Ever have one of those moments that are so horribly embarrassing that you just want to sink into the floor? I had one of those yesterday.

I was volunteering for a couple of hours at a nonprofit thrift shop and was the only one in the front area when three young women come in (late teens, early twenties or so). I was folding sheets and putting them into sets and just sort of looked up to greet them. One young woman was on crutches and I said, "Honey, what did they do to you??" just kidding around, teasing her friends, you know what I mean? Dead silence. I looked back up to realize each of them was looking at the other and then realized...the girl only had one leg. OMGosh. I NEVER meant to say something hurtful or anything, and I was so taken aback that I didn't know what to say...so I took the coward's way out and didn't say anything at all. In the past 24 hours, I've replayed it over and over in my head and I hope so much she realized what I originally thought (that she'd sprained her ankle or something), and not that I was being nasty. And that I'd come up with something to say other than...silence. I'm still kicking myself.

Okay, make me feel better. What's your most embarrassing moment?

A couple:
1) I was an admin in a big computer company. I had started dating my now DH. I was multi-tasking and sending an email to my now DH and an email out to the entire organization I worked in. I switched the emails. SO...the organization got the love note and DH got the organization letter. OMG...it wasn't explicit or anything, more cutesy but it was SO embarrassing! Over 350 people go my "love letter". I had calls from out of the country from angry wives so were checking their hubbys email I guess and didn't notice it went out to hundreds of people and wanted to know why I was having an affair with their DH. What made it really funny was that literally days later, Dilbert funnies in Sunday's paper was about exactly what I did: sending love letter to company instead of boyfriend. I had about 2 dozen copies of it on my desk Monday morning LOL

2). I was riding a bike on the boardwalk at the beach at a teen with my friend (who was in front of me). I was wearing a two piece bathing suit. I kept wondering why people were staring at me as I rode by then. I thought "wow, I must be looking good" LOL As I slowed down at a stop sign, I realized.....the back of my bikini top had broken and my boobs were uncovered for all to see!!! I almost buried my head in the nearby sand. I was trying to figure out how to get back to our beach house we were staying at without exposing myself again (it wasn't long enough to tie in the back). A nice man gave me a shirt. I wanted to DIE!

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I went huckleberry picking with DH's family before we were married and he wasn't there. It was my first alone time with his family. I'm bent over a really full bush that also is surrounded by bee hives. I wasn't worried about the bees; I would just bat them away if they got too close. The crop pants I was wearing were a little loose in the waist and when I bent over they puckered a little in the back. So there I am bent over a huckleberry bush, pants puckering in the back and bees surrounding me. Well one of those bees got very brave and flew down my pants. I dropped my bucket, ran, screaming and smacking my butt back to the main trail. His family came running to see if I was alright and just as I got to the trail a dead bee fell out the bottom of my pant leg. My future MIL asks, "What's going on?" I told them what happened. My future BIL says "We can go behind a bush, I can check to make sure you're fine, if you like." He thinks he's funny for offering to look down my pants. I storm back to the truck where my future FIL is reading a book, and he says, "What were you yellin' about?" I told him what happened and he said to me, "I walk around all day with a stinger in my pants and you don't hear me going' around screaming like that!" I was beyond embarrassed! Now I have to endure all the endless bee and stinger jokes when I’m with my DH’s family.

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As a young teen I was a sunbather like you wouldn't believe. The local swimming pool was my daily handout from 7 AM till 7 PM 7 days a week. Well I found this very nice bathing suit that the bottoms tied on the side. I didn't care much to swim unless I got really hot and I would take a drive of the high diving board. Well this day the line was rather long so I went for the lower one. I was standing there when a group of kids left so back over to the high one I went. As I stood on the edge bouncing up and down and then diving yep u guessed it the bottom came untied on 1 side exposing everything !!.. I thought I would die right then and there. Then as I hit the water OFF came the bottom in 12 feet of water !!!...Well at the deep end you have to make a quick exit so the next person waiting can jump here I was no bottom and I'm not about to dive down baring my butt for the ones thats already looking or giving the ones that didnt see it a look LOL. So the lifeguard starts blowing that stupid whistle and I had to YELL to him why I cant get out. Thank- God a female life guard over heard and she drove in and found the bottom ... Needless to say I didn't go back for the whole summer after that day. Which was like being grounded till I was 18 for me.

Once a couple of years ago I was talking to a lady about raising children. We said ours turned out pretty well and I said "at least they didn't end up in prison" and she looked at me and said "Anna my son IS in prison right now" I almost died.
That was pretty embarrassing! And the time I said to another Mom "at least they're not serial killers or heroin addicts" then found out one of hers IS a heroin addict. You would think I would learn.

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