Most embarrassing moments?

[El Presidente]

Most embarrassing moments?.....I am sure we all have one. However Saturday evening's goes into my personal top 10 

Di and I were dressed for dinner and left the Stanford Plaza hotel for the 15 minute walk to the swanky Punch Lane restaurant. 

The streets on a Melbourne CDB Saturday night are bustling. Great city. A true food, wine and shopping city. 

Anyway, Di and I were walking up Lonsdale street (quite apt!) hand in hand but separated as a wall of people came our way down the street. I went left around the street light, Di went right and we hooked up a few feet on the other side. 

No drama right?

Well the only drama was that I was now walking hand in hand with a petit redhead 

Couldn't quite work out why Di was trying to pull away from my hand.....until I looked. 

Redheads are so easy to pick up 

 

[NicPac]

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[dicko]

brilliant! bet Di was happy 

[Ken Gargett]

12 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Most embarrassing moments?.....I am sure we all have one. However Saturday evening's goes into my personal top 10 

Di and I were dressed for dinner and left the Stanford Plaza hotel for the 15 minute walk to the swanky Punch Lane restaurant. 

The streets on a Melbourne CDB Saturday night are bustling. Great city. A true food, wine and shopping city. 

Anyway, Di and I were walking up Lonsdale street (quite apt!) hand in hand but separated as a wall of people came our way down the street. I went left around the street light, Di went right and we hooked up a few feet on the other side. 

No drama right?

Well the only drama was that I was now walking hand in hand with a petit redhead 

Couldn't quite work out why Di was trying to pull away from my hand.....until I looked. 

Redheads are so easy to pick up 

 

seriously? wouldn't even cause a blush. more to the point, who did Di end up with? 

i can recall one of my mates flattening a woman in melbourne very late one evening. we'd been to a ball down there and then headed out. he'd picked up a very attractive woman. it was late. they were in a corner and we were at the bar when all hell breaks lose. seems it was all a bit crying game. (earlier in the evening at the ball, he had climbed on stage - security was so much slacker when we were young - and interrupted russell morris and his band. and then kissed him, tongue and all). in front of 600 stunned guests. 

and no, it was not me. 

the following morning, with about 8 of us staying with mates, the J witnesses knocked on the door, after at least two hours sleep. our mate from melbourne (the one we had all crashed with and whom subsequently became a minister in the victorian govt) was asleep upstairs. so we told the witnesses - a woman and her young daughter - that the person they needed to talk to was upstairs and don't worry if they are still in bed. they didn't. up they went. knocked on the door and went in. woke him up. around ten minutes later, the poor woman comes rushing down the stairs and out the door, covering her daughter's ears. 

seems our mate had assumed that the woman was his flatmate's mother, a well-known QC and the ultimate owner of the property. he said it took him ten minutes to realise that the tirade he was getting about his obviously wanton and lewd lifestyle was not from his mate's mother but from a J witness (hence the rushing out the house with ears covered). said he could not work out why she kept going back and forth between his lifestyle and god saving him. 

and they are just two things i can mention. 

lord help me, i could fill this forum with embarrassing moments. but why on earth would i put anything idiotic down in writing and on the internet? do i look like a teenager? 

[MIKA27]

Simple and easy - Still gets me embarrassed when I mention this;

 

My new GM started 2 Years ago, not a bad looker.

I text a few "Things" about her to my two work colleagues only to realise, I texted to the GM!

Yes... I still have my job

[Ken Gargett]

one from uni days, shortly before the annual law ball. mates and i had a very big day at the pub and stupidly went back to the law library at uni - where pretty much everything happened. apparently i asked 5 different women to the ball. as bad as that was, my mates would not tell me who the five were and who had said yes and who said no. it was a particularly unpleasant few weeks at the library following that. 

[Ferrero]

Back in the 80's/90's my Dad was a professional cricketer playing county and international cricket in the UK (he's Australian but couldn't make the Aussie team at the time so jumped ship with his dual nationality).

