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.

When we were about 8 or 9 at school, we had a stranger danger talk and that if someone you didn't know tried to get you to do something, or tried to get you into a car etc, you should scream as loudly as you could to attract attention. For some reason the teacher then picked on a few children to demonstrate how loudly they should scream. I was the quietest in the class and the teacher chose me. I opened my mouth to scream ....and no noise at all came out....and all the class laughed. It was really mortifying

Secondary school, year 7. I was so awkward, desperate to fit in. I'd been selected for the school swimming gala, I was so nervous. We were all sat in rows around the edge of the pool waiting for our races to be announced. 'Year 7 girls breaststroke' is called over the tannoy. That's me, huge adrenaline rush. I stand up quickly and let out a blast of fart, everyone laughs, I laugh along too thinking no one will know it was me. I walk past all the other rows of kids waiting, get to the end of the pool, turn around and realise no one in my group has followed me. I'd miss heard the announcement. I had to do the walk of shame back to me spot. Everyone knew it was me.

When I was 15 I moved to a new area and from a school with a very very strict uniform policy to one where there was a uniform but it was treated as almost optional. For the first few weeks my mum insisted that I had to wear full uniform so, together with being quite shy and well behaved, I was convinced that everyone thought I was a uncool and boring (I was probably right, as were they). One day in our French lesson, I was asked to have a short conversation with the teacher infront of the rest of the class (this was pretty common). The topic was 'at the weekend', so I decided it was a chance to show everyone how cool I was. I told the class (in French) that I liked going clubbing and when I was there I drank and smoked (smoking was legal at 16 back then and quite a few of my classmates were already 16 so we were taught the word for it and even how to ask for an ashtray). Everyone was listening intently so I interpreted this as them all realising they'd misjudged me and they wanted to know more about my hedonistic weekends. Instead of just answering the quick questions from the teacher and sitting back down I kept going and told everyone I went clubbing at 7pm and danced to Bros, Kylie etc (all topping the charts at the time so obviously cool, right???). The final straw was when I told everyone that I drank Martini and Lemonade (my Mum's cooler, younger sister drank this so I assumed it was what the cool kids liked). There was much laughter and the teacher even tried to calm the class by reminding them our CGSE would test us on the accuracy of our French so it was fine to make up an answer. It took me about 5 minutes to realise what I'd done and I still cringe to think about it

This thread is outstanding! 😂
I once called for my friend, we were about 16 and desperate to be cool and edgy. She opened the door and I tried to walk in but my foot had somehow lodged under the step and I toppled full-length like a felled tree into the house.
Her parents were in the hall and absolutely pissed themselves.
Motificado.

When I was a very cool sullen teenager I was leaving Tesco with my mum and I got my baggy flared jeans caught in the trolley wheel. It was in the middle of the car park and I just had to stand there attached to a trolley while my mum went back to the car to look for some scissors. Standing in the middle of the road trying to style it out

When I was about 4 I was ridiculously shy and would never dare to challenge anyone on anything. I was dropped off at a play group and a nice lady said hello and asked me my name. I said nicola and the lady said 'sorry I didn't catch that, was it Rebecca?' I didn't dare correct her so just nodded and spent the whole morning responding to that name. I even had a painting to go home with with the name Rebecca on it. My mother came to collect me and I remember going so red and feeling absolutely mortified when the inevitable confusion unfolded.

Btw these are all brilliant!

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I was 12 and at that mardy arse stage where nothing my parents did was good enough. We were on holiday and heading into an arcade, which I was moaning about as arcades were for kids, not cool grown ups such as myself. They all went ahead of me and I was dawdling behind, when I spotted a life size Dalek, I was terrified of Daleks! Then the bloody thing moved, and waved it’s guns about. I screamed like a banshee and ran hell for leather down the road, with my father in hot pursuit, and numerous bemused bystanders watching. Oh the shame.

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Oh so many 😂
This thread has triggered a few unfortunate memories!

Like the time I asked my whole family "what's a nipple?" as I was reading one of my grandmother's passed on She magazines. I really was old enough to know 🤷🏻‍♀️

Or the time I decided to paint on a love bite with makeup on my neck and go to school like that (at about 15) I was a very shy, quiet teenager and I have no idea what possessed me. Why, why?! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I've asked my dd if I can post her recent embarrassing moment and she's says yes

She had p.e first lesson and they are allowed to go dressed in their kits.She couldn't find it and was running late when she finally found them under her bed where she had obviously whipped them off two days prior and forgot about them.

Anyway out she rushes and she's in the gym. They are doing a bleep test. As she gets faster she feels something slip out of her jogging bottoms leg. Her worn underwear from the last time she'd worn them. She was mortified.

