Your most embarrassing moment?

Share your secret embarassing moments or times when you broke something, etc

 

How do I pick just one?(LOL) Slicing my finger instead of a loaf of bread a few years ago probably is near the top. I still have a scar from that. The loaf had a really hard crust and the serrated blade slipped.

 

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Yes its hard to pick one as I'm pretty clumsy.
One that comes to mind is last Christmas day, I had trays of Pigs in Blankets waiting to go in the oven and I was getting the after dinner coffees ready by putting the coffee granules in the glasses, It was a new jar of expensive coffee and I was having trouble opening it, It suddenly opened and coffee granules went all over the Pigs in Blankets.

No one knew though as I hastily rinsed them all under the tap lol.

 

I'm about to have a "failing root canal" pulled tomorrow. Does that qualify? It's made a royal mess of my schedule and my MS, and the root canal made a mess of my bank account. Hopefully the pitching of the offending tooth will clean things up!

 

Best of luck with that Eve. Sending good thoughts.

One messy moment that comes to mind...

I had some figurines (can't even recall what company, it was around 14 years ago --back in the day when figurines of this type were still selling in the $70-80 range.)

Anyway, I was washing each very carefully in a weak soap water mix, and I rinsed and wrapped one gently in a towel to let it dry and set it on the table. A few minutes later, not thinking, I grabbed the towel to dry the other one, and figurine #1 went flying across the room.

Edit: Comment above was when post title said "One messy moment" I wasn't "embarrassed" by this. Just let out a ....#$#@*!!

 

I edited the thread title to cover all embarrassing stories. I have one involving a very urgent need to poop but I'm not sure I want share it.

 

There are a couple more embarrassing moments I won't tell but there is one that is antique related. I sold a piece if unmarked matte green Weller Breton to a customer in the shop. The next day she returned having second thoughts. Wanted to know how I knew it was Breton, etc. As I was handling the pot and talking, it slipped out of my hand and crashed to pieces at my feet. I insisted she accept a refund and apologized profusely. The customer felt bad and I felt horrible. The next day she returned to the store when I wasn't in and left me a small gift. It was a small arts and crafts style Motawi tile that I still own to this day. We later laughed over the incident and I went on to sell her more items over the ensuing years.

 

I have pulled some doozies - but I think my "worst of the best" was my first presentation to the (princess) sister of a reigning Queen. I was so flustered that I CURTSIED................not bowed, I CURTSIED.....................

Second place winner is probably some years later when I upchucked, with exquisite aim, into the lap of a Royal Duchess after a night of heavy drinking with her son.......................

Both involved royalty, but different Houses...............

OK, now that it is all again fresh in my memory, I'll go stand with my nose in the corner........................

 

I can't help but feel a bit basic next to your posh embarrassments

 

Well, I specifically recall ONE incident, that actually involved ME, and this is it:

I was around 10 or 11 years old... My youngest sister, who was then 6 or 7, dropped a piece of glass in a small store, where my sisters & I often shopped for gifts for our Mom.

On Saturday mornings, the 4 of us "girls" took ballet classes "downtown". The younger 2 were in one class; we 2 "older" sisters were in the class an hour later. Mom would drop off all 4 of us, go to get her hair done, then come to pick us up at noon...

We had about 30 minutes after the end of the 2nd class to go shopping together, before Mom arrived.

We had settled on one store in particular, called Bell, Book & Candle, where we'd always go to pick out a special gift. It was the early 1960's, and we'd pick out stuff like Fostoria glass and the like, based on how much "pooled" allowance we had to spend.

I don't remember what the particular occasion was this time, but we needed a group gift for Mom, so as soon as class was over, my sisters & I headed down to Bell, Book & Candle.

After much looking, we finally decided on a blue "coin glass" bowl. Patty, the youngest sister among us, reached for it and promptly knocked it to the floor... It crashed. The 4 of us stood horrified...

The sound of broken glass brought the immediate appearance of the store manager. "Oh, dear," she said. "What happened here?"

Mortified, one of us (not me, but probably my older sister) admitted, "Patty dropped it."

The manager looked at the broken glass on the floor, looked at each of us, in turn, and said, "Is that the bowl you wanted for your Mom?"

She then brought an identical bowl from the back, rang up the purchase, as if nothing at all had ever happened, and earned my loyalty forever!

 

At least Manson's didn't pull a Bush and do it on the international news!

 

Okay, NOW you've brought me to the point where I HAVE to admit that it DID make the papers in England..............."Yank Speaks Welsh to HRH" or some such thing..................thank God it was more years ago than I will ever admit.................

NOTE: no offense to Welshmen in the room - the term was quite common THEN, I have no idea if it STILL is..............

 

Ditto.

My specialty is getting the giggles and not being able to shut up. My best performances include spitting and snorting. Choking has occurred.

 

You know, I REALLY apologize if I offended anyone! I have no idea what is and what is not correct usage these days anywhere but here in the States and as such should NEVER use terms i am not familiar with any longer -but at least I didn't use the T word!

 

I know that feeling. Sometimes if I'm unusually tired but also find everything funny it can happen.
Once I found it so difficult to stop laughing (because I was trying not to) that my giggle turned into what @GaleriaGila just described and after I could no longer breathe, That turned into some weird moody and loud howling that sounded like a pig giving birth, or worse..

 

Hi,
My most embarrassing moment was when I was asked to baby sit my new wife's four year old niece from Utah. April and I were sitting on a bus going home. She was all over the seat and trying to look out of the window, bending down to look at the floor. I became a bit cross and said "April sit down, you are getting all dirty and your mother will kill you and me". April then stood on the seat and faced the back. All of a sudden i hear April say " Oh boy your mother is going to kill you when you get home. I never saw anybody as dirty as you are." I turned around and this elderly black man was sitting in the next seat behind us. I wanted to drop into the center of the earth. This was in the 60s during the riots. The gentleman saw my face and said " Don't worry I find it was very funny. Your daughter isn't from around here is she?" I said she was my niece and from out west and I do not think she ever saw a black person before. He just smiled and said it's alright. We got off three stops later.
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Thank you Davey...for jogging my memory !

In the late 70's I walked into my bank near where I worked.
I saw my fiance standing at one of the tellers and walked up behind her....and grabbed her ass with a good solid squeeze.

She wheeled around and my jaw dropped , I turned beet red and only vowels came from my mouth.....cuz of course.....it was not my fiance.....but some hot blonde ...built like her and dressed like her , with the exact same hairdo and color !!!

Needless to say ...my utter amazement diffused what could have been a bad situation , as the girl looking at me could see how I was now a blubbering idiot !!