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atiguhya padma
02-28-2004, 11:42 AM
Because I have had many people saying good things about me recently, I've decided to make my ego abseil down that mountain it's trying to ascend.

So here is an embarrassing story about Atiguhya Padma:

One day, in the mid 80's, AP was invited to a Hindu religious ceremony in a home in Hounslow, West London. The place of worship was a long lounge, one of those made out of knocking down a wall between two rooms.

The place was packed. In the bay window of this room was the dais, upon which was sat the Indian guru, Swami Pernau (sp?). In deep meditation.

The first thing I noticed was the amount of really beautiful young women in the room. As you do. And I was still admiring the views, when the ceremonials got under way. I thought to myself, these women are probably impressed with this solitary white male face in the audience.

Transfixed on this absolutely gorgeous girl a few paces away from me, I failed to notice a bowl being passed between people on my right. From the corner of my eye, I thought I could see someone raise this bowl to their face. Before I knew it, it was passed to me. Well, I didn't know what to do with it, so I put my hand in the bowl, that was full of what appeared to be a watery kind of yoghurt, and started dabbing this stuff all over my face. I figured maybe that was what I had seen people doing. As I did this, people started looking at me in avid curiousity. So, I guessed, this wasn't what they were doing after all.

They must have been drinking it then. So I raised it to my mouth, and gulped down mouthfuls of the stuff. It was certainly a yoghurty substance, rather funny taste though. After a few gulps, I noticed the growing audience looking with horror upon me. Someone quickly grabbed the bowl from me and it went on its way. Later I found out, that the yoghurt was used to anoint the feet of the guru, and then passed round to the congregation, who're supposed to just dab their fingers in the yoghurt and touch the centre of their foreheads.

I failed to impress any of the women in that room that day!

So does anyone else have any embarrassing stories they want to share?

Lara
02-28-2004, 08:27 PM
LOL, yuck!

Okay, I'll share.

During the course of a work day, I was instructed to go to a place called Marla's Books to pick up some books ordered for my place of work. The small city I live in has three known bookstores. Maybe this place was new, a used bookstore that orders special orders, I thought. I arrived at the building, a house on a residential street, with a huge sign, Marla's Books, and signs indicating thay take Visa, Debit, etc. I contemplated the look of the place, wondering, if I just open the door, will I see a bookstore inside? It is not unknown to have a bookstore in a house. The appearance of the place led me to believe that I could just open the door and walk in. So, I opened the door, expecting to see a bookstore, instead, I saw a home. A lovely home it was, equipped with a man standing down the hallway, in his kitchen, looking at me crudely.

"Uh, Hello" I offered with a bright smile, feeling terribly awkward and embarrassed already.

I said I didn't know whether to just walk in or ring the bell.

He replied, "It would have been nice had you rang the bell".

I explained who I was, where I was from and why I opened his door. After an explanation, we were laughing at the situation and he commented,

"It's a good thing I hadn't just come out of the shower and walking around naked, although I wouldn't have minded."

I was outta there quick!

IWilKikU
02-29-2004, 07:01 PM
I was once invited to a hindu gathering in Hounslow, West London. They were passing around this bowl of the Guru's foot annointing stuff and I didn't much care for it so much to the chagrine of the good looking hindu girls there, I whipped out my junk and dropped it in the bowl! I thought I was hot stuff until this idiot drank it and smeared it on his face!!!

Lara
02-29-2004, 08:05 PM
There are some very witty people around here.

fayefaye
02-29-2004, 11:31 PM
kik is pretty funny. :)

atiguhya padma
03-01-2004, 04:52 AM
<I was once invited to a hindu gathering in Hounslow, West London. They were passing around this bowl of the Guru's foot annointing stuff and I didn't much care for it so much to the chagrine of the good looking hindu girls there, I whipped out my junk and dropped it in the bowl! I thought I was hot stuff until this idiot drank it and smeared it on his face!!!>

So it was you was it!!??:) And now I've finally caught up with you!!:)

subterranean
03-01-2004, 05:27 AM
Geez AP, I check out your profile and no wonder you know so much things..he..he he..you're 40 yo :D

atiguhya padma
03-01-2004, 05:38 AM
Oh no. Now you've revealed my secret...:)

But hey thanks for looking at my profile. I understand it's better from the left side rather than face on. Or so I'm told!:)

Isagel
03-01-2004, 07:19 AM
I will never eat yoghurt again.

