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To ask you to relive a cringey moment

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heatseeker14 · 04/03/2015 10:16

Need a laugh this morning, after my beloved cat brought in a live mouse, just after 6am leaving me to corner & capture the damn thing.

I can offer the following two:

Wearing what I thought was a rather nice looking, tight fitting, polo neck top. Only to discover later on at a kids party, I had HUGE sweat patches. The more embarrassed I got, the larger they became!!!

On returning to my car, having collected an order delivered to a well known store, I discovered I had a massive, highly visible bogey Blush. I had spent a long time chatting to staff having collected my order, tried the stuff on and then returned a couple of items - Cringe.

Can anyone else trump these?!

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EatShitDerek · 04/03/2015 10:21

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WhispersOfWickedness · 04/03/2015 10:29

Having to entertain housemate's mum whilst said housemate had noisy sex upstairs was fairly excruciating, I'm blushing just thinking about it!

DustyBedhead · 04/03/2015 10:37

Hmmm more cringy for my brother than myself as he sent me a text one w/end wanting to know what I was doing but worse was I was to tell him what he wantef to hear and explain in great detail what I was wearing! Yes he avoided me for ages after that, ha.

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heatseeker14 · 04/03/2015 10:55

whispersofwickedness that must have been really cringey! It did make me laugh imagining the two of you sat in the lounge, drinking tea whilst the ceiling was violently shaking Grin

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SeaLavender · 04/03/2015 10:59

YABVU.

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Cringes.

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heatseeker14 · 04/03/2015 11:28

I am very intrigued sealavender perhaps sharing and then name changing will help? Grin Perhaps it's not as bad as you think......?

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thatsn0tmyname · 04/03/2015 11:31

At the top of our road a motorcyclist had come off his bike (he was OK but shaken) and there was a traffic jam. I tried to move the motorbike out of the way but it was so heavy that it overbalanced and fell on its other side. I was mortified.

ExitStageLeft · 04/03/2015 11:45

Greece 1999 - I was 17. Innocent. And a virgin.

Hot 19 year old Son of family who owned complex "befriended" me and asked if he could take me to a sacred Greek mountain. I agreed. Picked micro piece of material to use as skirt for day trip and planned to lose my virginity on a mountain in Greece. Wonderful. This can't go wrong.

Got to the mountain and was presented with a donkey covered in rags to ride up said mountain. Shit. Must look enthusiastic. Fairly awkwardly I mounted the donkey and set off on our excursion trying to retain a look of maturity and wisdom.
Greek lad is ahead of me on his mile....keeps turning round and laughing and after about half an hour says "Exit, I can see everything!" in broken English. I agree enthusiastically "Yes, the view is wonderful!"

"No, pull your blanket up....I can see your vagine."

Imagine.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 04/03/2015 12:06

My dog escaped the back garden a while back. First thing in the morning, whilst I was only wearing my dressing gown. Only my dressing gown. Ended up running down the road, a la Fenton style, caught dog, only to realise said dressing gown had 'slipped'. A few of the neighbors avoided eye contact for a while.....

ExitStageLeft · 04/03/2015 12:06

Whoops! He didn't actually say "vagine", he wasn't Borat....

No, no, he actually said VAGINA. I go red just thinking about it.

BabyOnBoob · 04/03/2015 12:09

Exit - Grin

farewellfigure · 04/03/2015 12:12

I got run over by someone in a wheelchair. It was at youth group and we were playing some kind of basketball. The girl ran into me and as I fell, the wheelchair sort of mounted me from the side. I lay there, flailing, absolutely terrified that if I moved she would tip over... a bit like a mouse caught in a mousetrap. I found the whole thing utterly humiliating as a teenager, but looking back, I can't think why!

RollaCola · 04/03/2015 12:14

I had one a few weeks back. I was shopping in town wearing a dress/tunic over leggings. After I'd been walking around for a good thirty minutes a very nice woman stopped me and asked me if I knew my dress was tucked into my leggings at the back, oh the cringe.

shellistar · 04/03/2015 12:34

Working in my after college job giving change at the bingo an old woman impatiently snapped "come on" at me.

