Best Funny & Embarrassing Stories Post

The Funny & Embarrassing Stories cases readers rated highest and believed most — the jury's all-time picks.

1. A Wrong Number Sent Me Their Family Christmas Photo For Six Years

   It started in 2019. A photo arrived from a number I did not know: a family of five in front of a tree, all in matching pyjamas, all clearly …

   1688 Upvote · 92% of readers believe this story

2. The Groom Butt-Dialled Me During The Vows And I Heard All Of It

   I could not go. Money, work, a visa problem I will not bore you with. I had cried about it, privately, twice. At 14:06 my phone rang and it …

   1461 Upvote · 91% of readers believe this story

3. I Drunk-Texted My Boss "I Love You" And He Replied Like A Gentleman

   It was my sister's birthday. I was four wines in and feeling emotional in the way that four wines makes you feel emotional, which is to say,…

   1342 Upvote · 89% of readers believe this story

4. I Got Drunk At The Staff Party And Reorganised The Warehouse

   The party was in the canteen, which is thirty metres from the warehouse, and somebody had propped the fire door. I had been complaining abou…

   1287 Upvote · 88% of readers believe this story

5. I Told A Farmer's Wife Her Prize Bull Was "A Big Lad" And Then Fell In The Slurry

   The shoes were brown brogues. I had polished them the night before, in my flat, for a farm visit. That is the level of stupidity we are work…

   1176 Upvote · 90% of readers believe this story

6. Drunk Me Ordered Forty Pizzas to My Own Address

   I want to be clear that I do not usually drink like this, and I have not since. But one bad night, after one bad breakup, I made a series of…

   334 Upvote · 92% of readers believe this story

7. The Ring Bearer Made a Break for the Dessert Table

   My sister asked my four-year-old, her son, to be the ring bearer. He practiced for a week. He understood the mission. Walk down the aisle, h…

   329 Upvote · 95% of readers believe this story

8. I Waved Back at a Stranger for a Full Block

   I am a friendly person, which is the root of most of my problems. I was walking to work down the main street of our small town, and across t…

   318 Upvote · 95% of readers believe this story

9. My Camera Was On for the Entire Meeting

   It was the biggest call of my quarter: ninety people, three departments, the kind of meeting where you keep yourself muted and pretend to ta…

   309 Upvote · 93% of readers believe this story

10. I Hit Reply All to Four Thousand People

    It was my third day. I did not yet understand that the company had a single mailing list that reached every employee on three continents, an…

    301 Upvote · 91% of readers believe this story

11. The Group Chat Saw the Message About the Group Chat

    We had a group chat for organizing a weekend trip, eight of us, and the planning had become, let us say, democratic to the point of chaos. E…

    286 Upvote · 91% of readers believe this story

12. I Babysat the Wrong Family for Half an Hour

    I had just moved to a new town and picked up babysitting through an app. My first booking was for a family on Birch Lane, seven in the eveni…

    271 Upvote · 91% of readers believe this story

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