Anyway, I used to spend most of my time around the various grounds and some very prestigious ones too. One weekend at The Oval (of all the places), the days play had ended and I was kicking a football around near the boundary with Mum close by and a group of ECB Chairman standing just behind the fence. Off comes my shoe mid kick and flies towards this group of old gentlemen.... I still remember the scream mum let out as she saw this unfolding. Low and behold my shoe hit one of the men square in the chest with a big thud, he fell to ground and everyone turned to look. Mum was very apologetic and the men weren't very pleased to say the least (grumpy old tossers). That was the last time I kicked a ball around at The Oval.

Mum still won't let me live it down. To be honest she was probably more embarrassed than I was.

[WarriorPrincess]

Yes Rob were you really embarrassed ????? by the glint in your eye when you saw the pretty redhead I think maybe your were a little chuffed LOLOL

Hmmm lucky you had earned brownie points so far on the weekend all was forgiven ;-)

love you honey

[PapaDisco]

28 minutes ago, WarriorPrincess said:

Yes Rob were you really embarrassed ????? by the glint in your eye when you saw the pretty redhead I think maybe your were a little chuffed LOLOL

Hmmm lucky you had earned brownie points so far on the weekend all was forgiven ;-)

love you honey

Yeah, that's not embarrassing, that's epic!   Embarrassing is that thing you do with getting busted, naked, in every hotel in Sydney while burning steaks indoors, but random redhead hookups?  Not even close!  

[maxcjs0101]

27 minutes ago, WarriorPrincess said:

Yes Rob were you really embarrassed ????? by the glint in your eye when you saw the pretty redhead I think maybe your were a little chuffed LOLOL

Hmmm lucky you had earned brownie points so far on the weekend all was forgiven ;-)

love you honey

Di might use the word "LOL" but in fact it might be 

SOMEBODY MIGHT GET A HURT REAL BAD

[Ryan]

I moved to Chicago in 1993 for 6 years. In 1994 I had just moved into a new apartment. I didn’t have much money at the time so I bought a Sega Genesis game system to entertain myself.

Soon after buying it I got up in the middle of the night after a night out on the town. I was semi-sleep walking and couldn’t find the bathroom in the state I was in, so for some reason I went into my living room and urinated on my Sega Genesis, I must have been angry with it. I sort of woke up mid-stream and realised what I was doing.

Still not fully together, I put the oven on a low temperature and put the machine into it to dry out the urine. Then I thought I heard someone at my apartment door. I went out to the hallway to see who was there and my door closed behind me. I was still drunk-ish, in my boxer shorts, about 4 am, no keys and my Sega Genesis in the oven (on low) in the apartment I was now locked out of.

I had to run across the courtyard to the building manager’s place and rang his bell. 4 am mid-November in Chicago isn’t a warm place for boxer shorts. The building manager came down after a while with spare keys to my place and insisted on coming across with me to my place. (I haven’t mentioned that my boxer shorts were also a little damp as I hadn’t been 100% successful in stopping the flow when I realised I was drowning my games console.)

Anyway, he let me in and wanted to come in with me to make sure everything was alright. He probably noticed the smell of burning plastic and thought it was either crack or hookers. I convinced him everything was ok and he left.

When I opened the oven door there was some smoke and quite a lot of warped plastic.

I got a bill from the building manager the next day for $75 as a disturbance fee. I remember thinking that would have bought me another used Sega Genesis. Our relationship was never quite the same after that.

[Webbo]

A couple of years ago I arrived tired and jet lagged to my Brazilain hotel late in the evening when on a business trip. Checked in and collapsed on the bed only to be woken at 2 am by the mother of all parties taking place in the room next door. Repeated calls to the reception did not solve the problem so in a state of despair and rage I stormed out of my room with the intention of hammering on their door and dragging the offender out for summary justice. My rage subsided in 0.1 of a second just as I was about to pound his door down when I heard the click of my own door closing behind me and realised that I was outside in the corridor stark bollock naked without a key!!!  There was no phone on the corridor so I had no choice but to get the elevator down to reception and get another key from the night manager.  Pressing the lift it finally arrived to my floor the 14th only for the doors to open revealing a smartly dressed guy and his wife walking out to be greeted by me in my birthday suit. For some reason I decided to salute them, wish them a pleasant evening and jump into the lift. They walked past in silence and total shock, not even looking round. I managed to get another key and get back in my room without any further drama, by this time the party had also stopped. The most embarrassing part was sitting on the next table to the couple for breakfast the next morning, not a word or glance was passed by either party.