Actually, one of my most embarassing moments - I have several - was at work. As newly employed neuropsychologist I´m asked what size my white coat should be. I answer. -No thank you, I do not need protective clothing.

They think I made a political statement, and never raised the question again.

I just did not realise that evrybody, even the secretary uses white coats. I just thought that they had made a mistake when they offered it to me.

So now we are a clinic in white. And me. In grey wool sweaters.

The same week I also said:

I really like my new chairs, but what I really want is a plastic brain, the kind the doctors have.

Ooops.

I meant a plastic model of a brain.

I have more but I won´t tell you. :-)

Shea
03-01-2004, 09:32 AM
I think some doctors have plastic brains! Hee hee.

I wasn't embarrassed at the time, but I certainly blush to think of it now, when I was in the seventh grade, I was interested in trying different hairstyles. I pulled the top half of my hair into a ponytail on top of my head and then wrapped a stretchy cloth headband around it. The headband was so big that I wrapped it all the way round the length of my hair, but it stuck up on my head. The ends of my hair shot out of the "trunk" so that it looked like a palm tree poised on my head. I proudly walked around school all day enjoying the attention. What a wierd child I was!!

atiguhya padma
03-01-2004, 09:37 AM
Thanks for sharing that with us Shea. It did make me laugh. There was a footballer (soccer player to those in the US) that used to play for in the English league, that had the nickname pineapple head, for his outrageous hairdo. Maybe your influence extends further than you realise.:)

Shea
03-01-2004, 02:18 PM
:D Maybe I was trying to be a trend setter, I can't remember.

IWilKikU
03-01-2004, 07:51 PM
Oh my gosh Shea, I did the EXACT same thing when I was in seventh grade. I'm not even trying to make a joke. Dead serious. I called it my gonk.

Stanislaw
03-01-2004, 11:27 PM
I once ran into a wall, I wasn't paying close attention to my surroundings and I was chasing my dog, when the dog veared suddenly, I failed to realize why the dog swerved until... smash, right into a garage, I went unconsiouse for a little while, and still have a dent in my skull to this day, its rather small, but it is noticible.

atiguhya padma
03-02-2004, 06:09 AM
Stanislaw,

That's really funny. I did almost exactly the same thing when I was about 15. I had just seen my team lose horrendously, something like 5-0, and it was an evening match. I walked out of the ground with thousands of others, my head following the familiar trajectory of the depressed, when the suddenly the masses parted, and I went smack into a lamp-post! It woke me up to the more immediate problems in life - like pain and embarrassment!

Cassandra
03-02-2004, 01:01 PM
Oh dear. you make such mistakes sound infrequent, I do similar things almost everyday:( ! Although in the case of Stan's story, it was the otherway round for me. The dog ran smack into the lampost, she was dizzy for ages and funny to watch.

Stanislaw
03-03-2004, 01:17 AM
deja vous.

I felt pretty silly after that stunt, maybe thats why I am the way I am today.:D

I never realized so many people did the same thing. Doesn't make me feel so dumb

Shea
03-03-2004, 01:17 PM
I did it too Stan. Only for me it was inevitable. Almost every woman on my mom's side of the family had broken one of their two front teeth. I did it by tripping on the carpet (in the school hallway no less) and running into the wall. I was a snaggletooth for about 6 weeks.

Sancho
03-03-2004, 04:23 PM
OK I’ll bite. I’m generally way too insecure not have long since blanked all those painful memories from my mind, but a few of ‘em refuse to be repressed.

So, I’m this young teenager and I’m trying to impress this girl. That’s how these things usually get started isn’t it? I’m just a piker from out in the sticks but I’m puttin’ on airs and trying to act sophisticated and I decide to invite her to the local Philharmonic’s production of Dvorak’s New World Symphony.

