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08 August 2006

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Oops. What embarassing situations have you found yourself in?

 

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18 comments:

Anonymous said... 8/08/2006 10:18 pm  

Lol!!!

I was waiting in the shower for the hot water to start coming through, and realised some 5minutes later that I had only turned the cold water tap on!!!

(you should post this on 10K Mike).

Anonymous said... 8/08/2006 10:46 pm  

Not the comment I just made - I mean the picture of you in tha ladies and the question!!

Anonymous said... 8/09/2006 3:33 am  

mike can attest to the fact that i sometimes forget words ... especially when i'm trying to sound intellectual ... or it's late at night or early in the morning ... or when i'm hungry ...

but anyway ... when I was doing my undergrad i was at a table of friends, girls and guys ... and i wanted to bring up the fact that i had had a *discussion* with so-and-so, a bloke that we all knew, but i wanted to sound intelligent and use a stronger word ...

... why didn't i just use the word "discourse"?!!

instead i said inter...

:P

Anonymous said... 8/09/2006 9:45 am  

LOL

I make so many faux pas I tend to supress them, hence I can't recall them at crucial moments such as these.

I have used the men's room at a restaurant recently and wondered why the "skinks" looked a bit funny.

Anonymous said... 8/09/2006 10:10 am  

i too supress bad memories ... which is horrible during those ice breakers at parties ... "ok, everyone ... let's share our most embarassing moment!"

um ... i don't remember.

but THAT one ... sheesh ... there's no forgetting the embarassment of that! i dropped my jaw after i said it ... then everyone realized the connotation of what i'd said ... my eyes got big ... then i put my head down, picked up my tray, and walked toward the trash bins to make my escape all the while drowning out the cries from my friends to come back ... it's ok! ...

ergh! what an idiot!

then i went and hid ...

that's what i get for trying too hard.

Anonymous said... 8/09/2006 3:15 pm  

for my hens night we went salsa dancing. As I was walking down busy busy George Street all glamed up I go my heel stuck in a hole - SO NOT COOL

Anonymous said... 8/09/2006 3:42 pm  

Oh no...I've done that - ie walked into the mens...was in Sydney and a friend took me out to a nightclub.

I was busting to go, but the toilet door signs were really cryptic (crazy looking symbols, actually) so I thought - oh well, I'll wait and see who goes where, iykwim...

so, I catch sight of this tall chick with long blonde hair going into one and think "aha! that must be the ladies!" and walk straight in and make myself at home in a cubicle!

Then I hear a couple of deep, obviosuly male voices talking and think, "those poor men, they're in the ladies loos" and then it dawns on me!...the seat was in the up posiiton when I walked in! Maybe *I* am in the mens loos (doh!)

When all was quiet, I slunk out and went to find my friend...on the way I walk past the blonde chick and discover, face to face, that "she" was a transvestite!

Anonymous said... 8/09/2006 8:42 pm  

I was once waiting for a friend who was going to the toilet. I was just waiting outside wandering around,and the toilet door entrance was sort of around a corner(if that sort of makes sence)Anyway I thought I would be a smart ass and scare my mate when he walked out of the door.

I was waiting there ready for him to come out and then I heard the door open. I thought to my self I'll give him a really loud BOOOO!! owwwwrrrr...well I didn't actually see who came through the door because i was waiting for him around the corner. So I totally assumed that this person coming out the door was my friend.

Well... I was wrong I ended up giving this old man who was probably about 70 this massive BOOOO!! It didn't actually scare him much at all(probably a good thing)he just said to me in a joking way "Couldn't scare me mate"

I responded by saying sorry sorry sorry, I was actually trying to scare my friend. I felt like the biggest idiot ever. Luckly the guy was nice about it and laughed it off.

But THAT was a somewhat embarrising moment!! After that happened I told my friend about it, and he totally laughed he's head off. mmmm wasn't a good idea after all.

Anonymous said... 8/10/2006 7:50 am  

Too many to mention, and one a little too apt for this public forum. Will tell you in person :)

Anonymous said... 8/10/2006 10:46 am  

Aims! I wanna know! I told you mine!

Anonymous said... 8/10/2006 8:53 pm  

mines MUCH more embarassing than yours...:)

Anonymous said... 8/10/2006 9:25 pm  

Good thing you had your camera with you to "capture the moment"...

Anonymous said... 8/10/2006 10:49 pm  

Amy I want to know too!!

I've done heaps and heaps of embarrassing things.

Sometimes I hop into the front passenger seat of the car - and just sit for a few minutes, waving to the people I've visited, only to realise - duh- I'm the driver!!

Anonymous said... 8/11/2006 7:41 am  

lol Ruth. That is very cute. (in a totally non-patronising way)

I have approached "shop assistants" only to have them kindly let me know that they're not. And it's happened to me before, when I wore black and white in Woolworths.

I'm waiting for Angus to relate his incident wit da ladies...

Anonymous said... 8/11/2006 11:18 am  

while Mike's away at MTS this weekend, i'm going to make up an embarrassing story for him.

when Mike was 10 he begged his mom to let him take Karate lessons. his mom thought it was a ridiculous idea and that he was just going through a phase. however, in order to build character in her son she agreed to let him have lessons if he paid for them himself.

so he bribed his little brother ... combed the beach for coins tourists had left behind in the sand ... and took out a loan from his grandmother. eventually he had saved enough.

but then ...

he met some chick at school. when he attempted to entice her with tales of his asperations to become a ninja. she SCOFFED at him.

"Ninjas are stupid. Toby, my ex-boyfriend is going to be a famous rockstar!"

Dejected, Mike slowly made his way home. sigh. as he walked down the street he looked into a shop window.

"Karaoke machines starting at $59.99! You can be a rock star, too!"

Very few people know that Mike can do a mean "Thriller."

Anonymous said... 8/11/2006 11:28 am  

LOL! Stine. What a cute story!

I know Mike can sing, he just doesn't do it for some reason.

Hmmm, now I'm trying to think of a better embarassing moment than the one I can't get out of my head, but they're escaping me...

I'll share one from the other day.

I was running in my favorite running place, a dirt road suburb off the highway near my house.

I saw what looked like a hardcore runner. All muscle, legs like tree trunks etc.

I gave him the 'runner's nod' and smiled. He looked at me strangely, like he trying to figure out if he knew me.

On the way back, I gave the same guy the nod again. He fell in step with me and asked what I was 'training for'.

Flattered, I told him I had never raced, but hoped to do a half-marathon one day. He told me he'd been running twenty years ( he was about 45) and did I want to train sometime?

Wow! I'm thinking, I must really have potential. Mr running-for-twenty-years guy wants to train with me!

Then I thought, hmmm, he's a guy and I've only just met him, so I muttered something about just fitting my training in when I had time.

"Okay, he said, I'd better go now, Do you want to go out sometime?"

"urhm, no, I'm married"

Maybe its more embarassing for him than me....

Anonymous said... 8/15/2006 4:47 pm  

My embarrassing moment came just a few minutes ago. It happened when I was looking at the photo and noticed the mirror in the background. "Hmmm," I thought. "That's interesting."

It was only then that I noticed I was checking out Mike's butt.

And Shyborg which incident are you referring to?? There was one that happened in Irish Murphy's, when a drunk blonde woman decided she wanted to dance and I was unable to escape. Shaun thought it was very funny, until a middle-aged woman jumped on his back. THAT was funny. :)

Anonymous said... 8/15/2006 10:09 pm  

rofl That sounds like a Shaun Micallef sketch

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