what was your most embarassing moment?

[Briar Rose 7457]

in hindsight mine wasn't all that devastating, but I was so embarassed at the time.

I was in college, I think, or maybe a bit older than that. my boyfriend and I planned an afternoon at the Guggenheim Museum. neither of us knew as much about art as we pretended to know.

the museum itself is a work of art, architecture by
Frank Lloyd Wright. it's worth the trip just to walk through the building, even without the paintings. you walk down a continuous ramp through several floors of exhibits.

well, it was winter, and I was wearing talll black boots with 2-inch chunky heels.

so ther we were, trying to act sophisticated and knowledgable about art, and...the heel of my boot snapped clean off!

so I limped out of that museum.

thank goodness for the shoe department at Gimbel's!

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I don't know...I've had LOTS of embarrassing moments over the years. It would be hard to pick ONE as the MOST embarrassing.

TOV

 

[Disfan1]

My whole LIFE can seem like an embarrassing moment...

 

[Jolie C]

I never tell my MOST embarrassing moments. I can't live through the anguish again! I can tell slightly embarrassing moments, though. Here's one.... It was in the fall and I had some foam pumpkins out on my front step. They weren't heavy at all and I had considered the idea that if a strong wind came up, they might take flight, so I tried to anchor them out there a little. After they had been out there for a few days, early one morning, I was awakened by the sound of a thunderstorm and I could hear the wind blowing fairly hard. Then I heard the sound of a pumpkin blowing off my steps and bouncing off, so I leaped out of bed and grabbed the first thing I saw to put on.... a white tee shirt... (see where this is going, ladies?) I put the tee shirt on and went racing outside to retrieve my pumpkin, which was now a couple of houses away. It's POURING rain and I ran out and grabbed my pumpkin and turned and started running back to my house, when who should I run into but my neighbor, out walking his dog. I muttered something about the pumpkin blowing away and bid him good day and ran back into my house.... where I realized that my white tee shirt had become totally SEE THROUGH in the rain!!! I've never gotten up the nerve to explain about that day to my neighbor. It's become a "don't ask, don't tell" policy between us, I think.

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

I had a couple of sets of pumps which were identical except for the color. (Can you see where this is going?). It was a dark winter morning and I just grabbed the shoes without turning on the lights...

One black and one dark maroon.

Now I make sure I keep an extra pair of shoes at my office.

 

[thumpersfriend]

Here is my WDW embarrassing moment. We were at FW and everyone was sleeping so I decided to take our golf cart to the laundry there by the pool. Well, I didn't realize the garbage bag tipped over. When I pulled the cart in someone came up to me in a Disney van and said I had dropped clothes all over the road! I had to go back and pick up bras and underwear on the road while a
disney bus went by. I will remember to put a tie on the bag next time.

 

[stinkerbelle]

I've done the one black one brown shoe before - noticed while in line for my morning coffee at dunkin donuts - went home and changed ASAP.

but I think the funniest one - was about 2 years ago maybe...was eating lunch at my desk (per usual) - cup-of-soup. Well, I'm a klutz...knocked over my FULL cup-o-soup and 90% of it landed on my brand new long khaki skirt. the other 10% saturated my desk and office chair.

I called my coworker a few cubes over to come help - she came over and we had a ROARING good laugh at it.

but I had to walk around the rest of the day in my gym clothes (luckily I had them in my car - and yes, I was too embarassed to walk back into the building, so I changed in the parking garage! I couldn't get the skirt clean to save my life.) Here I am, walking around my office, in BRIGHT ORANGE wind pants, sneakers (yes = my shoes got full of soup too), and a white cardigan sweater set. hehehe I asked my manager if it was OK if I wore this for the rest of the day - she too laughed and said no problem. So I had to re-tell the experience everytime I left my desk and someone asked "why are you wearing those pants?"

oh - and the chair? yep...pushed it down the hall into a room dubbed the "chair graveyard" (about a dozen chairs in a room randomly) and picked out a new one. the room STUNK of chicken soup for days. heheh

I no longer have soup for lunch...don't trust myself.

