embarrassing moments

[scem0]

What embarrassing stories do you have to tell?

I'll go first.

http://forums.macrumors.com/images/icons/icon2.gif I was at a friends party and 3 people there were able to do backflips on the trampoline. So me and the other 2 people were seeng who could do the most flips in succession without falling off. Well, being the competitor I was I had to beat this dude who had done 6, and I was right at the end of the trampline. You must realize that there is no pause in between the flips so you don't exactly have a bunch of time to ponder whether another backflip is smart or not, so I decided I'd try and get one more in. I ended up flipping off the trampoline and landing on my back on the ground. I was thoroughly emmbarrassed, but then the dude who had 6 flips tried to do 7 and he did the same thing :p.
http://forums.macrumors.com/images/icons/icon2.gif Another trampoline story. I was jumping on my own trampoline. Naturally showing off :rolleyes:, and there was a TINY little rip in the middle of the trampoline. It had been there about a week so I didn't think much of it. But when I tore throught that tiny little hole when showing how I could do 3 spins before landing on by back, I was a little embarrased ;). The 'tear' is more than my body length, and the trampline is (obviously) un-usable. A shame - I taught myself every acrobatic thing I can do with the trampoline. :(
http://forums.macrumors.com/images/icons/icon2.gif This doesn't seem very embarrassing, but at the time it was sooooo embarrassing. When I was in first grade I had a really good friend named Sarah. We were mad at each other for something stupid which I have long forgotten, and so as I was walking from the front of the room to my desk Sarah yelled "Emerson eats his buggars" and everyone laughed. Things like that don't seem that embarrasing, but they really are..... even if they are true :eek: ;). BTW - I still hate Sarah. JK, if we went to the same school we would still be friends :).

That's all I can think of for now. I have more though.

scem0

[evil]

last year i was walking down yonge st. in downtown toronto...and my fly was down. this wouldnt be soo bad except that i had no underwear on. i realized after about a block.
true story.

[Pete_Hoover]

Originally posted by evil
last year i was walking down yonge st. in downtown toronto...and my fly was down. this wouldnt be soo bad except that i had no underwear on. i realized after about a block.
true story.

That had to be embarrassing.

[tazo]

hmm.
the list is pretty long on my end :P

a few pantsings, a few voice cracks. the usual teenage crap :P

[Doctor Q]

I was trying to impress a magazine columnist with my brilliant and witty observations (as I no doubt do with all of you!). I was preparing an e-mail to him by cutting and pasting from a bunch of notes I had written previously, which I planned to edit down into something intelligent. Well, you guessed it - I hit SEND by mistake. I had that split second where my brain said "AARRRGGH - stop Stop STOP!" while my e-mail client connected to the server, but I couldn't actually hit STOP fast enough. I did my best to finish the real e-mail and I started it with Please Ignore Previous E-mail - I Hit Send Too Soon! but he probably read both, so I had plenty of egg on my face with that guy.

[evil]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
I was trying to impress a magazine columnist with my brilliant and witty observations (as I no doubt do with all of you!). I was preparing an e-mail to him by cutting and pasting from a bunch of notes I had written previously, which I planned to edit down into something intelligent. Well, you guessed it - I hit SEND by mistake. I had that split second where my brain said "AARRRGGH - stop Stop STOP!" while my e-mail client connected to the server, but I couldn't actually hit STOP fast enough. I did my best to finish the real e-mail and I started it with Please Ignore Previous E-mail - I Hit Send Too Soon! but he probably read both, so I had plenty of egg on my face with that guy.

that is quite amusing. luckily ive never had that problem

[Stike]

It´s not really embarrassing (okay, maybe) but I call that story the "Terminator Fly".
I was sitting with some friends in a restaurant, and usually, there are some few flys too... One was sitting then right in front of me on the table, and I wanted to see blood.
Okay, I focused, and BAM my whole hand landed on the beast. I pulled it back to see the result, and that MONSTER flew away!!! You can´t imagine how pissed I was... :p

[MattG]

I was in computer programming class in high school, and we had these chairs with rollers on them. One day I tried to roll backwards, and I pushed off a little too hard with my feet. The wheels got caught on the carpet or something, and the chair just fell straight back onto the floor, with me on it. It sucked :)

[tpjunkie]

In my freshman precept in the winter term, I was sitting in my chair, leaning back against the wall of the classroom. All of a sudden, the chair legs lose their grip on the carpet, and the whole chair, with me on it slides back and lands on the floor with my legs in the air. It was pretty funny though, and my professor laughed.

[wdlove]

I just glad to hear that scem0 was Ok after his accidents. I've new many news accounts of how dangerous a trampoline can end up being. He could have had a serious back or neck injury. It's out of concern for scem0.

As for something embarassing. I also had a chair fall apart that I was sitting on, everyone said it's an old chair and bound to happen. There comment didn't help the embarassing feeling though!

[pEZ]

Now this is just funny -

I lost a game and had to stand at the back of a cruise ship and sing the opening lines of "My Heart Will Go On" in the loudest voice possible with my arms extended in standard "Titanic" fashion.

Never gonna forget that.

[BaghdadBob]

When I was in Jr. High we were on block scheduling. If you haven't heard of it, that's where you have eight periods, but serve them even and odd on alternating days, except I think Mondays in which you would have all of them.

Anyway, so you would only have gym class every other day. I didn't have a locker there because I had come in mid year, so usually I just wore my gym shorts under my pants because it was first period.

So, one day, I forgot that I had gym class that day, and I didn't have my shorts on, they were in my backpack.......I also happened to be commando that day.

I tried to find a discrete wat to change into them in a low visibility area with my shirt hanging below my butt, but someone saw me anyway. Let's just say I still had people giving me crap about that in my sophomore year in HS.

I've had plenty of embarrasing moments, but that's one that comes to mind...

[Kwyjibo]

some of these stories are me others are close friends...i'm not afraid to admit which ones are me....
-this one kid in my gym class was depantsed while doing pushups....the person grabeed too much and pulled the underwear ...the kid fell off the pullup bar when he reached for his shorts it wa quite funny
-the same year, we were all messing around which each others shoes and someone decided to throw them up over the rafter...someone grabbed my shoe and it got stuck up there...it was quite hard to explain to the janitor
-I flipped over my handle bars going off a home-maderamp..not fun
-my dad messed with my old bike one day and didn't tighten the front wheel right...an hour later i was showing off and boom the front wheel was off .....i hit the ground hard...sadly the bike was stolen not soon after...wheel firmly attached...
-during class a chair broke, the seat came off from the legs...it was a werid break and the teacher put the parts in the corner...a few minutes later the lesson ended and we set the chair back up...and called a kid over who hadn't really paid attention to the chari incident.. i pretended to ask him about a date or his homework and he sat down in the chari we setup...as hes sitting down the teacher starts yelling NOOOOO don't sit....the kid fell kinda hardbut we all had a good laugh...whenever i think of it i think of slow motion like a movie when theres a bullet at an important character

ahhh high school

[brandon_deal]

Originally posted by evil
last year i was walking down yonge st. in downtown toronto...and my fly was down. this wouldnt be soo bad except that i had no underwear on. i realized after about a block.
true story.


i dont think i have ever heard one that bad, lol

[WinterMute]

On my wedding night, we had retired to the Bridal Suite;) at about 3 am, my new wife suggested we try the whirlpool bath, (it's legal, we were married).

I noticed I had that "new sock fluff" all over my feet, and thought I'd wash it off in the sink before getting in the bath, so I hoisted my foot into the basin, and went straight through the damn thing, porcelain and water all over the place, I fell on my arse and Sally nearly drowned laughing, so much for suave and sophisticated.

Pride hurt more than my foot I'm glad to say.

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by WinterMute
On my wedding night, we had retired to the Bridal Suite;) at about 3 am, my new wife suggested we try the whirlpool bath, (it's legal, we were married).

I noticed I had that "new sock fluff" all over my feet, and thought I'd wash it off in the sink before getting in the bath, so I hoisted my foot into the basin, and went straight through the damn thing, porcelain and water all over the place, I fell on my arse and Sally nearly drowned laughing, so much for suave and sophisticated.

Pride hurt more than my foot I'm glad to say.

hahaha. one too many brews i think. ;) classic story.

[WinterMute]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
hahaha. one too many brews i think. ;) classic story.

Nah, what's even more embarrasing is that I was stone cold sober, been teetotal since I was 18:eek:

Sally reminds me of the incident at least once a month, and we've been married 8 years.

