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!

@VeronicaBeccabunga

We were in a restaurant in Budapest and there was a band of musicians going between tables. I was trying to repel them by sheer mental effort and hissing at my husband 'Don't make eye contact! Don't engage!' They asked where we were from, I just stared into my lap. He told them, England.

They played 'My bonnie lies over the ocean'.

I clenched my bottom so tight I couldn't poop for a week, blushed, curled up my toes to the point of cramp and wished for the sweet release of death. And then had hysterics and they went away.

I think this is my first ever public post on MN but just had to tell you I am absolutely crying with laughter at this, it is hilarious! I would have felt exactly the same!

@BearSoFair

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!

Haha, I was the same as a child! Especially with dancing at parties, everyone else would be leaping about like a loon and I'd be trying to hide behind a chair.

One day I had to leave work to pick up my DS from school. I worked at a travel agents and and even though the uniform was actually quite smart I felt like such a loser standing waiting in reception. Like I was playing dress up or something. Ridiculous, I know but I was like an impostor syndrome moment!

I love this thread it's nice to see there are people out there just like me!

@EffYou

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

See also: karaoke. Especially when they are mediocre at best but behave like they are bloody George Michael or Adele. the entire side of my dads family do this and send me videos I delete every single one without watching

@TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo

My family are singers. Not me. I sing ALONE. I would burst into a flame and turn to ashes if I did some of the stuff they've done. Like my brother cutting off his wedding speech halfway through to suddenly sing to his new bride. I prayed so hard that the videographer would not swing the camera round to catch the reactions of the guests. I tried to look like everyone else but I know my face betrayed the pain I felt.

I get sent Smule clips all the time by the family singers. One produced a CD and gave to everyone for Xmas. My chest hurt so bad from all the cringing and embarrassed laugher I was trying not to do.

@NandorTheRelentlessCleaner

I feel really embarrassed when my boss takes me out for lunch and then makes me pay for my own food saying “you don’t mind, do you?” The stinginess of it embarrasses me deeply (he earns 8x what I do, and there is no need to go for lunch we could just have a meeting in the office)

Tight bastard!

I'd be embarrassed by that as well.

Hahaha @EffYou you totally win 😂😂 omg I can't believe he stood there and sang to her!

My Sister was desperate for me to get karaoke for my wedding night do. No Effing Way!!

Also made worse by the fact they all sing the most emotional songs possible and do a shout out!! "THIS one is for the dove from above! I love you"

Ground open up and swallow me please.

I find certain words really embarrassing to say. I avoid them as much as possible and I will phrase a sentence in a totally illogical way to to avoid saying them. Years ago at school I had to say one of them when I was reading aloud in English and my face went bright red

@GrapefruitPink

Another, are my windscreen wipers going too fast? I check other cars I drive past to see how fast theirs are going and adjust accordingly 😂😭

I read a story about a woman who wouldn't drive during heavy rain, cos it made her breathe at the same rate as the windscreen wipers; and would end up almost hyperventilating.

@TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo

I find it embarrassing just to type how it went down! He was standing, delivering his speech full of "the first time we did such and such" memories and he said, "I guess what I'm trying to say is-", broke off, put his head down and stopped for an uncomfortable three seconds and then started crooning "Rule The World."

Sometimes when I'm trying to sleep, all of a sudden my brain will take me right back to the moment and I'll hear his token breathy gravel going, "You laiiiight.....the skaiiiiies, up above meee" and everyone doing that indrawn gasp and "aww" and me making an awkward little squeak.

@QueenPeony

When the hairdresser gets the little mirror out at the end of the cut to show you the back - I absolutely hate it. It feels like she's showing me the back for ages and even when when I acknowledge it looks lovely and make the right noises she carrries on showing me for what I feel is a beat too long to be comfortable. Every time!

@Jenbarbersshoes

Yes! I get some of these, especially standing in a queue and the supermarket ones.

Also, I always feel really embarrassed when I wear something new, particularly a new coat. Like everyone knows it's new and they're thinking, "Oh, look at you, showing off in your new coat".

Yes to the wearing something new thing!! 🤣🤣

@petalblossom

I find certain words really embarrassing to say. I avoid them as much as possible and I will phrase a sentence in a totally illogical way to to avoid saying them. Years ago at school I had to say one of them when I was reading aloud in English and my face went bright red

Come on, you have to tell us which words! Is it something basic like "arm"?

[quote EffYou]@TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo

I find it embarrassing just to type how it went down! He was standing, delivering his speech full of "the first time we did such and such" memories and he said, "I guess what I'm trying to say is-", broke off, put his head down and stopped for an uncomfortable three seconds and then started crooning "Rule The World."

Sometimes when I'm trying to sleep, all of a sudden my brain will take me right back to the moment and I'll hear his token breathy gravel going, "You laiiiight.....the skaiiiiies, up above meee" and everyone doing that indrawn gasp and "aww" and me making an awkward little squeak. [/quote]
Howling!!

[quote currering]@QueenPeony

When the hairdresser gets the little mirror out at the end of the cut to show you the back - I absolutely hate it. It feels like she's showing me the back for ages and even when when I acknowledge it looks lovely and make the right noises she carrries on showing me for what I feel is a beat too long to be comfortable. Every time!
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Yes, this one too! I hate it when they show you the back. I'm usually not wearing my glasses and can barely see it anyway I smile and nod, and say 'great!', 'thanks!' but it somehow always feels like I'm not being appreciative enough...
Plus, I can never really tell what I think till I'm home and have examined a haircut from every angle in my own space.

I find people telling me their skint really awkward. I think it stems from childhood where my parents really were but I never really know how to respond to people having no money I always want to pay for them (I'm not rich myself)

Walking out of the doctors room and back through a waiting room full of people.
I swear they're asking themselves " what is she here for then? She doesn't look poorly to me "
I feel like shouting " I've got a wart on my fanny " just to see the reaction.
Disclaimer I don't and never have had a wart on my fanny.

Oh and when everyone starts singing " for he / she a jolly good fellow, hip hip hurrah " to someone.
Just let me die of cringe.

Other people hate coming out of the hairdresser! It’s not just me!

At the supermarket you head to the bank of self service tills and see just one free, so you leave the queue…and then see the till is out of action and you didn’t notice the red light on the pole above it. Now you either have to hover uncertainly or shove yourself at the head of the queue

Oh God and what @SarahBop said.

Walking into the office loos at 6pm, finding one person still there doing her face or hair or whatever, and having to go into a cubicle and unwrap a sanitary towel, knowing she’s out there and can hear.
Plus the clunky noises of those effing bins.

@EffYou my dad and uncle get up every single time and send videos round of them singing "he ain't heavy" whilst gazing at each other all misty eyed.

Cringe cringe cringe cringe cringe.

Here in Germany, it's considered good manners if you are cycling up behind someone (on a cycling/walking path for instance) to give them a little ring on your bike bell so as not to make them jump as you pass, and so they don't step out in front of you. I always hate doing this as it feels like you are angrily telling them to get out of the way. But if you don't do it, they get annoyed if you suddenly pass them. So I do a tiny little ring and then clamp my hand down on the bell to stop it. I hate passing people.

After the hairdresser I can’t get home quickly enough to wash it and get back to me - me with a great haircut but without oddities of product and styling.

[quote TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo]@EffYou my dad and uncle get up every single time and send videos round of them singing "he ain't heavy" whilst gazing at each other all misty eyed.

Cringe cringe cringe cringe cringe. [/quote]
This made my shoulders hurt to read due to the heavy cringe