The worst job question brought up memories of one of my most embarrassing moments, & made me wonder if anyone else has any they can share, too. I'll go first. (It's only fair, right?) When I worked for MCI we were in a HUGE call center filled with bays of pcs. My bay was normally on the east end of the building, but one week we were moved to the west end while our pcs were worked on. During a break, I ran to the nearest bathroom (yep, ran-we were timed), went in a stall, did my business, flushed, opened the door, & made eye contact with and said hello to one of my co-workers in the bathroom mirror...as HE was standing at the URINAL doing HIS business. In my frenzy to pee without getting written up for taking too long, I had failed to realize that the bathrooms on that side of the building were flip-flopped from my normal side. I was humiliated. I backed into the stall until he was done, & then went out to wash my hands, thinking it couldn't get any worse...until a man I didn't know opened the door to come in as we were suddsing up. Stunned, he quickly turned around and went back out, providing us with some much needed comic relief. We laughed for all of about five seconds until a security guard showed up while we were throwing away our paper towels, gave us "I know what you've been doing in here" glares, and informed us that he didn't want details because he'd have to write them down, but not to let it happen again. EMBARRASSING. .
HA! That is SO stinking funny! I would have been mortified! I think the most embarrassing thing for me is more of a regret type of thing. A long time ago I was married to someone else and it was a short lived marriage that was just about over. We were at his parents house trying to pretend nothing was wrong floating in their pool. I was miserable and his Dad was always making rude comments to try to belittle me. He'd always say these things with a huge grin on his face like it made it okay to be mean. He said something to me that day that I still can't remember and without even thinking I blurted out, "oh yeah, well how far along are you?" He was overweight and carried his weight all in his belly and totally looked nine months pregnant. I was mortified that I had actually said something so mean! I have always regretted that to this day and wish I could go back and apologize to him. I felt especially bad that he'd brought me down to his level and made me mean... there was no excuse for it on my part!
I was very very pregnant with Bianca and trying to finish a document before my noon deadline.... and I forgot to take my 10am pee break. Yep, I peed in my chair. When I felt that it was going to come out anyways I just sat back down again. I would prefer to pee in my chair than leave a trail. Well, I went to the secretary to request a new chair and she told me "that is a BRAND NEW chair", I told her I peed on it. She started laughing so hard, so we ended up adding in the request that it was due to "water damage". LOL!!!!
I was participating in an after-school club my junior year of high school where we met in a classroom and practiced/learned/read nerdy things. My mom was coming to pick me up before practice was over to take me to the dentist. Unbeknownst to me, I had started my period and leaked through my pants while sitting in practice. Uh, yikes. I immediately noticed when I got up to leave that I had leaked through my jeans and onto the chair. I tied my letter jacket around my waist to cover up that stain, but had no way to cover/clean up the stain on the chair with everyone still sitting/standing around telling me goodbye. I began to walk backwards (awesome idea) out of the room, trying to act nonchalant and natural, and proceeded to almost-trip over another desk as well as another student's trombone case. Uh, double yikes. I finally made it out of the room and had to wait another 10 minutes or so before my mom got there. When I explained what happened, she snapped at me for tying my jacket around my waist because it might 'bleed through' and then tried to still take me to the appointment! I began to cry, which I never did/do, and then she agreed to take me home and reschedule the appointment. Good times. Love me some Aunt Flo.
I have so many embarressing moments can't even remember them all or which is worst, but here are some *I worked evenings in an eye glass store and one of the hot guys from the gym came in and was looking at glasses. I was all excited to be talking to him, so I turned around really fast to show him to the glasses and walked into a mirrored column.... *I was running the other day on the treadmill and farted really really loud when I started to do a sprint - I could see out of the corner of my eye people looking over at me through the reflection in the windows.... *When I first started dating my husband, I was intimidated by his really smart family. I was sitting on the floor and started telling them a joke I thought was really funny - messed up the punchline and while I was trying to remember it, my dog came over to me, lifted his leg and proceeded to pee on me....true... *I was talking to my young hot single neighbor when my impulsive then 8 year old son told the guy that I had a crush on him and wanted to go to bars with him. *in college I fell down a hill and proceeded to roll. Unfortunately the hill was in front of the windows of the cafeteria which was filled with people who began to clap when I walked in. *which reminds me of when I first began working - was walking into work past the cafeteria windows and all the sudden the wind blew my little kilt skirt straight up to my waist....have no idea if anyone or who saw that... *when I was in college class one day I was really really sick and had to go to a class for info on the final - way back before email - and I started coughing up a huge mass of - gross stuff - and I opened my mouth on reflex and a huge loogie flew out, i mean huge. of course b/c I was coughing so hard a bunch of people saw it... * a similar aunt flo story to LeeAndras *my husband and I were shopping after a year of dating and i turned my head to say something to him and knocked over an entire display of centrum pill bottles - like hundreds - and they went all over the store.
I had this happen at lunch my jr year of hs, and all of my stuff was still in class...with my male teacher. Thank God for good friends who lie well. For my round two: My first year of teaching I lived in a three story home with four room mates, and the entire top floor was mine. It was a Friday (aka Jeans Day) Aunt Flo was in town, & my purse was all the way downstairs, so I grabbed a couple of tampons, shoved them in my back pocket and headed out. Ten minutes into my first hour-after I'd walked through the bustling halls for thirty minutes running errands and then introduced the day's lesson to 25+ freshmen-a student tapped me on the shoulder and whispered in my ear "Um, Ms. D? I think you have something in your pocket." Yep. Those tampons in their hot pink wrapper were still hanging out in my back pocket for all the world to see. On the bright side, the kids were exceptionally well behaved that day...
Dalis, Ha! I would pee between every class towards the end. I was soooo terrified of peeing myself in front of 30 teenagers!
