I think it’s time for another giveaway but I want you to work for it. I’ve gone deep into my personal vault of embarrassing stories and am asking you to do the same. You need to fess up, tell me the MOST embarrassing thing that has happened to you and I’ll let retro daddy pick a winner….who will choose 12 fat quarters from the fabrics in my store!
Ok so here is mine…..before children I was a city girl for 10 years, a credit analyst working in securitisation for big investment banks. Long days but I’d try to get to the gym in my lunchbreak a few days a week. I’d keep my shoes in my bag and put new clothes and towel in each day.
On this particular day, it was just after 12, super busy at the nice city gym I went to….I got dressed into my gym gear, grabbed my handtowel, started on the treadmill and flung my towel over the handrail. There were rows of treadmills and I was smack bang in the middle. The treadmill was moving and all of a sudden a flash of white went past my feet….what was that I thought. I turned around and there on the floor behind me were my undies!!!!!! Yes they had been the clean pair wrapped up in my towel! I swiftly turned off the machine, quickly picked them up and put them in my handtowel on the floor and got back to my workout before putting them back in my locker.
I was so mortified and also hysterically laughing afterwards that I couldn’t tell my colleagues till the next day and even then I was crying with laughter. It truly is the most embarrassing thing that has happened to me.
Now its your turn……..winner takes all so it’s totally worth outing yourself!!!! Entries open until next Sunday 15th November and for the same period I’ve taken $2 a metre off all the new fabrics in my store…happy shopping!
oh my! what a story…
mine dates back to high school and is a little difficult to explain but i’ll try.
When i was in high school i used to take dried cereal to school for lunch (or for a snack). Now take a moment and imagine eating dried cereal from a ziplock bag (let’s say, corn flakes or the like) and you are REALLY hungry. What would be the fastest way to shovel the cereal into your mouth? Not little flake by flake. But in handfuls… but this is hard because it’s all dry and flaky and the bits fall from your fingers… SO I took a handful, tilted my head waaayy back, raised my handful above my head in front of my mouth, and then sprinkled (yes, do a sprinkly action with your fingers…get all the little bits off) the handful into my wide open mouth. This looks ridiculous. Try it- you’ll see what I mean. What I didn’t know is that one day I was at a lunch meeting of some sort that was being videotaped… for assembly. When the tape was played in front of the ENTIRE school, no one paid any attention to what was being said at the meeting. Everyone was laughing hysterically at the girl shoveling cereal into her mouth in the most absurd alien like way. The rest of the week I copped it left right and centre- people kept making that sprinkly gesture at their mouths when they saw me and quite obviously, I never came to school with cereal for lunch again.
Love the fabrics. I did not enjoy reliving that moment. Off to block it out again.
Oh I’m still giggling at the first comment . Ok here’s mine , deep breath, Hubby and I out in the middle of the bush not far from our property no other house for miles and miles . I had too many cuppas and really had to go , really , really . No worries , we stop and very discreetly I squat down , not two feet from me a pig hunter came out of the bush to see if we were ok ! He almost fell over me . Oh dear I still squirm at the memory . Wow I must really want to win that fabric , lol !
Haha,
I was a bridesmaid at my now Aunties wedding. My partner and I were waiting to be introduced and walk into the reception. Being a typical Italian wedding no less then 250 people. My partner turns to me and says, “how embarrassing if you were to fall over in front of all these people…..”
Well, what do I do, as we are walking in, everyone clapping and chearing, all eyes on us including the camera man, us waving to the crowd, I trip over the camera mans lead and fall flat on my face. Dress up over my head for all to see. What a sight, I just wanted to curl up and die! All I could hear was hysterical laughter, and when I got up all I could see were fingers pointing. I still get reminded of this, to this day, 10 years later.
How Embarrassing
here’s mine!
One day in university, I was walking home from class. It was around the last day of classes and I had planned on going home for the weekend. As I passed by the corner of Fourth and John, I heard one of the pay phones ringing. Being curious and bored, I picked it up and said hello.
In response, I heard “Hello, this is Oldies 92, are you currently at the corner of Fourth and John?” I looked around and said yes. They said “Well congratulations, you’ve won a chance to participate in the Oldies 92 Dash for Cash sweepstakes.”
The person on the phone explained that if I could run to That’s Rentertainment (a store that was about a block and a half away) in less then 92 seconds, I could win $92 in cash and 92 free video rentals. I thought about it for a second and said “sure, I’ll play.” The man on the phone counted down from 5 and I was on my way. I ran faster than I had in a long time and went into That’s Rentertainment. I asked the lady at the counter how to redeem my prize and she said “You’re about the 23rd person to come in today, I don’t know what’s up.” Disappointed, I walked out the door and back towards my home. As I passed the Theta Chi frat house, midway between the phone and the video store, I saw about 30 guys standing out front cheering. They said “hey, you’ve had the fastest time so far today.” Highly embarrassed, I asked if I got anything for the effort. They tossed me a some beer and I was on my way… a little bit sweatier and a whole lot embarrassed.
Thanks for hosting a giveaway!
this had made my sleep deprived day! I can’t stop giggling! great stories.
mine isn’t as funny I don’t think, but anyway.
I am a real klutz so I have many embarrasing moments. One that stands out in my memory is some friends and I were at the movies with some posh Sydney boarding school boys (I think we were about 14/15yrs) and I was wearing what I thought at the time were some really cool, wedge platform slip on shoes. *shudder* anyway, I was trying to be cool, as you do, and completely tripped over and gave myself the worst carpet burn on my knee. Now, can you just imagine what teenage boys were saying to me now???? mmm…I was so utterly embarrassed, that I did what I do whenever I am embarrassed. Giggle uncontrollably. And when I thought I was able to control the hysterical giggling, it would start up again at the most inappropriate moment. All through the movie, you would hear me burst into a fit of giggle.
