Embarrassing yourself in public

[Zygella]

Is it just me? I keep on going through really embarrassing stuff I've done in my head.

Cringing still about how 4 years ago I went over to greet some people I once knew. And they pretended to not know who I was. I still see them around occasionally so make sure to hurry past and look at the floor.

I can remember so much more. And I worry am I usually socially inept or are other people like this?

🤣🤣🤣. Thats the kind of thing id do. ❤️

Next time channel me & take the extra strength & DO IT.

Nasty Bastards need to feel small & YOU need to know you're better than that! 💪🏼🫶🏻

Me too.

Thank you!

I still cringe about things I said/did 40 odd years ago. One of my "standout" cringe fests was when I went for an internal interview at my workplace. I was walking up the stairs at the location and there was a woman and a man walking in front of me. The man tripped up on the stairs and I started laughing.
You can guess the rest.....he was the interviewer 😵😵🥴

I'm waiting for cataracts to be done. The optician gave me new glasses for driving and I had computer glasses but no glasses for walking around I decided to try the driving glasses out with the dog one day. She pulled away and I was going the other way the glasses went all weird and I fell over.

I couldn't get up (fat old bastard) and just lay there while my little shit of a dog was looking down the road.

This couple came up the road with their two dogs and he ran over and helped me up she said my dog had seen their dogs and didn't move till they came closer. He couldn't lift me it took me a while.

He asked where I lived and I said right here I've not even got out the garden yet.

I used to see them a lot and have never seen them since. 😳

That really made me LOL, this thread is very funny in parts, obviously not the sad posts.

Zygella ·
Have you read the other posts in this thread? You will see that everyone has embarrassing moments, some a lot worse than yours, try not to dwell on things.x

Thank you!

I once walked into a surgery at work to fetch something out of a cupboard, desperate to fart I let rip. As I turned round to go out there was a rather well dressed lady stood behind the door. One of the other dentists often used the surgery to see patients for check ups while he was waiting for a local anaesthetic to work on the patient in his surgery. The lady had obviously been nosing around since I would have seen her if she’d been sat in the dental chair.
I smiled at her and left quickly. I remember it like it was yesterday.

My Dniece is our family embarrasser. She doesn’t get embarrassed herself but everyone else is embarrassed for her. Since she was a toddler she has always been clumsy, both in what she says and what she does. Her mum, my DSis and I are both dentists so it’s quite normal for her to direct tooth questions at us. We were once waiting to be served at a makeup counter, there was a couple next to us, the wife was in a wheelchair. DN’s first question was “ why is that lady in a pushchair” they both turned around and the wife muttered “how rude”, DN then spotted the husband and said “ and why does the man have no teeth”, my DSis who was by this point very used to being embarrassed just ignored her and quietly mouthed to me to ignore. Once you started to explain the gates often opened.

DN is now all grown up but hasn’t changed, after years of wondering we now know that she is neurodivergent. It hasn’t stopped her from living life, making friends or having a successful career. To many she is refreshingly honest to us she is just DN. when my DS started senior school she gave him some excellent advice, if you laugh at yourself before others laugh at you it really confuses them. My DS is a good mix of both my nieces, DN’s younger sister has often died of embarrassment at times but now realises that her sister lives a life unrestricted by self consciousness.

When the accident prone niece was looking for a table in a food hall she tripped over a suitcase. My DSis was waiting in the queue for food, turned round and was not surprised to see her daughter jumping up and loudly reassuring everyone that she was ok. Meanwhile her younger sister had put as much distance between them as was humanly possible.

They're the problem not you. They were very rude.

Thanks. I only see them when walking to the station (I assume they live nearby).

Last week I went on the opposite side of the road (they weren't even around). I just wanted to prevent another awkward encounter.

It's not just you.

My anthem! 🙈

Oh I can fully sympathise regarding overthinking embarrassing events from the past. I've got tons of stories and I still cringe at things I've said and done as far back as the early 90s. I've always had a habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time!

If it’s any consolation, I am still cringing every time I think of the time at work when I was walking down a narrow corridor to leave the office at lunchtime and one of the big bosses was behind him.

I got outside, caught sight of myself in a shop window and realised my skirt was tucked into my knickers 🙈

This was about 30 years and i still cringe

Oh, I'm so glad to meet someone else who has this! My brain does it with the words " useful" and "useless" of all things, and it's such a bind. I've done it a lot over the years, but I remember a colleague once proudly showing me a new purchase one lunchtime. For some reason I wanted to be especially supportive, and warmly cried out, " Oh So and So, I think that looks really useless!".

It was only when I saw her face that I realised what I'd done. I did try to explain about the fault in the wiring thing, but I'm not sure she believed me. DH on the other hand thinks it's hilarious.

OP these people are being extremely rude and that is in no way your fault.
However, could you be feeding into this by worrying so much about how other people react to you and possibly coming over as a bit needy? I suggest walking around the neighbourhood with an attitude of wishing people well but not wanting anything from them. I f someone has been clear that they don't want to be friendly then don't even acknowledge them. If they've been friendly in the past, say hello but keep walking unless they detain you. I think it would help take the pressure off you.

i do this!! I’ve even said to people, ‘so and so came to mine and husband’s funeral’ instead of wedding😬😬😬it’s really weird 🥴
I’ve had SOOOOO many awkward moments which still cause me to cringe decades later. It’s often the more subtle moments which haunt me the most - the indiscreet comment or misunderstanding-followed-by-frantic-back-pedal kind of thing 🙈🫢😬

Can I add a minor embarrassment from last week? I went to Primark to buy some reading glasses. I also wanted pyjamas. So I chose the glasses, had them in my hand and went to find cotton pyjamas but could only see poly/cotton etc. So I asked a staff member, who took me to the cotton ones. I thought he gave me a funny look... Anyway, I looked all around at the holiday stuff and then went to pay, but found I didn't have the glasses. Went to see where I could've put them down, but then realised they were on my head! But one arm was attached to a soft case, which was sticking up on my head like a feather! And I'd been round the whole store like that

I am 45 and I still wake in the night cringing about falling off my chair in the middle of the silent exam hall during my maths GCSE. Even the teacher was laughing.

GoldbergVariations & HearHareHere ·

It's quite a relief to know we are not alone.😄

Getting into a strangers car because I thought it was a taxi....they were there to pick somebody else up. I literally didnt realiese until they had driven me to my destination!
25 yrs later and Im still not over it!!😆

Oh that reminds me of a friend of mine who was quite prim and proper and barely spoke about anything sexual, even with her DH.

She got really hammered at the work Christmas party, got into what she thought was her husband’s car and declared ‘you’re getting a blow job when we get home!’…

It wasn’t their car 🙈🙈🙈🙈

Years ago I helped a colleague out with some stuff for a charity she was involved in. As a thank you she invited me and my then husband to a Christmas carol concert in one of the Royal chapels.
XH and I arrived about a minute before the start, rushed to the only seats we could see (near the front) and were immediately asked to move as they were reserved for a VIP (not a Royal but vvv high up in the military). So we duly scuttled off and squeezed in somewhere near the back, watched by the entire congregation.
Afterwards we were standing outside chatting to my colleague and the VIP came up and said “I’m so sorry you had to move”. He was utterly charming.
I was only in my twenties and mortified, but it goes to show that properly brought up people have good manners!

This made me snort my coffee. Thank you! 🤣

My son would probably punch anyone that did that 🤣💯

Good for your DD and yes, I don’t understand how people can laugh. My natural instinct is to jump up and help them.