We get all dressed up and head out to the show. I, of course, select a seat right down front so that we can see all of the action. I was so taken by orchestra’s performance in the first movement that I decided to lead the audience in a standing ovation. The last note of the first movement was still hanging in the air when I leapt to my feet and began wildly clapping my hands. I may have even yelled “bravo” a couple of times. Well, it didn’t take me too long to figure out that I was performing a solo. My date, being wiser than I, kept sinking lower and lower in her seat.

For the next three movements of that tune I could literally feel the crowd’s eyes boring holes in the back of my skull.

They really should brief you on this sort of thing in the program notes.

At that point I pretty much switched exclusively to Rock-n-Roll. Those people admire and even encourage boorish behavior.

atiguhya padma
03-03-2004, 07:33 PM
I really appreciate your story Sancho. I make a point of never being the first to clap in a classical concert. I once went to see Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble perform Officium in St. Paul's Cathedral in London with a friend who was a big Garbarek fan but knew nothing of choral music. I, on the other hand, loved choral but knew nothing of Garbarek. My friend was anxious to know the protocol regarding applause. I was very tempted to misinform him, but, luckily for him, I didn't make him go through what you experienced!

AP

psycojones
03-03-2004, 09:29 PM
i can't beleive i am doing this. alright, i am speaking to a crowd of people and i am wearing a cordless mike attached to my jacket. i present my ideas to everyone in the gymnasium, and then present the next speaker. as he comes up on stage, i shake his hand, exit the stage and run to the washroom. as i get in there i step up to the urinal and see a good friend of mine at the urinal beside me. he tells me that i gave a great speech, and comments to me about this beautiful woman who was sitting in the front row. of course, i agree and begin to babble on about how beautiful she was, when someone flys into the washroom and tells me that i left my mike on and everyone in the gymnasium was enjoying my compliments of the beautiful lady in the front row. needless to say i was talk at the evening diner.

amuse
03-03-2004, 10:39 PM
Sancho and psycojones:

Wonderful :)! :D! :)!

Thank you so Much for sharing. I never used to know when to clap, and have nearly always managed to find the person I'm talking about in my blind spot, at the crucial moment when I say something I would 've prefered they never know. (Aargh...)

Lara
03-03-2004, 10:58 PM
I nominate,

psycojones,

for the 'most embarrassing moment award'. :D :D :D

Shea
03-04-2004, 12:14 AM
Actually, psyco, your not the only one who's done that. Thankfully though, it's not me. I went to a workshop and the speaker had no problems sharing her similar story with us. But she wasn't chatting about the handsome man in the third row. Just the loud sound of her tinkling echoed through the auditorium!

IWilKikU
03-04-2004, 08:46 AM
I've heard similar stories of public speakers, but the best was from Joyce Meyers, an evangelical speaker, she went to the changing room and got her dress snagged on something and got all tangled up with her dress over her head, she just finished talking about Jesus and here she was swearing at her dress and walking an assistant through trying to get it unhooked from her bra.

psycojones
03-05-2004, 12:45 AM
i am glad you enjoyed. now maybe someone can give me a good character discription.

IWilKikU
03-05-2004, 07:50 AM
of who???

Sancho
03-05-2004, 12:33 PM
OK, I had so much fun with that first one, I’ve gotta do another. Probably breaking the ROE for the thread with this story but years ago my better-half told me one of hers that I still laugh about whenever I think about it. If she finds out about this I’m in deep kimchi. But what the hay, it’s a real knee-slapper.

So anyway, she’s right about at the “training-bra” stage in her life and has just discovered the magic of make-up and hairspray when her family decides to journey from their home in the high desert of California down to the Universal Studios Theme Park in Hollywood. One of the things they do there is put on some small-time stage productions with mostly audience participation.

Her family selects seats high in the back of the amphitheater. Before the show begins she swings by the loo to adjust her face and make her hair bigger. Well, as she’s climbing the steps to her seat let me tell ‘ya she’s got it goin’ on. -- She’s sashaying up those steps with all the class of a ten-dollar hooker. She’s too self-absorbed to realize that she’s the center-stage attraction and unbeknownst to her she’s got a mime shadowing and exaggerating her every movement.

