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.

Oh god so many embarrassing moments.
But the first thing I did that probably effected me for the rest of my life tbh was when I was 5.
I was quite a talented ballet student but I also had a wetting problem. Would wet myself in assembly, in bed etc and one day during my lesson I wet myself and left a big puddle. Even though it was obvious it was me, I stepped to one side and pretended it wasn't.
I refused to go back to my lessons and couldn't even watch or hear about anything to do with ballet for a good 5 years after that,
Which was a massive shame because I had so much potential. I fully Believe that one moment of embarrassment stuck with me for so long that it ate up all my confidence and had that not have happened I would probably be a dancer as I was so good at such a young age.

Moral of the story is, if your child gets embarrassed about something it's really important to help them deal with it, even if it seems petty or silly because to a child it can feel a lot more serious. I wish my mum had of made me face it instead of just letting me quit. You can tell I'm still damaged.

Just remembered another embarrassing moment during secondary school. We were rehearsing for a play and everyone had to face the front towards what would be the audience for the final song.
Literally about 100 people and stupid old me, faced the opposite way and it wasn't till the end of the song when the teacher told me did I realise and everyone started laughing at me.
I can still hear those laughs 😳

I went to McDonald's or somewhere with my grandma, I was about 6 or 7. I went to the toilet and came out and she was queuing, so I gave her a big hug. I then looked up and it wasn't her! It was another woman of the same build. She was laughing but I was so embarrassed.

When I was 8 I went to Disneyland Orlando with my family. We went to Planet Hollywood for dinner. Massive queue, annoyingly long wait time....I assisted the queue jump process by getting my head trapped in the revolving door.

My siblings were in the 'compartment' ahead of me and I jumped at the last minute to get in with them. It was the push style revolving door so it didn't stop once my head got lodged...it did once my siblings pushed and my head came between the moving and non moving parts.

I was completely fine (other than standard tears and sobbing etc) but it was utterly mortifying. On the upside I was lauded a hero as we jumped the queue and got fawned over all evening as they were panicking we would sue!

When I was around 9, our family rented a holiday cottage with another family. The holiday cottage seemed huge to me and was quite higgledy piggledy with various corridors and rooms off rooms. I was a bit scared to walk around on my own. One evening I needed the toilet, so off I went. But when I came back, I couldn't find them. Absolutely no idea what happened. I could hear them but couldn't see them anywhere. I was getting more and more frantic and believed that maybe a scary murderer was toying with me and about to kill me. They'd somehow trapped my family and were stalking me around the house, enjoying my terror. I was so scared of the murderer that I decided I'd pretend to be a robot, because I couldn't find anywhere to hide, but I could definitely hide in plain sight with my genius robot act. I sat on the stairs and kept repeating the same sequence of movements over and over for what seemed like forever until one of my parents wondered what was taking me so long and came to find me. So embarrassing.

@Chardonnay73 me too you sound ace!

This has really made me laugh 😆

When I was 10/11 I went on a school trip for the weekend, on the coach ride back I really needed a wee and told the teacher but by the time we got to a service station I was bursting and as soon as the fresh air hit me getting off the coach it was too late and I wet myself in front of everyone, I then had to stand there soaking wet while the teacher got my suitcase off the coach so I could change pants. To top it off one of the boys tried to console me by telling me about a time he shit himself 😂 I’m 30 now but still vividly remember that day.

Oh god these are pure gold.
In my first year of high school, my big sister told me that being a hermaphrodite meant being natural blonde. So I told everyone, very proudly, that I was one. That was the end of my street cred for high school.

It’s a West Country saying - means you were grumpy, arsey, fed up etc.

Picture the scene, it was our last day camping and we had packed up our tent and were in our 'going home clothes' which were a bit smarter than our every day camping stuff. We had been allowed a last go on the pedaloes on the lake. All was fine and we were pedalling away. I was sharing with my little sister.

They called us in and we headed to the landing stage. My mum tied the rope around the post and my sister got out. Then it was dyspraxic me's turn. I got one foot out on the landing stage and the boat started to turn out away from the stage. I started doing the splits. Eventually my mum shouted 'Just fall in for goodness sake' and so I did.

I got out of the water soaking wet and covered head to toe in mud. Thank goodness this was before phones were a thing and there were no cameras to record my humiliation!