[MaxG]

5 hours ago, WarriorPrincess said:

Yes Rob were you really embarrassed ????? by the glint in your eye when you saw the pretty redhead I think maybe your were a little chuffed LOLOL

Hmmm lucky you had earned brownie points so far on the weekend all was forgiven ;-)

love you honey

Just for reference, what is the pretty redhead to shoes purchases exchange rate these days?   

 

- MG

 

[irratebass]

My most embarrassing moment was....I was in a band in the 90's, and we were playing this big festival that they dubbed 100 bands in May....well we were playing the 1st day of the fest, and our 1st song starts.....I hit my 1st note on the bass guitar and my E string broke!

I was on the side of the stage where the other misucians were standing....I nervously asked them if anyone had a bass I could borrow to finish our set (the place is filled with bass players)..they all ignored me....fine, I'm a professional I can improvise.

I finished the set playing in 5ths....which was brutal, and kept me on toes.

So, I finished the set pissed and embarrassed threw down my guitar and stormed off stage.

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[Fuzz]

9 hours ago, WarriorPrincess said:

Yes Rob were you really embarrassed ????? by the glint in your eye when you saw the pretty redhead I think maybe your were a little chuffed LOLOL

Hmmm lucky you had earned brownie points so far on the weekend all was forgiven ;-)

love you honey

All those brownie points are used up after that incident, right?

[Orion21]

Another hotel story:

Years ago my wife and I were on vacation and we decided to have some "fun" in our bathroom, as young couples do.  Well after all was said and done I walked out into our room, with my good friend still at full salute, and a hotel maid walks into the room.  I slammed on the brakes, she looked me in the face and then looked down . . . she covered her face with her hand spun around and headed for the door.  I spun around myself and booked it back into the bathroom and explained what happened.  My wife didn't stop laughing for about 5 minutes and continued to just burst out laughing throughout the reminder of the day.  A classic that will never be forgotten.   

[Overproof]

I've had situations (mostly at the shops or somewhere very busy) where I'll be talking to the mrs looking straight ahead, we get split or she'll she'll stop and look at shoes, bags, cosmetics, clothing, perfume, candles, more shoes, bags etc...Meanwhile I'll continue to keep talking and moving on with a complete stranger or better yet myself, shit talking about how I should probably trim my fingernails or if I should use cooking cream or dollop cream in the pasta etc. You get some bat shit crazy looks. Happens frequently. How embarrassment  

[Mattygukas]

Priceless! 

I once grabbed a neighbors @ss thinking it was my wife at a party...oops.  (I like to do the subtle butt grab so...) 

I felt so bad, and still is talked about to this day at each neighborhood parties. 

[skalls]

I was 23.  Work was over at 3, so I started drinking when I got home.  Friends showed up at 6 to pick me up to go to a wedding reception, which I forgot was happening that day.  Got to the reception where there was much much more drinking, yay for open bars.

Ended up passing out on the fountain (not in, on it) and got kicked out of the hotel. Friends dropped me off at my house and thought i was near death.

Got a call from my dad when got home from church the following morning asking me how i was feeling (short answer was not well).  Turns out a bunch of family friends saw me dead ass drunk on the fountain.

[Jeremy Festa]

16 hours ago, Ryan said:

I moved to Chicago in 1993 for 6 years. In 1994 I had just moved into a new apartment. I didn’t have much money at the time so I bought a Sega Genesis game system to entertain myself.

 

Soon after buying it I got up in the middle of the night after a night out on the town. I was semi-sleep walking and couldn’t find the bathroom in the state I was in, so for some reason I went into my living room and urinated on my Sega Genesis, I must have been angry with it. I sort of woke up mid-stream and realised what I was doing.

 

Still not fully together, I put the oven on a low temperature and put the machine into it to dry out the urine. Then I thought I heard someone at my apartment door. I went out to the hallway to see who was there and my door closed behind me. I was still drunk-ish, in my boxer shorts, about 4 am, no keys and my Sega Genesis in the oven (on low) in the apartment I was now locked out of.

