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.

DH and I had two kids and were in our thirties when we got married. First holiday alone in ten years. Went to get luggage and an officer pulls me aside to say they’ve seized my luggage because they’ve found something suspicious. They then start making the action of what I thought was bracelets while I start rattling on about not having any bracelets in my luggage. One lady is pissing herself laughing. I totally forgot that I’d packed my pink fluffy handcuffs that my friends bought me on my hen night. I was mortified, my husband thought it was hilarious.

If a female friend had given my DH cufflinks as our joint wedding gift I would have been very 🤔😂 I read it not as something she gave him beforehand, which would still be a little personal, but the main gift which usually the couple open together. Very odd 😂

This has made me weep with laughter! Thank you for that! 😂

@Anonym00se this is one of the funniest things I've read!

I'm good friends with someone who lives in my street, knew her before we moved there. We both find it funny (very childish I know) to stick either middle finger up or flick the Vs when we see each other in the street. The other morning I saw her get into her car, it was very early so no one else in the street. So I stood in the road holding two fingers up so when she pulled out I'd be standing there, I know she'd find this a funny start to the day (she's a head teacher in a behaviour unit so has stressful job). Except I wasn't her, it was a different neighbour in a similar car who had parked next to her house. I had to style it out with an exaggerated head scratch, I don't know the neighbour at all and very much doubt it would have amused them 🤦🏻‍♀️

A few months back was on a Teams call (cameras off thankfully). As this was a last minute, hastily arranged call it was Sod’s Law that I’d booked a food shopping delivery for the hour’s slot around this meeting.

At the very start, I pre-warned everyone (including Heads of and Vice Presidents of departments) that I might have to duck off the call very briefly to answer the door, but it was unlikely as the delivery men tended to arrive right at the end of the slot and this meeting was at the beginning.

Sure enough, the van pulls up outside. Cue my 3 big dogs barking and pacing around the room. I excuse myself and thought I’d muted, at which point I tell my dogs to “Lie the f*ck down and behave or they’ll spend the rest of the day in their crates”.

Dealt with the shop, rejoined the call and I thought all was good. Until a few days later when one of the VPs made a joke about whether I’d let the delivery driver up and out of his crate yet 😂 Thankfully it was all taken in good spirits but I now make sure to double check I’m on mute when I need to be!!

Did it somehow make you look like a penis?
Im not fully visualising it …

On a night out in my 20s I had incredibly bad stomach cramps and ended up having to poo in my handbag (it's a long story). I then disposed of it over a building site wall as I didn't want to carry it home (obvs.)!

Just today, was using the tube, approaching an escalator, saw a mum looking as though she was getting her baby out of the buggy, I said ‘are you ok? Do you need help?’ She replied ‘yep, just strapping him in’ I thought she was replying yep she could do with a hand, so I stood awkwardly and then tried to help her on the escalator with the buggy - about half way up the very long escalator it dawned on me that she was saying yes to my first question, that she was ok!

If you are that very nice lady and are reading this, I’m sorry that I manhandled your buggy!!

I’ve told this one before on here but I still shrivel inside thinking about and it happened about 25 years ago….

I worked behind the bar of a pub, back in the days where you could smoke inside still. One of the regulars was propping the end of the bar up with a cigarette dangling from the side of his mouth so I told him he looked like popeye. He asked me to repeat myself, as I hit halfway saying it for the second time, slightly louder this time I remembered that he had a false eye

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I’m crying 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Hahahaha 🤣

This one made me genuinely smile.

Oh god the thumbs. I need to go to sleep but I keep laughing 🤣

In a pub in my late teens in my mysterious brooding goth phase (possibly just under age so very self conscious about trying to look older and go under the radar of bar staff) I stepped backwards, stumbled over a small stool at the table my friends were at which toppled on to its side and I fell into the space bteween two legs, the rung between the two legs and the seat, effectively on my arse whilst stuck in a bar stool with my limbs sticking out, like a big fat trapped bat.

I was mortified, managed to get out and dramatically flounced home in embarrassment.

Happy days 😄

Oh my goodness, this is hysterical 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Haha! My DH's friend did the same thing. Hopefully you didn't get as drunk as she did and end up telling the bride's sister how much you were in love with your very very good friend, not realizing it was the bride's sister. 😂

Funnily enough, we are all no longer in contact and my brother still wears those cufflinks I passed onto him. They were great cufflinks!

20 years ago I was persuaded to have one of these at home product parties: Pampered Chef if anyone remembers them (over-priced kitchen ware). Invited family, friends, work colleagues.

Hostess woman would demonstrate a dessert using some products, pop it in the oven & we'd all have a taste whilst she showed other items etc.

She gave me a list of ingredients needed: berries, cream, vanilla extract etc, and waffles. I knew it was a dessert. I bought Birds Eye Potato Waffles.

Presented these in front of the crowd. Mortified.

My excuse is I was v early pregnancy & wiped out- brain not working at all.

I thought the lunge and Asda kiss were really funny but this had me roaring!

Some people are so uptight about nuptial gifts:

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/elton-john-treasures-cock-rings-190246155.html

Omg! This made me laugh out loud! 😂😂😂

Many years ago I was a nurse and we had a visit from a social worker for one of the patients in our care. I opened the door, looked at him, and said 'Get in, urgh, I mean come in'. I was mortified. He was breathtakingly beautiful and needless to say, we are not married and living together. I cringe all the time that this enters my head.

This is awesome. I just read this to my dc and she is laughing hysterically 🤣🤣🤣

There's a current newspaper story about Clint Eastwood's partner having sadly just died. In current journalistic fashion, various factoids have been collated by AI and squished together to make the story. One sentence stands out:

'After his split from Dina in 2012, Clint moved on with actress/model Christina Sandera, 60, in 2014. The couple are still together and live in California.'

I can only give the journalist 5 out of 10 as only 50% of the couple still live in California.