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Embarrassing Moments
  • CanadianMamaCanadianMama
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    When I was a teenager I read YM and Seventeen magazine. They always had those embarrassing stories collections, which would always make me break out into hysterics.

    Anyone have any really good embarrassing stories they want to share?

    I'll start:

    My friends and I use to hang out at Tim Horton's a lot, I mean A LOT. They had a smoking section, their coffee was cheap, and they were never very good at enforcing their loitering policy.

    One time we were there, my friends were all sitting at one table, and I ended up sitting in a seat at the table over, with a strange man (I was a teenager). I had a large Chocolate Milk (they served it in fountain pop cups at that time). I was facing my friends, chatting, drinking my chocolate milk, when the man sort of clears his throat. I look over and he said to me "That's okay you can finish that". It turned out that I was drinking the strange man's Chocolate Milk instead of my own! 



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  • SammieSammie
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    Oh man, I have so many!!

    One time I was dressed to the 9's, looking hot, as I walked out of Nordstrom. Head held high, smiling. I stepped onto the escalator, rode it up and as u went to step off...my heel got caught. I fell forward, my bags splayed all over and my heel snapped. Everyone saw! So embarrassing! I was mortified, but it was funny.

    Thankfully a handsome male friend worked at the mall and he came to my rescue, bought me a coffee and I sat on a bench while he went to get me some new shoes. I seriously get embarrassed just thinking about it!! It was hilarious though. Way to humble me, eh?

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  • momofeveryonemomofeveryone
    Posts: 1,799Member
    i was a new mom, just getting back to work. i worked as a car parts delivery driver with allllll men. i walked around a whole 8 hr day with baby puke on my shoulder and back. not one of them said anything to me. co-workers, clients, and customers saw and i had no idea.....i still cringe lol
    we got the house!!!!! i have worked so hard for 5 years to get us in a spot to buy! isnt it cute?!?!?!?
  • CanadianMamaCanadianMama
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    Lol @Sammie I would have PAID to see that :p

    @momofeveryone Oh no!!!! That's awful! I hate those moments I think I'm doing well, dressed well, clean, and look down and see food smear on my shirt 
    :\">

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  • momofeveryonemomofeveryone
    Posts: 1,799Member
    @CanadianMama it never fails! when ddh and i are going somewhere where i need to be 'dressed nice' i take ds to the sitter b4 i get dressed lol. and he hasnt spit up in a long time now lol
    we got the house!!!!! i have worked so hard for 5 years to get us in a spot to buy! isnt it cute?!?!?!?
  • SammieSammie
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    That's what EVERYONE says @canadianmama. My friend still remembers it and laughs and even shared the story with his fiancée. LOL. It was so embarrassing!! My mom says I can step in shit and come out smelling like a rose and I guess in this situation she's right. I would have had to go barefoot or something if it hadn't been for my friend!!! That would have been even worse!!

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  • fatchickonabikefatchickonabike
    Posts: 5,638Member
    My most embarrassing moment was my first car accident. I hit an ambulance.
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  • momofeveryonemomofeveryone
    Posts: 1,799Member
    @fatchickonabike no way!!!! oh no!!!
    we got the house!!!!! i have worked so hard for 5 years to get us in a spot to buy! isnt it cute?!?!?!?
  • NinLee
    Posts: 729Member
    I went to go pick my daughter up from school one day when she was in grade 2. Wearing my new new boots to break them in .I don't know what happened, but one moment I was walking and the next I was sprawled out on the paving - in front of students, parents and teachers. Only one mommy came to ask me if I was ok. Got my DD and hobbled back to the car and got home. The whole right side of my body was black and blue the following morning. My right knee and right elbow swelled up and had skin missing. I couldn't walk for a week. But the worst damage was done to my ego LOL... and my new boots were so scuffed that I never wore them again....
  • NinLee
    Posts: 729Member
    LOL @fatchickonabike! At least you didn't have to wait for an ambulance ? ROFL!

  • SAHDude
    Posts: 130Member
    I was waiting at the bank for a lien release and reading a paper when I heard the 2 , 8 year olds
    giggling across from me.  I felt they were laughing at me. I lowered the paper and they were trying not to laugh, but that just made it worse.  I got up and got a drink of water.  Now the little shits were falling out of their chairs 
    laughing. 

    Got my piece of paper.

