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What was a moment you just wanted to sink into a hole and never come out? Was it something that happened to you or something that happened to a friend?
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#1
Not mine. My late father never lived this down. A few weeks after he was married to my mom, he spent a night drinking and playing cards with his buddies. Around three AM, one of his buddies said, "Hey, where's your wife?" and Dad remembered he was supposed to pick my mom up from her shift at 11 PM.
I can't match "Oops, forgot I'm married!"
Final score:
27points
#2
Saying you too when they told me to enjoy my food, cliche I know but still embarrassing as f**k.
Final score:
21points
#3
When I went out to see why my neighbour was on my back porch in the middle of the night, only to realise she had a hammer and was swinging it at my head. (Yes, she was psychotic at the time and believed I had killed all the birds in the world. She is no longer my neighbour.)
Final score:
20points
#4
So once I came out to the people in my swim class as homosexual. We were like one big family and all that, so that was cool. Anyway, then people started saying stuff like “not cool, dude” and “no one asked for your opinion.” And I was super offended (rightly) and kinda shocked that they had acted that way.
Took me a few minutes to realize I hadn’t said homosexual. It accidentally came out as homophobic.
Final score:
20points
#5
Every time I have to wake up before 10 am haha
Final score:
19points
Scott Crowell 2 years ago
Right there with you. Not Literally! I mean sometimes the camera gets bumped.
#6
i left my dog at the dog park
Final score:
18points
Riley Warrick 2 years ago
Earlier today I left my dog outside during a thunderstorm, completely forgot about her until about an hour later!
#7
In second grade we changed our seating arrangement the day before our pizza party. I accidentally went back to my old seat and took a bite of another girl's pizza. She yelled, my teacher and fellow classmates laughed, and I cried. Just thinking about it now, 8 years later, makes me want to die.
Final score:
15points
#8
When I accidentally liked an old picture of my crush (a pretty common "oh shoot" moment)
Final score:
13points
#9
Not me, but it's about my brother. He collects all things funeral related, including several hearses. When my grandma passed away, he used his hearse for the funeral. We were at the church before it was about to begin. Turned out he locked the keys in the car. Grandma was still inside. We had to wait for the tow truck to come to have the funeral. I know she would've laughed her a*s off, as that's the type of person she was. So, in a way we had one last laugh.
Final score:
13points
#10
My sister’s boyfriend came over for my birthday and he said “Happy birthday!” And I said “Thanks you too!”
Final score:
12points
#11
When my son was little, Mulan was all the rage. We had the good fortune of getting a red dragon for him. Of course he named it Mushu.
We went on a vacation and Mushu had to come with us since he'd grown to become my son's best buddy. We spent the night at a hotel and in the morning, headed 116 miles home by car.
As we got halfway home, my son asked "Where's Mushu?" That's when we realized that his dragon was probably left behind in the bed linens at the hotel. "Awe Shoot!"
Turned the car around and screamed back to the hotel. Our room had already been cleaned by then and the lady that serviced it had gone home for the night. The manager tried calling her to find out where Mushu was, but there was no answer.
He told us she would not have thrown it out and assured us that he would get a hold of her in the morning and track it down. All the way home my son was bawling "I'm sorry Mushu! I left you behind!" I mean, we're talking like a scene from a drama where the love of your life was killed as you were trying to escape the bad guys.
The next morning the manager called and said that the lady had found Mushu when she cleaned our room, but he was a tad bit dirty so she gave him a bath and had him drying in the laundry facilities.
We were not going to be able to drive back for a while, but my sister offered to deliver it to us as she was passing through our town on the way back to her house the following weekend.
Mushu was delivered home safe and sound. My son was giving him big bear hugs, apologizing up and down for leaving him and promising he'd never leave him again.
Future stays at hotels involve scouring the room for any hidden items before hitting the road.
Final score:
11points
#12
Was on a night jump in Arizona. Main chute didn't deploy. Did a cut-a-way and deployed backup. Slammed face-first into a Saguaro cactus. Happens to be a federally-protected species (Native Plant Protection Act). Wasn't arrested. I guess yankin quills out of my fez was punishment enough....
