Because of my shyness I came out of a chip shop with a portion of fish...

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Instead of a cone of chips.

Which is what I asked for but was too embarrassed to correct the woman serving me.

So I ended up eating a massive battered cod on its own for lunch.

Can you please share any silly scenarios you've been in because if your lack of assertiveness to make me feel I'm not alone!

I asked for a "Pineapple Juice" the other day. I got a pint of apple juice instead. Drank it.

I got a first degree burn just above my top left molar recently after eating a piece of my delicious mince pie that I thought was cooler than the rest of the pieces. I sat there looking out the kitchen window with tears forming in my eyes due to the sheer hotness whilst wishing my boyfriend would leave the room to use the toilet or something just so I could spit the peice of hot pie out.

We've been together for four years! You would think spitting out food that is too hot wouldn't be a problem but nope, I was far too British to even do anything about it. My boyfriend then told me that I looked preoccupied. Well, yes. I almost cooked part of my mouth so I'm obviously going to look preoccupied. 🤣

For some reason I feel really awkward about going to the loo when I'm around people I don't know. I'll hold it to the point it hurts just to avoid asking someone if I can use their toilet. I don't know why, it's ridiculous

@juggler4 I have to hide from the cleaner every other week when she comes because I am mortified.

I have really bad anxiety right now and leaving the house is a real challenge. But I can't face her! My Grannies will be spinning in their graves, the notions I have about myself!

I can't link properly but there's a really interesting edit on www.facebook.com/bbctwo/ which talks about the benefits of shyness

I used to go to work in a cafe straight from school when I was about 14. I was too embarrassed to get changed into my work uniform at school or change at my work place so I used to sneak down a grotty little alleyway in the centre of town and get changed there?! Looking back god knows where my head was at!!!

I once spelled my middle name wrong on an official document. I was half asleep and wasn't thinking. The lady sorting out my forms said "that's an unusual way of spelling it" and I was too embarrassed to admit that I was a moron who couldn't spell her own name so I just nodded and smiled. I never did correct it

It was pissing down with rain a while ago, like real monsoon rain, and I decided to hide in the nearest shop. I ended up spending £15 on a birdcage. I don’t even have a bird 🐦😂 I kind of felt a bit weird standing there when it was just me and the shop owner making small talk. I felt obliged!

I have an unusual name that has 2 different ways to pronounce it. Law-rie/Lorrie.

On my first day in my new job earlier this year my manager took me round all the key people I would be working with and introduced me as Lorrie. I was way too embarrassed to correct her and as such have been "Lorrie" for the whole time I've been there.

Until I introduced myself to a new person as Law-rie and my boss said "woah wait, how did you just say your name??" And now my entire department knows that I have been too painfully shy to correct them for 7 MONTHS! And I'm in a senior role where I am expected to be able to stand up for myself 😂

This thread is GOLDEN and is me all over.

Many times I’ve paid about £6 for my lunch as ice picked up an incorrect item for a meal deal so haven’t for the deal.

Been taken to the wrong place in a taxi before and then had to get another taxi to where I needed to be.

It takes me ages and ages to work up the courage to ask a question at work because people might think I’m stupid then my Manager just confuses me even more so I’m worse off than I was when I started.

Someone mentioned Avoidant Personality Disorder and it is definitely me.

I've been reading this thread over the last few days and feeling a sympathetic smugness. Then just now I decided to use the loo before I left work. I bumped into the cleaner on the stairs (jumped out of my skin - thought I was alone in the building) and said breezily that I was off now and retraced my steps rather than risk him seeing me go into the loo. I'm now walking home to my one year old who will want to cuddle and jump on me and my dodgy post pregnancy bladder...

I know this is an old thread but have to add my bit... went to a catholic christening (had only every been to c of e 30 min ones before!). Anyway ended up taking communion as just followed everyone else who got up I am aware at this huge sin I committed, I just copied what everyone else did! Sorry Jesus!

I was too embarrassed to say "oh I'm neither catholic nor baptised".

I also get called a name that's not mine a lot... I just answer. I must look like someone of that name as it happens loads!

Also once went to view a house for sale only the owner didn't want to sell and sat my down for an hour telling me about his marriage break up...then insisted on driving me home

I used to smoke a few years ago and a man asked to use my lighter, I pulled it out of my bag gave it to him and 30 seconds later he still hadn't lit his cigarette, I had given him my USB stick

I got drunk on a night out when I was very young and a lad that I really fancied for years came on to me in the pub. I thought I was winning life, I danced with him and we kissed a few times. Absolutely buzzing. When the pub was closing we walked out holding hands and he invited me back to his. I couldn’t believe my luck that night, until we bumped in to his mum outside who was calling him by his older, very much less attractive younger brother....

Only then I realised I was that drunk I had mistaken him for his brother

I made an escape back home in the taxi and said I was going on holiday really early in the morning and I still had to pack... put on a show of kissing him still and giving him my number so he didn’t clock on that I’d mistaken him for his brother!!!

What made it worse is that I was calling him ‘Danny boy’ all night without him correcting me so he full well knew!!