Page 7 | Tell me a random embarrassing thing that happened to you when you were a kid

ThanksAntsThants · 2022-11-22T21:49:43+00:00

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.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 09/04/2023 10:33

We lived overseas in and off age no was primary school aged. When I became 7 WW were living in The Hague and dm signed me up for the British Brownies group, I'm sure entirely so she could meet the mums. On my first night I threw up in the circle. Turns out I actually wasn't very well, spect a couple of night in hospital. But I was back the next week because dm really liked Brown Owl.

StrawberryFizz27 · 11/04/2023 23:04

OMG, cried laughing reading these. So so so funny.

I'll try and think of one and add it later, I'm sure there are many.

I've also nominated for classics.

TheFireflies · 11/04/2023 23:42

I was about nine, I asked my mum what masturbating meant.

She was somewhat awkward but explained it meant someone playing with themselves.

Some weeks later when my sister had been out at a party, I announced to the family that evening that I’d just been masturbating all day.

caringcarer · 12/04/2023 00:00

I was at a play park with my Mum and sister and we were also with my Mum's friend and her son. I was 7. I went down the high slide and somehow my knickers caught on the top of the slide and ripped down one hip. They completely came off and the son of Mum's friend was behind me at top of slide and could not stop laughing. He was 8. My knickers or what was left of them fell down when I got off the slide. Needless to say Mum took us straight home.

FlibbertyGibbitt · 15/04/2023 10:34

I was about 6 and loved my Tiny Tears doll. She was a real baby to me. Anyhow I wanted a proper nappy for her. Had an EXCELLENT thought. In the bathroom there were some little nappies in a storage box. Fabulous. Put it on doll and played. Also in same box were some white cigar things. They looked interesting! Pulled the wrapper off them , pulled the stringy thing, cotton wool roll appeared.

Now I knew dear reader that this was a bit naughty of me and feeling a bit guilty threw both dolls nappy and cigar thing out of my bedroom window where they landed on our conservatory roof.

Around 10 minutes later my dad had to climb a ladder and remove both tampon and sanitary towel I had naughtily thrown.

My poor dad 🤣

HeadacheEarthquake · 15/04/2023 12:18

TheFireflies · 11/04/2023 23:42

I was about nine, I asked my mum what masturbating meant.

She was somewhat awkward but explained it meant someone playing with themselves.

Some weeks later when my sister had been out at a party, I announced to the family that evening that I’d just been masturbating all day.

Howling at this!

Sunshineismyfriend · 15/04/2023 18:37

HeadacheEarthquake · 15/04/2023 12:18

Howling at this!

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This is the best one! 🤣🤣

DameEdna1 · 20/04/2023 03:51

I've had to name change for this as it is so outing.

My guide group used to do a mothers and daughters trip once a year that always culminated in some sort of themed party. The theme was 'Hollywood' the first time I went, I was probably about 10 or 11.

My mother, having never taken the remotest interest in organising fancy dress outfits for me before, for some reason decided that this was the time to go all out. She and granny put their heads together and concluded that I was to go as Dame Edna Everage (why???? Not the first name that springs to mind when I hear Hollywood but there you go.)

I had no idea who Dame Edna was but was happy enough to go along with it. My grandmother spent ages fashioning me a purple wig, which she constructed by cutting the legs off a pair of transparent tights and sewing up the holes (bank robber style) and sewing loops of purple wool through it until it was a full wig. It was actually very innovative but it was also very strange and did not in any way resemble hair.

We then turned an old pair of glasses into dame Edna glasses by adding a decorated cardboard frame and I had a very glitzy dress to go with it and some of granny's clip-on earrings. It was explained to me that I must call everyone 'possums' which I blithely agreed to with no idea why.

The night arrived, and I put on my insane tea cosy/bank robber wig and my glasses and went down to the party and everyone was dressed in very sensible, not really fancy dress outfits. There was a Matilda and a lot of older guides as 'film stars' wearing their trendiest clothes. To make it worse, my mother had come as someone from Star Trek which entailed, for reasons I still cannot fathom, wearing a wetsuit.

I ran out the room and went and hid in the toilets, I was just so mortified. In the end, a lot of the other guides came in and persuaded me to emerge and were very complimentary about the wig and the glasses and assured me it was funny in a good way. And I ended up having a brilliant time and calling everyone possums and everyone wanted to try the glasses and wig on, so it was a happy ending. But that moment when I entered the room as a tween Dame Edna and my mum in her wetsuit was the most embarrassment I've ever felt in my life, it was like Del Boy and Rodney as Batman and Robin.

