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!

Speaking in my own language and cringing because l get words wrong.

Making small talk with a relative who l have never met before

At the Carbost when you ask the price of something and then they expect you to buy it abd keep talking about how good it is. Feel so embarrassed walking away.

Walking with a shopping bag, one of those big reusable ones.

Seeing work colleagues out after work hours, always walk thr other way to avoid

Car boot**

I hate two minute silences for things like Remembrance Sunday. I find them excruciating.

I also hate first dances at weddings and hide in the loo until it's over. Very cringey.

Having to introduce 2 people who don’t know each other to each other. Reminds me of Bridget Jones’s diary and I have to resist giving a fact about each of them.

People singing happy birthday at me and then watching while I cut the cake. My hand shakes so much and the knife feels so heavy 😂

@VeronicaBeccabunga

We were in a restaurant in Budapest and there was a band of musicians going between tables. I was trying to repel them by sheer mental effort and hissing at my husband 'Don't make eye contact! Don't engage!' They asked where we were from, I just stared into my lap. He told them, England.

They played 'My bonnie lies over the ocean'.

I clenched my bottom so tight I couldn't poop for a week, blushed, curled up my toes to the point of cramp and wished for the sweet release of death. And then had hysterics and they went away.

I actually laughed out loud at this.

Did you have to give them money for he privilege too?

Going for a walk alone in a park or on a trail. If I had a dog or someone with me if would seem normal. If I were running, also fine. But just walking makes me feel like a wierdo.

Going up to the top deck of the bus. Those few seconds of facing all those people looking at you as you enter and then trying to find an empty seat. I’m like the Ready Brek kid…but radiating heat through shame.

Also when you get off the bus, I thank the driver when I do but every time, my voice always comes out all wrong so I just sound weird.

Telling people I was pregnant. Initially I didn't say because I was anxious about losing the baby but then it got to the point where I felt embarrassed to tell them I was so far along when I told them for the first time. For work I wore a loose fitting uniform and had a small bump so it just got more embarrassing when I had to tell people I was leaving that week on maternity leave and they hadn't had a clue the whole time

These are so funny One of mine would be seeing someone I know (but not too well) in the supermarket then passing them on different aisles, it's that awkward moment of do we acknowledge each other again or is once enough

[quote HollowTalk]@user1469130450 I'm like that with song lyrics, too! When Coldplay sang Yellow I'd be scarlet with embarrassment for them. [/quote]
Um, ... why? Do you disapprove of people expressing emotions?

Walking along the road, with cars driving in my direct, who are stationary in particular, or moving very slowly, I get very self conscious and embarrassed. I'll cross the road so that the cars see my back. I should have grown out of this by my 50s .
I put it down to growing up in the countryside

Wow, what a lot of things embarrass people! Really interesting. Mine is the dread of meeting a celebrity. I can’t think of anything so cringey as one of those “Meet and Greet” events. A few years ago, I was at a Chris de Burgh concert. Fantastic music, lovely man. He walked across the theatre at one point, saying hello and shaking people’s hands. I was horrified, and so very relieved that he stopped just before he got to me. I must have been giving off evil vibes.

@MrsTophamHat

Going for a walk alone in a park or on a trail. If I had a dog or someone with me if would seem normal. If I were running, also fine. But just walking makes me feel like a wierdo.

Same! So I got a dog, he's a total nightmare and now I'm even more embarrassed 😳

Not me but an unemployed middle aged bloke I paid to do a bit of gardening, cleaning, etc a few times. I asked him to take a small bag of donations to a charity shop he walked past on his way home. He refused, saying he'd die of embarrassment if anyone he knew saw him going in or coming out of the charity shop.

I have to leave the room when XFactor comes on, I feel totally embarrassed for the crap ones, surely a family member should try to discourage them.
I hate carrying bulky shopping bags off a bus, I always bash them against other passengers seats.

@cherrypiepie

This is weird : being seen leaving my house or being seen outside my house eg tidying up the garden at the front (it's only small buffer garden) or having to go to neighbours houses so this years Christmas cards did not get delivered!

I love gardening in my front garden. I’ve put loads of work into it and in the simmer it looks beautiful and people cross the road to tell me it’s nice.

15 years ago I’d have cringed so much at being out the front. Thank you menopause for taking away my embarrassment gene. Also marrying a man with no embarrassment gene at all. None.

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

I hate crossing a road and cars stop for me, I always wait until there are no cars around and then cross !!

Picking up a rental car and driving away. I always just want to sit in the car for a bit a look round and sometimes think hard about left hand drive or driving on the right or whatever the scenario. When rental bods are hovering or waiting to move car into your vacated space I really hate it.

First time a ever drive an automatic was a rental. Had to exit underground car park up slope and stop on said slope next to manned exit booth and put window down etc. Think that triggered this whole thing.

Also had an elderly parent in that car and was jet lagged.

Singing Happy Birthday
Dancing - I'm just a moving shape with limbs.

Falling over in public then nonchalantly trying to pretend it never happened 😂😂😂

Being the only person in a shop, especially if said shop is small.

Trying to make small talk with a hairdresser whilst looking in a mirror which is seemingly designed to make me look my worst.

Accepting compliments. My boss is being super complimentary to me at the moment and I get so embarrassed sitting there listening to it. Also now super nervous that I might drop the ball somewhere and she'll be thinking

Dying laughing at this thread.

Think my worst was when I had to do a 'Work for the Dole' type scheme in the 1990's, when I was on benefits between jobs.

Was told to turn up at a big Convention Centre in the city, where a car show was taking place. Thought ok, maybe they'll have us on the snack bar or something.

I had to walk around with a basket of plastic red roses, selling them to any couple silly enough. Was excruciating, I still shudder.

Going for a wee in public / at work - I love Japanese toilets that can play music / the sound of waterfalls to mask the sound (even though I know it's the most natural thing in the world!)
I also have the leaving the cinema thing! (Not so much at the theatre!)
Finding somewhere to sit in a cafe etc when you have a tray - actually that's more a fear!