     As I left I saw them telling Mom and pointing

    I was getting in my truck, I noticed one shoe was black
    and one was brown. Same shoe-different colors.  I laughed as hard as they did.
  • LOL! Ok, so shortly after I wrecked my car, DS and I were waiting for the bus. He was about 3-4. He looks over at this lady and says "My mom wrecked our car, now we gotta ride the BUS!" Thanks, kid. 


  • GypsyMamaGypsyMama
    Posts: 625Member
    Dh was cooking dinner and asked me to run and buy some wine but to hurry because dinner was almost ready. Ran in, bought wine, ran out and got in car. There was a guy sitting in the front seat! He says hey baby let's party! I was in the wrong car!
  • CanadianMamaCanadianMama
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    LOL!!!! I love all of these!!! 

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  • thejoker
    Posts: 91Member
    One time my friend (no really, it was my friend!) was in one of those stand-up tanning beds. She was naked (obviously) and dancing around to the music...turns out she forgot to shut the door to the room, and the door to the tanning bed came open without her knowing it. She also picked the room right by the window! She said she had no idea how many people saw her dancing around naked before she realized it lol! I laughed at her for days about that one!
  • What I did to my mom:

    When i was about 4 or 5, my mom went to the grocery store one day, and she'd been saying at home she had to remember maxi pads. I was not paying attention, walking behind her, and she'd grabbed the maxi pads, but I didn't see her. As soon as I noticed them on the shelf, I screamed at the top of my lungs "MOM! Don't forget your maxi pads!" She kept walking like she didn't know me.
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  • motymoty
    Posts: 442Member

    At Walmart with DS, I was getting some hemorrhoidal cream, and there were a few older ladies on the same aisle. One of the ladies attends our church. Anyways, DS shouts out "Hey mom is that your 'special' ointment?" The lady still laughs about it when she sees me at church.

    I have been known to have bad gas, I swear I have IBS. Anyway, once my dh and our elderly neighbor were outside our house talking . I was in the tub, just a farting away and relaxing...lol!! DH came in and said they heard it outside, I was humilated!! It was hard to look the neighbor in the face after that.

    Another gas one: As stated before I have gas/intestinal issues, especially when nervous. When I was doing clinicals in nursing school, I was in a patient's room (semi-private). My patient was a confused elderly gentleman and the patient on the other side was fully alert and had famiy visiting. Well, I was checking on my patient and a fart slipped out!!! I was so embarrassed, but I played it off like it was my patient. I said to him "Mr. So and So let me check your diaper... oh no you are ok, it was just gas!" LMAO!!! I felt bad for blaming the old guy, but it got me off the hook!

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  • Ok, once when my ds12 was about 2 I had managed to get a few precious kid free hours, and was on the bus on the way to the shops I totaly forgot he wasn't there and started nudging the poor lady next to me and showing her the 'moo cars' and choo choo out the window, I must have dug her side with my elbow twice before I realised ds was at home, the woman laughed the whole rest of the journey, I wanted to crawl under the seat!
  • NinLee
    Posts: 729Member
    ROFL!!! @Tryingtogetitright...  =))
  • NinLee
    Posts: 729Member
    I used to take my mom grocery shopping (she never had a car or a license). This particular trip the store was really busy, so I was just following my mom pushing her trolley for her while she got her things (I was about 21 at the time). My mom let one hellava fart go, turned to me without batting an eyelid and said, "Sis!!. A, That is so rude!! Don't you say pardon?". So, of course I got all the really filthy looks. I felt like I wanted to curl up in the trolley and kill my mother at the same time! She only apologized once we were in the car on the way home - but she was laughing so much I could hardly hear it... 

    My husband has done that kind of thing to me on numerous occasions as well....
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  • GingersnapGingersnap
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    Once, in college, my backpack hiked my dress up as I walked. A friend stopped me halfway across campus. My ass was hanging out.  :\">
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  • fatchickonabikefatchickonabike
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    Yep, I hit an ambulance. And it wasn't even moving. Even worse, it was parked next to a fire truck and when I hit it about 10 firefighters came running over to see if I was OK. I was so embarrassed I couldn't even appreciate the hotness. And did I mention it was my 19th birthday? The cop who filled out the accident report wished me a happy birthday. Yeah, thanks so much.
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  • thejoker
    Posts: 91Member
    I'm from GA and we call everyone Sis. I have a cousin and a niece and everyone calls them Sis like its their actual name.
  • SammieSammie
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    @mynahbird, I call my daughter 'sis' or 'sister' also. I always have. I don't know how or why and she's an only child...

    I've heard it other times though from different people. My uncle calls his daughters 'sis' as well.

