Your "DOH!!!" moment...

[Haven]

Excellent thread.

So your posts reminded me of two of my friends'' flubs. I think I black all of my own DOH moments out of my memory!

So my good friend follows her then BF to the gas station in her own car, they pull up to pumps on either side of one station and start pumping their gas together. Well, my friend hears her pump click, pulls the nozzle out of her car, and gas starts shooting all over the place. She panics, starts screaming and waving the pump around, drenching herself and her BF. Her BF runs to her side after laughing for a few seconds, grabs the hose, and promptly gets the gas to stop spewing out. SHE HAD HEARD HER BF''S PUMP CLICK, NOT HER OWN, SO HER OWN PUMP STILL HAD THAT LITTLE METAL THING STICKING DOWN KEEPING THE HOSE OPEN! (Okay, that was harder to explain than I thought it would be, I hope it makes sense.)

Okay, so a few years ago another good friend and I go into a local bar, I follow her in, and I notice that EVERYONE we pass is staring at her. No, GAWKING would be the better word. So I follow her all the way around the first floor, we make an entire round of the place until we find a table and she sits down opposite me. What do I see when she finally turns around? AN ENORMOUS CIRCLE OF CLOWN RED LIPSTICK ABOUT A CENTIMETER AROUND HER ENTIRE MOUTH! She has a lip gloss and a lip stick from the same company, and she thought she had slathered on her sheer gloss right before we went in to the bar, but no, it was her fire engine red lipstick. I still tell that story whenever we go out! She was mortified and I couldn''t tell her for a good several minutes once I saw what was going on because I was laughing so hard.

 

[oshinbreez]

One day after school, the kids wanted a snack. Since dinner wouldn''t be ready for several hours, I decided to make them some popcorn. I didn''t use microwave popcorn at the time. I put the oil and popcorn in the pan on the stove, then went to tell the kids it would be ready in a few minutes. After telling my son who was watching tv in the family room, I went to tell my daughter who was playing a video game in her bedroom. She wanted me to watch her....so being a good mom, I did. A few minutes later the doorbell rang and the phone rang at the same time. I told my son to get the phone while I got the door. All of a sudden he yells "MOM!!!!" I told him just a second, I had to get the door. "But MOM...." After answering the door, I went to see what he wanted. I forgot to put the lid on the pan and had popcorn all over the kitchen. DUH. What a mess.

 

[Anastasia]

Back in 1992, my 2 sisters and my mom and had gone to Friendly''s for lunch. We had just come from buying my wedding gown.

We left Friendly''s, and got in the car to go home. I got in the driver''s seat, and my sisters got in. I heard the doors to the car shut, and started pulling out of my parking space. At this point, my sister''s started screaming at me. I slammed on the brakes, and looked in the side view mirror, and saw that the back door was still open. I then saw my mom standing right where she was trying to get in the car. I thought I had heard all four doors close, but apparently I was mistaken. Fortunately, my mom was fine, and we all laughed hysterically. Every time I pass that Friendly''s, I get the giggles. (Yes, I am blonde!!)

This story is about a friend (really!!). It was his first business trip. He had ordered room service. He went to put the tray in the hall, wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I forget exactly why, but you guessed it, the door closed behind him. He wasn''t sure what to do, so he ran down to the vending machine room, and hid between the ice machine and the vending machine. Someone actually did come in to get ice, and never saw him. At some point, he heard a hotel employee in the hallway, and flagged him down and got him to open his room for him. The vision of him in his tighty whities wedged between the ice and vending machines still makes me giggle.

 

[DIAMOND*QUEST]

I love reading these. So, I was in college and decided to make a late night run to the local hamburger joint. A friend of mine was to meet me. I grabbed my blue jeans from the dryer and headed out. We were at the counter, in a long line about to place our order when a very hot guy says, " Umm You''ve got something hanging out of the bottom of your jeans". I look down and there they were. My red panties hanging out around my ankle. They were red, silky, GRANNY panties!

I grabbed them up and stuffed them in my coat pocket. Needless to say, there were alot of chuckles surrounding me. My longtime friend still teases me to this day about it.

