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.

Oh God, me today. Was in a really long and tedious meeting, with someone who takes four times as long to say anything as anyone else. We were all
on Teams, so I thought I’d take advantage of Steve’s monologue to rattle through some spreadsheets. I felt a huge fart brewing, and let rip. It was loud and melodious and made me laugh out loud. Laughing triggered a little volley of smaller farts, which made me laugh some more. I snorted a bit, which dislodged a dry piece of snot, so I reefed around in my nose for it, bringing out a big thread of snot and then triggering a nose bleed. At this point I was trying to juggle snot and blood and trying to find a tissue. I noticed Steve had stopped speaking, closed the spreadsheet and then saw I hadn’t either muted my Mike or turned my camera off. The people who still had their cameras on were looking horrified. Steve asked me if I was OK, and ifI had anything I wanted to add. I just flapped my tissue at the screen and turned off both camera and mike. I can’t go in on Monday. I’m going to have to resign over the weekend. Particularly as the chat was full of “Pogacsa, you’re still on camera” and “Pogacsa, can you mute?”

Made me laugh 😆

@Littletinytarzanswingingfromanosehair

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 literally crying! This is too funny!

I've told these before:

I used to be a radiographer , a patient in a wheelchair came into my x ray room, he was a double amputee . I greeted him and asked 'how are you on your feet ?'

More recently, I was on a work Teams call with another couple of new starters , so that we could meet the wider team. I had been specifically employed due to my knowledge of a certain area. We had to give our name and a rough outline of our role. "I'm Earole and I'm totally out of my depth" WTF was I thinking!!

Went round to friends house for a drink before going out round the pubs. Walked in and asked her if she'd had a dog in here. She never had a dog at the time. She was quite offended she had the day off and spent most the day cleaning.🤣🤣🤣

Oh no!

I threw a Halloween party for all our friends and our children. I'd decorated the place and organised loads of fun for the kids and a huge buffet for everyone and was so happy with how it was all going.
A few of the mums were making cocktails and as I was the host, every time they made a batch, they'd give one to me. I was drinking them without even thinking and I ended up absolutely hammered.
Apparently I was crawling as I couldn't walk and I threw up on my driveway.

One of my friends put me to bed at about 9pm and had to undress me and then put me in my PJs. Apparently everyone stayed until about midnight and had a great time but I slept until the next morning.

I was so mortified and upset with myself when I woke up that I texted everyone an apology. One of the mums told me off a bit but thankfully all of the children had spent most of the evening in the playroom and hadn't seen me in my state:

I've since thrown more Halloween parties but I've been completely sober for them.

@Littletinytarzanswingingfromanosehair Crying at the proposal lunge 😂

Oh I absolutely love the thought of the OP not being the bride and hijacking the wedding dress appointment and making it all about her! I'm sure the shop workers still tell that story 😂
Mine isn't funny at all, and I die inside every time I think about it. A neighbour of mine had a toddler dd who died. It wasn't completely unexpected, she had a neurological condition and they were expecting it but not so soon. They are Muslim, so the tradition is that upon the news of the death all the family and friends gathered in the house to comfort the family. There must have been about 30 people in the room, the atmosphere was obviously very subdued but the mother was very composed. I was in my first trimester and very emotional anyway, but I burst into very loud, uncontrollable sobs that went on and I couldn't stop....everyone was trying to comfort me, and as if that wasn't bad enough, the child's grandmother hugged me tightly, consoling me, and as she broke away a large string of my snot had stuck to her face, which she hadn't noticed, and as she moved further so did the snot, until it finally 'broke' when it was about a meter long, and fell from her face, down onto the floor. Everyone saw this, I was still sobbing and people were trying to not only comfort me, but clean up my bodily fluids too. Every time I see a 'grief thief' thread on here I brace myself, expecting it to be about me

I was 17 and learning to drive, whilst trying to be welcomed into the fold of my new BF family.

Talking about 'additional help' whilst doing the theory for those who didn't have English as their first language - my MiL (Irish) asked how we teach people whose first language is not English I said ' I said it's great that we have different languages and translators/IT available to help us complete firms etc'

'But why do we not have facilities for the visually impaired at the exam centre for driving?' She asked innocently.