[Moxiemike]

God. I might be the king of embarassment.

When i was 16, I had a VW Beetle (old style--1976). I was um, getting some pleasure from my then gf in her driveway (which was on a slope). She bumped the parking brake, which was loosey-goosey (old vw, what can i say!) and the brake went loose. Didn't notice until the car started rolling forward and smashed into her dad's mercede's, setting the alarm off. He bolted from the house and i jumped out of the car to check and make sure there wasn't much damage. Well, only my pride was damaged, as i didn't think to put little brain away... He wasn't too happy. I never saw her again. Haa.

Alot of these involve my old band. We drank probably a bit too much. One night, we were playing a show at this big showcase venue, and they gave us free lemon drops. A whole tray of Absolut Citron. Well, at the end, our guitarist and I decided to go rockstar and leap from the very wobbly drum riser. Well, the thing gave out, from the front, and sent the drumset, me and our guitarist tumbling forward. That was the end of that set. But it worked out ok, there was a girl from HS there who had a crush on me and she was so impressed with our band and ended up buying my bruised ego many beers!

One time, we played an outdoor show in the middle of summer. We played the night before, got home at 3 and ketp drinking until 6am. Took some naps and proceeded to the venue at 10 o'clock, completely trashed. We found out they gave us a free keg (a small one, maybe a half) and we proceeded to kill it, then play some volleyball. Outside. In the scorching heat. We went to relax before the show, and our muscles started to tighten up, prolly from drinking too much in 90+ degree weather. We stood like robots on stage and played. It was a bizarre show.

There was one time when I played hockey where I forgot to take off my skate guards. They usually used to send goalies on the ice first, and we would do a "sprint" like start, to get the crowd and the teammates into it. Well, i went to do my sprint and BLAM! Face plant on the ice. the thing is, my teammates had followed closely behind and ended up toppling over me. It was BAD. We ended up winning the game though, 2-1. I VIVIDLY remember that.

Hm. There was one CLASSIC time where I was at this café/bar with a few friends. I saw this CUTE girl wander to the bar area and decided to go get me a beer. I was standing about two seats away from her, SHAMELESSLY checking her out (the way she leaned over the bar was VERY sexy). I looked over at her and smiled, paid for my brew and walked out to the café area to chill with my peeps. Turns out her sister was with her, and underage, so she bought coffee and sat on the couches near my friends. So i ended up chatting her up (the cute one from the bar) and it turned out I worked at her dad's ad agency. Hehee. pittsburgh is a TOTALLY small town. Anyway, we got on well and exchanged numbers. A few days later, on sunday, I was in the South Hills of Pittsburgh for a quick meeting, and I was gassin' up my car when I hear "Don;t you even think of pursuing my daughter" booming like god from the heavens. It was my boss! I looked around but couldn't find him....He was parked at the gas stall right behind me. hilarious. He was joking of course, but she was in college far away and nothing came of it. He never did quit ribbing me about it though... until I quit and started my own biz! :)

[evoluzione]

hahah, nice ones moxie....
wintermute ... absof***inlutely classic!


ok, coupe of one from when i were younger...

I was cycling home from a friend's house, had a disk box (this was back in my Commodore Amiga days) strapped to the rack on the back of the bicycle, and i felt it unbalancing the bike, so i looked round, saw it starting to slip off, and i tried to readjust it. next thing i know, i'm sailing over the top of this parked car which i had hit full on. must've been very cool to watch, and me being me, i was less worried about hurting myself than i was making sure i didn't lose any disks or anything.

another time, waiting for the school bus...it trundles along and pulls into the little bay, overshooting where it normally stops, so i trot backwards, then turn around so i'm going forwards not backwards, BAM! head first into a concrete lamp-post, ended up with a big ol' yellow and purple stripe down the middle of my face. i did get two days off school with concusion though :)


and about 3 years ago, here in NYC, me and some buddies went to Flashdancers, a "gentlemen's club" and i had rather too much to drink, ended up getting 3 lapdances in a row from this real hot dancer there. she told me how much it was and i was like "HOW MUCH!??", kind of embarrassing in itself, but then a few months later, a bunch of us went there again, and this girl i've got the hots for joins us, we've met once or twice before, and i'm sitting at a table next to her and another female friend, who nudges me and says "hey matt, ain't that your girl from last time over there???" to which i reply "hmm, nah i don't think so". I forget about it, start chatting to the girl i like when all of a sudden this dancer comes up behind me, starts nibbling on my ear and says "hey matt, how are ya?" talk about killing my game. but, in the end, we ended up together for two years (the girl i liked, not the stripper haha)

[dreamlance]

Hmm I don't think I have too many (Moxie, yours are great!). I remember having a Marilyn Monroe "wind under dress" moment when I was six-ish on the playground, right in front of this teacher I had just had some intelligent conversation with (as if a six year old can have very intelligent conversations). The other one was tripping in the cafeteria during junior high and sliding, food-filled tray and all, down the aisle, with spaghetti flying everywhere.

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by evoluzione
i was less worried about hurting myself than i was making sure i didn't lose any dicks or anything.


you have some to spare? i could use one, or an addition as it were...

[shadowfax]

i started messing around trying to drive my dad's 5-speed altima this week. family's gone, and a standard is more interesting to drive than an automatic... and harder, since i am relatively new and very out of practice. i do pretty well, if not really well, alone, but having people in the car really aggravates it for me. had a girl in the passenger seat last night, and i was jerking the damn car everywhere shifting. she kept asking what the hell i was doing. pretty bad....

[evoluzione]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
you have some to spare? i could use one, or an addition as it were...

ohhhhh s**t, nice typo there, lemme go back and edit that right now! :eek:

[WinterMute]

Originally posted by evoluzione
ohhhhh s**t, nice typo there, lemme go back and edit that right now! :eek:

Now I thought it sounded better with the dicks, I know the only major crack-up I had on a push-bike, involved landing on the crossbar:eek: :eek:

[vniow]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
you have some to spare? i could use one, or an addition as it were...

Hope you have some to spare!

[crazytom]

I did some pretty stupid stuff in college, the most embarrassing:

I lived on the 4th floor of a dorm. I noticed that for a week, there was this toilet bowl just sitting on the grass behind our building. I thought it would make a great flower pot for my room. So one drunken night I went to go get it. It wasn't until I got it to the 3rd floor that it started to slosh around (keep in mind, this is college and the bowl has been outside for over a week)....I raced up the remaining floor and threw it in the shower in hopes of 'cleaning it out'. I let the shower run and went back to my room. It didn't take long for the RA (who was a COMPLETE A-HOLE) to discover the oddity in the shower. It took him 4 days to figure out who did it. He called a floor meeting and pointed the finger at me in front of everyone.

I got back at him in little ways: I'd blast my stereo with a sound effect of a plate glass window breaking...he wasted a lot of time checking rooms for a broken window!!!

[Moxiemike]

Originally posted by crazytom
I did some pretty stupid stuff in college, the most embarrassing:

I lived on the 4th floor of a dorm. I noticed that for a week, there was this toilet bowl just sitting on the grass behind our building. I thought it would make a great flower pot for my room. So one drunken night I went to go get it. It wasn't until I got it to the 3rd floor that it started to slosh around (keep in mind, this is college and the bowl has been outside for over a week)....I raced up the remaining floor and threw it in the shower in hopes of 'cleaning it out'. I let the shower run and went back to my room. It didn't take long for the RA (who was a COMPLETE A-HOLE) to discover the oddity in the shower. It took him 4 days to figure out who did it. He called a floor meeting and pointed the finger at me in front of everyone.

I got back at him in little ways: I'd blast my stereo with a sound effect of a plate glass window breaking...he wasted a lot of time checking rooms for a broken window!!!

I'm in awe. That's KICKASS/ Glass plate. haha

We did some dumb stuff in college. I was drunk or **** most of the time... so i'll have to think or look in my journal.

I do know my friend and i got interviewed by the class paper about smoking once. That was fun. :D

[patrick0brien]

-All

Wow! All these good stories and not one regarding flatulence!

Well, I'll break that streak...

Many moons ago I was in my Business Communications night class in college. Now the way this class goes is it was pretty much 50/50 traditional/non-traditional students and was fairly noisy all the time.

Except this little stretch of about four seconds of pure silence when I ripped a reverberating winner I didn't feel coming.

You ever get that flash of heat on the back of your neck that extends up to your ears?

