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?!

Haha brilliant!

I went through an Annie Hall phase when I was about 14, except I had short ginger hair, and wore a pair of homemade brown slacks, with a white shirt, and a brown waistcoat, brown tie and a beige cardigan of my dad’s.

I must have looked like I was cross-dressing as an off-duty deputy headmaster. The shame.

Genius.

@soonenough This may not have been a problem, to be honest, at least not with everyone. Lots of people in the UK hate unannounced visits, but many others love it, or at least think it's completely normal. I'm from Wales and nobody really thinks twice about 'popping in'. We moved to the South East of England and it was very different there - not unfriendliness, just not part of the culture around there. I think parts of the Midlands and the North often pop in on people too. I love it when people stop by unannounced.

I used to look out of car windows on motorways with what I thought was a 'wistful' look, in the hopes of intriguing and therefore catching the eye of boys in other cars. What was that all about?

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@JeezJerry I'm howling at this 😂😂😂😂

@Woopooh I'm in bed in stitches 😂😂😂. You must've looked so ridiculous.

@Sammysquiz haha brilliant 😂😂😂

Oh I'd forgotten all about these phones. I did the same.

Definitely Facebook. Do you remember how it used to come up as well like

Jane is.....(then you'd fill it in).

Circa 2008 all my posts were - Jane is - thinking about what to have for dinner! Jane is - feeling happy that she didn't spill coffee down her this morning Jane is - feeling excited to see Ann and Laura tonight!!

Cringe!

But equally circa 2008, it really was just your mates from school/uni and everyone was doing the same but honestly they pop up now on mempories and I think - what kind of drivel did I use to write! I delete many of them they are that embarrassing!

@GettingittogetherI’ve also started deleting them on sight. I just don’t need the annual reminders of how much I embarrassed myself

@dutysuite haha, brilliant, I'm in stitches 😂😂😂

I once told a boy I fancied I thought I’d been a tree in a past life as I wore a lot of brown and green. I still cringe nearly 30 years later!
I also used to have a little pouch of snuff when I was at art college and thought I was super cool.

@Gliblet
"I must have looked like a middle aged drag queen."
OMG hahaha I'm howling with laughter 😂😂😂

I look very young for my age, for context I am in my 40’s and still get ID’d. I was pregnant with my first at 30 and couldn’t wear my engagement/wedding rings due to my fingers bloating when I was heavily pregnant. Well two Christian women collared me when I was resting on cathedral grounds on a bench about me not being married and pregnant so young. I was so paranoid that I bought a cheap ring and flashed it everywhere I went so people would know I was married. Stupid as who cares if I was married or not! I’m not against women getting pregnant if they aren’t married so why did I give a fuck? 🤣

Omg so many things. I wake up in the night thinking about it sometimes!

I used to try so so hard at school to be liked and did so many stupid things and acted so out of character just to be liked. Like really tried to be funny and loud when I was pretty tame and quiet (boring!). I probably annoyed everyone.

I went to a lovely school but grew up poor. My friends were all wealthy and I always felt like the odd one out. At one point, my family’s business started to do really well and as a result, my dad bought himself a very nice car. I bragged about it to certain people who had made me feel like shit in the past about our previous lack of money and now I think back to to that and genuinely crumble with cringe 😭

I tried too hard to be liked by boys and slept with lots of them, trying to put on this sexy/mysterious persona which is so far away from what I actually am. I die when I think back to how I used to behave on ‘dates’. Absolutely tried to be Samantha Jones. ARGHHHHH!!!!

I used to basically be an idiot and it wasn’t until I matured/got my career job/met my husband that I calmed down and now I (hopefully!) am myself. I don’t try to pretend to be anything I am not and I don’t give a shit what anyone thinks of me (most of the time!).

felt good to get this all off my chest! Thanks for the thread OP.

Me and my friends used to blow kisses at male drivers out the back window of the school minibus and say 'colourful' in a really OTT way (it was supposed to look like 'I love you'. Sad.

I had one of those posters! And 2 massive ones of Orlando bloom as legolas and Leonardo dicaprio.

However I lost my virginity at 15, so couldn't have been that bad!!

@NaturalStudy haha brilliant 😂😂😂

I also used to be ridiculously over dramatic about everything! I do think it’s a bit of a thing for teens/young women, though. Still can’t help but cringe so hard at some of the things I used to dramatise!

That's hilarious! 😀

Did you fully believe it or was it more you were being kind and went along with it? I honestly don't understand how anyone truly thinks it... but hey how, weird times and all.

Love everyone's stories, wedding dress ones a killer!

omg I remember us all flashing our bras at a load of men in a van when we were about 14, from the back of the school coach. They actually cobbled together a sign saying ‘More’

14 year old me had a crush on the guy at school who everyone fancied. Me and my girlfriends would get together, call his house phone from one of our house phones (all huddled round the one phone) to see when him and his mates were going down the local park. Sometimes we’d call the phone, get nervous and hang up.
Ended up marrying him though (15 years later) and we now have 2 DC. And I still haven’t told him about those phone calls or my graffiti covered school textbooks saying ‘I love A.T’. It’s just too cringe.

@OP this is such a great thread!!

I used to accidentally-on-purpose text boys I fancied. Cringe!!!! I think it's so so obvious, and it also didn't at all result in what I was hoping for. If you have to remind someone of your existence it's pretty clear they're not bothered by you, haha!

Also remember in high school the boy I fancied waving at me from his classroom window. I waved back and was all chuffed... until I realised he was waving at someone in the classroom above mine. The shame!!!