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

[Conniebygaslight]

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.

Crying laughing at some of these, thank you so much for this thread @Conniebygaslight!!!

So, to my own...

In the late 80's, I'd was invited to go to my college mates new flat for tea. I was introduced to her new boyfriend who was absolutely lovely. We had a brilliant evening.
I realised I soon needed to be setting off to get the bus into town, so I'd get the time right for the last bus connection out of town to home. Her boyfriend says, I'll go with you, I don't like the idea of you being in town on your own late at night. I protested, but they both insisted he did, so off we went. Chatted all the way into town, he was really lovely and caring and I was so happy she'd found someone nice after her last relationship.
So we got off the bus and I had to walk down the main hill in the middle of town to catch the next bus home. The bus stop was at the bottom. He walked with me and as we were talking, I wasn't watching where I was going... It had been raining and I inadvertently stepped on an empty plastic carrier bag. Down I went on one knee, arms out either side and in a scene reminiscent of Torville and Deans Bolero, I started gaining speed down the hill. I remember the pubs were turning out and people were flying backwards as I shot past on one knee, being chased by my mates boyfriend, shouting "Help, please stop her!" (Most of them were cheering me on!!! 🤣)
I managed to stop at some point and he helped me up, much to my embarrassment... I absolutely die inside every time I think of that and it's 36 years ago now!

This thread is awesome and dredging up so many memories. I’m hoping my friend would still find this funny and not mind me sharing it here.

So many years ago, me and my friend, who I met at my Saturday supermarket job were having an afternoon of mooching around the shopping centre, chatting, having a few snacks, looking at clothes and other random stores (past times, Athena you get the picture). She had decided she wanted a sarong, she loved the bold prints and exotic air they gave out. So we chose one together, and afterwards she nipped to the loo to excitedly change into the casual goddess that this sarong would transform her into, and you know what, she looked great. She had changed from her jeans into the sarong, with the same top she was already wearing, lovely. Not long after, I was walking just behind her, when suddenly I hastily said ‘bleeding hell, I can see your drawers through it’, we hadn’t really considered that this is beach wear, used to slightly cover a bikini, and she had been walking along effectively in just a top, handbag on her shoulder and knickers for all to see! She returned to the loos and sort of doubled it up, creating a shorter skirt, but one that covered all. We parted ways then, I went home and she went to meet her boyfriend at the cinema.

When I next saw her in work, I giggled and brought up what happened again, she then looked at me and said, that was nothing, you should have heard the gasps in the cinema queue when the skirt just dropped completely off, leaving her standing in her knickers with her boyfriend open mouthed trying to work out what just happened!

@MoonWoman69 , the vision of you skating down the hill, knocking all and sundry out of your way, made me cry with laughter. Thank you!

Worse thing you can do is mix your drinks.🤣🤣🤣

There may be a bit of a theme developing here, but another cringe moment was NYE 2007-8. Myself and two friends had booked VIP at a local bar/club. Had a good night dancing, a few drinks and post midnight, was tipsy but not legless.

Turns out that a male former work colleague who we’d all been friends with had also been in this venue and at the end of the night as people are leaving and the crowds are thinning out, we spotted him and him and his friend came over to say hi.

This lad had had a huge crush on me when we’d worked together and when I’d become single we’d had a very short fling. At the time of this night out, it had been a few years since I’d last seen him.

We’d always had a lot of banter back and forth and we were stood in a group just outside of the VIP area which was up 2 steps from the main dance floor. I made some slightly cocky, jokey quip to him about something and to emphasise my superior verbal sparring skills, went to lean back on the VIP rope….. Only it wasn’t there! Someone had tied the rope back to the stand. I remember that spilt second of putting my hand out and feeling just air and thinking “oh sh*t”! I ended up doing a Del Boy style sideways fall onto the floor in front of everyone.

Karma is real people 😂

Absent-mindedly kissing a horrified taxi driver goodbye wasn't my finest hour... 😐

Once, I was rushing to work and didn't have time for breakfast so I took the healthy choice and necked a can of diet coke in the car on the way in. I was running late and when I got to my desk, huffing and puffing, the phone was already ringing. I picked it up and opened my mouth to say good morning but instead did a HUGE burp straight down the receiver. Not a little gulpy, hiccuppy one but a proper earth shaker. The person on the end of the line was saying "hello?! Hello?!" and I just had to put the phone down. It was just awful.
Disgusting I know.

It’s always the most basic ones that have me in stitches - the way Nature keeps us all from getting too above ourselves!

The one that springs to mind is being about 18-19 and getting myself disgustingly drunk at the work Christmas party. It was my first one, and the first time I had been out with these colleagues.

I was dancing like a stripper, dropping to the floor, split my trousers but didn’t care. I was sick then went into sad drunk mode…sobbing and snotting about anything and everything including telling my bosses new wife that she ‘better look after him’ while wailing at the same time.

I woke up mortified and still am 15 years later. I’ve spent every Christmas party since sober and rarely ever have more than a couple as I never want to be like that again.

My toes literally curl at the thought of it.

😬 I hate to tell you my toes are also curling! 🤣

My next door neighbours signed their Christmas card 'from all at house name'. I sent our card to John and Ann for three years after Ann had died (and a neighbour happened to mention her passing).

