Describe your favorite, "God, I hope nobody saw that" moment.

[Baitball Blogger]

For me it usually happens when I'm gardening. I stepped on the hoe and came eye to eye with the handle; and I forgot I put the clippers on top of the ladder and they landed on my head when I tried to move the ladder.

I plead heat exhaustion.

[Iggo]

1. I was in the kitchen, changing batteries on something-or-other.

I dropped the battery on the counter. It started rolling. I gauged the roll and figured where I could catch it smoothly on the fly after it rolled off the edge of the counter. It rolled off the edge. I bent down to catch it. And, BAM!, I promptly smacked my forehead full on the counter.

I'm both glad and sad that there's no video of my expert maneuver.

I plead dumbness.

[hollysmom]

2. when I found that my neighbors look into my windows.

and I run around half dressed some times
I have had neighbors in that house for 30 years and they all kept the blinds down on that window I missed that these people raised up the window and look in my house. ugh
I have lace curtains on that window it is not like they see a lot, I don't stand in front if it or anything, usually just moving from the den to the kitchen. I don't know why but my blinds do not go down to the sill anymore, I must have one on the wrong window. I have 17 windows and only a few are the same size so finding the right blind may take a while.
How did I find out, I saw them outside and the wife said to me, they thought I was gone on vacation because they have not seen me walking around my house. Like I said they don't see much and I don't pass that way often.

[gratuitous]

3. Waiting for the bus one morning

The alarm clock woke me at my usual time, I showered, dressed, had a bite of breakfast, and went out to the bus stop down on the corner. Waited for a few minutes, no bus and no bus going the other way. A few minutes later thought to myself that traffic was unusually light for a Monday morning. Checked my calendar watch, and figured that while traffic was light for a Monday, it was probably pretty typical for a Sunday morning. Walked as nonchalantly as I could back to my house.

[sarge43]

4. One painful morning after a pub crawl

I carefully folded a piece of toilet paper (clean) and hung it over the towel rack and threw the wash rag into the toilet.

Well, at least I didn't put deodorant on the tooth brush

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Way back in my smoking days

I struck a match to light a cigarette. Lost my grip on the lighted match and it dropped. Super reflexes kicked in and caught the damned thing between my knees. Ended up with a hole in the front of my dress, soaked from the pop I'd poured out to try to cool the burn that had made the hole, hose that had melted all the way down to my ankles, and matching scars that are really embarrassing to explain to doctors.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Omigod. Def Thread winner.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Yikes! I completely agree!

Though it reminds me of my cousin. Years ago, she threw a lit cigarette butt out the car window. It flew back in through the sun roof, but she didn't notice till it burned through her dress and hit her leg! It burned a hole in her dress, too, which our grandmother was kind enough to try and repair for her. She told her it happened at a party...

[Boxerfan]

7. Many to choose from...But here is one I'm dang glad nobody witnessed

I lived in a hilly area with very expensive well-everything.

I was just getting a load of stuff into my Mom's storage & emptied my old pickup. The spare was in the rear & for some reason I thought it looked better standing up in the corner. If I tied it I did not do it well.

Because as I rounded a uphill curve-steep-the tire-wheel & all-went rolling & out the back over the tailgate.

Bouncing down the road I did a manic U-turn & raced after it. I almost caught up to it & it flew the curb-right into a houses porch frame.

Nobody came out of any house & there were dozens. I honestly looked for any damage-saw none & got the heck out of there-with the tire laying flat like I should have done in the 1st place.

Truck tire-about 80 lbs & going at least 40 mph... hit a very solid beam at the base. Thank goodness as insurance?? Money???

[frogmarch]

8. Years ago I bent over to

pick something up and stepped on my hand. When I tried to raise up, I fell on my face.

Don't tell anyone.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. LOL!

Good one!

[mythology]

10. I have several

I was once tying a boat to a dock when my boss called me. I looked up, took one step back and found myself in the river.

I have multiple times managed to get on the bus going the wrong way (including once on my way to surgery).

I once was using a crow bar as leverage to pull a loaded pallet, didn't hook the bent end of the crow bar very well, yanked and drove the straight end right at the spot where the side of the kneecap sits. Bad words were uttered after a few minutes of laying there gasping in pain.

I once got home from a really long day at work, fell into bed and asleep, woke up and realized that I was already late for work, drove there as fast as I could only to realize it was actually 8 in the evening and I was 11:15 minutes early.

And probably the worst, was again after a long day at work, it was freezing and raining and I see a woman on the side of the street, so I pull over, asking if she needed a ride. She says she'd be happy to go back to my place, I say she can't stay there and so she asks if I have a friend's place, I say no, but if she needs a ride, I'm happy to take her where ever she needs to go as it's an ugly night to be standing outside. It isn't until she suggests we could get a room at the dingy motel she was standing outside of that I realized she was a hooker. I quickly backed out of the conversation and ran away. Fortunately my closest experience with a hooker. Less fortunately, hardly the only time I was oblivious to a woman's intentions sexually.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

11. " woke up and realized that I was already late for work,

I have done that one before. I thought traffic was weird for that time of the morning, but it didn't click until I got there. Working very long days without much time off can really mess with your head.

[Callmecrazy]

12. That's why I keep my digital watch on 24 hour time... nt

[onethatcares]

13. way back when

I was hitchhiking and turned around only to walk directly into a sign that was at face level.. Owww.