Things that you still cringe about...despite the fact that it was decades ago with people you no longer know..

[JandLandG]

This came into my head as a fun/silly/light-hearted idea to chat about bc I reasonably regularly do this...

I thought I'd start things off with a typical example...but now I can't bloody think of one!

I'll be back...but for now...anyone fancy sharing...?

Reminds me of when I was a kid asking dad where he was going,I'm going to see a man about a dog .
I really thought I was getting a pet dog on his return.

Getting roaring drunk at a boyfriends house on peaches in brandy
( bizarre, as I don’t normally touch brandy!) the night before a big “important family outing” starting early the next day…
I made us late as I kept vomiting out of the car window, and making him stop for further vomiting along the way. Utterly miserable, white as a sheet and sooo embarrassed at this family party, I cringe when I remember it. It was 1983 😱

That reminds me of when I was reading a Jackie Collins on a plane. I asked my boyfriend, in a loud voice "what does muff diving mean?" My boyfriend burst out laughing and the man next to him went red. I went red too when boyfriend explained. I'd never heard it called that before.

When I was four my nursery class visited a farm. The farmer talked about milk, there was something special about the milk from his farm, I can't remember what. Anyway, he handed me, the child nearest to him, a glass of milk and said, "here's some to try." I drank the milk and put the glass down. For a long time I wondered why I was the only child who got to have milk, why didn't everyone get a glass? Over thirty years later it suddenly occurred to me that I was only meant to take a sip and then pass the glass on so everyone got a taste.

Now I am mortified that the farmer, the nursery teachers and all the other children must think I am a greedy guts who didn't share the milk.

Why did no one just pick it up?

I wouldn’t find this embarrassing if on my door step. I would if it was on a station platform or something.

Tbf @PassingStranger you’d just rudely pointed out she was large enough to look pregnant, it’s understandable she was horrible about it, I imagine she was pretty miffed.

At age 15 I was sent to a high street solicitors office for work experience. Obviously being female I was relegated to the secretary's room staffed by about 6 middle aged women where I was placed in front of a massive ancient typewriter and told to type out a million names and addresses on sticky labels for the rest of the week.

Around 11 am one of the lawyers popped in and identified me as 'the work experience girl'. 'How about a cup of tea?' He said. 'Ooh yes I'd love one thanks!' I responded.

Everyone fell around laughing and the lawyer said 'I'm not making you one you silly girl, I meant you should make one for me! As if I'd make the work experience girl a cup of tea!!'

I was mortified. It's actually detrimentally shaped my work life as I now have anxiety that I should be reading between the lines with every interaction. What a total arsehole.

Ironically enough im a lawyer now. And a partner. What a dick.

@getahhtmapub I suppose being told is marginally better than everybody laughing, but nobody explaining why. But you have my sympathy, I was always afraid of not reading between the lines, and I had lots of moments of "why does everyone else know, but I don't?"

My cringe moment was being invited to dinner at boyfriend's parents' house.
The table was polished wood and had a candelabra in the centre.
Unfortunately, I knocked it over and it thudded onto the table.
So embarrassing!

I was at DSs primary school introduction day in June and heavily pregnant. My DH saw a man he knew and his equally pregnant partner so we started chatting. Mostly about the baby bumps. I then politely asked 'is this your first' and after a moment of confusion they reminded me that their other child was here to see the school to start in September. Like random people just wander around school corridors.. I felt so dumb

Total asshole indeed! He attacked you because he was embarrassed that they were all laughing at him. And I would bet they were all laughing at him because he was known to be a misogynistic asshole who always expected the women to make tea for him and never returned the favour, and they enjoyed seeing the expectation turned on him. I bet they were cheering you on for your comment. Sorry it has knocked your work confidence for so long.