Embarrassing moments

[Frankie_Foster]

When you see yellow construction tape at the mall and you mistake it for CSI tape.

[Mac-a-lacka]

I was outside feeding the animals, then I feel a sudden bunch of raindrops falling. I think "Oh no! We're gonna lose all this lovely snow!" I go off to get some duck feed, sad that it's raining, when the rain suddenly stops. "What the heck...?" I walk past where the rain had first started, and I get rained on again. This second band of "rain" I noticed a sound. A spraying-like noise. Turns out, I was standing in the path of a sprinkling hose. After the whole ordeal, I thought "I have got to report this to the "Embarrassing moments" thread.

[Ridureyu]

Would the time that I forgot my own name count?

I was tired.

[Ridureyu]

So, what are some things that you've done, or have happened to you which were utterly humiliating at the time, but might have some entertainment value for the people here?


Recently, my car's driver side door broke down - it couldn't unlock and open it. So, for several weeks, I had to vault over the gear shift to get in and out. I was thinking of going to see a friend of mine in Death Valley at the end of the month and having him take a look at it, and see if I could save some money instead of taking it in to the dealer for repairs. Since I don't get into car accidents, and I treat the car pretty well, nothing else was going to break down, right?

And then last Thursday, I promptly backed into one of my own trash cans in the driveway, and took out my left rear turn signal. So I stopped the car, jumped over the gear shift, got out, looked at the damage, walked back to the driver's side, reached in through the window to turn on the turn signal and check it,

And then my pants fell down.

[One Radical Dude]

I'll share a few of them here, both in public school. When I went to my first day in kindergarten, I went down the slide, and somehow, my shorts from the rear was ripped. Yikes. During my sophomore year, I was standing up and reading something in class, and I had totally forgotten to zip my pants, and much of the class laughed.

[Lynnie]

It may not be so embarrassing since this happened while home alone, but I had oatmeal for breakfast, and I like to eat it with raisins, butter and brown sugar. But you know how brown sugar tends to dry out and become hard as a rock? Mine was getting to that point so I had to chisel it with a spoon and pour what came loose into my oatmeal. I picked the canister up and held it up over my bowl and the whole "brick" of brown sugar came out and fell into the bowl and, wouldn't you know it, it broke apart into a powder as if it were fresh. I scooped what I could out and back into the canister, but there wasn't much I could salvage. I rolled my eyes and looked at my bowl of oatmeal. Or rather, my bowl of brown sugar with oatmeal, raisins and butter.

It was a very sweet breakfast I had this morning.

[Sparky]

Lol brown sugar is tricksy stuff. I keep a piece of terra cotta I soak periodically in water jammed into my cannister of brown sugar, it helps keep it from clumping.

[Cassini90125]

I use a small hacksaw. Seriously.

[Howard]

When I was 13, I was riding my bike, and I caught a girl I was attracted to with her friends. I started to wave, when there was an awful jolt. I found myself on the ground with my bicycle, and my lip bloody. Evidently I ran into a parked car. I picked up the bike with what little dignity I had and walked home. I knew what a bug felt like hitting a windshield!

[Sparky]

I got my own bowling ball on Monday, had it custom drilled and everything. I've only ever used house balls and it seemed too tight on my thumb; in fact the ball was getting stuck on my thumb. The pro shop guy assured me it was all right, I was just gripping it too hard and it wasn't really too tight. He's probably right but I didn't want to use the ball for the first time in front of my friends Sunday and have it get stuck on my thumb so I went to an alley today to practice first. It did get stuck on my thumb one time and I dropped the ball behind me on the backswing. Everyone was staring at me like I was truly stupid and I wanted to die.