Hiya,

Just thought this would be a cool topic to start.

Ever been in really awkward situations and didn't know what to do and which way to react? Tell us your stories!

I'll start it off so...

Years ago when I was studying acting in Trinity I was playing the lead in one of the productions and my male lead had really pungent pukey smelly (got the idea yet) bad breath! Well, as you can imagine I had to spend hours with him really close to each other rehearsing scenes and worst of all there was some kissing involved. It was sooo bad that when he was talking i literally had to hold my breath because his breath was so bad it was making me want to gag. When i could see inside his mouth he had brownish stuff in between his teeth! Yikes!

Well, i was going mad wondering what to do, should i tell him and risk getting him morto and hateing me or do i go on suffering and let him kill people with his breath for the rest of his life. And I was also thinking that it would probably kill off any chances of a good relationship for him.

So after feckin' hours and days of worrying about how to approach the subject I plucked up the courage and told him and I also told him that there was tablets you could get from the doc to help the smell and also that he could get his plaque removed from his teeth that would help.

He was morto, but after he had gotten over that he thanked me for being so genuine and a "Real" friend to him. He got sorted with tabs and got his teeth looked at and the prob went away.

I was nearly sick with the thought of telling him though . But i would have been physically sick getting off with him onstage everynight     

Well c'mon, anyone else got a story like that?     

I had a girl working for me once and she had a terrible "Peggy Dell" off her.  Dirty hoochie cootchie thing, it was terrible and my boss who was a guy was dying when he would go near her.  The terrible thing was she sat beside me and I was in bits thinking someone would think it was me...lol laughing here thinking about it.  One day my boss was trying to hang a picture in his office and it would not work for him! All of a sudden your one comes in and says "I'll do that for you" and hops up on the chair right in front of his face!!!! I was on the floor laughing as if you seen his face... Oh Holy God........

I never could tell her! How do you tell someone that.  I put it into the hands of our HR girl..... Dreadfull thing really.

Dirty wagon!

I remember meeting a girl from Coolock one night at the Grove (was about 16) and after a couple of weeks I was invited for Sunday tea to meet the mammy. So,very nervous,off I went and after sitting in the front room for what seemed like ages,her older (much older) sister came in to say hello. So me the eejit stood up,shook her hand and said 'Hello Mrs Whelan,pleased to meet you'.

She was mortified,then her real mammy came in and the sister said 'he thought I was you!' and I really just wanted to dive out the window.

Needless to say,that particular blossoming didn't last long...

ah Martin thats a classic

When myself and Brendan moved into our house five years ago (we weren't married then) a salesman came to the door. I opened it and the man asked me was my dad in.... me loving that said "Yes" and went and got Brendan!!! Love telling that story!

Not so much a faux pa by myself but a story from my wedding day. My mum and sister are quite alike, but there is a thirty year gap. I was talking with the pair of them on the day, when I introduced a work colleague to them both. She obviously did not listen to the introductions and promply asked if they were sisters ! Well I can tell you my sister is senstitive at the best of times, but is still living that one down.......

Star/Teresa - Yuck Yuck - Good stories though - I worked with a girl in a cake shop years ago and my did she smell of BO and think rim around her neck ! She was vile - so after a couple of weeks I told my chargehand that she stunk and could she have a word with her etc etc - my chargehand freaked at me as it was her younger sister !  Eventually the boss (who was a rather old lady) brought in a bottle of impulse and just handed it to the girl and said that she smelled and to spray herself and to have a good wash when she went home.  The girl never came back after that.  But she was really smelly. 

I told a friend once that she had something stuck in her teeth and she was all pissed off with me.  Still can't understand that to this day.  What, would you rather walk around with a big black thing stuck to your tooth all day!

Yes If I was talking to someone and they had a bugger hanging from their nose I would discreetly point and say your nose!

What about if you’re talking to someone and they have a big black head on their lip and all you can think of is!!! (LOL) if I could just get my hands on that thing.  I worked with a lovely girl here and she was so self conscious and clean but she walked around with one of them on her lip, it was like a planet... feck sake how can you not know what that is.

I once asked a girl to dance at the Grove who I was sure her name was Janet.

