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Question Of The Day

What's the Stickiest Situation You've Ever Found Yourself in?

"I started my period in the middle of a yoga class and it went all over the mat."

I know there was a royal birth and Cameron's porn ban and continued developments in Egypt and Syria this week. But all of that news pales in comparison to perhaps the most important news event of the year so far: Beyoncé got her hair stuck in a fan mid-concert and kept on singing, until her crew freed her from its malicious, pirouetting blades.

But not all of us have crews to help us out of sticky situations. With that in mind, I had a walk around and asked some people a question: what's the stickiest situation you've ever found yourself in?

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Harry, writer, 23: I approached a girl in a bar and offered to buy her a drink because I thought I knew her. She didn’t recognise me, so I proceeded in recounting the intimate situations we’d been in together. To which she replied that she was that girl's twin sister and that she definitely didn't want the drink I'd offered her.

Oh dear. So she didn’t see the funny side of it?
No. After a whole lot of awkwardness she just turned her back on me.

These things can’t be helped sometimes
Yeah. Her sister was fitter anyway.

Daniel, 25, shop assistant: A few months ago I did a night at Hysteria, but it went to shit. Then I heard that the guy I sorted it with was going to drag me into the back room and beat the shit out of me.

Shit.
Yeah, I had to get everyone to leave the venue really slyly and I waited for him to fuck off, and then I ran. I heard other people have been beaten up and threatened to be stabbed and shit.

So this is a common sticky situation?
Yeah.

Wow. Maybe don't work with that guy again.

Filippo, 38, "works in the music business": Ever? About my personal life or business?

Whichever’s stickiest.
I’m in one right now, actually.

Really? You seem quite calm.
Yeah, I’m on my way to a meeting, but I haven’t received the extremely important confirmation of something I have to confirm to these people. It’s quite big, regarding concerts in Italy.

How are you going to get out of it?
I eat, I smoke my cigarettes, I take my cab and I go there and try to be half honest and half smart.

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Good luck.

Emma, 22, "design protégé": I once sent a message to my friend saying I was going to dump my boyfriend, but I sent it to him instead. So I couldn’t get out of that.

At least it was an easy way to get out of the relationship, I guess. 
No, he took really badly. He called me cunt, but it was quite a while after that that we actually broke up. He made me stick at it.

Sticky.

Hulya, yoga instructor: I was in a yoga class and I started my period. Everything went all over the matt.

That’s really gross.
I know, and it was really awkward – people saw me and just laughed. I was in a pose that just flushes everything out. So it all just came out.

Did you carry on with the yoga?
No, I grabbed my stuff and ran into the changing rooms.

Good plan.

Previously - What's the Most Heroic Thing You've Ever Done?