Embarrassing social situations

Right then, this is a bit of a Friday topic as we're all watching the clock until 6pm.

The other day I tripped on a kerb whilst walking quite quickly down the street and my body reacted by taking control of the situation and making me run for 5 or 6 steps to make it look like I hadn't tripped at all. In an attempt to make it look less embarrasing it was made 10 times worse by an uncontrolled reaction as I was now running for no reason.

Anyone got any decent social embarrassments that will make me feel better about my own?

AIL Staff

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Sorry but that is so funny

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Reminds me of a few years back. I worked at a cinema and, though I wasn't working that night, I was drinking with an old friend nearby. After leaving the pub, I realised the staff would be leaving the cinema at the same time, including a guy who I had a soft spot for. So my friend and I drunkenly went to go say hello.

As my friend was coming back to mine, we invited this guy and he agreed. We were walking along and I was trying not to get hiccups or look like I couldn't handle my drink, concentrating on walking in a straight line and holding a conversation, and then I just fell over. And the fact I was drunk and thought it was hysterical, yet embarrassing, meant it took forever for my friends to help me up off the floor.

I don't get embarrassed often but that was one of the few times.

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Awww Krunchie thanks for the laugh

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:thumbsup:


I feel better now.

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Here's another one.


I'd just started working at an Internet company (not this one) as my first job in 2000 and was asked by someone to send something out using "snail mail".

As a naive trainee I didn't want to sound dumb so said "yeah no problem" not actually knowing what snail mail was. To not sound dumb I went to one of the tech guys and said "how do I send something using the snail mail system?" thinking it must be some email type system. He said, you put it into the postbox!

:emb: :emb: :emb:

A great start to a new career.

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that stuff happens to me ALL the time lol i cant remember any though :(

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I used to work for the snail mail :laugh:

I've never been drunk or even slightly tipsy so don't have any funny stories like Krunchie.

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Oooh something embarrassing happened to me this Monday...

These two people who I only knew through Twitter were kind enough to give me their spare ticket to the recording of That Mitchell and Webb Sound.

I was halfway into my second bottle of beer when we went into the auditorium. We managed to get sears right at the very front in the middle (awesome!). Thing is, if I've had beer, once I go to the loo that's it. I've 'broken the seal' and will continue to need to go like clockwork every 15 minutes.

Ahem.

So the recording has started and the guys are right there doing their show. And because I'm thinking 'Oh no, I broke the seal', sure enough within 5 minutes I was busting. I couldn't keep still on my seat or even laugh at the sketches (which is bad cause they can clearly see my reaction). It got so bad that when they had just finished a skit and the audience were applauding I just ran.

When I came back I had to lurk at the back for a bit and then ran back to my seat, almost tripping on the feet of the guy next to me. I'm not sure David Mitchell was impressed but I got a smile from Robert Webb. Not sure if it was a genuinely friendly 'hello, don't worry about it' smile or a 'yeah... It's a bit annoying but nothing we can do about it' one.

Anyway, I found it deeply embarrassing given I have been a HUGE fan of them for years.

Reading it back the story doesn't seem much of a big deal. Maybe you had to he there.

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:laugh:

I'm sure they were ok with it :smug:


AIL Staff

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Many years ago I was in a group and we played kids homes!

We were all girls and we had a disco night with Boob tubes that glittered so much they would blind you.

This night we were in full swing I did a spin round the mike and the boob tube fell to the floor.......

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

never so embarrased in my life.. :emb: :getmycoat:

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