She gets to the top of the stairs, turns around and sees the mime, throws her hands in the air and screams. The mime, silently of course, does the same thing.

-----And the crowd goes wild.

atiguhya padma
03-15-2004, 11:53 AM
I've always been a keen long distance walker, and when the foot and mouth disease hit the UK, I decided to take up cycling, as I couldn;t use the footpaths that year. Anyway, as a result I started doing charity bike rides. One of which was the London to Windsor. The pub group that I was doing this with consisted of about 20 riders in groups of four. In my group, the other three were all older than me and looked less fit. However, by the time we reached the halfway mark, I was feeling pretty knackered, whilst these other guys seemed fighting fit. They were typical macho guys. We stopped for coffee outside this pub, and sat around one of those typical outside pub bench tables. Everyone was opening their cartons of cream, and I seemed to be struggling. Concerned that someone might notice and consequently take the p***, I decided to open my carton below the table so no-one could see. Struggling with this, the other guys all sitting opposite me, must have wondered what I was up to! Before anyone could say anything, the carton finally came open and cream burst forth everywhere. I looked up in horror, to see two of the guys with spots of cream all over the faces!! To which one of them asked me what I was up to down there. I laughed off my embarrassment with the other cyclists

Needless to say, I was the butt of several jokes after that.

kilted exile
03-21-2004, 12:54 PM
OK, here goes: When I was 6 my mother decided I needed to learn how to swim, so she signed me up for lessons at the local high school.The first couple of lessons went fine, however on the third lesson I somehow forgot to put on my swimming trunks before leaving the change room. I didn't realise until I was about about to get into the pool, and heard all of the schoolkids laughing at me from the other side of the glass partition. End result was I refused to go back, and I still cant swim.

Koa
03-21-2004, 02:11 PM
I can't think of any stories at the moment... which is weird, since disaster is my middle name... Now I hardly ever take any initative and prefer to pass totally unobserved, as I had so many embarassing moments as a kid...

kilted exile
03-21-2004, 07:25 PM
I do on occassion go down to georgian bay (johnon's beach area). I have taken to just sitting there studying though, far less strenuous.

simon
03-27-2004, 12:06 AM
When I was in about seventh grade I went to the drinking fountain and I had a mouth full of water and my friend said something funny, consequently all the water shot out of my nose and onto the back of the principle who was walking by. I don't remember what happened after that, probably torture and whipping, maybe death by rat (I have the potential to have been reincarnated).

Koa
03-27-2004, 09:52 AM
Eheh lol, that happens to me all the time... golden rule: don't make me laugh if I'm drinking!!!

Scheherazade
05-27-2005, 12:21 PM
Thanks to Kilted Exile, just discovered this thread and thought we should revive it!

Here is one of mine... Right after university, I found a job at an Embassy as PA to the Ambassador, which required me to attend all the meetings with him and translate... It was all very formal but also very glamourous for a newbie graduate like me; needless to say, I was very pleased with myself.

During one of my first high level meetings, the Ambassador was visiting a Minister and I was translating... After couple of minutes, I noticed the funny looks people were giving me and suddenly realised that instead of translating things into English, I was simply repeating them in my native language. The smug expression on my face disappeared in less than a second as you might expect...

Koa
05-27-2005, 01:37 PM
lol that's terrible! though it sounds like a great job! but u got me curious now...what is your native language??? is it a secret? i wanna knoooooooow ;)

bookworm_1963
05-29-2005, 03:24 PM
it was this year, i got dared to send a teacher an email..well lets just say it ended with a dirty pic and me NEARLY having federal charges pressed against me..it was the suickest thanksgiving ever!!!orange

samercury
09-21-2005, 09:37 PM
What's the most embarrassing thing that happened to you within the last thirty days/ month.