Bagsundermyeyestoday · 20/04/2023 03:57

TheFireflies · 11/04/2023 23:42

I was about nine, I asked my mum what masturbating meant.

She was somewhat awkward but explained it meant someone playing with themselves.

Some weeks later when my sister had been out at a party, I announced to the family that evening that I’d just been masturbating all day.

Brilliant 😁 actually lol'ed 👏

tobee · 20/04/2023 05:39

When I was at secondary school I had quite dark, quite bushy eyebrows. I found plucking them painful so hit on the genius idea of using jolen cream bleach to tame the brows. I left the bleach on for the requisite amount of time but instead of bleaching the hairs white and invisible, it bleached them orange and very much visible. In fact stripy.

In desperation I tried to go over them with eyeliner pencil. But it didn't really work. So going back to school the next day everyone - teachers and fellow pupils - openly laughed at me and my ginger brows; asking me why I'd tried to look like a tiger etc.

backstreetsbackallright · 20/04/2023 06:04

I was about 10, sitting on my living room floor, playing with toys etc. my mum had the neighbour round and they were sat on the sofa chatting. Anyway I moved into a different position on the floor, sat with my legs open a bit and as I opened my legs, I let out a massive fart that was just far too loud to pretend that it didn't happen 😂🤣

backstreetsbackallright · 20/04/2023 06:06

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!

😂😂😂😂😂 that made me proper laugh out loud

clpsmum · 20/04/2023 06:25

ironingboredrefusal · 23/11/2022 01:02

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

You're a barrel of fun aren't you

RenoDakota · 20/04/2023 08:57

DameEdna1 · 20/04/2023 03:51

I've had to name change for this as it is so outing.

My guide group used to do a mothers and daughters trip once a year that always culminated in some sort of themed party. The theme was 'Hollywood' the first time I went, I was probably about 10 or 11.

My mother, having never taken the remotest interest in organising fancy dress outfits for me before, for some reason decided that this was the time to go all out. She and granny put their heads together and concluded that I was to go as Dame Edna Everage (why???? Not the first name that springs to mind when I hear Hollywood but there you go.)

I had no idea who Dame Edna was but was happy enough to go along with it. My grandmother spent ages fashioning me a purple wig, which she constructed by cutting the legs off a pair of transparent tights and sewing up the holes (bank robber style) and sewing loops of purple wool through it until it was a full wig. It was actually very innovative but it was also very strange and did not in any way resemble hair.

We then turned an old pair of glasses into dame Edna glasses by adding a decorated cardboard frame and I had a very glitzy dress to go with it and some of granny's clip-on earrings. It was explained to me that I must call everyone 'possums' which I blithely agreed to with no idea why.

The night arrived, and I put on my insane tea cosy/bank robber wig and my glasses and went down to the party and everyone was dressed in very sensible, not really fancy dress outfits. There was a Matilda and a lot of older guides as 'film stars' wearing their trendiest clothes. To make it worse, my mother had come as someone from Star Trek which entailed, for reasons I still cannot fathom, wearing a wetsuit.

I ran out the room and went and hid in the toilets, I was just so mortified. In the end, a lot of the other guides came in and persuaded me to emerge and were very complimentary about the wig and the glasses and assured me it was funny in a good way. And I ended up having a brilliant time and calling everyone possums and everyone wanted to try the glasses and wig on, so it was a happy ending. But that moment when I entered the room as a tween Dame Edna and my mum in her wetsuit was the most embarrassment I've ever felt in my life, it was like Del Boy and Rodney as Batman and Robin.

I think this is the best and funniest thing I have ever read on here!! Properly laughing out loud here.

DraconianDen · 20/04/2023 09:06

When I was about 9 or 10, the phone rang at home so I answered it, and it was my dad. I started asking him how he was, when he'd be home from work etc, when I heard a woman's say "erm.. what's happening? I'm a bit confused..." Turns out my dad had just got home and had answered the phone downstairs at the same time as me, and it was this poor woman ringing to speak to my mum! I was so mortified I just hung up. Don't know why this bothers me so much, it happened over 30 years ago, but I still cringe when I think about it!

lala2023 · 20/04/2023 10:05

@DameEdna1 that is magical

Ifulikepinacoladas · 20/04/2023 11:52

Sniffup · 22/11/2022 23:14

I told my Dad he had brewers droop, I thought it meant he had a beer belly!

I also did a handstand against the fence outside secondary school while waiting for a lift home. I had Doc Martens on and they got wedged between the fence posts and I was stuck, in full view of the main road into town to top it off my shirt fell over my face so I was flashing my bra.

