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Our Embarrasing Moments « Posted: 22 April 2011 at 10:51 PM »
Has anyone got any funny moments that have happened to them in the past?  My favorite occasion has been talking to people who look like people i know.  Just today i found myself having an embarrassing moment.

I was doing the garden and listening to my MP3 and singing to myself and i thought i was alone, i must have been quite loud because i turned to find my neighbor standing the other side of the fence!!  Shocked It was one of those moments where you wished you were not trying to sing in a high pitched voice  Undecided  Lips Sealed My neighbor did not complain though  Grin
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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #1 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 04:04 AM »
LOL, 728, what were you singing?
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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #2 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 06:39 AM »
I once met a lady in one of the supermarkets, we both said 'hello' she asked me how my mum was getteing on, I told her.  I asked here how she was keeping, and she toild me all about her bad back, all this while my brain was thinking 'this is not who I thought it was I have NO idea who this person is ' we must have talked for about five minutes when I made my escape saying 'nice meeting you again, better get on' . To this day I have no ideas who this complete stranger with a bad back was
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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #3 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 07:12 AM »
Some years ago, I had a similar incident to yours, 728!  It was summertime, and had just left off work and was driving home - and singing loudly.  Had to pull up at a T-junction and, whilst waiting there a lady cyclist pulled up beside me. I noticed that she gave a bit of an “old fashioned look” - and then the traffic moved forward and I then realised that the driver’s window was wound right down (it was a hot day!).  Well, I thought the window was up - and that no-one could hear me! Roll Eyes
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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #4 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 09:06 AM »
LOL, 728, what were you singing?

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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #5 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 03:06 PM »
Working in theatre all these years, I've had many VERY embarassing moments, but my son's started doing the same thing as me - and he's not quite toughened to it yet. Part of his job during pantomime as Assistant Stage Manager was to look after quick changes where people need to get out of one costume into another and at the same time have a microphone fitted (which means the actual mic on the head, and a transmitter pack, about the size of a pack of cigarettes hiding somewhere. To do these needs the performer, a person from wardrobe and a technical person. They carefully practice everything, so in this case, a dancer runs into the wings, she pulls up her top, and a dresser is ready with the new one and as soon as one is off, the mic is stuck on her head, like backwards glasses, the dresser pulls it down over the bare top, and then the elasticated waist is pulled out from the back and my son slaps it straight down the back of her underwear using the elastic to clip the thing to for stability. everyone stands back and she runs back on stage singing, in a new costume. Rather like a grand prix tyre change. One night they got to the end, she pulled out the waistband and he went to 'install' it and he stopped dead - no underwear! Thinking it was done, on she went - leaving him with the pack in his hand and a piece of broken cable where it snapped as she ran on to silence!

Everything goes down in a show report every performance - it read "In Act II Miss XXX forgot pants - nowhere for the asm to clip microphone - no vocal" So all our mistakes are recorded for posterity!

I'm supposed to be in charge - so when things go wrong, I have to fix them. One of the worst things in panto is illness. You always get some, so most people understudy somebody else - but then who does their job, somebody else, of course and usually you can swap it around. I think I'm pretty unflappable and have done most things in my time. Trouble is I'm now the age where my middle measurement is somewhat bigger than it used to be. This year, I had Lesley Joseph as the wicked Queen, and she made her first entrance pulled on stage in a big winged chariot by two of the male dancers - wearing very little showing off their physiques. One day, once of these was having to cover someone else, so I figured the only option was for me to do one. Lesley got to hear and looked my up and down - focused on my less than identical appearance to the 22 year old next door, and looking at my stomach said simply "Scrub the chariot, I'd rather walk!"
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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #6 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 04:52 PM »
I doubt anyone will be able to top those "Embarassing Moments" stories, Paul!  Grin
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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #7 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 07:05 PM »
One really embarrassing moment I had wad just after Xmas a few years ago.  I was given an article of clothing as a present from an elderly aunt, bought in Marks & Spencer.  I wasn't really happy with it so took it back to change it.  There was a huge queue behind me and I handed it over to the shop assistant who immediately looked at the label.  She said in a rather loud voice for everyone to hear that I wouldn't be able to change it as it was at least 3 years old!  I almost died of embarrassment and quickly left the store.
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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #8 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 09:39 PM »
I have many embarrassing moments as I rush around in my life with my eyes shut, but by far the most embarrassing recently was an episode in Tesco. I was at the check out and there was a nice looking man about to start putting my shopping through. He was very polite and kept smiling at me. I went all gooey. He asked, 'how are you today'. My flustered brain thought 'I'll say 'I'm good' thats quite cool'. Then I thought, 'no, I'll say 'I'm ok''. So as 'I'm good' and 'I'm ok' swirled around in my head, what actually came out was a combination of the two... 'I'm gay'. The shocked attractive man proceeded as any good checkout assistant should and came back with 'thats nice. Do you want help with your packing'.

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Re: Our Embarrasing Moments « Reply #9 Posted: 23 April 2011 at 09:46 PM »
Whoops lol Becky Smiley
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