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?!

Oh daily! Facebook is the worst. I want to keep it in order to keep up with a few old friends around the globe but the nonsense I used to upload makes me die of embarrassment. I posted things for attention all the time. Always either about being single (and hoping to catch someone’s attention, about wanting to lose weight (I didn’t need to) or attempting to be witty.

Im in the process of looking back over Facebook memories each morning and deleting until they’re all gone!

Couldn’t be more different these days. I have a 1 year old that no one would know existed in Facebook land. I intend to keep it that way!

This is hilarious 😂Please share some of your commentary!

That's so cute. I bet you had a great time.

Hell yeah!

Then 3 years later I sobbed because I actually needed braces but now wasn’t cool🤣 what a tool!

Aw @Conkersandlattes that's a lovely story, can't believe you've not told him about your phone stalking. Have you been together since you were 14?

My friend used to call her crush and play 'I can't live - if living is without you' down the landline phone 😂😂. He got really angry at one point and shouted 'leave me alone you c*ts' down the phone!!! They're married now!!

Brilliant! I can relate. I took my Dad’s 1980’s business briefcase to school as my bag. Everyone else had trendy backpacks etc. I loved that briefcase! This is a hilarious thread OP, thank you 😂

@Woopooh oh no, careful what you wish for 😂😂.

I think that sounds quite sweet! No harm in giving yourself fun names for a barista.

I had a massive crush on an artist in the Corn Exchange in Leeds about 15 years ago. As did my mate! We used to go into town every Saturday and get coffees at the cafe, just to sit and stare at him! (Bear in mind, I was married and she was in a long term relationship!!!) Anyway, one day, I had the bright idea of taking a photo of him on my new camera phone... How was I supposed to know there was a shutter sound... On loud!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Oh the shame!!!

Oh don’t 🤦‍♀️ I did this in year 7, except when people asked his name I said the name of a real boy I vaguely knew (and didn’t fancy at all) because he dad worked with mine.

Figured I was safe since they lived in a different area… except it turned out that 5 girls at my school and my cousin had all been in his class at primary school, all lived close to him and bloody well told him.

I had to go out every time he came over with his parents for the next 3 years!

I don’t delete mine because I find them quite funny when I see them in my FB memories but I do often change the privacy settings on them to “only me” so there’s no danger of them turning up in the results if someone on my friend list is searching FB for something.

Have blocked much of it out but I do remember when one girl stopped at the end of the catwalk and took her jacket off I was like “yes that’s the sort of thing I was looking for!” like I was an agent or a fashion writer or something ffs and anyone actually cared what I thought.

I need to stress that I knew none of the people and I’m not even sure how I ended up there in the first place. Also I’m shaped like a potato on legs and have never once in my life dressed fashionably. Absolute bellend.

My friend used to call her crush and play 'I can't live - if living is without you' down the landline phone 😂😂. He got really angry at one point and shouted 'leave me alone you c*ts' down the phone!!! They're married now!!

Brilliant. I hope this story came up at their wedding?

Ha! Oh my goodness, she trumped me! We didn’t even think about playing music down the phone…probably a good thing!

No, we got back in contact (through Facebook (not calling each others landlines 😂) and got together when we were 25 (Now 40). We joke that everyone used to fancy him but he finds it all a bit embarrassing!

These are hilarious!
I’ve remembered another one of mine…in my mid to late twenties the relationship I was in came to an end. I was distraught, he was fine. My moving out coincided with him going to America for two weeks, and he was due back just before his birthday.
I am so embarrassed to say that I cleaned the house top to bottom, left EVERYTHING - the microwave, kettle, crockery, pans, cutlery, most of the furniture, I put beers in the fridge for his return, bought and wrapped a present and card for him, I even bought him a new duvet, pillows and bedding because I was taking those because they were mine. I’d paid for literally everything in there but I didn’t want him coming back to a barren house.
Throughout this, I had to find a new place to live, move all my stuff, buy new things to replace the stuff I’d left, order new furniture and put it together, set up new bills etc which I’d never had to do before, all between bouts of hysterical sobbing.
Whether I thought he would return from his all-expenses paid trip to Vegas and suddenly see what he was missing, I just don’t know. What was I thinking?! I cringe with the embarrassment of being so pathetic, and for spending so much money in the process! The fact none of it was his should’ve shown me how little he had invested in our life together. 🙄
On the flip side, I ended up being glad the new place was all mine, all the things I’d chosen, and I went on to have the best three years living alone in that little house. So, every cloud I suppose!

@petridishmystery oh I love it, that’s what I was looking for 😂

Oh my God, I had a real crush on him, I thought we'd get married and everything! Then he 3 timed me by posing in the newspaper with two topless models... There he was, a pair of tits either side of his face... And that was it, I was absolutely heartbroken and we were finished! (The fact that he had no bloody idea I was going to marry him, doesn't come into it!!! 🤣🤣🤣) But then I look at him now and cringe!!! What WAS I thinking?!

My first cringe was having a crush on a boy in primary school. We were getting on famously, for 5 year olds - he loved me, I loved him. FOR EVER!!! Then we were given recorders, we were playing in class and he made me laugh really hard, which with a heavy cold wasn't such a good idea, when a head full of snot suddenly gushed out and down my recorder!!! I still cringe at the look of sheer horror on his face... And that was 49 years ago!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Poor lad!

@FMLWTF yes it did 😂

@Conkersandlattes aw that's a lovely story 😍

I encouraged several friends who had just given birth to come and things (for example, join a family 5 k run three days afterwards). I wouldn't take no for an answer and kept pushing how fun it will be.
Only after I gave birth did I realize how truly unreasonable I was!!!

@MoonWoman69 and @Papergirl1968

You can hire him - maybe your dream could come true after all 😂😂

musicandbands.co.uk/booking-agent/gary-davies

@MoonWoman69 hahaha omg that's hilarious and awful, poor you 😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think I'll leave it, but thanks all the same!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

oh my god, haha!!