Total embarrassment

17 Jul 2004

What has embarrased you the most thus far.
I honestly thought that I would never top the day, I got run over in a busy High street for embarrasment, but today has managed to go one better.
mrs davej picked up a very nice bit of shiny metal yesterday at a pretty penny. All singing all dancing luxury in copper and black leather, with one of the main features being the fact that its a hard top convertible, you know the type, press a button and the roof folds gently into the boot in ultra smooth fashion.
Today we go for a ride and climb in on the drive, press the button and the roof does exactly what it says on the tin and dissapears into the boot and off we set.
After about an hour of driving, the first spits of rain come down so we duly pull over into a bus stop adjacent to a very busy intersection controlled by a miriade of traffic lights. So the scene is set it starts raining. We are at a very busy junction with other cars all over the place and yes your there in front of me.........the fLuckin roof will not reappear out of the boot.
So there we are siting in a roofless car and the spits of rain have turned into a torrential and I mean torrential, down pour. Everyone is staring at us as they go past. Mrs davej then decides to protect the electrics in the centre console, by putting up the umberella.
I could have died. Now we are sitting in a car at a busy junction with an umberella up like Mary fLuckin Poppins. 15 long and agonising minutes of toe curling embarrassment.
We drove home after it stopped both soaked to the skin. The inside of the car is sodden. Mrs davej was so wet that her mascarra started to run., which made things look even more stupid
There is gonna be one severely abused Merc dealer come monday when they re-open mad

17 Jul 2004

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17 Jul 2004

You just could'nt make it up could you. Honestly Corrie there isnt a mascara that could have survived that down pour, she'd have had to do her eyes in Cuprinol for anything to stay on it was that wet.
Managed to crank the roof back up using a manual method once we got home and the advice in the manual after doing this...????....I qoute....
'Contact your main dealer to rectify the problem straight away'
To fLuckin right I will!!
.

17 Jul 2004

OMG! I've been having a really crap day and that has just made me laugh SO much! Thank God for other people's misfortunes!

17 Jul 2004

Lmao Sorry for your misfortune but i'm so glad the British Designed mini's bought by BMW for a penny are screwing up under german manufacture! Not got many choices to buy british these days but the mini is a British symbol that shouldn't be in the possetion of the crouts!

17 Jul 2004

This buggers an SLK which is supposed to be made by the worlds finest. If we wanted to get that wet, I would have bought her a Tandem for a squillion pound less.

17 Jul 2004

It's not quite on par with your getting-pissed-on-in-posh-new-car story, but there was one incident in which I was very embarrassed. It seems pretty lame but anyway ....
Last year, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, broad daylight, sober as a judge, short denim skirt. I got off a ride and fell over, grazing my knee very badly. Had a qhuick look round to see if anyone noticed and saw approximately 40 people of varying ages either gawping or laughing. To add insult to injury, two old ladies scraped me up off the floor and then searched in their bags for plasters.
It may not seem like such a big deal but I felt like a right twat, frankly sad

17 Jul 2004

Ah Marya falling over is embarrasing if it happens to you and bloody funny if it happens to someone else.
Remember when the youngest daughter was about 8 years, 9 years old she leap frogged a bollard in a pedestrian area and as she came down her foot went straight into the open top of a shopping bag that a woman was carrying which sent both daughter and her to the ground.

17 Jul 2004

would have stood in prime position to look up the skirt lol marya!

17 Jul 2004

Boxing Day, 1996. Taken away in an ambulance after being looked after by several drunken old men.
The incident? Sledging down the full length of the 199 steps in Whitby on a For Sale sign and crashing into the iron railings at the bottom.
I was temporarily paralysed from the waist down so the paramedic had a good feel of my arse in the ambulance, too. B'stard. mad

18 Jul 2004

I've also walked into a lamp-post and nearly knocked myself out, too. That's a definite mirth-inducer.

18 Jul 2004

Marya wrote:

Sledging down the full length of the 199 steps in Whitby on a For Sale sign and crashing into the iron railings at the bottom.

Hee hee, "at the bottom" in more ways than one eh Marya? Ouch, must have been painful!
Mike.

