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!

@TigerKat yes!!! I don’t do gardening but DP will often call me out to look at the roses and yew tree pruning he’s just accomplished and I hate it. We are central village and everybody stops and looks as it is due to property and situation by the church but I feel like such a dick coming out to admire the rose pruning.

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

YES!!! THIS!!!

@RitaSueanBob2 despite a fairly positive relationship with my folks I also have issues with this emotion showing thing. It feels like it did when aged 15 and a sex scene comes on TV when watching with parents. Very similar type of cringe feel. I don’t have an explanation for it.

I have found absolute solace and humour in this thread. Should possibly add that my DC are autistic and I feel that I am too - although am actually very sociable so it isn’t social anxiety related to autism but something else: fucked if I know what though.

Hearing my own voice on recording. Sounds weird or embarrassing. Don’t know why

@GrapefruitPink I’m totally with you on this! I always put up an ‘apologetic’ hand and almost prance across so as not to delay the driver any further!

Going into work with a new haircut or going in wearing a new top.

Not sure why but i find buying feminine products embarrassing like now EVERYONE knows!

When going to cross the road and you're having to walk around a car, then it moves and you look like you can't walk in a straight line 🤦‍♀️😂

People dressed up as characters

I hate this so much too - it's similar to role play in that you're supposed to play a part to go along with it. I spent my childhood in dread of having to interact with dressed-up people and I can't understand why anyone child or adult likes going to Disneyland and having to be around them! 😱

And even worse when they talk about it as if it's real, as in "going to meet Mickey Mouse" aaaaaarghhhh! Cringe!

Saying anyone’s name out loud, to get their attention for any reason.

What if I get the name wrong? Doesn’t matter if I’ve known them 20 years…
Saying someone’s name is just…odd.
But massively important to get right, and say correctly.

I was going to say I must be strange because nothing much embarrasses me.

Then someone mentioned lifts. I got into one at M & S last week. The other couple standing there were waiting for someone and didn’t get in. I pressed the button to go up as I checked my phone. The door opened and I walked out - straight past the same couple - the lift hadn’t gone anywhere. I was too embarrassed to make eye contact and get back in, even though I heard the woman asking her husband if I hadn’t just got into the lift…. Just carried in walking hoping they’d think I was my own identical twin.

Scanning my ticket at train stations. Hate it. Makes me panic and blush and I inevitably do something wrong. Still feel embarrassed even if I don't.

Anyone singing happy birthday to someone or being the person this is inflicted on. Felt embarrassed when the children started singing happy birthday to Boris Johnson on the news clip yesterday.

@Daisymaybe60

I was going to say I must be strange because nothing much embarrasses me.

Then someone mentioned lifts. I got into one at M & S last week. The other couple standing there were waiting for someone and didn’t get in. I pressed the button to go up as I checked my phone. The door opened and I walked out - straight past the same couple - the lift hadn’t gone anywhere. I was too embarrassed to make eye contact and get back in, even though I heard the woman asking her husband if I hadn’t just got into the lift…. Just carried in walking hoping they’d think I was my own identical twin.

Oh thats just brilliant

@StellaGibs I kind of have the same problem on the bus. I seem to get it wrong quite frequently - perhaps I'm trying too hard

@SquarePeggyLeggy

Having a head massage at the hairdresser and closing my eyes or visibly enjoying it too much in case I seem like a pervert.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant!

@prettycolours

I can relate to so many of these

One I thought of was when you get on a really crowded bus/train and have to sit next to a stranger but over the course of the journey it starts emptying out until you and this stranger are just sat together but surrounded by empty seats. Of course you want to move, they want you to move, but it's so awkward doing it. Like you're rejecting them.

Oh yes! It feels like I'm deciding whether to run because they're smelly or I sit with them like a creep. I've got off & walked before because of this stress.

I hate when the window cleaner comes. I hide in one room with the curtains closed!

@nansbigpants

Any form of audience participation- even just clapping along or a round of applause at the end.

Logically, I know that a) no-one is looking at me b) no-one will care if I am slightly out of time or get the action wrong etc and c) it's supposed to be fun. But in that moment I am convinced that either a) I will go for it a bit too much and look weird; or b) I won't look like I'm enjoying it and so will look weird; or c) I'll have misunderstood and the audience is not supposed to join in so I'll be making a noise etc on my own- and that d) everyone will stare at me and the incident will become legendary (and not in a good way). None of these things has ever actually happened to me. Every year I take a group of local children to the pantomime and whilst the other helpers are all getting on the spirit of things I feel like I'm about to sit an exam.

When I was a primary school teacher I hated going to the pantomime. It was a Christmas torture. I could only relax if I was right in the middle of a row, hemmed in by many, many children so the chance of being picked for some bloody awful thing on stage was less likely. With regard to clapping. I married a man who claps longer than anyone else in any event where clapping is required. No matter how long anyone else claps he will clap longer. When my children were small they thought it was hilarious. When they got older they used to have competitions with him , without him knowing. However long he clapped they would add an extra one at the moment he stopped.

This might not be weird but when you echo on zoom and teams calls, I try and catch up with echo and talk back - doing my bit to get women taken seriously at work

This is an amazing thread

I live in a small town. If I have to get in a taxi on my own. I feel really embarrassed going through the town centre in case anybody sees me 😂

@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.

Ha! I thought that was just me!

Calling in sick , my arm could be falling off and I would still feel like it’s illegal.

When I was 25 I used to feel embarrassed wearing my black coat, trousers and shoes walking past the secondary school on the way to work. Always made me cringe. Felt like one of the school kids 😂