Hahaha! I think I would have died on the spot!
When I was probably in my early twenties, my mom and I went into a large restroom in an office building and we each went into our own stall, assuming that we were the only ones in there because is was so quiet. Some “noises” occurred. My mother blurted out “Anna! Was that YOU?” She knew immediately by my silence that it wasn’t me. The silence continued until we exited the restroom — I was mortified! We’ve laughed and joked about that incident for years.
mine was when i was in my college and i went overseas with my sch for an week long exchange trip.. as we all have a room to oursleves in the hostel. On the second last day of our trip, i took a photo of my room for keepsake without tidying up the room first(and i just bought alot of things on that day and put them everywhere, and i’m uaually a tidy person!) as i thought that the photo is just for myself to see..BUT on the day itself,i lent my camera to one of the guys in our group to take group photos of our group to upload into the laptop and forgot about my photo.When its time for our farewell party, we played a powerpoint presentation for the hosts and they flash out my untidy room with the headline of”one of the untidy rooms we have and ITS A GIRL’s!”..nearly everyone knew it was whole as my bright green bag was in the photo!(my “tidyness” reputation was ruin)..up till now i still couldn’t really shake off that incident and will always check my camera before lend it out to the others!
thanks for having this giveaway!
I’m not sure I can top yours!! Very funny indeed.
I fell, head first down the stairs of the Angus & Robertson book store Pitt St Mall…
At the peak of teh lunch hour rush..
With white pants on..
Bleeding nose and shins.
Nice..
Thanks for making me smile, I will have to think which of my stories is most embarassing and fabric worhty! But just in solidarity with the previous post-er, I am an embarassed giggle too, it’s not great, is it- I get hysterical, very inappropirately!
Here goes – It was the early 70’s and it was my 5 year high-school class reunion and though I had had 2 children by then I had worked hard at getting in shape so I could look good. I made a red floor length dress out of some shimmery, satiny fabric and had new platform shoes. Lookin’ good! The dinner was being held in the lower level of a nice restaurant. There was a spiral staircase leading down. I started down ahead of my husband but made the mistake of staying too close to the rail where the steps were very narrow. On the second step my feet went out from under me and down I went. I slid down the entire flight and landed at the bottom with my dress around my hips. What could I do but raise my arms and shout “Ta Da! I can remember my embarrassment to this day!
Would love to win and have had quite a laugh reading everyone’s tales!
I was a newsreader for a while… in the firat year of my career I was working at this station where I had to do a story about the auditor general… and “on air” I stumbled in the beginning of the story which totally put me off and then I had to say the man’s name and I accidentally called him “Auditor genital …”
I seriously almost died and thought I’d never work in the media ever again!
amy
Mine was actually in the 5th grade. We had a school disco and I was merrily up the front near the stage singing my hear out to Ghost Busters. There is a bit in the middle of the song where he yells “Bustin makes you feel good” and I yelled out with my whole lungs not realising that it was an extended version and there was only fairly quiet music playing as a background to my hearty lungs.
I still feel embarrassed when I think about it.
Silly huh?
Hmmm… My most embarrassing moments are all wardrobe malfunctions. I can’t really decide which was worse, the see-through-when-wet, apricot coloured bathers I wore to the swimming pool when I was 14, or the ra-ra skirt with the loose thread.
My most embarrassing moment involves me, me now husband (D) and a KFC store.
I had only been seeing my then boyfriend for a short while when we stopped by the aforementioned food joint for some lunch. We ordered our food and I left (D) at the counter to collect the food while I ducked into the ladies. When I came back he was sitting down at a table with our food. As soon as I sat down he ducked off to the men’s room.
I proceeded to open my burger wrapper only to find a bite had already been taken out of the burger! I was disgusted and shocked. I stormed up to the counter and demanded to speak to the manager.
As I was giving a serve to the manager about how one of his employees had taken a bite out of my burger before wrapping it up and serving it to me it suddenly dawned on me that me lovely and very UNfunny boyfriend had done it. I was sooo embarrassed I cannot even remember how I finished up the conversation with the manager – but I tell you (D) recieved a MUCH bigger serve when he came out of the toilet!!
What more can I say.
Thought I’d gotten over the gastro.
Hadn’t.
Thought it would be OK to go out in a pair of white pants.
Idiot.
Thought it was just a fart.
Wasn’t!!!
Say no more.
I flew from Melbourne to Sydney when I was five months pregnant.
With my v neck shirt on backwards.
And inside out.
And my husband noticed before we boarded the plane but “didn’t want to worry me” and told me when we got to Sydney.
He told me when we were on a packed train.
(thanks for the snorts reading all your stories!)
These stories are hilarious! I have had many embarrssing moments in my life to date but the one that has casues me to be the most red faced involved the returns section at Target.
I was queued up for quite a while one busy Saturday as a new Mum with some baby clothing I wanted to exchange for a bigger size. Finally it was my turn to be served and I explained that I wanted to exchange some clothes. When I opened the Target bag I realised I had picked up a bag of stinky pooey used disposable nappies that I meant to put in the bin before I left home. The smell was quite overpowering as you can well imagine and the poor staff person stepped back in horror! I was speechless, muttered something, and then made a hurried departure from the store. I don’t think I have ever been as mortified since!
Thanks for such a fun giveaway!
Oh. My. Goodness. Me.