18 Jul 2004

Well mine wasn't too long ago. " months and i still laugh now and squirm lol
Hubby wanted me to come with him to an auction, we went and the lots we were interested in werent anyway near to being auctioned so we decided to go and do some shopping. About 30 people had come outside the warehouse for a coffee, as it was a lovely day and were sat on walls etc near the car park.
I had made an extra special effort that day hair down all blown straight , black crepe trousers , black leather boots, white crop top and short top.
As i am tall anyway i drew a few glances.....
we were walking back to the car on a white stoned surface when all of a sudden i did an irish jig! my boots heel had got caught in the bottom of my trousers, as i put my other foot down for support it got caught in the othr leg and i spectacularly fell to the ground!!
grazed my knees ripped my trousers wrecked my boots and grazed my hands!!!
to make it worse there was a car right behind us waiting to park, ive never moved so fast in my life! i was laughing my head off , didnt feel the pain till we got in the car.
Oh and mushed my handbag as the day earlier had been out for lunch and had a ciouple of those free sauce pots(mayonnaise and ketchup) me beinf a larger lady had splattered them all over everything when i fell! it was all in my keys n on my purse!!
I have not been back to that auction....lol
And i have been laughing writing this
love peppsxxxxxxxxxxxx

18 Jul 2004

Dave
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OK - I know I can't delete this - so apologies in advance Dave!
I didn't read the whole thread first!
Dave- can you forgive me! rolleyes

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Just wondering - it isn't a peugeot is it?
The roof not going up is a common problem on the 206cc and now the 307cc - I know cos I used to have one. Mine stuck in the almost vertical position!
Hugs, Alex x

18 Jul 2004

Quote by Alexandra
Dave
Just wondering - it isn't a peugeot is it?
The roof not going up is a common problem on the 206cc and now the 307cc - I know cos I used to have one. Mine stuck in the almost vertical position!
Hugs, Alex x

Quote by davej
This buggers an SLK which is supposed to be made by the worlds finest. If we wanted to get that wet, I would have bought her a Tandem for a squillion pound less.

you're not paying attention Alex!! smackbottom

:lol2:
Mal
wink

18 Jul 2004

Allright, alright
Call it a blonde moment!
My apologies!!!!!!!!!!!!

18 Jul 2004

Accepted. Now go and get your pics sorted!!!
mal
wink

18 Jul 2004

You will ring up and an efficient young man with a German accent will say.
cool

Ja herr , Dave , and can you pls confiirm zat you vere operating a motor vehicle wizzout first reading through zee instruction manual and exercising all emergency drills ?
I did run a W123 back in the 80s and you could believe da hype then , however there seems to be perception that the 3 pointed star have lost their way a bit in the meantime . sad

My most embarrasing moment , showing off doing a stoppie in front of the gang , including a girl I liked , and falling off, luckily the bike was only a cobbled togeher bitza and damage done was within the abilty of my extensive range of hammers to put right. Well damage to the bike , not the ego redface

. The young lady also rushed over to see if I was hurt , so that was nice . biggrin

18 Jul 2004

Quote by davej
This buggers an SLK which is supposed to be made by the worlds finest. If we wanted to get that wet, I would have bought her a Tandem for a squillion pound less.

Davej;
Carolyn has an SLK and has had the same problem!!!! Although not as damp as yours... Every 10 or so times the roof would not go back up.. Back to the Merc garage - and if I remember rightly they could not find anything wrong but re-lubed everything anyway.. We wait and see if the problem comes back
Paul

18 Jul 2004

Where I was brought up (in the Far East) virtually all the taxis are Mercs. Therefore when anyone says they've got a Merc, I wonder why they would want to buy a Taxi! rolleyes

18 Jul 2004

Sorry dave mis read Copper not cooper sorry! Still quite pleased that the germans get it wrong tho! Merc SLK fine car. Hope you have problem free motoring in future.

