When I got off my bankers stool at the teller line to go back to my branch manager desk and caught the strap of my shoe on the lower cabinet door handle and my shoe didn't break - it made me gracefully slide to the floor flat on my face with one foot about a foot off the ground stuck on this metal handle. Luckily, only one customer was in the bank at the time and he came running over to look over the counter and say "are you alright?" I was mortified. Damn cheap shoe strap! Any expensive shoe would have broken and I would have been fine.
this is funny and a true story, when i lived in florida i worked in a juice plant, i was running a packing machine and all the big bosses were in that day, an d standing at my line, the roller on the belt caught my pants and ripped them right off, i just calmly reached over and grabbed a box and asked a freind to go out to my car and get a spare pair i happened to have in there. i know my face was bright red but i was laughing as hard as anybody. it was funny
OMG! The most embarrasing thing? Well, when I was still with my ex, we borrowed a motorhome from family and took it to Italy, doing a tour of the country. One night on the way back, we stopped for the night in a very nice site. In the plot next but one to us was an identical motorhome (yeah, ya know where this is going, don't you?!) belonging to some very nice Swedish people. They were so friendly and hospitable, inviting us in for a drink. We chatted for hours and got happily tiddly, then got very late, time for bed. We said our thankyous and goodnights and went back to ours. I had another couple of wines (hic!) and decided to go to the showers, scrub up, clean teeth, etc. Bearing in mind, I had had a few (hic!) I stumpled back and when I got to the door of the motorhome it was locked. Very funny, I thought, my ex playing a prank on me - tee hee! I knocked harder, calling his name, nothing, then louder and shouting louder saying "Very funny, let me in". Then over my shoulder, I saw a light. I looked and, behind me, was my ex's face peering through the curtains in OUR motorhome. As they were identical, I had got the wrong one and these poor Swedes were locked in the darkness, listening to me shouting and banging on the door - OMG!!!. Needless to say, we were up with the dawn and the first ones to leave that morning. I still blush thinking about it!!!!! Bet they thought Crazy Brits..........!
Although one of the minor ones involved the back seat of a crew cab (4-door) pick-up and a trip to an autoparts store. (Few things more embarassing than arguing with the parts guy about how knowledgeable you are when it comes to vehicles, then going out and accidently climbing into the BACK SEAT of the truck and not being able to find the ^$&%&*! steering wheel! - I covered by reaching down on the floor boards and grabbing a first-aid kit and calmly placing it in the front seat, just as if that were my intention all along! )
While in the Coast Guard, I stepped out of a helicopter only to stop with my feet about 6 inches off the ground. Usually while in flight the crewman uses a belt which is attached to a strap going to the ceiling for whenever they have to do periodic safety checks. I normally kept the belt on even while strapped into my seat. When I stepped out after the flight, I forgot to take the belt off. Being 5'1", I never touched the ground
It was at least a month before I finally heard the end of that one
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