Ever had a moment when you have said or done something that made you hope the ground would swallow you whole?

AM: A lady came in my workplace and ordered some flowers. She said they were for her grandmother.
I said, "Are they for her birthday?"
"No," she replied. "They are for her cremation."

Oops.

Anyone else had any awkward moments like this?

Ooh poor thing, db. Why do people take flowers to a cremation? I thought you'd really only do that at a grave/funeral (no offense intended, an innocenet question, I swear!)

I've not had any awkward moments (at least I can't remember any) but my sister who had her baby in August this year saw another bigger lady somewhere and asked when she was due... turns out she wasn't pregnant :S

At my wife's sister's wedding last December, I was sat at a table with a bunch of people I didn't know.

Next to me were a girl of about 20 and a lad of about 22, the girl asked if we were the ones who got married the month before, I said yes and asked if they had any plans to get married. She looked a bit shocked and said no ... later I found out they were brother and sister ... oops. :eek: :embarrassed:

Spend the rest of the night trying to avoid them :sad:

Oopsie Deadlock :embarrassed:

Why do people take flowers to a cremation?

I'm not sure but that's what she said.

my sister who had her baby in August this year saw another bigger lady somewhere and asked when she was due... turns out she wasn't pregnant :S

Ah, she forgot the golden rule: "Never, EVER ask a woman if she is pregnant, unless you can actually see a baby emerging from her at the time......"

Playing Isketch at my moms, then someone drew something sexual... yea that was VERY awackward.

Playing Isketch at my moms, then someone drew something sexual... yea that was VERY awackward.
http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo177/db1986/Red_Heart.jpg
tsk, if my friends know my mom is around while im playing isk, they'll purposely do that -_- or they'll start saying weird things. course then i've gotta minimize the screen...*sigh*

I just ran up to someone at uni today who I thought I hadn't seen in a long while.
Turns out I hadn't seen them in ages...

I'd never even met them :embarrassed:

This is pretty bad, but I can't think of any since (maybe because none compare!)...

When I was about twelve, my mum used to let exchange students stay at our house, for a bit of extra money (she was working for charity etc etc). Once we had this Spanish guy called Teo, I think, who had to stay in my room, because I had bunk beds. We went to bed at about ten, I think, and at about eleven he whispered, 'Hey, are you awake?' I didn't answer because I didn't really want to talk to him, I just wanted to sleep. WORST DECISION EVER. It's not soon after that he starts touching himself and the bed starts moving ever so slightly. I could even hear him breathing.

In the three months that there remained bunk beds in my room, I never went up there.

Ew, that's nasty. I bet you're so glad those bunk beds aren't there any more...

Heh, I've moved out. I just never tried to think about it, and was disturbed when I did.

I did have one yesterday, actually (maybe they are more common than I thought. :P). I was criticising the veggie food in the Hall I am staying in, and the chef walked in when I was mentioning all the types of vomit I'd rather eat. Oops.

Back in my waitressing days..

I Had a little saying.. You know when everyone is full from a meal?..

I Went to collect the plates from a table and the man of the table was joking about how full he and everyone was..

so i said "You'll Have to roll her home!" (as in she was so full you could roll her down a hill..)

Then i looked at the woman and saw she was in a wheelchair.. Oops.

Oops. Lol. Did you get a tip?

Yeah i think i still did!

I quit the job a few weeks later Though. Lol.

Lol, I guess they either didn't notice your wording exactly or they did and didn't think anything of it.
It's one of those moments where your mouth is quicker than your brain.
I work in a supermarket and it happens to me quite a lot :embarrassed:
Maybe I really shouldn't use that tannoy system...

I was at work and on the phone to a man who was asking me some questions about a client.

This prisoner's name is pronounced VERY differently to how it is spelled. I told the man the name of the client and he asked me to spell it...so i did. I was talking quite loudly on the phone as it was a bad line so had to speak up....so i started spelling the name....
C...O...C...K...B...U...R...N.
Then i said "It's C*** and then BURN"
I then realised what i had just said and spelled out really loudly....in an office full of people :embarrassed:

I Had a little saying..
Haha - that reminded me of this - I used to have a little saying, when I met people - when I was younger. I'd say "I've heard a lot about you....but it's OK - I dont' believe the story about the dog...."

