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BONUSBALL Sat. 7th September
sonatine01
Daventry, EnglandMember Posts: 492
Following on from @Bumblepants i thought id try and host a bonusball for a couple of random polybags and with some help from @Speedman29 here are the rules -
write your answer below and the first 59 entrants will get a number, please try to avoid double posting until we get 59 entries. This is open worldwide and will be drawn from the Bonus ball from the UK lottery on Saturday 7th September to decide the winner.
Now for the question. I’m interested to know your most embarrassing moment or at least one you dare to put in print or even one your “friend “ went through 😁
For me there’s a few but as an epileptic I have a fair few seizures in public and in random places. On a family holiday to Japan we had a bit of a delay in Paris whilst changing flights, unfortunately lack of sleep is guaranteed to give me a fit and timed perfectly on a packed airport bus I had one. According to my Wife before collapsing i stood up shouted something inaudible and pulled my trousers down ! I don’t however have much memory of this as your brain gets a bit scrambled afterwards so probably more embarrassing for my Wife and kids so I’ve picked another, definitely memorable moment......
14years old running the 200metres at school. Showing off as I was way in the lead and doing the whole peacock showing off his feathers bit as the girls class walked across checking me out.....my two veg popped out ! There I am trying,one handed, to pop them back in whilst still trying to win the race. I don’t know if it was more embarrassing that no-one mentioned it at all or that they came out in the first place !
Now please help me out so I don’t feel like a complete loser and post your most embarrassing moment 😁
write your answer below and the first 59 entrants will get a number, please try to avoid double posting until we get 59 entries. This is open worldwide and will be drawn from the Bonus ball from the UK lottery on Saturday 7th September to decide the winner.
Now for the question. I’m interested to know your most embarrassing moment or at least one you dare to put in print or even one your “friend “ went through 😁
For me there’s a few but as an epileptic I have a fair few seizures in public and in random places. On a family holiday to Japan we had a bit of a delay in Paris whilst changing flights, unfortunately lack of sleep is guaranteed to give me a fit and timed perfectly on a packed airport bus I had one. According to my Wife before collapsing i stood up shouted something inaudible and pulled my trousers down ! I don’t however have much memory of this as your brain gets a bit scrambled afterwards so probably more embarrassing for my Wife and kids so I’ve picked another, definitely memorable moment......
14years old running the 200metres at school. Showing off as I was way in the lead and doing the whole peacock showing off his feathers bit as the girls class walked across checking me out.....my two veg popped out ! There I am trying,one handed, to pop them back in whilst still trying to win the race. I don’t know if it was more embarrassing that no-one mentioned it at all or that they came out in the first place !
Now please help me out so I don’t feel like a complete loser and post your most embarrassing moment 😁
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Anyhow.. The couple in the row behind me were coughing and spluttering and kept checking their baby's nappy.
Once I saw this I did struggle to contain my sniggers...
I was about 14, it was a Friday afternoon and we were learning about the 1901 census in GCSE History. We had a page of the census to study in pairs, we were supposed to be looking at the information about professions, sizes of family etc. and drawing conclusions about how people might have lived. The name at the top of the list was Mr. William Pulling - "willy pulling", my mate and I couldn't stop giggling, our teacher got really cross and asked us to explain. The teacher, deadpan, said "I don't see anything funny about Willy Pulling!". I swear I still had tears in my eyes even when I was being told off by the headmaster who lectured us on not making fun of peoples' names.
My elder brother was home from University for the weekend with Lisa, his first proper girlfriend. They asked me what I was doing at school, so I related the tale above, ending it with the unnecessary clarification - "...it's funny because Willy Pulling is like wanking." (snigger).
Calmly, Lisa says "My name is Pulling."
I pretty much hid the whole weekend.
I still cringe, what were the odds of that?
I apologise to anyone with the name Pulling, I never managed to pluck up the courage to apologise to Lisa, who we never saw again.
On a camping trip when I was about 8 I heard a voice say "sit at the table, dinner is ready" so I sat, only to release I was in someone elses camp and had to scurry back to my family whilst the neighbouring camps laughed...
To my horror, the person I hit wasn't my sister at all, but rather some random lady. I punched her as hard as a 10 or 11 year old could right in the stomach. I can't remember ever being so embarrassed in my life. I apologized profusely. The lady was shocked, but understanding.
