Things you used to do that now make you cringe!

[lifestooshorttodickaboutwithaubergines]

So I’ve been seeing the odd Facebook memory, throwing up past status updates I posted that now give me extreme second-hand embarrassment. We’re talking maybe ten or so years ago.

It got me thinking about how when I first learnt to drive, at about 19, I had a car but didn’t use it to get to work. My part-time job whilst at uni was in the town centre and it didn’t make financial sense to drive due to parking costs and that, so I would get the bus instead. For some unknown reason I felt a bit embarrassed about this, so when on the bus I used to keep my car keys in my hand so they’d be visible to the other passengers. Just so they’d know I could actually drive, y’know 🙄

I cringe when I think back to this! I’m sure nobody even noticed, because why would they, but I get that hot feeling of embarrassment whenever I recall it 😳

Anyone else look back at things you used to do and think wtf was I thinking?!

You do realise they probably thought you'd crashed your car, which was why you were on the bus

I have loads, but as always happens on a thread like this, my mind has gone blank. I might be back

I'm with you on the Facebook posts 🙈

I used to say things to get a reaction. Normally funny (to me at least!) sometimes gross - I just liked attention. It was always harmless, nothing about or to put down anyone else or anything like that. I just liked people looking at and laughing with me. I guess I used to be ‘extra’ as the kids say, and now I look back and cringe! Happy to watch others have that role these days and just be a side character.

Thankfully social media wasn't a thing when I was growing up, but pretty much everything I did from 1990-1995 was one giant cringe.

So glad it wasn't documented online 🤣

Yep FaceBook memories makes me shudder.

Also, big hair. I was trying to disguise the fact that I was so fat but in reality I just looked like Melissa McCarthy in Identity Thief .

@Sparklfairy ah yes! Maybe they did think that, still, I bet my 19-year-old self would rather be thought of as a car-crasher than a user of public transport.

@SherlocksDeerstalker I think I’m still a bit guilty of that, I’m terrible for not knowing my audience 😬

Oh God, I cringe so much remembering some of the unfiltered things I have said. My poor friends and family looking like this😳😳😳and silently begging me to remove my foot from my mouth.

Facebook wasn't a thing till my mid 30s so don't have these problems 😂

I used to write what I thought were really witty, self deprecating, Bridget Jones style statuses - at the time I thought I was such a comic - now I just die when Memories throws them up again 😑😑

Smoking in other people’s houses and cars. So embarrassed that I used to do this.

I had a fairly successful blog for a while and leant into posting what I thought people wanted to see/read. Some of the things I claimed to love and do are so not me. I cringe at being a sell out! If being an insta/tiktok influencer was a thing back then I would've been bullied off the internet 😂

In my 20ies invite myself over to friends who lived / studied in interesting places. Maybe they didn't mind because we were all young and single, but I do cringe now!

I went on holiday and invented a whole new persona for myself. It was quite enjoyable but quite hard to keep up.
It was before social media so I knew I’d never see any of the people I met again.
Hitch hiked without giving it a second thought about risk.

My past Facebook posts are the reason I ended up fully deleting Facebook. I can't live with the embarrassment of the absolute shite I was writing.

@lifestooshorttodickaboutwithaubergines I bet the regular passengers thought “there’s that poor girl who’s car keeps breaking down “

A lot of things involving alcohol😂 walking home alone, going to randoms houses. Once I went on a date and when he dropped me off we just sat in his car talking and instead of me going inside we fell asleep in it 😂. Facebook posts about nothing anyone needed to know. Ranting about bollocks on Facebook as well. Being very precious only born when dd was a baby.

I'm about to turn 40 and looking back at who I was at 30 with horror...I was really immature.

That year I set myself a challenge of giving fake Disney princess names in Starbucks when they took my order. I wasn't brave enough to say "Cinderella" so I did "Cindy" and "Ella". I was never brave enough to try Mulan or Pocahontas. Jasmine, Belle and Aurora were relatively easy. I saved Ariel and Aurora for holidays in hippy towns, I remember a barista saying "I like your hat, Ariel." and I blushed. I called myself "Snow" at one point, "Briar" at another...I saved the cups.

I meant wtf was I thinking? 30/31 years old. Loser.

I was also just very dramatic. Posted cryptic quotes on FB. That sort of thing.

I had a cigarette holder.

My ex announced to me that he never wanted to marry. Ever. I was devastated and ended it.

I did what every self respecting jilted heartbroken woman does and wore a long, pure white, floaty, slightly blingy designer gown with a small train to a party that we were both at the week after we broke up, so he could see what he was "missing".

The amount of people who said, "ahhh wow look at you! You look like a bride!" whilst I said "God no, if I actually ever got married I'd choose something wayyyyyyyy nicer than this old thing! It was just at the back of my wardrobe...It's just really easy to dance in...comfy...wafty..." I spectacularly failed at gaslighting everyone into believing I wasn't there dressed as a bride.

My friends looked on like they were watching a car crash in slow motion.

My ex spent the entire night rooted to the spot in fear, not saying a word except to ask me if I was drunk. I was completely sober. My guy friend said he caught him crying in the toilets at one point and was quite concerned. That made me happier that it should.

In all fairness to myself, when he eventually married, her wedding dress wasn't as nice as my "not a wedding" dress, and he didn't cry.

So 98% mortified and 2% secretly happy with myself.

But I wouldn't randomly show up as a bride to a party again.

This is one of the craziest things I’ve ever heard of anyone doing when heartbroken I LOVE IT. Can we be mates?

For all the 90s teens: cybersex.

Thanks for posting, that really made me laugh. Especially liking your hat, and saving the cups.

I used to be embarrassed about living in a flat so whenever someone said "your flat" I would correct them and say "my apartment, you mean?"

Too many to mention, but what springs to mind is the different ways I would use makeup and beauty products. When I was a young teen I wore badly applied orange foundation, that stopped at my whiteneck. Remember a boyfriend commenting on my shiny face - I had a notion to apply some kind of oil to my face, during this period. Also remember as a teenager painting freckles on my face, I think it’s fashionable to do it now ? someone commented on my interesting look.
My look has always been otherwise fairly classic and boring.

I once put the curved bit of a metal from broken coat hanger in my mouth at school and told everyone I had got braces over the weekend.
it was the age everyone seemed to get braces and I felt left out. Of course mine looked nothing like the real ones… I die a bit inside when I think about it.