I'm glad no-one had a camera when....

Just a fun thread - do you have any moments to share when you were glad no-one had a camera????

I'll start.....

This summer hubby and I decided to buy bikes, neither of us had been on a bike for 27 years so we were hoping the phrase "it's just like riding a bike were true".

We have a narrow path outside our front door which I had seen hubby ride down, but I didn't feel confident manoeuvering around the bushes on either side (it's only about 15 inches wide) so I pushed mine along there.

Well....feeling brave while hubby was wrestling with putting his bike into the back of our car, I thought I'd have a go at riding down the path.

Wish I hadn't now

I took it slowly, then stopped and needed to put my foot down.....but I forgot the border with the tiny bushes in was lower than the path and ended up on falling right over the top of the bushes, on my butt in a patch of clover on the grass with the bike on top of me.

Hubby looked round and all he could see was me doing my upside down turtle impression on the grass, laughing my head off It didn't make it any better that in justifying my decision I said, "I knew I couldn't ride down that path like you do and I was right"

I'm just glad that he didn't have a camera with him and that the neighbours can't see our front garden!

I bet you have funnier moments than that which you were happy not to have caught on film........

Well one of my times is when I rode a bike into a pond at someone's house!

.... or when I fell up the stairs at work and lost my shoe....

....or when I fell backwards into a mud puddle when hiking....


I could go on and on... I am not very graceful.

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

Well one of my times is when I rode a bike into a pond at someone's house!

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ooops

I'm just glad we haven't got a pond otherwise I'd probably do that too

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

....or when I fell backwards into a mud puddle when hiking....

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Karen, you and I are kindred spirits! We took the children walking many years ago in an area of the UK called the Lake District (lots of BIG hills and lakes). It was winter, there was a little stream, hubby was on one side and I was one the other, we held 5 year old daughter's hands while she jumped over the stream.

She was safely on the other side, so I jumped it too - slid on the mud on the other side and planted my backside firmly into the stream. It's ok, we only had a (soggy) 200 mile drive home

oh I have so many!!
The most recent though:
First day I worked at this location: There is a break room in the back with floor length curtains covering the entry. 2 larger dark brown ones and a tan single width one in the middle. I thought the 2 colors were just for show because I could see light through the curtains so I walked into the darker one since it was closer and ran right into a half wall.... so embarrassing! LOL!

Today in my car I managed to sling my debit card under the seat and had to fetch it at the drive thru window!
I've been carrying a laundry basket on my hip and ran into walls and doors soooo many times!

Yeah I'm a bit accident prone!

I have had so many blunders growing up including -

- falling off a horse
- crashing a mini motorcycle into a fence
- crashing into the back of a parked car while on a bicycle
- falling into a trash can while walking in the mall

That is just a few...

When I fell down the stairs at the Stockholm, Sweden, railway station, entangled in a suitcase.

Funny, my incident is "bike" related as well. I had just bought my first sportbike - a used 600 Ninja - after not having ridden a motorcycle in 15 years. After another typically listless jaunt on it, I crept up the drive to my apartment complex...in too high of a gear. Unable to get a foot down on the hill, it slowly toppled over in one of those dramatic, slow-motion movie moments.

Of course, the drive had buildings lining either side, and 3 floors of apartments - on a lovely Summer day where there were likely plenty of people on their balconies witnessing my absurd performance.

I say "likely", because it took everything I had to tune everything out as I thankfully received enough of an adrenaline rush to pick the bike up, (hey, it was an older, heavier steel-framed model), rush it to my parking space, and head inside my building with my tail between my legs.

...I took off my shirt at the beach thinking my swimsuit was on underneath.

.....I left the ladies room of my local grocery store with the hem of my skirt stuck in my panties.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

...I took off my shirt at the beach thinking my swimsuit was on underneath.

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Okay I laughed out loud on that! Only because I have a fear of doing that!

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

...I took off my shirt at the beach thinking my swimsuit was on underneath.

