What is the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you while at Church/Mass?

Question

These are some great answers. Thank you all for the laughs, I needed this today.

LOL evolver

Father K, the wireless microphone in the bathroom and the hair catching on fire...now that's embarrassment! hahaha

wolfeblayde...yikes! lol
I'm so glad I haven't had any problems in that department..in public..at least not yet.

Shlane, I've also been enjoying this quite immensely and doing some laughing out loud. This has been a fun question, thank you for participating.

Answer 1

Just like in the movie "Airplane" - we once had a Priest with a wireless microphone go to the bathroom after he preached....with the microphone still on!

I had to break up a fight between to altar boys (they were brothers).

One of our torch-bearers had a pretty big pompadour - and he got too close to the candle he was carrying and caught his hair on fire.

Answer 2

As a child I was the acolyte for our church. I wore a white robe as a part of this duty. After lighting the candles, I assumed my station, seated facing the congregation, until the end of the service. However, this particular Sunday, I had a loose tooth, and as any bored 8-year-old might, I let my tongue move it around in its loosened socket. Then suddenly the tooth came out, along with a minor gush of blood. I simply forgot where I was. I took it out, looked at it, and started playing with it.

Sad to say, this activity seemed a tad more interesting than the pastor's sermon, because the I had the congregation's eyes more than he did. I heard about it later. My father was the pastor.

Answer 3

OK, first you have to get the entire scene: Saturday night Mass, everyone and their brother is there, and the Communion line is loooooong.

There I am, almost at the front of the line. . .and the Chicken Teriyaki sandwich that I had for lunch chooses to make itself know. Yeah, that's right -- the Chicken Teriyaki sandwich that I just LOVE to load down with diced red onions, delicious little gut bombs that they are.

Needless to say, the resulting wave of effluvia wafted back over the entire line of communicants like a brown cloud. I have never been so embarassed in my entire life. So, what do you do under those circumstances?

That's right. . .wait until the person ahead of you takes Communion, then look absolutely horrified at them! Walk back to your seat as if you are completely innocent, while everybody else glares at the luckless victim.

And yes, I went to Confession immediately after Mass was over. It was that, or face the prospect of another 10,000 years in Purgatory if I got hit by a bus on the way home!

Edit:

I'm not the only one who's "cut and run," so to speak! SLOF, thanks for sharing that. . .now I don't feel quite as bad! ;-)

Answer 4

This is actually about my Nana (gma) who has been gone for 2 years now. She used to love to bargain shop at salvation army or good will as we didn't have a lot of money. She would be so excited to bring things home that looked new. In those days they would write the price on the bottom of the shoes in 'black grease pencil' So, Nana wore her 'new' shoes and went to church and at the end of the service she went up to the alter to pray. She knelt down and 75 cents was written on the bottom of both shoes for everyone to see. When she came home and took her shoes off she discovered that she had forgotten to wipe the price off. She was so embarrassed but had a good sense of humor and we laughed about that for 30 years.

Answer 5

that isn't too undesirable, yet final week i replaced into taking part in soccer and that i replaced into working up the sphere and that i rotated then BAM! I have been given hit interior the face with the soccer ball. Then water replaced into popping out of my eye so it gave the look of i replaced into crying, which replaced into the dumb section because of the fact each and every of the gamers have been like "are you crying?!" i've got additionally gotten hit below the waist (you recognize what i'm speaking approximately) and that i layed on the floor for a couple of minutes merely in discomfort. It harm so freaking undesirable!!! Then the ref finally got here to visit and the coach advised me I had to sit down down out something of the sport :(

Answer 6

Okay, so I'm sitting next to this friend of mine who always makes me laugh anyway, and I hear someone announce that the substitute priest is a student of economics. I then notice that his voice is kind of dry like Ben Stein's from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," so that's when I remember the line from the movie "Anyone, anyone... voodoo economics."

All of a sudden, I make the connection that this priest who reminds me of this character who had a line about economics is actually studying economics. I started laughing.

So, my friend next to me also starts laughing. Now imagine he's big and of Scottish origin, so when he laughs his whole belly just shakes. So his laughing makes me laugh even more. So then I calm down and he asks me, "What was so funny?" and I loose it again.

I must have gone the entire Eucharistic prayer trying to stop laughing. And what's worse is that I was in the front pew and my friend and I were the only ones sitting in that set of pews.

I was so embarrassed that I didn't introduce myself to the substitute priest after wards.

Answer 7

Years ago when I was still going to church, I also use to stay up late on Saturday night, eat junk food and goof off with my friends. After one such night loaded with nachos and bean dip I realized that I had a bad case of gas. I tried to hold the burners in and sneak away to the bathroom as often as I could. Finally my father got sick of me leaving to use the bathroom and forced me to stay in the pew. After a few minutes I couldn't hold it any longer, and when it cut loose it was so loud it echoed through the church louder than the singing. Everyone stopped and looked at me. I don't know why but I silently pointed my finger at my father who then turned beat red. Later I told him that's what he gets for keeping me from going to the bathroom.

I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!

Answer 8

well my family are into all types of religions and out of curiosity I went with an aunt to her church one Sunday. My mother used to call her an holy roller and I had never figured out what she meant until I went to my aunts church. When the preacher got really going into his sermon, my aunt jumped up and started to roll around the floor yelling and screaming and then she ran from one end of the church to the other with ushers in full persuit. Then she started to jump up and down real hard, first I must tell you she has an overabundant bossom and when she finished what they call shouting all of her huge bossom was out for the whole congregation to see!!

All I wanted to do was to quickly make an exit, but instead the lady next to me started to jump up and down until she fell on me. Seeing there was no way out of this situation I had to try and get from under her and hopefully make my get away!!

As you might imagine I declined whenever my auntie decide to take me to church with her again!!

Answer 9

My father was tone deaf, but still sung as loud as he could in church. He was always off key on the final note. It embarrassed me tremendously. Everyone knew it was him.

Answer 10

Our choir group heartily and joyfully breaking into the entrance antiphon in front of the congregation of a thousand or so... while my fly was down!