Embarrassed? Yes! Mortified? Yes! "GO HIDE UNDER A ROCK!" Moments...

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I was at Home Depot, just finished breast feeding my first who was a new born at the time. A young girl about 6 walks up and starts talking to me about my baby girl.

Then an older couple walk up to her and I say, 'are you shopping with your grandparents?'

Poor wee girl, the look on her face was priceless when she said, 'their my mom and dad'.

I stumbled over myself trying to explain that my parents were much older when they had me...I don't think it helped!

I'm just too tired for these...I'm laughing so hard and I keep remembering this one ladies retreat I went to where everyone was sharing insanely funny stuff...the one where the 2 friends went shopping at WalMart and at the checkout, the one drops her credit card. She can't bend over and pick it up because she has just had back surgery...her friend can't do it, she has terrible case of IBS and if she bends over, well...so this nice young man picks up the card. She hands it to the person at the register, and it slips out of her fingers again...they look at each other again, totally embarrassed, don't know what to do...the guy picks it up again. She smiles, says thanks and hands the card to the cashier and unbelievably drops the thing AGAIN - by now, they are both horrified and dying of embarrassment, not saying a word - the guy doesn't know what's going on and the cashier is looking at them really strangely...

We were all laughing so hard by the time we got to the end of the story...gasping and crying with laughter, and the end is not that funny unless you were there at 2 a.m. around a bonfire. They finally made their purchase and left, no eye contact with anyone. Yes, the guy handed them the card one more time - and they told him to give it directly to the cashier... :)

wow...lol..some great stories here..especially the condom 'lollipop' & the matchbox cars.

I have 3 boys 4, 14, & 16 and actually the little one was (sort-of) innocent in this. We were at McDonalds where I had just bought sundaes for everyone. The restaurant is pretty full with a mixed crowd. So, we sit down at a table and we just start chatting about pretty much nothing. Out of the blue, my little one decides that he is going to start picking the peanuts off of his sundae and starts flicking them at my 16 year old. Before I could say a thing, my oldest blurts out (LOUD) "KID, Stop playing with your nuts!!"

Needless to say, my 14 year old and I immediately start laughing so hard we are in tears. My little one has no idea what is going on and my oldest is trying to find a way to disappear under the table.

Mirela-The condom story has to be the best. Anyways my wife and I were adopting our second child. The social worker was coming over our house to do our home study. When the social worker arrived our 2 year old  daughter who we adopted with the help of this social worker greeted her. The social worker picks her up and our daughter responds with "you have small boobies". Talk about a ice breaker.

Joe

Mirela, Thanks for dusting it off.  I think after Ike & Mac we need a laugh.

I was in Italy, giving a talk to a Rotary Club about the ostrich farms we had seen on an agricultural tour of the region.  I talked about how many ostrich there were, how big the ostrich were how I wanted an ostrich myself- a few chuckles made me think that I was boring them, the mounting giggle from the entire room of over 150, led me to think I had toilet paper on my shoe, boogies in my nose-something.  But when the Consulate finally leaned over, choking on his laughter, and corrected my pronunciation of ostrich, I had been saying-asshole, I knew my Southern Accent gets me everytime.

Mirela, Ummm, I'm kinda lost for words.  I have a bunch of questions, but don't dare ask.  Don't ya just love cute dogs.  LOL.

I wanted to join in on the fun but have nothing to offer at the moment.  I will have to put my thinking cap on b/c this is quite funny.

One of the most embarrassing things to happen to me was something I had no control over (in retrospect I guess I did but I didn't realize at the time).

I used to live in a small town that had a community festival every year. It was a week long festival that included your usual assortment of events like a beauty contest, a 5K race, a BBQ hosted by the volunteer fire department, and of course a parade. But one of the favorite events was a hog calling contest.

This particular year, I was the Chairman of the festival so like the other "dignitaries" I got to ride in the parade in one of the convertibles. Well, for whatever reason we were a couple of cars short that year and several of us had to share a car. And who do you think I had to share my car with?? The winner of the hog calling contest. So off we go...and for the entire parade route I had to smile and wave as everyone we passed hollered out "sooooouu-ey...here pig... here pig"

I still have nightmares.

None of us are immune: the other day two women came to my open house and I asked one of them: "So who is looking, you or your mom?" (Indicating the other woman).  Turns out they were college roommates 15 years ago and remained good friends.  Ouch!  I felt so small I could have hidden under a pebble - never mind a rock.  Rookie mistake...I know better than to assume anything. 

Looking forward to your "Lost in Translation" blog.

We all have those moments.   I once asked a secretary who was on her second marriage later in life when she was expecting; she said she wasn't pregnant (she had just gained a little weight).  Wow .. I could have crawled under a rock. 

Mirela,

Thank you, thank you, thank you to you for posting this and to everyone for sharing their infamous moments! I laughed so hard when I read Chad's, I was crying!  And the wrong person at the restaurant is great too.  And Nyana's mom...OMG I totally could see that being something that I would do!

Okay, I have a million to share myself I'm sure, but the best one happened to my husband's coworker.  They worked for a home improvement center, and the coworker was helping a nice looking woman find something.  Well, he was all impressed because she kept giving him "The Look".  Well he helps her find what she needs, and she goes on her way.  Then she comes back a bit later, and he's thinking that she's gonna ask for his number.  She's all embarassed looking and a bit tongue tied, but finally finds the courage to tell him... You're zipper is down.  Well not so bad, until he turns to zip up and realizes that he literally let the cows out of the barn.  Or at least the bull!

Okay, one more life in retail story!

A local contractor is in the store my husband worked for in the heat of the summer.  He's got cutoff shorts on, and my husband gets selected by drawing the short straw to tell this man that his gems are hanging out the bottom of his too short shorts!  Apparently going commando in daisy dukes shouldn't ever be an option for a man!

You have the best blogs!! I love it! Thankfully I haven't had anything quite that embarrassing happen to me :)

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