Somebody accidentally said ‘I love you’ to their kid’s teacher and asked for other embarrassing stories to make them feel better – 23 tales of extreme cringe

13.

‘I once saw a guy in a bar with a huge long beard and mistook him for someone I knew from a different area/time. I bounded over and started fondling his beard and asked him what he was doing in Central and generally being chit chatty. I couldn’t understand why he was being so standoffish with me when it dawned… I didn’t know this guy. He just had a similar hairline, beard and height to the guy I did know. Mortified doesn’t cover it.’
–FlutterGrrrl

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‘I was PA to a lady a few years ago who I wasn’t too fond of as she could be quite rude and unpleasant when she wanted to be. However, she seemed to like me and one year she gave me a Christmas present as a thank you for my work, which was genuinely lovely of her.

She then went to give me a hug and, because I was a lot taller than her, she really had to stretch up so it looked to me like she was going for a kiss on the cheek as well. So, I kissed her on the cheek but she didn’t do the same. I was absolutely mortified. I’ve embarrassed myself worse than that in my life but that one always haunts me.’
–theglamgardener

15.

‘I called my male teacher ‘Nana’ when I was little. I then got flustered and called him Daddy.’
–theglamgardener

16.

‘I once wrote ‘great tits’ instead of ‘great tips’ in a message to a female colleague. I have no idea how, the letters T and P aren’t even all that close together.’
–living2late

17.

‘My elder sister once donated toys to the school for a fete. She took the wrong bag in, the one she took in was an identical bag with her sex toys in. She only realised when she got home, which led to a very humiliating phone call to the school, asking them not to look in the bag.’
–unbelievablydull82

18.

‘I told my boss and senior colleagues to stop and wait for the green man, when we were about to cross a road. Boss asked if I wanted to hold his hand to keep him safe. They mostly had kids too so had had similar autopilot moments.’
–DameKumquat

19.

‘Some years ago now, but when I went back to work after some months of maternity leave, in my first week I had to take a Big Serious Meeting with some distinguished folk, actual church ministers (all older guys to, think wall-to-wall herring-bone tweed). I was suited, booted and completely on top of it: all went well, complete professional success. So feeling very chipper, I scooped up my papers to leave, and as I did so, before I could stop myself I blew them kisses, while saying ‘Bye bye, kiss kiss, bye bye…’.

Oh my, their faces… My line manager was on the floor laughing. And never let me forget it. You’re not alone.’
–LandofGreenGinger62

20.

‘When I’m getting off a bus I have to make sure I’m paying enough attention to not say ‘love you’ rather than ‘thank you’ to the driver.’
–Screaming_lambs

21.

‘I do it regularly to my doctor’s receptionist, to the point that he will sometimes end the call with the same ‘love you, bye’. It’s all good.’
–ProperComposer7949

22.

‘Answered the phone to an important interview call with ‘Hello, Pizza Hut’ because I was working as phone bitch at Pizza Hut at the time and I was on autopilot. I did not get the job.’
–Hookton

23.

‘I work with the public, this is SO common and you’d probably be amazed how often it happens. If it helps any (and it probably doesn’t, you’ll be relaxing 10 years from now and have a flashback!) the person on the other end of the phone probably just had a little chuckle and got in with their day!’
–Reasonable-Fail-1921

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