 

I had to run across the courtyard to the building manager’s place and rang his bell. 4 am mid-November in Chicago isn’t a warm place for boxer shorts. The building manager came down after a while with spare keys to my place and insisted on coming across with me to my place. (I haven’t mentioned that my boxer shorts were also a little damp as I hadn’t been 100% successful in stopping the flow when I realised I was drowning my games console.)

 

Anyway, he let me in and wanted to come in with me to make sure everything was alright. He probably noticed the smell of burning plastic and thought it was either crack or hookers. I convinced him everything was ok and he left.

 

When I opened the oven door there was some smoke and quite a lot of warped plastic.

 

I got a bill from the building manager the next day for $75 as a disturbance fee. I remember thinking that would have bought me another used Sega Genesis. Our relationship was never quite the same after that.

 

Fannnnnntastic

[Jeremy Festa]

I have so many.

My most recent was last week, visiting a real estate client of ours.

I had noticed on my way round the corner that the other real estate, adjacent to them, had shut up shop, after being opened for about 6 months.

Small chit-chat with the Principal and I say, "What was that place....Sampson's? Jeez they didn't last long at all did they!" Pointing up and around the corner and laughing. 

Principal has a little smirk on his face. 

Small talk continues, "anyway, how's things, you guys busy? There's loads more business cards on display... new team members?"

Principal said, "yeah," motioning to the guy sitting right by us, "this is Steve...Steve Sampson." 

[El Presidente]

2 hours ago, Jerocco said:

 

Principal said, "yeah," motioning to the guy sitting right by us, "this is Steve...Steve Sampson." 

Good luck working with Steve 

[Jeremy Festa]

58 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Good luck working with Steve 

 

[zeedubbya]

About a month or two ago I take a call from a very nice man wanting to purchase a car.  He explains that he and his girlfriend didn't realize when they moved from California for college that a car would be so critical to have.  He explains how his parents live in China and how his whole living situation has changed so drastically over the years.  I get him all set over next few days.

 The day comes for him to take delivery and I realize he doesn't have a ride.  We talk, he politely says no he and his girlfriend will take the bus.  I tell him I think I have a solution.  I have an intern coming to work after class who goes to the same school.  I text my intern, "Hey I need you to pick up some nice Chinese folks on your way in today."  He texts me back ok sounds good no problem send me the address.  I tell him and say they'll be expecting you at 3:00.  Great, problem solved.  I call the customer and he says he will be ready.  At promptly 3:07 I get a text from my intern which says "I'm going to kill you for this when I get in--oh my god!"  I'm wondering what could've possibly went wrong.

 My intern gets in and he has the customer have a seat in waiting area and comes to me and says, "This is the most embarrassing thing I've ever had happen to me, I cannot believe you did this to me!"  He is pretty mad.  I ask him what he's talking about and he proceeds to tell the story of how he went up to this customers apartment and knocked on the door and said "Uhm, I am here for the food?  My boss sent me to pickup some food?"  There's a long awkward silence which he breaks by saying, " I assume he's already paid for it?"  The customer says "I've been waiting here for 2 hours for someone to pick me up to buy a car and you think you're here to pick up food?"  At that moment a lightbulb goes off in my head.  I look down at my phone and it had somehow corrected "folks" to "food."  The text read "I need you to pick up some nice Chinese Food on your way in please".  After a little explaining and (fortunately) a few laughs it worked out, I was extremely embarrassed, but not near as much as the intern!

[JohnS]

20 hours ago, irratebass said:

My most embarrassing moment was....I was in a band in the 90's, and we were playing this big festival that they dubbed 100 bands in May....well we were playing the 1st day of the fest, and our 1st song starts.....I hit my 1st note on the bass guitar and my E string broke!

I was on the side of the stage where the other misucians were standing....I nervously asked them if anyone had a bass I could borrow to finish our set (the place is filled with bass players)..they all ignored me....fine, I'm a professional I can improvise.

I finished the set playing in 5ths....which was brutal, and kept me on toes.

So, I finished the set pissed and embarrassed threw down my guitar and stormed off stage.

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Wow,  I don't know if I'm awed or impressed! I've broken .10 to .18 gauge guitar strings over the years, but to break a .105 gauge bass string would take some doing. I can only think you were doing some heavy picking on the 4th string for some time or slapping with your thumb.