Cringes where you are still cringeing years later

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I have no idea if cringeing needs the "e". I think it does.

Anyway, I was driving today and out of nowhere did a MASSIVE cringe shudder at something I did about two / three years ago. I forget about it for a while then BAM it comes back and I have to relive it again.

Basically it was when everyone was working from home, so meetings on Teams / Zoom were relatively new. I wasn't long back from maternity leave so even less experience with this type of communication in a work setting.

I was interviewing for a new team member with my manager. All going well, although it's slightly strange on a screen especially as you have no eye contact and it's not always clear who you are talking to.

My manager asked the question.. obviously to the candidate but because we were on a screen and it looked like she was looking at me I ANSWERED IT 😩😩😩😩 I don't know what I was thinking. Gave a full blown answer to an interview question.

I realised way too late, and my manager sort of smirked then asked it again and said something like "it would be good to hear the answer from the interviewee".

EUGH.

Anyone have any of these that just keep coming back?

When my eldest som was little I used to take off his clothes and nappy downstairs before bath time and he would pump his legs and wave his arms around and basically loved the freedom so I’d leave him on his changing mat for a little while - this became known as naked time and we had a little song about it and everything - “What time is it? It’s naked time! what time is it? It’s naked time!”

I had another son in quick succession and so this continued, little one on the mat, the now toddler running around naked before their bath. All fine and innocent and completely normal in our house.

Their dad used to often get home for bath time and one day he opened the door with a friend from work behind him only for my eldest to say “Oh great - daddy’s home - it’s naked time!”

That took quite a bit of explaining!

@Chelsea26 😂brilliant 😂

@Giggorata Love that description! -

I was in my teens, at the stage when you are embarrassed by being alive, by your own shadow, or by breathing.

Ahh, takes me straight back to that awkward age 😂

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I used to be a dental nurse and we obviously wore masks during treatment.. so the done thing if you had a runny nose was to shove two of the cotton rolls up your nostrils then put your mask on so no one could see.
Except one day when we had finished treatment I completely forgot myself and my cotton wool roll nose and took my mask off as the patient was stood talking to the dentist. They gave me a look I can’t even describe and said “that’s a look!” - I’ve never wanted to die so much in my life 😂

My name is Liz Truss and I have no idea what you mean OP. Having said that, I am, of course, a remarkable person and the fact that my brief premiership trashed the economy was DEFINITELY NOT MY FAULT.

When I was about 8 or 9 yo-yos really had a moment and I spent my lunchtimes practicing tricks with a group, including a 13 year old boy who I thought was the coolest person alive.
One day after school I was proudly showing off my tricks to my parents, including “walk the dog”, “round the world” and one where I spun the yo-yo up to my face stuck my tongue out and proclaimed “lick the minge”! 😳I had NO IDEA what that meant at the time but my parents faces still haunt me.

When I was a teenager I saw a young homeless woman with a baby so gave them all the money I had one me in her cup. Realised with horror that I had given her my bus fare home so had to go back, ask for it back and fish in the cup to get it back out.

Thank you sooo much for this thread!!! I have tears running down my face!!!

