Page 3 | THE singular most embarrassing moment of your life?

ElephantMoth · 02/07/2021 03:20

@ShrikeAttack

No *@Yayayaya20*, I don't want anyone to feel embarrassed. Embarrassment comes from a feeling of shame and not being good enough.

I'm not after a medal, applause, anything. I just don't want people to feel embarrassed about making perfectly human mistakes.

We only feel embarrassed when we feel we've done something wrong. I don't want people to feel wrongness for being human. There are things that are unequivocally wrong, most human foibles don't fall under those auspices.

People be peopling.

I'll have whatever you are on peace out dude 🤟

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 02/07/2021 03:23

@ImprobablePuffin

Oh my god I have so many, I'm a walking embarrassment to myself.

The one that haunts me is going to my first ever boyfriends house. So about 22 years ago.
His mum was absolutely terrifying and put the fear of god into me. And she didn't like me because she thought I was an idiot (I'm actually reasonably intelligent but just turned into a bumbling mess around her)

Anyway I offered to help with the dinner or at least I tried to. What I actually did was walk up to her in the kitchen and as she spun round and caught me with her hatred filled eyes I just panicked, proceeded to try and talk but all that came out was "Blortgon". I immediately went bright red and dropped my glass of squash, smashing the glass all over the kitchen floor.

I wanted to die. And still do when it pops into my head at 3am, I physically recoil with shame thinking about it.

I'm so sorry, that had me literally crying with laughter - I can barely see the keyboard! "Blortgon" - oh help!

FortunesFave · 02/07/2021 03:30

I NEED to know about "Poddle"!! Where has that blardy poster gone to!?

Wincarnis · 02/07/2021 03:39

Went to a family gathering, old auntie greeted me loudly with “oh here she is, blooming… when are you due dear?” I wasn’t expecting. Just fat.

TreeSmuggler · 02/07/2021 03:39

I'm jealous of pp who doesn't get embarrassed.

I've got so many, I'm awake practically every night remembering them. One is the time i was at my job as an operating theatre nurse, the surgeons phone rang and he asked me to answer it. The display showed "Dr X calling", I picked it up and said "Hi, Dr Xs phone". The caller said "Umm I'm dr X.....". I could have just died.

TreeSmuggler · 02/07/2021 03:43

Another one is a time I was at a party and wasn't really hitting it socialising wise. I tried to mingle and talk to people, one person asked me "so what do you do fun" but my mind went blank, instead of saying literally anything I said "Ummm.........not much". He said "great conversation" and walked away.

strawberrydonuts · 02/07/2021 03:59

I've had plenty of cringey moments but nothing I still think/ care about years later. Life's too short.

Do you really lie awake at 3am thinking about that silly little moment OP or was that just a turn of phrase? If you're serious, I would suggest maybe talking it through with a therapist about why you still feel so ashamed about such a small thing. The guy you offended is unlikely to even remember it.

OldieButaGoodie · 02/07/2021 04:01

I genuflected in the aisle at the movies, before moving along the row to my seat.

It was 50+ years ago and my sister has never let me forget it.

Lapsed Catholic now , altho that's not the only reason I think religion is a load of bollocks.

Disneyinmyveins · 02/07/2021 04:04

I'm a skin therapist and was explaining to a client how an overproduction of sebum was responsible for her breakouts except I kept saying semen. Once I said it it was like I couldn't stop saying it, it was mortifying rather funny now though , I just had to keep apologising 🙈🙈

Itstoofuckingwarm · 02/07/2021 04:11

Awkward ones would keep me awake more than embarrassing ones. Embarrassing situations where everyone has had a good old laugh are fine but those situations where you think why the hell did I say that or do that and just feel that cringe feeling are worse I think!

Chocaholic9 · 02/07/2021 04:22

@OlympicProcrastinator

You know, the one that pops in to your head at 3am 15 years later and you can still feel the burning shame?

I’ll start. Met a client at work and introduced myself, asked their name. It was a fairly unusual name so began making small talk about it / origins, someone I used to know with same name etc etc. Then….for some reason I just completely forgot what we were talking about and followed it up with, “So anyway, you haven’t told me your name”. Que a look of bemusement then disdain from him as he shook his head and said, “I think you’d better go away now”. It was just so awful. I shuffled off.
I saw him a few weeks later with a friend and he was pointing and laughing at me. That was 20 years ago. I Still cringe.

There was a cracking one on here a few years ago where a woman had gone to a wedding she didn’t like and was slagging it off by text to her husband. Except it wasn’t her husband. She’d accidentally text the bride!! Who promptly told her she was blocked forever.

Anyone care to share theirs?

I think it was cruel of him to react in that way because you had forgotten a name. That happens. He should be embarrassed by his people skills, you should not be embarrassed by this. I am forgetful too and I'm sure I've done things very similar

oohyoudevilyou · 02/07/2021 04:40

I can quote a few embarassing funny stories, but actually, being truthful, my most embarassing moment was being very publicly caught out lying

Tinacollada · 02/07/2021 05:16

Attended a child's first birthday party held in a trendy pub with a playroom/garden, along with my DC and at the time -DH.

We had a lovely time, first time I personally had more than 2/3 drinks since being pregnant and becoming a mum....

Anyway when we were leaving, on hugging the host and her DH goodbye I said to her DH, "bye, love you!"

Love you ?!? 🙈😳
I had never even met him until this party.

I still don't know to this day whether he heard, and the funny thing is I don't even fancy him 🤣🤣

PrettyLittleFlies · 02/07/2021 05:23

I took my daughter to see a specialist who introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I'm Marcia" to which, inexplicably, I replied, "Hi, I'm Marcia".

SupermanInk · 02/07/2021 05:35

I took my daughter to see a specialist who introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I'm Marcia" to which, inexplicably, I replied, "Hi, I'm Marcia".

