Moments you can laugh about now but couldnt at the time

[reecejackox]

the first one that comes to mind was when we were in Manchester and we missed our train by about two minutes and had to wait for the next train 2 hours later , we were fuming at the time but now can laugh about it.

 

[low-key]

The time I got in a cab in Vegas with the "no **** cab driver"

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

The time that I kissed my BIL. My ex-husband's family is very touchy-feely, they all hug and kiss on the lips and I always thought it was very weird because I was raised to be more formal. This kiss happened early in my marriage and I wasn't yet used to having his family put their hands on me. In my mind, only husbands and wives touch and kiss. So when my BIL, who looks very much like my ex-husband, same size, same shape, same hair, etc. came up behind me while I was doing dishes at their grandma's house after Christmas dinner and put his hands on my waist I turned and planted a kiss on him that wasn't very sisterly! Didn't notice until I had my tongue in his mouth and he wasn't reciprocating. I think it's funny now but it was years before I could look him in the eye after that!

 

[superme80]

I decided to treat my adorable toddler to lunch at our favorite bagel shop. So I bought him a smoothie to take in the car. He decided to "blow bubbles" in the smoothie. When we got to my husband's job to say hi, I nearly passed out. In the backseat of my car was the most awful sight. My son had taken off the lid to blow "bigger" bubbles. There was smoothies EVERYWHERE! It took forever to clean my car out. We gave the car to my aunt and she STILL was finding smoothie stains months later. That adorable toddler is now 10, so he will NEVER live this down!

 

[ronandannette]

The time that I kissed my BIL. My ex-husband's family is very touchy-feely, they all hug and kiss on the lips and I always thought it was very weird because I was raised to be more formal. This kiss happened early in my marriage and I wasn't yet used to having his family put their hands on me. In my mind, only husbands and wives touch and kiss. So when my BIL, who looks very much like my ex-husband, same size, same shape, same hair, etc. came up behind me while I was doing dishes at their grandma's house after Christmas dinner and put his hands on my waist I turned and planted a kiss on him that wasn't very sisterly! Didn't notice until I had my tongue in his mouth and he wasn't reciprocating. I think it's funny now but it was years before I could look him in the eye after that!

Sorry, I am ROTFL at this because never in a million years would I french my own husband in my grandma's kitchen let alone his brother. You win the DIS today!

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

Sorry, I am ROTFL at this because never in a million years would I french my own husband in my grandma's kitchen let alone his brother. You win the DIS today!

I'm glad we can all laugh about it now

In my defense I was only 19 or 20 and grandma had a private little galley kitchen.

 

[mrodgers]

Traveling to Detroit for work. Work is razor wire secured right on the outskirts of the city. Hotel is about half an hour away from work. After work activity, 4 of us got a cab and went into the city for a Redwings game and had to go to the casino afterwards (2 gamblers, 2 non-gamblers.) Our cab driver into the city was a spitting image of Snoop Dogg.

With 4 of us, one got to sit in the front seat. I rode shotgun with Snoop. I wasn't taking a 2nd turn at shotgun for the ride home. We know nothing of the Detroit area and told the driver our hotel. He had no idea where we wanted to go. He was middle eastern and kept yelling at us to tell him where to go. He was getting very irate about it. Friend riding shotgun was scared to death. He was waiting to get a gun pulled on him or a knife in the side, that is how much this guy was yelling at us. The driver ranted and raved in middle eastern accent the entire ride yelling at us. We eventually got where we needed to go after driving through a lot of area we didn't want to be in.

 

[DISNEYSQUIRRELS]

First trip out of the country, spent a week in Mexico...awesome trip!
Last day, our shuttle was running late to take us to the airport for the trip home. I went up to the desk to check on it & unknowingly left all of our travel documents behind (passports, exit visas, etc).
We found out when we arrived at the airport...exact words we heard at the airport...”no passport, no leave”.
It was awful...had to go all the way back to the resort hoping the whole way they had our stuff (they did)...big fight, sat separately on the flights home, silent ride home in the car. Next day was Easter with family coming over, so we had to pull it together & get along, haha.
We do laugh about it now!

 

[gopher101]

At universal I got stuck on Dudley's Ripsaw Falls ride. It was because my legs were too long. My knees keep hitting the safety bar and could not lift myself up because my feet kept slipping since it was a water ride. My little sister panicked ran off the exit to get my dad (she is Downs). An employee had to run after her to make sure she came back or got to my dad (she has since learned to never do that again. They had to get a maintenance worker to come take out the back seat to let my scoot back and use my knees to get up. I got up and everyone was staring at me. They had first aid come check up on me (mandatory), and one of the managers came and would not leave until I signed the paper stating I wouldn't sue (wasn't going to) and we got a free hoodie.

