Richard Osman’s faux pas prompted people to share their own moments of excruciating embarrassment – our 23 favourites
The great Richard Osman confessed to an unfortunate slip of the tongue …
Talking to two contestants. I got caught between saying “Good luck guys” and “Good luck gents”, and ended up saying “Good luck gays”.
— Richard Osman (@richardosman) May 2, 2018
… and we’re glad he did because it prompted a whole bunch of people to share their own moments of excruciating public embarrassment. Here are our 23 favourites.
1.
Hubby once got caught between saying “smashing” and “thank you” to the cashier in Tesco. He ended up saying “smash you”.
— Kerry McDonald (@KerryMc80) May 2, 2018
2.
I did worse, between “Lovely” and “Thank you” I said “Love you” to a waitress. My wife was less than happy, the waitress wasn’t impressed either!
— Paul Smith (@EHWMids) May 2, 2018
3.
I once tried to order a sticky toffee pudding, fluffed my words (realising half way through) and thus asked the waitress for a stiffy.
— Matt Girling (@mattgirling) May 2, 2018
4.
At the cinema with my nine year old son I ordered a mixed Tango ice blast and asked the teenage server for large arse blast. My wife left me there and then.
— Joe Dolce (@JoeDolceno1) May 2, 2018
5.
Attempting to use the phonetic alphabet to a customer on the phone, I once said, “Y for wanky”.
— FlangeBadger (@FlangeBadger) May 2, 2018
6.
Colleague asked my wife if she had a second to answer a question. Caught between saying “Go ahead” and “Fire away” she cheerfully responded “Go away”.
— Mark Kelson (@MarkKelson) May 2, 2018
7.
That is the funniest one yet. It’s like when you’re in a lift, see someone rushing to get in too, & you try desperately to find the ‘open doors’ button but instead press the ‘close doors’ button whilst smiling warmly at them as you close the doors in their face.
— Elle Gallica (@BaroqueChic) May 2, 2018
8.
Tried to say ‘no problem’ and ‘no worries’ to a customer once and ended up saying “no wobblies”. Hoping he thought it was just a weird colloquialism
— Teg (@teganmugford) May 2, 2018
9.
I once misdialed a call & said to the bloke who answered ‘Sorry you’ve got the wrong number’ instead of saying I’ve got the wrong number. Cue irate man arguing with me saying ‘But you phoned me!!’
— (((StarrFaithful))) (@StarrOutlook) May 2, 2018
10.
Still not as bad as my poor nervous Dad, who opened his Father Of The Bride speech at my wedding with; “I’d like to wank”……. he was aiming for ‘welcome’ and/or ‘thank’.
Needless to say, we’ve not let him live it down!
— Wendy Benstead Ltd (@CostumesByWendy) May 2, 2018
11.
I once went to say “thanks” to a customer, but she started to leave so I changed to saying “bye” and ending up saying “thighs”.
— Andy Graham (@andyg107107) May 2, 2018
12.
My girlfriend responded to an ‘Ola!’ from our receptionist at a Barcelona hotel by saying ‘ahoy!’
— Adam Sheridan (@MuckTheDog) May 2, 2018