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  • SammieSammie
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    @thejoker, I have an older cousin that everyone calls 'Sissy' as well. Always! I didn't even know she had a 'real' name until I was a teen.

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  • NinLee
    Posts: 729Member
    @mynahbird I must apologize.  "sis" has been taken from the Afrikaans word "Sies", which means disgusting. Sometimes I forget that even though my home language is English, there are still differences... LOL. 

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  • NinLee
    Posts: 729Member
    But having said that.... many Afrikaans people refer to their daughters/sisters/nieces etc as "sis" or "sissy", shortened from "suster" which means sister.....
  • GingersnapGingersnap
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    @MamaTeeRoll - It was drafty before my ass was hanging out. It was a loose fitting dress and . . . honestly I don't really want to think about it anymore. 
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  • SammieSammie
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    Oh @gingersnap, that sounds like something that would happen to me! :\"> Something crazy is always happening to me!

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  • GingersnapGingersnap
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    So, this one time, I'm at a naked party, and my friend's roommate came home. We're all sitting around nude, and her straight, male roommate comes home to about ten naked people lounging in the living room. Silence. The tension in the room just ratcheted up, and I *was* embarrassed, but to cover it up, I said, "Hey, Rob! How was work?" "Um, okay, I guess." "Why don't you go in the kitchen, get a drink and make yourself more comfortable?" Then everybody pretty much started giggling, myself included. They wanted to know how I had the presence of mind to be so calm. I said, I just kept thinking "act casual". 
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  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,715Confessional Manager
    A naked party?! LOL

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    "What looks like torture is a time to rejoice
    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • GingersnapGingersnap
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    @unforgiven - Yup. I am sooooo tame now.
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  • Mai
    Posts: 955Member
    Ok! My turn!
    When I was a teen my parents had a friend that moved down to Hawaii for a few years. He came back to the states and brought his wife. She was blonde and older. He brought some home movies to show us Hawaii. We were watching this video of the beach and some people surfing and then the camera zoomed in on this chunky older person wearing a gold teeny tiny string bikini. Totally not okay to be wearing looking like that. I thought he was just being his perverted peeping tom self, So I blurted out "ew she's fat" I heard a few gasps and looked over at my parents. My mom had her jaw on the ground, my dad had his hand on his face and then the lady gave me the 'look'. Turns out, it was her.

    About 5 years ago dh and i had made friends with a new couple and they invited us to their house for a party they were having. We didn't know anyone there except the host and hostess. There had to be at least 20 other couples there. We went out into the back yard after a while where the BBQ and everyone else was, I saw they had a trampoline. I got excited and started jumping on it. After a few minutes into my love for jumping, I got too far to the side and flew right off and landed smack on my back, not in the grass, but on the cement patio. Everyone there looked at me like I was some crazy person.

    Last year DH and I were at our other friends house and she had invited over her friend from work. My friend had just gotten a stripper pole. We were all curious so us girls started playing on it. Music was going, drinks were being drunk and I went to try to climb the pole and as soon as I lifted my legs off the floor, the music stopped and I let out the biggest fart I had ever done. It was like I "Ron Jeremy" timed it. Fucking humiliating. Then about 6 months after that, the same people came over to our house and I was making dinner for everyone. And I was just standing in the kitchen with the girls, and out of no where I farted again! So then I start laughing so hard I double over and let another one out! Still to this day our friends tell me I am allergic to that girl because I only fart when she is near!
  • crazylizzycrazylizzy
    Posts: 20Member
    I went to the bathroom at Logans Roadhouse, I'm still on crutches come out and  a nice lady pointed out that i had toilet paper stuck in the waistband of my jeans...literally trailing down my butt!! Ummm thanks?
  • notperfectnotperfect
    Posts: 762Member
    I wasn't so embarassed my this one as my Mom but I caused it. When I was about 6 my friends,brother and I wanted our parents to take us to the movies, but we were told that we couldn't afford it. Ever the entrapraneurs we decided to raise the money ourselves. We got half way down the block when a kindly neighbour called my mom to inform her that we were going door to door selling their underwear. And not just the regular stuff we had everything from what was reserved for TOM to the sexiest of sexies. People were giving us quarters and telling us to go home. My Mom and the neighbour had to do the walk of shame down the block to retrieve their deliquent children and assorted underthings.
  • SammieSammie
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    Oh my gosh, you ladies are killing me!!! Keep 'Em coming!!! =))

