Life's too short(s)
By p1kef1sh
@p1kef1sh (45681)
October 22, 2008 10:50am CST
I have recently returned from a holiday in Singapore. We have relations there and we thought that it would be good to combine a holiday with my wife's first visit to a Formula 1 Grand Prix.
Singapore is famous for several things, but it excels at shopping opportunities. You can lose yourself for hours in exotic markets where literally all the sights, sounds and smells of the world smooth and seduce you into parting with much more money that you ever intended. Out of curious little alleyways would come beaming Indian gentlemen bent on shaking your hand and pulling you in to be measured for a shirt, a pair of trousers, a suit even. All in just 24 hours! My brother in law has several pairs of very smart linen shorts and I wanted a pair too. I spurned all others and headed off to his tailor to be custom measured for my linen treasures. A beaming, and very tall Indian met me, assured me that I had come to the right place and in no time at all had me measured and then perusing vast bales of linen cloths. I chose a blue and he told me to come back in a couple of days. This I did. He was serving another customer and it was his wife who greeted me, handed me my shorts and thrust me into the "changing room". In reality a curtain across the corner of the store. I slipped the shorts on. They felt a little wide around the waist. "Are you ready yet?" called the lady pulling back the curtain. I stepped out. As I did so my shorts fell straight down to my ankles. She looked down at my little white legs with horror. "Er. They're a little wide around the waist." says I. "I can see that" she replied, as I bent down and started to pull them up again. At that point her husband, full of indignation came rushing over. "Who measured this man?" he cried. "You did" came her reply. Pomposity pricked instantly. They fixed them and now they are fine. Have you any slightly embarrassing stories from visiting stores?
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@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
22 Oct 08
It was more than slightly embarrassing and I blame my daughter for my horror to this very day. I always shop with my oldest daughter because we can fit in the same size clothes more or less and that means double the garments I can take in the fitting room with me :) so I was trying on dresses for a formal last year and she was helping me with zippers and such. I had wiggled and squeezed into this emerald green dress that zipped the whole way up from the top of my butt to the back of my neck and as long as I didn't take a deep breath, IT FIT. But I had to wiggle into one of those fat confining apparatuses that go underneath it just to get the full picture. So I wiggled and squeezed my way into that too WITH MY BACK to my daughter and looked at myself in the mirror. She told me I looked AMAZING with a huge smile on her face and her eyes shining. I should have known then something was wrong. So there I went out of the fitting room to ask the fitting room attendants opinion. She too said I looked GREAT. As I turned around to go back to the fitting room I heard some laughs and some snickers before the fitting room attendant rushed over to me and yanked the back of the dress out of the girdle. 
Yeah, needless to say I went with the red dress, and my daughter got grounded for life.
Yeah, needless to say I went with the red dress, and my daughter got grounded for life.1 person likes this
@cynicalandoutspoken (4725)
• United States
22 Oct 08
Ok so the grounding didn't last very long. but no it wasn't that dress. She was a pirate for the trick or treat. We all dressed up as pirates with my avatar being our monkey mascot. The red dress has been retired because now it is too big :)
@cinderella2007 (2662)
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23 Oct 08
Eek....poor p1key!!! I'm trying to figure out who was more embarrassed, you, the lady or the tailor man as someone(him) didnt measure correctly!!!
I'm sorry but i am laughing hard here, I'm trying my best to reply with a straight face but ha ha ha ha x
Glad you managed to get your shorts corrected, can you imagine if that happened whilst you were on the streets of Singapore?? Just about to cheer for the GP and all of a sudden it was abit drafty!!! lol x
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
12 Nov 08
My husbands legs are so white they glow in the dark..lol He never wears shorts or shows his bony knobby legs. Hmm, The most embarrassing thing to ever happen to me in a store is when I was 12 and my dress pants were tight( I had a growth spurt my mom claims)And I was cashing out at the register and dropped my money and had to bend over to pick it up and when I did the whole seat of my dress pants ripped out and the people behind me got a eyeful..lol I was so embarrassed that I refused to go back to the store for awhile.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
13 Nov 08
Are you sure? Maybe you wanted to see her sewing skills? I bet that is a good memory you still laugh about today..now that one is one to tell the grandkids about..
