A thread for your stories of severe embarrassment that made you want the Earth below your feet to open up and swallow you whole, recent or otherwise. Inspired by what happened to me today.
I accidently smashed a bottle of wine whilst stocking up the cupboards this afternoon after the Saturday big shop. I was trying to save time by stacking the new stuff around the old stuff, instead of taking the time to fit it all into a usable system, and ended up squeezing too much onto one shelf, causing a bottle of jammy red to fall to the kitchen floor and smash into smithereens.
After much sweeping and mopping, I drove to a nearby ASDA to replace it, stood in the self-checkout queue with the new bottle, and watched in slow motion as the bottle just slipped out of my hand and smashed into smithereens on the shop floor. A few "Waheeys!!!" could be heard as I blistered red with embarrassment, and an ASDA employee put his hand on my shoulder and whispered, "Don't worry mate, happens to everyone".
