Tell me a random embarrassing thing that happened to you when you were a kid

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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.

I remember being on a coach going on a school trip, I was about 14 and had a green day CD in my little portable CD player. I was listening to it on the coach and didn't realise I was singing out loud. By the time I realised literally everyone was looking at me, including the teacher, and when I stopped they all laughed. Very embarrassing!

Oh I'm laughing so much

I remember once when I was about 14/15 we went swimming as a family, I dived in and swam across to them in the shallow end, stood and proudly showed my stepdad my right tit which has decided to escape the ridiculous costume I was wearing. I'm still mortified 30 years later

I was about 12/13. Someone sang a filthy version of the theme tune to Fraggle Rock in the playground and on hearing it for the first time I laughed so hard I wet myself in front of the other girls.

Had the last laugh though, I got complimented on my excellent pelvic floor by the GP who had to wrestle my last IUD out, so I guess I finally mastered the art of not literally pissing myself laughing.

I have two I still cringe to even just thinking about. I was about 10 when both happened

1. I was at the park after school and we had been on the disk round about. ( A round about with no side and seats) It was pretty deadly at times. I came off it after being on it with the big kids and announced to my mum and her friend I nearly screamed my testicles off.....im a girl.. I meant tonsils. I was so embarrassed when I realised I ran back to play and later on my mum gave me the talk again about body's and the birds and the bees.

1. Strict Catholic school in the packed lunch hall. Total silence is a must. I felt a sneeze coming. I pinched my nose to try stop it. The force of holding in the sneeze I ended up doing the biggest fart I have ever done to date. The massive hall and the plastic chair made it echo. I was honestly mortified. And the adults not impressed.

Never hold in a sneeze 😂

I dont get any of this - you'd got your arse in your hand? What do you mean? WHy did you have to go and sit on a ride? I thought you might have meant you needed the bathroom but that doesn't make sense when you say you say on a ride!

I moved from England to scotland at about 14 to a school that was relaxed on uniform was use to the whole skirt and tie anyway 1st day at new scottish school i was only girl wearing a skirt and one teacher said oh you look smart for my reply to be dont worry i will be wearing pants tomorrow for teachers reply was dont you have pants on with your skirt for me to say dont be stupid pants and skirt looks stupid but will wear pants tomorrow for the teacher to start getting concerned i wasnt wearing pants pulled me a side and said do you have underwear on under your skirt for me to say oh yeah i have that on just not pants then the penny dropped and i was cringing 🙊🙉🙈

I am laughing my head off at this 😂😂😂😂

in fact I dont understand how any of these are meant to be embarrassing. farting, or saying a different word instead of the correct word isn't embarrassing at all. If people laugh or mock you just ignore them and acknowledge they're very ignorant or their parents are very sad people who haven't taught them that there is nothing to be embarrassed about and you should never mock anyone else. so sad

These are absolutely hilarious, especially the toothpaste lids and the penguin one.

And this : 😂😂😂
Vicar opened his door and four year old pointed to him and said very sternly “You, fuck off

We went on a camping trip in the school holidays when I was about 13. Despite it being August, it was absolutely freezing and after a night of torrential rain my parents conceded that we should probably go home. I had no dry clothes as everything was soaked through, and it was too cold and miserable to get changed in the morning so my Mum suggested that I just go home in my pyjamas. This would have been fine, except that on the way home my parents decided that actually they wanted to stop off and look at somewhere on the way home and have lunch. Despite my protests about my pyjama attire - my parents view was we were sixty miles from home so I wouldn't see anybody I knew and that I should embrace it as a bold, sartorial statement.

Except of course I did bump into someone I knew. A girl from my year on holiday with her parents who I didn't have the greatest of relationships with.

That was fun when we went back to school.

MNHQ this has to go in classics for the first two alone.

I was always being embarrassed by my mother so I have tried to wipe them from my memory.

Thank you so much for starting this thread OP, I haven’t laughed so much in ages. I really needed this tonight

My Mother recently told me about something I said when I was little. I was playing with my older Cousins who I really looked up to and was always trying to show off in front of. My brother was being his usual annoying little brother self and was generally BUGGING me so I screamed at my parents to tell him to stop BUGGERING me

That reminds me of the time I ran up to my friend at a theme park and hit her right over the head with one of those big inflatable hammers whilst shouting ‘It’s Mallets Mallet’ at the top of my voice. You’ve guessed it, it wasn’t my mate but an adult woman. To make matters worse I said ‘I’m so sorry, I thought you were Laura’ like she’d know who Laura even was

@Igotthegoose thank you for a genuine laugh out loud image! Gives me insight into what my DD may be thinking sometimes!

God there's always one isn't there

Why did you say pants though? Isn't that what they say for trousers in America? You moved from England where trousers are very much known as trousers!

I dunno, where I am in the North West it seems quite common for people to say pants instead of trousers. I'm from the south east and have got used to it by now.

Because i have always called trousers pants just what we have always said..

Oh God there are two incidences. I have told these many times.

The first was going to the shops with my Mum. She told me to wait here whilst she popped across the road and went i a shop. Typical kid ,she was probably only a few minutes when I started to blubber because I had forgotten which shop she was in. Eventually a policeman came up to me and asked what was wrong. He went inside a Tardis (very exciting! I was into Dr Who! Sadly, it was very disappointing and only contained a phone. He must have rung around a few shops which probably tannoyed a message for my mum to collect me!

Whilst I was waiting for her to return, a man with a child came up to me and offered me a sweetie. Knowing all strangers had poisoned sweeties to give children I said no thank you and was shocked that the policeman did not arrest him!

The other situation also has a Dr Who theme in it.

My Nan took me and my brother to Cheeseman's, a department store in Lewisham. They had some great play stuff/. Swings and stuff and a Dalek. I looked on fascinated. You could go inside it. Except I was too much of a wet hen and so was my brother. My Nan was getting cross and practically ordered me inside. So a very wet hen sat miserably inside a Dalek too frightened to pull any levers in case I exterminated anyone and went to prison!

I might take after my Nan in looks but not in bravery!!

My gran very kindly buying me a vest from Kookai (I had coveted one for so long) but then questioning the young, cool cashier on what 'Kookai' meant. She ended up getting her manager and i think they even rang head office for an answer. She wasn't being rude, was just genuinely interested but i was so embarrassed at the time. I feel bad now.

And the time I was hanging out with some cool kids down at the park as a young teenager and we saw some weirdo bloke doing cartwheels on the field. I was laughing along with them when I realised it was my dad. He then saw us and came over for a chat. I think i died then and have been a ghost ever since.

When I was in year 7 there was a school trip to a pool/water park and it was the first time I'd been made aware that body hair was a bit of a thing. I was the only girl with hairy armpits and the boys noticed and soon everyone was laughing at me. I remember going in the toilet in tears and trying to tear all the hair out but obviously couldn't. I was bullied for months over it.

It's not as funny a story as some of these, it actually hurts to remember but it's a PSA for those of you with daughters to warn them that teenagers can be absolute dicks about body hair and that they don't have to shave but atleast give them a heads up. I blamed my mum for years!

Holding on to a lady's arm thinking it was my mum's arm😌

Thank you all for giving me such a proper laugh this morning. It’s true, “the best things in life are free”. 😊