My Embarrassing Moment

Posted by: Lomo on 23 March 2005

There have been many but this is a true account of one that occurred in my teen-age years.
In those days sewered toilets were unheard of and the back yard dunnys were the places of convenience. They consisted of a wooden closet containing a drum which was emptied weekly, except during strikes, a supply of news paper cut to manageable size and if lucky no snakes or redback spiders.
anyway on this day I was sitting , minding my own business little realising the pending disaster. One hundred metres away a workgang was pushing through a new road. In their way was a substantial tree and to save time they decided to place an explosive charge and blow it to smithereens. I am reliably informed that this was a complete success as pieces of tree flew in all directions. One piece managed to travel the distance to my dunny and landed right on top, effectively demolishing it and leaving me with little available cover.
Needless to say the neighbours nearly fell over themselves with joy when they found I was still alive.
Well they fell over themselves anyway.
We did get a new dunny but it never quite captured the atmosphere of the old.

Posted on: 23 March 2005 by long-time-dead

Bet it scared the sh** out of you !

Posted on: 23 March 2005 by Deane F

My embarrassing moment was more along the lines of a rather poorly thought out comment when I was a young man.

I was eighteen years old in my first job out of school preparing a house for interior decorating. The lady of the house had made me a cup of tea and we were sitting outside. We got talking and she said she had four children. I exclaimed, "Four children! Are you guys Catholic?"

Pause

"Yes, actually, we are" was the reply...

Posted on: 23 March 2005 by pe-zulu

I made a fool of myself more like Deane F.

I had inherited some antique cups and plates from my mothers sister, and another relative offered me some more of the same kind as supplement.
My answer: "Thanks, then I have some more to break."

I didn´t get them!

Posted on: 23 March 2005 by Gianluigi Mazzorana

Once, coming out from cafeteria, an enormous, thundering "burp" came out of my mouth while opening the door.
Was unintentional, but fate put my super-mega-iper boss on the other side of the opening door.
Directly on his face!
heeheheheheheh
My collegue started laughin like crazy and i started aspyxiate for terror.
No wage increases on sight.

Posted on: 24 March 2005 by Sir Crispin Cupcake

I bought a flat about 14 years ago and my aunt came round to have a look. The place needed redecorating and I commented sort of apologetically on the hideous flowery wallpaper in the lounge, which had to go. About a month later I visited her and guess what? She had the exactly the same hideous wallpaper that I'd been slagging off. Whoops!