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 made me laugh.

The incessant posting of my first-born on Facebook. I had severe PND but everyone used to call me "supermum" because of these posts. Little did they know about the meltdowns (undiagnosed autism back then) I was having left, right, and centre.

I don’t think you should be hard on yourself about this one @SpinningOutWaitinForYa
I hope you’re in a better place now

Oh goodness yes, I do look back and cringe! I think that’s a good thing though, it means you’ve grown as a person.

As a teenage school girl (50 years ago) I had an "imaginary boyfriend "
He was really good looking and cool but nobody ever saw him. A few times when he was meant to be coming to the youth club some disaster would befall him, once he broke his leg and another time his Nan was very ill. My friends never said anything to my face but I'm pretty sure they knew he was fictional 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I got married at 25 and shared several separate albums of photos on Facebook, with every guest tagged in a load of photos. Also got all my good friends to stay locally for 2-3 nights to extend the celebration. It was over 10 years ago but I look back and think... It was just someone's else's wedding to most people.
In my defence none of my friends had got married or had kids then so lives weren't as busy, but still.

And yes I also went to a uni party in a mexican-style costume. Am not Mexican. Probably was cultural appropriation.

Such funny ones. I thank my lucky stars social media wasn't a thing up to my late 20s. I was extremely awkward! Also used to put gum on the roof of my mouth to make it sound like I have braces.

@LakeTiticaca I hope his nan managed to pull through! 😂

I hope so too 😉 I'm cringing just thinking about it, even 50 years on!!

Thank you for this thread! I can't think of a particularly funny one, but I do find that I cringe about my behaviour for the most recent last ten years of my life and usually i get over anything past ten years (except the major events ). I feel like I'm a different person each decade!

Sometimes it’s the smallest stuff that’s the most cringe! I do believe it builds character though 😂

ASL?

Can't believe I'm going to share this on here but, when I was 15 I had a boyfriend for a few weeks. He was a proper munter and nasty too, but I didn't know any better then. We just sort of drifted and broke up but I didn't really know why. He moved house and when I found out I went to his old house just to look at it (I'd never been, but knew where he lived).
I looked through the windows and just imagined what his life was like (hahahah). I wanted a souvenir so I looked around for anything left of him and there was just one thing: a peg on the line.
I took it home. A few weeks later I confessed it to a friend and they have called me Peggy for the rest of time.

I cringe to think how many times I would call to peoples' homes unannounced when I lived in UK. I has no idea that it was expected to call first . In my culture it wasn't a big deal and most people didn't bother . Just offered tea and food to everyone and sometimes more than one group was there. Visits could be just a few minutes or a few hours , maybe end up having dinner. I blame my DH , he should have told me.

I used to fancy the man who worked in the local video shop. He was about 40 and married and I was 16 I used to do my hair and make up and get all dressed up just to go and rent a video. Imagine what my flirting must have looked like oh god I was not one of the sophisticated kind of youths you get today

@SpinningOutWaitinForYa I hope you still
have the peg to this day

34/F/Somewhere in the UK.....lol😅

I still have to stop myself from cracking out a 'funny' that may not land. I'm better at it, but not cured. I am old enough to know better.

So many PFB things! I had a 'timetable' for ds on the kitchen noticeboatd with 'nappy free time' and other stuff literally scheduled in. I took him to rhyme time at the library when he was tiny because'I thought it would be good for him' but he slept through the whole thing so I just sat there like a tit. Obsessing over the gro egg room temperature. Writing a 'breastfeeding journey' (what was I thinking?!) and printing it out. Making everything from fuckjng scratch, even fish fingers.

We had another baby a few years after all that and I can assure you it was a completely different story, she wore whatever, ate rusks every day, got chucked in her cot and got dragged along to ds' activities 😂

Sadly not 😂it was a hot pink one, if you were wondering!

Oh yes I also told everyone at school I was a witch after reading a book of my mums about the occult and spirituality...clearly I decided I was a very special and spiritual person.

I used to pucker my lips & pout seductively when smoking.
Don’t smoke now, but my 47 year old face isn’t finding it so sexy…

Something that I cringe about now is that I used to have loud sex with my boyfriend in the shared house I lived in 🙈 Why????

Mortified when I think if it now, absolutely didn’t care less at the time. Can’t even get my head round how I was so blasé and INCONSIDERATE. CRINGE

Just snort laughed at this. I'm sad your user name doesn't mention legs 🤣