Anyway, one day, my new boyfriend was introducing me to one of his mates, and I said my little saying.....and he got up, punched my boyfriend in the face and stormed out. Turns out there *was* a story about a dog! (I was never really game to ask about it. :embarrassed: )

Haha Saffron... ruddy brilliant. And Snow, what was the tip that they gave you? Was it "next time, look for wheels first"? :) hehe...

Trying to think if I have any embarrassing slip-ups but none come to mind.

Welp here's mine.

Im on the band at my church [[i play bass and sing]] anyway we were just closing out the service and we wanted to play one last song..so the pastor came up and was closing the service with prayer and i was getting ready to play..and i realized my bass was unplugged..so i was trying to be very quiet and plug it back...and right when i did...it was like BAMMMMMM CRACK BOOOOMLKJSDKLFJ CRASH!!!...i had plugged in the wrong cable to the direct box..and it was a TERRIBLE feedback through the speakers..so i quickly unplugged it..and when i looked up all eyes were on me..........................i was like...........................um................. .......sorryy everyone...............>_____> myy badddd~~

so awkward though. i was quite embarrassed. ;_;

Oops. Especially at prayer time. Ouch :x

These are hilarious! LOL.

I once ran up to my neighbor yelling Dad and he turned around and it surely wasn't dad...awkward.

And then there was this one time my family and I were at a museum. My dad was walking ahead of us, and this little boy was kind of walking near him and my dad reaches out and takes his hand, and they start walking, swinging hands and fooling around. And my mother, my sister, and I were staring in utter confusion...then his mother runs up at starts screaming at my dad, who claims to have thought it was MY hand he was holding. Soo awkward.

Oh and I also ran my mailbox over with a golf cart in front of all my neighbors...was pretty awkward.

XD haha, i know what u mean bout the first one lisa :P i've done that before XD im terrible at recognizing people from the back, specially when i was little. i once like walked up to a shopping cart cause i thought the person standing near it was my mom, tsk, wasnt,.... XD i apologized and walked away, was so confuzzled :P

and lol, ayameee, i have a million stories bout that too XD i help out with the audio/visual system of one of my millions of things i do on the weekends... terribleeee XD no one's ever taught us well enough, and the system is absolutely terrible too, so technically....(hah, so didnt mean to say that) um..we have things like that happen all the time XD scare peoples. not normally my fault though ;)

I don't know if this should come in the sports thread or here... but anyway

This happened during my schooldays. We usually play cricket or at times football after our classes are over, almost everyday. I was wearing my new trousers that day, which were a bit tight. Being a "diver", ( With the insane rules we have in football, we get so many penalties,and being a goalie, many dives to make, and I always dive to the wrong post. Yes I know I suck.) I said I won't be playing football or cricket. (Due to my great speed in running, I always need to dive to reach the crease.) How about chess?:idea: Odd looks. And finally it was to be badminton.
Haven't played much before, but I tried, more like a flyswatter than anything else, and I started liking it. After two hours, it was to be the last game of the day. It went on for so long, with many tiebreakers and all, and finally we got advantage. One point to win and I dived to collect a smash. We won. But in the process, we gathered some on-lookers' attention with a tearing sound. It was me. My trousers were torn, from ankle to knee.:embarrassed:
Then I borrowed a pair from a friend who lives near the school and went home as though nothing happened. And at home, I could still hear my friends laughing.

Haha, looking back at these now some of them are really funny :D

Alessadri, you reminded me of an awkward moment of mine back at school.
I was playing football in the winter (well, I say playing, I mean walking around the pitch trying to keep warm) and after what seemed like an age the game was finally over.
When we got back to the changing rooms, my hands were so cold that I couldn't do any buttons up. I when I say any... I mean any.
The awkward part was that I had a mid-term test straight after so I had to ask someone to help.
All those strange looks I got during that test :embarrassed: At least it was warmer inside :biggrin:

Deadlock's post about the tshirt he wanted to get his wife in the tshirt slogan thread reminded me of this really awkward moment I had in college once.