[jayscheuerle]

Originally posted by patrick0brien
... I ripped a reverberating winner I didn't feel coming.

You ever get that flash of heat on the back of your neck that extends up to your ears?

I tend to notice the smell more than the heat. That's impressive!

[jayscheuerle]

When my wife and I were first dating, we went waterskiing with my folks. It was the first time out for the year and my dad hadn't checked or tuned up the engine after it sat all winter, so when we get it into the water, the motor won't start. We tie the boat to the dock while dad starts getting all pissy and taking the cover off the outboard to work on it. He's wearing some beat up, old and baggy bathing suit with a loose liner and while he's leaning over the engine, his old-man, droopy dog ball sack comes dropping out his leg hole right in front of everyone (even the other families on the dock). My mom mentions this to him, but he's in such a bad mood at this point that he doesn't do anything about it. Mortified, she and my girlfriend take off to the snack-bar, while I hang around to help if needed, noticing the look of horror on everyone else that walks by.

When we got home, my mother threw out every suit he owned and bought him a half-dozen new ones.

I'm shaking my head as I type this. It was soooooo wrong!

[Foxer]

Late summer 1995. About two days after returning to the US after living overseas for a couple years. I am making fun of "Connection" by Elastica, by mocking the "Duuuhmmm" synthisizer sound that permiates the record. So we walk into a smallish coffee house while I'm going "Duuuhmmm" as loud as I can. Who turns out to be in the coffee shop? My ex-fiance who I hadn't seen since I left a couple years before (when we were engaged.)

Yeah, I felt like a winner.

[Doctor Q]

I went to a large party. The next day, I e-mailed a friend and said "You should have been there" and told him about various people I had talked to at the party. He e-mailed back and said "You may not remember talking to me, but I certainly remember talking to you!" It turns out he was at the party and we had talked. I guess he wasn't very memorable, but it was embarrassing that I had told him so.

[Yodahere]

I was at the school gym on one day. Teacher suggest to play a volleyball. I guess he was trying to teach the class. My gym shorts were kind of big on me around my waist. Anyway, I was having so much fun playing the volleyball when I hit the ball, My gym shorts suddenly fell down to my ankles!! I was flustered as I bend down to pull them back up being a laughstock from my classmates. Even worst, whole bunch of girls standing there laughing at me when they saw my scoobydoo boxers! I didn't notice them standing there in whole time seeing my shorts fell down exposing my scoobydoo boxers. I was sooooo totally big time embarrassed. Damn! :o :eek:

[virividox]

I went to a large party. The next day, I e-mailed a friend and said "You should have been there" and told him about various people I had talked to at the party. He e-mailed back and said "You may not remember talking to me, but I certainly remember talking to you!" It turns out he was at the party and we had talked. I guess he wasn't very memorable, but it was embarrassing that I had told him so.

that is classic!!!

my momment:

I back in hs i had this girl classmate who i used to always play around with; we were good buddies; anyway one day she had her back turned, so i come up from behind and pick her up and cover her eyes. turns out it wasnt her, but her mom; they looked so alike from the back (young mother) i was like OMG!!! i couldnt even say sorry i was just in shock when my friend comes up and says 'what do you think your doing to my mom'

[sebisworld]

I was an exchange student living in AK two years ago and while I was there, my area representative told me a story about an exchange student who had asked her teacher for a "rubber" during an exam with about 200 (IMHO) people being in the same room.

And even up to today, every student in Germany is still taught that all rubbers are erasers.

[Neserk]

I was at the school gym on one day. Teacher suggest to play a volleyball. I guess he was trying to teach the class. My gym shorts were kind of big on me around my waist. Anyway, I was having so much fun playing the volleyball when I hit the ball, My gym shorts suddenly fell down to my ankles!! I was flustered as I bend down to pull them back up being a laughstock from my classmates. Even worst, whole bunch of girls standing there laughing at me when they saw my scoobydoo boxers! I didn't notice them standing there in whole time seeing my shorts fell down exposing my scoobydoo boxers. I was sooooo totally big time embarrassed. Damn! :o :eek:

That is too funny. It could have been a lot worse ;)

[alxths]

-All

Wow! All these good stories and not one regarding flatulence!


Unfortunately, I feel that I can carry the baton after that one...

Last fall I attended some speech regarding some human rights abuses that were going on as a result of the 'war on terror.' I'd gotten there a bit late; the speech had already started, and all of the hundred or so seats were taken so i was standing against a wall near the front of the room; deep in thought about a question that i was intending to ask during the Q&A period at the end(which i ironically thought would make me seem very intelligent), when all of a sudden--and i have no bloody clue how this thing got from point A to point B so secretively, since as im sure all of you know, we're usually given ample warning--a sound eminated from me. How far the sound carried, i can't be too sure, but it's reasonable to assume that there was at least a fifteen foot radius; even then it would've been quite ambiguous as to who it came from specifically. But with all of the blood having rushed from my brain to my face, i wasnt thinking so clearly and i turned towards the people around me and made a sort of "well i dont know how that happened?!!?" gesture... :o

Hm, having spoken about this has made it not bother me too much anymore :cool:

You know what, has anything like this ever happened to a girl.. ever? It just occured to me, that i've been present when it's happened to many a unfortunate gentleman, but never a female.

[Neserk]

For some anatomical reason I don't understand females rarely make noises when passing gas. Perhaps males are just under more pressure?

[Doctor Q]

An appropriate story for Memorial Day...

I was once a guest at a school gathering where the President of the United States spoke (because the school made it a good photo op). A family I knew (mom, dad, older kid, younger kid) was invited to stand on the podium (raised platform) with the President. There were various other people on the podium too, and Secret Service men (with the stereotypical sunglasses and earphones!) all around the outside.

After the event, I went out to dinner with my family and there, in the next booth, was the family that had been "on stage". We went over to chat with them and said "That must have been quite an honor." The Dad replied "That was the worst experience of my life!"

Horrified, we listened as he told his story. His younger son, who was elementary school age, had needed a bathroom while the family was waiting in a "ready room" before the President arrived. But the Secret Service people said nobody could go into or out of the ready room. The boy had to wait. When they were ushered onto the podium, he still had to go, and the family was getting desperate. The President arrived and started his speech, and there they were, on stage, with the little boy fidgeting and trying to hold on. They shuffled to the back of the podium and finally pleaded with the Secret Service men behind them to let him off the podium or to let him "go" anywhere out of sight. They said they were sory, but nobody could leave. So he had to wet his pants, in front of everybody he knew, and the whole family was horribly embarrassed.

Sitting in the audience, I hadn't noticed any of this going on at the time, and I bet other people didn't either, but I could just imagine how awful it must have been for the poor kid, his poor parents, and even his poor sibling.

[Balin64]

This one is embarrassing in retrospect...

When I was a young man in college, I was the photo editor for my uni paper. I got an assignment to cover an interview at a downtown penthouse with a reporter of ours with the two leads of "Hackers." Being the good journalist I was, I showed up early. I was admitted into the penthouse by a girl about my age, dressed all in black. She was really cool and tré sexy. She asked me my name and what I did, and then offered me a drink: I said yes: Whiskey/Coke (I am a Beatles fan, after all, although at the time I was only 19). So I started talking to this girl whom I assume is with the publicist for the movie (this was in Southern California, and the movie people are everywhere). Anyway, we shoot the bull for about twenty minutes and I am treating her like a normal girl, you know, asking her about her likes/dislikes and her taste in music, etc. It even crossed my mind to ask her out! Anyway, we hear voices down the hall and in comes Ryan Philipe and the reporter: she says: great, we're all here, let's get started. I must have looked like a dope: she says: "Oh, I'm Angelina Jolie. Let's go do this." I had NO idea who she was at the time. Of course now everytime I see her in a movie I must relive my faux pas. I have plenty of friends who don't believe this story at first... luckily, I still have the negs from the shoot!

[BaDBoY]

For some anatomical reason I don't understand females rarely make noises when passing gas. Perhaps males are just under more pressure?

i dont know.. i think they relax themselves before they pass some gas.... or maybe they act loud and crazy opefully you wuldnt hear it.. like some people i know.. haha

[virividox]

i dont know.. i think they relax themselves before they pass some gas.... or maybe they act loud and crazy opefully you wuldnt hear it.. like some people i know.. haha

maybe thats why they go to the bathroom so often

[Nermal]

-my dad messed with my old bike one day and didn't tighten the front wheel right...an hour later i was showing off and boom the front wheel was off .....i hit the ground hard...sadly the bike was stolen not soon after...wheel firmly attached...