My cheeky, not well thought out, very loud reply: "I'll come on you in a minute"

Right during a lull in the noise. I was teased for weeks!

flora717 · 04/03/2015 12:34

I had a beautiful patchwork dress in the 90's it was a piece of art with a really full heavy skirt. It buttoned all the way up. Showed of my then amazing boobs and waist. One sunny day I was wearing this. Off I wafted to town to meet friends. That's a four mile walk. From around home I got a couple of leery guys shouti g things out of cars. I got beeped at a roundabout and everyone (in a grumpy commuter town) was smiling at me. Well it was a sunny day. But i glanced down (top buttons on boobs all done up. Skirt swishing all the way round and not caught up.
All the way to town.
Meet friend. Her first words. "Flora you're dress is totally open from your bra to your belly button". When I looked down I could not see this (they were great boobs in those days).
Some experimentation suggested that when I did up my sandals those buttons just came undone. So that would have been at home Blush

GymBum · 04/03/2015 12:58

As you can guess from my name, I really enjoy exercise and keeping fit can I add I like to think I am not self righteous about it. Very much each to their own. It's my thing.

So I was in a class a few weeks back. Imagine 25 people, very active class, lots of sweaty people jumping around and the room felt very warm. That morning I had made a new energy smoothie for breakfast. Let's say it had side effects.

Whilst doing jumping squats, I couldn't hold a trump in. Blush. Thankfully it was silent but dear god it smelt like a sewage plant. The hot atmosphere in the enclosed room did not help the situation. I just wanted the earth to open up and swallow me. Blush

sqibble · 04/03/2015 13:26

This morning at the dentists I went to rinse my mouth out and the plastic protective glasses I had on fell off into the basin and I spat on them. That was rather embarrassing. I can still see the dental nurse's face - astonished and irritated disbelief, all at the same time. Luckily I don't have to go back for a year.

Gymbum Grin.

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heatseeker14 · 04/03/2015 13:29

Gymbum Oh no you have made me recall further cringey moments very similar to yours Blush I was in the sports hall about 13 yrs old and could not hold a trump, in no matter how hard I tried. When it finally erupted it echoed around the whole hall very, very loudly Blush

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snowaccidentprone · 04/03/2015 13:36

I once asked a friend, who had just told me she was pregnant, if she knew who the father was Blush

I meant if I knew the father!

I still go hot thinking about it now.

snowaccidentprone · 04/03/2015 13:37

I once asked a friend, who had just told me she was pregnant, if she knew who the father was Blush

I meant if I knew the father!

I still go hot thinking about it now.

sourdrawers · 04/03/2015 13:44

Not the worse. I'm working up to that one! But most recent was - had a plumber in to do some under sink stuff. He asked me for a rag, I grabbed the first thing I could find, turned out to be a pair of old, red, lacy knickers I was planning to use as a duster. When he was finished with them he had a look at them, said sorry, gave them back to me and grinned.

TheWitTank · 04/03/2015 13:45

As a 16 year old teen, my parents had a house renovation, and we had a team of very nice hot builders for about 10 weeks. They were lovely and we all got to know them well. One afternoon builders knocks on my bedroom door and asks if he can get to some floorboards which were under my bed. Fine. I stood in the doorway as he moved my bed over, bent down and picked up a pair of my knickers -my used knickers -between finger and thumb and silently gave them to me. I visibly withered. I avoided him for the rest of the build!

theforceawakens · 04/03/2015 13:49

At university I had a spoken French exam. This was back in the days of wonderbras.

I decided to dress smartly. Nicely fitted white shirt and trousers. And wonderbra. I had some awesome cleavage going on under my shirt. What I didn't know was that two buttons below the top button were open giving my examiner a fabulous view of my cleavage.

I like to think that my analysis of a Zola novel was sufficent to distract him from my beautifully pert 21 year old boobs but I fear not!

OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 04/03/2015 13:50

Oh God I'm cringing at these.

I can't think of any cringey moments right now. They usually only ever surface when I'm alone in bed, trying to go to sleep.

Comito · 04/03/2015 13:50

I can see your vagina

Grin
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