 

[CALIFLADY]

You mean the time that my sister sat rolling, laughing at me, as I belted out that favorite Christmas tune at the top of my lungs:

Jack Frost roasting on an open fire,
Chestnuts nipping at your nose...

Can you smell Jack Frost now?

 

[DSNY FN]

Mine would be walking down the staris at school in grade 9. It was the winter and I was walking down the centre of the stars with everyone from my bus and about 4 other busses behind me. That is when it happened my foot slipped and I fell on my butt and slid down about 20 steps till I got to the bottom. Due tot he fact I was in the centre of the stairway I had nothing to grab as the railings were to far out of my reach. You should have heard the laughs and clapping I got mind you as a grade 9 I was now well known at school.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Reading DSNY FN post made me think of one that happened to my friend, thank god it didn't happen to me. She was in HS and was just finishing getting stuff out of her locker and walking away to her next class when the captain of the football team was behind her yelling "You dropped something from your locker" and was holding up something. Of course it had to be in one of the busiest areas. Any guesses on what she dropped? She dropped tampons all over the floor and he was making a huge scene..poor girl didn't go back to her locker for awhile that year.

 

[snoopy]

I've had so many, some aren't suitable for a family forum.

One that stands out in my mind is when DH and I were attending Clinton's inaugural ball. We were dressed to the nines, him in black tie, me in the little black dress with sheer black hose and 3 inch spike heels. I remember it being absolutely FREEZING that day, as it tends to be here in the winter in D.C., and very icy, and I really wanted to wear a pair of tights! Anyhoo, we were almost to the entrance when I had the misfortunate to meet my match with a patch of BLACK ICE, and the next thing I knew I was laying on the ground. DH looked so horrified that it sent me into fits of laughter. People were sort of stepping away from us, wondering who the nutty female was. Once I got inside I realized that I had this huge gash in my hose. I couldn't decide whether or not to just wear them that way, or take them off and expose my lilly white legs and finally decided on taking them off. People were coming up to me all night asking me if I was allright -- apparently I put on more of a show than the Clintons.

I do have a thing for falling - I'm such a klutz! A few years ago I was coming out of Dean and DeLuca, a gourmet shop near me, with a hot cup of coffee and tripped over a bum who was sitting on the street outside the store. I fell RIGHT ON TOP OF HIM. He of course was mentally disturbed and started cussing me out. Of course, even if he weren't mentally disturbed he probably would have cussed me out since I started laughing. And amazingly, I did not spill one drop of the coffee!

 

[monkeyboy]

All I will say is that involved someone coming home early

 

[swanmom]

Ok....I've gotten such a good chuckle out of the previous posters so I'll contribute to the fun. I was a trainer giving a lecture on a new program for alcohol education to about 250 teachers and other educators. During the lecture, what I meant to say was "there is still too much drinking during pregnancy. " What I ended up saying was "there is still too much pregnancy during drinking........" Only when the audience began to snicker did I realize that I had said it backwards!

 

[Jolie C]

Reading everyone else's embarrassing moments makes me feel not quite as stupid about mine! Thanks for the laughs, everyone!

 

[chichihoney]

it happen during school year 12 grade .FRist period pe after pe i look down it was different shoes my teachers and friends were laughing. dad brought me another.the office waslaughing

 

[aprincessmom]

My DD used to love sticker earrings when she was little. She had all sorts of them...disney themed, sparkly stars and moons, butterflies, etc. She would always ask if I wanted to wear them to work instead of my usual hoops or studs. I sometimes accepted, other times did not but when I did I would take them off as soon as I dropped her off at day care, leave them stuck to my steering wheel and then stick them back on just before I picked her up.

Usually.