Final score:
10points
#13
I went to a party once, and we were all joking around. I thought, "Ooh, I have a really good joke, they're gonna think it's hilarious!" Mind you, this was at a friend's party, I didn't know half the people. Dumb me decided to share the joke.
Yeah.
Everyone kinda went silent and looked at me.
No one laughed.
One of those moments you just want the world to open up and swallow you whole...
I don't share jokes anymore.
Final score:
10points
#14
I stepped on a sewing needle and it broke in half. My dad said it will come out like a splinter. I did not. 5 days later in the hospital having surgery to remove it.
Final score:
10points
#16
In drama class I accidentally blurted out that I thought one of my fellow female classmates was pretty. My face was so red with embarrassment I just wish that didn’t happen. In that moment I realized that I wasn’t straight, when I see her in the hallway at school I just blush when she’s nearby, I think I love her!
Final score:
9points
#17
When I was planning on asking my crush out, only to have her mention about a day before that she’s straight. I ate a lot of ice cream that week 😂.
Final score:
9points
Carefully Planned Spontaneity 2 years ago (edited)
Aaaaaaah yeah I'm lesbian and my crush's best friend (also my friend) told me my crush was straight like while I was working up the nerve to confess. Now I'm dating the best friend though so it all worked out.
#18
That moment when you realize you dumped a lot of the wrong ingredient in the recipe. Like salt instead of sugar.
Final score:
8points
#19
I once screamed a lot of swears IN FRONT of my mom
Final score:
8points
#20
I was sparring in my taekwondo class against a guy who was considerably older than me, I tried to kick him but he kicked me, right in the family jewels as hard as he could. Therefore, I am now infertile
Final score:
8points
#21
when i left foil inside my microwave and turned it on
Final score:
7points
#22
When my middle son was a toddler,we were at a gathering after church. All the sudden,my skirt is lifted like I'm in the wind and I hear giggling. Everyone got the full view of my panties. Lol,I could have died
Final score:
7points
Lene 2 years ago
I once had a zipper in a long skirt giving up on me at the cafeteria at the university, while I had plates etc full of food, while the big lunchbreak was happening. My skirt fell down my ankles just as I stood next to this table of two strangers who very much paused both eating and talking. It was so fun and the classmate I was walking towards nearly died from embarrasment on my behalf. 😂
#23
Trying to remove a signpost with a huge lump of concrete on the end of it, not realising that the concrete was so heavy that I actually swung around with it, cracking my back on another lump of concrete workmen had left behind (this was in a kids play area, was trying to clear the debris so the kids didn't injure themselves and ended up making a complete a*s of myself!)
Final score:
7points
#24
when i accidentally hit my sister in the eye with a playing card
Final score:
6points
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
I want more story on this, somehow. Ninja poker deck? ... Uno gone awry? ... Shouted 'Gin!' when ti wasn't?...
#25
bringing my son from the hospital and realising that he is all mine and now I have to raise him
Final score:
6points
Sami (Submission author) 2 years ago
Cont'd. Now I have to raise him with no clue what I'm doing :)
#26
basically whenever i accidentally say something risky that i didnt mean to say around mostly crushes, parents, etc. it has benefited me in the past but every time my immediate thought is "oh s**t why did i say that"
Final score:
5points
#27
I was cleaning out my Turtle Tank (which is kept outdoors), so I put my turtles (Two Red-Eared Sliders. A big one named Salvador and a little one named Shelldon) in a bucket of water. I left to get a glass of water and when I went back outside, I noticed Shelldon scurrying across the pavement ready to escape captivity and go on a wondrous adventure with hawks, bobcats, and many fellow invasive Red-Eared Sliders. I don't know how he got out of the bucket, but I think he went inside his shell and shot fire out of his arms and legs to fly in a spinning motion and fight giant evil pterodactyl monsters and lizards that can shoot rainbows out of their backs.
Final score:
5points
#28
This happened a while ago. I had one of those tubes of liquid soap for bubbles. You guys know those right? Anyways I thought I was holding upside down. (I wasn't) so I FLIPPED IT "right side up" and spilled all the contents. I still laugh at that today.
