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 love that. Do you look at the screen on your phone to pretend you just got an urgent message and need to head back? 😆

I suspect more people have this than admit it.

This thread really made me laugh, thank you.

To me it’s buying a bottle of wine when I’m doing weekly shopping with my son. I always feel like everyone judges me and think I’m raging alcoholic. Not many things embarass me, when I change the direction I don’t even pretend anymore someone texted me or something, so I have to come back🤣 but the alcohol, dear God

Aww that's nice. I guarantee you're probably seen as a nice friendly person. It's usually these kind of things where you stick your head above the parapet to connect that make you a liked respected person.

Oh my god I thought I was the only person on the planet to get embarrassed if my wipers are going disproportionately quickly compared to the rainfall! I obsess over what everyone else’s wipers are doing and do a wiper dance, keep them on the lowest possible setting I can without crashing and having to manually override it from time to time to actually clear my windscreen rather than risk looking like a lunatic with super speedy wipers and embarrassing myself 😂
woah that felt cathartic getting that out!

Oh my god we had that too. I started taking my birthday off. What's worse is there was a wierd thing where no one would acknowledge it was your birthday all day until 3pm when they'd creep up behind you with the cake and candles. You'd see them rustling and coming and have to pretend you didn't notice. I'm also crap at blowing out candles so that was added embarrassment. Whenever I start a new job now I actually tell them in the first week never give me a cake with candles 😂, best to let them know at the start 🤣

😂 When I was a teenager we were selling the house and for reasons I'll never understand my mum failed to tell me viewers were coming round. My bedroom door opens at 10am to a family having a peer in, I didn't know what to do, I just tried to hide my face behind the desk and pretend I wasn't there 🤣 Don't think they bought the house.

Oh my gosh, can we be best friends, I do exactly this, it’s such a drama and I’m pretty sure the delivery driver wouldn’t be thinking this way at all but I cannot help it 😂

Wearing a cardigan in public.

Me too. The worst is when I've instigated the conversation and then they shall never forget who I am. They know when I haven't been in for a while and they'll say how are you and I feel guilty 😂

I had this then asked for a donation to charity then worried I seemed sanctimonious 😂

My shoe laces being undone. I refuse to believe there is anything more embarrassing than having to bend down and tie your shoes awkwardly in public

I am sometimes asked to buy cigarettes for my elderly mother, who I have had to accept is just not going to give up now, having smoked 20 a day for over 60 years.

But my God. I am nearly 50, and I go all shifty and furtive asking the teenage cashier at the shop for 20 Marlboro red.

The whole thing makes me feel somehow like a pervert!

I smoked for years in my 20s and never felt like this when I was buying them for myself!

That's partly why I like visiting Majestic. I know I'll be safe and unjudged around similarly minded people. They do a mix 6 offer so of course you have to purchase at least 6 bottles.

Incredible thread. So happy to find other people who feel like this.

I didn’t go to a professional hairdresser until about 16, and no one had warned me about the head massage. It’s so perplexing if you’re not expecting it! I had a moment where I thought I’d completely misread the situation and was being hit on.

I find The Traitors embarrassing to watch. I’ve never lasted a full episode.

Me too!!! I always worry that I'm getting it wrong somehow. Am I turning them on too late? Too early? How do I know when the right moment is?!

I'm not usually someone who gets easily embarrassed or socially anxious at all!

I have sung in choirs for 72 years and for years I was embarrassed when singing 'O Come all ye Faithful', getting to 'Lo he abhors not the Virgin's womb', when there were men in the choir!

When I finish reading the last page of my book, when someone else is in the room. There's something awkward about the finality of closing the book and just having nothing to do immediately after I've been engrossed for hours / days. I usually announce "I've finished my book" to try to help matters.

Buying toilet roll!
Happy enough to buy tampons but I hate carrying a big pack of toilet rolls.

I really don't like having any tradespeople in the house. Do you offer a drink even if it's just a short visit? Where is the stopcock? Then I sit in a room where they aren't working, not knowing what to do while waiting and then feel embarrassed when they to call out or come and find me when they've finished. Bright red face and sweating throughout.

More TV-related ones…

When someone does really badly in their specialist subject on Mastermind.

When Victoria makes all the nerds sing on Only Connect.

The horror.

When someone lets you go in front of them in a line feel so awkward.

putting my hand out for a bus

ordering food at a restaurant

When you are walking along the pavement and someone is ahead of you walking a fraction slower, so you start to catch up. Are you supposed to walk super fast and overtake them? Then what if they speed up? Do you break into a jog? Or do you try to walk slower than normal to keep an even distance away which feels really awkward. Hate it.

Likewise if DH and I are hiking and you overtake someone on the path then you stop for some reason and they overtake you. You speak and acknowledge them the first time but after that it makes me cringe. Do you keep smiling and nodding every time you pass each other? I usual make DH speed walk to get away.

Oh. Ohhhh. Oh no, there is one thing. Damn Facebook Memories. The ones from when it was still in its early days. Oh, the shit I would write. 'had such an amazing day! Now time for hot chocolate and movie in bed x'
🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮

Hahaha I remember when we would all write statuses in the third person like ‘Facebook name is looking forward to the weekend and seeing her besties later xx’