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  • darknscarymommy
    Posts: 102Member
    Back in the day when I had 4 small children, I managed to get a chance to go the the grocery store by myself.  That was almost unheard of for me!  So after I was done checking out, and as I was walking towards the door with my cart full of groceries, I reached down for the little one that was running around my feet, thinking that it was my son.  Only since I had left my kids at home, it wasn't my son!  As soon as I grabbed his arm, the poor kid started screaming and his mom came running!  Holy God!  You'd think I was trying to kidnap the kid!
  • Beach_HippieBeach_Hippie
    Posts: 126Member
    In my early 20's, I was newly married and settling into our first apartment together. We decided to throw a little dinner party and invited all of our new neighbors. We went all out...fancy food, decorations, frilly centerpieces, you name it. It looked like a magazine feature. As the dinner was winding down and we were certain that we'd impressed everyone with our high class digs and good taste, here comes the cat, fresh from litter box. Evidently, she'd found a bologna string (you know, those red strings that you peel off the edge of sliced bologna) in the garbage earlier in the day and had eaten it and now 3/4 of it was dangling out of her butt. She plopped down in the middle of the living room and proceeded to finish removing it from her stubborn little cat anus while everyone watched. Ah, a night to remember...forever...
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  • Monkeynmoo
    Posts: 1,420Guest
    We were on our way home from a wedding, one I helped plan so i told my dad that I was going to get drunk that night because the wedding went off without a hitch and the stress was over... he kept my glasses full the entire night! On the way home, which was supposed to be a 20 minute drive that took 1.5 hours, as I was throwing up on the side of I5 I started to pee myself and I couldn't help it because I was puking... then my dad says "are you peeing on my shoes?" He was holding my hair and I in fact was peeing on his shoes. Haven't got that drunk again!


    Another one, dh and I went out for dinner. I have IBD (irritable bowel disease caused from 3 bouts of colon cancer) and I had to go sooooo bad.... dh was taking his time after hitting every pot hole and man hole cover on the way home. We use our back door to gain entry to our house because our house is set up like the one on the movie "the pacifier" with the garage facing the back yard not the street so I was in the back yard already just waiting and dancing because I had to poop so bad.... I couldn't hold it anymore so I walked over to our compost pile and pooped in it, dh walked in the back yard mid poop and just started cracking up while he went and got me tp then took pictures of me while I finished my business!
  • ann_winsann_wins
    Posts: 132Member
    Great stories. If you didn't know better you'd think the discussion was embarrassing fart stories.
    xMIL wore a full layered skirt and let one out while her date paid for gasoline. She didn't smell anything so she thought she was safe. But when he returned to the car the odor managed to get loose. He tried not to embarrass her as he gagged a bit. He left the car door open. He leaned over to breathe pretending to pick up coins on the ground. This was the 50's before women farted!

    So glad times have changed. Farting is normal just not always timely
  • irishlassirishlass
    Posts: 6,788Member
    My granny (now 90) was alive during the 'war' in this country. People got there bags searched going into every single shop incase they were carrying bombs, and there were random police checks in the street. My granny went to one shop only and was on her way home and a police officer stopped her and said 'empty out your bag madam' she politely said, 'i really dont want to, ive got to get home quickly, thankyou'. My granny basically refused to bring out the brown parcel at the bottom of her bag and so back up was called and the shops along the street all shut their shutters. My granny was blushing so bad, it was a packet of sanitary towels. She was in the paper.

    Little B and I were on the bus after watching Snow White that morning and of course the bus was silent. We were both sitting quietly and a very elderly lady walked on with a hunch and a rain hood thing on and she obviously couldnt see very well, she was squinting a bit. Benji yells out; 'LOOK MUM, ITS A BADDIE! SHES A BAD CHARACTER, LIKE THE WITCH, IS SHE A WITCH MUMMY!? IS SHE!? LOOK, A WITCH!' omg i was so mortified. 

    In the dentist with my little cousin, and you all know how silent a dentists office is, and an extremely large woman comes and sits down near us. He just stared in awe, turns round and LOUDLY says 'why is that woman so FAT!?' i was only like 11 and he was 3/4 and i didnt know what to do!! we had to sit there for like 20mins avoiding her glare, while he continued to ask about her weight. it was so humiliating!!