Final score:
4points
#29
So in 3rd grade we were in a cafeteria (Keep in mind this was over 400 kids in here) and the principal screamed at us we were too loud and she did not want to hear a peep. The room was dead silent. Then, I inhaled..
“Peep”
I got detention hahaha :,)
Final score:
4points
#30
left my brand-new-just-bought-it phone on a creek bed while walking my dogs and had to sprint a mile to retrieve it. was literally couple of inches from the water.
Final score:
4points
#31
Realizing my right stirrup was too long and falling backwards off my horse of 16H’s flat on my back! 6 days in the hospital!
Final score:
4points
ginger kay 2 years ago
Oh yikes!! I couldn't even imagine having this happen with like a 14HH pony!!
#32
once for vacation we went across the country and then halfway there i realized oh s**t i forgot my suitcase with all my clothes and all my brothers clothes
Final score:
4points
#33
When I accidentally messaged a coworker/friend a Gif that said "I love you" instead of the Gif next to it.
This was made more awkward by the fact that a couple weeks before she had drunkenly sent me some flirty texts she never would have sent me sober.
Which was actually another "oh shoot" moment. As in "Oh, shoot. What do I do?" I was attracted to her but she was drunk and going through a bad divorce. So I ignored her texts, which she apologized for the next day.
Final score:
3points
#34
When you're not paying too much attention to the time, and the bell for school rings to go home, but you think it's the starting school bell. Not like that's ever happened to me...
Final score:
3points
#35
For years whenever I meant to say "You're f***ing kidding me", what I actually said was "You're f***ing me". So so many embarrassing encounters.
Final score:
3points
#36
Not me, my dad, who until the day he died would have you believe that he was an intelligent person. So this was not one of his brightest ideas.
I was a kid living in an estate, and at the bottom of our cul-de-sac road we would have a bonfire at the end of our road on every Halloween night. People on the estate would make the bonfire with sticks, household trash and whatever else they could get their hands on.
This particular year it poured with rain on the days just before Halloween and soaked the bonfire to the point it was too wet to be lit by an old rag wrapped around the end of a stick and set alight like it usually was. What would happen was the end of the rag would be dipped in petrol and then placed quickly into the middle of the fire. It didn't work this time as the bonfire was so wet. So my dad's bright idea? Pour the FULL can of petrol on the fire and then light it. Which he did. Immediately the bonfire burst into flames and sprays of petrol hit his face and caught on fire. His whole face was covered in flames. Thankfully someone wrapped his face in a wet towel and got him to hospital and was seen to straight away. He was given a special cream that he had to apply to his face every day for weeks to make sure his face healed, which, thankfully it did. Needless to say he never did anything this stupid again.
Final score:
3points
#37
I was running and I tripped and flew forward (I'm accident prone) and my ankle rolled do I got up and look around to make sure no one saw me
Final score:
2points
#38
Walking into the wrong bathroom
May have been written already but awkward as hell
Final score:
2points
ThatBoredDolphin (Submission author) 2 years ago
Edit: by wrong bathroom I mean like the boys bathroom if ur a girl or vice versa
#39
When i wrote an email to another kid on class about a teachet(sed i wanted to slap her hard), forgot that they have dyknow n left the tab open, did not go down well after that
Teacher is a bytch by the way, but a rlly good teacher
Final score:
2points
ThatBoredDolphin 2 years ago
A handy way to avoid this is to make a private email address on outlook or something and use that. Also, put it in a different window. Honestly tho , it must have sucked to be caught.
#40
Walked into my old second standard classroom when I was half way through being in my third standard. The teachers and kids all stared at me because class was going on. I was like huh right bye!
Final score:
2points
#41
I have blue eyes and one time a girl on my soccer team said she like my eyes and I tried to say I liked hers to but instead said "thanks! your eyes are...good too!" why can't I just have a normal conversation with someone.
Final score:
2points
#42
Had an ex who was super controlling & always made sure that I told him I loved him at the end of every call. One evening, we decided to order pizza. I placed the order over the phone and I ended the call with "I love you". Kudos to the young kid on the other end for replying, "I love you too...?"
