Because of my shyness I came out of a chip shop with a portion of fish...

I got drunk on a night out when I was very young and a lad that I really fancied for years came on to me in the pub. I thought I was winning life, I danced with him and we kissed a few times. Absolutely buzzing. When the pub was closing we walked out holding hands and he invited me back to his. I couldn’t believe my luck that night, until we bumped in to his mum outside who was calling him by his older, very much less attractive younger brother....

Only then I realised I was that drunk I had mistaken him for his brother

I made an escape back home in the taxi and said I was going on holiday really early in the morning and I still had to pack... put on a show of kissing him still and giving him my number so he didn’t clock on that I’d mistaken him for his brother!!!

What made it worse is that I was calling him ‘Danny boy’ all night without him correcting me so he full well knew!!

I used to smoke a few years ago and a man asked to use my lighter, I pulled it out of my bag gave it to him and 30 seconds later he still hadn't lit his cigarette, I had given him my USB stick

I know this is an old thread but have to add my bit... went to a catholic christening (had only every been to c of e 30 min ones before!). Anyway ended up taking communion as just followed everyone else who got up I am aware at this huge sin I committed, I just copied what everyone else did! Sorry Jesus!

I was too embarrassed to say "oh I'm neither catholic nor baptised".

I also get called a name that's not mine a lot... I just answer. I must look like someone of that name as it happens loads!

Also once went to view a house for sale only the owner didn't want to sell and sat my down for an hour telling me about his marriage break up...then insisted on driving me home

I've been reading this thread over the last few days and feeling a sympathetic smugness. Then just now I decided to use the loo before I left work. I bumped into the cleaner on the stairs (jumped out of my skin - thought I was alone in the building) and said breezily that I was off now and retraced my steps rather than risk him seeing me go into the loo. I'm now walking home to my one year old who will want to cuddle and jump on me and my dodgy post pregnancy bladder...

This thread is GOLDEN and is me all over.

Many times I’ve paid about £6 for my lunch as ice picked up an incorrect item for a meal deal so haven’t for the deal.

Been taken to the wrong place in a taxi before and then had to get another taxi to where I needed to be.

It takes me ages and ages to work up the courage to ask a question at work because people might think I’m stupid then my Manager just confuses me even more so I’m worse off than I was when I started.

Someone mentioned Avoidant Personality Disorder and it is definitely me.

I have an unusual name that has 2 different ways to pronounce it. Law-rie/Lorrie.

On my first day in my new job earlier this year my manager took me round all the key people I would be working with and introduced me as Lorrie. I was way too embarrassed to correct her and as such have been "Lorrie" for the whole time I've been there.

Until I introduced myself to a new person as Law-rie and my boss said "woah wait, how did you just say your name??" And now my entire department knows that I have been too painfully shy to correct them for 7 MONTHS! And I'm in a senior role where I am expected to be able to stand up for myself 😂

It was pissing down with rain a while ago, like real monsoon rain, and I decided to hide in the nearest shop. I ended up spending £15 on a birdcage. I don’t even have a bird 🐦😂 I kind of felt a bit weird standing there when it was just me and the shop owner making small talk. I felt obliged!

I once spelled my middle name wrong on an official document. I was half asleep and wasn't thinking. The lady sorting out my forms said "that's an unusual way of spelling it" and I was too embarrassed to admit that I was a moron who couldn't spell her own name so I just nodded and smiled. I never did correct it

I used to go to work in a cafe straight from school when I was about 14. I was too embarrassed to get changed into my work uniform at school or change at my work place so I used to sneak down a grotty little alleyway in the centre of town and get changed there?! Looking back god knows where my head was at!!!

I can't link properly but there's a really interesting edit on www.facebook.com/bbctwo/ which talks about the benefits of shyness

@juggler4 I have to hide from the cleaner every other week when she comes because I am mortified.

I have really bad anxiety right now and leaving the house is a real challenge. But I can't face her! My Grannies will be spinning in their graves, the notions I have about myself!

For some reason I feel really awkward about going to the loo when I'm around people I don't know. I'll hold it to the point it hurts just to avoid asking someone if I can use their toilet. I don't know why, it's ridiculous

I got a first degree burn just above my top left molar recently after eating a piece of my delicious mince pie that I thought was cooler than the rest of the pieces. I sat there looking out the kitchen window with tears forming in my eyes due to the sheer hotness whilst wishing my boyfriend would leave the room to use the toilet or something just so I could spit the peice of hot pie out.

We've been together for four years! You would think spitting out food that is too hot wouldn't be a problem but nope, I was far too British to even do anything about it. My boyfriend then told me that I looked preoccupied. Well, yes. I almost cooked part of my mouth so I'm obviously going to look preoccupied. 🤣

I asked for a "Pineapple Juice" the other day. I got a pint of apple juice instead. Drank it.

My brother has always been known by his second name but on his first day at work his boss said lads this is "first name" and he was too shy to say anything and that's what he's been known as since. He's been there over twenty years now, his wedding was a bit awkward with all his mates from work there.

Oh God I have remembered another one - I need therapy!!

Years ago (in my defence I was only 16) my bf and I were visiting his gran. She lived far away so first time I'd met her.

She made us some lunch and had piled my plate high with tomatoes. I HATE tomatoes, especially the big beef tomatoes like these ones 🤢 Of course I was far too polite to say that to her, so we spent the next half an hour with my bf snatching the tomatoes off my plate when his gran's back was turned and shoving them in his mouth.

