Most Embarrassing Moment

[Stifler's Mom]

OK, time for me (and some of you) to fess up to your most embarrassing moment at work.

I was sitting in the cockpit filling out paperwork, when something out of the corner of my eye caught my attention. I look down to see the front of my shirt sticking out of my fly.

That's right, I managed to get dressed, go downstairs and turn in my hotel key, get in the van and ride to the airport, walk through the terminal, do a preflight inspection, and say hello to fellow coworkers...all with my fly wide open and shirt hanging out.

Stifler's Mom, instilling confidence in the general flying public.

Anybody else? Please tell me I am not in a class by myself.

 

[MarineGrunt]

Probably on of the stupidest things I have ever said (besides "I do") was when I was going through my instrument rating. This also qualifies as one of my most embarassing moments.

After 8 hours of sleep over three days on a Reserve weekend, and driving 16 hours, I was stupid enough to schedule a flight lesson first thing the next day. The day before, I had received my first anthrax vaccination, which for some people, makes them VERY sick for days.

Anyway, I was stuggling on the 17 LOC BC, obviously EXTREMELY fatigued. I should have began my descent about 2 fixes ago when my instructor began his broken record routine, "We gotta get down..................... We gotta get down.................... OK, lets start getting down.............." (no response from the grunt flying the plane).

Completely spaced out, I report 2 DME as requested:

Me: "Tower, Piper N1234 is 2 DME annnnnnnnd...... uuuuuuuuh....... I think we need to get down.............."
Tower (while chuckling): "Alright, cleared to land. You guys need help with that?"
Me: "Uuuuum no, thats ok."

It wasn't until I shut down the engine that I realized the complete stupidity of what I just said. My CFI pi$$ed himself from laughing so hard, and I'd never seen him laugh before. So the moral of the story is kids, after receiving a vaccination for a Chemical, biolgical or nerve agent of any type, it's probably not a good idea to fly for a few days. Oh yeah, and it's 8hrs of sleep PER NIGHT. Not per three days.

 

[FN FAL]

Most Embarrassing Moment

OK, time for me (and some of you) to fess up to your most embarrassing moment at work.

12,000 registered ding dongs on this board and none of them ever did anything embarrasing on the job. Go figure.

I was working part time at a sporting goods store and they had just started me the weekend before their big spring "fishing-0-rama" sale. I had been hired to work in the gun department, but every swinging dick was going to be spooling fishing line on new reels and selling fishing poles, like there was no tomorrow.

I was helping a guy out with a used shotgun purchase, when this little old lady and little old man come over, looking like they need assistance.

Finally, I ask the little old lady, "Can I help you, Ma'am?"

And she replies, "Yes, my husband is looking for some fishing lures."

As I thought about how fishermen are usually picky about what kind of lures they use and how much I don't know a thing about fishing, I tell the lady as I point to an entire wall of fishing lures on display, "Ma'am, can't your husband see our display over there is the worlds largest selection of fishing lures, covering the entire north wall of the store!"

She said, "My husband can't see, he is blind."

Dohhhhhhh!

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

There's not enough capacity on this website for me to even begin....

 

[FL000]

Like Hugh, the page ain't long enough for mine. But there was the time I was cleared in ATL to taxi to 9L via Mike and I took a left out of ramp 3-south. Ground wasn't biting when I blamed it on the FO.

I have yet to do the cabin PA on center frequency. I'll let y'all know when that happens.

 

[TonyC]

12,000 registered ding dongs on this board and none of them ever did anything embarrasing on the job. Go figure.

Gonna hafta solicit most embarrassing things you've seen SOMEBODY ELSE do on the job :: wink, wink ::

 

[FN FAL]

Haha...you guys are cool!

Kind of reminds me of a saying the cops used, when talking about the I.A.D. (Internal Affairs Department).

Admit nothing, deny everything, demand proof.

 

[Bill Mostellar]

I have yet to do the cabin PA on center frequency. I'll let y'all know when that happens.

You are correct sir - when not if.

 

[jetexas]

Back when I was on the ATR, I had finished my postflight on a quick turn. There was an empty belt loader leading up to the forward cargo hold (which is right by the cockpit). I was in a hurry so I hopped up on the non-moving belt loader to get back up to the cockpit quickly through the forward cargo hold (the PAX were already coming in the maincabin door at the rear of the a/c).

I scurried up the belt loader in a 'half crouched' stance, raised my head into the cargo hold and "WHAM!!!!...I misjudged and raised my head into the cargo door that was hanging down a bit. My hat flew off to the ground. I was literally seeing stars I nailed my head so hard. I staggered down and got my hat and slowly crept up to the cockpit without daring to look and see how many PAX and deadheaders were laughing. Man that one hurt!

