General Chat

Did any of you ever cause embarrassment? I remember as a young child going to tea at a friend of my Mum's. I remember remarking that all the cups and saucers were the same pattern ! Mum often reminded me of that later in life and we had a good laugh. Stella

I licked the sugar off a doughnut in the bakers Took a bite out of an apple in the green groccers display Invited myself in to look round a neighbours house - aged about 5 (in the days when you were safe lol) and made a comment about the poor man with the funny leg (he wore a built up shoe) - but I did tell them their house was nice lolol

god I have loads.............my cousin took me round to her boyfriends when i was 6 and I went back and told my Aunty what a scruffy mess the house was ...........in front of said boyfriend.... My son invite loads of his class mates (infact all) to a birthday party and they turn up with their parents just as we was on our way out......and he just stood there grinning.......he was 8..........

My son embarrassed me by saying in a very loud voice 'is that the sort of ring you are having when you get married Mum'. I was looking around the jewellers at the time. Would add that I had been married previously. Stella

Oh Lord I really dont know if I should tell you how i embarrassed my Mum!! BUT here goes. I was 9 years old and was having trouble with earache.Mum had put some warm oil in my ears but it needed some protection cos it was leaking out.she told me to go up to her bedroom and get some lint from her chest of drawers. I went upstairs and found what i thought was lint and came down to the kitchen where the older members, including the male lodger!!, were sitting eating their evening dinner. I wallked in with an ST looped over each ear like a bandana. MUM was mortified & I was given the Bums Rush out the kitchen door. It was a family joke for many years

Shirley - that was hilarious - nearly wet myself !! So are all the others, sitting here now giggling to myself - hubby thinks I've gone barmy. Stella

OH YES!!!!! I am 55 yrs old now, but remember 1 incident as a child. We were on holiday in Blackpool. Mum must have invited our next door neighbours to come over to see us. We went to this 'posh' restaurant. I remember that we took up two tables, so there was a few of us. Anyway, the waitress (dressed in black and white) brought our meals. I reached for the tomatoe sauce, shook it...... Yes, bet you have guessed. Tomatoe sauce, all over dad, and others sat at table. People we didn't know on table next to ours, up the walls etc. I am ashamed to say, I couldn't stop giggling. And the look on the waitresses face as she came up to our table trying to be polite, but looking very cross said 'It's ok accidents happen'. When we left the restaurant I was still giggling, dad was VERY cross. I still giggle now, just thinking of it. It looked like the Mafia had been in with machine guns. LL

I was six or seven and like a nosey adventuress child was rooting around in my mother and fathers bedrooms chest of drawers, and i found a little box, on opening i found when unravelled the longest ballons in the world, and they were transparent. Had to tell mum about all these balloons, so i rushed down stairs with a handful of these ballons, where was she ? ah voices, coming from the front door mum was talking to the the rent man, i rushed up to them saying mum look at all these ballons iv'e found in your bedroom ! Mum nearly died, and i couldnt understand why the rent mans side were splitting. Never went rummaging in there again.....................

Lee - that is priceless !! I bet your mum wanted the ground to open up and swallow her. Stella

The first time I saw a black person was when five and I ran around him screaming to my Mum that he was a 'Washed-Chocolate-Man'

Stella my ears were ringing for days after. you little s+d she said or words to that effect,,,,,,,,,,,,,,pmsl

Mum always took me to the swimming baths and the lido because Dad used to work long hours. When I was 3 and a half though we all went off to the lido together one hot Sunday. The lido was packed and as Dad emerged from the changing rooms in those small tight swimming trunks that they used to wear, I pointed at them and in a LOUD voice said 'Daddy, what's that in your swimming trunks'. I'm blushing now just thinking about it. Chrissie x