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!

Saying thankyou normally when someone has done something or said something nice to me. I am thankful and I want to show them that. I have no idea why I find it embarrassing

Honestly so much makes me cringe and embarrassed me.

When you have to wait for the red man to change to the green man at the traffic lights and there are people around (roadwork workers or just general traffic)

Walking in a city centre on your own always makes me cringe, I feel like everybody is staring at me.

Wheeling a suitcase anywhere, no idea why but I’d rather die than wheel a suitcase anywhere.

Mowing the front lawn or doing any form of gardening in the front garden. I live next to a roundabout on a main road and it is mortifying when cars stop right outside my house and watch me.

When you’re in a pub or bar and the only other person you’re with goes to the toilet or for a cigarette and they leave you there. Even worse when the pub is packed.

@kakiqueen

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

My toes curled. So awkward. Ha.

I watched that and thought that’s how their son saw them, as glamorous and amazing.

Animals mating on a documentary. It just feels too rude to watch, but also feel like an idiot if I change the channel.

Another one I’ve just remembered is the tube in general.

Getting on and off the tube, counting the stops of the tube if you get on an unfamiliar line, having to tap my card at the gate and they don’t open and there are people behind me, getting off your tube and having to run to get another one just down the corridor because it’s the last one, having to stand on the tube, having to sit on the tube.

Honestly the tube in general just makes me cringe, I can’t even describe why!

When you go to the ATM to withdraw some cash but it tells you after you've put your card and number in that there's no cash available.
Then you turn round and there's a queue of people staring at you.
You feel like shouting " I'm not a pauper, the machine is a pauper " before slinking away with a tomato red face.

Telling people what book I'm reading while I'm reading it. It just seems so uncomfortable, especially if the book is really absorbing...

Waiting for Teams meetings to start: it's the awkward silence inevitably followed by 'we'll just wait for another few minutes' repeated about 5 times which does me in.

If I am driving and get stuck behind a tractor or some other slow vehicle or something, and I'm the one directly behind the slow vehicle. if I can't safely overtake (ie oncoming traffic, bendy road) I worry that the cars behind me are judging me for not overtaking

Also. When I go for a run (and I love running) I hate passing walkers, as i feel so awkward for some reason.
As I do if I am ever running on the pavement of a main road and cars pass me. I feel like they're looking and they probably aren't 😩😩

I also hate ordering food and if possible I use an app / screens (ie in McDonald's etc) or if that is not an option and dh is with me I get him to go up and order (what a pathetic woman)

I am another one that hates putting petrol in too .

I also hate having to take my car to the garage to be fixed / mot or whatever. As a result I've had a slow puncture on one tyre for months which I pump up nearly every day 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@Norgie

When you go to the ATM to withdraw some cash but it tells you after you've put your card and number in that there's no cash available. Then you turn round and there's a queue of people staring at you. You feel like shouting " I'm not a pauper, the machine is a pauper " before slinking away with a tomato red face.

Omg yes 😩😩😩😩

Think this stems from when I was skint and actually there was a good chance the machine would not pay out as I had no money

Being seen outside the front of my house by my neighbours - even if I can’t see them I think they’re like ‘oh here she is/what does she think she’s wearing/she still can’t reverse.

This is topped only by making eye contact with neighbours while in my back garden aghhh

Contemporary dance. Oh god just typing those 2 words makes my buttocks clench.
When I started at teacher training college in 1984 we had to go to the Chapel on the first Sunday evening for a service of welcome. Beautiful Chapel, candlelit service ,first night there so didn't know anyone and everybody from my hall went. Halfway through some older students, who were very, very much not actual dancers, performed a contemporary dance of welcome . I was on the front row of a line of pews. The dancers were doing the eye closing, stretching, emoting thing that contemporary dance seems to require. They split into threes and rushed towards different sections . Three of them appeared, arms raised, eyes totally focused on me on their knees in front of my pew. I was 18, totally awkward, just arrived from a small farming community. So dancers, in extremely tight, skin tone body suits, trying to draw me into their bendy, stretchy,world of deep, deep feeeeeeeeelings made my buttocks literally roll themselves up like a jam roly poly and try to disappear up my arse hole and pop out of the top of my head.

