Ever been caught with your pants down?

On my ning.com social network, All Things Women, I am running a bit of a competition, culminating on April Fools Day, 1 April, 2008.

The purpose of the competition is to invite women to share their funniest, most embarrassing moment for the purpose of having a good laugh at the funny things that happen to us in life.

So, to kick off the proceedings, I shared some of my girlfriends most embarrassing moments.

Girlfriend 1
Firstly, there was my girlfriend who works in the Perth CBD. As anyone from Perth will tell you, the main street of the CBD is a very windy place. This friend was standing at an automatic teller and had just keyed in all her details and was waiting for the cash to come out. Being in the city, she was also very aware of security risks associated with getting a large sum of cash out of a machine, so was feeling a little edgy. She was wearing a gorgeous cream pleated skirt and looked quite the picture of the demure and very professional public servant that she was.

She could hear the machine doing it's business, you know the sounds it makes as it is counting out the cash. And at that precise moment, a huge gust of wind came down the wind tunnel created by the skyscrapers each side and her lovely pleated skirt ended up around her ears.

It wouldn't have been so bad if at the same precise moment the money hadn't started to pour out of the machine.

In a dilemma, as to whether to grab her skirt down or grab the cash before someone else did, her hesitation gave the very many cars cued up at the lights and the passing office staff quite an eye sore, as she had decided this day to wear her nicest, laciest cream j-string!

Although not caught with her pants down, she was definitely caught out!

Girlfriend 2
Another girlfriend related to me how in her role as Deputy Principal of a Christian school she regularly taught the students the fire drill for the premises. Her instructions to them were, if you hear the alarm go you are to drop everything and immediately leave the room and go to the assembly point.

Well this particular day she had been very busy and was expected to attend a Year 11 graduation ceremony at the school. She'd been helping with the decorations and opted to have her shower at the school rather than duck home to get ready.

Well prepared with towel and shampoo, she entered the change rooms, quickly stripped and stepped beneath the piping hot jets of the school showers.

She was so enjoying the feel of the warm water on her skin that she stayed in that shower for a good 20 minutes. It was towards the end of that time that the fire alarm went off. You can imagine some of the thoughts that came rushing through her mind. Was the fire close enough to kill her? Should she grab a towel and run for her life or risk dying by putting on her clothes over her very damp body. Deciding that the latter was probably the best case scenario as she would rather die than be found naked in the school grounds by some brave fireman, she opted for the latter.

Meanwhile, a short distance away her husband was approaching the school with a bus load of Year 11 students and was in the turning lane at the lights a short distance from the school. He saw the fire brigade go rushing around them and turn into the school. He was immediately concerned and wondering what was happening. As soon as he was able he turned and rushed down to the school to find out what was going on. When he arrived he found his wife, in her soggy clothing, looking very sheepish and talking to the fireman. As he asked what had happened she relayed to him how she had taken an excessively long shower and tripped off the smoke alarm. The group of Year 11 students behind roared with laughter, as she was truly a sight! Suffice to say, she was the butt of many jokes for some time to come at the school.

My Story
My most embarrassing moment was when I literally caught my uncle with his pants down! He was staying at our home and had gone to the toilet but not closed the door fully. Being my usually full-on self I came rushing through the house and burst through the door. In my energetic thrust, he was knocked off balance and his wallet went tumbling into the toilet that was full of urine! Suffice to say, I was not the most favourite niece for quite a while!

Do you have a most embarrassing tale to that you would like to share with the world? Why not enter our competition at http://allthingswomen.ning.com. There will be a great prize. All you need to do is do an audio track of you telling the tale, as sometimes stories are so much funnier when told by the person who experienced them. Why not give it a go and have a good laugh? Check out some of the other stories there.