When I was 13 i was sat in class at school when I noticed I’d stood in a large amount of dog poo so instead of telling the teacher as I was too embarrassed I tried to get it off on the table leg (silly of me I know) so now it smelt really bad and people started to notice the smell and ask if anyone had stood in dog poo so I pretended I didn’t realise and went to check my shoes along with everybody else checking there’s only to then get the poo I’d wiped onto the table leg all over my leg so now I had poo on my shoe and all up my leg, to make matters worse I’d just got a new phone and I hadn’t set a ring tone yet so it had the original one on ( we weren’t allowed phones in school) and my grandma phoned me and the pink panther tune went off which drew even more attention to me. I just wanted the floor to swallow me up and eat me 😂

This reminded me of a long cycle ride with a friend (60 miles) to my parents' house when I was about 18. I normally wore glasses but decided not to this day. Unfortunately my friend's bike developed a puncture about 40 miles in, we tried to fix it but in the end decided she would get the train to my parents. There were no mobile phones then and we didn't have any change for the telephone. I continued with the ride on my own. It was getting dark and I was about 5 miles from home when I realised I was being tailed by a car. I was terrified and started cycling as fast as I could- probably more than 30mph but eventually the car overtook me and I realised it was my dad!

Second year of high school my family moved from England to Scotland. It was around the time of world cup 98 and myself and my sister, having no idea of the sporting hatred Scotland has for England, decided we would sing three lions in the school talent contest. We made up a dance and everything to go with it. We were booed off the stage. Never been so embarrassed. It was like that scene in about a bot. Worst thing was none of the teachers warned us that doing that particular song might not be the best idea 🤣

The bastards!

I used to wander in and out of my neighbours' house in order to play with their dog. They were a very lovely, quite posh couple who were older and definitely more subtle than my mum and dad so would say things like "it's so lovely that you want to want to play with Benji but wouldn't you rather be back in your home house now", to which I'd answer "nope, I'm fine" and continue rolling around their floor with the poor dog, who was probably as fed up as his owners.

This would be embarrassing enough but one morning, I was over there and decided to follow the dog around their house - poor thing was probably trying to find some privacy but I was running after it. The woman did say something about how I "might like to stay downstairs" but I thought, "nah, I'm happy to follow the dog upstairs" and once I got up there decided to explore (I know, I'm cringing inside out just thinking about it - awful behaviour and I really should have known about boundaries). Anyway, I decided to throw open the door to one of the rooms, only to find their 20+ year old son had been fast asleep in that room. He jumped up in fright at the door banging open and sat bolt upright in bed. I don't know if he was wearing anything on his bottom half but he was certainly topless and the look of absolute horror on his face as he locked eyes on the precocious 8 year old from next door will haunt me forever. I bolted out of that house and ran back to my own, vowing never to go wandering again.

I'm now in my 40s - he must be around 60 and we still can't meet each others eyes if we happen to turn up in the street at the same time to visit our parents.

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Around 13 years old I was weirdly obsessed with the song Ring of Fire. Whenever I was alone in the house, I would wander around singing it at the top of my voice but in a really, overemphasised USA country and western voice. One day the doorbell rang so I stopped singing and went to answer it. It was someone looking for my dad and his shoulders were shaking as he tried to supress his laughter which was the moment I realised our house was not very soundproofed and anyone passing by could no doubt hear my Johnny Cash stylings. I told him my dad wasn't in and got rid of him quickly deciding there and then to never sing loudly again.

The guy did meet up with my dad at some other time though and obviously told him the story because my family took the piss out of me for years. "Is that food hot", "Oh yes - it buuuurrrrrns, buuurrrrrns, buuurrrrns" kind of thing.

I know it doesn't sound as mortifying as the first story but that song still brings me out in an embarrased flush when I hear it.

This is the best thread ive read in ages!

I'm crying at these. Mine is whe. Me and my best day about 13 was trying to impress the boys sat near us so we decided to soundly talk about our uncles and how the things we did with them, not dodgy stuff but not believable as my uncle was the guy from Soul Asylum and hers was Phil Collins.....

I know this is an old thread but just discovered it in Classics...this post is one of the funniest things I've ever read on here...I'm at work and almost suffocating from trying to stifle the laughter, I have tears, snot...the lot!!! Brilliant 😂😂

Omg 😂 the ring of fire

I was walking my dog, and was called to by my brownie leader who lived nearby. She was dressed up clearly to go out, with long cream trousers and black shirt. She proceeded to tell me that our brownie meetings were now at another venue, she then stopped and looked down, I followed her gaze and to my horror, my dog had his leg cocked with a steam of piss flowing down those posh cream trousers I quickly said sorry and told my dog he was "a naughty boy" then made off quickly as I was struggling not to laugh.