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!

Everytime at roundabout or junction in a car waiting to join especially at busy times when you constantly looking looking looking

@ImprobablePuffin

Listening to my own voice on a recording. Just kill me now and be done with it.

well i am joining you on this one

@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 😂

Also ordering food and going through some alien word menu

Everytime I drive past a bus stop with someone standing at it I purposefully look the extreme opposite way as to pretend I haven't seen them, because I know how excruciating it is to be stood at a bus stop

Not sure if my one is strange, but I absolutely detest wearing Christmas hats from crackers - they look so flimsy and silly. Really hate cutting cakes in front of others at birthdays... I suppose these are common, maybe!?

Omg so many of these resonate with me! It’s an introverts perfect thread!

LOL at sitting next to someone on the bus and then it empties out! What do you do?!

Mine is turning up to a gym class, the anxiety of walking in almost stops me going. Even worse if I’m the first one there. If theres 2 or less in the class I can’t join in, so sometimes have to pretend I’m walking past looking for someone just to see how many are in there. Ridiculous for a grown woman!

People singing to Jesus, I can't stand it, he's dead, he died 2000 years ago. Makes me cringe and feel all embarrassed. Singing in church generally, actually, even though I am sort-of a Christian (just a very un-clappy one).

Also, hearing my own voice on recordings or seeing myself in videos.

Back in the day there used to be rose sellers going round the pubs or clubs. Even if you had just started chatting to some random bloke/woman there was that awkward moment of what if they buy you a rose? What if they don’t buy you a rose?
Even 30 years on the memory makes me cringe!

Also standing at a bus stop, always feel like a loser 😣
Blame the inbetweeners for that

Margaret Thatcher once said something along the lines of "A man who, at the age of forty, finds himself on a bus may consider himself a failure." This is why I feel enormous pride every time I get on a bus. Similarly, everything I do that Mumsnet considers "common" is something I'm proud of.

My own works goodbye gatherings have made me so embarrassed I have come out in red blotches. And, like someone else said, doing any gardening in the front garden where I can be seen. Plus I don't think I could cope with a very intimate wax -, I'm just about OK with a bikini line one (just). I know lots of women do. Also, once had an all over spray tan in the little paper pants - it was mortifying.

My best friend gets really embarrassed if I say "you've got sleep in your eye". Also when we lived together, decades ago, she would always put the loo paper in the bottom of the shopping basket/trolley and pile other things on top so no-one could see it. It made me laugh. I'll have to ask her if she still does that!

Listening to my own voice on a recording. Just kill me now and be done with it.

This, but on steroids: public speaking training, seeing myself on video addressing a crowd. I was on the verge of resigning and taking up a new life as a hermit somewhere in the Amazonian jungle ...

Eating crunchy food in front of other people, or indeed any food in front of other people, if it’s quiet. Bizarre, because it’s not like it bothers me if someone else is doing it.

Needing to pee in work toilets when someone else is in there but fearing you may fart when you pee and they'll hear it. Sending an all staff email in a rush and noticing a spelling or grammar mistake afterwards. Definitely the sound of my own voice playing back. Also, being judged by the hairdresser because "no, I'm not going anywhere on holiday this year / doing anything nice tonight / this weekend".

I can one up the ‘leaving the cinema’ one and add ‘leaving the cinema and talking about the film you just spent a tenner to watch’. I hate it so much and I like to wait until we are far away from the cinema to discuss the film. Why?!

People hearing what music I'm listening to through my headphones. Especially if it is Taylor Swift.

@Beebopbopbopbopbop

I used to get super embarrassed in blockbusters choosing a video for some reason.

Me too!

It's like I think I will be judged by the checkout guy for what film I choose.

@ArrrMeHearties

Having to skip across the zebra crossing quicker than Michael McIntyre skipping merrily across the stage 😂

You've just reminded me - MM just makes me squirm.

His "Big Show" was excruciating, especially the bit where he surprised a member of the public by telling them they were going to perform at the end of the show.

All his pranks, in fact. And his voice, suits, hair ...

Change in my appearance ie haircut
Announcing pregnancy
Leaving a job (telling coworkers)
Arranging an event with friends (incase they cancel)
Small talk
Falling over
Missing a bus/train

@Sunnysidegold

If you're a pedestrian and then a car comes and waves you on but then you wave them on and it ends up being this silly back and forth. Always scared I will go and then they'll run me over

Something similar happened to me a couple of times. Waiting for a bus, car buzzing through and waves, I wave back thinking "who the hell is this?" only to realise he was waving at someone behind me.

When you're in a shop/supermarket minding your own business, walking along, and the music changes and you find you're walking in time to it. x10 for Christmas music 😬

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

My sister gets embarrassed if I use an umbrella. She also gets embarrassed if I took my trousers into my socks to keep the bottoms of them dry. She will walk ahead of me. I get embarrassed by the soggy mess ahead of me pretending not to know me.

well everything already mentioned on this thread plus every time i see the police i panic and get embarrassed ! my brain is like 'shit act normal' so I'm awkwardly trying to be even more normal and noncriminal looking than i was before i saw them, even though i have done nothing wrong.

Not embarrassed but I can't walk around a supermarket without a trolley, even if I'm only there to accompany someone else or am just getting one or two items. I feel naked and wrong!