These are hilarious! I have to say….if Andi doesn’t win, I will send her some fabric myself for having the guts to reveal that one. I’m still giggling.
ok… i dont even know what my chances are here but i’ll shere my most embarrassing moment:
when i wes younger and living the “cool” life i applied to work at a bar as a waitress and i got exepted! so at the first night it was packt inside with tons of people and i was running around with drinks to serve…
now, it my sound gross but this is what happend: i had a tray of drinks in my hand and i had just gotten to the table of people that were waiting for those drinks.. sudenly i felt sick…. and guess what, the most nasty and embarrassing thing happend to me- i threw up on those people infront of me. on there legs, table, everything… it was a second of no self control… ofcorse the owner drove me right home!
Very funny posts prior to this…
I have been hard at work doing Weight Watchers for nearly 2 years. Things have slowed down a bit this year but my weight loss ot date is aroun 33kg. About the 15kg mark I decided to take myself off to the movies a rare me time moment away from husband and young daughter. Donning my beloved jeans that were getting too big for me I set off.
I parked the car and walked across the darkish carpark towards the shop entrance. It was about 4.30pm on a Saturday so a lot of people heading back to their cars after spending the day shopping and a lot of movie goers heading onto the centre to catch a 5pm session, there were a fair few people around…
I am not quite sure how but I managed to catch the hem of my jeans in my stride and yep, you guessed it, dakked myself in full view of an array of amused onlookers!
Needless to say, I hitched my dignity up and with a firm hold on my waistband marched into Myer and bought a new pair of jeans without consulting my dear husband!
Moral of the story, if your clothes are too big, don’t wear them!
How about the time I walked into Church with my skirt hem tucked into the top of my pantyhose? And no, I wasn’t 5. Everyone does that when they are 5, but 25? Not so much! Thankfully no one was really around and I think I noticed before anyone saw. I sure hope so anyways!!!
I’ve had a few cringe-worthy moments so I’ll have to narrow it down to just one:
I used to manage a shoe store and the owner of the company was a lovely elderly man. He would visit the store once a month to check on how things were going. A rival shoe store had opened nearby and I noticed the had an ad in Cosmopolitan magazine. I knew my boss liked me to keep an eye on the competition and I wanted to show him the ad. I told him about it and he was keen to see it. He stodd next to me as I flipped though it looking for the page, when all of a sudden I came to a page with about half a dozen photos of totally naked couples! I’d completely forgotten there was a sealed section or that I’d opened it! He didn’t miss a beat and said: “Oh my I haven’t seen anything quite like that in along time!” I was mortified! There were plenty of laughs at my expense at the Christmas party that year!
Turning up to a dance thinking it was fancy dress. But it wasn’t. This was also before either my Mum or I had a mobile phone. I was so embarrassed. I think my outfit was quite obviously fancy dress like a tutu or something. Thankfully it was with people that weren’t at school ( a church youth group? Maybe?).
ast some hunky gym jock didnt see and grab them before you could get to them!!!
My most embarrassing moment was in high school *groan*
I was flirting with a boy I liked and I was teasing him saying his hair looked like a birds nest as it was curly and unruly just then bird popped on my head!
I was so mortified I ran crying to the bathroom and stayed there all of lunch……funnily enough the guy I liked asked me out the next day he must of thought it was good luck! ha!
oh and I found your blog and giveaway through one crafty mumma
A few years ago I was a song leader in my church. We had a special service on & there were a whole lot of people there that weren’t usually.
My friend & I were singing a song together. Started off ok, but at the start of the second verse she sang that one but I was miles away & started singing the first verse again! Stupidly realising in the middle & joined in at the right place glowing red!
Yeah it is funny now!
In my extremly tired days of figuring out how to be a new mum, the door bell rang, putting the baby down and answering teh door, the man selling what ever took one look and ran off. Very confused I went to look in the mirror only to find one boob sitting out as plain as day, as Id forgotten to put it away after putting the baby down!
This happenned when I was in college. I entered the men’s room instead of the ladie’s room. OMG it was so embarrassing!
Thanks for the fab giveaway! And what a funny story! =DD
In my haste to get my 2 year old to the bathroom at the mall, I only had a few minutes to do the loo thing mmyself…. As I walked out of the bathroom and was halfway to the parking lot, a lady whispered in my ear that my dress was tucked into my tights. I wish I could tell you it is an old story and I’m over it and I can laugh about it. But no, it is still too fresh. It only happened last week.
Moral of the story… Tights may be trendy but they’re seriously dangerous too! Especially when they’re black and your undies are bright yellow.
Some of these comments are just hilarious, Im also snorting!…
Ive had too many embarrassing moments, like losing my bikini bottoms jumping through a wave, falling down the stairs at a full theatre after arriving late…falling off a choir stand in the middle of a christmas concert.. it never ends…it just happens to me…
But the one that stands out the most was from my university days. It’s a good reason never to go to bed without ones clothes on.
I woke up after a late night and lay in bed waiting to hear if my flatmates were at home. We had wooden floors so it was obvious if anyone was moving around.
It all sounded quiet and I got up and realized I had left my towel in the bathroom so decided to run straight to the bathroom (naked)and jump in the shower. Bad mistake, I ran straight into my male flatmate who was brushing his teeth and screamed (or maybe he did?) so I ran back to my room only to see my other two flatmates were also home coming up the hall to find out what was going on!
Oh my gosh you ladies have some fantastic stories!
Heaps of embarrassment has happened to me over the years, but The one that pops into my head is set back when I was about 13… we live in a semi-rural area and are ‘up the dam’ which is just behind our housing estate. My friend and I are belting out Whitney Housten ‘I will always love you’ at the top of our lungs (very badly I imagine), finally we see the cute neighbourhood boys watching. I died.
