Things you used to do that now make you cringe!

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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?!

When I was about 14 I was jealous of all the girls in my year who went on foreign holidays and came back with brown legs so I fake tanned mine (the real hardcore, fake tanning cream that used used to turn you dark orange overnight). Everyone commented the next day and I pretended it was a tan from my recent holiday in Devon 🤦🏻‍♀️(even though I’d been in school for days after my holiday without it FTLOG!) It looked awful and streaky and even though people asked me if it was in fake tan I stuck to my story and got myself all crossed and stressed that I was being disbelieved!

It was a relief when it faded. What a twat! I could have easily just told the truth and laughed about my tanning disaster but for some reason I had to drag out the lie! 🤷‍♀️

My gran did exactly the same thing when she got her ID documents redone (they got lost in WW11). It backfired on her when she missed out on 10 years pension and a 100th birthday greeting from the late Queen.

My dad shrugged his shoulders and said ‘Tough.’ 😂😂😂

Jeez yeh that is sad!!

I posted on FB how I couldn't wait to get home and sit on my boyfriends face..

Mr brother saw it! Don't know what the hell was going on in my head there. Cringe cringe cringe

I wrote terrible poetry. Truly terrible.

When I was in a teenage strop with my mum I would leave her anonymous letters explaining my torment which she would then read down the phone to her cronies while howling with laughter, then I wouldn't speak to her for months.

I was basically convinced I was Sylvia Plath, despite (to this day) never having read a word of Plath.

These are amazing 😂👌🏼

Faith restored that I wasn’t an actual lunatic in my youth, unless we all are…

I have similar ones along the lines of stalking boys, also like a PP had socks of one I was particularly obsessed with that I kept as some sort of trophy.

Facebook posts are also beyond awful, UsEd to TyPe Lke ThiS aS iT wAS COoL, AnY1 ReL8? 😂

Don’t start me on MySpace or Bebo or when said boy crush was on MSN and you had to keep logging in and out so they’d see you “ping” back online and talk to you

Most shameful one was probably sending risqué undies pics to boy crush that somehow came to the attention of my NANA. She was disgusted with me, the shameeee

Many things. And I don't seem to stop (though I do try.)
I just have to repent/forgive myself and try again each time.

Haha this is reminding me of 10/15 years ago when it was the norm to just post everything you were doing on FB, and everybody wrote their status in the third person

A few years ago I went through a few bad times and wasn't well mentally at all (bipolar.) Had issues about a man, too.

I overshared a lot on facebook. Bad poetry comes up in the memories (I'm in my 40s so there's no excuse) screenshots of inappropriate-to-share conversations with a therapy bot etc.

No wonder a lot of people decided not to message me back ever again lol

@NaturalStudy this has really tickled me and I'm lying in bed pissing myself laughing! I also dressed like a twat in my youth so I do sympathise 😂

@Longsight2019 I had exactly the same status! Thought I was so original 😄 Great film though.

Mmmm, from memory, that would either make you a sixty year-old male truck driver or a woman in her mid twenties or late forties - am I close?

Luckily I've forgiven myself for most of my cringe moments and wiped them from my memory. However, one stands out as both mad and expensive. I was 19 and had a massive crush on my PT. In the hopes of tipping things into relationship territory, I booked a room at the Gatwick Hilton and told him I had an early flight so was staying overnight the night before - by myself, wink wink. He declined the offer to keep me company but I thought he might change his mind so I decided to go anyway. He didn't and it was quite boring, so going down to breakfast I got my phone out and tried to impress the people in the lift by having a conversation with myself about the take-off slots available for my private plane. FFS. This continued intermittently over breakfast, after which I checked out and got the train home.

Oh my god. One lunch hour at secondary school, I was walking to the shops and a woman asked me for the time. But instead of glancing at my watch and telling her- perfectly normal, mundane interaction- I held up my watch so she could see and said, 'why don't you tell me?' I have no idea why!! I just blurted it out.

Fancied a lad but for some reason approaching him was out of the question, so I slipped some photos of myself at various family gatherings into an envelope and asked a mutual friend to put it in his rucksack. I had sort of captioned the photos and tried to make myself sound really interesting, and as enigmatic as possible, as well as always on the go...far too busy to acknowledge him in real life at school. What a little weirdo I was!

Going back further in time, I'd been given a full length nightie (the old fashioned style you can buy at Mark's or order from TV guides) and decided it was quite cool and whimsical. I went out to the hill down the road and swayed about a bit like Kate Bush, thinking that if anyone saw me they would think I was really mysterious and maybe even a ghost 🤣

Absolutely howling at the weekend lung transplant 🤣🤣🤣

I went through a phase of eating matzo crackers and Maltesers and drinking full-fat Coke because Patsy Kensit said they were her favourite things in a Smash Hits interview. That’s the least cringey thing tbh. Teenage me was such a twat.

Awful cringey statuses on MSN messenger. Sometimes an emotional song lyric. I would genuinely spend loads of time deliberating about a status. Occasionally doing the sign in sign out thing and pretending my connection was bad too 🙈

I (20’s) fancied this guy at work, he appeared to not know I existed romantically, so I sent myself flowers (cringe) no one ever got flowers at work! I kept them on my desk till they died!!

he still doesn’t know and we’ve been married 14 years 😂😂😂🙈🙈🙈

Severus Snape has killed me😂😂

Oh god yes msn messenger! Logging off then back in when the guy I fancied signed in. Have a cringey cool song as my status (that had been downloaded from Limewire 😳)

Making sure the top of my crystal studded g string was proudly on display.

Arranging but never following through with Gumtree hookups!

Setting my MySpace song as F U Right Back by Frankee when my first love broke my heart 😭

I was around 10/11 years old and we had to have injections at school. They were administered in the school hall and everyone was in a queue so could see each other having them done. I cried my eyes out and told everyone laughing at me that the woman doing the injection had onions in her bag and thats why I was crying. 🤣🤣

'Going back further in time, I'd been given a full length nightie (the old fashioned style you can buy at Mark's or order from TV guides) and decided it was quite cool and whimsical. I went out to the hill down the road and swayed about a bit like Kate Bush, thinking that if anyone saw me they would think I was really mysterious and maybe even a ghost '

My grandmother gave me a long wafty white nighty that I like to wear and pretend I'm in Downton Abbey. Now I want to wear it outside and pretend I'm a ghost but I won't in case I end up getting sectioned

I still cringe at this when I was 16/17 I was talking to a fella on MSN messenger and we were sort of dating and I said I had to go and get ready and I tried to sound “cool” so I said I’ve got to go shower and shit, I meant shit as in I’ve got stuff to do not actually go to the loo. I still cringe on this one. We never saw each other again 😂

And me. When I was 17 I used to go to an old school cafe in town which was popular with all the cool students from the local poly and art school.
I would sit reading French novels, drinking coffee and smoking Marlboro (I tried Gauloise but couldn’t handle them 😂)… hoping people would notice and think I was a quirky/cool/sexy intellectual… a northern Beatrice Dalle. Oh, the shame! ☺️

Too many to mention but the one that sticks out is back when I was 18, I had long curly permed hair that I used to douse in mousse and hairspray. I also used to smoke because I thought it made me look hard and edgy. One day, I was trying to impress a guy I fancied and lit up a cigarette in front of him and accidentally set the front of my hair on fire. The smell of burnt hair was horrific and has stayed with me all these years.