Another one - making recommendations for anything.
Even though I think the book/film/restaurant whatever is amazing I cringe forever after that they’re judging me for my rubbish standards

I was so embarrassed telling people I was pregnant, felt like I was saying "hey, we had sex!' 😳😬

As an introvert I can relate to so many of these!

Buying tampons in the supermarket. I’m 37 fgs.
Setting supermarket alarm off. Cringe.
Leaving tips in restaurant.
Walking by Big Issue sellers & having to say no thank you.
Seeing someone you know on holiday.
Having unexpected visitors at the door - especially if I’m without makeup or in my pjs!
Singing happy birthday at kids’ parties.
Trying to pack your shopping as fast as possible at the checkout or when you have a really big shop - I get so embarrassed unloading my trolley and conscious of the person waiting behind me.
Back in the day - the dreaded Wetherspoon’s staircase walk to the toilets! It seemed like climbing Mount Everest in heels whilst trying not to spill your drink!
Waiting in the dentist for some reason.
Pretty much all video calls. I hate them.
Being picked on in an audience. I was once called up by the clown at the circus. I died inside.
Zumba. Urghhh.
Asking for anything at the pharmacy. ( I know that’s ridiculous).
Face blindness - seeing someone out of context and forgetting their name.
Seeing someone out wearing the same clothes as you.
Parent’s evenings.

I wish I wasn’t so self conscious at times!

**Wheeling a suitcase anywhere, no idea why but I’d rather die than wheel a suitcase anywhere

God yes - anyone seeing or worse, having to handle my suitcase ! I don’t know why. I know they’re judging me thinking why does she need all this crap.
I holiday now with just a crammed backpack.

Some of these things are hilarious..So funny I am nearly suffocating by laughing so much I can't even breathe.Not to meantion the nearly weeing myself .

If people shorten my name to a version I really don’t like I cringe and am a bit sick in my mouth!! I also find opening presents very embarrassing. I don’t want presents, don’t give me any!!

Walking along in the same direction as stationary or slow traffic and passing cars that then catch you up and stop so you have to walk past the same cars again.

At a wedding, walking up to the dance floor. You can't just walk and start dancing so you do a weird "funky walk" on the way there. I cringe when I watch other people do it and then end up doing it myself

@0blio

When everyone starts clapping along with the music at a show. I feel so embarrassed I just can't do it

Oh god, yes.

So embarrassed but also so jealous of them just merrily clapping along and joining in.

I've tried faking it and joining in but I just about cringe myself inside out. But what other options are there? Just sit there and smile but don't clap? That also feels weird. should you not even smile?

@goodwinter

The walk back after you've just finished your turn when bowling. Bonus points if you knocked down like 5-6 pins, because it's not bad enough to laugh about but not good enough to celebrate over either. I end up doing an awkward shrug and a 😬 sort of face as I walk back to the chairs, acutely aware of every step.

I haven't even been bowling for years, but this specific scenario is excruciating to me.

Oh god - I'd even forgotten the absolute agony of this!!!! Bowling was quite a 'thing' in ourgroup of friends a while ago , the alley had a really good restaurant attached but I could never enjoy it waiting for THAT walk

Oh I thought of another one. People complaining about their food in restaurants. Understandable if it’s truly awful but that always makes me embarrassed for the waiting staff.

@goodwinter

The walk back after you've just finished your turn when bowling. Bonus points if you knocked down like 5-6 pins, because it's not bad enough to laugh about but not good enough to celebrate over either. I end up doing an awkward shrug and a 😬 sort of face as I walk back to the chairs, acutely aware of every step.

I haven't even been bowling for years, but this specific scenario is excruciating to me.

Oh god yes.

It's not just the walk back. For me the embarrassment starts almost as soon as the ball has left my hand. The standing and watching and waiting to see what your ball does and how many it knocks over is just

When it's obvious you've cocked it up do you brazen it out anyway, like you're hoping there's a chance you might have done ok?

Or do you just immediately turn and walk back, thereby signalling "yes, yes, I know it was shit, I'm not under any illusions, I don't need to watch it going into the gutter". Then, of course, what do you do when you hear it going in the gutter? Do you react at all or just act completely unmoved by it?

God, I'm amazed. So many people, so much suffering. It explains a lot about the world that I never suspected.