 

[Hudson_Hawk]

I just remembered a big time DOH! moment. A few years ago I went out with some friends for a night on the town. I stayed at my friend Bills house. He lived in an apt in an old victorian so his place had lots of antique touches like doornobs etc. So I woke up in the middle of the night needing to use the bathroom. I was half asleep and half drunk (bad combination!) and when I grabbed the door knob it came off in my hand. So I placed it on the kitchen table and proceeded to go into the bathroom and shut the door. I realized I was locked in when I tried to leave. It was the dead of night and in the middle of winter so I couldn''t climb out the window and ring the doorbell. I was stuck. I ended up sleeping in the bath tub. When my friend woke up he found me stuck in there.

 

[emeraldlover1]

I love this thread! I was a cheerleader up untill the time I graduated from college therefor its only appropriate that I call these moments, my "cheerleader" moments. I have many, so I''ll tell you a few of my favorites.

First, for my 16th birthday my mom called me out of school so that I could go to lunch with her and get my drivers license. I had been granted use of the old family ford escort so that I could drive my sister and I to school. After getting my license I had to take my mom back to her office and then drive back to school. I drop my mom off at her office and go inside. When I go back out to start the car, it doesn''t start. I couldn''t believe it. The first day that I get to drive the car and it doesn''t start. My mom had every person in her office try and start the car. 30 people in the office couldn''t figure out how to start the car. My mom had to call the towing company. When they showed up to tow the car, I went to get my books out of it and realized that it wasn''t in PARK! I had turned off the car while it was still in drive. I was so embarrased but they cut me a break because I had just recieved my license. I think its funny that no one in the office noticed it though.

Second, my boyfriend and I went to see a movie a couple of years ago with Joaquine Pheonix. I told my boyfriend that I was so excited to see Joaquine! He started hysterically laughing. I couldn''t figure out what he was laughing about. He said "Joaquine...that''s not how you say it". I was saying Joe-a-kwin rather than Whaaa-keen. I''d heard the name before I guess I didn''t realize that it was spelled that way. He still won''t let me live it down. In retrospect it was really stupid that I thought it would be pronounced that way.

Third, I was working a conference a couple of weeks ago. I''m in sales and a lot of people that were going to be there are doctors that I see on a weekly basis and some that are from other parts of the country. I''ve been in this business for quite a while and no some people from different places. One woman doctor came up to talk to me and I obviously looked at her name tag. I was so embarrased becuase I blanked on her name and it was a doctor that I had dinner with two nights previous to that. I just in the moment, couldn''t remember it but made no effort to disguise that I had forgoten it. I feel soooooooooo stupid about that still.

I''m sure I''ll remember more in a bit.

I''m still laughing.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Date: 7/10/2007 10:48:40 PM
Author: TravelingGal
Anyone ever go to the wrong restroom? I walked into the men''s room filled with Japanese execs from the conference I was attending. I could have snuck out unnoticed, but I yelped out something to the effect of ''DOH!'' and all these asian heads whipped around to stare at me. I felt like I was in some kind of surreal movie. Stark white bathroom with urinals to the left and right of me...asian men all dressed uniformly in dark suits looking wide-eyed at me through their wire framed lenses. Eek.

Yep! I did this very thing! We had been on a 15 hour flight to Hong Kong with basically no sleep, and I walked right into the men''s restroom in the airport. It was empty...until this man walks out of a stall ranting in Chinese! I have never laughed so hard in my life as I ran out of that restroom! It was really surreal...so I know what you mean! My husband teases me because it wasn''t a case of not being able to read Chinese because there were those universal symbols of "male" and "female" above the doors!

Gosh, this thread is what everyone needs to read if they are down! (And it makes you feel like maybe you''re a little more normal when other people do these things, too!)

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Oh, I just had one yesterday! I was paying for lunch with a credit card. I looked at the total and saw it ended in 4 cents and I said "wait I have 4 pennies" (after I handed him my card)

I felt really dumb when I realized I paid with a cc so it hardly mattered. He was really nice about it.