Great giveaway and some very funny reads. As for mine, I was working as a functions waitress at a hotel in Canberra back when Bob Hawke was PM. Anyway, one night there was a function and I was tootling around the floor with a tray full of beers when it was announced Mr Hawke was about to enter. We had been told when this happened, to move discreetly to the side of the room and wait for him to enter, say a few words and then when he started to circulate, we could could continue to move about. So I moved to the side and just as the PM entered the room, someone took a beer off the tray, unblanced it and the whole lot slid to the marble floor. About 8 beers. Everyone looked, I fled! I spent the rest of the night in the kitchen.
Ok confessions.. I’m a medico and often in my junnior days I had some early starts. Not wanting to wake my hubby I would sometimes get dressed in the dark. I arrived at work one day and looked down and I was wearing two different shoes. No time to go home and change and a busy day ahead so I spent the whole day telling everyone. I decided it would be even more embarrassing if other people thought they needed to tell me!
Really reasurring to have someone looking after you who can’t even match their shoes up in the morning.
K
Oh gosh – these are great, I can’t stop giggling.
I think I’ve managed to block every embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to me in the past… except for that long weekend away with my then brand new boyfriend (we’e been together a whole week!)
We were joking around all innocent like, something hilarious happened & I got the giggles and *ahem* I may or may not have “popped off” in front of him, which then caused him to laugh at me, which caused me to collapse into even more uncontrollable giggles and more popping sounds could be heard from my nether regions.
Absolutely mortified. Everyone knows girls don’t fart right??? right???
Well maybe not in the first 6 months of a new relationship anyway!
Anyone else feeling too embarrased to hit the publish comment button???
I´ll try too… once upon a time I was dancing in the restaurant with my firends. After a while I had to go to the toilet. When I was ready to go back dancing I forgot to look my back. My skirt was under my tights.
My friends told that after I had danced with a goodlooking gay. Oh boy, It was EMBARRASSING ;O)
This one is the most recent one, I bought a new doll bed for my kids and after playing with it for a while, the bottom bit came off, so I thought I’d could fix and bought super glue. I kept yelling at the kids to stop touching the bed and glue as it will be really hard to take off, that I took the lid off the glue and kept on moving it around and just kept pressing the tube, after a few minutes I feel this very sharp sting on my finger and saw that my fingers were stuck together because most of the super glue ended up between my fingers.
I had to endure the whole day like that as the nail polish remover and acetone were with me the whole time.Hubby was laughing so hard that he was calling me sticky fingers for a while.
Oh the boob hanging out has to win!!!!!! My story is years ago I was typing in a website address for my dad and missed a letter in the address and a porno site came up instead, it had full frontal nudity and everything else you could think of!, and my dad asked why did I have such filth on my computer! I was so embarassed and tried to explain my error while busting my but trying to get rid of the filth on the screen…I couldn’t get rid of it quick enough, I turned around to see my then 4 yr old watching the whole thing!
another funny yet embarassing story…I was at a party for my frineds sister and he was saying a speech on behalf of his parents and meant to say ” i would like to thank everyone” and it came out ” I would like to wank everyone!” it was so funny and he was soooooo embarassed!
These are great stories!
When I was pregnant with our twins, I started having contractions at 32 weeks and was flown to a city hospital.
In the morning, I was told the drs needed to do a swab to check the probability of me going into labour within the next week.
So I was lying in my hospital bed, in a room at the end of the corridor, spread eagle waiting for the drs to do their thing when they realised they had forgotten the lamp so they could see what they were doing.
And so, they went to get one… Together… and left the door wide open…
My only comfort is that it was a womens hospital and maybe it’s not unusual to see a woman in that position!
Glenyce
In December 1997, seeking a little adventure as well as a change of scenery, I decided to move to London.
I quickly found work in a lovely little primary school in north London. After about 3 months on the job, one of my colleagues casually asked where I lived and how I got to and from school every day. I sighed deeply and proceeded to tell her about my gruelling one hour commute every morning and then again in the afternoon:-
* 5 minutes walk to bus-stop.
* 15 minutes by bus to train-station.
* 4 stops on the tube (train).
* 20 minutes walk from tube station to school.
* Lots of waiting around at bus-stop/train station in miserable English weather.
That afternoon, the same teacher kindly offered to drive me home. No sooner had I buckled my seatbelt than the car pulled up in front of my house. Switching off the engine, my colleague turned to me and began to roar with laughter. “Why on earth have you been putting yourself through public transport hell every single day? (I remember she was almost crying with laughter at this point) You literally live around the corner from school,” she chuckled.
Having no sense of direction has landed me in many embarrassing situations, but this one really takes the cake!
Ha ha some very funny stories here!
I don’t know if this is my most embarassing or not but it involves being a mummy (in honor of your blog!).
I was at the shops (local asian grocery store) with my toddler in the buggy. He wants a treat so I say he can have a bag of sweets, he picks a bag and as we wait in the queue announces to the world in a huge loud voice “my mummy hates black babies!”.
He was of course referring to his jelly baby sweets! I could still just about have died though!
I was in high school wearing platform shoes. I was in class and I decide to hook my platform on the bar under the chair. I couldn’t get my shoe loose and fell straight on my face.
yay, fabric!
Funny stories, I’ll keep coming back for laughs! Mine was recent. I took my 17 yr. old and a friend to a scary movie (Paranormal) I had not looked up the reviews and had no clue. They sat by themselves way up front, I took an aisle seat way in the back where I like it. A really nice young couple sat beside, the guy right next to me. First, during the movie I kept grabbing his arm and asking him to tell me what’s going on. I apologized every time. Then at the end I turned almost completely around and put my head in his arm and asked him to tell me what happened at the end. I was so humiliated. I’m used to my husband being there and I just reacted. I’m sure they thought they were sitting next to a crazy lady.