There has also been a few PA's over center freq over the years, as well as PA's giving the wrong destination, time enroute, etc.

I particularly like to try to crack up the guy next to me when he gives a PA.

 

[Brett Hull]

I almost gave my other pilot a Jet-A bath this morning. He was doing the external preflight and I was doing the cockpit. He was about 2 feet from the dump tube on the tip tank when I hit the jettison switch instead of the crossflow. D'oh!

 

[TurboS7]

I had two new FA's on the flight deck(they are ex-USair just new to us)They asked me about the N1 and N2. I got into it and desribe exactly how they worked used my fingers to demonstrate. Try it, I was embarrassed.

 

[Timebuilder]

Was it the "this shaft is inside this shaft" motion with the fingers?

 

[chqflyer]

During a pretty tight aircraft swap, I scooted up the airstairs on the erj while hanging onto the handle of my rollaboard. The "J" hook caught the the handrail support and brought me to an instant stop followed by a backwards slide down the steps. I landed a perfect 3 pointer right on my arse. After gathering what was left of my dignity, I slowly hoisted my cr*p up the stairs and went about my business. Thanfully, my FO was still buttoning up the previous airplane and had not witnessed my graceful EMB dismount. I don't think I woulda ever heard the end of it. He was just a little suspicious about why I was suddenly so sore and fidgety in my seat.

 

[Timebuilder]

I guess that's another airport without a jetway low enough for an RJ...

 

[Snakum]

Not my Kodak moment ...

But on a CHQ flight from GSO to BOS the CA twice announced the weather and ETA for New York, each time the passengers got in a bit of a tizzy until the FA finally convinced them that we were indeed going to Logan.

Evidently the BOS shuttle goes from GSO-LGA-GSO-BOS (or sump'n like that) from early morning till late at night daily and I imagine it could get confusing by o'dark-thirty after the tenth leg of the day.

Minh

 

[VNugget]

I don't have a pool of stories to draw upon, except the classic student pilot wing-smack.

This was no light ding, however. I was bent over behind the pilot's side door on the 172 either picking up something or tying my shoe. I started standing up "with vigor" (because I was excited after a flight of good touch and goes) while at the same time having started moving toward the door, so I had quite a bit of force behind my movement.

When my head hit, it snapped back and sent me halfway back down. My CFI, along with my friend who had ridden in the back, were rolling and almost in tears.

 

[RockyMnt1]

Most embarrasing

One time, at airplane camp, this friend of mine was carrying a heavly loaded tray of food (within W & B of course) that required both hands to control. All of a sudden this guy lets loose with one of those powerful, sudden sneezes. I should also mention that he was suffering from a very nasty cold. Well, his hands were already busy holding the tray. Let's just say that there was lots of extra green protein on his food. Nothing that he could do.....I wasn't very hungry after that for some reason.

Not my most embarrasing moment but it sure was for him.

 

[Typhoon1244]

I think I posted this once before...

About fifteen minutes prior to departure, I decided my windshield was filthy and went to get one of the rolling ladders to do something about it. I finally found one under the jetway, rolled it over, and was about to climb up and start swabbing when a ramp supervisor ran over and insisted on doing it for me. I thanked him and climbed back aboard...and found a crew sitting in the cockpit. I had pushed the ladder up to someone else's CRJ. (There were several clustered around the jetway at the time.)

Thank god I hadn't made it up there and started wiping...

 

[Timebuilder]

The look on their face would have been priceless.

You then could have asked "can I check your oil?"

 

[shamrock]

About a month ago, while waiting out my 3rd ground stop of the day to ATL, I decided to go make sure the rampers hadn't taken our bags out of the back of the plane. There was light rain in the area (hence the ATL ground stop) and as I was running back up the wet air stairs, I slipped. Normally wouldn't be too much of a problem, but I had my hands in the pockets of my overcoat and I couldn't get them out fast enough to catch myself. I fell forward up the steps, then my momentum shifted from forward to backwards, which allowed me to do a perfect reverse flip off the side of the stairs. I landed solidly on my backside, all the while my hands toasty warm in the pockets of my coat. I even managed to do the reverse tumble between the handrail and stairs, where there isn't all that much room on a CRJ. When I fell forward I also hit my chin on the edge of one of the steps, so in addition to the embarassment of falling I had the impression of the grooved edge of the step in my chin for a day after that.

Too bad no one had a video camera, I could have won me some money on America's Funniest Videos.