I used to only take my bike to school on Wednesdays, because I didn't live far away, so I usually walked. But I had a music lesson straight after school on Wednesdays so I'd take the bike so that I could get there in time.

One day, not Wednesday, I took my bike for some reason. And of course, completely forgot about it when I went home. I didn't even notice until the next day, when I got to class and everyone asked about my bike. It turned out that someone had snuck into school in the middle of the night and they stole the wheels off the bike, leaving the frame behind!

So I had to put up with the whole class making fun of my "skeleton bike" (the class was mainly 11 and 12 year olds).

On the plus side, I got a new bike. Two years later, we went away for a week, for Easter. Got back and found the bike stolen :(

[Apple Hobo]

Wow! All these good stories and not one regarding flatulence!


I'll add one. This one took place a long, long time ago when I was in 5th grade. I was feeling sick, so I went to the school clinic. I was in there with my head down on the desk, trying to sleep while someone came to pick me up. All of a sudden I had a great urge to puke. Luckily, I was sitting with my back to a sink, so I got up from the chair, turned around 180 degrees, and emptied the contents of my stomach into the sink--all in one swift move. While puking my guts out, I ripped a big one. And there were a couple other students watching me do all of this farting/puking. I heard them making some comments, but I don't know what they said. I ended up stinking up the entire office with vomit stink (the clinic was in the front office).

Then there was the time I stepped on a rake. It flew up and whacked me in the head--just like you see in cartoons. It left one of those huge lumps on my head--just like you see in the cartoons! All things considered, I'm lucky I didn't get a concussion.

While in high school, I remember making a somewhat loud comment about some hot girl who rode my bus. My friend pointed out that she was standing right above me on the 2nd floor over where we were sitting. I thought he was just joking to scare me, but she really was there, and I think she heard me. :o

I'm sure I have a few more embarrassing stories, but I can't remember them.

[Doctor Q]

Here's a horrible one.

Did you ever start to type a MacRumors post and then mistakenly click Submit Reply before you were finished typ

[kgarner]

Okay, I've got three here. One happened to a friend of mine and then two different flatulence stories (one of me and one of the wife, to prove that is does happen to girls too).

My friend had an old VW Bug (probably similar to moxie) and it was starting to fall apart. Well, on his way to work on day he was coming around a corner at a bit of an excessive speed (as was his custom). Well the lateral force of this manuever forced him against the door which swung open. Since he was not wearing his seatbelt he pretty much fell out of the car and rolled into the street. This all happened in front of a friend's house who runs a sheet-rocking business from there and so all the crew was out there getting ready to go. The car is now ghostriding toward the friend's house, bounces off the rear corner of the friend's Acura, jumps the curb, and then bumps in the tree in the front yard and stops.

Now for the other two. I was in drivers ed class in HS and my teacher was telling a bunch of jokes and we were all laughing REALLY hard. I tried to hold it as long as I could, but it escaped very loudly. This prompted everyone in my vicinity (includign my teacher) to push their desks back leaving little doubt as to who was the offending party.

And lastly, we were having a little family get together over at our house including my sister's roommates. We were all having a great time when my wife (who was and currently is pregnant) let one rip. Everyone laughed because they thought at first that it was my two year old son, but one of the roommates asked if it was him and my wife who was laughing really hard (as she does when she is embarrassed) said no that is just one fo those "pregnancy" things. then everyone laughed even more.

Ah, good times, good times.

[Counterfit]

I've got two bike ones, a skiing one, and a flatulent one :)
The first bike one:
I was riding down my aunt's street, which is a hill, to get back home. (I can make it up the hill in 17 seconds on my bike if I sprint, not very far :)) This is on my old POS Roadmaster with the sidepull brakes. I hadn't practiced good braking technique before, so my back brakes were completely shot. For some reason I jabbed the front brake and over I went.

Okay that was more "painful" than embarrassing..

Second bike one:
I was on Martha's Vineyard with my brother and parents. My father was going to be playing a concert at the Mormon Tabernacle that evening with The American Band (oldest/second oldest concert band in the country). We had all rented bikes, but my mother had hurt herself earlier in the day (watch out for those sidewalks, they're killers ;)) so she and my father were hanging back. My brother and I were a ways in front, and came upon a split in the bike path. I pulled over onto the dirt/grass, and hit the brakes. Except, these bikes had v-brakes, which I wasn't used to at the time, and since I was going fairly fast, I went over. Instead of landing on my back or head, I vaulted over the handlebars and landed on my feet :eek:

The skiing one:
I was skiing at Loon Mountain with a friend during February vacation, and it was fairly early in the day. We were going down one of the easy trails because there were those little jumps off to the side. I went off of one, and I don't know how, but I ended up popping out of my bindings and doing a complete forward flip to land on my back, wind knocked out of me and everything. I think my tips had gotten pushed together and got stuck on something. Then on our last run of the day, I met some other friends of mine that had gone up on a YMCA trip, while I was going down one of the trails, weird huh? ;)


Okay, last one.
I was in History class in my sophmore year of HS, and we had to move into groups. There weren't enough desks in the area for me to sit, so I sat on the floor against the wall. Of course, while everyone was working, I let out a nice loud one. Everyone laughed ;)

[bella]

Alright - it does happen to girls too - I'm proof!

It's a 4.5 hour drive to my parents house so we would stop at a restaurant on the way. Truckers would stop there too and other people passing by too. So it got busy sometimes. They had these tables with hard plastic seats. Kind of like the ones in a mall food court. Anyway - I sit down and I'm waiting for my food. I felt a little fart comming so I figured I could sneak it out with out anyone noticing. Ya right!! - It rumbled off that plastic seat like a fog horn! I had truckers turn and look at me. My face was so red, everyone in there knew it was me.

[Awimoway]

I think I've blacked out most of my embarrassing moments. Here's a little one:

We had just moved to England, and I was a young, ignorant American (what's changed? ;) ) only 9-years-old. The next-door-neighbors had a kid my age, and I was hanging out with him at his place, sitting at the dining room table with him while his dad quietly sipped tea and read the paper. I was talking to the kid and said something or other was "bloody awful," in an attempt to emulate the local lingo I'd heard so often on the PBS shows my parents watched. Total silence. The kid was laughing silently to himself, trying badly to hide his amusement. His dad looked like I'd just peed in his tea. "'Bloody' is a curse word," he told me, giving me a hot stare for several seconds before turning back to his paper. I felt like a complete bumpkin.

Apropos of nothing, that man's wife tried to get me naked when I was 12. :eek:

[aus_dave]

Apropos of nothing, that man's wife tried to get me naked when I was 12. :eek:What, was she helping you into a bath or something? :D

[davecuse]

I was pumping gas into my car on the way home from a formal last year, there were 5 cars full of all my frat brothers and their dates. It was a sunny 50 degree day in early April when my friend decided to pants me. This probably wouldn't have been a big deal, aside from the fact that I wasn't wearing anything underneath.

[Yodahere]

I was pumping gas into my car on the way home from a formal last year, there were 5 cars full of all my frat brothers and their dates. It was a sunny 50 degree day in early April when my friend decided to pants me. This probably wouldn't have been a big deal, aside from the fact that I wasn't wearing anything underneath.



Wow! Probably girls would like it see your thingly. I haven't been pantsed but my gymshorts has fell down to my ankles when I hit the ball because my shorts were kind of big on me around the waist! Luckily I wear boxers underneathe the gymshorts. Lucky me! :) I am still embarrassed until I finally getting over it. :o

If I were you being pantsed by my friend, It was a big deal to me because there's might be mother with child, plently of kids and especially watch out for gays!

[Royal Pineapple]

Wow! Probably girls would like it see your thingly. I haven't been pantsed but my gymshorts has fell down to my ankles when I hit the ball because my shorts were kind of big on me around the waist! Luckily I wear boxers underneathe the gymshorts. Lucky me! :) I am still embarrassed until I finally getting over it. :o

If I were you being pantsed by my friend, It was a big deal to me because there's might be mother with child, plently of kids and especially watch out for gays!
that was the most confusing thing i have ever read in my life, congratulations you have the record

imbarrasing moment:
i was in computer class doing a java script thing for my webpage, and f***ing around with my buddy at the same time, so naturally the teacher was kinda pissed at me to begin with, but i cant get this javascript to work and its pretty long so i didnt wanna debug it myself, so i ask the teacher to come and see if he can find the problem. so he comes over and looks at it and immediatlly sees whats wrong, he says "thats really funny, why dont you go show that to the principal" and im like what? turns out that my script was called BigCount, but i had forgotten the "O"

[alxths]

If I were you being pantsed by my friend, It was a big deal to me because there's might be mother with child, plently of kids and especially watch out for gays!

