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?!

I love this thread.

A few. Starting a new job and working with lots of
men and some Uber glam women. Had absolutely no idea what to wear so idiot me decided pencil skirts and fishnet stockings were sexy and professional and wore them for a whole year. I’m amazed no one had a word. The shame.

Different job - fancied the guy on reception. Sent myself not one but four bunches of flowers on Valentine’s Day. Over £100 and no it made no difference but the florist must have thought I was a right twat.

I have laughed my way through this thread. So thank you.

definitely one for classics.

I remember, at about 9 years old, telling everyone I had been born 12 months premature and I spent my first year living in an incubator.

You are a medical miracle.

I remember a woman writing about the time she got drunk and tried to look up her ex on Facebook. She couldn’t find his profile and got really annoyed about this, but eventually had to give up.

The next day she realised that she’d posted his name as her status about 20 times. 😬

😂😂😂😂

I would literally fake my own death and start a new life. Maybe that’s what happened to canoe man

worst one I’ve read is a woman at work heard her very handsome colleague give his postcode over the phone - she quickly typed it into Google maps on her phone only for her phone to then loudly start giving directions of how to get there 😂😂😂

Found the article

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10593879/amp/Women-reveals-worker-discovered-crush-phone-revealed-shed-Googled-postcode.html

Wonder if @faceonfire is still working there?😬

Facebook status from 2011: After a 4am Durham Teeside Airport run for my Uncle and a week's beard growth, I've decided I look like Terry Waite on his return from Lebanon. Not a good look!

@Longsight2019 🤣🤣🤣 A hit with all the ladies eh?! Nah probably not, unless they went for that look! I'm assuming you're male?! Cos, you know, ladies of a certain age... I'll say no more than Sasquatch/tweezers!!! 🤣🤣🤣

I have 😆 through these.
I so remember the third person FB statuses, but it did come up with your name & then is… Everyone wrote such mundane crap! ‘Goatymum is going to eat a bar of chocolate now’ type nonsense! Or you’d post all your holiday photos - some people still do this & it’s mega-cringe to me! Thankfully there was no internet as a teen or early-20 something as I’m in my 50s now. How glad am I!!!

I did some extremely cringe things like my best friend at the time and I were desperate for a boyfriend aged 13/14 and we used to call our crushes on the phone in the holidays anonymously! She’d call mine & I’d call hers so they wouldn’t recognise our voices and we’d say something like ‘someone really fancies you!’ and put the phone down quickly!

i also once decided to apply fake tan to my arms, again around age 14, I’m very pale so it just looked orange & ridiculous but I pretended it was a real tan. I’m sure no-one believed me though. Faking it wasn’t a ‘thing’ in the mid-80s!!

I used to use the lyrics to whatever song I was listening to as my third person Facebook status. What a fucking twat.

Franny! not Fanny?

What a scam - country’s going to the dogs, snowflakes, spirit of the Blitz etc etc….

Their cousin is called Rick now as well.