Most Embarrassing Moment?

What is your MOST embarrassing moment of your life?
Mines a little OT but farm related.

Several years ago an elderly neighbor and I were talking about gardening. He had a 2-row JD planter that he no longer used. I asked him about purchasing it. He thought a minute and said, "Well you come back next spring and we'll discuss it." (conversation was in early winter)
So the following spring on a beautiful morning I drove down to his house and got out. Before I got to the door the old guy's wife stepped out on the front porch. I said, "Good morning. I came to see your husband about buying that little John Deere planter over there." I could have crawled under my truck when she said, "My husband died last night about 12 o'clock." I profusely apologized, offered condolances and slinked away. I had no idea of his passing and would never have been that heartless had I known it. I later explained to her son-in-law what had happened and about my embarassment. He just chuckled and waved it off. I bought the planter a while later at a local auction but I never see it that I don't think about "My Most Embarrassing Moment"

Never saw any corn planters at Canton, but I didn't look for any, either.

Stan

Don't see how you could call that embarrassing.She probably heard that a lot till the word got around of his passing.

Your embarrassment about that incident shows you are a caring sympathetic person.

I've had so many embarrassing moments I could write a book. One that comes to mind right now was the time I was lined up for a fourth of July parade. I was wandering around socializing with the others who were lined up when I came up on a really nice team of horses. I commented to the owner how nice his horses looked. His answer was "THEY'RE MULES". Jim

Yesterday while I was fixing my well system I went to get something came around the corner of the shop and did a 5 point landing, my nose it still sore this morning.
Walt

The one that really springs to mind involved a gal who grew up next door. She married a guy who wasn't from around here. She had just had a baby and I ran in to them somewhere. I swear by all that's Holy when I said what I said that I meant pink for a girl or blue for a boy,but I asked them what color it was? He got pretty aggravated and spoke quite loud when he said "IT'S WHITE!".
Oops! That wasn't what I was thinking AT ALL,but try back pedaling at a time like that to explain what you really meant.

long time ago a guy i knew was whiner about everything. one sat he came in the bar where i was he sat next to me and started in.
i thought i'm going to head this off before he he gets wound up. so i said to him "i suppose your barn burned down"
he said "it did"
talk about an oh shoot mintue.

One of my friends who was standing up for our wedding lived in a large apt. complex. I and a few friends were picking him up to get our tuxes fitted. He was a really jumpy guy and I told my friends "watch this" as I crouched next to the door and rang the bell. A strange gal opened the door as I sprang out with a roar...She reeled back about 10 feet and I saw her husband slide off the couch while throwing the newspaper across the room. It obviously was the next door neighbors apartment! They were good sports though when they saw my embarrassment.

Oh wow...I've never forgot about this: One of my good neighbors daughters was expecting a baby. I hadn't seen her for quite some time but finally ran into her one day at the grocery store. We greeted and I asked her "When is your baby due"? (she looked close...........as in still had quite a large tummy). She said, "I had my baby a month ago". Golly, I couldn't find anywhere to hide. I'm still embarrassed about that to this day. I know it hurt her feelings.

Some years back I was helping a friend spread lime on a field that bordered an airport and a busy highway. I had to relieve myself pretty bad and the only place I felt safe and out of sight was near the airport. As business was being done mind you the floater is pretty loud, I heard a roar, turned around still going and saw a planefull of people staring at me through their windows. I thought to myself ain't no reason to stop now!

I was working on a transfer switch. For not transfering. Two hours of checking the switch connections and voltage points.Looked over and saw that the transfer motor switch was turned off.Packed up my tools,told the customer no charge and drove off.

Plant manager where I worked was remodeling his basement and I was doing the electrical work. i was down on the floor crawled up in a cabinet trying to make a wiring connection. Body was all twisted up and could not move. Plant managers wife was standing behind me talking to me when a big fart slipped out. I crawled out of the cabinet and apologized and she said no problem she had a house full of boys.

True story. Absolute true story.

Was 18 when it was legal to drink in Michigan at age 18, before they raised it to 21 because of dopes like myself that ruined it for responsible drinkers. So anyway, the entire family attends some party with lots of people, and there was some drinking going on, especially by myself. By now the sun has set, gone down, and some hottie and myself are our by the in-ground pool and everyone else is inside the house. An awful lot of people in the house, including my family. Well, being the moron that I was to begin with, hammered under the influence, and being young, dumb, and full of stuff in the company of a true hottie and feeling my oats, I suggested to her that we go swimming totally undressed...if you know what I mean at this family site. She said, "Sure, after you". That's all that it took for me to be first. Off it all came, in the water I went, out I came, jumped up and down on the diving board a few times to show off, back in the water and so on. I was Hercules and on a mission that is not repeatable here at this family site. At some point, she went in the house, turned on all of the lights around the pool and patio, then told everyone to go outside, including my Mom, sisters, brother, and they all did. From memory, I'm pretty certain that I was back up on the diving board jumping up and down readying myself to dive back in. I do remember that my family and everyone looked at me and all went back into the house. The only real bad thing as I recall, is that she never did join me, whoever she was. Never saw her again either.

