Something you’ve done or said as an adult that now makes you cringe/embarrassed.

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Just reading another thread and it made me think about things that I’ve said or done in the past but that I would never do now. I do find myself more forgiving of younger adults though so maybe that’s the way… it goes but I do cringe at my younger behaviour.

I was in my early 20s and a few of us went wedding dress shopping with a colleague. I tried on so many dresses and made the whole trip about me. I wasn’t getting married and the bride was about 10 years older than me and didn’t seem bothered but I’ve often thought about it and how awful it must have been. It makes my toes curl….I’m early 50s now and soooo different.

My very very good friend (male) was getting married. He was older than me and I had never really done a wedding as a grown up before. As a wedding gift I bought him a pair of cuff links. Absolutely cringe when I think about him and his wife opening that gift up.

Why? Seems a nice thing….

I do daft things all the time to this day that that make me cringe.
I was at work once chatting to a well respected client, his name was spelt the same as my partners (unusual name too) and I was thinking about DP while on the phone to client as I was hanging up I went "I love you lots! Speak later bye babe!......no no wait I dont love you!!"

Uggghh it still keeps me awake at night.

Oh and another, I was in a restaurant and I was walking back from the toilet and my front left leg just slid in front of me which put me into a lunge position, I was eye length to this couples table so I looked like I was proposing to them.

I'm going to be up all night thinking about these now.

Hilarious…I love the lunge 🙈🙈🤣🤣

Oh and another, I was in a restaurant and I was walking back from the toilet and my front left leg just slid in front of me which put me into a lunge position, I was eye length to this couples table so I looked like I was proposing to them.

That has ACTUALLY made me laugh out loud (very rare thing to happen!) absolutely hilarious image 😂😂😂

Trying to sing Bohemian Rhapsody on your own where the voices change and you look like a split personality lunatic. This is in front of an entire working mens' club at a Christening do. I still cringe over it but really it wasn't that bad as one person did a rap.
I've accidentally said love you instead of bye on a formal call. Ooooo let's see there's sooo many whose the dickhead in the room moments. I've had skirt tucked in knickers, loo roll on shoe but a big long straggle. Driven off with skirt hanging out car door, driven off with latte on top of car. I could go on.

Oh how I laughed at the lunge 🤣 @Littletinytarzanswingingfromanosehair

It’s too personal to him. And as close to giving a bride jewellery or lingerie as you’d want to get …

Honestly, it was the most bizarre thing. There must have been something slimy on the floor the way it glided. DP (only been dating 3 months at this point) saw it from his table too and he had no clue what was happening.

Told an Australian how dangerous our foxes are when she was saying that kangeroos fight on there back legs 🤦

Maybe…but not as bad as you think.

My toddler son was sick in a restaurant on the floor right next to where a family were eating. It took a while for the restaurant to get a mop etc and I was so embarrassed that they were eating next to it, so I insisted on paying for their drinks when their bill came.
however it just seemed all went very awkward and they didn’t seem happy to let me do that but I insisted and then when their bill came their drinks cost more than our whole family meal. I paid it and left really embarrassed by how insistent I was, when in hindsight there was probably no need.

Sorry, cuff links are equivalent to lingerie? What?

I'd left my partner off at work and kissed him goodbye, stopped at Asda for a click and collect order and when the Asda man gave me the order, I lent in to kiss him goodbye too! He jerked away with a horrified expression on his face! 😱😱

No not equivalent. I said as close as you’d want to get. They are quite a typical gift for a male lover - I guess because giving y-fronts is not really a thing! 🩲😂 In any case it isn’t suitable to give to a couple.

When I was younger I went to a wedding wearing a cream suit. Not even patterned, just plain cream.
It wasn’t until I joined MN that I realised it’s a no no.
In my defence the bride said how much she loved my outfit. Plus she was in a full Cinderella type gown, along with veil and bouquet, so hopefully i didn’t look too bridal.

I have overcompensated so many times in my life but learned it’s crackers…

I walked over to a woman in a BAR put my hand on her stomach and asked if she was having a baby!!! What!! Why!! I didn't even know her! What possessed me

The woman replied "I'm carrying a few extra lbs not a baby..." mortified

🤣🤣🤣

When DS was a few weeks old I was at my parents house when my sister's friend and her new husband popped round. They complimented DS and I said something like "you'll be next!" . This is completely out of character for me, it's the sort of comment my mum has form for but I would never normally comment on someone else's family like that. Anyway for some inconceivable reason I kept on about it - they said oh I don't think so. And I was like "oh everyone says that! Just you wait! Hahaha!". Anyway, the friend has a condition which means that she can't have children and to make it so much worse I actually knew this. But at that moment in my sleep deprived state it had completely gone out of my head. Awful. I literally feel cold and a bit sick everytime I think about it.

"It’s too personal to him. And as close to giving a bride jewellery or lingerie as you’d want to get …"

Oh I'd assumed it was because you imagined them opening their wedding present together and when they opened it, it was just for him 😅

Yes it was all of that too!

Yet so easy to imagine choosing that gift when new to wedding gifting!

Yes @Calliopespa I can easily imagine myself doing things like that but I'm sure the recipients knew your heart was in the right place.

I'm a terrible ruminator and I cringe about everything I do but I try to console myself by remembering that other people will have long forgotten whatever it is I'm cringing about 😆

As a reformed drunk I have done many TERRIBLE things but funnily enough the one that makes me turn inside out I was sober for....I took some work folks to see a show where a client of mine was performing (used to work with celebs). My job was basically to take the important business people to see my client, fill them with drink and big the client up like mad. I did it so often I developed a bit of a script, babbling on about how good the act was then seeing them off with promises to set up meetings afterwards etc. Anyway, after the gig I popped backstage to see the client after the show to say cheerio and for some reason I said the wrong line. I said, "Well, thank you so much for coming, hope you had a good time". To the celeb. At his own show. I thanked him. For coming to his own show. In front of his whole family and staff. I must have looked completely insane.

@Littletinytarzanswingingfromanosehair so funny! You could at least have styled it out with a serenade.

Isn’t it bizarre what we say sometimes….Ive had so many moments like this over the years. I tend to just keep my mouth shut nowadays in case I say something ridiculous.