card payment thing, the night before i had spilt a can of Pepsi all over it, eventually after swiping it about 6 times the woman got it to work, then i said to her "Oh im sorry about that its got Coke all over it!
Then everyone who was in the Q and serving behind the counter just went really quiet and was giving me very odd looks i never twigged why till about 3 hours later when i realised they thought i had meant the shove it up your hooter kind of Coke

[stud1al]

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Mine was when i went in Supercigs to pay my Water on my little plastic credit card payment thing, the night before i had spilt a can of Pepsi all over it, eventually after swiping it about 6 times the woman got it to work, then i said to her "Oh im sorry about that its got Coke all over it!
Then everyone who was in the Q and serving behind the counter just went really quiet and was giving me very odd looks i never twigged why till about 3 hours later when i realised they thought i had meant the shove it up your hooter kind of Coke

Strange how people's minds work.ITHAT sort of coke never would have entered my head

[sixtyten]

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Credit card, Coke?
What a sheltered life you've led Stud1al