Embarrassing moments, (you know, the sorts of things make tv shows)

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grahamg

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Have any forum members had any "embarrassing moments" they wish to share?

My answer would have to start with, "There are too many to mention them all, but,....."!

Getting lost when on one of those "Treasure hunts", where you follow clues taking you from point to point in your car, (when I was married), and us having to open the emergency envelope early on, in order to discover where the final destination address was, and hanging around there till those having fun arrived!

Some you obviously don't wish to talk about, (and some definitely shouldn't be mentioned in polite company!), so we'll keep it fairly safe and clean by sticking to embarrassing things you'd allow to be broadcast on tv, (for a suitable fee of course!). :)
 

As you said, there are many! But I will share one embarrassing moment that I still remember vividly to this day. I sometimes used to have "stomach issues" when I was younger. I had just attended a conference in Toronto and had lunch right before I headed to the airport to fly home.

I had just reached the security line when I badly needed a bathroom. I could feel myself sweating and must have been absolutely green. I threw my briefcase on the belt, got through and ran for the bathroom.

I felt such relief afterward, but as I took the moving sidewalk I saw a couple of guys looking at me and laughing. When I reached the gate, I realized my suit jacket was tucked into my pants in the back! :oops: I could only laugh.
 
Two that quickly come to mind was the time I spent the day in early spring at the shore in New Jersey.
There were several fisherman out that day.
Walking by I stopped to ask one of them if he caught any fish.
He said, "oh yes, you are standing on them."
I looked around and saw mounds of wet sand. It seems that when the fisherman caught something they would bury it in the cold wet sand until it was time to leave. I planted my feet right on top of his catch.

Another time a friend and I took a tour of a cave in New York State. As we were walking it seemed like the lighting was so bad I had trouble staying on the narrow uneven dirt path.

I mentioned this to my friend and the tour guide overheard me and suggested that I might see better if I took my sun glasses off.
I didn't realize I still had them on when we entered the cave.
 

I feel I must chuck some more embarrassing moments into the mix, such as my earnestly trying to say to this young attractive woman at a nightclub we should all "be appreciated for who we are rather than what we look like".

She gave me the perfectly sensible if not blatantly obvious response, "But how do you know what someone's like when you first meet them"?
 
I'll add to this thread with an Ambien story. When I travelled, I used to take Ambien to get to sleep. It would typically take an hour from when I took the pill until it kicked in. My company was sponsoring a cocktail party for our clients in a suite at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Because the cocktail party finished at 10pm I took an Ambien at 9pm. All our clients were gone and we were talking around a table.

I woke up the next morning in my room with my sleeping clothes on but didn't understand why my hotel door was unlocked. I left the room for morning meetings, and my counterpart asked me "are you okay?" I had no idea what she was talking about.

She said that after our clients left we were all sitting around talking. She was talking to me and my eyes rolled back into my head. Someone had to escort me back to my room. Thank goodness it was in the same area of the hotel. That was truly embarrassing and the end of Ambien for me.
 
A while back I was talking to an old acquaintance I had ran into at the grocery store. The conversion was mostly about old times. I mentioned a certain young lady we both had known in the past and how had I ran into her at a bar a few nights before. I told him she seemed a bit tipsy and had pushed me into a corner and acted like she wanted to have her way with me. As I spoke this terrible look came upon his face . That is when I learned a valuable lesson about running my mouth. Yep, turned out she was now his wife.

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When I met my cousin's fifth son (he was an infant), I said "Are you going to keep going and try for a girl?". I could not believe I said that to her. She has triplets plus two more sons. Anyway, she said no, and I must have been bright red. That is not the question to ask the mother of five sons.
 
It didn't happen to me, but at a wedding I attended. Everybody was dressed in their best at this wedding reception. They had a band with a singer. He put all he had into singing, he gave it 100%. He was singing that song, "Please release me ( Let me go)." He was putting his all into singing it. When he got to the part, " Please Release me, Let me go", he would arch his back, and belt it out. The problem was his fly was unzipped. So when he arched back, and sang that phrase, "Please release me" his tighty whitees peaked out. Everybody was cracking up, and the poor guy didn't know why.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
It didn't happen to me, but at a wedding I attended. Everybody was dressed in their best at this wedding reception. They had a band with a singer. He put all he had into singing, he gave it 100%. He was singing that song, "Please release me ( Let me go)." He was putting his all into singing it. When he got to the part, " Please Release me, Let me go", he would arch his back, and belt it out. The problem was his fly was unzipped. So when he arched back, and sang that phrase, "Please release me" his tighty whitees peaked out. Everybody was cracking up, and the poor guy didn't know why.
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Not P.J. Proby was it?

 
We got the internet back in the days of dial up. I was showing off to my wife and told her that I would find us a great swing era dance to go to. I really wasn't thinking straight when I typed Swing Time into the search engine. A page of graphic couples slowly appeared. It was so embarrassing, thankfully my missus made light of it by bending her head almost upside down, she then said: See! I told you that position was possible." We both still have a laugh at that but I am not going there again, that's for sure.
 
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When taking photos of a delightful scene,
it always pays well to check out the landscape.
Either that or train the dog better.
 

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