    Lastly, my own embarrassment. One of my neighbours is like a really really gorgeous 20something girl (i know im only 20, but i feel about 50) She is just stunning and she has a son the same age as B. I was on my way out of my house and she stopped in the street to talk to me.I ALWAYS feel inferior when im around her, she just seems to have all her shit together! We are in the middle of a very serious conversation, and a bird shits on my forehead. Literally, right on my forehead and its running down towards my eye. OMG it was awful. I just went 'OMG' and ran back into my house, then i couldnt find my keys properly and it was just a baaad situation. The next time i saw her of course she said 'i cant believe a bird shit on your face, thats so funny!' Thanks friend...
    "Be who you are and say what you feel. Because those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter." - Dr. Seuss
  • @thejoker

    i have owned several tanning salons, and by law the stand up machines have 2 sections. one where you disrobe and then you enter the machine where you are enclosed in the machine where no one can see you.

    so your friend is telling you lies.  even if she did forget to close the door, doors are not positioned to face open windows, and she would have been blocked by the public view and an employee would have had to close the door for her.  

    sorry to burst your friends little bubble.
  • crazylizzycrazylizzy
    Posts: 20Member
    When my mom was a teenager she was in church with her mom, they was sitting on metal  chairs, do you see where Im going with this? Anyway, they lady in front dropped her  purse and my grandmother look at my mom and told to pick it up for the lady..the whole time my mom said she had to fart really bad and was holding it in, gave her mom a pleading look, bent down and between the metal chair and the hush in church proceeded to make the loudest fart noise that the whole congregation heard her! But the lady got her purse back lol
  • fatchickonabikefatchickonabike
    Posts: 5,638Member

    My aunt Rina once got a job as a pharmacist's assistant. Rina is the kindest, most helpful person you could ever hope to meet, and to make sure she would be able to direct customers to the proper aisle, she had drawn herself a map of the store showing which products could be found where. She was fully prepared for any enquiry, until...


    Some pretentious little turd walked in (right after the pharmacist took a bathroom break, leaving Rina alone) and asked her where the prophylactics were. Rina had never heard that word, so she said, "I'm not really sure, but if you tell me what kind of medicine it is, I'll tell you where to find it."


    The turd stared in disbelief. "It's a CONDOM, LADY!"


    Rina went purple to the earlobes. Just then the pharmacist rematerialized and asked the pretentious twerp if she could help him.


    "Well, I don't know," he said. "Can YOU tell me where the prophylactics are, or do I have to tell YOU  what kind of medicine it is?"


    Rina didn't last long at that job.

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  • Persephone
    Posts: 107Member
    One that stands out was when I was at a follow up appt with the OB (a man) right after DS was born.  I was naked from the waist down for the usual appt, and DS was in his car seat.  Then DS had a MAJOR poo; it leaked out of the diaper, all over the car seat.  So I was trying to clean it up, 1/2 naked, and change his diaper, and in walks the OB.  I know he's seen it before, but it was an awkward moment.  He retreated, and I took care of DS and then 5 - 10 min. later the OB returned. 
  • wickedmommywickedmommy
    Posts: 99Member
    When I was turning 16, my godmother took me to Fl on vacation and her BFF had her hottie cousin staying there also. Up until then we had been making eyes at each other and flirting. Well, I have always had problems going to the bathroom when other people are around so I would wait till late at night. One night I went to the bathroom and blew it up and the whole thing overflooded. I was trying to fix it on my own and couldn't and had to call my godmother, who called her friend, who called the hottie....yea you can see where I'm going with this. I was MORTIFIED.  

    After that night, I pretty much kept to myself for the next few days and avoided him as much as possible. I'm STILL embarrassed as I type this, and this is the first time I've ever shared that story with anyone.
  • LenaRAWR
    Posts: 1Member

    I was meeting my sister and her BF Downtown and was crossing a street @ the cross walk, 4 1/2" heels, skinny jeans....BUSTED MY ASS, in front of 5 cars, plus other "passer-bys". Oh yeah.

     

    OH, and I was boating with my friend, her mother and step father....I was trying to disembark the boat by jumping off the front....I got caught on my JEAN SHORTS where you tie the boat off, and was STUCK, hanging off the side of the fekken boat!!!! That stupid metal stud at the pocket would NOT allow my shorts to rip. I hit my head on the side of the boat, blacked out, and to make it more awesome...later @ Taco Bell we overheard people talking about it. F.M.L!!!

  • RahsgirlRahsgirl
    Posts: 329Member
    About 7 years ago I was fairly new at my job and was stocking some product on the shelves. I had to climb up a ladder to reach the shelf and then a very cute co worker would hand me the product.. well on this day I had a long skirt on and as I climbed up the ladder it got caught and as I went up my skirt came down exposing my bare ass (I was wearing a thong) right in front of my co workers face!! I was horrified! And now he is married to my BFF and never has let me live it down!!