 

[RangerPooh]

This one time at WDW DH had to use the restroom really bad and almost didn't make it. It wasn't until he was sitting down (and almost slipped into the toilet) that he realized the toilet seat was broken. To make matters worse the floor was slippery wet, and when we went to stand up fell. We laugh at this one as he has many DLR and WDW restroom stories.

There's also the time when we were at DLR, I was 4 months pregnant with DD#2 and DD#1 who was 15 months started throwing up at our table at Rancho del Zocalo. DH went to get napkins and all I could do was try to catch barf in my hands while simultaneously barfing on the ground. It was awful. To make matters worse, it was hot and she had just drank strawberry milk. 13 years later we do not permit strawberry milk to be drank. The smell was god awful!

 

[wenrob]

The time that I kissed my BIL. My ex-husband's family is very touchy-feely, they all hug and kiss on the lips and I always thought it was very weird because I was raised to be more formal. This kiss happened early in my marriage and I wasn't yet used to having his family put their hands on me. In my mind, only husbands and wives touch and kiss. So when my BIL, who looks very much like my ex-husband, same size, same shape, same hair, etc. came up behind me while I was doing dishes at their grandma's house after Christmas dinner and put his hands on my waist I turned and planted a kiss on him that wasn't very sisterly! Didn't notice until I had my tongue in his mouth and he wasn't reciprocating. I think it's funny now but it was years before I could look him in the eye after that!

Sorry, I am ROTFL at this because never in a million years would I french my own husband in my grandma's kitchen let alone his brother. You win the DIS today!

^^^^
This! You win!

 

[ForMyBoys]

At universal I got stuck on Dudley's Ripsaw Falls ride. It was because my legs were too long. My knees keep hitting the safety bar and could not lift myself up because my feet kept slipping since it was a water ride. My little sister panicked ran off the exit to get my dad (she is Downs). An employee had to run after her to make sure she came back or got to my dad (she has since learned to never do that again. They had to get a maintenance worker to come take out the back seat to let my scoot back and use my knees to get up. I got up and everyone was staring at me. They had first aid come check up on me (mandatory), and one of the managers came and would not leave until I signed the paper stating I wouldn't sue (wasn't going to) and we got a free hoodie.

I just rode that ride last summer and boy it isn't easy to get in and out of! Glad you can laugh about it now!

 

[ForMyBoys]

Since this is Disboards I'll do a WDW story!

When we visited the world 5 years ago we did babyswap on rock n roller coaster. I took my two eldest while DH sat with youngest. It was the first major coaster my 8 yo son had ever ridden and the look on his face when the ride ended was priceless... sort of a stunned, eyes wide, what the hell just happened look. Anyway it was so cute we ended up buying the ride picture.

So knowing my DH had been waiting a bit I grabbed all my kids stuff, the picture, etc. And hurried them along to go meet up with him. I was walking at a pretty fast clip going slightly downhill when I lost my footing. My DH says it was like a cartoon fall because I tried very hard not to fall but just couldn't stop myself and with my hands full of stuff I couldn't break the fall. I ended up falling full force onto my knee. It was a very hard fall. I ended up needing to fill out an incident report at Disney, required an emergency hospital visit and ended up renting an electric scooter for the rest of the trip.

I can now laugh about it and my dh likes to pantomime my hilarious fall, but at the time it was not fun

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Similar to another story, we were in a position trying to enter the country with no documentation. We were on a roundtrip Celebrity cruise from San Diego to Mexico. I kept all of our cruise plans in a folder & accidentally left our identifying documents in the folder in our checked luggage. That luggage was set out the night before we docked. We had no access to it the next morning. We woke up on debarkation day in a total panic. My DH went to guest services with his tail between his legs & begged for help. They told him they would take care of it. Obviously, they had given them a very good description of us & let them know we had all necessary documentation, when we boarded. When we got to customs, all the agents were laughing. The guy that we approached said, "You must be the **** family. We know all about you. Welcome home". Thank you, Celebrity Cruise Line.

 

[nkereina]

A few years ago I bought a new vehicle. I was at the car dealership finishing up signing the paperwork while an employee pulled the car to the front for me. After I was done with the paperwork, my salesperson took me outside and we sat in the car while he explained to me how to use the radio, controls, etc. As we were sitting there going through how to work everything, another customer reversed out of a parking spot and backed into the side of my brand new car. I had been sitting in it for maybe 2 minutes and hadn't even driven it yet. I had already completed the paperwork, so they couldn't just swap out the car for me. I was livid. Luckily, there were tons of witnesses and no question it was the other driver's fault, so I was able to go through her insurance to get it repaired. But my first two weeks with my new car resulted in me dealing with collision shops and rental car companies. Ugh!

 

[Prince_Hawkins]

The one day when I worked at a candy factory, and they put me by the conveyor belt...I couldn't keep up with assembling the gift packs (and it didn't help that the elderly forewoman kept snapping at me to pick up the pace; I was only 17, at the time). I didn't come back, the next day.

I literally felt like I was in that classic I Love Lucy episode...