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Ok, we have a bunch of crazy posts out there right now, lets get things rolling with this! What's the most awful embarrasing thing that has ever happened to you?

Here's mine...

I moved to Michigan from Florida when I was 20. I was in college, and started work at Mcdonald's. It was awful, because I had no history in this town, and no friends. Everyone I worked with had gone to school together forever, and I was a total outsider.

One day my second week of work I was feeling really rotten, like I had the flu. I was being trained in drive-thru, and I was new, and I didn't want anyone to know I was sick. I had a couple hours to go, I thought I'd tough it out. Then the nausea started. I waited and waited...Finally I said I had to use the bathroom. I calmly began to walk through the lobby to the bathroom..The busy lobby, full of customers. I couldn't hold it anymore...Right next to a booth full of people I threw up. I can't even begin to explain how embarrasing that was. You should have seen the look on the guys face who was closest to my puke...Terrible.

They sent me home...They were really nice to me about it, they waited until I left before they made fun of me! I ended up working there almost 2 years, I never ever lived that down.

So how about you guys?

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:15 pm Subject:

Gosh,Fins,that is so funny! I have so many!! Probably the one that sticks with me is this. When I was younger,I was working at the hospital in the E.R.Well I was on the evening shift and we were waiting for someone to fix our X-Ray machine. We were swamped that night with a car wreck and this young, good looking guy comes to fix the machine. I showed him where it was and went back to my work. So he comes back later and says he need to check it out on someone to make sure it's working,I wasn't in the best mood and tired,when he says,"hop up there and let me take an x-ray of your leg. I was,still am,a smart a** and said,I can't,I have a wooden leg,why don't you take a pic of your own leg. He says,"I have one too",I hysterically laugh and go about my work. A co-worker pulled me over to the side and said,he really does have a wooden leg-Talk about wanting to crawl under a table Laughing

...Karen

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:19 pm Subject:

My first banking job was at a grocery store location and for those of you who have seen bank branches in grocery store locations they are small.

At this particular branch going through the managers office was the way to get in and out of the branch. The managers office faced the grocery store cash registers and the grocery store customer service station. The managers office was also all glass and the doors were sliding doors.

To get to the story, we had to go out and market bank products in the isles of the grocery store and when I had left the branch the sliding glass doors were open and my manager was meeting with a customer. When I returned to the branch from my isle prospecting the manager was still meeting with the customer and I was so busy looking at the customer and manager while I was walking I hadn't noticed my manager closed the very clean and clear glass doors. So I'm sure you all know what happened *BOOM* smacked right into the glass doors and stumbled backwards. The whole place got quite and I was so embarrassed. When I turned around everybody at the registers was staring and their mouths were wide open and nobody was talkign. I think everybody was shocked that it took a minute for my manager to step out of the office to see if I was okay. Besides the huge bump on my head and the pounding headache I was fine and actually started laughing. My head was hurting so bad, my manager finally sent me home.

Know everytime I see that glass cleaning commercial where the birds trick the guy into coming outside so they can see him walk into the glass door it reminds me of that day...LOL

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:34 pm Subject:

Okay, I have one that probably isn't appropriate to put on here.....so the milder moment would be when I was in high school and accidentally put on two different colored shoes and didn't notice until I got to school.

I had two pairs of shoes that were exactly the same, just different colors, and I just slipped my feet in without really looking and suddenly realized what I had done just as I got to school. I begged a friend to drive me home to change my shoes, even offering to pay them, but no dice. I finally had to stick it out until late morning when I called my grandfather to bring me a matching shoe. Poor old guy didn't even ask why, he just did it. I know it's not a big deal, but to a 15-year-old, I thought it was awful.

I ended up doing the same thing a few years ago and didn't notice I had one black shoe and one navy shoe on until I got to work. I still felt a bit embarrassed, but nobody even noticed and I went home at lunch and corrected the situation. I definitely no longer own two different colors of the same style shoe.

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:05 pm Subject:

Having trouble posting here

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:08 pm Subject:

Seems my embarrassing story is being blocked by the spam filter here...sorry guys!

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:27 pm Subject:

Erzeke, please send me your post through PM. I will check out for the word that is putting the spam filter. Hopefully, you will be able to post here very soon.

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:17 pm Subject:

I would have to say one of my many embarrassing moments was when my hubby worked at Allsteel in Mississippi and I found out I was pregnant with the twins. I came home from the doctors office and immediately called his direct line. Well, when who I thought was my hubby answered, I said you will never guess what, I am pregnant and the ultrasound is showing twins! I heard the phone drop and then my hubby picked up the phone said hello, and I asked who answered the phone, it was his supervisor and he had dropped the phone and ran out of the office. Needless to say, now when I call my hubby, I make sure it is him before I start talking. His poor boss thought he was going to be a father of twins and went into a panic.

