What's a silly thing you get embarrassed by?

[newmama2023]

For me. One thing is when my window wipers are going full pelt but the rain has nearly stopped. I dont know why. I just get embarrassed by it. It happened earlier and thought id see if other people have these silly moments too.

Another one i can think of, is going into a small independent shop and not buying anything

Going to the dry cleaners and discussing the mark/stain. I always feel sloppy. 😄

Me too!

I always feel they never quite believe it’s yoghurt…

I guess that's the upside of self-service tills, nobody looks at what you are buying (as long as it's not wine or something age-restricted).

Podcast hosts doing the adverts. However enthusiastic and professional they are I always think could they not get someone else to do it?

I used to cringe about so many things. I always took my slippers off before I answered the door because I was too embarrassed to meet anyone in my slippers!

I am now post menopause and enjoying the 'I couldn't give a fuck' period of my life.

Although I do like William Dalrymple’s Hive advert on Empire and Adam Buxton did one for the Economist which was so catchy I used to sing it while cooking etc.

Watching the haka.

😂
Same.

Being invited to anything! Just don't invite me please 😅

"I'm going to xyz, you should totally come!"

Me: "oh, wow, yeah I'd love to. Brilliant! Thanks! Thatll be great!" ... because if I was to say anything other than that, I just know it will come across as rude.

Dare to ask when? Looks like I'm setting it up to go " ahh I can't because <abc>". Query where? They know I'm teeing up to say shucks, I'm 200 miles from that location that day. Who else is going? Now I'm just judging them and the company they keep aren't I?

So I recently just said "no" - complete sentence and all that. They were FLOORED! The persons face looks like a slapped arse. And when they asked why ever not i literally cringe said " i just don't want to" well, you'd have thought I just served her boiled shite on a silver platter.

Yeah, still can't stop thinking about that and how I should have just said "oh, wow, yeah I'd love to. Brilliant! Thanks! That'll be great!" ...

I eat Starburst/Haribo etc in a specific order. I have a set order for each kind.

I remember Frank Skinner telling an anecdote about how a teacher had asked him to give a talk to a group of sixth formers.
He was able to put them off, the first time he was asked.
But, the second time, he was honest with the teacher and said ‘no, thank you. I don’t fancy it’.
Frank said the teacher was visibly very pissed off with his response. So, Frank then apologised and said that speaking to kids isn’t usually his ‘thing’.

Frank thought that telling the teacher the truth, but not brusquely, would be preferable to making up excuses each time he was asked to speak.
But, apparently not.

See, now, i’m on a first name basis with my pharmacist, so i don’t have any of that awkwardness.
I have epilepsy, so, i take a lot of medication.

My very presence, in the pharmacy, is enough for the staff to go to the shelf to pick it up.

Fancy Dress parties. I cringe with embarrassment, will only go if it says Fancy Dress optional. By the end of the night, the costumes look kind of inappropriate when everyone's drunk or having deep and serious conversations while dressed as Maleficent or a gnome.