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When I worked in an office, I bent down to pick up a sheet of paper, and the seat of my pants ripped in front of one of my coworkers.
Our office had a commercial shredder used for the entire building (and subsequently a few other departments). After a while, the shredder started to have problems, but no one wanted to pay to fix it as long as it was still "working", and office members continued to use it. I was assigned to shred some old files, and was halfway through my shredding, when the shredder stopped working completely. The joke around the office was that I broke the shredder, although given its condition, a breakdown was probably inevitable on someone... it had to be me.
My manager at the hotel was bringing in large boxes of light bulbs and I thought I'd be helpful and bring the rest of them in for her. I picked the box up by the sides, making the mistake of not holding it by the bottom....The box wasn't taped or anything and was very old, so the bottom just fell out as soon as I picked the box up, leaving broken lightbulbs EVERYWHERE. And these were huge lightbulbs. It was then that I understood why my manager was dragging the boxes on the ground instead of carrying them.
Then to make things even more awkward, I was trying to sweep the glass shards up and she told me to go back to the desk and the maintenence guy would clean it up. So I went back to the desk and then saw a bunch of housekeepers run over to clean it up with my manager and the maintenence guy. I was the only one not cleaning it up and I was two feet away. But she told me not to help... Very awkward and embarassing.
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It's interesting how one word can have totally different connotations in different cultures.
I can just see a British exchange student asking his classmates for a rubber. 
But she told me not to help... 
Very awkward and embarassing.