Stanislaw
09-21-2005, 10:11 PM
I horribly mispronounced phenolphailin (sp.) in class. phenophlaling... :eek:

subterranean
09-22-2005, 01:41 AM
Probably yesterday...when I said something to my co-workers and thought that it was a new thing for them....

mono
09-22-2005, 02:27 PM
Though I do not re-start nursing school until Monday, I have already began lots and lots of reading (which, unfortunately, has subtracted much from my leisure reading). Anyway, going into the last year, we study several specialty fields of nursing, including OB/GYN (obstetrics and gynecology). I very often frequent a nearby coffeehouse, and sit in a relatively secluded area; and in any such textbook, of course, for the more visual learners, there appear seemingly explicit but also scientific pictures. What others judge does not really bother me, but an older woman passed me by the other day, looked into my textbook that I had set down on a small table in front of me while I took notes, looked at me, and shook her head.
I felt quite embarrassed, but, then again, she judged not knowing me as a nursing student. :blush:

shortysweetp
09-22-2005, 03:06 PM
mono that lady should have realized that it was a textbook. my husband is also a medical field major (physical therapy/atheletic trainer) so I have seen his human anatomy book which has those type of pictures too.

As for me I dont really get embarrassed much. I do however tend to mispronanciate(spelling?) words due to a slight speech problem.

miss dream
10-26-2006, 09:56 PM
i wrote this post because i already have a comic action happend with me and my cousin
you dont know how my face now is:blush: :blush:
originally, im a shy girl and what happend with me made my face blushing:blush: :blush: and also all my body began to quake:lol: :lol:
actually idont know what was wrong with me?:D
generally,my story began when i went to visit my uncle i didnt see him for along time so that you find us talking all the time
he told me that all his family went out(i didnt know where thery went) and he remained in the house
after talking and talking he told me that he will went to irrigate what he planted in the garden and said''if you want to come with me outside come and if you dont prefer that you can stay inside''
after that i remained
then i took my way to the upstairs and as you know that there is nobody except me and my uncle
i began to get in each room there (hahahaha i think that what will happen with me now i deserve it)
all of a sudden , my cousin entered his room while i was inside searching in his novels and books about a required novel
that time i didnt know what may i did:flare:
my face became reddish:blush:
and said ummmmmmummmmuuuum hi (i dont know what i may say)
and then said in a screaming voice where are you ? i was looking for you? and your father wanted you? (i asked him alot of ques.)
then i took a ction and got out
i hope that he did not ask his father if he really wanted him or not




waiting your reactions and another hobble actions you have faced:thumbs_up

Shalot
10-26-2006, 10:35 PM
that does sound pretty embarrassing.

here's my moment -- I turned in the wrong paper. In fact, I printed out a personal journal type essay to be read by no one else and handed that in to a professor for a class instead of the paper I wrote.

I am such a tard. Please kill me now. How did this happen?

cuppajoe_9
10-26-2006, 11:27 PM
I can beat that:

In high-school I took a class where I you learn photography and film production and that sort of thing. One of my assignments was to produce a stop-motion animation. The animation technique I used involved manipulating sand on an overhead projector and photographing the shadows it casts on the wall. For this, you need a darkened room and, as it happens, the doors of our darkened rooms lock so you can "work uninterupted". For the first week I had this assignment, I went into the room, turned out the lights and went to sleep. It was a fun class.

Now as it happens, I was in that class with a very attractive red-haired girl who (in this particular class anyway) shared my work ethic. One day, she decided that the best way to avoid our teacher was to join me in my darkened room. It is very important to picture this in your mind: we are two teenage high-school students sitting on a large desk side by side, talking shyly to one another in a darkened room. She slides a little closer. I put my arm around her and, in the process, knock my bag of sand on to the floor, spilling about four kilos of it all over the floor. She colapses laughing.

Ladies and gentlemen: Mr. Suave.