Anyway teaches her for being a lazy madam eh lol. She's had a hood laugh about it since

My mother went to a meeting with some very senior people at work and when they took a comfort break she felt something odd. She had just walked out of the room in front of all these people with last nights TIGHTS AND KNICKERS trailing out of her trouser leg.

These are all brilliant, thank you.

I was about 10, at an Indian restaurant with my parents. I said to the waiter,

"I'd like the chicken Madras."

to which he tilted his head and said "Maaaa..."

Thinking he was telling me the correct pronunciation of Madras, I dutifully repeated "Maaaaa."

He tilted his head the other way and said again, "Maaaa..."

Again, I repeated, with more gusto, thinking I hadn't quite grasped it.

But then he went "Maaaa.... I think a Madras is too spicy for a young girl."

It was just a vocal tic.

I almost DIED.

I was 7 or 8 and went running into the local sweet shop, desperate for my sugar fix. It had heavy clear glass doors which were normally open. On this day they were closed and I ran full pelt into one of them. The door crashed open and I fell face down onto the shop floor, knocking all the air out of myself. I managed to stand up and then staggered round for what seemed like hours gasping for breath. The 2 ladies behind the counter didn’t speak, just watched me, arms folded, lips pursed. When I finally recovered I had to try and style it out and buy some sweets. They must have pissed themselves laughing when I left the shop.

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Well how very uncool of you screaming and running from a dalek! At least I only whimpered!!!

I remember another one. I was about seven and my dad worked away occasionally as an engineering contractor at air bases. This was during the Cold War and his firm trained men from other firms, including some European companies. One Sunday a group of German contractors flew in, hired a minibus and drove to our house to pick up my dad on route. My mum loved entertaining and all the fuss, putting on a lavish Sunday tea before they all drove off with dad to some place at the other end of the country.

At school the next day I wrote something along the following lines in my diary: "Daddy has gone away for work for a week. My sister and me are sad but Mummy is happy. She danced in the kitchen and lots of big men come to see her."

This was a close knit community and the headmaster was very concerned, we later found out.

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I was sniggering in an M & S Cafe about your Dad cartwheeling!! Cringe!!!

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Football coach that occassionally coaches my daughter's team misheard my name and thinks my name is Marilyn, I didn't correct him... and he is the type of person who uses people's name a lot... so everytime he calls me Marilyn I cringe, I am dreading the moment he speaks to me in front of other people who know my name and they ask why he calls me Marilyn... my name is Kate.

I was out shopping with my mum and spotted our neighbour walking past. I got a bit excited and started tugging my mums sleeve to get her attention. At this point the neighbour had seen us and had started to walk over just in time to hear me say "Mum! Look it's Concorde! It's Concorde!" Not realising at the age of 6 that it was a nasty name my mother had given her because 1 she had a big nose and 2 was the neighbourhood gossip.

I was answering a question about a Shakespeare play when I was 11.

Essentially the character had tricked someone into thinking he'd slept with their wife/betrothed.

In a moment of blankness I shouted out 'he shagged her' instead of a more playable version. I was 12. I was kept after class.

Then they told my mother. Oh the shame.

I've grown up in and around Manchester and Lancashire and wev always grown up calling them pants not trousers

Oh god, this is mortifying. I was about 7/8 and went shopping with my mum in our local town. She dragged me into a very chi chi ladies dress shop.
while she was trying on what seemed like thousands of dresses I got bored, started wondering around the shop.
For some reason (still unknown to me) I decided to climb into the shop window, and adopt a ‘mannequin pose’ to pass the time. It was a busy street. A few people walked past and didn’t glance at me, and I smugly congratulated myself on my cunning disguise.
Unfortunately, a couple of people stopped, realised that the small human girl was not actually a plastic clothes mannequin with synthetic hair.
A crowd started to gather outside the shop window. They were laughing and pointing at me.
Instead of styling it out and suddenly yelling ‘boo!’ at them, I decided it was imperative that I stayed in character.
There then unfolded some kind of stand off between me and my onlookers. They were all trying to make me laugh. I remember my top lip was sweaty and my arms were begging to ache.
Just when I thought I couldn’t hold the pose anymore, I was saved my by mother absolutely screaming at me for hiding from her, they’d realised I was missing about 5 minutes earlier and had scoured the shop looking for me, they thought I’d been abducted 😱
My public were treated to a full on telling off from my utterly furious mother. I was yanked unceremoniously out of the shop window and was shouted at all the way home for being so stupid 😔
Looking back, I was a bored child whose mother should have been paying attention to where she was not concentrating on buying dresses.
I still feel hot with shame and embarrassment when I think of it!!!