We were nearly home and dry when she turned round and caught him. 'Oh is he stealing your tomatoes? Let me get you some more'. Cue my plate getting piled high with more tomatoes 😱

I promise I am far more assertive now!

Oh and another one...

Years ago I was with an ex bf and his friend, and we were visiting his friend's mum. Whilst the boys were out of the room the mum started calling me by my bf's ex-gf's name. She did it once, I pretended I hadn't noticed and hoped she wouldn't do it again.

Then she said it again and again. I was too embarrassed to correct her so just accepted this was my name now.

When friend came back in the room and overheard this, he of course corrected her. His mum was looking at my like I was bonkers for having allowed myself to be called the completely wrong name for the last hour 🙈

When I was a teenager, I got a taxi to my part-time job (started at 6am on a Sunday so no public transport) one very snowy morning.

When we were almost there the taxi driver starts talking about dropping me off outside the 'staff entrance'. I said I'd never heard of the staff entrance and I'd been working there quite a while. He was trying to be helpful so I said oh well that sounds great thanks! He drove right past my work, kept driving into another industrial estate. It's slowly dawning on me that he thinks I'm going somewhere completely different 🙄 But obviously I was too embarrassed to tell him so went along with it!

I stood outside for a bit until he drove away then walked in the snow for about half a mile to get to my actual workplace 😂

As a very shy, very polite 10 year old, I had to go to my aunt's for lunch with my cousin (aunts daughter) who was 1 year older. Given at that point I was used to travelling by bus by myself, going swimming and to the cinema etc with friends, this shouldn't really have phased me. We were from a very poor background, large family, quite chaotic, no money. Aunt was mum's younger sister and had "ideas above her station" 😁

Anyway, so arrives for lunch and are sat at a table with a tablecloth and everything. Aunt asks if I want toast and egg or Welsh rarebit. I don't really like eggs, but think that rabbit is quite expensive so the polite me thinks I'd better have the toast and egg. Lunch arrives and I get the hated eggs and cousin gets cheese on toast! I bloody love cheese on toast. Anyway, upshot is that my aunt trying to be posh meant I had a horrible lunch.

I've resented her ever since even though I'm in my 50s and she's now passed away.

Feckin' cheese on toast.

Thought I’d resurrect this thread to say I got stuck talking to a slightly bonkers neighbour from down the road when I was outside my house the other day, he was going on and on about nonsense and I was desperately trying to get away, he then asks how are the dogs? So British as I am, I said they were great thanks and proceeddd to have a further 10 minute discussion about my dogs.

I don’t have, nor have I ever had dogs. Fml.

I was working as physio on community. Went to a new lady's house, and she had laid on a whole buffet of food - clearly out of being lonely etc - and I was working in mental health, so fine...

Everything there was meaty. I am a vegetarian. But it was so clear she had made such an effort, and it meant so much to her.

So I shoved some ham sandwiches in my bag. After all, she wouldn't lay on this spread every week, when she realised this was the deal? Would she?

She did. 'I've made you ham sandwiches because I saw you liked them'. My now ex-husband used to laugh his socks at how he'd get ham sandwiches.

Then one day she never left the room.

I ate the ham sandwiches. Sorry, pigs.

Just been reading through the threads on classics and this is one of my favourites because it's me all over. I've done so many of these things.

Most recently, spent £120+ having my hair highlighted from very dark to try and lighten it to (hopefully) blonde. First hairdresser was awful and my hair was like chewing gum so I let it recover and went to the hairdressers my mum goes to. Fucking hell. My hair was ginger with loads of grey streaks and dodgy pale ginger bits and it felt crunchy and she just kept saying "oh better get a conditioning treatment on that" like I didn't know she'd just fried my hair off. Said it was fine and I liked the colour, she obviously knew she'd messed up and knew I was lying but I paid and left anyway. Cried about it, 5 days later I dyed my hair dark brown. So I spent a ridiculous amount of money and now it's only a few shades lighter than it was and about 6 inches shorter where I had to cut off all the pubey ends. Fabulous.

Also, about 3 weeks ago, I was in work and went to collect something from another site. Decided I'd get a hot chocolate on my way back as I was feeling a bit shit. It's a machine where you do your own hot drink then take it to the till to pay. As I was making the drink, I went to get my bank card out ready, only to realise I had left it at home and had no change and no way of paying. Instead of laughing it off and explaining what I'd done, I turned straight round, left the machine filling up the cup and just walked out. Worst part is, I'm staff so they'd have let me take it anyway or pay another day. Honestly wanted to carry on walking and go home. I was so embarrassed

I went to the local kebab shop to buy my husband a kebab.
The guy working there has always been really friendly so we started chatting.

While we were chatting I noticed that they seemed to be making 4 of everything, so I tentively asked how many he thought I wanted..... It was 4 of course!

It was super awkward and the guy offered to keep the extra, but I knew he couldn't resell it so I just went into this spiel that my husband would love it... Could eat them for breakfast etc...

Unfortunately I didn't even have enough money on me, so my husband had to pay the remainder on the way to his night shift...... It came to almost £40!!!!
Luckily the guy left the country not long after so I didn't have to face him again after my mistake.

In October of 2017 I was at the mall. I was at the makeup shop buying some new makeup for myself. Instead of giving them the correct change I accidentally shortchanged them. I ended up going back to the store the next day to apologise for my mistake.

My husband and I got totally ripped off buying tapenade in a French market and didn't have the language skills to turn it down once we knew the price. We still talk about expensive things in terms of how many tapenades they are.