Madhuri
10-27-2006, 02:03 AM
That was close.........;) ;)

sam96
03-06-2007, 01:05 PM
The reason why i'm doing this is because i did something very stupid last night(even more stupid than usual :sick:).I guess i kinda need reassurance that i am intelligent form of life.
Besides,I'm kinda curious.:D

Virgil
03-06-2007, 01:15 PM
The reason why i'm doing this is because i did something very stupid last night(even more stupid than usual :sick:).I guess i kinda need reassurance that i am intelligent form of life.
Besides,I'm kinda curious.:D

Well, until you tell us what you did, why should I tell you mine? :p :D ;)

papayahed
03-06-2007, 03:36 PM
Yeah, fess up.

dramasnot6
03-06-2007, 05:55 PM
Indeed! :D :p I wouldnt know where to start,anyway. Too many stupid deeds done in the course of one day...

sam96
03-06-2007, 06:25 PM
Last night,My mom got her grandmothers' chest.It was a huge chest.So,Me always sweet and gentle.Decided to carry the chest up to our apartment (so that she wouldn't carry it) while she parked the car.
And i did carry the thing up it was huge a 25 kilogram chest.
so,First floor:Hey,The thing is not that heavy.
Second floor:OK,Maybe it is heavy.
Third floor:Gotta finish gotta finish.
Fourth floor finally i reach the place my heart beating real hard(like when tom cs a cute cat and his heart is jumping out).
Now,my mom is up and i'm grasping for air.
"Mom,I can't breath......"
"Mom,Please call dad(he's a doctor)........"
"I think i'm gonna die"
She calls my dad he comes from work in fifteen minutes(in which i threw up :sick:).
And my mom is like y did u carry it?!!
I got her so freaked out it was almost as if she carried it.
To top it off my arms hurt when anything touches them. :bawling:

Drama and Mr.Virg i wouldn't have guessed that you have any thing stupid at all.:D

papayahed
03-06-2007, 07:42 PM
Drama and Mr.Virg i wouldn't have guessed that you have any thing stupid at all.:D


So are you saying that it's perfectly natural for me to do something stupid????:D

papayahed
03-06-2007, 07:48 PM
Bump for Sam

sam96
03-06-2007, 08:21 PM
no,no,no,papayahed,I'm sorry i totally forget i didn't mean it.I'm sleepy it's late i swear i didn't mean it i'm sorry.
Please,forgive me.(talk about stupid)
ans sorry about this moderators,I didn't know that it was done before.

papayahed
03-06-2007, 08:47 PM
no,no,no,papayahed,I'm sorry i totally forget i didn't mean it.I'm sleepy it's late i swear i didn't mean it i'm sorry.
Please,forgive me.(talk about stupid)
ans sorry about this moderators,I didn't know that it was done before.


:lol: No big deal Sam. I was only kidding.


Embarrassing moment:

At one job the Lab was upstairs and the main office was just below. A few of the Directors of the company were having a meeting in the downstairs office. I was walking (ok running) down the stairs I tripped on the last step and fell flat on my face in front of everybody.

sam96
03-07-2007, 07:57 AM
Once,Papayahed,When i was a kid.I was in this hotel(a very classy 1).It had glass walls and the door was blank space between them.So,I'm running for the door and "door no glass,door no glass,AHA DOOR.......Bang.
Nope glass:bawling:(to my defence the glass was too clean) reallyyyyy classy.
(sadly i was wearing my glasses when i hit the glass so the frame left a red mark just like the glasses as if i was wearing it when i'm not).

P.S.
Thank you,papayahed.;)

kathycf
03-07-2007, 04:10 PM
I was at my uncle's wedding reception at a fancy steakhouse restaurant in Boston when I was 12. There was a table in another room just outside where our group had their big long table. (small reception) On this table was a plate of luscious little brownies and after dinner I kept getting up and taking one, and after the third trip up (ok, they were REALLY little brownies, so I wasn't being too terribly greedy...:p :blush: ) I slipped and fell because I was wearing my first ever pair of high heel shoes. BAM! Right down on the floor, brownies flying all over the place. Oye, it was awful...plus they took the plate away after that...:(

So don't feel too embarrassed, sam. S**t happens. :D

papayahed
09-10-2007, 09:50 PM
Anyone else?