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I dunno, that sounds like one of those semi-intentional happenings; "Oooops, how did these ever get out?!"

interesting reading, this!
i fall quite often [i think my sense of balance is off] & rarely get embarassed about it [i'd spend too much time being embarassed, for one thing!] but i'm always glad the fall isn't on tape, since i'm none too graceful either on the way down or back up! i dislike having to use stairs because i fall - no matter which direction i'm going - on them so much. i usually have a death grip on the railing [assuming there is one].
however, just because it's not on film doesn't mean it wasn't witnessed by many people, since i've actually fallen during performances in shows.
the most memorable one was a couple of years ago, during/after Man of La Mancha. i came down the stairs [see, stairs are EVIL!] & stepped to the side to avoid a pillow someone had put there [it wasn't usually there] & missed the step completely - went right over the edge. this was during the blackout @ the end of the show, right before curtain calls. i was always the last person off stage, so the light person & stage manager would be watching to know when to bring the lights back up - the director also saw it.
not sure how many people in the audience noticed, but i did have on a pink/white striped shirt, so i didn't exactly 'blend' w/the stage [which was mostly a black set - black stairs, black floor, blackout - see a theme?] but they might not have realized exactly what happened. fortunately, this was NOT the night the show was recorded!

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

...I took off my shirt at the beach thinking my swimsuit was on underneath.

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OMG! I'm sure it wasn't funny then, but it is funny now !

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

...I took off my shirt at the beach thinking my swimsuit was on underneath.

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I cannot beat that...ladies and gents, I think we have a winner!

These are great!!

I see other people fall. I trip.....when I'm running. Before I figured out why I was doing it, and corrected my running style, I'd end up alot on the sidewalks of NYC, looking up at the sky, saying "crap". I'm sure I look real graceful while I'm going down, and you experience that slow motion thing, where you see the ground coming up at you and there's nothing you can do.

OK, I am about to admit something REALLY embarrassing!
A couple of years ago I was supervising an outdoor garden center. We had put a lot of work into creating a display garden at the front sidewalk entrance and almost all neighbors were so thankful......except for this one guy !
Here's where i AM GLAD NO ONE HAD A CAMERA WHEN.... this guy was walking his dog past our front gate, the dog took a crap, I could smell it from a distance and this was why I walked over to see a pile of diarrhea right in front of our entrance ! I was in shock, I yelled out to him your just going to leave this here? He kept walking...I said excuse me but are you for real? This is how you respect your neighborhood and your dog?! The guy he was walking with began to curse me out and repeatedly say what are you going to do about it! I got so made I scooped the runny mess up in a bag (here's where the very stupid comes in) and even though they were 20 feet away went to throw it in their direction, as I yelled back they were lucky I didn't throw it in their faces! Needless to say it didn't go very far and a majority of it landed on me ! My hair, my face, my arm, me! At that point I was grateful that these to arse holes were so rude that they didn't even see it happen! How humiliating, but I guess it's like Forrest Gump says, happens

The first one that came to mind is when I tripped and fell on the sidewalk along a busy street - in front of a brewery.

This probably won't mean much to people who have never been in an operating room.

The surgeon and I had to switch sides (I was on the patient's left, he was on the patient's right.) As I was walking around the table with the instruments on it, I stepped in the kick-bucket (a wheeled bucket on the floor, where we toss bloody sponges.) I went skating across the floor, trying to maintain my balance (and stay sterile) grabbed a stand with a big, heavy, metal 40 piece retractor on it, and pulled it to the floor. It fell with a resounding CRASH, and I also fell....wounding my pride, and totally destroying my dignity, but, thankfully, avoiding too much physical damage to myself. Oh yeah, I was mortified.....they heard the crash two rooms away. I'm SO glad that no one had a camera!

Originally Posted by Pookie-poo

This probably won't mean much to people who have never been in an operating room.

The surgeon and I had to switch sides (I was on the patient's left, he was on the patient's right.) As I was walking around the table with the instruments on it, I stepped in the kick-bucket (a wheeled bucket on the floor, where we toss bloody sponges.) I went skating across the floor, trying to maintain my balance (and stay sterile) grabbed a stand with a big, heavy, metal 40 piece retractor on it, and pulled it to the floor. It fell with a resounding CRASH, and I also fell....wounding my pride, and totally destroying my dignity, but, thankfully, avoiding too much physical damage to myself. Oh yeah, I was mortified.....they heard the crash two rooms away. I'm SO glad that no one had a camera!

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I picture the above occurring in slow motion, with background music!

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

...I took off my shirt at the beach thinking my swimsuit was on underneath.

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I have had nightmare about doing that.

My oldest daughter was 17 at the time. Was swimming at a public beach. wearing a t-shirt instead of her bathsuit top. She popped out of the water and her shirt was above her head. She quickly pulled it down, but not before the group of boys down the beach saw.


I made Dh a beautiful birthday cake. I spend hours on it. I was running up the stairs with it. I tripped fell forward , my face firmly planted in the cake. My poor Hubby almost peeded his pants he was laughing so hard.