Hotdogs are very much part of Danish culture so hotdogs and red kola were part of the free celebrations of acheiving that stage of building LEGO House. Lots of the townspeople were under a huge tent because it was pouring rain. I was one of only three AFOLs (that were not also LEGO designers or employees) in attendance.
I remember asking him to promise to burn it afterwards if it was really cringeworthy because although I reluctantly agreed, I couldn't think of a worse way to be recorded during that special occasion. I also can't imagine ever watching it back at any point in the future and not being just as embarrassed, if not more so, all over again. Let's hope LEGO never do a gag reel or blooper video!
I suppose given the "naked" theme of some of the earlier posts it could have been worse! 😱
Thanks for hosting @sonatine01.
To be honest, I've always been a bit of a clutz and due to this have probably embarrassed others more than I have myself because doing something stupid is fairly normal for me.
I do remember one incident at junior school where during the summer holidays the school had what they called 'the play scheme' which was basically events and outdoor activities taking place in the school grounds to keep the kids amused during the day while parents were off doing their jobs.
One particular year, one of the activities was riding round a little circuit on little single gear off-road motorcycles.
I've always loved bikes and the chance to ride one for the very first time was all I could think about leading up to the summer holidays. The day arrived, I turned up at the school and after a few turns at other less exciting activities I joined the line for a go on the motorbikes.
It was a popular attraction that year so excitement was left to build up while those waiting for their turn got to watch everyone else riding round the little roped off circuit area.
By the time it came time for my turn I was that excited, if you'd stick a pin in me I'd have exploded.
I could hardly stop fidgeting long enough to put the boots, gloves and helmet on as I pictured myself flying round the circuit like a boy possessed.
Unfortunately, this meant that I was paying absolutely no attention to the safety marshalls who were instructing us on what to do and more importantly what not to do.
With my head still full of loud noise and motorcycling glory, I got on the bike, the Marshall started the engine and I was let out onto the curcuit.
As I got free of the starting compound, I twisted the throttle as far round as it would go, I was going to show everyone what a superstar I was.
As I approached the first bend, my mind was running on overdrive, so much so that any thought to back off and go round it was left back in the paddock with apparently what was left of any sanity I once had.
So the inevitable happened, the corner went one way and I proceeded to go at full tilt in a totally straight line, straight into the rope fence which in turn sent me flying off the back of the bike and into a heap on the floor whilst the bike made several bystanders run for it as momentum kept it travelling under the rope and into the onlookers.
All this happened in front of a large number of my fellow students who I would unfortunately have to face once the school holidays were over. It started a very long school term of me trying to be as invisible as possible, which sort of stuck for the rest of my school life.
When we moved office (bloody hell, 15 years ago now) the canteen had a water feature. So I was sitting with colleagues noshing away while people walking past kept bumping in to us. We therefore shifted the table a foot or so to get away from the bustle and I then swung my chair across to meet it. Without realising one leg of the chair was now not resting on anything but thin air.
It was quite a splash I made.
The water feature has now been filled in.
I caught myself and started reading the proper passage but the priest was up out of his seat and over to make sure I was reading the correct thing.
Yeah, not my best moment...
My hat ended up stuck on my sneakers. But I didn't spill my beer and I picked up the golfball.
I didn't replace the divot.
First day of work at my first job out of law school, I volunteered to move a potted tree from the basement. When hoisting the pot, I ripped my suit pants wide open. It looked like some sort of kilt-skirt tux-and-tails. It took a whole row of staples to fasten the seam back together. I couldn't get home fast enough that day. Sitting on the staples was very uncomfortable.
I still work for the same company and it occasionally still gets mentioned, 14 years later!!
My wife and I had met up with Gina to show her the ropes re our apartment and cars etc, but for whatever reason, I ended up flying back to england a couple of days before my wife while she got the place ready for Gina's move-in date.
Fast forward a few days and by now I've been in Gina's place for a couple of days and am currently in a cab with some buddies after being out for the night. I suddenly realised that my wife was due to be getting her flight right about now so thought I'd better call her to say I loved her etc before she was out of phone contact for 11 hours.
The cab and my friends were being noisy when I called but I heard her say something like "where are you?" Having had a couple of beers and thinking I'd be funny, I told her "I'm sitting on the sofa masturbating with Gina's dirty knickers on my face".