SleepyWitch
09-11-2007, 02:45 AM
heehee, I knew this thread was around somewhere (to lazy too search for it, though)

at my univ, there's this bloke (around 40ish) who walks up and down the main street near one of the univ buildings a lot. I have to walk up that way in the mornings to get to another building. so I saw this bloke every morning and somehow may two little brain cells thought he was someone I'm supposed to know, like a "famous" linguist/ someone who attends the lectures of our centre.
so I flash my friendliest smile by way of a greeting every morning.
after a couple of weeks it dawns on me, that I might be mixing the bloke up with someone. :blush:
so now I take a different rout, but the bloke pops up whereever I go and even though I pretend not to see him, he looks at me.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, this is so embarrassing...

papayahed
01-15-2008, 06:13 PM
Anyone else?

I got one. Yesterday we had some electricians come in, they were new to our plant so they had to watch our orientation film and do some training. The one guy removed his hard hat and his skull was tattooed with flames and there was writing on the right side of his head. So of course I had to see what it said. As I was handing the guy his paperwork I almost tripped over myself trying to read what it said. After they were done my coworker asked me if I could be anymore obvious. I was slightly embarrassed, but only for a minute.

The tattoo said: Kill'em all let god sort it out

Now that's a pretty bold statement let only having it on your skull. He was very polite and nice but my inclination is to think he's in a gang or a skinhead.

papayahed
04-06-2008, 09:36 AM
At work we have a lot of road that isn't paved, it's just gravel and dirt, most of the process area is paved. Last week I was walking through the process area and some how walked funny and twisted my ankle. My hard hat went one way my safety glasses went the other. For a second i didn't think anybody saw me but when I looked up there were three guys walking out of the maintenance building and I knew I was busted. It would have been expected on the gravel but not on the paved smooth area.

Pensive
04-06-2008, 09:53 AM
Embarrassing? Hmmm I didn't care much for those who cared for me and cared for the wrong person. Nothing more embarrassing than this.

papayahed
04-16-2008, 09:31 PM
At work we have an underground water pipe (~4 ft). At one point there is a valve in the line to open and close the line. There is a pole sticking out of the ground which allows you to open and close the valve from above ground. A few days ago I checked and it looked like the valve/pipe was leaking. yadda yadda yadda it got fixed. Today I checked the valve. Now water had been leaking from the valve for the previous two days, the water was being pumped out but the area was still muddy. I had to check the valve today to make sure it ould open and close. I knew it would be a little muddy so before I got near the valve I rolled up my pant legs just in case. I took a step off the grating into the muddy area and everything was fine, the dirt was firm. A few more step and all was good. I took my last step to get to the pole and I sunk to about my knee in mud, in the process my other leg sunk to about halfway to my knee. I was sure I as going to lose my shoes getting myself out of the mud. I freed myself from the mud but i looked like I as dipped in chocolate from the knees down!!

Nobody saw me get stuck, but I didn't walk very far until the engineer saw me and made sure to tell everybody what happened.

Tournesol
04-16-2008, 10:58 PM
Is something still embarassing, even if there's no one around to see?

Ok, so I went to a hike. The trail was very muddy, and everyone had mud up their ankles, some up to their shins.

The hike group sparsed-out, and eventually it's my brother and I walking for a while. We came to a clearing in the woods, with a cute wooden sign about 2ft high, that said 'REST STOP'.

Well, I was so frustrated with the hike, and the mud, I walked up to the sign to kick it! But because my feet were coated in mud, when I extended my right foot to kick, my left foot slipped out from under me, and I fell flat on my butt!!!!

My bro laughed at me so long! It was embarassing, but thank God none of the other hikers were around!

*Classic*Charm*
04-17-2008, 01:43 AM
I put my foot in my mouth again. it seems to live there these days. I think I need to start being more careful bout what I say to people.

naomi moon
05-02-2008, 05:52 AM
The most embarrassing moment that I can remember is on my way home I twisted my ankle I don't how, like PAPAYAHED, and I almost fell, thank god, I find my balance immediately and I kept face:lol: till that moment. there were a lot of people there, a guy and two girl was walking before me and once they noticed what happened they started laughing, they almost suffocated. Poor me, I was in pain, my foot hurts like hell, and I was blushing and wished I could vanish:lol: but after a while I started laughing too like a crazy, all alone while walking with a great difficulty.

papayahed
10-25-2008, 10:40 AM
This morning I flashed three contractors.:blush:. I went out to go over a procedure with them, my shoe was untied so I stopped about 3 ft in front of them they were busy getting thing ready but when I stood back up all three were looking at me...and my top, which apparently opens when I'm stooped over.:blush:

zanna
03-13-2009, 02:53 AM
I was studying in an 'open classroom' we have on my campus when I noticed a cute guy I'd been meaning to approach over by the electric pencil sharpener. Since I'm shy and indecisive, when I got the idea to sharpen my pencil and chat him up, I immediately started across the room, before I had a chance to chicken out.