Indeed, watch out for gays... One time i was wearing a fairly loose fitting shirt and a gust of wind came, blowing it up and exposing my bare chest; so out of nowhere come three gays that were hiding in some nearby bushes, all of them lunging at me, unable to resist male flesh! I'm fleet of foot so i managed to escape their clutches... but I consider myself very lucky to have done so, since i've heard that if they actually manage ot kiss you there's a huge risk of turning gay! Watch out for gays everyone! They are lurking everywhere; watching and waiting!

[parrothead]

I have had a few good embarassing moments.

An old classic:

A few years ago when I was working as a dive instructor I had an interesting experience. We had a lady get on the boat that had to have weighed close to 400 pounds. She asked if she could put on her BC (the inflatable vest that the tank attaches to) while floating in the water because it was easier that way. That was fine with us so she jumped in and after a few minutes of struggle she managed to get her arms in. However she was unable to fasten the cumberbun. Since I was relatively new the captain told me to get in and help her.

So I jump in with my mask and snorkel on and swim up to her. She was floating on her back and I swam up in front of her. I grabbed one side of the cumberbun and reached out to grab the other side. Now picture me with my arms spreadeagled grabbing these two ends.... now picture a small wave coming towards us. The wave lifted me and deposited me on top of the poor woman. My face ended up literally wedged between her massive breasts. I was stuck. It is a good thing I had my snorkel in or else I would have drowned. So she is there floating on her back trying to roll over to free me and I am flailing about yelling through my snorkel trying to push myself off. Finally after a minute or two the crew back on the boat stopped laughing long enough to come and pull me off.

Later at the end of the day when she was getting off the boat the woman handed me a 50 as a tip and winked and said that that was the most action she has seen in a long time. Ahh the glamorous life of a dive instructor.

Another time I was at work and had just been discussing how I wanted to lose some weight. My coworkers were in the middle of giving me suggestions when the chair I was sitting on collapsed.

Another time, in highschool I was trying to sneak out a "silent but deadly" When the hard plastic chair I was sitting on decided to reverberate it. Let's just say I never got to go out on a date with the girl I liked in that class! :rolleyes:

[Awimoway]

Wow! Probably girls would like it see your thingly. I haven't been pantsed but my gymshorts has fell down to my ankles when I hit the ball because my shorts were kind of big on me around the waist! Luckily I wear boxers underneathe the gymshorts. Lucky me! :) I am still embarrassed until I finally getting over it. :o

If I were you being pantsed by my friend, It was a big deal to me because there's might be mother with child, plently of kids and especially watch out for gays!

I don't know which is more embarrassing to you—Royal Pineapple's response to your post or alxths'. :p

[MongoTheGeek]

i once answered the phone with the lord's prayer. Totally by accident. The little guy in the brain fired off the wrong macro. I was 11ish. Hung up the phone in embarrassment.

[Doctor Q]

How many of us called our teacher "mommy" by mistake in preschool or kindergarten or 1st grade, and then felt embarrassed about it, thinking we were the only one to ever make that mistake?

Keep your hands raised until I count you. That's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., well it looks like just about everybody!

[FightTheFuture]

i only called my 5th grade teacher "mom" once, it wasn't that bad cause it was a casual mistake. and the teacher was nice enough to say "mom? i'm more of your grandmothers age" she was a really good teacher.

mine isn't as funny as the previous ones, but its something you would laugh at if you saw it in person.

i was running late for class during rush hour when i was at school in pittsburgh, and ran as fast as i could to the trolley. the trolley finished packing its people in, and i thought the operator could see me running to the entrance. as the doors were still open, i darted in, only to have the doors close right on my head. my glasses got bent out of shape, and i had two big red marks on both sides of my face. i hung my head down and slowly walked to an open area. sure, its not that embarrassing seeing as how i didn't know anyone in the full trolley, but i wasn't filled with pride either.

[Neserk]

How many of us called our teacher "mommy" by mistake in preschool or kindergarten or 1st grade, and then felt embarrassed about it, thinking we were the only one to ever make that mistake?

Keep your hands raised until I count you. That's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., well it looks like just about everybody!


I don't remember but I've been called "mom, mommy, and grandma" by students :D I'm only 34 and definately do *not* look like a grandma! :eek:

[alxths]

Ha, I called my 5th grade teacher grandma by mistake. My grandma happened to be visiting at the time and my mental process basically went, woman-> not mom= grandma. I think she thought that I did it on purpose..

Actually, I just remembered something else that is PROBABLY the most embarrassing thing that i've done, it just doesn't stick in my mind because the only person that is aware of it was a friend of mine:

I was working two jobs one summer and ONE of them was the nightshift(after working there for like 6 months during the day) so my brain was all out of whack. The night shift one was a Tim Hortons(we'll just say a fast food place, for those of you that aren't familier with it) where I was often at the drive-thru window, adn the other was a retail job. One day i was just standing around at the retail job, talking with my coworker when the phone rang. So i picked it up and the exact words that came out of my mouth were "Welcome to tim hortons, can i take your order--i mean, can i take your order please? :eek: *slam the phone down*"

LUCKILY it turned out to be a friend of the girl i was working with, so when the person called back and asked "Is there anybody else there?" she just answered, "no, i'm alone.." .. I can only wonder how bewildered that guy must've been by all that...

[Nermal]

last year i was walking down yonge st. in downtown toronto...and my fly was down. this wouldnt be soo bad except that i had no underwear on. i realized after about a block.
true story.

And WHY were you going downtown with no underwear on? :eek:

[Doctor Q]

... i ask the teacher to come and see if he can find the problem. so he comes over and looks at it and immediatlly sees whats wrong, he says "thats really funny, why dont you go show that to the principal" ...THEN what happened? Did you talk your way out of it?

[davecuse]

And WHY were you going downtown with no underwear on? :eek:

Comfort obviously!

[katie ta achoo]

I thought I'd contribute. It's fun to point and laugh at KT.

1. When I won my PowerBook, I cried in front of 200+ people.
For over an hour.
Snot bubbles and all.
Some random guy took my pic, and I'm sure he's pointing and laughing at me! Also... genius bar guy took pictures and those are also less-than-flattering. I look HORRIBLE when I cry!

2. Uhh...

actually, I don't really embarrass easily. I really had to think hard about whether or not I was embarrassed with crying for over an hour. 'Cause, come on, the genius bar guy said he would have, too. It's free love in computer form.
When I came in the next day (4/30/05) and Vlady started another round of applause, that was a little embarrassing.

Oo! I remembered another one!
4/30/05 I go STORMING into the apple store.
"VLADY! Where the heck is the microphone? You give a computer to a musician and there's no mic???"
He opens up system preferences and turns it on for me.
Smug chav.

(Is "chav" the word? I'm trying to learn british)

[applegirl]

Story #1:
I called up one of my college friends who had already graduated, just to see what he'd been up to and to tell him what I'd been doing for the past two months. Unfortunately I thought I'd called his cell phone when it was actually his home phone and his dad had answered. I couldn't tell the difference just by "hello", so I was going on and on about all the crazy stuff that I'd been up to, of course using incredibly foul language, when his dad started laughing and said "I think you want to talk to my son". My face turned so red and I couldn't stop laughing. Luckily, his dad was cool about it and my friend thought it was the funniest thing he'd heard in a long time.

Story #2:
I was on a date at a restaurant and was looking at the menu when I suffered from a major synaptic misfire. For some reason when I saw "meatball sandwich" I pictured a giant meatball between two buns and I said to my date (no, I'm not kidding): "why don't they just call it a hamburger?". He asked me if I'd ever HAD meatball sandwich before and I realized how idiotic my question was. That reminded me of the Far Side cartoon with the kid pushing against the door of the "School of the Gifted" even though the sign on the door says "pull". Doh. :o

[MongoTheGeek]

That reminded me of the Far Side cartoon with the kid pushing against the door of the "School of the Gifted" even though the sign on the door says "pull". Doh. :o

I was at a geek camp of sorts many many years ago (Johns Hopkins's CTY program) and that summer there were not only a large number of us who had issues with push and pull on the door there were a tremendous number of fingers smashed by getting it wrong...

