When I was about 12 I was at the shops with my mother. I’d got my arse in my hand for some reason, which TBF wasn’t exactly unusual. I refused to go round the co-op And waited at the front of the shop instead. The only place to sit was on this battered old elephant kids ride, you know, the ones where you put 10p in and they rock backwards and forwards a bit and play a tune.
So there I was, almost a grown up teenager, all surly and arsey with a right gob on, too cool to go round the co-op with my mother, sitting on this beat up old elephant ride for babies… and an old man walked up, said, ‘oh, do you want a go?’ Stuck 10p in and off I went, rocking backwards and forwards on this toddler ride. I jumped off and ran all the way home, I may have even cried, and refused to leave my room for the rest of the day.
My mother was worried sick and went mad at me for running off, and I was so embarrassed I refused to tell her why.
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ThanksAntsThants · 22/11/2022 21:49
ThanksAntsThants · 22/11/2022 22:30
That reminds me of the time when I was at college and I stuck a big plaster on my forehead just to see how many people would ask me what I done. I was, and probably still am, a bit daft.
mynameischloe · 22/11/2022 22:40
I also remember wanting high healed shoes for school but (obviously) wasn't allowed so I tried sticking two little toothpaste tube lids to my shoes to look like heals.
I was a total nobber!
ldontWanna · 22/11/2022 22:41
The proper cringy one was when I was about 10 or 11.
We were all having dinner and dad was his usual jokey self ,messing with mum, possibly told her he loves/fancies her or something. I shouted "would you stop having oral sex at the table?". Both of them stared in shock, while I kept muttering to myself that it's cringy, and they're old and all the other typical nonsense. Mum had to explain to me what it meant. I didn't leave my room for two days.
I thought it was verbal teasing /innuendo kind of stuff.
Bbq1 · 22/11/2022 23:00
Aged about 9 on holiday my mum had a street artist do a pencil drawing of me. We didn't see the end result until he had finished. I still remember the shock of seeing the picture for the first time - I kid you not, I looked like a 60 year old woman. My mu. bought it because she felt obliged. I was so embarrassed and upset. We've laughed about it since!
LidlCinnamonBun · 22/11/2022 23:39
I was 11 or 12 and my next door neighbour and I watched Pretty Woman. We decided to act it out in the back lane. We borrowed my mums ciggies and her sisters clothes and we strutted up and down the back lane for business.
Our other neighbour knocked our door and told my mum what we were doing. We gave him threatening looks when we saw him taking his bins out, whilst we were saying work it baby, work it
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