Things that make you cringe many years later

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Do you ever think back to things that happened years ago and just cringe with the horror of it all. There are few recurring waking nightmares including:

The time I was out drinking, did a high kick (?) for some godforsaken reason and landed flat on my arse in front of about 100 people

The one and only time I dreamt I was on the loo and, we'll, let's just say DH was not too impressed with the results (and wet sheets).

When I told a colleague her hair reminded me of my parents dog. Ffs, it did NOT go down well. 😳

There are so many more, some of which would just out me completely. Suffice to say my mouth is the cause of most of my troubles...

(I can't believe it's just me that's made a fool of themselves)

Most of my teenage years when I was rather immature, gobby and drunk. Amazing really that I can't remember 3 essential items in Tesco, but I can remember the exact words I used in a conversation in 1995

As I've got older I have learned to hold my tongue, I don't get those cold sweats in the middle of the night worrying about things any more...

Although 2 weeks ago I got rather drunk at dh's corporate do and fell over trying to pick my handbag up in front of a queue of about 100 people. Literally slow motion propelled face first to the ground. Yeah, that was pretty cringey....

Oh I’ve done the pissing in bed thing after thinking I was on the toilet. I once got really stressed with a garage we bought a car from (honestly they were assholes) and yelled at the bloke on the phone ‘I want to speak to the organ grinder not the monkey’. I’m literally dying inside typing that and haven’t even admitted it to DH 😳😳 Still cringe years later but they honestly treated us so badly.

Being caught having sex with my then bf on a stool in his bedroom. He is now my DH and the 'catcher' is now my lovely MIL. It will haunt me FOREVER.

How come I can never think of any for situations like this but I have loads that pop into my head and make my toes curl when I'm trying to sleep

I went to a school a-level theatre trip and was being given a lift home by a very well to do friends parents. When I got in the car I couldn't get the seat belt out. I said 'fucking hell'- I've no idea why. I never swore. She was lovely and you could tell she was mortified. You could have heard a pin drop.
My insides are cringing just thinking about it and it was nearly 15 years ago.

There's a whole host of things I've done in the name of vanity, the most consistent was pretending I didn't need my glasses to see on nights out and then (surprisingly) not being able to see where I was going. I am extremely short sighted so who knows what the fuck I was thinking there 🤦🏻‍♀️

I farted on the bus once, it was a long trip bus and we still had two and bit hours to go. Had pulled over for a break and I was texting my boyfriend. Forgot where I was and let out what I’d describe as an absolute BLASTER.

Was so awkward but so funny I couldn’t stop laughing either. Could see the guy in the seat opposite furiously texting no doubt telling everyone he knew about the freak who farted on the bus and laughed about it to herself

And a mean one - at school we were having a PSHE lesson about the dangers of smoking and a quiz about it all at the end. I was team leader being a gob shite. A quiet girl who I actually really liked knew the answer to ‘what is passive smoking?’ And quietly told our team it was breathing in someone else’s smoke. I loudly told her she was wrong and an idiot it was obviously smoking heavily! I made sure we crossed out her answer and gave mine and sure enough she was right.

I felt so bad about it I didn’t apologise just flounced out. That one haunts me at bedtime 🙈

(For the record she is still just as lovely and champion her regularly on social media since school. There were no hard feelings!)

When a colleague announced she was getting married, I babbled on and on saying how I loved weddings, couldn't wait to see her in her dress, etc etc. Thought she was a bit quiet. The wedding came and went...work colleagues weren't even invited!

In a job interview aged 16, looked down after seeing the interviewers glancing at my top and realising the buttons over my chest had popped undone. It upsets me to think of it now, wish I could laugh but it still brings a horrid feeling of shame over me! I was very large chested and it had always been something I hated. That happening was literally hideous for me! And no, I didn't get the job... thank god!

@Iamheretoday oh my goodness, you have reminded me of my ultimate interview cock up. It was a trendy clothing shop, they asked me what I liked and I said...Shakespeare. I didn't get the job unbelievably!

Every self involved and inane Facebook status that I ever posted in my 20s. They come up on FB Memories and I cringe hard every time.

Facebook.

I once was on a girls trip and there was a big group of us. One of them who was a very close friend had made some complaints about some really cheap food we had. It was fine, nothing special, what you would expect for what we paid. I was whingeing about them whingeing and didn't know they could hear.

Another one is pestering someone to chip into a collection then when they didn't get back to me quick enough just basically being a twat. There was a lot of history behind it and I'm ashamed to say I took the wrong side. Makes me cringe I was that much of a twat. I have since apologised for it and i meant every word.

I had to come home a day early from girl guide camp as I was sick due to eating a whole box of mr kipling cakes, it was only 15 mins from my house

During an IT GCSE class I was daydreaming about a boy in the class who I fancied and ideally typed onto a word document 'I love Darren Smith 4ever' over and over again. Hadn't realised that the PC I was on was linked up to the projector and the whole thing was being displayed on the wall for everyone to see. My toes are curling now just thinking about it .