My most embarrassing moment was at work, when I was heavily pregnant with my son. I was standing behind the reception desk and needed to squeeze past one of the girls. I politely asked her to squeeze in a bit, but she didn’t pull her chair in enough. So I tried to breath in to squeeze past, as I did so I broke wind! Agh! It was quite loud as well. By the next day everyone at work at heard all about it.
My most embarrasing moment: I was a freshman in highschool & was walking around campus with my good friend. As we headed towards the senior hall (where all the seniors had their lockers) we saw a group of goodlooking senior boys heading our way. We walked passed starring at their gorgeousness & as I was starring I walked right into a pole & slammed my face. It hurt, but my pride was hurt more I think. HAHAHHAHAHHAHA…good times!
I really enjoyed the vintage holiday fabric…well all of them. Thanks for letting me stop by.
Aren’t we terrible to be laughing so much at other’s misfortunes!!
Anyway, here’s my embarrassing moment.
It was at a work conference where the whole organisation went away for a weekend. Lara Crofts was the big thing at the time and during the evening function two of my colleagues burst through some double doors – with my best mate sliding onto the floor, pretending to brandish a gun, very dramatically – Lara Crofts style. This happened just has I had taken a mouthful of wine, it was so funny that I went to laugh, but choked on the wine and proceeded to vomit instead!!! I was mortified.
The next morning when I was having fruit for breakfast, one of the bosses said that yes, it is often good to have fruit the next morning! Everyone assumed I was terribly drunk, but I’d hardly drunk anything. It just went down the wrong way.
I have to think when my boy was a about one and half year old and I was standing in line at the grocery store and he put his hand down my top. The man in front of me look as if he was going to have a coronary.
My most embarrassing moment happened while I was at work. I worked at Pier One Imports for a few months a few summers ago.
While I was putting away some new items I heard a rip like pants tearing. As I reached back a hole tore in the seat of my pants. Seeing as I didn’t bring a change of clothes I had to get a apron from the back room and tie it around my waste so it would cover the tear by my bum.
It was a long day at work and very embarrassing.
( I found out about the giveaway from one crafty momma’s blog.
Ok, after thinking for a while I remembered something that happened when I was in Primary school…
I used to make my lunch up the night before then grab it out of the fridge before I left for school. On this particular day I grabbed my lunchbox the next morning as normal and went to school. At recess I went out to the bag room and their was the most fowl stench hanging around in the bag room, it was so awful and everyone was commenting and generally acting like the 10 year olds we were. Anyway I went to get out my ‘little lunch’, with a moment of total horror I realised the stench was coming from MY bag…I had assumed it had come from a particular other student as had everyone else. I quickly closed my lunchbox and took it outside…now what was that fowl stench?
My parents used to buy whole smoked fish to serve with salad, anyway they forgot to use it…we all have those things lurking in the back of the fridge. On this particular occasion mum had stored the fish in a lunch box. Silly me had grabbed the wrong lunch box!!! So their I was with a lunch box containing 2 VERY dead fish! In the end I tipped them out into a bin thinking mum would tell me off if I threw out a lunchbox. For the rest of the day people talked about the ‘stinky fish’ in the bin…and my class mates NEVER let me forget my fishy episode…thank goodness we moved interstate when I was 12…Oh and mum was no help, she laughed at me even more than my classmates.
It’s 1967 ( yes , I’m a fossil ) I am at my first “dance ” … live band & grooving away on the dance floor.
I was about 14 & my Mum had made me the very latest in outfits … old folks may remember this , brown corduroy mini skirt worn with white ribbed roll neck jumper ( sweater ).Ribbed tights & “beatle” boots .
My mother had been very thrifty & reused a zipper in my skirt & you guessed it …. I danced away blissfully unaware my skirt was slowly making it’s way to the floor !!
A boy tapped me on the shoulder to alert me to the embarrassing situation .
And then I DIED as only a 14yr old can .
I think Andi wins hand down !!!
Love all the gorgeous Christmas fabrics!
Here’s my story to go in the running for your fabulous prize.
Back in my prechild days, in fact before I married DH, my then fiance decided that we should go on a houseboat trip with his golf mates (and partners for those that had them). It was a full blokey holiday, and the few girls that were on the boat were as bad as the boys in terms of getting drunk and rowdy.
I was the sensible one, who had just enough drinks to keep me relaxed and happy but not enough to obliterate me for the next day. This meant that I was first up, so to keep the flies away I’d clean up all the empty cans and bottles, wash down all the benches ready for breakfast and then go for a swim in the river to freshen up without waking the boys with the shower.
This particular morning it was so warm and sunny, I spent longer in the water than normal. When I got out I quickly wrapped my towel around my waist and came in to have breakfast, as I was famished. All the boys were awake, and sitting around in the living area chatting. I put my weetbix in the bowl, poured my juice, sat down next to a few of them (mind you I hardly knew these guys, with them all being DH’s friends)and started eating breakfast. The room went quiet and one of the blokes was giving me a glare. I don’t know where the girls were (perhaps still in bed or chatting on the top deck), but it was a room full of 12 guys and me. I wondered what the problem was, wiped my mouth in case I had some food on my face. No still getting glares. Looked down at myself to see if I’d spilled food unknowingly, and oh my! I was MORTIFIED to see that as I’d pulled myself up on the ladder, my bikini top had slipped and exposed a nipple!! I quickly fixed myself and said “how long has that been like that!?” One of the brave ones said “Oh, ever since you walked in!” I think I turned more PURPLE than red. That was back in the days before breastfeeding when I was even a bit self concious wearing a bikini, but did so because DH loved them better than a one piece. I can’t believe none of them hinted at me sooner that I had half a boob hanging out – DH was in the shower at the time so missed the whole event.
