Most embarrassing moments.....

[Starfish]

Flybye, your story of the suit/pool reminded me of one...

I was also at that pre-teen, ackward age. I had 3 older brothers, and I was always hopelessly in love with one or another of their friends. Remember what that kind of covert, pre-teen crush was like?

One day, I was overcome with honor when I was allowed to come over to one of the guys' homes with my brothers and a group of their friends, to swim in the backyard pool.

Well, there was a volleyball net, and I was wearing a suit that just had one halter tie that ran from between my breasts up around the back of my neck. In other words, the actual cups of the suit were not supported by the straps.

You guessed it. One big jump up out of the water with both hands to hit the volleyball, and both breasts just popped right out for all those 17 yo boys to see.

I don't think they cared much about 12 or 13 year old, pudgy me, but I was HORRIFIED.

[spokewench]

Most of my "most" embarrasing moments happened while I worked on the Thoroughbred horse race track. I was very young and pretty wild so that might explain some of them.

The first embarrassing moment was when I was on the backside (for those non racing people, that is where the barns are and where the restaurant/kitchen for workers is. Anway, it was pouring down rain and I was looking for a particular jockey who was supposed to be working one of my horses as a particular time and had not shown up at my barn to do so. So, I jumped into my junker Gremlin car and drove over to the Kitchen to see if he was there getting a coffee or something. Well, I jumped out of the car in the pouring rain to run inside (did not park, just was sitting in the middle of the lane outside the door of the kitchen) and looked for that jockey. He was not there, but when I went back out to the car in the pouring rain, I realized that I had left the keys in the car, locked the doors and the windshield wipers and the lights still on! Suffice it to say, it took a while to get the door open and move my car - and it was pouring down rain the whole time!

The second embarrassing moment was when I fainted in the bathroom of the stadium at the races. As background, you have to understand that drugs and alcohol are a big problem on the race track first. I had been up drinking the night before and it was really hot and humid (the race track was located right next to the Ohio River) one Summer morning and I was dehydrated from the night before and then I had a hard morning of working with recalcitrant horses on the track (i was an exercise girl). I had a horse entered in a race that I wanted to go see race so I put on my sun dress and went over to the grandstand to watch him race. I was out by the paddock watching the horses (in the direct sun) when I started to feel kind of funny so I went into the bathroom and I had just walked into a stall when I passed out and fell out the door and was laying half in and out of the stall passed out! I woke up to find some lady looking in absolute horror at me from the far side of the bathroom. She was terrified (i guess she thought I was a drug addict or something!) She never said a word, did not offer to help, and left the bathroom quite precipitously! I guess she thought I was going to attack her while laying on the bathroom floor!

[Flybye]

Remember what that kind of covert, pre-teen crush was like?

Oh, boy, do I ever remember that!! I liked "Gopher" from the Love Boat. Oh, man, oh mighty...... What on earth was I thinking? C'mere, cabin boy!!

I am sorry for you horror, Starfish!!!

All of your horror, really!! I read everything and feel like I was there- pantyhose, toilet paper, cops at your campus house, rubbers and pops, kotex. Man, life is fun. Take it with a grain of salt!

My dear friend works for an attorney and I stopped by to get her for lunch. When she turned around she had her pantyhose tucked in her skirt, too. Luckily for her, no one else was in the office and she had just came out of the ladies room. Unluckily for her, she has me to constantly tease her about it!!

Mr. Silver - you must have been a great kid to go to that trouble to track down the car that you hit. I'll bet that there were many parents in the audience that day who were proud of you. I'd be honored if my son one day takes responsibility for his actions like you did!! Embarrassing or not!

[Mr. Bloom]

Oh yeah? Just wait 'til you start wearing a kilt! Never say never... (Edited to add, well maybe not the pantyhose part!)

Aye, I assure you that there MAY be a kilt - but definitely not panty hose - in my future.

[Duck on Wheels]

OK. Here goes, deep breath. My most embarrassing moment has got to be that time the department stopped in DC on our way to a conference near Boston. We were on our way out for dinner the first night and in the middle of an intersection ... my-wrap-around-skirt-came-untied-and-simply-fell-off. OK. There. It's out.

On the other hand, I am kinda proud of how I just gracefully (I hope) bent my knees, picked up the skirt, tied it back on and went on to dinner.

Now, isn't it funny how so many of the "most embarrassing moments" on this forum are clothing-related, while so many on those "other" bike forums are about being passed by faster cycling women?

[wannaduacentury]

My sophomore year in college, I drove back from break and forgot to call my parents when I got there so that they would know I got back OK. This was not something I would normally do, so I was in my room hanging out with some of my friends who also lived on my floor and all of a sudden a campus police officer showed up at the door and asked for me. It turns out my parents were worried enough that they actually called the cops and sent them to check on me!!! This would be embarrassing no matter what, but it was even worse since I knew all the cops on campus because I was on the student EMS squad and we worked closely with the campus police. Then to top it off, I got a huge earful when I did call my parents--they were mad!!! I never again forgot to call.

