make me feel better by telling me about cringing at yourself

Well they always used to be for families who needed a little more support and were having trouble coping. This was when my children were young and they're grown up now so things might have changed.

I was at a Toddler group with DS and some ladies from Sure Start visited.
One of them used to work at the Preschool DD had gone to a few years previously and came to speak to me.
She gave the the details of the Sure Start centre and said I would be welcome to go - I replied "well I hardly think they are for people like me".
A lot of people think I am posh because despite growing up here I don't have much of a local accent so I must have sounded like a total twat.
I didn't know what Sure Start was for, I thought it was for people who needed extra support due to issues like drugs, alcohol or difficult home situation and I was trying to say that I wouldn't want to take time or resources from people who needed them.
Probably just sounded like a stuck up cow.

A friend of mine works as a TA and when she was first starting out she was invited to a curry night with some of the teachers. She really looked up to them but as she was quite shy she had a few drinks to calm her nerves. She went to pick up her glass of red wine but accidentally picked up the bottle, went to take a small sip & spilt the whole lot down her top. The teacher opposite didn't know where to look

I went to an exercise class that I'd never been to before on the local sports centre. The receptionist directed me to the main hall. I noticed some people doing their stretches so I took a spot and started copying the instructor. He started to walk over to me and I had a sinking feeling I knew what he was going to say. Yes, he said "we're just finishing, the class you want is over there..." pointing to the other side of the hall where people were sat waiting for their class to start...

Was rear-ended by a work van. Had my young kids in the car, fairly stressful.

Police arrived, we drove to the nearest lay-by and they asked me some questions, including how old was I?

How old do you think I look? I answered.

I can only think it was the shock of the accident but I think about it often and cringe.

I have probably posted this one before but when I was about 17 and worked in a supermarket, one of the former staff members, an older lady, used to shop regularly there. I always said hello to her. One day she came in and I said hi how are you,?
She replied what I thought was "my friend was married today". I said ooh that's lovely!!
Later on when talking to other colleagues I realised she had actually said "my friend was buried today"
45 years on I still cringe about it 😬 😅

I mis-typed the word "public," by missing out the letter 'l'.

This would have just been one of those things, were it not on an order of service for a church service...

@SecretWitch I can well imagine ha ha!

😂. I’m still cringing some 15 years later. It has made me check things twice before I hit send

Omg that's hilarious 😂

I was once with my DD on holiday In Cornwall. I was very disorganised and we had to go shopping as I needed a bikini. Well, everywhere was super busy including the changing rooms which were full of people (I guess other tourists?) doing the same thing. After eventually getting a cubicle that was actually curtained off, I was frantically trying on several bikinis. In my stress - induced panic to get out of there fast, I somehow managed to expose my bare bottom to a whole changing room full of people when bending down.

I was bursting for the loo in a charity shop & they let me use the staff loo as a one off. I did my business then when I came out I thought my OH was stood next to the door so said "ahhhh, that's better!" It wasn't OH, it was a stranger. My OH was waiting outside the shop 😳

I can't stop laughing at this 😂

I had just got my newborn off to sleep after a feed and went out into the garden to hang out the washing. All was well with the world on a sunny, breezy day and I smiled and waved jauntily at the parish priest who was passing the garden gate. He looked horrified and scuttled past like lightning.
I only realised when I got inside that I'd still got my boobs fully out from feeding DS.
The dear old priest is long since dead but I still cringe inside out with embarrassment when I think about it.

@Runki - You should have a camera crew following you around at all times - I'd watch it! 😂

My Dad, similarly to yours, told us that when you see a hearse containing a coffin (empty hearses did NOT count...), then you had to hold your collar, as a mark of respect. Until the next time you saw a dog. Seriously!

DSis and I mindlessly complied with this "rule", until one day when I was out with a friend and a hearse passed by, complete with coffin. I automatically reached for my collar, then started scanning the locale for a dog. My very bemused friend, noting that I had stopped talking mid-sentence, and a clear change in my demeanour, asked (perfectly reasonably!) "What are you doing?"

I explained "The Rule".

She explained that my Dad was a wind up merchant.

I was 14. And very embarrassed. My Dad was highly amused when I recounted the tale to him later that day over dinner, at which point my DSis piped up "You must have looked like such a dick! Even I know that's not a thing, and I'm 12!" 😳

I was once visiting an old friend who is a married guy with wife and family. I had been invited to stay by them because of going through a difficult time and was assured I was very welcome. (It was not my idea but it was a holiday in a different country that sounded relaxing. They were super kind in gifting me a whole (very plush) house to myself that belonged to his aunt and uncle who were away. Okay.

Unsurprisingly this was a Big Mistake. His wife was clearly (and perhaps understandably) uncomfortable with this and compensated by being overly nice whilst simultaneously refusing to have a one on one conversation with me. His in laws were just as bad. Although I’d previously had a crush years before, I had absolutely no interest in my friend romantically. I was getting over a major breakup. But. The whole trip was major cringe.

What made it worse was I met her mother who acted much in the same way, and compensated by gifting me with a CD of herself singing. I was really confused by this and said “oh, are you famous?”
Turns out she was - locally. I had no idea. She was an insufferable woman and I trashed the CD when I got home. She probably disliked me just as much.

But the icing on the cake was the night before the end of the trip, I had a rather large bowel movement and when flushing the toilet, rather than going down..,it flushed upwards with water and toilet paper spilling into the entire bathroom. I potentially ruined the towels trying to clean up and there was no bleach to disintegrate what was stuck in the toilet - apparently the cleaners kept all cleaning products with them. So I had to fly home and leave my giant turd in the toilet for them to deal with.

We never really spoke again.

Job Interview.

I was asked if I enjoyed travelling with work.

I meant to say "I like to stretch my legs and spread my wings".

I actually said "I like to spread my legs and stretch my wings".
^
The silence was deadly.

Didn't get the job^

Ah..embarrassment by proxy 😂

When I was seven years old I ran into the kitchen shouting "Daddy, Daddy there's a program on the television called dishcloth!" Turned out it was called "Discotheque".

It still makes me cringe when I think of it over half a century later.

As part of my O Level Music course, I had to play an instrument. I didn't play anything, so had singing lessons instead. My teacher entered me into a Scottish Folk song singing competition where we all had to sing the same song. My turn came and I was wracked with nerves. I can't remember anything about the actual singing but I do remember seeing my mum in the audience looking shocked and embarrassed and my singing teacher looking horrified and muttering to herself. I have no idea what went so wrong to elicit those reactions but it makes me curl up and die inside every time I remember it. ☹️

I was out with a friend, and we happened to see Orlando Bloom walking down the other side of the road (this was just before the first LOTR film came out, and as a big geek we recognised him, but he wasn't being mobbed).

We were so focused on staring at him, that I walked straight into a lamppost, fell backwards into my friend, and we ended up in a pile of tangled limbs in a puddle.

Suffice to say, he didn't give us a second thought, and we were way too embarrassed to ask for an autograph

That’s not embarassing, it’s your job! 18 year old till workers have to ID people all the time.

@NikKai Ha ha I'm glad it made you laugh. 😄 Hope the rest of nap time goes less shakingly though ha ha! I know what you mean....the one from the lady who slid towards the postman with her bottom on display completely did for me! 😂