Must have been first year judging by what I was wearing and I was in my Biology lesson. Me and my friend wanted to ask some questions so our teacher comes over and we ask away. We're just sitting there our teacher was standing there talking to us. I notice he looked at my chest and I thought "urgh, is there something on my top?" so I glance down, making sure I've not dropped anything on myself and see nothing. Teacher continues talking and he glances at my chest again! So I blatently just looked down and looked really confused. This happend about four times in total and finally my teacher went away. My friend turns to and she's the most polite girl ever and wouldn't ever embarrass people and is never rude, but she turned to me and claimed I was the biggest the idiot in the world and then burst out laughing cos I was basically acting really thick. I seriously made an arse out of myself that day.

I honestly can't explain what happened that day or what came over me, usually I'd style out weird things like that by putting my arms on the desk and resting my chin on my hands but it just didn't occur to me. In science labs you sit on high stools and the desks are really low so there's no such thing as sinking into your seat and hiding. It was funny at the time cos it wasn't like me to draw attention to myself like that. Thankfully it never happened again. And no, my top wasn't low cut or see through and it was the only time my teacher ever stared... I think! :|

Lololol that's great xDDD
Aww.. bad for you.. obv.. it's not nice to have people staring :P but when you don't realise why... :P heh heh xDD Awww. :D

One time in year 6 I had a crush on this girl and I was really nervous about talking to her because I knew I'd stuff up. I went over and said, "Hi," and upon receiving her attention, "I'm #####" but instead of saying my name I said hers :embarrassed: It wasn't exactly the best start to a conversation... But oh well, it was only year 6 :P not much really mattered then lol

I was at work and on the phone to a man who was asking me some questions about a client.

This prisoner's name is pronounced VERY differently to how it is spelled. I told the man the name of the client and he asked me to spell it...so i did. I was talking quite loudly on the phone as it was a bad line so had to speak up....so i started spelling the name....
C...O...C...K...B...U...R...N.
Then i said "It's C*** and then BURN"
I then realised what i had just said and spelled out really loudly....in an office full of people :embarrassed:

Lol i had a teacher called Mrs Cockburn when i was in primary school. I remember once my teacher gave me a note to take to her, her classroom was in another building and when i got to the door it just said Mrs Cockburn on the door. I went all the way back to my classroom to tell my teacher that i thought id got the wrong door.
We also had a teacher called Mrs ♥♥♥♥e. Some people shouldn't be allowed to be teachers..... or doctors.

Lol. In Chemistry today, this girl next to me was taking her jumper off, and her top was coming up with it, so she asked the guy next to him to pull it down, kind of squealing ish.. When he started pulling her top down our chem teacher (male) came back over and was like, ahh what a gentlemen, most would just leave her and enjoy the view. And we were all just like.. O_o oh dear...xDDD

Also. Biking Home I saw this couple really really going at their kissing fun time.. And I just said urgghh.. well I thought I'd thought it, but I said it quite loud, and they both stopped kissing and looked at me.. and I was like.. Oh dear... I just said that out loud xDD

Haha Sorsie, that reminds me...
We had a lecture and it was quite a small class so we were all sitting at the front. Our lecturer was quite an animated fellow so he used to come forward to the students and speak and ask questions. The front rows in the lecture hall are slightly below the front stage so the lecturer seems to be standing above you. So we were actually face-to-face with his nether regions. The worst part of this 2 hour ordeal though was that his flies were undone :eek:

I once walked along Stevenage high street with my skirt tucked in my knickers at the back. I crossed the road (at the zebra crossing opposite the Cromwell, for those few fellow Stevenagers who care, lol) and wondered why I was getting beeped.

