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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.
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.
Anyone ever mistakenly say 'Love you!' when hanging up the phone... with someone you really shouldn't be saying that to? 
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"Anyone ever mistakenly say 'Love you!' when hanging up the phone... with someone you really shouldn't be saying that to?
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"
My boss was mortified.
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"
My boss was mortified.
Anyone ever mistakenly say 'Love you!' when hanging up the phone... with someone you really shouldn't be saying that to?
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!
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."
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.....
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.
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.....
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.
I threw those pants away when I got home.
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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. 
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.
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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.
Unfortunately, no. But I did snap a nice unfocused picture of a shrub and part of the garage door.
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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 didnt 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 couldnt 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 couldnt 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 wasnt
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 didnt 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 couldnt 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 couldnt 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 wasnt
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.
Needless to say, we walked 15 paces apart the rest of the day.
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.
Needless to say, we walked 15 paces apart the rest of the day.
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.
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.
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'!!! 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...
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...
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.
He told us that when he read it, all he did was sit there read faced...then pretended to 'agree' with her.