Embarrassing, life learning moments

[Jim Smith]

This is not exactly a joke, but rather an embarrassing story that I shared with another forum I frequent so I thought I might as well share it here as well. I was working in a large office building for a major company. There were about 800 people in the building; mainly men as it was computer programming and IT support. When one of my female colleagues called me on the phone frantically asking me to come to her cube to get rid of a mouse, I happily offered to help. I found the mouse under her desk and it ran into her new leather portfolio briefcase. I picked up the case and told her I would take care of the mouse. I went into the men's room which had four stalls and a number of urinals, and as usual there were a number of guys in there using the facilities, washing hands etc. Without thinking, I went into the second stall, closed the door and plopped the mouse into the toilet and flushed it. In about 2 seconds, the mouse popped back up and was paddling around so I said "Stay down there you little S&#T. This happened three times and I repeated that somewhat unfortunate phrase each time until I noticed that the men's room had gone dead silent. I thought about how my statement must have sounded to the other guys in the men's room, none of whom I knew. They must have figured that some guy had finally lost it and started talking to his turds. I waited in the stall for about 10 minutes to let the men's room empty out and then I eased my way out, hoping to avoid anyone who had heard me. There were three guys pretending to read the bulletin board outside the men's room, but I knew that they were waiting to see the "Turd Whisperer". Not the greatest moment in my career.

[kelzerman]

LMAO! oh that is too funny. My colleagues are now staring at me for cracking up at my computer. :laugh:

[drumcrush]

Ahahahahahaha made my day lol

[sharthun]

Thanks for sharing! We have to laugh at ourselves! Hope it didn't scar you for life! lol


This is not exactly a joke, but rather an embarrassing story that I shared with another forum I frequent so I thought I might as well share it here as well. I was working in a large office building for a major company. There were about 800 people in the building; mainly men as it was computer programming and IT support. When one of my female colleagues called me on the phone frantically asking me to come to her cube to get rid of a mouse, I happily offered to help. I found the mouse under her desk and it ran into her new leather portfolio briefcase. I picked up the case and told her I would take care of the mouse. I went into the men's room which had four stalls and a number of urinals, and as usual there were a number of guys in there using the facilities, washing hands etc. Without thinking, I went into the second stall, closed the door and plopped the mouse into the toilet and flushed it. In about 2 seconds, the mouse popped back up and was paddling around so I said "Stay down there you little S&#T. This happened three times and I repeated that somewhat unfortunate phrase each time until I noticed that the men's room had gone dead silent. I thought about how my statement must have sounded to the other guys in the men's room, none of whom I knew. They must have figured that some guy had finally lost it and started talking to his turds. I waited in the stall for about 10 minutes to let the men's room empty out and then I eased my way out, hoping to avoid anyone who had heard me. There were three guys pretending to read the bulletin board outside the men's room, but I knew that they were waiting to see the "Turd Whisperer". Not the greatest moment in my career.

[Will0W783]

Oh that's just too funny! I laughed so hard I almost choked on my coffee. Thanks, Jim, you made my day!!

[sharthun]

Oh that's just too funny! I laughed so hard I almost choked on my coffee. Thanks, Jim, you made my day!!

Same here! reminds me of that bathroom scene from Austin Powers!:D

[Darkbird]

Thanks for sharing, that was great. I'm sure we've all done something silly and been caught before.

[MizCandice]

Excellent story, Thank you I needed a laugh! :D

[mistersprinkles]

You shouldn't have flushed a live mouse. That's really cruel. If anything give it a sharp blow to the back of the head, then flush it.

[ilovemysnake]

why didnt you just let it outside? I wouldnt kill it..

[Valvaren]

At least I wasn't alone in finding it disgusting that someone would rather kill something by trying to repeatedly flush it alive then trying to let it go somewhere.

[SnoopySnake]

Poor mouse... :( Such a sad cruel way to get rid of it...

[ilovemysnake]

At least I wasn't alone in finding it disgusting that someone would rather kill something by trying to repeatedly flush it alive then trying to let it go somewhere.

i also dont see the reasoning behind killing something unless there is a viable purpose. like you were going to feed it to a snake, and even then the most humane way of doing that is to just break its neck, dies instantly. whereas drowning is a painful and cruel way to die. even some of the most disgusting animals on this earth dont deserve a painful death.

[KORBIN5895]

Actually drowning isn't very painful.

[ilovemysnake]

Actually drowning isn't very painful.

I saw something on history channel not too long ago about drowning. 5 steps. & it sure didn't sound like a walk in the park.

*The first stage is surprise, there is no screaming or yelling and the victim is afraid...they are in a near vertical position...
*The 2nd stage is involuntary breath holding, they are now below the water and the body involuntary closes the epiglottis which closes the airways...
*Next the person becomes unconscious, the body shuts down from lack of oxygen..the body sinks either rapidly or slowly depends on conditions,
*Next is the stage of convulsions...there may be violent jerking or convulsions of the body, due to the fact of lack of oxygen, then they may go rigid...
*Next is death.. the person actually goes into cardiac arrest

[kelzerman]

I use to work at a restaurant back in the day. I caught a mouse crawling on the side of the building. After tormenting the manager at the time I took it to the dumpster for a quick death.

It didn't die.. it is now in the land of the underworld with the many more mice that thrive down there. :crazy2:

[KORBIN5895]

I saw something on history channel not too long ago about drowning. 5 steps. & it sure didn't sound like a walk in the park.

*The first stage is surprise, there is no screaming or yelling and the victim is afraid...they are in a near vertical position...
*The 2nd stage is involuntary breath holding, they are now below the water and the body involuntary closes the epiglottis which closes the airways...
*Next the person becomes unconscious, the body shuts down from lack of oxygen..the body sinks either rapidly or slowly depends on conditions,
*Next is the stage of convulsions...there may be violent jerking or convulsions of the body, due to the fact of lack of oxygen, then they may go rigid...
*Next is death.. the person actually goes into cardiac arrest

Once you pass out you don't feel pain. Secondly it doesn't hurt to inhale water. What hurts is holding your breath and forcing water out of your lungs once they drag uou put of the water.

[Darkbird]

Hmm, wild mouse in someones briefcase in an office somewhere. I know I sure wouldn't handle the darn thing, not about to chance a bite and catch who knows what. You let it go outside and it'll come right back in. And between drowning and the poisons that are usually put out for them I'd think the drowning would be the better option. You do what you have to in the situation your in.