/me dies of shame

lol Vik :razz:

That reminds me of when I was about fifteen and I was on holiday in Butlins. I had these lovely new white stilletos *shudder* but was still trying to get used to them. Sitting on the bench were four lovely looking lads... so I strutted past them - caught my heel in the crack of the pavement, stumbled, legs akimbo (free flash of the knickers) and promptly ran off with said high heel still stuck in the crack... lol

Oh I still cringe with embarrassment to this day... and I never did find out what happened to that white stilleto :razz:

lol Vik :razz:

That reminds me of when I was about fifteen and I was on holiday in Butlins. I had these lovely new white stilletos *shudder* but was still trying to get used to them. Sitting on the bench were four lovely looking lads... so I strutted past them - caught my heel in the crack of the pavement, stumbled, legs akimbo (free flash of the knickers) and promptly ran off with said high heel still stuck in the crack... lol

Oh I still cringe with embarrassment to this day... and I never did find out what happened to that white stilleto :razz:

So THAT'S why you sometimes see random shoes on the ground! I always wondered how it was possible to lose a shoe!

BTW, that white stiletto is now the pride of my TF collection.

/me goes to sit outside TF's window with a long lens camera

This happened when I only had one child (who was 3) - prior to learning the rule of "never say anything in front of a child that you don't wish to be repeated..."

Miss 3 and I were walking back to where we had parked the car in the car park. Seeing a group of people around where our car was, I noticed two of them were leaning up against my car, and one was actually sitting on the bonnet! I was a bit shocked at this. "How rude!" I said out loud. "Those people should not be sitting on my car!"

So, as we got closer to the car, the people - realising we were wanting to get into the car they were gathered around, moved slightly away. Miss 3 went up to one of them and said loudly: "Mummy - is THIS the rude person who was sitting on our car?"

Sorsie reminded me of a time where I said something aloud and I didn't mean to.

I was at work in Sainsbury's and a lady came to the Fast Track checkout (where the customer scans their own shopping) and I offered to help her pack her shopping as she had rather a lot of items which had to be rescanned. At the time, my colleagues were eating Cadbury's Fingers (yummy) and they were reading the amount of calories in each finger.
I said out loud, "You guys don't bother counting calories do you?"
The customer said, "Well I do, it's quite important sometimes."

Oops :embarrassed:

All this remind me of a time I was hanging out with friends (when I do decide to be social) and someone whispered "There's________!" Me, being clueless that he was around, loudly exclaimed "Oh ___________! I'd tap that like there was no tomorrow..." YES, he was close enough to hear this.....


GAH! How embarrassing!

Haha, that same thing happened to my friend in college. Such a comical moment... for us :razz:

Haha, that same thing happened to my friend in college. Such a comical moment... for us :razz:


HAHAHA! Comical indeed! I too was in college, and I too was completely mortified! Geesh.

Let me set the scene; We're in a crowded hospital cafeteria, its my 2nd week of university and i've pretty much adopted the notion that thought isnt required before speaking. Before I tell you the rest, you ought to know that I REALLY like beards.

I was sat down with my lovely peach and apricot crumble, munching away in quite solitude when all of a sudden a man with an utterly fantastic beard sits down next to me. It was like a blonde mane of "wow". I felt the need to compliment him on this, so like a numpty, I said "Excuse me, but you have lovely facial hair"

He went from mild horror to gales of laughter. After a while he said "You dont need to point out the obvious *wink*" -__-

Another time, a long long time ago when I was considerably more naieve, my friends refused to tell me what a strap-on was, so undaunted by the possibility it could be something very embarrasing, I shouted out in the middle of my school playground "does anyone know what a bloody strap-on is?!" Luckily for me, all the science teachers were walking past at the time. Cue the mild horror.

Oh oh! And this one time I stupidly agreed to be on air at xfm. (My name is third on the weird names list! :D) The conversation went:

Lauren Laverne: And if you want to be on air like fungus here, all you need to do is text in!
fungus: Yeah! It was..uh..fun!
Lauren: .....
Ian: ....okaaaaay moving on!

I need to appreciate that silence is a good thing every now and then.

