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!

@BobISMyUncle

Oh! "Musical Movements" at school! Showing my age here! Pretend you're a tree! Come on children, imagine, you're growing up out of the ground .. Me to my friend..... You be the tree and I can be the dog .. I got sent out.

Flashback to secondary school drama lesson aged 11. We had to imagine we had our big toe stuck in the bath tap whilst the water was going cold. Hate being looked ,hate being the centre of attention, hate ,hate, hate having to perform stuff. Had to demonstrate my RADA worthy version. Just cringed all over again

Delivering neighbours Christmas cards, need to wait until 11pm when everyone's lights are out!

Answering the door for takeaway food!

Graduation and having to walk across the stage to shake hands with the principal..

Talking away on a Teams meeting and then someone says "you're on mute" and everyone on the call has to do that fake laugh..

Parallel parking...way too much pressure!!

Hearing people call their dogs "fur babies"

Having to run a collection at work for a birthday, someone leaving etc

Having to correct the bill in a restaurant..

When you have to tell someone they've got something on their face or in their teeth etc

When you have to confront someone who is sitting on your seat at the cinema!

Picking up something that you've dropped..

Watching any episode of Corrie or EastEnders, the acting and story lines are so cringe!

And sooooo much more!!!!!

I live in fear of mixing up two phrases when ending a call in work. Today I joined "youre welcome" with "no worries" to make " your willies." Where am I gonna work now.

New work mates friend requesting you on Fb and then never posting anything themselves.

Often feels stalker-ish!

I tend to get really flustered and awkward if I'm walking down a street (where cars are going quite slow) and I'm about to cross - I tend to start walking down the street as if I'm not crossing the road and then if another car comes I get*really flustered. I have really bad spatial awareness and depth perception so I actually really struggle with judging when to cross roads anyway and do a lot of walking so it's a big source of cringey awkwardness for me.

I've also had a good number of incidents of men pulling up to me in cars to hit on/proposition me, from a young age, which I think has just made me all round very self conscious and awkward around vehicles.

I'm sad you are embarrassed of your baby bumps :( I loved my bumps and felt weirdly proud of them!

@ScarlettDarling how about returning a large bra ordered online to a bloke on customer services because it doesn't fit. With huge molded cups.
Ordering chips at the chip shop.

@gezzab33

I live in fear of mixing up two phrases when ending a call in work. Today I joined "youre welcome" with "no worries" to make " your willies." Where am I gonna work now.

I often say 'please not hesitate to contact me" or 'please do let me know' but I also due to the nature of my job I often have to reassure people of something so I also say "please do not worry" so naturally I have found d myself saying "please do not contact me" several times

When someone in the group I'm with at a restaurant doesn't finish their food. I get worried and stressed and embarrassed about the chef feeling sad. If I'm with DH I make him eat it all

Standing at a bus stop?..Really?

What, in case someone shouts ''Bus Wankers!!!!''' at you!

Parent’s Evening, or rather the thought of it, always makes me squirm.

If you have a DC who is perfect in every way you really won’t get this.

Waiting for small change when youve bought something, or accepting the receipt.

I hate eatting in front of people makes me want to curl up, went to dp friends wedding and had him go to bar downstairs for a burger when dinner was being served. But then everything I do I feel embarrassed must be lowself esteem.

Sitting in the audience for any form of live entertainment (cinema is ok) as I know that I will start yelling and screaming at any moment; this has never happened but I always think that this will be the day that it will. I'm convinced that the people around me know my secret and are waiting too.

@kakiqueen

Jamie Dornan singing and dancing at the end of 'Belfast'.

My toes curled. So awkward. Ha.

Watched it this afternoon. You are completely right. It was odd. His film wife started dancing in rapture , on her own, in the middle of the floor.

Such a funny thread, hardly any of these things even register, let alone raise embarrassment. Saying that, I'd rather eat my own earwax than turn up somewhere over dressed.

Amazing thread OP! Mine are:

• waiters bringing me my food- I watch the kitchen intently as I am greedy AF but when it arrives and they ask who has what I get embarrassed.
• having my name called out for an appointment in a waiting room.
• being the only pedestrian using a crossing at traffic lights. Cars have to stop just for me and it makes me cringe!

I live in fear of mixing up two phrases when ending a call in work. Today I joined "youre welcome" with "no worries" to make " your willies." Where am I gonna work now.

One of my specialities when trying to do everyday chit-chat, which I hate, is getting my "lines" mixed up in my socially awkward panic, and saying the thing the other person is supposed to say

Like I take in a parcel for neighbour and they come to get it and then I say "Lovely, thanks!" FFS. It's not only stupid, it sounds like I'm being sarcastic and reminding them what to say. Ugh.

Also agree with the wearing something new one...to the point that if someone asks me if it's new I LIE and say it's not or at the very least say not really....whyyyy????

Wow… big headed much!

[quote TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo]@dementedma omg role play. Makes me actually curl up and die.

Last time I was threatened with role play I developed a sudden onset vomiting fit and had to be sent home. [/quote]
When I went on any courses as a teacher I would always check the plan for the day to see if the dreaded words 'role play ' were anywhere on it.

When you try something on in a shop but decide you don't want it, and when you leave the changing room the attendant says "any good?"

I feel like I need to apologise and explain why I'm not taking the top/jeans/whatever, as if the changing room attendant has crafted them with her own hands and actually gives a shit

@WeaverofWords

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!

Celebrities doing the rumba on strictly. Just eeeeeeeew

I also have another , when I’m on conference calls I can’t seem to get the q when it’s ok to talk ,I always talk over someone and end up being like “ sorry sorry , you go ‘ then they are like “ no you go” …… crrrrringe

People performing in close proximity to me. I never know how to arrange my face.

The worst is people singing or playing music near me, like in a restaurant, Even worse if they are doing that really earnest, eyes half closed "feeling the music" type of expression. Am I supposed to stop my conversation and watch? Carry on enjoying my evening? That seems rude. I just hate it.

My husband knows this, and yet once went to the toilet on holiday, left me at the table on my own and tipped the wandering singers to serenade me while he was gone. How he is still alive, let alone still my husband, is a total mystery.

When you try something on in a shop but decide you don't want it, and when you leave the changing room the attendant says "any good?"

Even more embarrassing for me is when the shop doesn't have what you want, but they suggest another shop you could try. So you say thanks, but actually you don't want to bother.

I have actually been known to go off in the suggested direction, then turn round after a decent interval and run past the shop as fast as I could to go where I really wanted to.