When I was in the 5th grade, I went to a small country school, with only 3 boys in the class. We lived on a farm where an irrigation pipe was often left in the front yard, waiting to be moved from one field to another.
My best friend, Debbie and I were both thrilled to have “boyfriends” which involved the one and only priviledge of riding home on the bus holding hands…then when we got off at our stop, turning and waving…to have him wave back and all the busload of other kids would know, we were an item.
My embarassing moment came the first day of girlfriend/boyfriendhood, when I jumped off at my stop, turned to wave, tripping over the irrigation pipe. My dress was caught up over my head as I tumbled in a somersault for all to see. Mortified, I did not look back. We broke up the next day…..
I went to an all girls catholic highschool that requires uniforms. On a particularly busy day I was rushing to get ready and get out the door on time. I reached the end of my street and realized it was a bit drafty. It struck me then. I had forgotten to put on underwear. It was cold and drafty.
Some of these are rippers! Love the “accidental leftover trots” and the hooter hanging out after feeding..
I was flying back to the states for my wedding. I was travelling alone and had my dress in a gigantic box. I had gotten thru the long flight (looking a bit haggard) and was waiting in LA for my flight north with my boxed dress on my lap. An airline fella sat down next to me and chatted to me for a minute and decided to upgrade me to 1st class!
I thought that stuff happened in fairytales… So I was excited.
I toddled onto the plane and found my seat 1B.. crammed my dress above me and sat down to my posh glass of champers.
A very busy up himself businessman was next to me. I said hello and all I got was a scoff and a grunt as he looked at me in my not so great state after the long flight. We got in the air and I started to read and got sleepy.
The next thing I knew we were on the decent. I woke up and smiled sleepily to the man next to me and slurred “that was quick…”
My shirt felt funny – I looked down to discover the 12 inch patch of DROOL on the front of it. Very classy.
I used to work in a library at a college that had an American Sign Language Program. One day one of the regular deaf students came in to watch a video on CPR. I was very proud that I had learned some very basic ASL skills so I could communicate with the students who were deaf. I successfully checked out the video to the student, who said they wanted to watch it in the library. “Oh,” I said, “I don’t know if I have any headphones left! Oh my!” and began to hunt around for a set of headphones. It took me a while to realize I was being a donkey, because of course, headphones would be useless to this particular student. I felt like a complete and utter idiot! They were very good about it, though.
Thanks for the giveaway! The fabric is gorgeous!
I would have to say the time i was late for class in college. I went to school at the University of Utah and the campus is on a hill. My dorm room was at the top of the hill and my class was at the bottom ( a 20 minute walk). I stayed up late working on my paper that was due at class time or it was not going to be counted. I ran out of ink and by the time i got everything finally together i had 10 minutes to get to class. So I began to run. Now, 20,000 students went to school then and it was 12noon so almost everyone was on campus. I decided to go down the super highway section as I called it. 2 big sidewalk, one with people walking up and one with people walking downhill. I decide to go down the center grassy area to bypass everyone. 3/4 quarters of the way down the hill my shoelace comes untied and i do a faceplant and skidded about 10 feet down the hill. I lay there and all the sudden i start to hear clapping and cheering. I was mortified. I didn’t stop to look around or ever retie my shoe lace. I just got back up and started running again. I was so embarrassed but I did make it to class on time. Next time I will walk and take my chances with the professor.
My parents HATED my husband.
All of us ended up at a ‘game night’ at a church member’s home.
The place was packed. And LOUD.
Partway through a game (which required a buzzer to signal a wrong answer)… my husband hit a buzzer by my ear.
I was surprised.
So surprised that I turned and punched him in the face.
My mother stood up and victoriously yelled, “HA!” while pointing her finger at my poor husband.
The room was then not loud.
Faithful and forgiving as he is, my husband NEVER brings up this story because I cry from embarassment every time.
thanks for the laughs!!
one of my most embarrassing moments was at my sister’s wedding. i was matron of honour with 3 other bridesmaids. we had just put our dresses on and my sister (lovely girl!) noticed that i wasn’t “well endowed” like the other girls. she suggested i put something in my bra to plump things up a bit, the only things we could find were a pair of her blue sports socks … and you guessed it, one of them worked it’s way free whilst i was dancing at the reception! shame!!!
What fabulous stories for a great giveaway Corrie!
Mine also involves underwear… January 2000 friends and I were on the last leg of a marathon holiday. We spent all day in summer in the Kruger National Park in South Africa, and drove 5 hours to get to the airport. We showered at the airport… and discarded our clothes. There was an attendant in the bathroom, so I was too embarassed to ditch my undies there. Instead, I put them in a bin out on the concourse. 2 minutes later, my friends and I watched a cleaning lady take the (dirty! smelly!) undies out of the bin, hold them up in the air, call over a friend to admire them… and tuck them in her pocket. Oh the shame…
LOVE all the fabric! So adorable!
My embarrassing moment is relatively newer to me.
I was about a week away from giving birth and my now newly ginormous boobs were extremely leaky. I mean I had to put 4 of those leak pads in each cup of my bra because the slight emotional disturbance would set them off.
I had to give a presentation in front of our company.
I wore a pretty pink silk button up shirt with this cute ruffle around the neck. Super adorable. This being my first pregnancy, I didn’t know there are certain clothes that you should stay clear from when you have leaky boobs.
I thought everything was going great, a lil nervous but not too bad and it felt dry down there in cup land so I was just cruising through my presentation.
