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!

When I was a child I used to find it so embarrassing to say "please" and "thank you" to people because I knew they were waiting for it. Anything where I was expected to do something had me dying inside. Singing happy birthday, wishing people happy Christmas - things like that. Adults thought I was really rude but I really was grateful and thankful for things, but I had this awful mental block.

Thank god I grew out of it, except for singing happy birthday - still hate that

Buying Canesten cream. Hate, hate, hate doing that.

Accidental fart in a public toilet. You know, the little ones that escape when you least expect it.

I read the first few posts of this thread thinking why on earth would you be embarrassed by that. Then I came to the post about wearing something new and suddenly I wasn't so smug anymore.

Last year I needed new boots but it was when we were in lockdown so I ordered online. When they arrived they had a slight heel (only about an inch and a half). I'm quite short (5ft 3) but I usually only wear flats. When schools reopened and I wore those boots doing the school run I felt so embarrassed thinking everyone was going 'oh look at WitchS trying to be tall'

I'm totally with you on all the hairdresser ones. God I hate everything about the hairdressers as it's so embarrassing.

Also going to the opticians when they put their face really close to yours with the little light. Excruciating. Then choosing new glasses is a minefield, how many pairs can I try on before they think I'm vain, what if they think my final choice is a stupid shape for my face. Then, after all that trauma, I have to actually wear the new glasses in public and everyone knows I have something new! Ffs!

A recent one is masks, especially during those few months when they weren't a legal requirement. I was embarrassed to wear one in case non-wearers thought I was neurotic, but embarrassed not to wear one in case mask users thought I was a covid denier. And don't get me started on all the other mask issues. I'd get embarrassed about my glasses steaming up, embarrassed taking extra seconds to pay with my phone because I have to input the code rather than it recognising my face, embarrassed taking my mask off when getting outside because people will judge where I put it (pocket- they'll think I'm disgusting; little sandwich bag then in my main bag- they'll think I'm neurotic). I'll be relieved when masks are gone forever just to be free of all the above scenarios!

Dancing.
I love music, but I feel ridiculous, even if I'm home alone.

I don't think I've ever laughed so much at a thread
Classics!

Latin American dancing, especially tango and at competitive level where everyone is made up & in tight clothes wiggling away with their heads in the air and hair tightly gelled back. In fact, any sort of competitive dancing makes me cringe!

@WeaverofWords you just reminded me of another one!

The launch show of strictly every year where they paid up the dancers and Celebs! And the dancer does the most ridiculous and overtop walk dance over to them. I cringe so so much when they do that!!

@FridaRose

I don't think I've ever laughed so much at a thread Classics!

Same!! I love it!! 🤣🤣

It's not so much a thing as a place. Funerals. For some inexplicable and very agonising reason, my stomach will rumble like Pavarotti in a tumble dryer whenever there's a respectful silence. Every time.

Anything with Cilla Black in it. I couldn't even watch her in an empty room without feeling excruciating embarrassment.

Sitting on the window seat of a train or bus, and having to ask the aisle occupant to move to let me get out when it's my stop. Then all the faff of having to squeeze past them, particularly if they don't actually stand up and just shuffle over a bit, so they get my arse in their face. It's all I can do not to just miss my stop and sit there until they get off.

And don't get me started on having to ask aisle-seat occupants to move when you need a wee on a long-haul flight... how many times is too many? Argh!!!

@Mudday

It's not so much a thing as a place. Funerals. For some inexplicable and very agonising reason, my stomach will rumble like Pavarotti in a tumble dryer whenever there's a respectful silence. Every time.

Just thought of another one which combines two things: funerals and music. Those songs that families choose to remember their loved ones. Once the CD stuck on Andrea Boccelli’s Time To Say Goodbye and it was an eternity before we could leave the church,

The walk of shame when you exit a fitting room with the garment that you took in that for some reason you changed your mind on.
You either hand it back to the snooty assistant or put it on the rail yourself and there's a queue of people waiting to try their garments on.
In my mind they're pitying me while thinking, it was too small wasn't it fatty.

