Not from the unzipped fly...but what follows.

When I wear overalls, that's one thing I don't have to worry about!

  This has happened to me on several occasions, believe it or not.  And MEN have actually told me that my fly was up.

Please don't ask how these things transpire.

"I'm an unzipped fly,

And I don't know why..."

As a teenager, I worked for a widowed woman living nearby who was quite wealthy. I cut her grass, and helped her with any moving or heavy work that she needed done in her house or on her property. As wealthy as she was, she never paid a whole lot for what I did, but, unlike some of the cheap wealthy people I worked for during those years, I didn't really mind much. I liked her, we always got along ok, and I did the work long past the point where I should have given it up; generally speaking, I had moved on to more advanced employment, but I felt a bit sorry for her and didn't consider it much of an imposition (mowing grass I always found somewhat relaxing). Once, she and I were pulling weeds or something together in her back yard, and she became unusually quiet, almost tense. It unnerved me a bit, because we had always had a friendly and relaxed relationship, but I figured she was old and getting older, and maybe was just having a bad day. Later, after I had gotten home, I realized I had been wearing a new pair of jeans, and the fly had worked its way down...all the way down...exposing for all the world to see (or, in this case, just my employer) the white expanse of my shorts. I don't know for sure that that was why she was so quiet, but she never called me again after that to work around her place. Mrs. ______, if by some remote possibility you're reading this (and if you're still among the living), it wasn't intentional, believe me.

The amount of embarrassment can be affected by how one handles the situation. When Winston Churchill was 78 years old he was sitting on a stage waiting to be introduced to give a speech. Someone passed him a note which read "Prime Minister, your fly is unzipped." Churchill scribbled something on the note and handed it back. He had written "It is of no account. Dead birds do not fall from their nest."

It's much more funny if a man's fly is unzipped.

I doubt if theres a guy in North America that hasn't experienced this a few times.

Stuff happens.

Had this on a few occassions, and actually it was a pair of pants where the zipper would actually unzip itself.

I can be absentminded, and people have told me that they've seen London more often than I like. This is why I see underwear as absolutely essential, even when I'm low on clean laundry.

I try to recover gracefully with, now, how on earth did you notice that? After that, is there a graceful way of remedying the situation? Do you then turn away, what would be the point?

the unzipped fly i can deal with, but i would be mortified if my one-eyed trouser snake made an unwanted public appearance.