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

I'm leaving my job soon after 10 years and I cannot bear the thought of getting a leaving present. I've contributed to so so many over the years and I know people like them.
I've asked not to have one but the thought this had been ignored makes me want to leave now!

Waiting for someone, like outside a shop or at a landmark of some description. I always worry people will think I’m soliciting🤣

As well as walking out of a small shop without buying anything, when there's only me and the shopkeeper there - like PPs - I find it even more embarrassing when small shopkeepers stand in their doorway, looking up and down the street for potential customers.

I could never bring myself to ask them to move so that I could go inside and look, unless I was absolutely positive that they would definitely have something substantial in stock that I would certainly be buying.

It's a very odd logic: to be desperately short of customers and so decide to remedy that by physically blocking any who might actually want to come in!

Trying to find my reading glasses whilst in a shop. I fear that people may think I'm shoplifting when I'm rummaging around inside my handbag. So silly but so fear inducing!

*cocky - well done, autoincorrect.

@SteveTheDog, you have a knack for telling funny stories! Thank you for sharing that, it was hilarious. 😂

Oh when someone comes to your house then goes to put something in your bin and they see the packaging from the crap food you ate sitting there!

Musicals!

It makes me embarrassed to the point of panic that people are singing and dancing at me. I feel compelled to smile encouragingly at the performers all the time so they don’t feel as embarrassed as I do. By the end of the show I have sprained my cheeks by smiling so hard and I have a tension headache.

Ballet performances when the dancers are leaping about gracefully and you hear their feet thumping back onto the stage when they land and it is SO LOUD and not synchronised.

It feels like I’m watching the musicless music video of Dancing In the Street.

I get embarrassed just walking down our road imaging suddenly everyone is staring out of their windows.

I hate walking through shop security barriers thinking they will go off.

I hate having to complain about anything and always apologise and then feel mad with myself.

Who makes comments like that? You should tell them there's something very wrong with their digestive system if they only have a crap after eating curry.

But if they offer, they’re essentially saying ‘I’ve noticed that you’re large’ and I daresay they’d get complaints. Someone would be offended by it. The flight attendant might misjudge someone’s size and offer one to someone who doesn’t need it. Damned if they do and damned if they don’t, I reckon.

I was in the petrol station and picked up a pack of toilet roll. Got to the cashier and said "number two" referring to the pump. He had a little smirk to himself at that

I listen to a lot of audiobooks, but I have ADHD and often struggle to pay attention if I'm sitting around doing nothing. I found if I play simple video games while listening I can pay full attention to the story. One game I play a lot while listening is Power Washing Simulator.

One day I'm sat on the sofa with my book playing and my game on the TV when I see something out of the corner of my eye and look - it's the window cleaner looking very confused. He's stood there washing my windows looking at me sat on the sofa power washing a virtual window on a fake house.

I've never been able to think about it without cringing from head to toe.

My surname being said out loud (eg being called in at the dentist, GP, etc). I think it's because my maiden name was unusual and nobody ever said it correctly, and the most common mispronounciation was awful. It was like Bucket/Bouquet, except it really was supposed to be pronounced "Bouquet" and everyone said "Bucket". Only worse!

When I married DH and purposefully took his incredibly common surname to get away from it, I thought the cringe would end. It's much better now but I still wince sometimes...

The hairdresser holding the mirror round the back of your head and showing you your hair... only you can't see anything in the mirror but you smile, swoosh your hair a bit, nod and then try to get out the back to front cape.

Literally everything

Trying shoes on in a shop especially if the assistant is hovering around you wanting a sale! I have weird feet and toes and even with socks on I don’t want them hovering around my weird shaped feet.
The one shoe is also weird , why not give you both shoes to try straight off ?

Parallel parking.

@mylittleyumyum I avoid going to pump 2 for that reason- I don’t want to have to say ‘number 2’ 😂 And that’s even without buying loo roll at the same time.

@DoAWheelieThat is absolutely hilarious. 😆

In a similar vein - when someone’s water goes down the wrong way and they have one of those awful coughing fits that never ends.

And they keep trying to continue the conversation but their eyes are watering and they’re fighting back another cough and their face is all red.

I can’t bear it.

It’s even worse when it’s me it happens to.

Ten pin bowling, especially the walk back to the seats. Doesn’t help that I am 💩 but just find the whole process really embarrassing

Bumping into someone you know in the supermarket, having a chat then saying, great to see you, take care, bye etc, then seeing them again in a different aisle. I never know whay to say. This happened last week, we chatted for a while, said goodbye then i saw her again a few minutes later. I turned around & walked away before she saw me 🤣

I've found my people. Yes to bowling and the walk back after.

Weirdly, I can't bring myself to use an umbrella. I find it the height of cringedom. Even typing this makes me feel a bit funny.

Omg I forgot, clapping - either other people clapping or- god forbid- I feel obliged to join in myself. Makes me die inside.

The head massaging that goes on during the shampooing at my new hairdresser's. My old one retired and sold up. He was much more matter-of-fact about getting my hair washed and conditioned in a timely manner, but now it's all targeted and extended fingery action on my scalp and the scalps of whoever's next to me, and God, stop it already. People can SEE us. And am I meant to say something?
Another shopping one for good measure. You meet someone you used to know superficially for a good while in the tinned goods aisle, have a respectable catch up, then part company. Excruciating to then see them again next to the frozen peas. I've been known to hide in the bakery department to avoid the embarrassment of wondering whether to strike up another conversation.