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?!

He's still got a certain something! Probably better looking now he's lost the bushy eyebrows and medallion, and gone grey.
Another embarrassing confession coming up - he did a personal appearance at a club near me where he was on a little podium handing out records. There weren't many people there because I'm pretty sure it was a weeknight and wasn't very well publicised - I'd only heard about it that day or the day before. Anyway me and a couple of friends were right at the front so he kept giving us records and at the end I reached out and grabbed his hand!
I treasured those records for ages. They were all crap and by people I'd never heard of except for Chris Rea Driving Home For Christmas.

Although posing with two topless girls is is bit yuk...

Oh my goodness, that is brilliant 🤣 It is the sort of thing I would end up doing too. So funny!

I'm not sure what this says about me, but i'm sat here smoking a roll up cigarette in a holder after playing pokemon go with people from a pokemon group i'm in, oh and i'm almost 44😂.

Often

🤣🤣

I once found an old asthma pump of my dads an told everyone I had asthma.
Every time someone upset me or I wanted attention I'd start coughing and gasping an pull the empty pump from my bag.

I just love this- laughed so much! When I was training to be a student nurse in the early 80’s, there were very strict rules about changing out of one’s uniform and leaving it in the hospital laundry to be washed. I was so in love with the idea that I was a student nurse I used to carry one of my huge physiology text books around and ostentatiously read it on the bus! Another one.. When I was 13 I fell in love with a sixth former from the boys school next door. We shared buses to school (35 minute journey ) I didn’t know his name so I told all my friends he was called Neil Hunter. One day he got off at my bus stop and stopped me to say “I am not Neil Hunter but thanks for choosing a new name for me ! “
I can still feel the agony of shame and embarrassment!

You've just reminded me of putting parma violets (the sweets) in an empty medicine bottle belonging to my granny, and pretending to my friends they were prescribed medication for a serious and unknown illness. Pure attention seeking. I was about 11.

Ah that’s wonderful 😀😀

These have cracked me up!!

I used to have one of those huge Orlando Bloom posters over my bed and I'd kiss him every night before I went to sleep.

I also had a bad breakup with a guy at university but we were both in the same friend group so we ended up on a night out together. I drank far too much wine and my memory is a little hazy but I remember staring longingly (and obviously) at him before breaking down in the middle of the street and having to be walked home by a friend. I then proceeded to send him a series of long and rambling text messages and I'm fairly certain he also responded...the reason I don't know for certain is because drunk me thought "sober me won't want to know about this" and permanently deleted all of the messages!

We managed to get to a point eventually where we were able to be at parties together (on opposite sides of the room) and have since seen each other at mutual friends' weddings where we've said hi to each other etc, but I never worked up the courage to ask him what happened that night and I die a little inside whenever I think about it!

Drive to and from the railway station when it was a 10 minute walk!

I used to pretend I had Argentinian heritage.

I have a Facebook friend who STILL DOES THIS!!

I often wake up in the night cringing about events like this from my past, so this thread has been the equivalent of years of therapy! I'm so glad I'm not alone. And also, I like to kid myself think that those mis-judged and self-involved behaviours are all part of the processes of discovering who we really are

I got mega confused for a minute! Great name 😂

I hear you with the post, too.

I love this, nearly choked laughing so much 🤣 just picturing him trying to put the words together 😂

So glad I didn't have SM in my younger days as I really would cringe! My total misunderstanding of real life, the views I had, ugh! So naive and influenced by what I thought I should be like. X

I did this, too 😂
It’s even on my first passport 🤦‍♀️

In the late 90s I dyed my almost black hair so it was almost fully blonde and wore bright green contact lenses in my dark brown eyes to go out at night. I’m half Malaysian.

Oh dear god I used to do this too.

I also used to write 'I <3 (fake ass boyfriends initials) on the back of my hand in biro.

I was about 14 at the time and thought it was hideously embarrassing that I'd never had a boyfriend. I also insisted I wasn't a virgin

Oh god this reminds me that I used to read my university textbooks on the train (whilst I’d much rather be reading Heat) in the mistaken impression that all my fellow passengers would be in awe of my intelligence.

Pretended I could knit, even carried wool and knitting needles with me
Had to pay a girl to knit things for me that I pretended I’d knitted
Thought it made me interesting, and unique. What a total pseud

When I was a young teen I wore badly applied orange foundation, that stopped at my whiteneck.
My ex sister in law was one of those 'ladies' in the make up department of a department store, and she was like this. In her late twenties, in the 90s.
So l wouldn't beat yourself up too much about doing it as a young teen!