Random shit that embarrasses you

[Sparklyboots]

.... I'll start. People peering into my shopping basket. I find it mortifying and feel inexplicably defensive (without really being clear what I am defending or for what reason). I feel the same whether it's tomatoes in the basket or condoms and pile cream. The self-service thing is such a relief.

Going into work with an obviously different haircut. Just painfully embarrassing,

Yes to the new haircut too!
I’m glad it’s not just me.

This thread is cathartic…another is when you have to thank another car for stopping to let you pass. I put my hand up from about 20 feet away and have to keep it up till I’ve driven past along with a rictus grin. Why can’t I be cool and just flick a wave to them or learn how to make my lights flash like the other people?

I expect someone has said this already but when you didn't hear what someone said but rather than ask them to repeat it, you decide to react appropriately despite not knowing whether you should be happy, sad, sympathetic or laugh!
I did it once with my neighbour (who, in my defence does ramble on a bit about things that happened years ago) and I went for a laugh and it turned out that she was telling me that her mother had slept with her fiancé!
Again, in my defence, it was YEARS ago. At least 40, possibly 50 but I took a guess at what she had said, rather than saying pardon, I didn't hear you' and obviously went for the wrong reaction

When taking the dog for a walk and picking up the poo and somebody walks/drives passed I know it's got to be done but I just get so embarrassed 🤦🏻‍♀️
The school run,I hate it I will often get my partner to work around the school run so o don't have to do it🤦🏻‍♀️
Going to the toliet that's not my own

A random shit would definitely embarrass me!

I just had an internal job interview (cross fingers and toes please everyone that I get it) but I had to really sort of big myself up. I'm excellent at my job, I also seem to do everyone else's jobs who are senior to me so it's no secret that I'm competent but having to sit in front of my two managers and TELL them how amazing I felt I was, cringey!

Also, phoning takeaways. I can't do it. DH has to do it. I get embarrassed that I wont understand what they're saying, even though I spend all day at work speaking to people whose 1st language is very often not english with no bother but ordering a take away, nope.

@Mol1628

Oh literally everything on here. I’m so anxious.

The takeaway thing is so me! I just can’t answer the door to a takeaway.

I feel awkward unloading my grocery orders at the door too. They just stand there awkwardly whilst I try unload each item. Please bring back the tray liners it made it much less awkward.

Hand car wash. Sitting there whilst someone washes my car. Cringy.

We carry the crate into the kitchen and unload it there. I guess this only works if you are able to carry the full crate. I'd hate to unload all my items in the hall.

Stopping at traffic lights with my window down, next to a car on the right of me with their window down and a passenger in their car. Where do you look? I try to gaze around casually but worry I'll miss the lights changing, but if I stare ahead I feel so rigid and awkward!

Walking through a shop playing dance music or similar when your steps accidentally go in time with the beat so you try and change the rhythm of your walk to feel less weird . Urgh

There are lots of people on this thread who seem to care too much about what random people who you will never see again think of you!

@SpnBaby1967, that about the interview is so true. I never minded interviews. I have a very laissez- faire approach. If I get it, great. If not, no worries, so they never bothered me, but applying internally to people you already work with, so embarrassing.

@SpnBaby1967, hope you get it BTW!

Also, wearing new clothes/shoes and someone asks if they're new. I always say something like 'I've had them a while but not wore them before' why? What's wrong with saying yes, they're new?!

Last one

When you're dragged up onto the dancefloor for whatever cheesy, old skool song is playing and the next one that comes on is rubbish and you then have to leave the dancefloor. That walk back to the table is horrific.

Oh another one - the whole 'go around the circle and everyone tell us a bit about yourself', I can't believe anyone actually enjoys that crap!

It's so awkward and fake, and nobody cares. Can we just get on with whatever the activity is please?

@Shirleyphallus

People being slightly in my way and me having to ask to get by them, because in my head I apologise in french and honestly am very close to saying “pardon!” which will really mark me out as a weirdo

I do this!! In my headand do a sort of nonchalant hand-wavy thing with both wrists to go with it (am not French🤣)

Not quite random... but DH sang to me at our wedding-party... as a surprise. It was as if we'd never met🤦🏻‍♀️ I had to go and sit on 'special' chair in the middle of the dance floor whilst he crooned (and three of my friends were 'back-up' singers) They'd been rehearsing secretly for weeks... I was utterly mortified and it still brings me out in a cold sweat whenever I think about it almost twenty years later... It may sound 'ungrateful' but am quite introverted and it was truly hideous. Obviously my close friends must ALSO have thought I would love this but it was hugely misjudged!!!

Like people singing Happy Birthday or those public proposals🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

@Slimmingstar

When the teacher says ‘namaste’ at the end of yoga. I just can’t say it back. I sort of go ‘yeah, cheers, great, thanks’……… argh!

And the slight nod and the prayer hands... I LOVE my yoga teacher and the practice, but I still feel cringey at the end

When I'm having a meal out with someone and they talk really loud.

@penguinwithasuitcase

Seeing someone I know and making eye contact with them from a long distance.

What do you do with your face in the gap between catching their eye and getting close enough to say hello? Where do you look? Do you wave? How long for? Then what do you do?

Dying just thinking about it.

This x 5 billion. It's the absolute worst.

@treesgoping

Buying tampons in a local shop if the cashier is an older male.

I recently had a Tesco delivery and my tampons were substituted for towels. I politely told the driver that he could have them back as I don't use towels and they were no use to me. He then went on to tell me the lady on last delivery he made had ordered towels and received tampons and that they must have got mixed up on our orders. That wasn't embarrassing in the slightest having to talk about sanitary protection with a random male stranger 😂

Goodness reading these makes me feel like I’m an oddity - I never really get embarrassed by anything, ever. Is that really unusual?

Walking through the green channel at customs and suddenly being convinced I have accidentally packed a load of drugs and weapons in my suitcase.

The clapping along to music thing is so bloody awful I wouldn't be able to do it even in front of my husband and I have generally have no embarrassment at all with him. I've turned down invites to go to various concerts and gigs because I knew there would be clapping along and I just can't bring myself to, so I'd look like a sullen weirdo sitting there with my arms folded.

I loathed it even as a small child and only ever went to a Christmas panto once because all the kids were made to clap along to a song and even at the tender age of 7 I was dying inside. Never went again.