18 Jul 2004

:D :D i'm sorry about your misfortune but it sounds like somthing out of a comedy sketch

18 Jul 2004

Dave I read about your misfortune this morning ....... and I'm still laughing my head off every time I think about it now!!!!
Keep having visions of MrsDavej with the brolly up Priceless :lol2:
I did used to feel sorry for her putting up with your antics - but it seems she's as much of a nutcase as you are! :shock:

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18 Jul 2004

Ahh misschief...the worst of it was it was one of them girlie umberella's that are telescopic and not much bigger than a dinner plate and mrs numpty nuts was trying to keep her electrics dry... ...fLuck her ever loving husband who was sat directly under the edge of the brolley and copping the run off.........It mattered not a jot that a middle aged man was sat at a busy road junction with his top half visible to the public and whose shirt went instantly see through...........even her bloody handbag got moved under the brolley......

18 Jul 2004

Quote by davej
Ahh misschief...the worst of it was it was one of them girlie umberella's that are telescopic and not much bigger than a dinner plate and mrs numpty nuts was trying to keep her electrics dry... ...fLuck her ever loving husband who was sat directly under the edge of the brolley and copping the run off.........It mattered not a jot that a middle aged man was sat at a busy road junction with his top half visible to the public and whose shirt went instantly see through...........even her bloody handbag got moved under the brolley......

Women have their priorites:
1. Handbags
2. Themselves
3. Electrics
I am suprised that the edge of the brolly didn't poke ya in the eye!!!!!
As for yer see through shirt ..... maybe you wanted to give all the folk a glimpse of yer manly figure to make em jealous.
The WHOOSH Man

18 Jul 2004

Quote by SlydeWHOOSH
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As for yer see through shirt ..... maybe you wanted to give all the folk a glimpse of yer manly figure to make em jealous.

Given my age and the fact that I have not looked after my body, it would take more than a glimpse to view it. If I could get into the crab position as I did in my more youthfull days then I might still be able to feel the feint hint of rib, so it is unlikely that I could make anyone jealous other than perhaps, the guy who played Rumpole of the Bailey who I think, I just have the edge on .

18 Jul 2004

I have 3 answers if anyone asks you .... Jeez you are fat:
I am the right weight if I was 8ft 4"
I am not overweight I'm just undertall.
I can lose weight, but you were born ugly & will stay that way.
The WHOOSH Man

18 Jul 2004

Quote by pepps
we were walking back to the car on a white stoned surface when all of a sudden i did an irish jig! my boots heel had got caught in the bottom of my trousers, as i put my other foot down for support it got caught in the othr leg and i spectacularly fell to the ground!!
love peppsxxxxxxxxxxxx

oH pepps we could do river dance together, I've done the old Michael Flatterly impression in a pair of leather soled shoes before now, bloody things are lethel............I reckon any foot wear that are animal skin, should carry a health warning, its no surprise to me that crocodiles live in water cos they sure as hell must find staying upright on land difficult...........yep I reckon a crocodile on a wet cobbled street would fall flat on its face straight away !!

18 Jul 2004

Davej your post about slippy shoes...and I've hada few reminded me of my honey moon ...in Paris ....feeling excessivley happy(if I knew then what I know now rolleyes

) I decided I would demonstrate the joys of marriage by emulating Jimmy cagneys dance routine down the stairs of La Gare du nord . I looked pretty good for a whole 2 steps then it all got too complicated and down the whole flight of stairs I tumbled ...springing to my feet immediately I hit the bottom and disguising the fact I had caught one of the steps flush in the chest and severly bruised my ribs and couldnt actually breath without yelping in agony......That was the end of any romantic contact for the duration of the stay as I couldnt even breathe properly let alone take part in strenusous activity.
I have hated Paris ever since mad

18 Jul 2004

Quote by niceguysdoexist
Davej your post about slippy shoes...and I've hada few reminded me of my honey moon ...in Paris ....feeling excessivley happy(if I knew then what I know now ) I decided I would demonstrate the joys of marriage by emulating Jimmy cagneys dance routine down the stairs of La Gare du nord . I looked pretty good for a whole 2 steps then it all got too complicated and down the whole flight of stairs I tumbled ...springing to my feet immediately I hit the bottom and disguising the fact I had caught one of the steps flush in the chest and severly bruised my ribs and couldnt actually breath without yelping in agony......That was the end of any romantic contact for the duration of the stay as I couldnt even breathe properly let alone take part in strenusous activity.
I have hated Paris ever since

Thats exactly what I did when I got run over.......jumped up as quick as I could yet was in serious pain but didnt want to compound mt stupidity and let people see.