Right that's what I was doing.. :P

Had an awkward one today.. I had just got into college after biking for a while in the rain.. so obviously I was talking to myself and very hyped up about the exam that was to come.. So yeah.. I got off and walked towards the entrance. Outside was two vans.. as I walked past the first I looked inside and in between the seats I'm pretty sure there was a picture of a topless lady but I was walking fast enough for me to not make out any details but yeah, it was pretty obvious.. So as I walked past and reaslied what is was I pulled a face that must have been one of complete disgust.. Kinda like completely over the top though kinda thing... And yeah.. just at that moment that I was kinda going yuuuck... the driver walked round the corner and saw my face.. And I just... lol. I just ran off laughing :P heh heh. I was like O_O oh dear... xD Hmm.. serves me right for not being subtle about anything :P

gt reminded of something else I did -_- I had just finished watching Pearl Harbour and dedcided I really wanted smoothiiiiiiies. So, I tottered down to Sainburys. As I was walking I replayed the scenes to Pearl Harbour in my head and without realising, I was making "war noises". This consists of mainly planes diving, bombs landing, girly screaming etc (all very quitely ofcourse) at one point I was like "incomiiiing *sarcastic screams*" (It wasnt loud it was more audible muttering). This poor old lady next to me coughed really loudly, probably to shut me up, I quickly snapped out of it and apologised, but by then she had decided ignoring my existence was the only way around the awkwardness.

..I hate war movies.

Now that I've opened up the floodgates more awkward moments are coming to mind, and well, I have plenty to choose from. I think I may have stumbled on the most awkward yet though. Its not my usual "aw thats quite funny" awkward this was proper red-in-the-face totally cringe worthy awkward. I felt ridiculously bad after this one.

In my old school, in the science department we had a tiny corridor for staff, its a very textbook corridor; one entrance, one exit and doors coming off the sides to classrooms. As I was a science prefect (How cool am I?) I got to use it too. One day I was late to biology and decided to take a shortcut through the aforementioned corridor. I had just entered to realise that someone was coming down the other way (there's only space for 1 person at a time, two if you squidge, like we usually do). However, it wasnt just any teacher it was our newly instated, rather big-boned one.

There honestly wasnt any room, and I figured waiting for them to pass through would be less awkward than meeting halfway and getting stuck. So I backtracked and waited. All was going fine, untill as he came out the other side. He glared at me and said "I do turn you know"

...I was left speechless for a while. And i'm quite sensitive to things like that so I might have cried <_<. I did apologise to him eventually though, when I had plucked up the courage, and he apologised to me too. Argh but still *dies of shame*

Some really cringeworthy moments there fungus :embarrassed::razz:

As I was a science prefect (How cool am I?)

:geek: (http://www.isketchforum.net/group.php?groupid=5) :razz:

Right.. I had a fun one today... O_o
I was in Chemistry... Zoned out as I usually am.. the teacher is infront of me talking to the girls next to me, and his uhh.. butt is quite close to me.. I suppose... and yeah it looked like I was staring at it.. then... to top it all off I'm kinda day dreaming so I like lean towards it or look happy or something... and grab my calculator and it's pretty close to his uhh.. rear all area... O-o... And then yeah.. I kinda realise what I'm doing.. (I only wanted to put my calculator in his pocket!) look up and realise one half of the room has seen what I've been doing and assumed I like my teachers butt and stuff.. and yeah.. O-o
So they just started laughing.. O-o I laughed and went very red and hid my head in my hands.. and yeah.. xD

A couple of weeks ago, my employer decided to have a seminar to attract new clients, and asked some of us to go along to answer questions, collect door prize entries, etc. They had set up a projector and computer to show slides, and several of the bosses had talks prepared to go with the slides. As one of the bosses began his talk, I reached over a row of chairs to get a door prize entry from one of the guests, and as I stepped back, I tripped over the projector cord, unplugging it from the wall. The worst part was that it wouldn't turn back on, and the computer needed time to re-boot. As all eyes turned to me, and my boss came over asking what happened, the rest of the staff was frantically gathered around the computer trying to get it to work properly. The boss who was speaking had to stand there and ad-lib for a few minutes. Needless to say, I was very humble for the rest of the day. My boss (jokingly) said "you're fired" after the seminar was finished, and my fellow employees all hugged me after I laughingly begged for forgiveness at his feet. He took it very well, considering......