At that point I heard the person on the other end of the phone say "Mike? Mike.... is that you?" It was Gina's voice! It turned out that in my inebriated state I'd called our home phone and not my wife's mobile so Gina had been the one to answer the phone. She told me that she had already moved in and that my wife had already gone to the airport. Apart from the immediate embarrassment, Gina must now be thinking that she has a perverted lunatic living in her home going through her stuff for the next three months.
When my wife finally turned up in England, I did end up apologising to Gina over the phone after my wife and her had been having a chat about sonething. It was a conversation I was seriously dreading having, but she was really cool about it saying that she has friends who are way more deranged than that.
A funny anecdote, but not one person I've ever told it to has ever heard of Gina Bellman or the shows she was in. I find that crazy as I loved Coupling in the UK, and Leverage went on to have five series so someone must have been watching it. I watched most of the first series and really enjoyed it.
Not the worst, but I still feel rather embarrassed about it:
First year at University, I'd just moved into one of their brand new accommodation blocks, within a massive campus. Each had shared living accommodation for 6-7 students, and were almost identical.
Anyway, I got home to my block late one evening and I tried for several minutes to unlock the front door; eventually I hammered on it assuming the lock was faulty, and someone let me in..... they looked at me slightly oddly, but I walked straight into the kitchen and slumped onto one of the chairs.
I eventually glanced around expecting to see my flatmates; but there were 5-6 other people looking at me with rather confused expressions. After a couple of seconds I'd realised that it wasn't my accommodation after all and was sat amongst a group of total strangers. I quietly apologised and headed for the exit, doh!!
While no one ever said anything about it again through elementary school, I thought it had been forgotten. At the end of grade 7, our teacher had us write about something memorable that had happened during our school years. I figured most people would write about someone who was sick in class or special visitors. I felt brave enough to write about this story but then discovered that 2 of my classmates wrote about the same event!
@Lego_Star any chance of one of your excellent reminder tags or this thread could go down as a new embarrassing moment for me as the only host not able to fill the numbers 😂
I quickly tried them on and they seemed to fit okay.
So off I trotted, hoping that the 20 minute walk to the station would get me there in time for the next train, otherwise I'd be even later.
Half way there, a neighbour drove past me and offered me a lift. I thanked them for their offer but decided I'd probably have time to make it there on time if I kept walking.
The train was late anyway - I had plenty of time to buy a ticket and waited about 10 minutes on the platform before the train arrived.
Being a regular commuter at the time, I knew exactly where to stand in order to make sure one of the train doors stopped right in front of me. A few minutes before it was about to arrive, I took up my position in front of hundreds of other people who were less wizened.
The train arrived. Dozens of people in my immediate vicinity ploughed forwards to try and get on first; but I'd positioned myself perfectly, and ended up smack bang in the middle of the doors as they opened.
The smug feeling was immense. I was able to get on the train first and made a beeline for the only available seat I could see. I got it! Not bad considering I was still feeling half asleep.
As I sat down, the feeling of relief was interrupted by a strange sensation. It felt like I had sat on something. I twisted round to see what it was and my heart sank.
I had managed to walk all the way to the station and wait in front of everyone on the platform without realising I had a 4" x 6" stiff white cardboard £3 price label attached to my butt with the resplendent "TESCO VALUE" brand livery. Nobody said a thing. I think I died a little that day.
Update: it looked like this!
@BOBJACK_JACKBOB @khmellymel @rawbob @Legoboy @Pitfall69 @Wicksy80 @legomatt @Basty @snowhitie ?????
There are others I notice haven't entered:
@Fauch @CaptainEyebrow @omnium @Sid3wndr
@stlux @GothamConstructionCo @norm103 @msanders @Jern92 @sweetness34 @560Heliport @Diggydoes @BooTheMightyHamster ? just to mention a few more.
You might think you have too much LEGO to enter but your bricksettter needs you! :o)
@brickedin @CommanderRaab @BrickbyBrick @benbacardi @dmcc0 @[email protected] @CaptainPirateMan
You might think you have too much LEGO to enter but your bricksettter needs you! :o)
1- @TheFew
2- @J0rgen
3- @CCC
4- @masterX244
5- @iliketoast
6- @KungFuKenny
7- @FowlerBricks
8- @Fizyx
9- @Mr_Cross
10- @PJ76uk
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12- @Bumblepants
13- @Lego_Star
14- @MugenPower
15- @bandit778
16- @historyman
17- @Speedman29
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27- @LittleLori
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Good luck to everyone else!