Strangest thing you have found embarrassing

[ElliotGoss]

I was waiting for a friend with a bunch of flowers for her. I found this so embarrassing for some reason! Something about standing on a street with a bunch of flowers. I also find having a baby bump cringe!

[LindaEllen]

@LottieGarbo

When I got engaged, I didn't want to tell anyone because I didn't want attention drawn to me even though it was a happy, nice thing! I told someone at work who told everyone else and I spent the whole day scarlet.

This is why I don't want to get married. I don't mind the thought of an engagement, but honestly the thought of being the centre of attention at an actual wedding/reception fills me with dread.

But it also fills me with dread to just get married without doing all that, because both mine and DP's families will absolutely kick off about not being there.

So I can't win either way.

[Allmarbleslost]

Walking along the pavement next to a line of queuing traffic. Hate it and feel so embarrassed.

[BuenaVistaAntisocialClub]

We wear staff lanyards at work which have a photo on them. I find it really embarrassing if I realise I’ve gone to work wearing the same dress as the one I’m wearing in my lanyard photo.

[Sweetpea1532]

@Sunbun19 @JustDanceAddict I'm the same about the supermarket...
Look! A gif just for us

[Sunbun19]

@JustDanceAddict

So the shop thing.
i hate seeing people I know in the supermarket and I’ve hidden to avoid it! I’m not even an unsociable person but it’s so cringe cos you know you’re going to see them again in the next aisle!
also agree w meeting someone in public, but worse if you’re short sighted and wave at the wrong person 😆 I have to really be sure it’s them before I wave.

I once turned around and left the supermarket I was in because I saw someone I knew, we had a really awkward hello and I thought I can't keep bumping into them, so I drove to another supermarket

[WiseRobin]

@autienotnaughty i felt mortified when DS hugged a parent we only really knew vaguely in our local (what was then) Homebase. The parent went rigid and I just felt so embarrassed for them as they didn’t know what to do and what to say. They looked like they really didn’t give hugs.

Also when DS used to have play dates, the collection time could be painful. Standing in a doorway of someone you don’t know too well, while your DC takes forever to get their shoes on, or gets one shoe on and then becomes distracted again, can’t find their coat, stalling tactics etc etc I used to find some those moments mortifying.

[BlossomsOnATree]

OMG the supermarket thing. When you see someone you know, not really a friend but enough of an acquaintance that you have to have an awkward little chat. Then you go round the supermarket and you bump into them on every aisle.... arrrggghhh. Then I do a cringy little grin at them EVERY TIME.

[JustDanceAddict]

So the shop thing.
i hate seeing people I know in the supermarket and I’ve hidden to avoid it! I’m not even an unsociable person but it’s so cringe cos you know you’re going to see them again in the next aisle!
also agree w meeting someone in public, but worse if you’re short sighted and wave at the wrong person 😆 I have to really be sure it’s them before I wave.

[TightPants]

@FamilyGredunza oh no! My DS would have the same reaction as yours I think 😂

[FamilyGredunza]

The Raptor Rap - WARNING a pillow is needed for the cringe factor.

[FamilyGredunza]

@TightPants "I remember watching it as a teen and just dying of embarrassment at them all trying to be so cool."

Mrs Doubtfire was on tv the other day and I'd bigged it up to DS age 7 saying he might enjoy it and how funny Robin Williams is.

There's a part in the film where he starts doing voices to dinosaurs and for one of them he does this rap and it is SO cringey I had to genuinely cover my face with a pillow! It's the voice, the movements, urgh everything.
DS looked at me open mouthed and said "Mum what is he doing". I had to leave the room!

[autienotnaughty]

My daughter when she was 3 hugged a little boy at playgroup for like five minutes I blushed bright red!!

[SweetRuby]

For me it's New Years Eve when the bell strikes 12, I hate the whole happy New year and kiss. I'd rather hide in the bathroom if I'm at a party or in the pub. In fact I rather stay at home and skip it entirely.

[TightPants]

American audiences with all the whooping and fist pumping.

Anyone playing bongos or dancing whilst playing keyboards.

The film Breakfast Club. I remember watching it as a teen and just dying of embarrassment at them all trying to be so cool.