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
25 Oct 08
Oh dear your post made me laugh, we need some hilarious moments here. I have just posted some topics about yucky subjects such as farting, so your humorous post really went well with my mood. © ronaldinu 2008
@hiddenwing (3719)
• China
23 Oct 08
Sinapore is no wonder is pretty good place, where the laws are very strict. Thus, few people have the audacity to commit crimes. Thus you will feel quite safe there. This is my favoriate thing about that beautiful country
@littleowl (7157)
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23 Oct 08
How embarrassing for the both of you p1ke, unfortunatly at this moment I can't think of anything but am sure there must be something embarrassing that has happened to me at some time...at least though you got your shorts corrected...littleowl
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
23 Oct 08
hi pikefish oh my G. oh how funny, and you recovered very
nicely indeed. I c an just imagine the looks on the face of the indian gentleman when his wife said, "you did!" I am still laughing and smiling at this. Oh let me see, ah yes. I was in a store which I promised myself I would not go into as it was
a very upscale out of my price range store. So hoity toity that you had the dresses brought out for you to see, you did not'
get to just browse for something that was in your size and you'might like. well this very snobbish clerk brought several
out that might fit me, and I tried them on. I found one that I
'felt fit me quite well, and the snobbish clerk said, that really doesnt help your figure,you should try the maternity store down the blo ck. I felt my face grow redder by the moment as my son at that time was in his thirties so there was no way in hell that I would be pregnant at my age. I sort of stammered, I am in my fifties,:" I was about ready to cry as I thought the dress looked good on me, and I loved the color and style. the owner of the store came over, and said to the snobbish clerk, If you ever say such a thing to another customer, Naomi, you will be fired. then she turned to me, and said, Maam that dress is perfect for you, and I do apologize, plus its on sale today, so if you want it Ican give it to you for twenty five dollars. I was dumfounded but I said, okay its a deal thank you so much. Pikey that dress was originally priced at ninety five dollars, so yes I did buy it. And I thought it looked good on me too. But I never shopped in that store again. lol.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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23 Oct 08
How awful Hatley. Naomi's feet wouldn't have touched had I been her boss. She'd be pleased to be employed by the Thrift store by the time that I had finished with her! But well done for getting a bargain, that's a heck of a discount. I bet that you looked gorgeous in that dress too!!
@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
23 Oct 08
It was a bit mean of you to go away and diet like crazy for a couple of days so the poor old lad would think he'd measured incorrectly - hahahaaha! It reminds me of that Roald Dahl story, 'The Twits', where the old bloke kept adding bits to the bottom of his wife's walking stick so she'd think she was shrinking!
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
22 Oct 08
thats marvelous!! i can see that clothing is obviously taken more care with there. is it cheaper than USA? i've heard many countries are.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
23 Oct 08
Hi pikey! What a funny story! So that was one of your
adventures in Singapore! Well how did the suit come out?
Hopefully better than the shorts! That must have been
so much fun! I love to shop! I would have had to bring
so much money and I would have bought everything in
site! I can't imagine all those treasures just staring
me in the face! I would come home with more than I would
have room for in my suitcase! I have seen pictures of
Singapore and it looks like such a lovely and elegant
place to visit! What a lucky boy you are pike!
@super_jj (1416)
• Philippines
12 Nov 08
Hahahahahaha! Quite embarassing.
I didnt know there still exist stores that do costum-made clothes. I usually get mine in the department stores and boutiques in the city. Hehehehehehe.
Well, i do have an embarassing experience at a shoe store once. I usually just wear shorts and slippers when i got out, and one particular day, i went out to the mall with my exgirlfriend and we were in matching board shorts and my brand new slippers. We happened to pass by a shoe store and i decided to buy a pair of rubber shoes. I was engrossed in fitting the Nikes and i didnt notice my right slipper. So when i finally decided on a pair, i got up to look for the other half of my slippers. It was gone! I gave my wallet to my girl and told here to pay for the shoes for me as i started walking aoound the store with a bare right foot. It took me quite a while until one of the sales ladies helped me with my quest. After around 5 mins, i finally caught a glimpse of my precious slipper -- in the hands of a customer! He was trying on the slipper! Hehehehehehe. He thought my slipper was for sale.
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
22 Oct 08
My most embarrassing shopping excursion story was from when I was a child. I think I was around 5 years old at the time. It was summer, but I was inside an air conditioned mall with my mother. In front of the inside entrance to one of the major department stores, there was a fountain. And of course, at the base of this fountain in the shallow pool of water there was a multitude of "wishes" in the form of coins.
Although I'm not much of a materialistic individual now, I must have been at the time, because I decided that I wanted some of the money for myself. I presume the larger valued coins were farther from my reach, and I was aiming big.
I don't remember falling into the fountain, but I do remember being in the woman's washroom with my mother trying to get me dried up some. I was extremely embarrassed, and recall having strangers come to me to say that I'd figured out a wonderful way to cool off. 
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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22 Oct 08
Hi p1key,
What a wonderful adventure you had on your holiday, I know you told me about that incident when we met and I thought that was so funny, and now it seems even more funny and I just can't stop laughing having to read this, the only embarrassing moment I'v had was When I was in Portugal, when I decided to go jump over the waves and the waves took me up in the air and dropped me on the shore, there was me looking like whale and every thing poped out of the top of my swim wear and my sister yelling at me to look down, when I got to my feet everyone was laughing and clapping, but they did ask if I was ok, I was but a bit shocked. Hugs.
Tamara
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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22 Oct 08
Yikes Tamara. At least everyone clapped. I hoped that you took a bow! Years ago I once saw a small boy who was clinging to his mum's neck in a swimming pool carefully lift one of her boobs from her swimsuit top. I was about 13! Did I look? What do you think? LOL.