Final score:
2points
#43
My family was going on a trip to India to see our family, when we realized on the airport monorail that we forgot our luggage. When we went back to the place we might’ve left it, it was gone. We went on an international flight (maybe 20 hours in a plane) without a single bit of entertainment.
Final score:
2points
#44
Ok so there's a dude in my grade (who's pretty cute, ngl) and he normally has one of his hands sort of crooked like he's going to give you a handshake. Well one day he accidentally runs into me and he turns around and says sorry and stuff, and me being the absolute DOUGHNUT 🍩 that I am, I shook. His. Hand. He was just like, "oh– I'm, okay, guess we're cool then–?"
I am a doughnut. 😑
Final score:
2points
#45
That Time I took my daughter (8) to see the emoji movie.
Final score:
2points
#46
Had to play the sax at graduation and forgot my instrument
Final score:
2points
#47
Not my biggest but my most recent, I accidentally took my morning meds instead of my evening meds. The morning meds include a stimulant. Smfh. 🤦🏼♀️
Final score:
2points
#48
This morning, I when over to take care of my neighbor's cats, one of them took his meds, then are the other cat's meds. 😳
I think he'll be fine though, he's a fat cat. And the meds were antibiotics.
Final score:
1point
Chill guy havin a chill day 2 years ago
*Googles if cats can be drug addicts...* *How to talk to your cat about gun safety comes up*
#49
Def when my dad found me sneaking back in from walgreens carrying a giant box of pads under my arm because i didn't have anymore.
Final score:
1point
#50
When my parents say, "Have a good day at school, and I say, "You too!" lol
Final score:
1point
Kayleigh A 2 years ago
The crossing gauge by my school says have a good day at school to me, the other day I said it back… I felt so inbarised
#51
Friends found my search history it was just avengers wiki thankfully
Final score:
1point
#52
I had this awesome construction theme party when my son turned 2. We had dirt cups instead of cake and I totally forgot to sing happy birthday at the party or have a candle. 🤦♀️
Final score:
1point
Jennifer Glynne (Submission author) 2 years ago
Dirt cups are just chocolate pudding with oreo crumbs on top and gummy worms.
#53
Once I was hungry, so I wanted to make Mac n cheese, but I was like 9/10 and I only knew how to make boiled water, so yea. it was very difficult trying to make that cheesy snack, and at some point I burnt a pot. I was like "OH SHOOT" and just panicked for a long time, but when my mother came in she said "OUT", So I did leave!
(not without taking the cheese packet )
Final score:
0points
#54
I was teaching a lesson in Pre-Calculus, and one of the students complained that he hated doing Partial Fraction problems. I replied, "It's not like it's brain cancer!" As the last syllable left my mouth, I remembered that a girl sitting right in front of me was struggling with a life-threatening case of brain cancer. I'm told that the look on my face was priceless. Fortunately, she thought that my reaction was absolutely hilarious. (And even more fortunately, she recovered from the brain cancer completely.)
Final score:
0points
#55
Used to be big time into backpacking with 2 buddies. We had done several trips together, some easy and some not so easy. Anyway, we planned a 3 night trip to a back country site in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, ending up our last night at the highest back country site you can hike to. All was good until we got there and then..
1) nearest water was down a hill a half mile away. Walked there and back, then remembered that I left my phone there, so down I went again.
2) We always enjoyed a nice fire. Didn't think about the fact that this site was above the tree line, so no firewood. Didn't plan that well and we were experienced hikers.
3) It rained that night. My tent leaked right above my head, like dripping onto my forehead all night. Why ? I left my rain fly at home. Yeah...real experienced hikers.
Final score:
0points
#56
Our neighbor is usually not home in the mornings, so we've gotten used to privacy on that side of the house. I let our three dogs out the back one morning and watched to see who did their doody. As they came back in, I very loudly asked, "Which one of you left that gigantic poop out there, huh?!" - Only to look up and see our neighbor and her boyfriend having breakfast on their back deck and staring at me in consternation.
Final score:
0points
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