h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, here's something that could become a potential embarrasment. I just moved house sunday. I got all my stuff together, got it into a taxi and drove off. I forgot one little thing though. I took all my clothes out of the drawers, but forgot to take out this little video I had laying in there. It is still laying in the drawer in the house, and I`m sure you can imagine what kind of movie you stash away in a drawer I left the keys, so now I need some excuse to get back into the house. Otherwise when someone else moves in in a few days, they might find a strange little surprise.

Surely not the movie 'Spiceworld'?! Now that would be VERY embarassing...

Any "How to ..." video would be TERRIBLY embarassing to leave behind. A REAL guy tosses them out with all the paper-work that accompanies anything. *mumbles, post A? slot CC? what the ...*

Oh, I managed a real beauty ... Imagine the world's largest goth festival. It's around 6 p.m. and my friends and me are just a tad more than tipsy; as one is at festivals. We are all fully dressed up and wander to the medieval market via the camping ground. There we were spotted by a Dutch TV crew who ask us whether we'd mind giving them an interview ... I managed to answer the first question ("Why are you wearing black?") in a sensible way. Never mind that half the group began retreating out of the camera's field of vision. The next question was "What is the deeper meaning behind your rings?" [They are very large, silver and pointy]. I thought "Huh? What a silly question is this then?" And while my mind was pondering the senselessness of the question my mouth went forth and embarked on a rather stupid, long winded and less than coherent discussion of silver as a metal, the symbiotic relationship of finger and ring plus the symbolic value regarding the advancing repacement of organic matter by metal...

" A REAL guy tosses them out with all the paper-work"

Interesting turn of phrase...

B

Okay, this looks fun, I'll have to think about my most embarrasing moment, but to get things started...

...I had a bath with one of those yummy 'Lush' bath bombs not realising that it was one of the glittery ones. When I finally realised, the bath was almost full, so I thought 'what the hell, I have a few days off work anyway'. I had just got out of the bath, was covered top to toe in glitter and only had my shorts on when the doorbell went, I answered it and was face to face with the roster clerk from work who had chosen that exact moment to come round to borrow my copy of 'The Matrix', something he had been threatening to do for nearly 3 weeks.

I believe they call that sods law.

Xander

Good starter, Xander
My baby's already starting to show signs of being an expert embaresser- he's now sitting in his pram next to me, in a public library, and every now and then blows a raspberry or shouts a short, loud sound into the general space.
He's now only 5 months old, but he's started earlier...
When he was about 2 months old, his father and I took him to W****stone's, to buy books for us. He was held in his father arms and trying vigorously to... um... poo. A nice old lady came by to look at the sweet little baby, and as she said hello, he screwed up his little face at her, made a very loud pushing groan and then farted even more loudly. She was stunned for a moment and then just walked away as fast as possible. Needless to say we were laughing our heads off.

Just remembered one...

While at Uni, I had got into the habit of going to the Gym early on Sunday Morning - couple of miles on the treadmill, a few kilometres on the Rowing Machine, followed by a dozen or so miles on the Bike...

Well one day I really pushed myself, and ended up on the (new) climbing machine too, did a fair bit on that too....

When I'd finished I was absolutely exhausted & somewhat Dehydrated ... (Now so far I haven't mentioned that I'd had breakfast this morning - full English IIRC - not something I regularly did/do...)

So I went down the Bar area and got myself a pint or so of water, glugged that down, and got another pint....

All of a sudden my Brekkie makes a bid for freedom.... ...

All over the table in front of me... I have to admit I just ran away, to the showers, where I was again...

Well that was the end of that Health Kick...

Why thank you for that thought!

Not actually embarrassing, but the thread about bad sex which started the same time as this seems to have disappeared into the backlog.

Picture if you will a scene of romantic decadence - disarrayed bedding, candles, feathers perhaps, thin wisps of nothingness discarded on the floor, you know the kind of thing. Populate it with two relaxed and sated people, a tub of Haagen Daz (chocolate chip, if you want to know the details) and a china bowl. Scoop some of the ice-cream into the bowl. Let the people do what they do in this kind of setting, talk, cuddle-up, whisper sweet nothings, all the ususal post-coital stuff except snoring. Then let him offer her some ice-cream.

Let me tell you here and now that china bowls next to candle-flames can get very very hot, and nipples are very very sensitive.

Ben

Good thing you had ice cream handy then.

Embarassing?

Being invited to a Rocky Horror party in a pub and going dressed as a French Maid in the full heels, stockings, French maid outfit and the full slap and wig. Discovered the closest we could park was about two hundred yards away, so had to walk the distance to the pub. That was bad enough with everyone aghast at some bloke dressed in this manner, but pushing the door open and finding it stuffed with bikers was worse.
Turned out the bash was in the pub on the OTHER side of the road.........

First time I went to a Rocky Horror disco at Uni (Why do so many embarrasing things happen at Uni?) I was going to go in a labcoat and Fishnets... Only I couldn't find any fishnet stockings (for some reason there had been a run on them... (run, d'ye get it? run..)) So I drew some on with a pen....

Well you can guess that it was an indelible pen....

Badminton was Seriously embarrassing for the next 2 or 3 weeks....

When I worked at Xerox we had to be at work at 7 in the morning, which is too early for a person like me. So I was always very sleepy a work. One day I was to have some extra training on how to fix copiers. I was in a small room with about three other people and the instructor. We were sitting on chairs while he was standing in front of us explaining the working of a copier. I felt a bit drowsy, but figured I would be okay. Next thing I know I have a rude awakening when the instructor puts his hand on my knee and asks if I need some coffee. That was very embarrasing, not only falling asleep but having him wake me up. I just mumbled that I did and hurried out of the room to get some caffeine.

I don't think that it is possible to get more embarassing than having your mother walk into your bedroom, when you are a teenager, "pleasuring" yourself with an adult picture book.

I was very embarassed. Clearly, I was rather distracted.

PP

It was over 30 years ago. I have got over it now.

PP

It's not good when flatmates do it either.

Or security cameras.