Thread: What is your single most embarrassing moment ever? Does it beat this?

Originally Posted by Quick

haha, my guess, since it was mostly family, is that everyone already knows that your mum thinks it high time you found a nice girl to get married

I doubt it Quick. I was sitting next to my wife of five years at the time!

About 40 years ago I was doing ironwork (structural steel erection) and we were putting up conveyor sections at a cement plant. They came in by rail and we were loading two sections side by side onto flat bed semi trailers to distribute them close to where they were to be erected. The conveyor sections we had been landing on the trucks were a few feet shorter then the bed of the truck at about 35 feet.

I was on the flat bed with another fellow landing the sections. We landed a longer section that extended past the end of the trailer by a few feet. We cut it loose from the crane and as the next load came in I was walking backwards as I signaled the crane. Out of the corner of my eye I was noting the distance by the length of the conveyor section we had just landed knowing that I wouldn't run out of flatbed and would end up at the end of the truck. This had worked well for a few loads until we landed the conveyor that extended past the end of the flatbed. So I am booming the rig down and walking backwards forgetting that this was a longer section I stepped off the end of the truck, flipped over and landed on the top of my head.

Thankfully my hardhat stayed on or I would have undoubtedly sustained serious injury. I was laying there dazed and I heard the sound of feet running towards me. I recall the thought going through my mind that I hoped no one had seen me fall and I jumped up and staggered around a bit.

My coworkers seeing that I wasn't badly hurt started razing me right off the bat. Saying it is a good thing you didn't land on your feet and that sort of thing. Back in those days hard hats had metal clips to secure the liner and one of them had torn my fore head open requiring a stitch,. That a bad headache and a sore neck were all the injury I sustained besides feeling like an idiot.

[quote=Quick Orange;302586] yet my mom will start to call me by all my siblings' names.
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I think all mums do that.

When I was 14 and just started sleeping without pajamas I, not normally a sleep walker, woke up standing stark naked in the kitchen while my Mum was having tea with a friend. I just pretended to be asleep and turned right back around.

When i was 15 and at army cadet summer camp learning to SCUBA dive, I got pantsed, skivies and all, in front of the whole platoon which was 50% female.

It just gets worse year after year.

X

Originally Posted by xman

When I was 14 and just started sleeping without pajamas I, not normally a sleep walker, woke up standing stark naked in the kitchen while my Mum was having tea with a friend. I just pretended to be asleep and turned right back around.

You win.

Originally Posted by xman

When i was 15 and at army cadet summer camp learning to SCUBA dive, I got pantsed, skivies and all, in front of the whole platoon which was 50% female.

It just gets worse year after year.

X

I dont understand what you mean by this x. What does 'pantsed' mean? Or is it a typo?

Being "pantsed" is when, while you are standing, someone sneaks up behind you (usually behind you) and pulls your pants off. Often, just the pants are removed, but an enthusiastic pantsing will frequently remove the underwear as well.

I was confused by the use of the word pants (ie pants/trousers). I understand now. I dont think we have a word for it. We have wedgies, but you must have them too.

Perhaps you need more belt wearing?

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

I was confused by the use of the word pants (ie pants/trousers). I understand now. I dont think we have a word for it. We have wedgies, but you must have them too.

Perhaps you need more belt wearing?

A lot of kids around these parts wear there trousers where they are half way pulled down as a matter of style. They have even made laws against it in some municipalities. Looks dumb to me but if I was a kid I'd probably be wearing mine that way too.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

A lot of kids around these parts wear there trousers where they are half way pulled down as a matter of style.........

Sorry Jimmy.... where are 'these parts'? I dont know where you are from and it isnt obvious to me...

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

Sorry Jimmy.... where are 'these parts'? I dont know where you are from and it isnt obvious to me...

Forgive me, in sunny south Florida in the USA. Here is an example of what I am referring to and here is the backlash.