And oh God I have a few cringe moments. The worst one was late 80's with my ex. He lived with his mum and dad, where I stayed on weekends. His dad finished work on a Friday and went to the pub and basically didn't come home until he was near enough unconscious. Then repeated that all weekend!
Ex and I went out one Saturday evening and as were going into the last pub, his dad staggered out. Ex decided we'd have one drink, give his dad enough time to get to bed and DTD in the living room... So, all excited and hyped up, off we went, back to his, clothes off as soon as we got in the room, not one item of clothing to hand, both in the middle of the floor, SBN. Halfway through, I heard a creak, ex didn't, I heard it again and just as ex was about to break off and check, the room door flew open, the big light went on, 150w bulb, no shade, me laid on my back, legs wrapped round ex, his dad walked across the room, trod on my hair enough to pull my head back, picked his pipe and baccy up from the mantelpiece, trod on my hair again on the way back, turned off the light and shut the door!!! Sunday mornings his dear old mum used to do us a full fry up... I spent two hours in the bedroom not wanting to go down and face his dad over the breakfast table!!! I did go down eventually, but I think his mum could have saved the gas and cooked breakfast directly on my face!!! His dad didn't even remember coming home, let alone why he had his baccy in his bedroom when he woke up! All he said was "I must have been pissed, I never take my baccy upstairs"!!!
I still cringe about it to this day and it was 35 years ago!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Again the 80's, I lived with my mum. It was my 18th birthday and my dad was coming to collect me and take me for a posh meal. (They'd been divorced nearly 10 years at this point). I was all dressed up, black, long full circle black skirt, copper coloured silk blouse, tights, the works. I was looking out of the window, waiting for my dad, when I said to mum, I'd better go for a wee, we have a half hour journey to the restaurant. I came back in and to the window and she was laughing and said, "Going out like that then?" I said like what, she said feel behind you!!! I had tucked the entire back of my full circle skirt into my tights and hadn't even felt it!!! Mum was a BT telephonist and was supposed to be on the late shift, but a colleague had wanted to swap!!! So the worst part is, by rights, she wouldn't have been there and I would have gone out looking like that!!! Eye rolling, forehead slapping and hot and cold full body sweeps thinking of that one every now and again!!! 🤣🤣🤣

There used to be a badminton club at the local sports centre. I thought I would like to join. My only experience of playing badminton was hitting to and fro in the garden with my mum when I was young. I turned up, didn’t know anyone, and asked if I could join. They put me with some experienced members to make up a four. I was hopeless! Missed the shuttlecock every time it came my way. The three people looked fed up that I was spoiling their game. I was mortified and left, never to go again.

Am going to love reading this thread later but for now so good to tell the anonymous internet something I've told very few people and still cringe to this day 40ish years later...

For a school show my mum had to buy me a black leotard. I was about 10 or 11. I was horrid when she bought me one with a small film logo on the back but she said the shop didn't have any others and we needed it that week.

During that week my best friend asked me if I'd ever seen a naked man and as my answer was yes my dad asked me to draw it. Drew my dad who has some distinctive facial features but tbh the focus of the drawing was not his face 🙄Hid the drawing in the bottom of my bin.

My cringe is that my mum went to swap the leotard and went into my bin to find the packaging. The drawing id done was on the back of the thin cardboard slip that had come with the leotard.
She couldn't return it (obvs) but decided to tell me why she couldn't. I nearly died. Still do all these years later.

Not so bad really, but when I was at a trial day at university, staying over in the halls for an audition (so very few people also staying there), I was at the bottom of a staircase and heard sound at the top like someone inhaling in quite big sobs. I called up 'Are you ok?' and didn't get an answer, but went up there as the sound continued - a very tough looking tattooed postgraduate (possibly) was sitting in the middle of one step smoking a roll-up and inhaling like a boss...definitely someone who could have eaten pre-freshers for breakfast.

I have many many embarrassing moments. Some too identifiable to tell that's how clumsy/ cringeworthy I am!

There was one day when I was in Primary School, my skirt just fell down in the play ground flashing my knickers to all and sundry.

That time in school thought it was funny to keep making my chair tip. I somehow ended up somehow upside down, only One person saw me and somehow I managed to upright myself before she told anyone else. (That was a win)
Also another time in high-school I tripped over a girl's school bag felt head first down some concrete stairs. Actually scraped all my legs, was laughing the loudest at how clumsy I was. (I wanted to cry on the bus as my legs were so painful 😭)

Another time I tripped up the back step and nearly put my head in this woman's lap.

Another one on the bus and I think about this now and then and when I do I feel a deep sense of shame.

It was around the time the country was on high alert for terrorist attacks and we had armed police in our city centre up north. It was very frightening at the time. Maybe you know where is heading.

I was sat at the back of the bus facing the back and there was an asian gentleman sat in the corner. I only say this as it's relevant.
So I noticed one of my greatest fears and there was a damn wasp on the window. I was trying to keep an eye on it and kept glancing to the window. Must have had a look of panic on my face and I was trying to keep calm and not jump up in terror.

