Has any one ever embarrassed themselves in a meeting, and how?

[Briar_x]

I ask this because I was in a fairly important meeing with very important people and some who thought they were! The meeting was going well until I took a drink of water and it went down the wrong way which caused me to almost pass out as I was trying to stop coughing. I left the meeting to cough frantically. I returned to the meeting and looked at a then colleague who smiled at me. Then... duh duh duhhhhhhhhh... the meeting got worse... the chair of the meeting said................. 'its so bitty at the moment'. Well, that was enough to set me and my colleague off. It was like being back at school and trying not to laugh and be seen to be laughing. All you could hear above the on-going drone of the chair was the snorts and coughs of two grown women almost hyperventillating because someone said 'bitty'. I blame it all on Matt Lucas and David Walliams for turning a small insignificant word in to something that causes great hilarity (maybe thats just me and my colleague as we had no lives and the meeting was as dull as ditch water). Anyway.... as anyone else been in a meeting and equally embarrassed themselves or have witnessed others embarrassment?

[B00]

Superb!

I've never embarrassed myself (I know, I find that hard to believe too!) but my work mate did a classic a few years ago....

A meeting was held on the floor below ours and we both went down in the lift with the big cheese who was doing the meeting. As we got out on the floor, she said to him "Do we go straight in then?" He replied "yes please do, I'll be in a minute, I just need to nip to the gents 1st"...and she replied ........"oh right, want us to come with you?"

I was literally doubled up with the giggles and couldn't keep them inside throughout the meeting.

[Emoire]

Thanks for sharing that Briar_x, that made me laugh! Meetings are bad emough without making an arse out of yourself in the process!! I once had a lunch meeting with a colleague in a busy restaurant (we had a mild flirtation going on as well!) when all of a sudden i started choking on my pizza!! When i tried to talk my voice came out all croaky and it was just sooo embarrassing! I was bright red (from the chocking and the embarrassment!) and we left shortly after. We are still friends though and i don't think he has held it against me!

[Hellion]

I arrived at a meeting early and chatted to the man who was already there while pouring us both coffee. I asked him what he did and he told me he was a manager at the company . During the meeting it was revealed he was the Managing Director and Owner oops! Mind you we always got on well after that

[maximo]

Again, not a meeting but a normal day at my temping place...I went upstairs to the Chief Excutive's offices because I needed some financial documents signed for my boss. I went through the doors, and at one of the secretaries' desks, I saw this lady quietly going through piles of papers. I went straight to her, and said brightly "Hey, how you'doin ? Having fun there? I have some papers for the Chief Exec' to sign".
At that, the lady looks up, and with the most serious smile I've ever seen, she goes " I AM the chief executive".

To say that I wanted the earth to swallow me is putting it mildly....lol

[rugeleyboy]

i have 2........

i was getting ready for a job interview and went to the local cafe with the lads for a bit of breakfast, anyway, the lads took the p*ss because i was wearing a very smart suit which they never saw me dressed like that before..... to save my embarresment i started slagging the job off saying things like "i am only doing it for the car" "the bloke sounds like a right ******" and so on.............. an hour later i went to the interview and over the intercom at the door he said "hi (my name), how was your breakfast!!!!" i nearly died.........but i got the job!!!!!!!!

[rugeleyboy]

no 2..........

agian i went to another interview, this time with a makita power tools, it was quite far away and my car was a bit unreliable so i borrowed my brothers......his car stunk to high heaven of wood and was filthy dirty but it was all i had, i made the 2 hr drive in good time so i went to a service station to clean up, i sat on the toilet and my old boy flipped under the seat...... so when i wee'd it went all over my trousers, i realised so i spent 20 mins drying them , i washed myself off and went to the meeting.......... hair in a mess, stinking of wee and my brothers car and feeling grubby!! i could see he thought i was some kind of idiot so in the middle of the interview i said " i am sorry but i dont think i am the right person for this job"!!

i think he aggreed, but i cringe everytime i think of it now!!!!!

[Emoire]

Rugeley yours are really funny!! I don't know which one would have been worse, they are both sooo embarrassing!