# Most embarrassing unnoticed personal laxity **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380 "2013-02-05T10:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![NastyD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba8739/32.png) [@NastyD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NastyD)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/101 "2013-02-15T12:31:32Z")
As a baby my daughter had a toy with a large sucker on it that we would stick to the high chair table to keep her occupied while waiting to be plied with food. Once I stuck the toy to my forehead to show her what a fun guy Dad is. Then I had to spend the next week with a red 3 inch circular mark on my forehead. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/102 "2013-02-15T13:02:25Z")
> [@NastyD](#): > > As a baby my daughter had a toy with a large sucker on it that we would stick to the high chair table to keep her occupied while waiting to be plied with food. > > Once I stuck the toy to my forehead to show her what a fun guy Dad is. > > Then I had to spend the next week with a red 3 inch circular mark on my forehead. Did the same suction-cup thing when my daughter was an infant! It was actually a bit scary when I tried to pull off the toy and it wouldn’t budge. Also once did a do-rag sunburn thing. My face was beet red, forehead white as a sheet. Straight line of demarcation. ---
**Author:** ![Groucho\_Twain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Groucho\_Twain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Groucho_Twain)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/103 "2013-02-15T19:33:13Z")
Once, in a galaxy far, far away, when I was a much, much younger and wilder man, I had spent the evening with a young lady friend, both of us under the influence of an illicit substance that need not be mentioned here. Without any sleep and still under the effects of the unnamed substance, I went to my job, a professional office in which I wore a suit and tie, jacket usually abandoned to the back of my cubicle chair. One of my first tasks for that day was to make multiple copies of some document for wide circulation within and without the organization. Under the mesmerizing glow of the copy machine I developed an obsession that my shirt was not properly tucked in the back of my suit pants. So, for the _entire twenty minutes_ I spent copying the doc, my right hand was continually tucking my shirt “back into” the rear of my suit pants. When I finally took a bathroom break, a quick glance in the mirror revealed that _I had completely twisted my dress shirt, including necktie, in a clock-wise direction to the extent that my collar, necktie and shirt buttons were now situated over my right shoulder._ [![](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/smilies/smack.gif) ](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/images/smilies/smack.gif) I should have heeded the advice of Nancy Reagan… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/104 "2013-02-15T23:17:41Z")
> [@Ellen\_Cherry](#): > > I love this story. I shall think of it next time the cicadas come and I find myself either wearing or holding hands with one. 😉 > > The nursing mishaps stories remind me of the time when I was a gusher nursing a newborn. I had some of those disposable pads you could tuck into your bra. One escaped and was hanging out in the middle of my chest for all coworkers to see. Fortunately I don’t get freaked by this kind of thing. > > I would however freak if my skirt was in my stockings. Wearing slips helps, though I’m not sure why I seem to be the last woman on the planet who consistently wears one! I used to wear slips. Until one day the elastic in my half-slip decided to abruptly and permanently retire just as I walked into the cafeteria at work. I wear pants most of the time these days. Sometimes they’re on backward, but no biggie. 😃 I’m semi famous among my friends and family for wearing a pair of my groom’s sweat socks during my wedding. I’d been wearing them while I was getting ready to protect the delicate hose I was wearing. I put on the Big Dress and the headpiece thingy, then slipped on my beautiful matching shoes but failed to notice the sweat socks until after the ceremony. Ah well, I just took 'em off right there, threw them to the crowd of guests like a bouquet toss, and grabbed a glass of champagne. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/105 "2013-02-17T00:57:39Z")
A few years ago I was taking a Spanish course, and my seat was right next to this guy that I was trying to impress. I had lost a lot of weight just before the course started and was feeling pretty confident, so one day, I went to class wearing a tanktop and these teeny-tiny shorts. At one point, I crossed my legs (as I was used to just wearing jeans) and a woman who I was sort of friends with passed me a note that said “Your panties are showing”. I made sure the shorts were covering as much as possible after that point. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/106 "2013-02-17T01:18:42Z")
I’ll just repost this from a couple of years ago here > [@](#): > > Oops! I just showed the world… > …My right testicle. > > Well not the actual testicle of course, the scrotum half. > This was brought on by a series of coincidental events. > > I had to do laundry so I put on my old torn laundry-doing shorts Commando, and snuck around the building with my clothes. While doing my clothes it occured to me I was out of smokes, so I drove to the store to buy some quick between cycles, forgetting the shorts situation. As I sat back in the car I felt a strange pinching sensation in the area. I looked down to see that my old-laundry-shorts are a lot more torn in the crotch area than I had thought, and Butch Cassidy had made an escape attempt. > > I’m sure the friendly smoke selling blonde(not to mention the rest of the store) really didn’t need to see that this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/107 "2013-02-17T17:09:25Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > Why would you shave half of your face twice? Hangover. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CTburns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a5b964/32.png) [@CTburns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CTburns)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/108 "2013-02-18T15:36:09Z")