I was in the hospital last year for a short while after an operation. Afterwards, on the ward, I was still feeling the effects of the anaesthetic and also drugged up on painkillers, so everything was a bit woozy. One of the nurses was a young guy with long hair, that made him look very much like a girl to me in my drugged up confused state, so I asked him out on a date. After the anaesthetic wore off, I spent the rest of my time in hospital pretending to be asleep every time he came near me. :embarrassed:

Totally embarrassed this morning :embarrassed::embarrassed:
I stopped at the service station and put $50 worth of petrol into my car, knowing that I had done all my Internet banking last night and there was $120 left in that particular account. Went to pay....and it declined. I did not have my credit card with me, and had no cash on me. I had no way of paying for it. The lady said I could leave my car there and walk down to the bank to check the balance, which I did....and there was only $8 in the acount - *confused*.

So I walked back and explained to her that there was insufficient funds and I would ring my husband and ask him to transfer some into the account. Tried that. Internet Banking is not accessible at his workplace. He says "I could try phone banking" Rings me back...."er....I need my account number...don't suppose you know that one off the top of your head?" :cry:

So I'm totally lost about how I am going to pay for this petrol....she says "You can fill out this form....and you need to come back within 24 hours to make the payment" So there's this queue of people lining up behind me wanting to pay for their petrol whilst she is asking me details and filling out the form, people are tapping their feet, looking at their watches, I'm producing ID, people behind me are looking over my shoulder and the form has the words FAILURE TO PAY written in big bold black letters, and suddenly these big flashing neon lights come on, sirens start sounding and a voice comes over the loudspeaker "Yes folks...this woman failed to pay for her petrol!"

Well, OK, the flashing lights, sirens and loudspeaker weren't real, but Ugh! Shame. :embarrassed::embarrassed:

(Edit: oh yeh, and the money that I thought was there was automatically deducted by my ISP overnight.....heh, I'd forgotten that was due)

LOL Saff... I can relate to that. I went to a Supermarket garage... put petrol in.... bought a few bits.... and went home. That afternoon I got a phone call from a police officer telling me I'd been reported as a drive-off at this petrol station. I'd paid for my goods but not my petrol! lol The officer was laughing as I said, 'OMG I forgot about the petrol!'. I went straight up and paid for it. :biggrin: Doh!

Wow how common is this senario.
I also drove away without paying for fuel while at my chalet in the norfolk broads.
Went to the tesco for food ect, then stopped at garage to fill up and buy ciggies, i was told the price paid and left oblivious to the non payment of fuel.
And i would have been none the wiser but i got stopped by police for slightly speeding one afternoon way after we was back from our chalet.
Anyway he asks me the speed limit ect then does a p and c check on the car and yes guess what it appears madam that you have stolen petrol in norfolk back in june,, im like wtf are you on about ect, anyway after a few minutes thought i said to him hold on you said in norfolk, well that rings true as we have a holiday home up there so he gets info on where the petrol was stolen from and eve though i couldent recall it i had to hold my hands up to it as how else could my car be named as being a runaway lol.
The copper was very nice about it he said its more common that you think, he told me to phone the petrol outlet and make arrangements to pay the bill, which i did by card the same day.
Mr cherry was gobsmacked as i was but what a fright i got, oh and the speeding he just warned me as it was 42mph in a 40 zone bless him.:eek:

Ahh at work, today (on the phone):

Me: So do you still go running?
Man: Oh! No, I'm a bit old for that now...haha
Me: Ah... uh... yeah, yeah... a bit...

Wtf storm?! You're not supposed to agree! :embarrassed:

Oh, and this was quite funny at work:

Me: Hello, may I please speak to Ms. XXX.
Ms XXX: Oh, hellooo stranger!
Me: Oh... yes, hello!
Ms. XXX: Ohh! I'm so sorry! I thought you were XYZ!
Me: Oh, haha, my name's ABC, but it's OK, I'm still a stranger!
Ms XXX: Ahah, yes, you are, I suppose! How embarrassing!
Me: Hahah...that's OK.

Well, it was funny at the time xD Looking back, my comeback was quite stupid/funny too XD

Edit:

I got what I wanted at the end of both calls though. The lady in the second situation even complimented me on my conversation style at the end of the call.

[to my boss who dislikes me: in your face, ♥♥♥♥♥]