To which I said - My lovely mil (sadly now passed) 'darling, those who cannot see, cannot drive, I think you might be mistaken.'

Probably a good thing!
I'm such an idiot but pleased to say my wonderful MiL was one of my favourite people of all time. RIP Nora and she never drove!

One came to mind.

Arrivals in the airport. Carrying baby on the hip, wearing a breastfeeding shirt, the ones that open in the middle and are very easy to take a boob out. Such baby pulling from that shirt.

Cue man coming towards us looking at me wided eye. I hadn’t even registered the gentle breeze on my boob yet.

My husband from behind realised such man was looking at me strangely, then proceeded to cut me off in my step to look at what the other man was looking at. He pulled the shirt flap to cover my boob.

I was mortified that in a crowded airport I had been flashing my boob for a 100m at least until someone was staring long enough for my husband to notice.

I had breastfeed my baby in the plane and completely forgot to refasten the strap again 🤣

Omg Pogasca this one had me crying! Commiserations, and good luck in your job search… do you think they’ll give you a good reference? 😅

Something like "she contributes fully to all team activities "?

This is like a scene from a comedy show!hahahaha.

I'm sat in a cafe alone, laughing like an absolute nutter to myself at these 🤣

Had a terrible week and this thread has really cheered me up. Laughing at everyone else lol.

Or “ She is very unaffected and down to earth.”

Not a biggie really but I remember going to a boyfriend's house for the first time in my teens. I was wearing a very bland, plain top. His mum said 'I like your top Jess' and I said oh thanks then went on a tangent about where it came from. Then noticed his sister (also called Jess) was wearing a super cool, glitzy top and his mum was actually speaking to her. The sister said 'I bet you feel really silly now don't you' and I just died. Even now it makes me cringe.

It was the sister at fault not you. You sounded very sweet. I love a young person who takes a compliment graciously.

It was rather something I didn’t do, and I still feel bad about it.

BF of at least a year and I went to different unis, a long distance apart, at 18. We still saw each other occasionally, but even though I don’t think I’d met dh by then, I think I knew it wasn’t going anywhere long-term.

He wrote to me (this was long before even email let alone mobile phones) saying that once he’d graduated, he would like us to get married.

I didn’t even reply. 😱 I suppose I just didn’t know how to say (kindly) sorry, but it’s never going to happen.

My folks had moved a long distance away during my first year, so there was no likelihood of seeing him during the holidays. He never wrote again, and I never saw him again, although he did visit my folks.

For quite a few years (until dh turned into Golden Boy!) my DM would berate me, saying I’d never find anyone else as nice as the ex BF.

This is one that actually happened to an old friend of mine, she told me years ago and I've never forgotten it...

She was at the bus stop about to get on a bus and the woman in front of her had several bags and a child and was struggling along, so my friend being my friend tried to help by taking the hand of the child and trying to pick him up to usher him onto the bus to help them along, the woman looked mortified and as the child started effing and blinding, my friend was taken aback and looked down to see that the "child" was, in fact, a dwarf

I wasn't even there and I die of cringe every time I think about it

DH was tired and dragging his arse around the supermarket, so I said 'Look, you just stay there with the trolley and browse the magazines, I'll go and get the milk.'

So off I went, got the milk and, in giddy mood, decided to canter back to him, thrust the milk in his face and moo loudly: MMOOOOIIIIIILKKKK!

Of course, it wasn't my husband...

I was telling my brother and sister in law about some experience I had in a supermarket, can't even remember what, and then decided to clumsily imitate / exaggerate the accent of the Chinese student checkout worker who offered me a bag. I was halfway through this when I remembered my sister in law is Chinese British.

Tbh it’s never too late to set these things right.

I did something awful when I was about 9 ( it wasn’t funny, more a thoughtless comment which betrayed a secret someone had asked me to keep and I thought they were making a mountain out of a molehill by making it a secret in the first place. ) However she felt really upset when I let it out to some other girls at school and when I saw her face I’ve never stopped feeling bad. Recently I apologised. She was fully over it - but did remember (!) - and was really glad to have the apology. It’s nice to tie up these loose ends.

Ok that one made me laugh out loud 🤣

😂 This is the best!!! Thank you so much for posting.

May I politely suggest that your name changes to "ermmm no all sounds good"