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Embarrassing yourself in public

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Zygella · 02/04/2026 11:27

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?

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Zygella · 07/04/2026 19:10

This weekend I went for a walk to the shops with my underwear showing.. Only realised when I got home.

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Diamondsareforever72 · 13/04/2026 11:55

AddictedToBooks · 07/04/2026 18:57

I remember one hot Summer's afternoon at school and due to thirst due to the heat, I'd literally drunk a can of coke in one go and the classroom we had to enter was quite a high step and my best friend was in a wheelchair, so I had to bend quite low to get her chair up and over the step and I let out the loudest belch known to man - I didn't even realise it was coming and it was long and echoed around the huge Craft, Design and Technology department which was like 3 enormous open-plan class areas - it was honestly like the belch in Elf.

To make it worse, I was only a tiny 5'2, very slim and very girlie girl.

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I hope you owned it and took a bow 🤣🙃

(I know that was probably a horrible moment for you. But go back in your bed, and take that bow.
A boy would have!)

chickenss · 09/05/2026 11:54

I took dc to the shop to teacv him to handle cash. We had 8.78 in coins and went into Lidl. Picked one bread, three pastries, one Greek pastry thingy like baklava, and one bottle of milk. I did a rough calculation in my head and figured we are good. We weren’t because we didn’t have 8.78- we had 7.87! We were about 60p short. I apologised and returned the milk. The cashier was looking at me like I’m the biggest nuisance in the world. A person behind offered to guve use twenty p and the cashier announced loundly ‘no, they’d need a pound’ still looking annoyed, while I was just saying to the other customer not to worry…
Felt so embarrassing, especially as I was there to teach dc to use cash money. Not a great start to the day.
I guess I taught him that if he’s short he needs to leave one item behind and apologise, and his mum makes embarrassing mistakes.

TheyGrewUp · 09/05/2026 12:03

Just move on @Zygella it's a them problem. Something similar happened to me one.

I was watching ds play hockey and a very tslk, dark haired dad came and stood next to me. I greeted him and asked who his lad was. I was sure we had met and said, I'm sure we'd met before, do forgive me but I can't remember your name. He very nobly said "Seb, and yours?" The penny dropped at that point, it was Sebastian Coe. Tinkly laugh and "so pleased to meet you in person". How I wanted the ground to open.

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