That’s when I heard a baby from the other room. My coworker decided to bring in her newborn daughter to show off to everyone.
First the looks started. I knew I was destined for failure now. I wanted to finish so I kept going. I had to stop. I excused myself to the bathroom to check out my shirt. It literally looked as though I had 2 water balloons thrown at me! I of course started to cry and couldn’t stop. Emotions got the best of me! Those 4 leak pads that were in each cup… I could have easily squeezed out a cup of milk from each.
I must have been in the bathroom so long that they just ended the meeting without me! Bless their hearts!
I will never forget the looks on their faces. Nor will I forget what milk from leaky boobs feels like as it leaks through 4 pads and goes down your stomach. agh.
makes me want to cry thinking about it! 😉
Way back when I was in my 20’s (I’m in my mid 40’s now so not so long ago but it seems like it *grin*) my best friend and I had a late night out and we decided to go to the grocery store and get something to cook up at home. Now drinking makes her really gassy and she let out a silent but deadly when we were coming down an aisle and then she ran around the corner and hid just as two guys were coming down the aisle. I was left standing there in the stink with those two guys thinking it was me makeing the smell. I was so embarrassed and I’m still waiting to pay her back. lol
My most embarrassing moment was my 11th grade prom! Ok, you know how you go out to dinner before prom and everyone is at a nice resturant and looks so prim and proper and having such fun? Well, I had to use the restroom. Let me explain how I had my dress made (a lady that my mom was very close friends with let me pick what dress I wanted and she made it for me~I still have the dress). The dress had a short skirt, a long tail sort of that hung down in the back and the front of the tail came around the front above the skirt! Well, I had gone to the restroom and came out and as I am walking across the resturant I realize that I hadn’t pulled the skirt part down!!!!!!! I was mortified! I still can’t believe I did that! So, all of these people in this resturant get to see me walk out w/my skirt up around my waste!! AGH!!! I was probably 5 shades of red!
OK So here is mine. The first time my MIL came to visit after I had our first born was for the holidays and my 2 year old daughter was very into rummaging through cabinets. One afternoon, my MIL invited her relatives to come and visit her perfect little grand daughter but when they arrived she was still taking her nap. We were in the livingroom talking when I hear my little blond girl in the bathroom. My MIL called her to come and say hi. When she came out, I gasped in horror. She had found some fun, padded “stickers” while going through the cabinets and had placed one on her head as a hat, others as knee pads and elbow pads, slippers on her feet and around her waist as a belt. The word Kotex has never meant quite the same thing to me ever again.
We went to a waterslide park when I was 15 and I had just slid down one of the slides and landed in the pool when I glanced down and saw that I had a bit of a “fall-out” from my bikini top!! I quickly readjusted my top but there had been lots of people watching – it was very embarrassing:-)
OMG I havent laughed so much in a while. This is fantastic.
OK when I was 14 (or was it 15?) I was walking through Myers in Melbourne Australia (its a big department store for those who are not Australian) with my cousin who was around the age 2 mark. She was definately talking.
Anyway, it was Christmas time and we were heading to the toy department passing Santa on the way. Kyrya my cousin suddenly pipes up at the top of her voice (and Im SURE it was in decibels the amount of impact it had to those around us) -“Look Leisa, There’s the Child Molester!” pointing at Santa.
Pretty much every adult within a 5 metre radius turned around to look at ME with total disgust and dissaproval on their faces…some even muttering to their friends.
I wanted to die. Instead I bundled Kyrya up and dragged her back to her mother. When I explained my Aunt Roared with laughter which kinda made me even more embarrassed.
To this day we still have no idea where she even heard about a child molester let alone tagging poor Santa with the moniker.
Lots of good laughs so far thanks for that Corrie!
OK *deep breath* here goes….
We had a delivery arrive from the local hardware store on a cold and foggy Melbourne morning and when I answered the door the guy spoke as he turned away from me and had a very croaky voice.
I said “oh this cold weather’s not good is it, that’s quite a frog in the throat you’ve got”.
The guy turned back toward me and while glaring at me, covered the tracheotomy hole in his throat and said in his mechanical voice “I’ve come to deliver your plasterboard”.
I couldn’t get away fast enough – told DH someone was at the door and hid til he had gone.
Oh dear.
I was on a business trip with 6 co-workers, we were at a large conference. Unfortunately my bladder doesn’t hold as much or as long as I’d like so after being in a morning session for several hours (and lots of coffee) I had to go bad. I thought I had noticed the restrooms right outside the conferece room. I ran out and into the ladies room as quick as I could but it was the men’s room! Of course it was full of men who were shocked to see me. I must have been a deep shade of red. I turned and left the men’s room but of course all my co-workers were standing outside waiting for me. They had watched me go in and couldn’t wait for me to come back out. They never let me forget what I did, they teased me for years.
Sue Cahill (sbonetsue at yahoo dot com)
I have lots of embarrassing moments, but the one that comes to mind is;
Well, I’m always trying to find ways to save money and I came up with what I thought was a GREAT!!! idea. I decide to save my pantyhose that had a run in one leg. I would cut off that leg and save it for when I had another pair that had a run on the other leg. So, that meant I would have to wear two pairs, but that has okay because I was saving money. Well, one day I was wear my pantyhose so proud to work. When I came home my son asked me why was I wear two different colors on my legs. I asked him what do you mean. Mom your legs are different colors. One is a lighter brown than the other. I looked and yes I had two different colors on. Oh my gosh I couldn’t believe I went all day like that to work and I wonder how many of my co-workers noticed. I worked in an office with lots of women. The next day one of the ladies asked me about the pantyhose I has wearing the day before and wanted me to know that most of the ladies thought someone should tell me. I really didn’t know what to say. So, I guess saving money is GOOD!!! thing but be careful and make sure you watch what you are doing. I don’t wear pantyhose anymore not because of what happened but because I don’t work anymore and don’t wear dresses.