Oh, looking back, I've done some pretty embarrassingly stupid stuff, and oddly enough I'm still alive to tell about it. But, I don't drink anymore either. Haven't in many, many years ever since I pulled the cops over on one of my hogs and gave them the ultimatum to either arrest me or let me go. Why they didn't shoot me or at least beat me up, I will never know. Never drank again after that.

Mark

I was at an auction sale one evening, and a zig-zag wooden marble chute came up. I won the bid. The helper brought it back to me, with a old ladies handbag full of marbles. I set them on the floor by my feet, the old handbag gave out, and marbles went everywhere. You could hear though out the crowd," That Guy Just Lost All His Marbles!"

My girlfriend and I were at a racetrack, on the old wooden bleachers. I went down and bought a big box of popcorn. As I came back up to our seats, I was trying to be very careful where I stepped, I moved the popcorn box to the side, to look, at the same time I brought my knee up, hit the bottom of the box, and gave many people a big popcorn shower!

Similar - guy I knew for a while, finally was meeting his wife and kids... She stuck out in front pretty good and I said something about "one in the oven." Nope - WRONG! She was just plump and big in front... Man, how do you retrieve that hoof in mouth?

When I was in college, I worked as a lifeguard on the weekends(indoor pool). One Sunday afternoon, I did a few laps after we closed and grabbed my towel and jumped in the shower. All soaped up, head to toe, somebody cleared their throat(LOUDLY). I had walked into the ladies shower and the women's basketball team was just finished practicing and had come in to shower. Oh, Well. . .

I've had many such moments :-(
One that comes to mind when I entered a hardware store. Salesman behind counter is servicing another customer so I stand 5 feet from the counter to await my turn. Now this salesman was severely cross-eyed. So when my turn came he looked at me. What I did was that I looked over my shoulder, because I honestly thought he was looking at someone else behind me, and saw nobody. Embarassed, to say the least.

I shoved my foot in my mouth so much that I can now shove both feet in all the way up to my hips! I don't even want to think about the gazillion times I've made a complete idiot out of myself, just trust me- I'm really, really, REALLY good at it!!!

I walked in the gas station one time in a hurry to get to the can. I went in and did my business but when I walked out I realized I had been in the ladies restroom. I was glad there was only one stall. I cant even begin to recall the times I stuck my foot in my mouth, maybe I"m just getting used to it now.

Back in the 50's doing my business in the out house before school. The bus comes to pick us for school. I run out of the out house, through the house, out to the bus. In front of everyone on the bus. It must have been a embrassing moment, as I still remember it to day. Stan

Mark,
Absolutely hilarious! I just read it to my wife & busted up once again. Haven't laughed so hard in a LONG time!

Glenn

So? - was that a problem????

Good one!!

Back in my Navy days, I was enjoying a pinch between my cheek and gum when a shipmate started giving me @#$% about it. I knew he was a smoker, so I figured it'd be an easy argument to win. I said I'd never heard of a single person ever dying from second hand spit. He looked at me and his face was the most serious I had ever seen. He said, "My father died from second hand spit. Some one spilled a spit cup. My father slipped on it and broke his neck."

I felt about 2 inches tall and was apologizing profusely. After a bit of wiggling, he let me off the hook and said he just made up the story.

well at a wake at church aunt eunice was making quite the rounds when someone told me her hearing aid battery was dead ,I went and got her a pack of new batterys and she hugged me and thanked me and whispered in my ear I have had the worse gas tonight Ive ever had thank God thay are silent and dont smell , the batterys fixed the silent part ,but her nose was stopped up to , I left she stayed all night

HMMMM, pretty easy. I had reported into Ft Bliss TX. I was a SGT ( just short of getting promoted) with 2 tours at Ft Riley, 74-76 & 78-80, a tour in Germany 76-78 and a tour in Korea under my belt. I was still in the replacement company processing in while on a break one day several young soldiers right out of training started asking me questions about where I had been and what it was like in other countries. When I told them I had been in Korea someone ask me if it was true if Koreans ate dog and cat (that's true to an extent). I told them yes indeed some Koreans did. A young female red headed PVT smiles sweetly at me and said "some people here eat cat", well that kinda startled me. I replied "the kind of cat that purrs when you pet it". She shot back "if you pet this kind it purrs too". My reaction was not a good reflection of the US Army NCO Corp. I could feel my cheeks burning!

Rick

This is one I'll never forget and it was 40 years ago. I walked into my girlfriends house and saw her at the kitchen sink doing dishes. So I walked up behind her kissed her on the back of the neck while my hands had reached around her and, lets say, massaged a couple things. She quickly turned around and looked at me. It wasn't my girlfriend! It was her older, out of state married sister, whom I'd never met. I told her I was sorry I had thought she was my girlfriend. The two sisters looked a LOT alike! She was cool about it though and never told my girlfriend, to my knowledge. Talk about embarrassed!

Just went last week end. No planter but someone had a nice full size wind mill for $2800!!!

It's good to hear that someone is keeping the money flowing in Texas. Find anything good?

Stan

Bought a deep cast-iron skillet with lid(chicken fryer). October is one of their biggest months and prices are set accordingly.
Also bought a Tom-turkey to go with my widowed hen.