That happened to me too one time, boy did I get an earful too. Jenn

[wannaduacentury]

I can honestly say this has not, nor will it ever, happen to me

Not unless you get one of those utilikilts.

[crazycanuck]

Well..I have a couple...

1-ilst driving to Ian's uncle's house in NZ..(not from Australia kids !..Auckland to Whakatane) i decided to throw my gum out the window...By pure fluke it landed smack dab in the centre of the windscreen...not of our car but the motorists behind us..

2-My mom came & visted us in NZ in 2002..I'd been in NZ for about a year and hadn't quite discovered all of the creatures yet. Anywho, we took her to Piha beach and went for a walk. Somewhere along the beach i picked up a stick and touched some blue/purple gobs with it. I guess i touched my forehead with it at one point which wasn't the smartest thing to do...I was ok for a bit but when we headed home I felt an excruciating pain on the left side of my cheek/forehead for about 10-15min...Long story short-the blue thing was a Blue Jellyfish...

I won't touch blue jellyfish again!!!!

C

[stacie]

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[Dianyla]

About 10 years ago I was the only woman working in our all-male IT support department. I had this horrible shift that started at 5:30am, and I am not a morning person, so I was always very groggy getting up and dressed for work. Also, I usually dressed in the dark so as to not disturb my then-boyfriend.

One morning, I put on a new pair of panties and then picked up yesterday's jeans off the floor and pulled them up. Went to work, didn't notice a thing. Sometime in the middle of the day, I looked under my desk and saw... yesterday's panties on the floor! WTF? How did those get there?

Apparently yesterday's panties, stuck into yesterday's jeans, had fallen out the bottom of my pants leg. More embarrassingly, they had actually dropped out somewhere in the hallway that passed in front of my desk. All of my coworkers had seen them. When I asked a male coworker the story finally came out that they had all happened across the errant panties while I was busy on the phone and after some covert panicked whispering they all decided that the best course of action would be to kick them under my desk.

[lph]

Dianyla - you win.



great story

[bmccasland]

My turn, although I can't top the loose panties...

Some years ago when I lived in Phoenix and was dating a Park Ranger (law enforcement)...
Anyway we had gone to the grocery store in Goodyear where he used to be a sargent in the town's police department, and I'm writing a check to pay for our groceries, and he says: "did you get that bad check thing cleared up?"

Now I'd never written a bad check, and they knew he was a cop...

Fortunately my check cleared on that electronic gizmo stores used.

And I was ready to throttle him!

[Kimmyt]

Well, I probably shouldn't tell this story because it's not about me but about The Boy, but it's so darned funny I can't help myself . The Boy is a small guy. We often joke that between the two of us, we almost make up one average adult male in weight (I'm 130 lbs and he's 140, neither of us tops 5'5").

So one night we had done laundry and folded before going to bed, then got up the next morning and I had gone to work and afterwards he woke up and got to work. Later on that evening when we were both home from work I did a double-take. All of a sudden The Boy looked very.... curvaceous.

I asked him what jeans he was wearing, and he said they were his, he'd folded them last night and put them in his closet. And I started laughing and asked if I could see the tag, and sure enough, he had been wearing my size 8 women's boot cut jeans (he did look rather bootylicious in them).

He was so embaressed, he got changed out of them right away, saying he thought they'd felt odd all day.

The best part is, he works in a male-dominated techy engineering company. I'm sure some of the guys thought he was going a bit off in the fashion department (but he really doesn't have a clue about fashion, i guess this proves it).

The worst part? I think he may have looked better in my jeans than me....

[Ninabike]

I have a couple work-related ones. One day while in court (I am an atty.), I was walking down the hallway looking at my file, trying to figure out what courtroom I was gong to. I rounded a corner without looking up, intending to go into the women's restroom, I pushed the first door I came to and went all the way in before I realized there were MEN in there - the MEN's room- they were all laughing. Of course, several of them just had to end up in the same courtroom I was in. Another time while in court, I looked at an atty next to me and said, "don't I know you?" He said, "Yes, we had a deposition together yesterday" (I am very bad with names and faces). There are a few others, but I won't go into those!!

[CorsairMac]

okie dokes my turn:


I used to have to wear a suit to work (thank the Good Lord no more) and I wore garters and hose. Some mornings after getting to work my garters, hose, slip, blouse et al were kattywampus from the drive in so I would put everything back in it's place while in my office....after all the windows were heavily tinted so no one could see anything right??........well imagine my shock and surprise the morning I got to work a tad late and realized once you turn the lights on - you could see Everything through those windows!!!