February 03, 2009

Why Me?

How not to start your Tuesday morning:

zipper2.bmpYou’re sitting at your desk. You're wearing a zippered jacket and a zippered cardigan with just a bra on underneath. A male co-worker and friend comes to chat. You decide you want to take the jacket off so, without looking, you grab a zipper tab and pull it down. Would’ve been nice if it had been the zipper tab of the jacket and not of the cardigan.

The zipper was down to my stomach before I realized what I had done. Male friend stammers, blushes and leaves abruptly, leaving me to wonder why I even got out of bed this morning.

Posted by Ryan at February 3, 2009 11:31 AM
Comments

Oops. I hate when that happens ;-)

Posted by: kmkat on February 3, 2009 11:30 AM

Wow. That's as bad as me spilling hot cocoa on my white shirt (before I'm supposed to give a presentation), and thinking it would be a GREAT idea to wash it off in the bathroom sink.

Then slinking back to my office with a see-through shirt through a building of engineers.

Posted by: Jasmin on February 3, 2009 11:54 AM

Oh no! Oh, you poor thing.

A friend of mine in college had a backpack with a mesh pocket on the outside. She'd woken up late for class one morning, grabbed her backpack off the pile of dirty laundry where it had fallen, and rushed off to class...only to discover when she'd gotten there that one of her bras had hooked onto the mesh pocket, and she'd run a half mile to class with her bra flapping in the breeze behind her.

Oh, the indignities of being a woman. :)

Posted by: Imbrium on February 3, 2009 12:32 PM

Oh my...

I think you deserve some chocolate. Assuming you survive the day, of course. ;^)

Posted by: Cookie on February 3, 2009 01:15 PM

LOL, so I will never wear 2 zippered items after this.

Posted by: Donna in VA on February 3, 2009 01:21 PM

Oh dear, best thing to do is smile & pretend you meant to do it!!

Reminds me of when I was working (as a nurse) in a nursing home, wearing uniform which did up with popstuds down the front. Lunch time, serving up soup, a bowl in each hand, uniform caught on ornate carving on back of chair at boob height, poppers undone top to waist. Had to put down soup before dealing with exposed bra/midriff. Old boy opposite nearly had a seizure!! (Not to mention soup in his lap)

Christine

Posted by: Christine Scantlebury on February 3, 2009 01:38 PM

Oh Lord!! I almost wet my pants!!!

Posted by: Bonney on February 3, 2009 02:40 PM

And suddenly I feel ok about my Thursday morning...

Posted by: (formerly) no-blog-rachel on February 3, 2009 03:11 PM

Hum, how many man would wish they had stayed in bed after finding out they had a zipper mishap? Feeling better already?

Posted by: m.annema on February 3, 2009 03:19 PM

Oh dear!

Posted by: Leslie on February 3, 2009 03:32 PM

Oh man. I see your pain and relate... When I worked in Corporate Hell I was in the habit of having yogurt every morning. One morning I managed to drop a goodly dollop on my left breast, right about where the nipple might be had it been exposed. I didn't notice. Anyway, I walked around like that for a couple of hours before a male coworker finally got the courage to say, "Um, uh, um, look down."

Posted by: Kristen on February 3, 2009 04:02 PM

I'm sorry, but I'm laughing like crazy! I have a male-themed zipper story for you: my daughter's friend was in h.s. freshman history class when he noticed that the teacher's zipper was down. Being a nice kid, he wrote a message on some notepaper and discreetly held it up for the teacher to read. The teacher then read ALOUD to the entire class, "Your zipper is down!" To his credit, the teacher thanked the kid, zipped up, and continued like it had never happened. At least you had only one witness!

Posted by: Leslie on February 3, 2009 05:57 PM

I can see from the comments that many of us have had similar experiences. I was at work one time and two buttons on my blouse popped open and I didn't notice. I was meeting with a male co-worker, who wasn't looking me in the eye, if you know what I mean. I finally looked down, and my bra was fully exposed with my boobs not far behind. Afterwards I asked him about it and he said: "I thought you did it on purpose." I couldn't believe him!