Fast forward to a particularly stressful morning getting ready and a big meeting with a group of venture capitalists to get funding for the company I was working for. I was dressed up...heels, hose, nice dress, pearls...and DD came in with her earrings and told me I should wear the Kanga and Roo earrings she was holding out for good luck. I thanked her, slipped my pearl studs in my dress pocket, stuck the Kanga and Roo earrings on and went on my way. And somehow, between daycare and work I forgot to remove the sticker earrings.

I get to work, get to the meeting with my co-director (a male with a wacky sense of humor...I should mention DD once made him a necklace that can only be described as a hanging disco ball on lime green gimp surrounded by butterfly beads and this 6'5" man wore it the whole day with his suit), go through the whole meeting and it goes well. Looks like we may get the money. We are ecstatic.

We are heading out of the building and I reach up to scratch an itch on my earlobe and, to my horror, feel a sticker earring!!! I scream and hit my co-worker saying "I cannot BELIEVE you let me enter that meeting with sticker earrings on!!!" He started laughing and said "Gee, I thought they looked lovely" and proceeded to tease me, saying maybe the VC people were only interested in giving us money so I could buy myself a decent pair of earrings.

But DD was right...they did bring me luck! Hours of teasing and torture from my co-worker, total embarassment but lots and lots of luck!

 

[niks81]

I don't think anyone has just one most embarassing moment LOL

I think one that sticks out for me is now really funny, but of course when you're 16 it so IS NOT

I was a football/basketball cheerleader all through high school. We were at an away game cheering for our basketball team in the winter of my sophomore year. The typical protocol is when a time out is called or its in between quarters, we run out and do a cheer. Running out onto the floor typically involves a bunch of flipping and stuff like that. So here we go, running out on the floor and I'm getting ready to do flips, right? A ref steps right in the way and I have to stop running and just get in my place JERK LOL Anyways, we get done with the cheer and so we go to do flips off the floor as well and since I'm so ticked off at that ref I bounced a little too hard when flipping and instead of landing on my feet, I sprained an ankle. in front of hundreds of people.

And because I'm stubborn, I blocked out the incredible pain and continued to cheer, until one of my friends looked down at my ankle and it was the size of a softball. They made me sit out And that was the ONE game my parents didn't go to that year, so my boyfriend's parents had to take me home--and of course mom never missed a game after that.

I laugh about it now though One of my many "fabulous" moments

 

[Simba's Mom]

Continuing with the Most Embarrassing Moment at WDW another poster said, mine was definitely at the lockers in MK. I pulled out my money to pay the CM, and a tampon came flying out, hit the floor, and rolled in front of a throng of people (this was first thing in the morning). Red-faced, I tried not to look at the CM as I paid, then chased the escaped tampon as it rolled on the floor (guess I didn't want to get accused of littering!). Note to self-never again put tampons in the same pocket as money.

 

[stinkerbelle]

ok - I'll admit my tampon embarassment.

maybe TMI.

I use the OB brand - w/o an applicator - so they are pretty tiny. I happened to have one in the same pocket of my pants as my chapstick.

I was talking to a co-worker...a male co-worker...and my lips felt dry.

I'll give you 2 guesses as to what I pulled out of my pocket first.



thank god the guy wasn't looking right at me - but when I tried to pull the "cap" off what I THOUGHT was the chapstick...well, that thing was in my hand, out in the open, for like 20 seconds. and I was thisclose to putting it up to my mouth to 'apply'

 

[snoopy]

The tampon story reminds me of the time I sent my Director a box of tampons by accident.

I had mine stored in a used inter-office envelope in the bottom of desk drawer. I got them out to use them one day, took one out and left the envelope on top of my desk in haste. Well of course the mail guy chose that particular time to come by my desk and pick up my mail. He thought he was being helpful by picking up the envelope on my desk, which of course just happened to have my Director's name on it. The next day, my director (a guy, and a gay guy at that..... ) came out and asked if anyone knew why someone would send him a box of tampons???? I denied any knowledge of it.

I did end up telling him years later the real story, but that was after several cocktails. He about fell out of his chair he was laughing so hard.