I approached and and quietly confidently asked 'Janet-would you like a dance with me?'

You know what's coming-she turned round and said 'I would if you got my name right'

Right girl,wrong name. Oops. I ran.My loss.

Anyone ever send an email about someone to THEM by mistake????

I had a mate in work that did.. doh.. she wasn't very popular with that person after that

how about this for embarrassment..,i was at an ex work mates wedding afters do..,arrived late as ever and as i approached the hotel there was a bunch of people having their fag break outiside,now,as i hadnt seen my mate in a while and it was a shotgun wedding,she was 7 months pregnant, i saw who i thought was her standing with a gang of people and promptly went up and gave her a big hug and put my hand on her belly and gave it a nice rub and overall examination and said "how are you and how is little baba?" she looked at me with shock an disgust  and said "who the f**k are you?" ... turns out it was her older sister and the spit of her...and er..a few too many beers..very cringable and havent been able to show my face near the family home ever since..poor girl..,that was the fastest exit to the bar i ever made!!

Welcome to the board Rosalie - crikey, that is a cringe story! I dont blame you for keeping a low profile!!!

Jaysis this place is degenerating fast.

Any chance we could up the quality of the posts at all ?

I mean, do we really need to know that ???

Black Russian wrote: kbannon wrote: At the vibe for Philo in 2006 someone around me was farting big smelly stinkers - I mean really really bad. I have no idea who it was but several people gave me cringing looks! Killian If myself and the brother are in the shop and I have a fart building I stand beside my brother and let it rip and walk away from him The stinkers are the best... Done it on my Mam too P

Funny, I was at the last Grove reunion and I was stood there talking to my mate Shaun when we got this awful whiff. He blamed it on me. Now I know who was responsible!!!

Jen

Ha, that's funny Rosalie.

Nice to see you again.............and tell me this....... will we really never see a smoother operator ?

Welcome Rosazlie - enjoy the site and please stay with us

V

star wrote: Anyone ever send an email about someone to THEM by mistake????

I once worked for a woman who was a terrible bully. I stood up to her on behalf of one of the younger members of staff and for 3 or 4 months she didn't speak one word to me (which was a blessing!) One morning she came in and was full of chat about everything and full of praise for me. Confused I typed a text message to a friend saying 'L** has just come in and was all over me!! what game is she playing now????' I promptly scrolled through the names to her name and pressed send!!!!!

In the long run it was a good thing as it sorted things out - she went on a rampage about me, I resigned everything SORTED!!!!

Grainne, I can empathise.....Did the exact same thing as you once, but only difference was I sent it via a text message......you can guess who got the text!!!! EEEEKKK!!! He didn't speak to me after that to this day (and that was years ago!) - thankfully he recently left the organisation (thank god!)......I tried to run up to his office and delete it from his phone before he could see it, but he had already read it by the time I tried to rectify things! In my defence like the lady you were talking about, he was an absolute eejit aswell (I could use other words, but alas I won't!) so I didnt really lose sleep over it, it was just really uncomfortable after that.

Since then I only send pleasant texts!! I am paranoid now - it wasn't the first time I had done it but other times were of no consequence as I wasn't bitching!

Anyone ever see a Dublin Comedian called David O'Doherty ?

He plays a small lap top keyboard while singing supposedly funny songs............anyway, one of the aforementioned songs is called

" Have you ever sent a text message to the person who the text message is about "

The previous stories reminded me of that, it's quite an amusing song, BTW.

Bullys

This is for If anyone is being bullied at work or elsewhere.

Each occasion there is an incident, make a note of it and date it. If it continues, and you have to make a compaint, you will be able to back it up with a contemporaneous notes. Believe me it works, as when push comes to shove you will have a note written at the time and in detail (with quotes if relevant) while it was fresh in your mind, as opposed to someone trying to "remember" what happened.  

Yeh BB

There are some people, quite an all as I am--,I would love to see suffer for their down right brashness, rudeness and evil little minds.

If I ever won the lotto, getting even would be my very pleasurable project-just to keep myself amused.

There again I would probobely just laugh, say F--k them, and piss of somewhere nice.