TIFU by trying to help someone in the supermarket
Me (FN28) and my friend (F26) went to the local supermarket to pick up some bevs after a day of hard work in the garden with our partners. We were in the soft drinks aisle to get some mixers when an elderly woman caught my eye and asked me to help her reach some ginger beer on the top shelf. There were only a couple of bottles left and they were RIGHT at the back. I am 5'7 so that was out of my reach, but someone asked for my help - I'm helping! I tried climbing onto the bottom shelf to reach it, but it was still too far away (why do they make the top shelf so DEEP?!). My friend, also wanting to help, told me to lift them up to get it, but I couldn't get them high enough. Now, this next bit is where I made it weird. I have a degree in Circus, so I spent 2 years learning how to stand on other people and be stood on safely, so when this didn't work my mind immediately went to my friend standing on my back to reach it - me and my fellow circus students used to stand on each other's shoulders to help people out when we were at uni so I didn't even think about it and immediately got on all fours and went "STAND ON MY BACK". When they didn't immediately do this I looked up, still on all fours, at my friend and the elderly woman who were both looking down at me with vague horror, which is when I realised that this was definitely a weird thing for me to have done. The lady obviously refused and my friend, very understandably, did not want to join in with the very embarrassing thing I was doing. So I got up and we carried on with our shopping 😂 she also finished it off by saying "I'll find a man to do it!" which was certainly salt in the wound 🤣
She saw us again a little later and had successfully got her beer!
This actually happened a week or two ago but I'm currently watching Smosh reads embarrassing Reddit stories and realised I have one and thought you all might enjoy the mental image of someone doing horsey pose in front of a horrified old woman in Morrisons
My friend also informed me afterwards that they both heard my knees crack incredibly loudly (they always do, I don't notice it anymore) which may have contributed to their lack of trust in the structural integrity of my body
Also, just to clarify: I was asking my friend to stand on me, NOT the lady! 😂
TLDR: I got on all fours in the supermarket to help a lady get to the top shelf and embarrassed myself