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!

One thing that makes me cringe is when you get those posses of journalists outside No.10 and they hurl questions at departing or arriving politicians. They hardly ever get a response! Do they seriously think they will, I wonder?

I don't often go to Starbucks but when I have done I've said I was Maud
I said my name was Günter and they did not even blink.

My late uncle was excruciatingly shy. If he was gardening and saw people approaching in the distance he'd go inside until they had passed. Once at the cinema he took off his smart new trench coat and folded it over the back of the seat in front of him (cinema practically empty). However a woman came and sat down in that seat before he could remove his coat. She put her head back and somehow got her hair caught up in the buttons of the coat. He could see her trying to free herself and was so mortified he got up and the cinema (and the coat).

he got up and left the cinema that should say.

Getting caught gardening in my front garden when the neighbours come home/say hi. I'm usually on all fours covered in mud, whilst they are stood looking down on me looking glamorous.

• "I live in fear and dread of my stomach rumbling loudly in a silent room. Or just as bad, if it happens to the person sitting next to me and other people might think it's me. Oh, the shame." @Somethingsnappy *

Yes!

I was coming on here to say this. Every exam I sat I had to obsessively make sure I ate sufficiently to avoid this.

Once in a lecture at Uni my stomach made the most alien, otherworldly growls through the whole first half and everyone was turning around to stare at me. There was nothing I could do. When we broke for a 10 minute break the guy in the row in fron turned around to me and said loudly "For Gods sake, get a sandwich" and everyone laughed. Awful.

I found getting married really embarrassing! Just a whole day all about you was for me! I wanted a small intimate do but ex h wanted the whole shebang. Hated it!!

@AncientWhitedogpoop... Oh no, the horror! . I feel your pain.

These are hilarious!

having a haircut then the hairdresser blows it all big and bouncy then people seeing me with new hairdo. I usually cannot wait to get home to brush it out. Also I've been meaning to change my hairstyle completely for years but I've not had the guts to do it as couldn't bear people seeing me saying ",look at you with your new hairdo!".

@SquarePeggyLeggy

My own social media updates from 10 years or more ago. I delete every single one that comes up in memories. Who was I?! Vomit.

Oh god, 100% this 🤮

@SquarePeggyLeggy I was so bloody over dramatic 14 years ago!!!

I sold a kettle on fb market place for £5 the who process was mortifying I will never sell anything again. I don't even know why I did, should have just given it to charity like I always do!

The lady came in my house and asked to see it boil. Honestly I'm not being dramatic but I could have died with how long it took! Then it was too hot for her to carry so I blasted it with cold water then I got soaked. Oh my gosh it was so bad.

Networking events where you have a drink in one hand and a plate or napkin of canapés in the other hand. Not a table or surface in sight.

You realise you don't have enough hands so just end up necking your drink. Invariably somebody introduces themselves and offers a handshake so you have to try to put the plate and the drink in your left hand, whilst smiling and trying to pay attention to their name... which you instantly forget the moment they tell you.

Then you're all encouraged to move into the lecture area where you have to put your food and drink on the floor under your chair so you can pick up the lecture material. I live in fear that I'll knock my drink over with my feet.

I'm so much happier on zoom!

When the cashier says do you want your receipt or shall I just bin it ( and you want it but now you don't want to be an inconvenience) so you say nah it's alright.
Am I the only one who does this

My latest one was today, having the doctor phone me to admit I needed put back on my antidepressants Jesus sheer embarrassed I was to admit I needed help 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@Beemagirl - you absolutely cracked me up! Flaming hilarious! Been laughing a lot at the responses here, and a big shout of love and sympathy to my fellow sufferers of the 'Pavarotti in a tumble dryer' rumbling stomach moments when it's really quiet and madly inappropriate timing. 👊

@SquarePeggyLeggy

My own social media updates from 10 years or more ago. I delete every single one that comes up in memories. Who was I?! Vomit.

Oh god yes, it's hideous.

Such vague, emotive one liners 😑

@DeePlume

I found getting married really embarrassing! Just a whole day all about you was for me! I wanted a small intimate do but ex h wanted the whole shebang. Hated it!!

Yes me too! Except it was my parents who persuaded us to have the big do, DH and I would have been happy with a much quieter affair.

I HATED our first dance

Not really strange but literally my life between the age of about 13-20. I was a very shy teenager but tried so hard to fit in and did really out of character things in order to. I look back now and cringe soooo hard at the various things I did, they will pop into my head at 3am every now and then 🙃

Zoom work calls in general when questions are asked and everyone starts answering at once. Argh!

Also walking and listening to music in my headphones whilst walking and then realising I’m walking in the beat by accident. I don’t know why but I get embarrassed.

Running in public, but I’ve started doing it anyway in hope it eventually gets less cringey!

Watching actors kissing on TV ..doesn’t happen since Covid though M

@IggyIggyIggy

I sold a kettle on fb market place for £5 the who process was mortifying I will never sell anything again. I don't even know why I did, should have just given it to charity like I always do!

The lady came in my house and asked to see it boil. Honestly I'm not being dramatic but I could have died with how long it took! Then it was too hot for her to carry so I blasted it with cold water then I got soaked. Oh my gosh it was so bad.

Love this !

I hate being the lead car with other drivers behind me. I know they are judging my driving. I’ve been known to pull over to the side and pretend to be making a call, so I can drive off without witnesses.

I have found my people! Love this thread. I'm waiting to be assessed for autism and I'd thought a lot of these weird little anxieties were down to that so it's interesting to read that so many people have them. A lot of these I don't actually do though and I'm now worried that now I know about them I will!
For me, the saying my own name. Uhhh cringe. If I make a booking I'll always put it in someone else's name. In Starbucks I give another name.
The biggest cringe for me though is at the end of a show and the standing ovation. No matter how amazing I think a show is I feel glued to my seat, I just cannot stand up. But then if everyone else stands it's super awkward being the only person in the theatre sitting down. But then I'm like if I stand now they'll know it isn't sincere because I didn't do it before everyone else. A few times I've been sitting near the front and I can feel the cast giving me daggers and judging me for not standing for them when everyone else is (I'm sure they're not really, it's probably just my paranoid mind 😩).

Accidental eye contact in mirror in public toilets