THANKS!!! and what a GREAT!!! giveaway. I just started quilting again and would love to win.
Geri
I am always embarrassing myself but this particular occasion was spectacularly so, at the time.
I was home alone with the builder, Bruce, who was replacing some rotten boards on the corner of our house. I had only just met him . From inside the house i saw a strange cat stalking our pet magpie. i went flying out the back door like a mad thing, slipped, fell, then somersaulted down the 2 big concrete steps ,ending up sprawled on my back while Bruce is standing about, laughing hysterically. I was laughing too, that mad laugh you do when you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I was totally mortified and managed to get myself up off the ground with what dignity I had left and stagger inside to lick my wounds in private!!!
I had another incident in a bus just recently..but that’s another story!!
When my boys were little, about 3years old and 14mths, I was pregnant and at a doctors visit. The doctor wanted to do an internal exam and whilst this was happening I realised that the older boy had climbed onto the step beside the exam table and was watching EVERYTHING with great interest! I asked him ‘you alright there mate?’ to which he replied ‘Big hole Mum!’ The doctor and I couldn’t believe our ears then nearly fell about laughing. She told me I’d have to stop laughing so she could finish then told me it would go down as the ‘quote of the week’. My husband loved it!! and takes the time to remind me of it occasionally, nearly 20 years down the track!
Thanks for the laughs reading the comments.
Cheers
Anne
We had fortnightly meetings at work and this particular time I noticed that my shirt button had come undone exposing my bra. It was a room full of men and only one other woman sitting at a oval table. I had no idea how I was going to close it up without too many people noticing when my manager pipped up my name asking me a question (the bastard) I was sure he did it on purpose and my cheeks went bright red. I grabbed the folder on the desk we were all looking at and used my left hand to close up the gap. Needless to say from then on I always used a safety pin in that area to prevent any button un-doing.
We had our house on the market towards the end of my 3rd pegnancy. I was collecting my early morning ‘specimens’ in those little yellow-lidded bottles and testing them with the dipsticks.
One particular morning I ran out of time to test, left the sample on the bathroom vanity, and hurried out the door to get my eldest to pre-school.
“No-one will be coming to look at the house on a Tuesday morning”, I said to myself.
When I got home there was a card from the Real Estate agent on the kitchen bench, they had showed someone through!!!! Needless to say, they didn’t buy the house…
This happened when I was still living at home. My mum was going out and left instructions a couple were coming around to look at a washing machine she was selling. Well they turned up earlier than expected, just as I was getting out of the shower. I quickly threw on a dressing gown that I’d left on the back of a chair and proceeded to sing the praises of this washing machine. I could tell they weren’t really convinced and were actually looking a bit uncomfortable. After they beat a hasty retreat, I realised why. My trusty, loopy terry towelling dressing gown had picked up a passenger. The world’s skankiest BRA was now hanging from the back like a tail!
Moral of this tail (erm,tale) Before you leave the house, nay, before you open the front door, Care to check your DERRIERE!
My most embarrassing moment was terrible… I had to go to a meeting on quite a hot day. The meeting was close to my work, so it involved a five minute walk up a huge flight of stairs. I was wearing heels, carrying mock ups, a laptop and a handbag, and was wearing a light coloured skirt. By the time I got to the meeting I was feeling a bit warm…
The meeting was pretty informal so we chatted on the leather couches in their office. When I had finished the meeting I got up from the lounge and walked through the open plan office to the lift. I said my goodbyes, the lift doors closed and I caught a glimpse of the back of my skirt in the mirror. I had become so sweaty sitting on this couch that I had a wet patch that started at my bottom and went down my legs in a straight line to my knees – following the space between my legs! It looked like I had wet my pants and the whole office would have seen it!! My colleagues thought it was THE most hilarious thing when I got back to the office, while I was dying….
xx
This is a recent episode…
I am a mom of 6. I also homeschool my brewd. So we are together a lot. I thoroughly enjoy my choice and wouldn’t change it, however, I was in need of some ‘me time’. So, last week my mom in law and I went away for a couple of days. The day after I got home we were to have our Pastor and family over for dinner. We were sitting at our looong rectangular table, with my chattiest child straight acrossed from the Pastor at the end of the table. Well passed the view of a “mommy glare” and out of reach, when he decided to share. The Pastor broke out into laughter. Of course I was nervous. So I asked what he had shared, informing the Pastor that it was probably silliness. The Pastor, gasping for breath, said that my son had shared I had just come back from a break. “Yes, that is true,”I said. He then proceeded to say, “because the kids were getting on my nerves.” The Pastor was laughing so hard he laid his head down on our table… I was so embarrassed!
Kids say the darndest things.
Not sure if I have passed the date but if I have just count me out.
Anyway my embarrassing moment was when Hubby and I were in Perth and moving from a flat to our house.
I was getting everything organised to move as we were doing it ourselves. We needed to get a ute to move everything so I got on the phone to get an idea of prices. First place I rang the man answered and I promptly said “Hi, I would like to rent a ROOT” OMG I could have died, thank god I was on the phone PMSL. Anyway the man on the other end had a giggle and said they usually don’t do that but I did sound nice hehe he then gave me the prices for the utes and I hung up never ever to call them again PMSL I then rang hubby to tell him what I did and It still gets a laugh out of us now.
Thanks for this Corrie it has been a laugh reading thru all these moments.
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