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

These are just brilliant! And definitely make me feel less alone!
Another one for me is leaving a shop or somewhere, walking for a minute, then having to turn around as i realise im going the wrong way. So i try and pretend that im looking in a shop window, just long enough for the people around me to have changed so i can make my 180 less cringey,

One of the best things I have embraced is literally just stopping and turning back the right way. No excuses or pretence just zero fucks given and I feel POWERFUL!

Now I just need to master walking past someone I know but dont want to acknowledge and stop pretending to start looking in my bag for something so that I can keep my head down.

Windscreen wiper speed is a big problem of mine. I hate feeling judged for mine being too fast or too. slow, but best believe I’m judging everybody else’s.

I find crossing the road really embarrassing. That icky little “thank you 🤚🏼” as you trot over the zebra crossing… Yuck.
I always find myself “thank you 🤚🏼”-ing at a pelican/puffin crossing too, even though they’ve had no choice but to stop. Gross.

I pretended to be on the phone the other day when I walked into the wrong pub… “Oh, you idiot, you told me you were in the Queen’s Arms! I’ll head over now.”

I cringe for people using umbrellas when the rain has stopped

My dad always calls houses 'properties'. Makes me cringe so hard for some reason.

Haha I do this too 😂

When 5K running on a regular basis (pre-covid), I always stopped about half a mile from home to try and do a half mile walking cool down rather than running right back to my front door.

This point half a mile away was on a main road and I always felt cringy thay people driving past would be thinking I was a crap runner and having to stop.

I always made a point of looking at my fitbit and giving it a satisfied nod 😂.

I find tipping so embarrassing! There are so many awkward grey areas. Like why is it normal to tip a hairdresser but not a chiropodist? And then the embarrassment at the hairdressers at the desk, when I paid in cash for my hair and she saw I had a spare twenty pound note, but I didn't want to tip £20 for just a blow dry, so she had to break into it in the till drawer and ask how much change I wanted back. I found the whole thing cringe!

I always feel embarrassed wearing sunglasses if the weather is not particularly bright or it's not summer when you would normally see loads of people wearing them.

The optician has told me to wear them a lot more as I have the beginnings of a cataract and to protect my eyes as much as I can but every time I go out and put them on I feel such an idiot. It shouldn't embarrass me but it does.

My brother did say once that he always feels a right dick wearing them so it's not just me who finds it embarrassing.

The very best ballet dancers don't do that!

I must admit though, that the sheer noise of an entire corps of ballet dancers was very disconcerting to me the first time I saw Giselle, when all these dancers were supposed to be floating about in the mist and it sounded like a bucket of cobbles being poured down a fire escape.

Oh, I absolutely detest tipping. Not because I'm tight in any way, as the accusation invariably goes when somebody objects to tipping - I'm perfectly happy to pay the full price, but I just want the full price to be clearly stated, rather than some of it being randomly omitted and me being expected to guess what the actual price is, like I'm a contestant on The Price Is Right or something.

Oh I hate this as well. My bathroom refit took nearly a month, the builders usual excuses, sickness, funeral and running off to other jobs.
I had to make sure I had been about 3 pees before they came as I just could not bring myself to stop them and ask to use the toilet, my toilet!
When they went for lunch I would run up to use the loo before they came back, imagine my horror when I opened the door on two occasions and the toilet wasn't there. I still get cold sweats just thinking about it, my partner thinks I'm crazy, and should have just asked to use the loo.

Can’t abide any trades in the house either. It’s very uncomfortable and I feel like they are being judged if im
just sitting around waiting for them to leave.

Having people in the house is awful because I feel like I can’t do what I’d normally do on my phone/laptop in case they hear what I’m watching and think it’s stupid. So I just sort of end up scrolling in silence with the volume turned off, and then I worry that they think I’m just a fat and lazy person who’s fat because she sits on her phone all day, when I only really do that when they’re here anyway because I’m too embarrassed to get on with normal stuff. Can’t win!

I could use headphones I guess but then I wouldn’t hear them if they needed something or the door if it went.

Yeah, I'd like to abolish tips!

I also hate situations where you get a service and pay what you like. We went to a country where we had this a few times. Once we got a museum tour from a young member of staff, and when we gave her money at the end she was a bit shocked at how much it was. Another time we got a photo taken with a woman in local costume, and she wasn't pleased with how much we offered, so we gave a bit more. It's not about the actual money we're paying, it's the awkwardness of not knowing what they expect, and offending them if we go too low or feeling ripped off if we give too much. I'd much prefer a fixed price, "Photo for X dollars."

Anything to do with ordering food, either on the phone or having to do it in person in a fish and chip shop or whatever. Even worse then as you have to stand there waiting for it. I find it embarrassing to have it delivered to the house too though - I get my husband to open the door.

Also having anyone else as a passenger in the car makes me uncomfortable! I avoid it at all costs, making any excuse necessary. Can just about tolerate the teenage kids, but I won’t drive my husband anywhere. Also dread anyone at work asking me for a lift home. I’m not a very confident driver and I feel like my driving will be judged (plus I’m terrible at parking)

@AquaFawnwe had builders in for a month doing a loft conversion. I WFH and if I needed the loo I had to go up and ask them to move their stuff from outside the bathroom door, and then they'd all stand on the landing waiting. I have a ridiculously shy bladder at the best of times, and within the first week I got to the point where I physically could not go when they were there - I memorized their break and lunch times, and if I needed to go at a time when they were working, I had to walk to the community centre round the corner. I used to pretend to them that I was going to post a letter 😳

Haven't read all of these yet but I agree with so many.
Being near people that break into song makes me die inside.

And when people find something funny and laugh, but also clap.
AGH!

I used to save a few pounds coins for this sort of thing, then I could just give four or five; whatever was 10 per cent.

At the hairdresser these days I
pay by card and just say 'Oh and add £4 for the box' or whatever seems the right amount.

It sort of depersonalises the whole thing and makes it less embarrassing.

Also I just follow the 10 percent rule then I don't have to think about how much to give.

The 10 percent rule is fine, but I currently live in a country where you’re expected to tip between 18% and 25% at restaurants and cafes, and a dollar or two per drink at bars, and anywhere from 10-20% to delivery drivers, and some mysterious unguessable amount to hairdressers. My mother’s friend gives her favourite waitress at the local cafe a Christmas bonus of $200 every year! It’s a fucking minefield and I always worry I’ve miscalculated and ended up looking either like a tight arse or a flash git.

I'm glad other people have hang-ups and I am not the only weird one :)

I find it really embarrassing when there's a programme like Countryfile and they have people singing on it. I know it's such as weird thing to find cringey. I used to sing in choirs myself!

Being overly thankful. I can't seem to stop myself. I do mean it and I am sincerely grateful, but I cringe at how I must sound like I'm fawning when I say 'thank you so much!'

On the other hand, I cringe when I'm out with other people who never say thank you, and I will say it when they ignore wait staff/ store staff. Then I feel like I'm overstepping by speaking for them, but I don't want the person deserving a thank you not to get one.

Never knowing which emoji to use. Using the one I think is right, but then burning with embarrassment for ages after that I have made the wrong choice and wondering what they think I meant by it.

Bleurgh, I am awkward at humaning.

That is some Grade A writing 😂I almost feel affection for the little stripy bastards! Some very clear mental pictures here!

That video never disappoints! I believe there is a similar Beach Boys one out there too.