When you go into a public or work toilet for a pee, and as you pee a massive fart escapes that sounds like a bedsheet being ripped in half ....and you realise to your horror that there's someone in a different cubicle. Then you debate whether to wait in the cubicle till they've gone, or front it out.

@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!

I thought I was the only one

Buying a pregnancy test with my other x2 small children with me.

The launch show of strictly every year where they paid up the dancers and Celebs!

OMG yes. And they are always OVER THE MOON to get whoever they have got, like it's their dream come true. They can't all be, so the fakery is just embarrassing. Can't they just have a hug and look reasonable happy? Urgh.

Actually I also can't stand the waiting for results bit either, or anything where they're announcing a winner or loser and spin it out for 10 seconds. Nooooooo

Getting gifts.

Exercising, especially running. I can’t do it. One evening I tried to give it a go in the dark and I met my friends husband going around the corner and told him I was only running to mass. Then after I passed him I copped that I had the dog on a lead with me so he knew. Cringe!!!

Also when someone is telling me a recipe. I start blushing it’s so bad, especially if they are going through all the steps, and doing actions, like ‘adding a pinch’ I just shrivel into myself begging for it to be over. Why would they do this, there is no way I’m going to remember any of it. People are so nice aren’t they.

@CarrieMoonbeams

Oh God, the NHS Clap one has reminded me of the most horrific one.

My lovely NDN works for the NHS in an admin role. During The Clap, DH - who is normally a sensible chap - inexplicably turned towards my NDN and said in a huge booming voice "This is for you, Sarah-Jane!" and clapped enthusiastically at her.

I had to go inside.

This just made me want to twist myself into a pretzel shape and disappear. I'll be reliving it all day 😂

Zumba.

You are my people.
I hate that feeling post Christmas where you see people wearing their Xmas presents up the school. Have even delayed wearing new items until a far less conspicuous time say... mid feb 😂
Hate new glasses, feel like they have flashing lights on them - look at me
Hate saying my name out loud, sounds cringe
Hate walking out of the hairdressers
Hated the nhs clap so much we went out our back doors and done it- rather than standing directly opposite neighbours gurning and clapping at us

Occurred to me last week - going to get a smear or similar, the before and after are significantly more embarrassing than the procedure itself.

GP said to me to let her know when I was ‘ready’ - what do you say to indicate that? What do you do? Where do you hide your knickers if there’s no chair, and should you sit on the bed until they appear or lie down? I never know and I feel they should tell you in case I do something wrong and they think I’m weird !!

And then after, having to awkwardly get dressed again and open the curtain … for some reason all that is far, far worse than the actual procedure itself .

Also absolutely despise role playing at uni - i.e. practicing intervention and consultation skills etc (training to be a HCP) . It’s a hundred times worse in breakout rooms on zoom where lecturers/tutors suddenly appear, by which time you’ve usually given up role playing altogether !!

I’m sure it’s already been mentioned but people’s leaving speeches / presentations in the office. No one wants to be there, the employee is just sat in their chair with all of their colleagues gurning manically at them clapping as they’re presented with the leaving gift. Excruciating.

Crying/ showing ANY sort of emotion whatsoever in front of my parents.

Hugely hugely embarrassing.

I am currently suffering really badly with my mental health and am hanging on by my fingers but they have no clue.

DH thinks I'm batshit.

Stems back from childhood I think.

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@cherrypiepie

This is weird : being seen leaving my house or being seen outside my house eg tidying up the garden at the front (it's only small buffer garden) or having to go to neighbours houses so this years Christmas cards did not get delivered!

Yeah I get this one! I feel loads of invisible, judging eyes on me, even when I'm not doing anything wrong! Ditto putting the bins out and bringing them back in.