🤣🤣🤣

SupermanInk · 02/07/2021 05:39

Anyway when we were leaving, on hugging the host and her DH goodbye I said to her DH, "bye, love you!"

🤣🤣🤣

I know a couple of people who have said ‘bye, love you’ at the end of phone calls to work colleagues. 😬🤣 They were mortified but I imagine face to face is worse.

ShrikeAttack · 02/07/2021 05:52

Most of these are just due to a degree of social awkwardness, the people on the receiving end won't have thought anything about it.

Once you understand that everyone feels these things to a greater or lesser extent it's very freeing.

I know it's a lighthearted thread but I never thought societal shame was that lighthearted, and that's where embarrassment comes from. It's ultimately a lack of confidence. No-one can make you feel embarrassed, that's entirely up to you.

And I'm not blaming people for feeling it, we're all a product of our environment. I would like to say that you can be free from it though.

It's not a positive emotion.

PrettyLittleFlies · 02/07/2021 05:54

@SupermanInk

Anyway when we were leaving, on hugging the host and her DH goodbye I said to her DH, "bye, love you!"

🤣🤣🤣

I know a couple of people who have said ‘bye, love you’ at the end of phone calls to work colleagues. 😬🤣 They were mortified but I imagine face to face is worse.

Yes! Or accidentally added kisses to work emails 😂

CarbsAreNotMyFriend · 02/07/2021 05:54

@KnickersOnTheLine

My DM had a similar issue with the name of another school mum. Our 2 families had both just moved to the area so they struck up a friendship as we lived a couple of streets from each other and they both had boys in the same class. This lady had a strong accent and my DM didn’t quite catch her name and as time went on it became too awkward to ask. She tried everything to get the name said, but never succeeded. Several months later we got a Christmas card from them, husband and kids names all clearly written, and the mums name finally in black and white - Poddle. So now she has the name, my DM invites their family for dinner. And says “would you like me to pass you the peas, Poddle?” To complete silence and open mouths of this family. You can see where this is going - the poor woman was actually called Pat

Please explain!! I need to know how Pat became Poddle!

Footle · 02/07/2021 05:58

@OldieButaGoodie, by the simple act of genuflecting in the aisle at the cinema , you win the thread.

TangoWhiskyAlphaTango · 02/07/2021 06:02

Mine was at a school disco I was around 13, the height of awkward feelings anyway. It was early on and everybody was standing around the edge too embarrassed to be the first on the dance floor. My mate asked me to ask the DJ for a song request so I went over to him at the head of the dance floor some little prick boy ran up behind me and whipped down my trousers including my pants so I was stood there with my bare arse out at 13 to the entire school year. That moment when I realised I had to bend over and pick them up was the most embarrassing of my life!!!!! What a nasty shit head.

Pregnantandfellover · 02/07/2021 06:04

See username.

So. I was massive pregnant. Huge. Going for a check up.

It had been raining and the tiles in the front of the health centre were slippy.

Being so huge my balance was all off and I slipped and landed on my behind.

A very elderly lady with a Zimmer frame came over and asked me if I was ok and tried to help me up.

I bounced up, said I was fine, and scuttled in to the doctor with a wet arse.

(Baby was fine, born a week later with no ill effects)

SoSadAboutMyDad · 02/07/2021 06:36

@ShrikeAttack

No *@Yayayaya20*, I don't want anyone to feel embarrassed. Embarrassment comes from a feeling of shame and not being good enough.

I'm not after a medal, applause, anything. I just don't want people to feel embarrassed about making perfectly human mistakes.

We only feel embarrassed when we feel we've done something wrong. I don't want people to feel wrongness for being human. There are things that are unequivocally wrong, most human foibles don't fall under those auspices.

People be peopling.

Read the room and put a sock in it Shrike. I think you need to stop with the vino.

ShrikeAttack · 02/07/2021 06:38

It was a cinema experience that was very informative in my young mind. I was at the Saturday Morning cinema with my friends, probably 1979/80. I had a Kiaora and had been chewing the straw which I'd become rather attached to. I was walking along the aisle and it fell out of my mouth into a woman's handbag, I reached down to pick it up and she grabbed my wrist and accused me of trying to get her purse. I gestured towards my straw and picked it up with my other hand and walked off.

I was so outraged by being wrongly accused. To be thought a thief by a woman I'd never met, ME, who went to confession every week. It made me realise that however you behave people make their minds up. I was a middle-class child guilelessly walking out of the cinema. Up until that point I didn't realise that people actually had cynical thoughts about others. It made me realise that not everyone had the same experiences.

And it was that experience that ultimately made me reject the 'Lovely kind' Catholicism that I'd been brought up with. It made me realise that not everyone was like me. Trusting.

It was a very small incident but it had repercussions.

And I realised that if people weren't trusting, there had to be a reason why. It made me think. I did feel shame about that incident, but I knew that shame wasn't really mine. So it lead me to think about shame and what I was really being asked at confession every week.

And I concluded that the shame wasn't mine. I was being asked to confess for mankind. And that wasn't my problem

I felt very free from then on

Dresssos · 02/07/2021 06:40

Anyone got a link to Tall Man? That one made me howl with laughter and I'd love to find that thread!

Most embarrassing moment was when I was in about 7, and it was a girl in my class's birthday. We weren't really friends but I was in a really good mood as there was cake and games! We were all sat on the carpet and I asked to go to the toilet. We were in a mobile classroom, so the loo was right nearby and you could hear everything. Anyway, I decided to sit on the toilet and sing happy birthday to this random girl as loudly as possible. Think "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SARAAAAAH, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOO YOU!..." FlushI came out of the toilet to silence and then hysterical laughter from the entire class - I still cringe when I remember it!