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!

@currering

If I'm at the front of a queue where they have those "checkout number 3 please" announcements and it's my turn next, I feel like everyone is staring at me.

Same for at our Drs when your name is called by the robotic voice on the waiting room screen and I feel like everyone stares at your when you get up from your chair.

Oh and also (on a roll now) when you come out of your appointment clutching a prescription- that always makes me feel embarrassed when I have to walk back through the waiting room.

The doctors thing oh god yes. I always think people are looking at me and judging whether I am a time waster and obviously not ill. Also the coming out bit. If I don't have a prescription I obviously was a time waster. I also hope so much that when I go in to the waiting room there will be no one I know. I never know whether I am supposed to say something or nothing or sit by them or not. Usually when I go it's for asthma check up or menopause stuff so I'm not ill with anything I could give anyone else. I just feel they are probably screaming quietly "Go away , just fuck off"

@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.

😂😂

@gottogonow

This is a cracking thread, I feel so much better about myself! Going to the toilet when in the cinema -judging the drink quantity versus film length, feeling the need build up, weighing up the flight of stairs that seems to go down forever, eyeing up the lighting and trying to work out how I will move my legs correctly down the steps. Then trying to to a confident skip down when I finally commit. Also don’t like going on the train-how many carriages away is it, who is watching me get up and walk past, and will it be one of those big semi circular ones where after peeing I realised that I hadn’t locked it properly, and yes if someone else had come the door would have peeled back and presented me in action to all those outside 😳.

I limit what I drink at the cinema so that I don't have to do the stairs thing.I also have the fear that I won't be able to find my way back to my seat and will end up on the row in front next to someone else's family.

I always tip the hairdresser or restaurant but find it very embarrassing, maybe I didn’t give them enough!

Walking into a small shop like a boutique, craft or gift shop and straight away knowing the stuff in there is not to your taste, pretending to look at a few things before leaving shouting Thankyou on the way out

@Slumcat

Walking into a small shop like a boutique, craft or gift shop and straight away knowing the stuff in there is not to your taste, pretending to look at a few things before leaving shouting Thankyou on the way out

Relate, especially when you've made eye contact with one of the staff.

@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 😂

The shoe thing has now morphed into taking a new car for a test drive. When I had to do the shoe shop walk thing I would instantly forget how to walk. Now Im an adult I just refuse to test drive a car unless they just give me the keys and leave me to get on with it. If anyone comes with me I instantly forget how to drive. I passed my test in 1988. I know how to drive at every other time

In any shop when the checkout person can see you. I feel awkward like all my moves are being watched, or God forbid they try and talk to me and ask what I am looking for. I like supermarkets better for this reason.

Eating with people also eating. Also eating alone in public

@EmbarrassingHadrosaurus

Winning a raffle ….. I just criiiinnnge !!

Despite buying many raffle tickets across the course of my life, I've no idea if I'd be embarrassed if I won a prize because I never have…

I used to buy tickets at school raffles where you get a bit of paper but there is no record of your name. I would bin the ticket straight away. I didn't want to win the hideous toiletries on the table and I absolutely didn't want to do the walk of awfulness up to the front.

Oh My Gosh! This thread has had me in stitches! I don't understand the cringe thing! It's all normal stuff. Leaving a cinema, when the film finishes and everyone is leaving? I don't get that, sorry. EVERYONE is leaving at the same time. Weeding your front garden? Who cares who see's (sees?) your weeds? Checkout people? They're checking out your shopping, not you. Silly Billy.

The strange smile you do when you hold a door for someone - sort of lips pressed together in a line

Queuing to get on or off a plane.... especially off. I am a let the crowd go person but my OH is a get up and queue ASAP person. Totally awkward especially if your are stuck trying to stand bent under the overhead storage like a twat.

Spa days

Small talk is embarrassing.

Yes, l feel like a bum when I am waiting for the bus

Walking past choirs or bands 🙈

These are so funny and I can relate to loads of them! Weirdly I started working in primary schools after having my own DC and have almost no embarrassment for anything at work - singing, dancing, role-play nothing bothers me much.

Today though I was embarrassed because I went for a run. Most things about running embarrass me as I'm old, slow and completely unsporting. Today though, I had to put gloves on because it was cold and didn't realise til too late that I was wearing the top that matched my gloves- super embarrassing in case anyone thought I was taking myself super seriously.

Anyone doing karaoke. I don't know how they can do it. And how those watching can watch.

@PrincessPaws

Also standing at a bus stop, always feel like a loser 😣

Blame the inbetweeners for that

Ah yes ,bus stop wanker!i used to be one, then learnt to drive!

Oh and trying to walk naturally past building sites or groups of men.

@Widgets

When the plane lands and passengers clap and cheer!!!!! Makes me want to crawl up my own backside

I cringe but also sort of enjoy it, only if it’s been a precarious landing though there’s something endearingly British about it

@LottieGarbo

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

30 years ago I went on a course for newly qualified teachers. Was with several friends. The leader woman did this bloody awful silly voice, clapping thing that we could do with our classes. You had to clap on each word to the sentence "What did you have for breakfast?" Other people in the circle said " I had crumpets , jam and tea" and clapped in time on every word. She got to me. I hate, hate ,hate anything like this, always have. So I just said "Toast " in my normal voice and clapped once. She was so disappointed. My friends were pissing themselves laughing. They still do the clap and "Toast" now and again. 30 years on.

I do a mega hard cringe when returning an item to a shop for a refund. I turn into a really chatty, annoyingly friendly version of myself because I'm just so grateful they've agreed to give me money back on some dodgy curtains.

These are so funny,i can relate to so many,makes me feel normal!

Have loved reading this thread. I had a work colleague who was too embarrassed to tell the rest of her colleagues where her and her husband were going on holiday. The holiday and destination didn’t matter to any of us. It’s not as if we were pressuring her to reveal her holiday plans. However she insisted on telling us all she that she was going on this mystery holiday. She would mention daily she was too embarrassed to name the destination. Eventually off she went and on her return she told us they had been to Hawaii ! I still don’t understand to this day what is so embarrassing about Hawaii if anyone knows please enlighten me!