I was delivering pizzas while in college and brought a huge order to a youth group at a local church. As I was walking past about 40 kids toward the front of the hall, one kid said to everyone “that’s the guy who was driving around picking his nose!” I was mortified but looked confidently at him and said “yep, that was probably me!” ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/109 "2013-02-19T04:10:53Z")
> [@Stauderhorse](#): > > At one point, I crossed my legs (as I was used to just wearing jeans) and a woman who I was sort of friends with passed me a note that said “Your panties are showing”. But did it impress him? ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/110 "2013-02-19T04:14:34Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > ETA: Another time I didn’t realize until I was on the bus downtown to work that under my coat I was only wearing a white undershirt. I’d forgotten to put on a sweater. I walked into work once and didn’t realize until I took off my jacket that I was still wearing my pajama top. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/111 "2013-02-19T21:22:33Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > But did it impress him? He stared at my cleavage for most of the class that day, so at least that aspect worked. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/112 "2013-02-20T08:35:57Z")
Arriving at the office with my toofbrush stuck into my breast pocket? ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/113 "2013-02-20T15:45:17Z")
I don’t remember how I ended up with it, but I had a circle of layered duct tape maybe 6" in diameter. I stealthily placed it on the head of the shipping clerk and went on about my business, thinking he’d notice it after a bit. Hours later I see him, still sporting his duct tape beanie, so I ask him what’s on his head. He instantly suspects that I was the one who put it there, and I confess that I put it on there that morning. Then he tells me that he’d gone to the bank at lunch, not the drive up but the walk in bank. With a duct tape beanie on his head. I thought that was a lot funnier than he did. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2013, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/114 "2013-02-20T16:26:42Z")
Wow, I just had a close one… I got to work this morning and went straight to my office and closed the door. Just went to the restroom (didn’t run in to anybody on the way) and while I was washing my hands and looking in the mirror, noticed a dime-sized, thick, chunky booger crust on my cheek. I am sooooo gross. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/115 "2013-02-21T03:35:04Z")
Is that a leg? ---
**Author:** ![kjbrasda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/74df32/32.png) [@kjbrasda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjbrasda)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/116 "2013-02-21T07:38:40Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > Not really a personal “laxity” but it’s was pretty freaking embarrassing to leave an overlong work meeting and discover that my right breast had begun to leak, and I had a wet spot on the front of my sweater. I don’t even know if everyone in the meeting was aware I was newly back from maternity leave and breastfeeding. No one ever mentioned it. I’ve had this happen too. Not just a small spot either, but soaked from nipple to waist on one side. Good thing it dries fairly quickly. ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/117 "2013-02-21T16:44:03Z")
Not sure as it counts as a personal laxity but it was embarrassing beyond all belief. When I was about 19, still living at home, my dad came into my room to talk to me about something. I was sitting at my computer desk, back to it as we spoke. When he left, I turned around and there…standing straight up at attention on the desk, was my tiger striped vibrator. There’s no way he hadn’t seen it and I thought I was going to die. I avoided him as much as possible the next few days. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/118 "2013-02-21T17:54:02Z")
My wife was leaving for lunch with coworkers from her job that she had started just that day. She twisted her ankle stepping off a curb and by reflex yelled “Fuck!” The worst part, though, was the loud fart she emitted at the same time. She’s a delicate flower, my wife. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/119 "2013-02-21T18:26:05Z")
I once wore one brown shoe and one black one. Did not notice until I was on the way home from work, looking down at my shoes while pumping gas. Never get dressed in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380/120 "2013-02-21T18:40:21Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > My wife was leaving for lunch with coworkers from her job that she had started just that day. She twisted her ankle stepping off a curb and by reflex yelled “Fuck!” The worst part, though, was the loud fart she emitted at the same time. > > She’s a delicate flower, my wife. Per the OP, I’ll wager neither of these personal laxities went unnoticed by your wife (or probably by anyone else within twenty yards). Maybe it’s just [recency bias,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_bias#Recency_effect) but I’d say your post and the one before it (by **AngelSoft,** re: her dad spotting her prominently displayed vibrator) were among the most amusing so far in this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-unnoticed-personal-laxity/649380.md?page=5)