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:21 pm Subject:

oh,Tammy,that's a good one Laughing

...Karen

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:44 pm Subject:

That is a rippin' good bedtime story, Tam!

get ready for mine!

It was early spring 2005 and I was working in the Outside Garden department at Home Depot. We had a recent shipment of holly bushes come in, and I was outside packing them out. Some of the ones were huge, and getting them off the lift and onto the display tables was quite a wrestling match for me. When I finished the task, I went back inside. As I passed through the Floor and Wall department, one of my friends who worked there looked at me and had extreme difficulty keeping a straight face. I knew he was a goof and didn't read too much into it. Minutes later, I'm looking at the schedules by the break room, and I set my hands on my hips, only to realize that the seat of my jeans on the right side had been torn away. It must have happened while I was wrestling holly bushes! My undies and a portion of my butt cheek were exposed and everyone I walked by saw it! I held it together with my hand and ran all over the store looking for someone with safety pins! I managed to get one, and went to the training room, where all the managers were, so see if they had any more. I went in, asked for pins, and told them what happened. They all busted out laughing. My manager ended up taking me into one of the back offices and repairing my jeans himself. I ended up taking lengths of duct tape and making "racing stripes" to cover it up. Of course, it didn't stay a secret!

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:47 pm Subject:

LMAO!!! Good thing you were wearing undies!

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:27 pm Subject:

One halloween when I was about 12 years old, I dressed up as a pirate. It had this skirt part that looked all ripped up.

Well, When I was getting dressed I didn't notice that I had tucked the back of the skirt into my tights I was wearing under the skirt...No one at HOME cared to tell me that I was mooning the world.

One lady asked me, "Is your skirt supposed to be like that?" I said, "Yeah.." I thought she meant all ripped up.

Then about an hour later, I felt a little chilly...And noticed that I was tucked in. I'd been walking around for hours with my butt showing.

Another one, slightly inappropriate, but I don't care..

Dont read if you're easily offended....
About a year ago, I let my Chris take some "Risque" photos for his own "private use."

Well, his friend Jared had accidentally left some pictures at Chris's house, and called to come and pick them up. Chris's grandmother went into his room and grabbed the envelope she thought Jared's pics were in....Well, she gave him the wrong one. Jared now knows WAYYYYY too much about me...lol

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:29 pm Subject:

How embarassing!

When I was a newlywed, and first starting to learn to read and write in Danish, I wrote a letter to my mother-in-law using an English-Danish dictionary for assistance. You know how we customarily close letters with the word "love". Anyway, I consulted the dictionary for the proper translation of the word "love" to close the letter. I chose to use "elskov" which is love in the poetic sense. Later on, my husband tells me that he got a very confused call from his mother. Apparently, "elskov" means "make love". I inadvertently hit on my mother-in-law.

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:39 pm Subject:

That's hilarious, Ari...I would just die...lol

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:47 pm Subject:

Hmmm...I've got two!!
The first one was when my husband was still serving on a submarine and I had just found out I was pregnant for the second time. I had had my initial blood work done at the local military hospital and had just gotten to my new job when the phone rang and it was my husband on the ship.
He was panicked and said "The Doc just got a test on you back, and it's positive!!! He doesn't know what kind of test it is? Could it be Aids??" I freaked out until I got home, got a copy of the lab work and brought it work the next day (I worked for a nursing registry as office support). It was my PREGNANCY test!! And no wonder the Doc didn't know what it was--not a lot of call for that with an all-male crew! I'll post the next story in another post...

Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:56 pm Subject:

And my next one (which happened to the boss from hell in my current job)...
Ya know how it feels when the boss from hell FINALLY gets hers? We had a boss a few years ago that everyone called the Queen. When she walked down the hall, people used to whistle the witch's theme from The Wizard of Oz for example.
She would wear slutty clothes to work that were two sizes too tight, along with tight pants and low-cut blouses, and regale us with her expertise at getting lunch-time quickies. She used to make everyone who wouldn't kiss her feet miserable daily.
Anyway, the fun started at the office printer. My best friend was there when the boss bent over and RIPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!! Her pants split!!!!! My buddy ran over to where I was working as fast as she could and announced to the whole office "*** split her pants at the printer!!!" She also told her "Hey, your ** is hanging out and I can see your thong!!"
Like I said, it sure feels good to see someone get theirs.......

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