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 have a horrible one!

When I was about 7/8 my cousin and I (same age) used to club together at family meals to entertain ourselves through the boredom.

We were at our grandparents house and having a family meal with aunts/ uncles and their respective partners, our parents and some other cousins. We went to the bathroom and found a pube on the toilet seat. We didn't know what it was and went downstairs holding it asking who could it belong to as no one at the table had short black curly hair. (Dying recalling this.)

It gets worse - we then made up an impromptu song called "Little Black Curly Hair" and sang it at everyone during the meal as we tried to play detective and find out who it belonged to! None of our parents tried to stop us!

When I was around 14 I was in a PE lesson where we had to get in to groups of 3 and make up a gymnastics routine. We had bare feet and were wearing gym knickers and skirts. I was sitting on the floor at one point. My friend was coming up with some good ideas for how to arrange ourselves and she said I should move to a slightly different position. Rather than just tell me she took hold of my hands and slid me across the floor. Only problem was she slid me across her very sharp toenail and gashed my bum. It really bled and I had to kneel on a bench in the changing room while the teacher dressed my arse cheek!

Realised I've said 11 and 12. I was yr 8 I believe so not sure when in the year it was.

@Chardonnay73 I love that you didn't give in to the viewers! I applaud little you.

I was 13 and on a school trip staying with my French pen friend ( my French was rubbish) . We’d gone swimming and that was the time my first period decided to put in an appearance. I knew what it was but had no sanitary protection at all with me on the trip.I had to say why I couldn’t swim, ( in hindsight I could have just gone in but at the time I didn’t feel it appropriate). I didn’t have the language ability to say what had happened, all I could say in French was “ lots of red”. I was soooo mortified.

I was about 12 and pony mad with no chance even of riding lessons, had only had a couple of rides on a distant relative's pony when visiting. I went with a school friend to a gymkhana. We met a friend of hers there who had ponies and her dad let me ride in a race (egg and spoon I think it was). I got through two heats and came second in the final. I was in heaven.

The next week, friend's friend asked us round to her house to have a ride. I was having a canter up the field when the girl's dad came out of the house, shouted at me to get off the horse and that I had a bloody cheek asking to ride the pony. The daughter was trying to tell him that she had invited me but he just kept yelling at me to get off and out of his sight.

I have never been so mortified in my life. It was ages before I accepted any other invitations from friends and I still have to double check that someone really wants me to visit them now and I'm pushing 70. (Still horse mad though).

This is horrible. I remember a girl in yr 11 being ripped apart for similar. Cruel

A big thank you to yiu all for sharing these. Today is a difficult date for me that I have been dreading. These have made me laff outloud🤭

Hehe, it was truly embarrassing. He told us he was just enjoying nature while walking the dogs, which i now find beautiful, but at the time i wanted the A-Team to helicopter down and abduct him (or me).

I have now become him...I haven't cartwheeled in a while but I dance in supermarkets if there is music and drag the DC into it. Love dragging Dd down the dairy aisle in a waltz to Adele. Gotta give them some content for their therapist in 20 years.

@DoraSpenlow I'm sorry that your friends dad was a prick, I had many instances where similar happened. I hope the pony ride was worth it :)

When I was about 6ish, every Monday in school we had to write about our weekends and what we had done. I grew up on a very poor estate where nobody had money or much of a life tbh. I decided to write about an adventure to the shop with my friend Kirsty who had a note from her mum asking the shopkeeper for "tick" and that we both had 20p for mix ups. The school phoned my mum who pissed herself laughing.

English lesson studying Tender is the Night

Teacher asked if anyone could summarise what had happened so far
Studious me shot her hand up
"Everyone wants a bit of Dick but there isn't enough to go around'

If you haven't read it Dick is the main character - a flawed but charismatic man.

Most of my embarrassing moments were courtesy of my mother who excelled in telling how I'd accidentally ripped my tights/done some minor mistake to my frenemies/bullies and then laughing at me for being upset. She had no respect for my boundaries despite screeching that you always look out for family .

Im from an Italian family and have dark hair but I didn't like it when I was a teenager. I drove my DM mad for bleached blonde bits at the front (which was edgy at the time) but he refused because she didn't think it would suit me. Of course, being 15 I thought I knew better and did it at a friends house. DM was right, it looked absolutely awful but she was so angry at me for defying her she refused to let me cover it with another colour. I had to go to school feeling really self conscious and dying a little inside every time someone asked me what I had done. It's put me off dying my hair for life!

I have a neighbour that has been calling me the wrong name for about 35 years 😂He used the correct name for a year or so and then suddenly it changed. I haven’t got the heart to tell him

This one just about finished me 🤣

And these!

When I was nine I suddenly needed glasses. I hated them & would take them off for break times, making the world disappear into
a hazy blur. My friend & I enjoyed playing in one particular spot of the playground, next to the boundary fence. A white car sailed by and stopped. A strange man stuck his head out the car window & started to talk to us, chuckling. After break I ran inside & told the teacher. She was very concerned. So concerned in fact that a letter was sent home warning parents to watch out for a strange man in a white car. My mother was terrified. After school, my grandmother, who lived in the same street, popped round and mentioned the new car had arrived. You see where this is going don’t you? The strange man in the white car was my step grandfather, without my glasses, and in a different car, I didn’t realise it was him! He’d even fancied a change & shaved off his moustache that day. 😅
I told my mother in a small voice that perhaps the school had made a mistake…

I think I just watched my lungs sail gracefully from my mouth

I can't catch my breath LOL

I had a lipstick and a cover stick in the same brand and shape (17 from Boots) and accidentally put the cover stick on my lips on the way to a really cool party. Got there having taken ages to get ready and look nice and everyone just kept asking if I was ill. Went to the bathroom and was mortified, aged 14, to see my beige mouth perfectly matching my beige face.

Thank god for no social media!

Walked in on my parents having a big of “ afternoon delight “. Some things you just can’t unsee 😑

I have also just laughed out loud at this and I’m on a busy, yet silent train.

I was quite a little fish, I had no choice , my dad was a big and strong swimmer, think , chuck my kid in a swimming pool at a few days old, to see if it sinks or swims sort of chap ! From a very young age. I was doing a RLSS ( Royal Life Saving Society) I was about 7 , doing , some long distance, life saving badge, you have to get dressed in clothing , then strip off , up in the deep end , whilst threading water. But, wee little me, had forgotten to put my swimming costume on, so took off my pyjamas, swam up to the steps after ,we where called out, clambered up the steps to realise, I actually had no clothes on.

Still , like that now, my brain has never engaged 😆.

My little Louis, swam his mile badge aged 7. He was a most determined soul . My knees hurt crawling the 25 metres of the swimming baths sides though . He did have his trunks on.

Please teach your children to swim, it is a most important skill in life .

Get a grip

I was singing a song on a cassette tape recorder that I'd learned in school, to play to my parents. I farted in the middle of the song and said "oops, sorry!" for decades after that until his death my dad used to torment me about it and break into song (the song I sung) and he'd make the sound effect and go oops, sorry. I never did live that one down, lol.

This reminded me about something else. Once as a child, I think I would have been 11, my mum cut my fringe and cut it way too short. I actually used superglue to try to glue back some of the length back on from the hair on the floor, obviously it didn't work very well and I was in tears.