I got extremely drunk at a cricketer's benefit event at the Hilton with my colleagues at a big four accountancy firm and their clients. I spent a good hour telling everyone how upset I was I'd lost my handbag until a client eventually said they'd help me find it. It was sat on my chair exactly where I'd left it.

I then decided to demonstrate a swinging cricket shot with the miniature signed bats we'd been given and cut my boss's wine glass perfectly in two so the stem fell on the floor and she was left holding the glass part. It got worse thereafter when one of the clients tried to drive me home as he was worried about my safety and I’d forgotten where I lived so just shot out of the car into the pouring rain in my cocktail dress.

On another occasion, I was driving a much younger male friend back from the station and stopped to give my sympathies to a neighbour about his seriously injured cat that my husband had picked up and taken back to his house slumped in a doll's pushchair (and later died). He assumed my friend was my husband so wanted to thank him and for some reason I felt it was easier to go with the flow than correct him. I have no idea why. This has triggered a lot of subsequent awkwardness as to who my actual husband is when the neighbour sees him.

Oh the last paragraph is hilarious!

One overriding memory is being in the toilet, bent over the sink with the male caretaker trying to sew my arse back into my spray on tight trousers with one of those tiny sewing kits you get in a hotel (which the venue was, a very posh one!) while I’m still dancing, while also crying and falling over.

On and the photos where I’m stood smiling like a mad man with a bright red post crying face and mascara running down my cheeks from all the sobbing.

Just why. I never cry! Honestly every single time I hear someone say ‘take care of her’ I die inside.

I've posted this before but it remains one of my cringiest moments.
Years ago, as a teen, I would hang out in a coffee bar with loads of others. There was a boy I liked, who was teasing me, grabbing my little bag or something. I grabbed it back and I meant to say either “knickers!” or “piss off!” But I ended up saying “knickers off!”
To a teenage boy. That I fancied. In front of a dozen others.

Worked in a venue which showed silent films with live piano accompaniment. A guy came to tune the piano one morning. He was blind and had a guide dog. I took him to the auditorium which was in total darkness. I asked him if he wanted the lights on - immediately realised my faux pas and said quickly, I meant for the dog.
Not my finest moment

Good save! Very quick thinking there

At the end of my toddler’s swimming lesson, I had to pull myself up onto the side out of the pool. I was wearing a tankini and the suction from the water pulled my bottoms down, exposing my arse to the swim teacher behind me and my front to the row of parents waiting at the pool-side. I made sure I wore a one piece from then on…

@summer555 The swinging cricket shot made me laugh out loud!

Many years ago I worked in a taxi office, took a call from a woman demanding to know where her taxi was, I checked and said he's sitting right at the door (council HQ) can you not see him?
She replied no I'm blind, tell him to come in and speak to me, I have a guide dog
I still cringe 30 years later.

Running along the platform at Manchester Piccadilly, I felt the elastic in my knickers go. My hands were full of luggage, the train was about to depart, so I just kept running as the knickers dropped down to my ankles. I stepped out of them while barely breaking my running pace, grabbed them, and continued running. Of course, this happened in front of a row of people sitting, waiting for their trains. I like to think I styled it out...

Not as bad as some of these (the thumbs 😂😂) but when I was about 19 I went on a date with a posh guy from uni.

I had a very working class upbringing and although I’d eaten out loads, it was usually in places like Frankie’s and Bennys.

Anyway he took me to a tapas place (very fancy) and we ordered a few things including prawns.

Great! I thought, I knew I liked prawns.

They arrived with the shell on (which I’d never encountered before), and I casually just started it with the shell on as I didn’t know any better. I immediately regretted this.

He looked puzzled, looked at me like I was some shell eating weirdo and asked if I always ate the shell.

Rather than coming clean that I’d just made an error, I thought it was better to say that I liked the shell to save face, and ate the rest that way?!?

He was so lovely but I die when I think about it.

He probably tells a story of a date he went on with a shell eating maniac.

No, not me.

Nothing that I can think of.

Hmmm, nope. 😶

This thread has prodded my cringe memory bank. Christmas eve around 1977/8ish, age 17 I worked in a supermarket . Some of the staff had surreptitiously sneaked in some booze so we were having a crafty drink when customers weren't looking. By closing time some of us were pretty tipsy. We had really fit store manager, age 27ish dark, brooding good looks, Burt Reynolds type 70s moustache etc. 6pm closing time and the manager was thanking everyone for their hard work and wishing us a merry Xmas. In my tipsy state I lunged at him , threw my arm around him and full on snogged him, tongues and all in front of everyone. The poor man was absolutely mortified and didn't know what to do with himself. I had forgotten about it until this thread started but I'm cringing with embarrassment and horror at what seemed like a great idea at the time aaaàaaaghhĥh 😬😬🥵

Just remembered the time we were on a night out drunk dancing near the karaoke stage. I fell on my ass my friends stood there looking over me laughing. The DJ pulled me up then said into the mike don't you just love it when you fall over.

Then there was the time I had been out with some local parent/carers to a Chinese restaurant. I was sharing a taxi home with a friend. She jumped up said our taxis. So I stood to go after her not realising I was more than a bit tipsy. Went arse over tit and ended up on the floor.

Then when I got home I went on Facebook. A mum I was at school with kept saying about me being drunk. So I told her to pissoff. I don't usually swear on social media.

Did you ever go back to work? What did he say? Was he single? So many questions!!!!