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?!

This one isn't so nice but I had a pretty controlling boyfriend when I was 15 and it didn't even occur to me to say no to him. We once had a sleepover of sorts at his mums, boyfriends house and there were a few of us in the living room including his sister and a school friend (both in my year) It was dark but we proceeded to have sex. I still see one of the people and I am so mortified about it.

A funnier one, we didn't have a lot of money as a child, so 2nd hand clothing bags would do the rounds. When I was 14, I would pick out the weirdest clothes I could find and wear them out with my friends. One favourite was a granny type bright red cardigan with gold buttons - everyone else was in fruit of the loom jumpers 😁

This thread is gold! Thank god camera phones weren’t a thing when I was a teen. Just saw this on insta 🤣 she should be on this thread if she isn’t already:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1xsWLwrAXD/?igsh=MWJkd28xOHZ4bWh6NQ==

I have so many so here’s another one.

I had crushes on lots of boys so I thought I would ring them all and leave a sexy anonymous message on their voicemails and answerphones
Only on the last phone call I didn’t put the phone down properly (‘90’s mobile phones) and I left a very long voicemail of myself singing Britney Spears, I have a terrible voice. As if that was bad enough I was hyping myself up in the mirror to make some more calls. I then realised what I had done.

The sexy guy must have heard

‘Well hellllloo how are you? <sexy>
I’mmm a sllllllavvvvvve forrrrrrrrr yoooouuu oh yeah <dying cat>
You go girl . . . You look GOOD
What the hell I didn’t push end call AHHHHHHHH’

@KimKardassion Aargh!

Omg this is how I got my crush to ask me out when I was 15 - sent myself flowers to school from an “anonymous” admirer. Maybe he would have asked me out anyway but I truly believed that the flowers cinched the deal by making me seem in demand 😂

@Fruitbatdancer Maybe it worked, then.

When I was about 10 I lived next door to a boy my age. I went to an all girls school and was boy mad. Although I didn’t like this boy more than a friend, I still hatched up a plan with my best friend to write him an anonymous love poem and posted it through his letterbox. I remember two lines crystal clear and they were: “I looked into your eyes, through your thin disguise”. URGH.

If it helps quell the cringe, 9 year old me would have thought you were really cool!

Oh my god this has really made me laugh on the train.

Oh my god this has really made me laugh on the train.

@JeezJerry that is so funny.

I went on my first "date" (we met up at the park) and he asked me if I had any money on me (I can't remember why) and I meant to reply with -
"No, I'm broke" but i instead said "I'm broken"
I still think about it now 🫠

I meant to tag you - I can’t remember where ‘my’ Kevin was from unfortunately. Would love it if it was the same guy (I know, what are the odds !!!)

My Kevin was from outside Chicago and wore some kind of beige janitor uniform. He was chubby with thick glasses and slightly piggy eyes. In fairness, I could see him sitting in uninvited on a day of school. I have no idea why I agreed to stay at his house when I had no romantic intentions of any sort. In fairness, he probably got that message when I was trussed up in my whole body condom sleeping bag.

The Severus Snape costume is marvellous.

I also told the entire badminton club (when I was about 16) that Nick wouldn't be coming to our Tuesday night sessions for the next two months as he'd broken his leg skiing. Not entirely sure where I'd got this from as Nick (whom I'd never actually spoken to) bounded into the hall in rude health (sans plaster cast) the following week.

OMG that was me as well! Thank Goodness I am not alone.!

I'm HOWLING at this! 😂😂

Those hair bows! And I used to wear them! In front of people! crinnnnnge

Those hair bows! And I used to wear them! In front of people! crinnnnnge

I wore one to a job interview and was told I looked too "delicate" for the job.

Just remembered a couple more!
When I was a young teen, we literally had no money. My maternal grandmother decided to make me an "outfit" to go somewhere in. It was a long cotton nightie, that she basically cut in half and hemmed the top!!! I thought I looked the DB's in that! Absolutely hideous in reality, thinking back!
I had a best friend that I called for and walked to school with in the late 70's. I was at middle school and she was at high school, which were both next to each other. So anyway, she had a MASSIVE crush on our postman, (remember the good old days when we had the same one for years?!) who was an even better looking version of the actor Paul Nicholas, who was big at the time. One day, we were walking to school and he was walking towards us. She became so excited that it triggered an epileptic fit and she basically bent double, head onto feet and dropped like a bag of shit! He dropped his mail sack and ran over, asking what he could do. I was holding her hand and talking to her, so I told him to do the same... Her face when she came round bless her, I'll never forget it. She. Was. Horrified! And he was really concerned! She'd also wet herself, which she did while fitting. She didn't live that one down with me for a while!!! She did used to laugh about it though! Poor lass, illusions shattered right there!

@MoonWoman69 you've reminded me of another one.
when me and my sister were around 12 or 13, our older cousin used to pass down her clothes to us. She was 20 and we thought she was the epitome of cool. she looked and dressed like Kylie minogue.

one time she passed down this black and gold 2 piece top and skirt set - the skirt was knee length with a split up one side, and the top was cropped with the elastic round the top so you could pull the shoulders down.

me and my sister fought over it so my mum made us share.

so, rather than take it in turns to wear the whole outfit, the obvious logical thing to our teenaged brains was for one of us to wear the top and one to wear the skirt on the same day to the same events. We must have looked like a proper pair of prats 😅

When I was 15, my best friend virtually lived at my house. We used to go for long walks, often stopping at the village shop for a bottle if MD20/20. As you do. We'd call by the pub to see my dad, and maybe catch a lift hone with him.

Thus particular day, my brother had given us a lift home earlier in the day, via a different village. I pointed out to friend "that's fit 6th formers house".

Later on, we went fir a walk Dad arrived home staying he hadn't seen us. Brother said he'd go look for us. He went to fit 6th formers house and knocked on the door and asked if I was there. The absolute shame.

@MoonWoman69 Ahh you've opened a rich seam of memories labeled 'Things I've made and worn out and shouldn't have' there. These include a slip dress I made out of white polyester lining material (very cheap) which I wore to a club and which looked very much homemade and basically fell apart as the evening went on. I had purchased a pair of horrible white 'plether' sandals to go with the dress which I later painted black with airfix paint (as you do, because I was a student and completely skint). Again they would deteriorate as the night wore on and the paint would peel off, revealing the white patent plastic underneath. So I would sit and painstakingly touch them up with airfix paint and a little brush.
Even worse, I recall getting off with some bloke and hiding them under my bed so he wouldn't see them in their flaky glory 😱

These are brilliant.

I still think the wedding dress wins the prize!

I mind when I was about 16, I was dumpy, had (real, not coathanger) train tracks, glasses, and, shockingly - no interest from boys.

But my ringtone, on my 3210 (or some such brick) was ' break me off, show me what you got, cos I don't want no one minute man', whatever that song was. Only it was just the tune, and the tune sounding really tinny on a shitey phone. And the vibrate would agressively buzz intermittantly blocking out about a third of it.

I would wait ages to answer my phone thinking folk would hear the song, (god knoes how!) recognise it, and realise (wrongly) I also a seasoned lady of the world.

Morto.

Awww, fashion eh?! ❤❤❤

That made me laugh!!! I can just imagine you both, each with half of the same outfit!!! Mmm, classy!!! 🤣🤣🤣❤❤❤

Glad I’m not alone in my fake brace obsession 😆 Hello fellow weirdo!