I noticed that this man noticed my nervous twitching and probably facial expressions, which looked like was in his direction but it wasn't obviously, it was at this fucking wasp. The damn thing decided to fly into the centre of the seats area and that's it, I jumped up and dashed a few seats down.

I'll never forget the look of horror on that guy's face and I immediately realised he thought I'd been scared of him. I'm ND but I know the look on his face was genuine omg she's scared of me.

I had to hastily say I'm sorry I was scared of the wasp and it flew so I ran, laughing sheepishly. Never heard such a, what can I say, like a relieved laugh from this gentleman. I actually died inside when I realised how it looked and I was also embarrassed I ran from a wasp on the bus.

Thank everything I now drive.

It's correct either way.

Without the 'e' is more the American way. Reads easier with an 'e' to me

Was this you? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 love this video

Oh I thought of another one!

So I was about 17/18 and those pointy shoes with the kitten Heels were all the fashion.

I absolutely loved these and wore them a lot. So I was in the town centre and I was on my phone nattering to my friend, not looking where I was going. I was heading for the bus stop.

My fecking pointy shoe got stuck on the curb as I didn't lift my foot up enough and of course, I splattered all over the pavement, my handbag and shit flying everywhere. Yes the WHOLE bus stop saw me. I hastily grabbed all of my things, not looking anyone in the eye and walked quickly through this walk way. I hid around there for while as I didn't want the people at the bus stop to clock me again.

You think that's bad enough, oh no dear reader it gets worse!

I go around the corner head down the main road. Decides to ring my friend to tell her about my embarrassing moment when all of a sudden, I took a step forward and I nearly fell out of my shoes. I look down and my friggin kitten heel had gotten stuck in a hole in a grate/ man hole cover type thing. Omg I was wedged in. I kept trying to yank it out with my foot, simultaneously on the phone to my friend, to no avail!

I ended up having to style it out, gracefully go down on my haunches and yank the damn shoe out with my hand.

(The last thing I am is graceful)

I tell you when I got home, those monstrosities went into the bin.

At a rather Bohemian wedding in the 1980s the bride, daughter of a friend, thrust her video camera in my hand and asked me to get on with it. Whoever was supposed to film the day hadn’t turned up. In church I looked through the thingy pointed, it at the happy couple at the right times and wandered around afterwards among the guests eventually handing the camera back. It has never been switched on. Fortunately there was plenty of other photos and film from others but it still makes me feel awful.

Actually crying!

The homeless one reminded me - friend of mine popped to the supermarket - old coat and unwashed hair and was waiting outside it. An elderly gentleman gave her a pound and a kind smile. She was a City lawyer at the time. She’s upped her game satorially since!

As a teenager was invited as a plus one to a wedding, went with my friend as it was people she knew from church.

I hadn't drunk alcohol before and there was champagne on the table, so friend and I got stuck in to it. We got so drunk that my friends parents said I'd better sleep at their house as they couldn't take me home in that state. Except I had borrowed my mums posh handbag for the wedding, and the next morning we realised that I'd left it at the reception. So friend's mother phones brides mother and she says yes she found it and come and collect. So on way home friend's mother stops outside said house, and I sheepishly ring the doorbell. The bride's mother answers and hands me the bag, with this odd look. I take it and skulk back to the car then look at the bag. It's so full it couldn't close. Inside the bag was was looked like half the fruit display from the food table. I had some oranges, some apples and even a bunch of grapes in there. The problem was we lived in a small town and I just knew my mother would find out about it. So I had to tell her. So of course every time we went to the shops brides mother would always happen to be there, so we would go to the next aisle, cross the road or whatever to avoid any eye contact. I have no recollection of gathering the fruits but this one I cringe about all the time.

Then the time I walked into an ice cream shop and was chattering away to the lady behind the counter. I asked her how far along pregnant she was, so which she just looked at me and said, I'm not, I'm just fat. I have no idea why I asked her that as she was more on the older side to be pregnant. Now I never ever make a comment even if someone is obviously pregnant.

And then every single year without fail. And I have done it do many times I make a mental note to myself to not speak, but on my birthday someone says Happy Birthday to me every bloody time I say back Thanks, you too. Arrrghhh. This year I'm starting training now to just nod or smile.

Some of these are hilarious.