[Jaffa Cake]

When I was at university, one of the local stationery stores was a favourite haunt of us students due to the dirt cheap colour photocopying service they offered. One day, in front of a very long queue of people, the spotty oik behind the counter asked me – very, very loudly – if I was the guy he'd heard about whose girlfriend had got her genitals pierced.

You could have heard a pin drop...

[toontra]

We have a beach hut in a remote part of Scotland. No running water, leccy, etc. All very basic. Never more than a handful of folk on the beach per day, even in summer. There is a chemical toilet which has to be emptied (in the sea!) at night at low tide. When about to leave after holidays we obviously leave the toilet empty.

Last year I emptied the toilet on the last night as per ritual. When I woke in the morning to leave I was busting for a s**t. It was an overcast, misty morning. Went onto the beach, walked along a few hundred yards - had a good look around. No-one in sight in any direction so dived into the dunes. Was half-way through a huge, steamy dump when an elderly couple with a dog appeared from God-knows where right in front of me. I was so surprised that, by instinct, I immediately pulled my trousers up & strolled off in a forcedly relaxed manner murmuring "Nice morning!".

I'll leave the consequences to the imagination.

[applegirl]

I was at a geek camp of sorts many many years ago (Johns Hopkins's CTY program) and that summer there were not only a large number of us who had issues with push and pull on the door there were a tremendous number of fingers smashed by getting it wrong...

Then, there was this time that I joined Macrumors and managed to get myself a "demi-god" title despite being female. Oh wait, that was today. Ain't life grand? :p

[katie ta achoo]

Then, there was this time that I joined Macrumors and managed to get myself a "demi-god" title despite being female. Oh wait, that was today. Ain't life grand? :p

Just PM a mod about getting your sex-change

and congrats! :p

[Counterfit]

I just heard this today from a friend of mine. She's absolutely horrified by it, and everyone in school continues to laugh their ass off. Before you read, I assume their house is a something with one floor and a basement.
Here it is:
Last night, her parents had a bit of a fight, and her father declared "I'm sleeping in *friend's name removed to protect the newly traumatized*'s bed tonight", as my friend was working on a paper in the basement (never mind that her brother's bed was vacant). While my friend was still working in the basement, she heard sounds of the moaning type coming from her room above her, so she slept in her parents' bed, which was empty until her mother came in. This morning, she woke up to find the sheets from her bed being washed.

So we all find this hilariously funny, and my cousin claims this is why he keeps his room looking like a shithole (but I still maintain that it's out of laziness).

[brettpasey001]

My most embarrassing ever was at school camp when I got found out for pooping in my undies. The worst part was that I didn’t know until I found the note when everyone was at the fire then when I went back to my dorm someone had emptied all my things in my backpack on my bed so every one could see my undies from all the other days Everyone thought I did it on purpose but it was because the toilets were really freaky and smelt totally gross so I had to do it in my undies. I took my chlorella tablets with me because I knew they were going to be gross just like the ones at school but when we were going home on the but Justin said everyone knew because Craig saw me doing a poo in my undies at my hiding place behind the big shed and he told his friends. Justin thought it was cool that I never even smelt and that’s why no one believed Craig at first. Justin thought the toilets were really gross as well so he just hid in the bush but when I told him about chlorella tablets he said his mom would totally freak out on him. I don’t really care anyway because none of the people in my group go to our school anyway.

[Markleshark]

lol, mines a quality one.

I was at the new GFs mams BFs house for the first time (We hadn't been going out long) and I went to the toilet and tried to get out and couldn't. I had only shut the door, I hadn't locked it but I couldn't get it open. I pulled so hard that I ripped the door handle off the door, had to ring my GF to come let me out, turns out I was turning the handle the wrong way as it was back to front. :o

Blamed someone else for ripping the door handle off and said that was why I couldn't get out. (There was a few of us there, for the World Cup)

[Suture]

My most recent episode:

I am shopping for a house. My ex hooked me up with her friend who's a real estate agent. She is rediculously hot. I call her Hotzilla. I had my digital camera with me to take photos of each house, and she caught me when I used the zoom lens to take a picture of her butt, which was, very nice.

I never realized how loud my camera is when I zoom in, but she turned around. And there I was, camera undeniably aimed at her posterior, with a childish grin on my face.

I didn't know what to do so I aimed the camera quickly off to the side, which incidentally, was a shrub next to the front door. I pretended to take a picture of the shrub, and mumbled something about really liking the landscaping. I'm sure my face was flush with embarassment.

I secretly thank her for not ever bringing it up.

[arkitect]

Wow. MR's own Vicky Pollard… :)

My most embarrassing ever was at school camp when I got found out for pooping in my undies. The worst part was that I didn’t know until I found the note when everyone was at the fire then when I went back to my dorm someone had emptied all my things in my backpack on my bed so every one could see my undies from all the other days Everyone thought I did it on purpose but it was because the toilets were really freaky and smelt totally gross so I had to do it in my undies. I took my chlorella tablets with me because I knew they were going to be gross just like the ones at school but when we were going home on the but Justin said everyone knew because Craig saw me doing a poo in my undies at my hiding place behind the big shed and he told his friends. Justin thought it was cool that I never even smelt and that’s why no one believed Craig at first. Justin thought the toilets were really gross as well so he just hid in the bush but when I told him about chlorella tablets he said his mom would totally freak out on him. I don’t really care anyway because none of the people in my group go to our school anyway.

[Queso]

Back in the mid-90s I worked at a bank where we had this internal-only e-mail system running on the mainframe. A friend of mine in the Marketing department was messing around and sent me a mail that said one phrase "I love you". I thought I'd wind her up. The e-mail system allowed you to pretend to send mails to lots of people by creating it with lots of recipients, then saving the draft and forwarding it to just the one person. As I worked in IT I knew this and she didn't. So I went to forward her e-mail, added 200-odd recipients from all over the company, typed in a quick "I think you'll be interested in the below" type comment and went to hit F3 to save it ready for forwarding just back to her.

To my horror I hit F2 and actually sent it. About 10 seconds later my phone went. She was all "Please tell me you didn't just do that" and all I could do was apologise and say I hadn't meant to. However, as she didn't know about that method thing, I must have sounded like the lamest person ever.

And yeah, I got a serious bollocking for abuse of the mail system. Ah well.

[keysersoze]

Anyone ever mistakenly say 'Love you!' when hanging up the phone... with someone you really shouldn't be saying that to? :o

[Queso]

Anyone ever mistakenly say 'Love you!' when hanging up the phone... with someone you really shouldn't be saying that to? :o
Someone at a company I did some work for did that. He meant to say "Lovely" then "Thank You" to conclude a customer call, but ended up shortening it to "Love you". The customer apparently laughed and said "And I love you too" :D

[keysersoze]

Ahhh here's a funny one I just remembered. Wasn't me, but it's a great story.

In college, I had a part-time job in maintenance (beer money!). My boss was a really funny guy with great stories. He also happened to be the campus locksmith. One day he got a work order that sent him off to change some kids lock... this happens when a kid loses a key. He knocks on the door... no answer. He knocks again and announces himself as 'Maintenance!' but still no answer. Since he's the locksmith, he's got the master keys to everything, and as is customary, proceeds to open the door.... only to find the kid in there wacking off.

And so while this could be an embarrassing moment for the kid, right, because nothing could be worse than getting caught whacking off right? Instead, the kid stops, looks at my boss, who probably looks like a deer in headlights, and says,

"Can you come back in a little while? I'm not done yet"

:D

My boss was mortified. :)

[yojitani]

Anyone ever mistakenly say 'Love you!' when hanging up the phone... with someone you really shouldn't be saying that to? :o



Yes! I did that more than once at a former company. I had to communicate with office staff quite frequently by voice mail, so not only did I say 'I love you' to one of the secretaries, but she had it recorded for posterity as well. Funny thing was that she didn't say anything about it for several years, then on my last day there she asked me 'do you remember this?' She still had it saved! I guess it made her laugh!

[Lyle]

Let's see, I guess it would have to be the time that I was out to dinner with my wife and her mother. We had finished eating, and I excused myself to go the bathroom. I accidentally went into the ladies room instead of the mens room. The bathroom was unoccupied at the time, and for whatever reason I didn't pick up on some of the environmental clues that I wasn't in the mens room, so I went into one of the stalls and sat down to, you know, take care of business.