Posted by: Brenda on February 3, 2009 06:10 PM

Oops.

I shocked a female co-worker one day when I was setting up a web cam for a meeting and I said, "I need to adjust this so the jugs aren't taking over the whole shot."

I didn't realize it would be so embarrassing for someone else!

I guess she is just lucky I didn't whip them out! ;-)

Posted by: Laurie on February 3, 2009 07:06 PM

Oh my good Lord. That is so awful for you, and yet so hilarious for the rest of us!

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better, fully clothed day!

Posted by: cordeliaknits on February 3, 2009 10:13 PM

Last year at one of my daughters volleyball practice, a girl (sibling of a player) ran into the gym and was about to take off her hoodie...got it about half way unzipped, before she remembered she was not wearing a shirt under the hoodie. Whoops!

Posted by: PICAdrienne on February 3, 2009 11:27 PM

I have not laughed that hard in a LONG TIME!!!! All I can say is that at least you are looking very trim these days....

Posted by: Janine on February 4, 2009 06:53 AM

I did a version of that once - playing cards with a bunch of people from both genders. I was topless under the sweatshirt I pulled right off over my head. I was, shall we say "perkier" at the time than I am now - thank goodness for small mercies at least!

Posted by: Marie on February 4, 2009 07:23 AM

At least you were wearing a bra . . .

Posted by: chris on February 4, 2009 08:23 AM

Oh, I hope you were wearing a pretty bra. What's the diff? It's only boobs and if your co-worker was that flustered seeing a set he needs therapy!

Posted by: Barbara on February 4, 2009 08:27 AM

Uff da!! Makes me feel better about the time the top button of my slippery nylon blouse popped open while I was talking to a male colleague, exposing my bra. (Is this why women used to wear slips?) At least it was a guy I was friends with, so I wasn't Mortally Embarrassed.

Posted by: Diana on February 4, 2009 09:56 AM

Now that... is funny.

Posted by: Romy on February 4, 2009 12:44 PM

Oh my! (hugs) Hope your sister's feeling better. When your mind is dealing with a million things; what's a little flashing amongst co-workers?

Posted by: FlyHoney on February 4, 2009 05:43 PM

Great way to start a Friday morning? Read your blog, laugh out loud and realize other people are as big as a boob as myself and my friends! (Sorry for the pun . . . ) One day at work I walk out to the receptionist's desk and she is busy turning her dress around, while still wearing it. When I look at her quizically, she says "damn wrinkles on the front now where I sat on it."

Posted by: Burt on February 6, 2009 08:44 AM

Oh. Dear God.

I am sooooooo thankful this sort of thing happens to other people, too. (I once went an entire day at work with my shirt unbuttoned halfway to my waist...my cheap knock-off bra exposed to the world...sigh...)

Posted by: Mother Chaos on February 6, 2009 12:46 PM

I remember when taking karate lessons how my partner (a man) accidentally opened the front of the top of my gi. Thank heavens I was wearing a bra. I soon added some strong Velcro strips to the top. How fortunate that accidents such as that, along with the odd expulsion of gas and other usually unacceptable reminders that we are human, are graciously ignored in a martial arts dojo. (I am the usually quiet--yup, I do know the difference between quite and quiet--fan, but this accident of yours put a big old smile on my face, and doubly so since I had been in that position.)

Posted by: Fan on February 7, 2009 10:44 PM

Just think: if you lived here, that would be normal.

Posted by: Lee Ann on February 8, 2009 01:31 PM

Having met you in person, this post is doubly funny.

We will not discuss the fact that I got dye on my blouse from one of the other pieces of clothing in the laundry and wore it to work yesterday. It was like having a neon "Hello! I have a left nipple!" flashing on and off all day. Very sexy.

Posted by: Rabbitch on February 10, 2009 02:00 PM

Hey, are you going to be in Tacoma this weekend?

Posted by: PICAdrienne on February 10, 2009 04:48 PM
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