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!

Buying the daily Mail for my mother…

Actually, that’s an entirely reasonable thing to be embarrassed about

Gardening the front garden. It just feels so personal to be on your knees with a trowel. Hence,back garden is wonderful how I like it, front garden is weedy jungle! Somehow less emarrassing than to be out on the street gardening save for the odd quick furtive tidy :D

Haha I know what you mean re baby bump but that was only really in my first pregnancy, after that I got over it.

I find running outside really embarrassing. I'll run in the gym, but not in a park or on the street.

Having my hair massaged in the hairdressers makes me feel self conscious...not knowing whether to have my eyes open or closed, and feeling awkward when other people walk past!

Being patted down at the airport with arms out and legs apart - awkward.

Singing happy birthday. Clapping to a beat. Running into someone you vaguely know or used to know and both avoiding contact...

List is endless tbh

Oh, and also, buying a single chocolate bar in the queue. Even if it's planned it always feels like the people behind will judge you for your lack of self control!

Putting the recycling out i.e. tipping the box of saved up bottles and jars into the bin with a resounding crash and sounding like we drink loads of bottles!

I think of this meme every time I go to the hairdressers

@Fairylightsongs

Gosh some folks with some significant issues on here. 😰

Can we just have one thread where someone doesn’t pop in to sneer at everyone 😫

@FreyaMaya

Sitting in the hairdressers looking in the mirror. I don't know where to look. And when I was a child, trying shoes in the shop and the lady in the shop says "take a walk up and down, and see how they feel?" I felt so uncomfortable 😂

I usually think of myself as being 'not bad looking', but man alive - why does Jabba the Hutt always come to the hairdressers with me! 😵‍💫

Coming home from work/shop if we have visitors at home when I arrive. I feel awkward like I'm imposing or interrupting (in my own house!!)
Also buying a sandwich from shop, normal food shopping is fine, but if it's a sandwich or meal deal I find it embarrassing! Like they will judge my choice/they know that I'm going to eat it (whereas general milk/bread shopping could be for anyone) but I'm weird and have social anxiety, I could list loads of things . Oh another big one is if someone comes to my house while I'm eating- can't cope just feel embarrassed and take the plate away on the sly and leave it. I also find it hard to eat or drink at other people's houses. Eg visiting PIL they will offer a cup of tea and guaranteed I will say no even if I'm thirsty, I dont want to be a burden/face any other awkward situation with the drink so it's easier to say no

Using Smart Shop app at sainsbury local, I've only done it once and ended up not saving any money as my phone signal wasn't great and scanned 2 loafs of bread when only brought one.

It's only a small shop so I just felt like a shoplifter, I put items in basket and packed bag at end. I even told the cashier I had just done a smart shop so not walking out without paying.

How the hell, do u walk around put items in your bag, scan code on poster on wall (which is not near the cashier) and walk out. How do you do this without feeling like a shoplifter? I can't do it again as was just so embrassed/nervous.

Fine at a big sainsbury as u still have to go to a checkout.

@Ballbagisnotmyname

Parties and there’s a buffet table, the host will always come over and tell you to help yourself to food, the thought of standing there with an empty plate and everyone can see you - wish the earth would swallow me!

Yep, same. I always ask my husband to do mine.

I went to a little get-together yesterday, so the mortificado is still fresh in my mind.
I don't like eating in front of people either, so it's a double whammy for me.

I usually go home hungry!

Oh the buffet at parties!! Yes I would never partake at a party/wedding as it is so so awkward going up there and then walking along and taking a plate back to the table, I never eat at parties, queuing at the bar is bad enough

The funny thing about the hairdresser mirror awfulness is that when I look at neighbouring victims in their mirrors they all seem to look absolutely fine ! It’s always just my mirror that has gone wrong !

I live on the first floor. Usually couriers buzz my flat, I open the main door via the buzzer, they chuck my parcel in and I run down and pick it up.

Except sometimes they bring it up and so I fling open my door, ready to run downstairs but I hear their footsteps coming up the stairs so I just have to wait, grinning like an idiot while they plod up the steps. Then they have to take the pic. It’s excruciating!!

Sometimes I’m quick enough to close my door again softly, peep out the spy hole while they trudge upstairs, take the pic and then I open the door all afluster ‘oh, you brought it up, how kind, thank you, thanks, thanking you’

Walking someone else's dog as a favour. In case someone thinks I stole it. Even though nobody will know it's not my dog.

@LottieGarbo

The phrases 'move to the music' or 'move your body' and just the word 'music' make me want to digest my insides!!

I don't like the word 'explore'.

A man once told me (thinking I would be overcome with horniness) that he wanted to 'explore my body'. 🤢

Jesus, my toes have curled up so much, they've snapped clean off. 😬

Spotting an acquaintance walking towards me on the street. At what point am I supposed to acknowledge them? Do I yell "Hi X!" from 50 meters away or wait to "see" them when they're right on top of me? Cringe.

Children singing. In person, on tv, anywhere...I think it's because I was so shy as a child and remember exactly how embarrassed I felt and how much I'd try to duck a bit to hide behind the kid in front, I just assume there's some poor child in that group who must feel the same! DC's class assemblies and end of year shows were hard work!

Posting Christmas cards through my neighbours' letterboxes.

Having to ring the bell on the bus and being the only person getting off at that stop, and walking down the aisle feeling everyone's watching me.

OMG currering yes. This is how I look at the hairdresser's - not just the appearance but this facial expression too!

I always feel a bit like the hairdresser might say "well we might as well not bother trying to do anything with your hair, given what your face looks like"

In reality I don't think I'm particularly hideous and can look OK in my own mirror at home, but in the hairdresser's mirror it's that lizard person.

@Fairylightsongs

Gosh some folks with some significant issues on here. 😰

I always get secondhand embarrassment for people who completely misunderstand the tone of a MN thread. 😰

Also, when you're walking aling, staring vaguely into the middle-distance, and realise it looks like you've been making prolonged eye contact with someone sitting in a parked car.

These are hilarious!

Can I add:

The giveaway sound of unwrapping a sanitary towel in a public toilet.

Getting into a lift and someone asking what floor you want, because they're nearer the buttons. Or being the one near the buttons and having to take peoples button-number-orders

Oh and if you don't notice the traffic light turning green, and get tooted by another car...It's like being scolded!!

@Jacaranda75

Leaving a cinema when the movie finishes and everyone is leaving. For some reason, I always found this really embarrassing.

Also walking past a busker and worrying that my footsteps will be in time to the music.

This one is so funny

Watching X factor or anything like that. Watching someone I know sing, even if they're good. I cringe so hard it hurts