[Gruffling]

Breastfeeding a newborn in a cafe.

[Redvelvet73]

The most cringeworthy thing in the world is adults doing actions to music. Like in some evangelical churches. Not so bad ( but still cringy) at weddings when people are drunk ( like the birdie song) but during a serious church service when about half the congregation do the actions and the other half look mortified.

[ShineOnYouCrazyHonda]

I work for the NHS and absolutely cringed at the clapping.
I hid indoors between 7.30 to 8.30, or sat very quietly in the back garden, weather permitting . I agree it was an unnecessarily extra cruel blow @Thisisit2022

People who knew I worked for the NHS, if they were with people they knew and I didn’t, it was ‘ Honda here works for the NHS, isn’t that amazing?’ And I’d get that pitying look/conversation of how hard it must be working through the pandemic, or even worse, gave a polite clap while I stood there. Ground. Swallow. Up. Mortified. Thank goodness that didn’t happen much.

Being the first person to lead from the front of a congregation to the back of the church, walking past everybody in the pews, before they eventually follow. Even worse was the fact at one time it was my father in laws funeral so I was trying to hide my emotions but failing miserably.

Brass bands suddenly striking up next to me, yet I don’t mind hearing them on TV.

[Itswaytoohot]

I know this is an old thread but it's hilarious.

A very weird one for me is ordering takeaway food and answering the door. It makes me feels lazy and slobby that I'm buying unhealthy food to be delivered and I imagine the server/driver is judging me.

[Redpanda99]

Shouting to the mannequin during resuscitation training. " Mr Jones, wake up. Can you hear me, Mr Jones?" Of course not he's made of bloody plastic.

Then explaining your actions " I'm just pulling the buzzer now"

Then telling your imaginary colleagues what to do. In front of an audience.😡

[ColinRobinsonsfamiliar]

When a stranger asks “how are you?” or “how are you today?”
Like in shops.
Inwardly cringe and am mortified just because they know that I know that we all know that they are in no way interested in how I am but I’m forced to smile falsely and state the same shite for the sake of it.

[Harls1969]

Oh, I sometimes buy clothing from the local supermarket. Wearing the clothing when I go shopping in there embarrasses me 👩

[Tapiocapudding]

I can relate to so many of these.

Walking past buskers.
Going for a walk without my dog.
Entering a restaurant or the canteen at work looking for "your" people who arrived before you.
Comedians who aren't funny and no- one laughs. Oh the shame 😡

I once watched someone walk through a central station (indoor) with their umbrella up. They only realised when they tried to get on the train. I cringed for them.

[ColinRobinsonsfamiliar]

I used to drive home past a pub with outside singers/ entertainers. Windows wound up and no eye contact, excruciating.
in fact any form of amateur entertainers/singers make me supremely embarrassed.

Also, this is really really REALLY bad but I work with someone who’s child is heavily into am dram and I think the family fully believes that he is going to be a famous actor. She puts posters up of his performances in the staff room and her SM is jam packed with promoting this boy.
I don’t know why but it makes me internally cringe and feel very uncomfortable.

[ShineOnYouCrazyHonda]

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

@Thisisit2022

The fucking NHS clap. After successfully avoiding all the neighbours in my horseshoe shaped cul de sac for over 10 years (and then the onset of a pandemic) it felt like an unnecessarily extra cruel blow.

My abiding memory of The Clap was standing in the garden, trying to evacuate the dog's anal glands because the vet was only seeing emergency cases. As I gingerly slid a gloved finger up there, the entire street erupted in applause and fireworks.

😂😂😂😂

[MrsPelligrinoPetrichor]

@pictish

This might be quite a weird cringe as plenty of people won’t get it…but I’m sure some of you will. I can’t bring myself to post social occasions on Facebook…like a night out for example…or lunch with a friend. It turns me inside out with embarrassment because I feel like I’m shouting LOOK AT ME HAVING FRIENDS.
I also cringe at others’ posts detailing every social interaction they have. Social media has become such a sad, shallow, competitive popularity contest that I can’t bear to join in.
Besides that, photos of rounds of cocktails or lattes aren’t very interesting.

I get it. My heart sinks now when someone inevitably whips their phone out. It's like we're living life through a bloody lens now. I hate it.