A minute or so later, in walked two ladies, who fortunately were just coming in to wash their hands. For a split second, as I sat there in the stall, I thought to myself: "What are these ladies doing in the mens room?" And a few more split seconds later my brain made the connection: "They aren't in the wrong room, you are." :eek:

So I waited for them to leave, which of course seemed to take an eternity, and then I made a break for it. Cleaned up, flushed, got out of there in a hurry, just praying that no one else would come in before I could make my escape.

Made it back to the table and was, I guess, visibly shaken, but I didn't say what had happened. I just made it clear that I was anxious to leave. I guess I was having visions that someone had in fact spotted me leaving the ladies room, and was going to call the police, and I was going to end up on the evening news or something ("SEX PERVERT CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN AT LOCAL APPLEBEES!"). It wasn't until we finally left, with my mother-in-law in her car and my wife and I in ours, that I told my wife was wrong. She just laughed and laughed, like a big old donkey, and then of course phoned her mother to tell her the story.

[nickster9224]

did u ever get a pic if her butt

[ezzie]

so this falls under the extremely embarrassing category...

i do marketing for my company, and i had to design a two-page full color spread advertisement. at the time, i was very stressed out because of other work obligations as well as the impending deadline for the ad, and on top of that my husband and i were getting ready to close on our house.

after stressing over the layout for a good solid week, i finally put everything together and had the design approved by my boss. i sent the ad to the magazine publisher...i was finally able to relax.

fast forward two months to last week, when the administrative assistant calls me and asks, "i'm looking at our ad in the magazine...did we get a new phone number?"

i run downstairs, and lo and behold there's my beautiful, full-color, two-page spread, gorgeous as can be...

with my home phone number splashed across the bottom of the ad. :eek:

i was mortified, and honestly frightened of what would happen the next day when my boss came in. i cried all night, i braced myself for the worst...i even looked in the classifieds for job openings.

the next day i went to my boss' office, showed him the lovely ad, and pointed out that i had accidentally put my home number in the ad in place of the office number. i cringed.

he freaking laughed and told me it wasn't a big deal.

and it really isn't, i suppose....except now the administrative assistant makes a point to tell every employee, visitor, and customer who knows who i am exactly what i did. har har har..... :mad:

[mgargan1]

It was my first day of work, and we were in an orientation style class. Well... i was hopped up on coffee, and about an hour or so into the class i needed to go to the bathroom. Well, they made the urinals scientifically designed to allow the urine to bounce off the back of the stall and right back onto your pants. I didn't know they made the stalls like that, otherwise I wouldn't have used them. But, needless to say, when I got back to my seat, i noticed i had transfered the contents of my bladder from inside me to my pants.

I threw those pants away when I got home.

[mattscott306]

Not so much an embarrasing situation, but an embarrasing story to tell.

So, it was a new years, not too long ago (this past one in fact). The friends and I were celebrating at the new house, and of course I got trashed. I ended up puking my guts out hugging the ceramic throne till about 4 A.M. Great news is, there is lunch with the parents the next day at ten. So I stagger out of bed at 9:30 and head on over to my parents house. Strange thing is, I'm still smelling puke, well I thought I had gotten a little bit up my nose, so I did the first stupid thing. (Backstory: I have hairgel that comes in a spray can, like an aerosol cleaner or whatnot) I sprayed some hairgel up my nose, this then caused an intense burning situation and much road swerving. Said road swerving was seen by police, who pulled me over. I was then asked what I had on my chin. Turns out, I hadn't puked up my nose, I just had some left on my chin!

Anyways, I told the cop that I was on the way to my parents house cuz I didn't feel good and he let me off.

[Doctor Q]

Embarrassing moment: I forgot to do something that I was supposed to do months ago. :o

[jayb2000]

Admitting I watch American Idol in this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=281709) :o

Its such a waste of time and brains.

[MarkCollette]

Thank god my mind suppresses the memory of most embarrassing things I've done... But, after brainstorming, some do come to mind.

- A year ago or so, was in bed with some chick, making out all aggressively, and farted. She laughed it off, but I wanted to die.

- In elementary school, some random girl who shared the same bus with me wanted to be my girlfriend. I have no idea why I said yes. I didn't even go out with her or anything. Then my classmates found out and mocked me for "dating" the unattractive girl.

- Was bicycling past a bunch of school busses, from my high school, and tried to speed through a 4 way stop, when one bus turned right, in front of me, so I wiped out when trying to avoid it, and rolled into traffic, and a car ran over my foot. So, I lay there, on the road, unable to move, while everyone from my school, in the bus, stared at me.

- Not as embarrassing, but a similar thing. I was skate boarding on the road, down a hill, in front of my high school, and wiped out on some gravel. I lay there unable to move, in the middle of the road. Some car was behind me, and just honked at me as I lay there. I couldn't get up, so I rolled onto the side of the road. The car drove by, and the driver didn't even ask how I was.

- Was walking with a friend of mine down the common hallway of my condo building, and walked past this young couple. When I was in the garage with my friend I told her how I thought that the girl in the couple was totally beautiful. Then I noticed that the couple were in the garage too, nearby. They'd taken the stairs while we'd taken the elevator. I'm pretty sure they heard me.

- One year, in high school, I threw a large birthday party and invited a bunch of people over. There was a hot tub, and lots of food, and games systems set up. My parents didn't leave, like they'd said they would. Everyone sat around uncomfortably. Thank god I can't remember how that ended.

- At another party, put on by someone who was actually cool, and didn't have retarded parents, we were drinking rum and smoking cigars. That's whe nI found out that (1) rum doesn't sit well with me (2) you're not supposed to inhale cigars. I almost made it to the toilet to puke. Ended up projectile vomitting all over the wall next to the toilet. Took me forever to cleanup. I was pale as death. Kind of embarrassing.

- In yet another high school party, the girl I really liked met some other guy. He was in an earlier year, but was built, and had a car. They ended up dating for who knows how long. Felt like a total retard bicycling to school, watching him drive her. In a couple other ways I embarrassed myself in front of her more than anyone else ever.

- Had sex with someone, with whom I should not have. Totally regretted it. Went home and showered, to feel less dirty. Made the mistake of telling my then room mate. To this day she brings it up any time we talk. Oh, and I also screwed one of her friends, which was another very poor decision, which she also endlessly brings up.

- Was at yoga a month ago or so. My mat was totally wet from perspiration. We had to lie on our backs, and the suction of my moving made the most horrible wet fart sound. To make things worse, instead of laughing it off, or saying it was my mat, I angrily swore. And then it made that sound even more.

[Cassie]

Ah, well two years ago, we all had a school sponsored camping trip.

The boys and girls had seperate cabins, with about 10 to a cabin. On the last night, we all took dares. I got the worst one. The other girl's dared me to press myself NUDE against the windows of the boy's cabin next door. Of course, being the stupid teenager I was(am) I did it.

What I didn't know at the time (but found out about half-way through the stunt) was that that cabin wasn't occupied by the guy's. The camp counselors stayed in that cabin. (two of which were my PARENTS) and they were up having a meeting, facing the window I was pressed against.

Needless to say, they got a show, and I was more embarrassed then I had ever been.

[psycoswimmer]

When I was 5, I was at this party with my classmates for "graduation" to First Grade or something. Anyway, I was swinging on the swing without my hands. I thought I was cool. :cool: One of the parents told me to hold on because I could fall off, but I refused to listen to her. About one minute later, I flew off the swing and broke my wrist. :D

[mrkramer]

The camp counselors stayed in that cabin. (two of which were my PARENTS) and they were up having a meeting, facing the window I was pressed against.


I bet you had a lot of fun explaining that to them.

Fortunately for me I can't remember any of my embarrassing moments, and I don't really want to try.

[Cassie]

I bet you had a lot of fun explaining that to them.

Fortunately for me I can't remember any of my embarrassing moments, and I don't really want to try.

It was...awkward, to say the least.


And thanks to our stories, the ads have adapted to our preferences.;)

[Suture]

It was...awkward, to say the least.


And thanks to our stories, the ads have adapted to our preferences.;)

Hahahahah. This reminds me of the other day. I was browsing VWVortex.com, in the Jetta forums, and at the bottom of the screen was a big ad for a gay car dealership -- I am NOT making this up. I was like "HELLO, STEREOTYPE!" but I couldn't stop laughing.

[Suture]

did u ever get a pic if her butt

Unfortunately, no. But I did snap a nice unfocused picture of a shrub and part of the garage door.

