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!

@notagaim

When the window cleaner is at the windows. I end up hiding in the front bedroom when he does the back then dash through when he's at the side.

I was on a work call and he appeared at the second floor window. I screamed.

🤣🤣🤣 I do this - almost pretending that I don't actually live in the house where the windows are being cleaned & cannot possibly be seen there😂😂

I feel really embarrassed when my boss takes me out for lunch and then makes me pay for my own food saying “you don’t mind, do you?” The stinginess of it embarrasses me deeply (he earns 8x what I do, and there is no need to go for lunch we could just have a meeting in the office)

The excruciating wait in any fast food place or takeaway with my dh. I'll go in knowing what i want, I'll ask him what he wants and he'll tell me exactly what he's having. Then we get to the till and I order mine, and he bloody well changes his mind and stares intently at all the other options on the menu, holding the queue up and asking the cashier daft questions about ingredients etc like "can I have that without tomato and could you put a sprinkling of sodding fairy dust on it and arrange it into the shape of a fucking swan"

I just feel like dying every time lol

My hands.

Wtf do normal people do with their hands?! I’ll be in public and they’re just THERE! If they hang limply I look like I’m marching if I sort of bring them to waist level I look like I’m getting ready to do some kind of incantation.

WHAT DOES EVERYONE DO WITH THEIR HANDS?!

I absolutely love love love that so many of you have the same moments as me. Makes me feel like I'm not so ridiculous.

I’m the cinema one too! My embarrassment comes from walking out but also the fear that people will start clapping when the credits come up. I’ve personally never witnessed it but have heard about it and so always brace myself with embarrassment just in case

This is a very cute thread.

None of these things bother me in the slightest though I don't really like going to the letterbox when I don't feel like talking to a neighbour

Trying to find the right change.
Having a purse full of small coins.
The amount of small coins I have in my home because of taking them out of my purse so that it is not full of small coins.

Loading the conveyer belt at the supermarket too.

Either the checkout lady/man is staring at me expectantly or there’s someone behind me.

It’s a fate worsened only when the shopping is delivered. I have been known (on occasion) to pretend we were isolating so they’d leave it in the porch 🤦🏻‍♀️

Phoning in sick!! I’ve just had to do it. And I have Covid, so perfectly reasonable but I feel like such a skiver!

I also hate walking by cars that have stopped at traffic lights in opposite direction to me. I feel like everyone is watching me and I don’t know where to look. I don’t mind it as much when I’m wearing sunglasses, they’re my invisibility shield!!

Agree with so many of these. I have one that hasn’t been mentioned, not sure if it’s because I’m super odd or maybe it’s too weird to admit 😂

It’s a cinema one but I get SO embarrassed when some random text comes up during the movie ie ‘Nevada desert, testing laboratory 1975’ or whatever. I get completely cringed at the thought of so many people reading along with me. Are we reading it at the same time. What about those that need the ridiculous length of time to read 5 words? Are they still reading? Why is it still pausing?

Don’t think I’ve explained it too well but it is horrifying to me! Particularly when a spiel comes up one sentence at a time 😮

@Avarua

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.

If you think Jesus is dead, you're not even a 'sort-of' Christian

On a more ‘serious’ note, I grew up as a chronic blusher - so was literally embarrassed to be embarrassed! Bain of my life. But things have got better although public speaking would slay me.

@ApocalypseNowt

Waiting for change after I've paid for something with cash.

There's an inverse relationship where the smaller the amount of change I'm waiting for, the stronger the embarrassment.

1p in change = hard cringe

To get over that odd 1p change more quickly I generally just tell the assistant to drop it in the charity box. There's usually one on most shop counters - Card Factory being one where it seems to happen to me most often !

@user1469130450

I find the Elton John song 'your song' embarrassing. I always have. I think its to do with the bit about buying a house where we both could live. It makes me cringe for some reason.

I get that. Everything about Tiny Dancer makes me cringe too!

Another, are my windscreen wipers going too fast?
I check other cars I drive past to see how fast theirs are going and adjust accordingly 😂😭

@Fairylightsongs

Gosh some folks with some significant issues on here. 😰

Yes, some people confusing embarrassment with snobbery.

The first car stuck behind a tractor, in a long line of cars behind you. The cars moving freely on the other side are looking at you thinking 'glad I'm not you'!
It's on you to find the perfect moment to overtake, and it needs to be pretty sharpish! Oh the pressure!!

@notagaim I can beat that one.

A friend of mine had joined Ann summers and was doing parties.

Big box of everyone's orders arrived and she took it upstairs, laid it all out on the bed to put in individual bags for customers. Then her phone rang and she ran downstairs to answer it.

Went back up to continue and found the window cleaner staring through her bedroom window at 20 vibrators, cock rings and sexy fantasy outfits 😂😂😂

@CarrieMoonbeams

When you're in a restaurant and it's someone else's birthday - as in, a stranger, at a different table - and the staff come in with a tiny cake with a sparkler on it, and then everyone in the restaurant sings Happy Birthday. Aaaaaargh!

Also, when you're watching a film and the actors all suddenly start singing and dancing together when you're not expecting it.

In my favourite restaurant they play "happy birthday to you" over the speakers and the waiters come out banging pots and pans. The first time we went was my 16th birthday and we didn't know it was a thing, I almost cringed myself inside out. Even worse there were about 7 other birthdays that same night so it kept happening!

On a similar theme, DH and I went to a restaurant on my birthday a few years ago and the one waitress brought my dessert out with a sparkler on but didn't sing happy birthday so I just sat there awkwardly making "ooh isn't this nice" noises until it fizzled out

Loading shopping onto the conveyer belt in Lidl/Aldi...always feel like the pressures on to be as quick as humanly possible even worse when someone behind is waiting to load after you...

Loving this thread!
I worked for several years as a TA at a church school - which got the balance just about right.

A new teacher joined who was really lovely, but very happy clappy who introduced these hymns with lots of hand and body actions. I get it that the children loved the involvement but doing the motions myself made me feel so awkward. So often in whole school assembly, I would be the only one standing dead still with my arms rigidly by my sides whilst everyone else was shimmying and shaking and waving their hands in the air!

Ringing up to order a takeaway. I’ve been known to plead with DH or my adult DC to do it for me. I have no idea why and it’s become a family joke now.

Walking on the pavement along main road to my mums which is just near traffic lights, when the cars are all lined up waiting for the lights to turn green ! I just know everyone one in those cars are looking at me !

Turning my car headlights on makes me feel embarrassed. I try to do it when there are no cars coming towards me. I have no idea why!