I almost sharpened my favorite mechanical pencil!

papayahed
03-16-2009, 08:40 PM
This isn't really embarrassing but it could have been. As ya'll have heard me whining I've been working a lot of hours, so have all my coworkers. As it happens when people spend a lot of time together they get a little more comfortable. I've heard more farting, burping, and other assorted noises from these people more these past two weeks then in the entire past 2 years. Anyways this afternoon as it sometimes happens I needed to adjust my bra. So sitting in my office I don't think anything of it I lift up my top and fix the strap. About halfway through I realized where I was and what I was doing. Luckily nobody walked by while I had my top lifted.

Scheherazade
03-16-2009, 08:43 PM
This morning I flashed three contractors.:blush:. I went out to go over a procedure with them, my shoe was untied so I stopped about 3 ft in front of them they were busy getting thing ready but when I stood back up all three were looking at me...and my top, which apparently opens when I'm stooped over.:blush:


This isn't really embarrassing but it could have been. As ya'll have heard me whining I've been working a lot of hours, so have all my coworkers. As it happens when people spend a lot of time together they get a little more comfortable. I've heard more farting, burping, and other assorted noises from these people more these past two weeks then in the entire past 2 years. Anyways this afternoon as it sometimes happens I needed to adjust my bra. So sitting in my office I don't think anything of it I lift up my top and fix the strap. About halfway through I realized where I was and what I was doing. Luckily nobody walked by while I had my top lifted.This is becoming a recurring theme!

:D

papayahed
03-17-2009, 07:44 AM
This is becoming a recurring theme!

:D

:(:blush::lol:

papayahed
09-18-2011, 09:30 PM
anybody else?

MystyrMystyry
09-18-2011, 09:41 PM
I won't believe those stories until I see photographic evidence :D

@Papayahed - yours are excused (your stories)

Stanislaw
09-19-2011, 09:14 AM
Recently there was a stat holiday... that had slipped my mind. I woke up a bit earlier than normal, had a nice breakfast and decided to head to our shop ahead of schedule, when I arrived I noticed no one had parked in the unreserved (best) parking stalls, so I thought myself quite lucky that the foremen were loafing today and I managed to be first at work. I chose a prime stall and walked over to the building where the guard on duty asked if there had been a hit power pole or other cable faults in the city... I of course said no and pontificated about the 'early bird getting the worm'... and he replied, 'about 24 hrs early, today is a stat'. Heh, I was rather embarrassed.

Idril
09-24-2011, 03:34 PM
To set this up I have to explain that I have somehow set my phone settings to read aloud all my texts unless my ringer is on silent or vibrate. I don't know how it happened nor have I figured out how to fix it. Sometimes I forget this and it reads aloud texts I'd rather it not, this is an example of such a time...

I was running some errands, one of which was to buy a halter shirt I could wear my new halter bra with because I bought the bra without having a shirt I could wear it with, I liked the color and the cool magnetic closure. :D I had texted my friend, Mallory, asking her if she was around because I wanted to take pictures of the shirts I was trying on and send them to her so she could tell me if they were slutty because halter shirts can sometimes be slutty. In the meantime, I had gone into the store and was looking at shirts, standing very close to a nice elderly woman when I got a text back from Mallory. Not even thinking about the fact that my ringer was turned up to full volume, I opened the text which said, "Good lord woman! You own more underwear than Imelda Marcos owns shoes!". I could only look at the woman next to me and admit that yeah, I kind of did have a lot of underwear. :p Luckily she had a good sense of humor and found it very funny. :blush: