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Had an embrassing experience lately?
On more than one occasion I ran around looking for my mobile phone, only to find it was in my hand all the time. Another time, I lost my sunglasses until someone pointed out they were still on the top of my head.
Nothing though, compares to the embarrassment I experienced when I went to buy my meal late one night.
Wanting to get home, but realising that the wife would probably be asleep and not too keen on feeding me, I decided, instead of waking her up, I’d grab a quick hamburger. Driving through Browns Plains I saw the ‘Golden Arches’ and pulled in to the parking lot.
Being totally exhausted from a particularly hard day, I was so tired it was just too hard to concentrate. I staggered into the restaurant, fronted the counter, only to see that I was being served by a pretty young woman by the name of Linda. According to her badge sitting proudly on her chest, she was a trainee. Not hard to tell, as she was clearly nervous and still
had that ‘new uniform’ look. It was her first day.‘This is just great!’ I thought to myself, ‘All I need is to be some trainees guinea pig!’. I decided to make the whole exercise as easy as possible for us both. I took a deep breath and gave my order. ‘I’ll have a medium Big Mac Meal Deal with Diet Coke’ I said, trying to make some concessions for my expanding waist line. I was loud, clear and precise, to avoid
any confusion.I was met with silence. Not just Linda, but all the other staff just stared. The other patrons stared too, like I was some poor deranged soul waiting for the men in white coats to come and take me home. Everyone just stopped in their tracks. It was bizarre.
‘Is there a problem?’ I said, trying to hide my mounting frustration.
‘Could be’ said Linda in her nervous trainee innocence, ‘this is Hungry Jacks, McDonald’s is next door’It was that instant that I realised I should, perhaps, wear my glasses more often!
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Where I work now, the place is called Trader Horn.
http://www.traderhornstores.com/
For years, until about two years ago, it was called Warehouse Sales.
I keep answering the phone at work “Warehouse Sales, may I help you?”
Only to be met with stares from my fellow employees and silence on the other end of the phone.
At least I haven’t answered it “Jill’s Custom Signs”…..yet.
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quote Jayne Marsh::lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
Did you go next door or order something from Hungry Jacks?Hungry Jacks… to embarrassed to do anything else. Tried to hide but my yellow uniform makes it very hard to ‘blend in’ sometimes 😳
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i felt myself go a little red in the shop i did the etch flood glass the other day, happened just after i nearly fell of the ladder and let out a couple of expletives a litle louder than i thought, turned around to see twenty faces staring at me ! apologised and carried on like nowt had happened, but could feel myself burning up a little !
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yes i had a cracker today 😮 ….went to a hospital appointment at 11.30am fine i thought bletherin away to my mum time went by and it was 12.10…so i said i better see if they are a bit behind with the appointments…the guy said yes they were running a bit late, and i would not be long in getting seen 😀 fine i thought, until a nurse came over with my card, and said….have you looked at what time & date your appointment was….7th dec. 2005 😳 😳 😳 what a silly twit 😕 so i just had the rest of the day off 😉
nik
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maybe you just needed a day off 😛
Lynn
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quote Nicola McIntosh:until a nurse came over with my card, and said….have you looked at what time & date your appointment was….7th dec. 2005 😳 😳 😳 what a silly twit 😕 so i just had the rest of the day off 😉
nik
that would be embarrassing Nik. :lol1:
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:lol1: :lol1: Oh Bless!!!
I have tons of embarrassing moments … its quite the norm for me now 😛 one was me bent over the desk in work kind of wiggling/bopping (my rear end) to the radio … heard the door go behind me but because Steve had just popped out to grab his tool box thought it was him …… till I suddenly had “a feeling” … I turned around to see two bin men stood there grinning at me 😳 We hadnt put the wheelie bin out so they came in for it :lol1: Oh well its all fun and its funny when you think back to these things!!!
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