[Dr.Gargoyle]

The background is that I am researcher and I was working from home that day. Normally, I dress very casual when I work from home, especially if I am working on a hard problem.
My then girlfriend called me at home while I was working on a particularly hard problem asking me if I could pick her up at her work. Since it was in the middle of the winter and rather cold outside I said sure, I just needed to finish up what I was working on. Five minutes later I went out to the car that was parked on the street. When I was walking up to the car I met this girl that was starring at me in a very odd way. I didn’t think too much of it and jumped into the car to get my girlfriend.
My ex used to work smack in the middle of the city so the traffic was quite heavy. When she jumped into the car, I had to take off directly since I had double parked outside her office. Well inside of the car my girlfriend starred at me and said in a not too low voice: How are you dressing!? Are you wearing shorts in the middle of the winter??
I couldn’t understand what she was talking about. I was fully dressed. I looked down and realized that I somehow had forgotten to put on pants. My “shorts” was in fact my boxer underwear. My mind raced like crazy. I just couldn’t believe that there I was in heavy rush hour traffic in the middle of the city without pants. It just had to be a nightmare, but it wasn’t…

[mariahlullaby]

Sorry about dredging up an old thread, but this happened recently...

I was walking in NYC with my brother, and a man on the street grins at us and goes "Just get married already!!!!!" and gives us a big clap on the back. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Needless to say, we walked 15 paces apart the rest of the day.

[MarkCollette]

Recent, minorly embarrassing moments:

I was supposed to meet my friend Janine at the movie theatre at 2:40, for a 2:45 showing. I'm kicking back on the couch, naked and unshowered, watching TV, thinking that I have an hour to be there. She calls, and asks where I am... Damn, guess I never changed the living room clock for day light savings... And the switch was like weeks ago... Still saw the movie :) Just glad that the cop, honking at my driving, was on the other side of a divided road...

Was snowboarding with my friend Brian (3rd time ever), and hit on some girl, before going to do some jumps. The girl waited at the bottom to watch me. I screwed up ALL THREE jumps. Joked loudly to Brian about how much of an abortion that was, and got the hell out of there. Also fled because she had her helmet off, and it looked like she was a DECADE younger than me. Cute though hahaha.

[bobbyboulders]

this happened to me in junior high school. One day i was making my way from one class to the next, when i realized i had forgotten something (i have forgotten what that was...). So in a hurry i spun around real quick to head back to my previous class, but little did i know there was this girl right behind me and not just any girl but The girl ive had a crush on all year. So as im about to crash into her i instinctively raise both my hands to brace myself.....yep you guessed it, my hands landed right on her 'dirty pillows'!!!:eek: I was shell shocked to say the least, i must have kept my hands there for at least 10sec (ie: eternity) the only thing that pulled me out of my up-right coma was that she kinda smiled at me and punched me in the gut...
For a wet-nosed kid in jh that was One Embarrassing situation for me...

[bobbyboulders]

O man, this is by far my favorite embarrassing story (mainly because it didn’t happen to me). Ok so one day a friend comes up to my (evil genius) brother asking for a favor, he asks my brother to write a paper for him so that he can submit it to the NYU graduate programme (unethical I know). The paper was supposed to be about an experience in your life that profoundly affected you, and what affected my friend were the 9/11 attacks (since he was working in one of the towers at the time, and barely made it out alive). My brother wrote the paper and gave it to the friend thinking he will obviously proof read it before he hands it in. The friend (being the genius that he was) didn’t, and just handed in the paper. What the friend didn’t know was that my brother just so happened to throw in a paragraph explaining (in detail) how, as he was running away, his Anal Sphincter started convulsing uncontrollably… Finally when he met up with the counselor before all his paper work went through, she brought up the paper he ‘wrote’ and asked if it was such a wise idea to have that paragraph in there. After reading the paragraph all we heard over the phone were profanities….
He told us that when he read it, all he did was sit there read faced...then pretended to 'agree' with her. :D

[MongoTheGeek]

I was shell shocked to say the least, i must have kept my hands there for at least 10sec (ie: eternity) the only thing that pulled me out of my up-right coma was that she kinda smiled at me and punched me in the gut...

But was it worth it?

[Cassie]

I think we've all been embarrassed when we're absolutely certain we're right, just to be proven 100% wrong by someone else.

Happening to me a lot lately..

[MarkCollette]

This is therapeutic, posting here :)

A couple months ago, a chick friend of mine was at the family home of some chick friends of hers. She invited me to come over, and join their party. I got so smashed that I spent half of the night lying on the bathroom floor by the toilet, in the fetal position wearing only my boxers. I know that at least the Dad saw me there.

A few weeks ago I was going to a wedding out of town with my friend. I was a bit late picking her up, partially due to some car troubles. I figured I'd just make up for it by going really fast. Except that the road I chose to get to the highway was so congested that we weren't even moving most of the time. I just sat there gripping the steering wheel wanting to die. Thankfully we could go fast on the highway after.

Oh, and at both events, people would go up and ask my friend if I was gay.

[me_94501]

Here I go, reviving an old thread...

Back in Freshman year of high school, a girl in my science class brought $300 in cash to school since she was getting new eyeglasses after school that day. It so happens that sometime during 3rd period science, that $300 in cash went missing. The teacher called down the police officer who patrolled the campus. The officer spoke to us, then stepped out and gave the class three minutes for whoever took the money to set it on the desk in front of the room. Nobody stepped forward. One or two hall monitors were called down and they begun to search everybody's bags and person (no strip searches, however). Eventually, one of the hall monitors searched me. Unbeknownst to me, at some point earlier my younger brother stuffed Monopoly money into one of the unused pockets of my backpack.

I can still see the hall monitor's face when he pulled out a wad of multi-colored Monopoly money. :o

But wait, I have more!

In April of this year, I was sitting in my room, poking around on my Mac (as usual) around midnight. Outside my bedroom window is an awning covering a patio. On this awning were two cats battling it out; howling, hissing, the typical cat fight stuff. I wanted to break them up and try to distract them, so I knocked on the window. I distracted them, all right, when my right hand went through the glass. Needless to say, I took a lot of heat from co-workers about that one.

And one more, this one was from work:

I was helping three women who wanted to buy an iPod or something. I asked them if the three of them were sisters. One was the mom. Oops. In my family there are ten-year gaps between kids, so having one sister significantly older than the others didn't seem like it'd be unusual.

[dogtanian]

Mine was a couple of years ago, me and my other half were staying over a mates after a party and retired to bed at around 2AM after everyone had gone. We happened to be...ahem...well I won't go into detail but you can guess the particulars. Above the bed was a big window with no curtains and behind that was an alleyway (It was the ground floor). After some time there was a commotion and we looked up to see two legs go over the fence opposite the window. We wondered what was going on and lots of torch lights (Flashlights to you americans) came whipping around. Around ten police officers, some in tactical vests start poking around and shining their torches through our window as we sat there with pillows covering our modesty. We pointed over the fence and a few jumped over after the guy they were clearly in pursuit of. A minute later, some old bobby comes knocking on the window and requests a statement through the window whilst we're sat there on the bed with our pillows! We proceed giving a statement about what we saw when the guys whose house it was all came in off their face and looked stunned to find a bunch of police officers with torches and notepads chatting to us naked.

Was quite surreal I can assure you.

[Father Jack]

My story is from a long time ago:
While traveling in what I thought was an express train my girlfriend and i were making love in a single compartment carriage. Just as we were about to reach a critical stage in the maneuver .. :o

The train stopped in a station !!!! and we were observed by lots of people standing on the platform .. :o :eek: :o

[ErikCLDR]

In the last week...

My math teacher was lecturing about growth

"If <my last name> was to grow 100% then it would be like there is another <my last name> on his head"

and I said without even thinking...
"So it would be like my sister on top of me...... Wow that did not come out right"

[Patrickool93]

My most embarrassing moment has to be... Last year I'd think.. I was carrying a huge HP LaserJet down some stairs for my schools librarian. Wearing flip flops. I tripped over them, flipping head over heel down a flight of stairs. The HP saved me from breaking my face, but when I got to the bottom of the stairs, I realized that somehow my shirt had gotten ripped off by the railing, so I'm lying on a landing in the corner of the stairs, shirtless, ripped shorts, bruised, bleeding, and with a hugh laser printer on my lap. Of course a teacher happened to be coming up the stairs at the time with a class. There were quite a few pictures of that incident floating around for awhile.