The mental image of this one is fantastic 🤣.

Also love the ski lift/ wetting ski suit incident 🤣

Great thread...am sure I could contribute, having a think ...

Chchchchchangesss · 20/04/2023 17:22

I had just turned eleven years old, very young and naive, just started secondary school. A boy was picking on me in front of a bunch of kids so i thought i would really give him what for by trying out swearing for the first time.

I got confused and instead of saying "fuck off" i just said "shit off". Everyone absolutely lost it laughing at me because i didn't know how to swear.

Probably explains the lack of confidence i have now!

seratoninmoonbeams · 20/04/2023 17:31

@TheFireflies I'm actually sat in the garden on my own laughing like a weirdo. Hilarious 🤣

Verv · 20/04/2023 17:44

I got my head stuck in a turnstile for hours. I think it might've been in a Waitrose.
It was one of these, and id got my head stuck between the twirly bit and the horizontally mounted stopper thing thats attached to the left pole. The turnstile only went in one direction so sandwiched my head in there at the neck until it got partially dismantled.

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

Bunnyhair · 20/04/2023 19:13

TheFireflies · 11/04/2023 23:42

I was about nine, I asked my mum what masturbating meant.

She was somewhat awkward but explained it meant someone playing with themselves.

Some weeks later when my sister had been out at a party, I announced to the family that evening that I’d just been masturbating all day.

This wins the thread. 😂😂😂

backstreetsbackallright · 21/04/2023 12:14

This isn't when I was a child but something dd did when she was about 6 years old.

We were all upstairs and she suddenly emerges from my bedroom with something in her hand and shouting "mummy what's this?". I turn and to my absolute horror, my dd is waving a dildo around (one of those flexible type ones). She had gone into my drawer and found it. Then my other dd pipes up, "I know what is is...it's a Willy". 😂

Wanted the ground to swallow me up whole.

Needhelp101 · 21/04/2023 22:25

DameEdna1 · 20/04/2023 03:51

I've had to name change for this as it is so outing.

My guide group used to do a mothers and daughters trip once a year that always culminated in some sort of themed party. The theme was 'Hollywood' the first time I went, I was probably about 10 or 11.

My mother, having never taken the remotest interest in organising fancy dress outfits for me before, for some reason decided that this was the time to go all out. She and granny put their heads together and concluded that I was to go as Dame Edna Everage (why???? Not the first name that springs to mind when I hear Hollywood but there you go.)

I had no idea who Dame Edna was but was happy enough to go along with it. My grandmother spent ages fashioning me a purple wig, which she constructed by cutting the legs off a pair of transparent tights and sewing up the holes (bank robber style) and sewing loops of purple wool through it until it was a full wig. It was actually very innovative but it was also very strange and did not in any way resemble hair.

We then turned an old pair of glasses into dame Edna glasses by adding a decorated cardboard frame and I had a very glitzy dress to go with it and some of granny's clip-on earrings. It was explained to me that I must call everyone 'possums' which I blithely agreed to with no idea why.

The night arrived, and I put on my insane tea cosy/bank robber wig and my glasses and went down to the party and everyone was dressed in very sensible, not really fancy dress outfits. There was a Matilda and a lot of older guides as 'film stars' wearing their trendiest clothes. To make it worse, my mother had come as someone from Star Trek which entailed, for reasons I still cannot fathom, wearing a wetsuit.

I ran out the room and went and hid in the toilets, I was just so mortified. In the end, a lot of the other guides came in and persuaded me to emerge and were very complimentary about the wig and the glasses and assured me it was funny in a good way. And I ended up having a brilliant time and calling everyone possums and everyone wanted to try the glasses and wig on, so it was a happy ending. But that moment when I entered the room as a tween Dame Edna and my mum in her wetsuit was the most embarrassment I've ever felt in my life, it was like Del Boy and Rodney as Batman and Robin.

This has just about ended me 😭

ChateauMargaux · 22/04/2023 15:35

Reminds me of two dress up events my father talked me into... he would never in his life have dressed up..
We grew up in Ireland, it was the Falklands war, I had a sign saying 'Don't cry for me Argentina' and a thatched hat on my head, carrying a gun...
Second was being judged by a very tall politician .. I had a football on the end of a broom handle and a trench coat. He found it funny. Totally humiliating.

Other kids were dressed as batman and fairies, not ironic political statements.

ratherbepaddleboarding · 22/04/2023 16:16

@ironingboredrefusal so what would you classify as embarrassing then?