Years ago, I used to have a MASSIVE crush on a friend/contractor I knew through work. It was deep and lasted for years.

I sent him more than one "accidental" fake texts about some [imaginary] spectacular social jaunt and "how much fun we'd [me and all my imaginary friends] have, see you all later gang!" type crap.

He was very gentlemanly and never once mentioned them.

I look back and CRINGE.

To paraphrase an old joke, I only cringe at two things - everything I said and everything I did in my teens. I think it's to do with the filter being non-existent until you're in your early twenties.

Those aren't that bad OP - at least you were trying to impress

I bought someone a present so they would invite me to their party (I was eleven).

I was once late to meet a date, he wasn't there and I ended up chasing someone going in the opposite direction who looked like him half way round the metro. Gave up then found him at the meeting spot, was too embarrassed to admit what I had been doing!

As a fairly young child calling people all sorts of rude things other children had taught me (only started learning English when I was eight).

Being asked at a job interview when I was 17 why I had applied for job and I said something along the lines of “I need to pay my rent and have enough money to get drunk”, bizarrely I got the job!

Trying to impress a guy (I have never ever been a smooth operator) and said “if you were a star trek phaser you’d be set to stun”. I got my coat and walked myself home!

Falling in a fountain in Germany and having to walk back to my hotel soaking wet in December.

Getting really drunk the first time I met my then boyfriends mum, I tried to get in bed with her naked and then pissed all over the landing carpet. She amazingly still liked me afterwards and still sends me birthday cards.

A works do involved free food, drink and stay in a hotel, I had only been there a few weeks so didn’t know many people and I’m fairly shy, but thought it would be good to get to know people, and who doesn’t like a freebie. My then boyfriend had been away travelling for work (we hadn’t seen each other for about 3 months) and we were both in flatshares which weren’t very private, so we had our food, a few drinks and then went for an early night. At breakfast you were sat next to the people in the next rooms, my line manager on one side and the CEO the otherside both said they hadn’t slept well over breakfast and looked a bit rough. I didn’t think anything of it. We were back at the room packing and the CEO arrives back at his room, we only know as we can very very clearly hear every single word he is saying. I couldn’t look him or my line manager in the eye for a very long time.

I feel like I've unleashed a host of memories- I once sang bohemian rhapsody at a 10 year olds birthday party (I was also 10). It felt like it took years and I have a terrible voice. I remember thinking, 'please let this end' but I was too committed to stop. First and last karaoke for me.

It's like ripping a band aid off with these, I have consigned most to the 'do not speak of these' box in my memory.

Oh goodness I have a few.

The classic sending a ranty “Argh, Bob is doing my head in!” in a hen do planning WhatsApp chat that Bob was in! Only realised when everyone in the group started messaging me separately saying “do you realise you sent that in the wrong chat!” Makes me have a cold sweat now lol. Taught me not to be so bitchy!

The absolute worst worst worst moment probably of my life...I was in the pub when a friend of my brother’s (let’s call him Tom) approached me with a woman with him. Tom said “Ah you know Haz, she’s Thingy’s little sister.”
The woman said “oh yes of course I’m sure I’ve met you at one of the firework nights at your parents’.”
I nodded and said “Oh yes of course! You’re Tom’s mum aren’t you?”
She blinked at me a minute then said “Erm no, I’m his girlfriend.” Argkskgjthdhdhdbbdsbbs I have my head in my hands just thinking of it now!! Cringe!

My best friend once decided to stalk her ex on FB. Instead of typing his name in the search bar she updated it as her status!

YES!! occasionally one will pop into my head and I cringe hard - sometimes it makes me groan out loud with embarrassment!

Mines a little different.

I was married to a horrible man, I had two kids and was pregnant with my third.

He went clubbing in a different town 90 miles away and in my jealous/abused mind set got the rage.

I left the kids with my sil and jumped in my banger of a car. I had £25 to my name. No phone and no sat nav.

I was 30 weeks pregnant.

I put £15 petrol in the car and stopped at every petrol station on the way to ask for directions. The car could of broke down at any second and it was in the early hours in the morning. I'd of been stranded.

I eventually found him and he made me leave my car and get in his and we drove home in silence.
I think of that night often and it haunts me and I cringe at the thought of my daughters ever doing that for a man. What a stupid stupid girl I was.

Sorry about the depressing post lol but I've never told anyone that.

@nannyplummyarse I've never done that exactly but I have made a complete fool of myself chasing a series of men in my twenties who were usually after one thing whilst I was planning our wedding, children and future. I was spectacularly dim when it came to men. Don't beat yourself up about it

Falling down the stairs at a work Christmas party, right in the middle of the hotel foyer. I wasnt even drunk, I just had silly high heels on.

At another work do, I got absolutely shit faced to the point that I remember nothing from about 9pm onwards until I woke up in my hotel room the next morning. Absolutely no recollection at all. I was told that I had called a lot of people cunts and I spent the next week waiting for an email from HR (which thankfully never came). I still cringe at not knowing what else I may have said or done that night.