Awkward moments

We've all had them. Whether it is accidentally saying something as a joke and people finding them offensive or running out of things to say and sharing an awkward moment. Do you have a story about an awkward moment?

A massively awkward moment that I had recently occurred on holiday in Budapest, Hungary. My girlfriend and I were at a bar and I was slightly tipsy (that is a key part of the story)

So after drinking a few too many, I needed to go to the toilet and off I went. On the doors, instead of the usual picture of a man and woman or even M or F, it was the signs for gender instead. Now as I said, I was slightly tipsy. I looked at the door in front of me and thought that was the males so in I went.

Now, if I didn't have beer goggles on then I would have quickly noticed that there was no urinals in the room... But as I went into the toilet and began to pee, I realised that there was a box next to the toilet. They weren't usually next to toilets I thought. Then the penny dropped. I was in the girls toilets IT DOESN'T END THERE.

I step out and an old lady is standing there, screaming at me in Hungarian. "Nem! Nem!" (Means 'no' So I attempted to apologise whilst she gave me a death stare. I quickly ran into the boys toilets and washed my hands. Turned out she was the cleaner and had just mopped the floors. She followed me in and again screamed at me.

Eventually I escaped and my girlfriend said I looked rather sheepish

Sooo...she yelled "nem nem" because you were making the floor dirty or...you were in the lady's toilets?

I was in school early in the morning. I saw my friends in the corner so I went up to them and said HEEEY! They turned around and it was girls from another year which I didn't know. I smiled and slowly walked away acting as if nothing happened.

I was working at Asda and then I heard the announcement "will the colleague Kvothe" please report to the manager's office. I immediately grew nervous but my manager and surrounding colleagues assured me that nothing was probably wrong. I certainly wasn't aware of any wrongdoing on my part.

Anyway I waited for someone to be sent to cover me and went up stairs to the office and saw a manager and supervisor before me. They invited me to sit down and I held their gazes for a few seconds. In my mouth I had a million excuses ready.

She then said "Kvothe there is no easy way to say this but you smell. A customer complained that you smell. If you have a condition that causes you to have bad BO then you should probably pay better attention. You can continue the rest of the shift if you wish but I suggest you go home and return in the morning. d

I was shocked and the silence that followed was particularly awkward. I nervously apologised and with my head held low, I said that I'd go home.