What embarrassing moments still haunt you?

[Robin]

I am so damn anxious I constantly toss and turn in my sleep remembering my greatest awkward hits. I'm pretty neurotic and anxious but I doubt I'm unique in this. A lot of these moments were totally innocuous or non-malicious, the kind of things people probably just shrugged off or got over, but they'll forever haunt me.

- One time in college a friend hosted a party during christmas time at his parents house. Me and my other friend were sitting on a bench that couldn't support our weight (while fairly intoxicated) and broke the bench while taking a selfie, falling backwards into their fully decorated christmas tree. Somehow the tree was fairly unscathed, but we totally destroyed that bench. I think it was antique. His parents were polite and shrugged it off but I pretty much wanted to die.

- When I was an awkward high school student I professed my love for another girl I went to school with via note (ugh. UGH.) . The next day she pretended it never happened. This was like 13 years ago but if I saw her walking down the street today I'd probably duck into a bush, or christmas tree.

- When I was 5 my parents thought I ran away from home but I was actually hiding under the couch. My dad called the police and the entire block had a search party looking for me, I don't know what I was thinking at the time but once the cops showed I was so scared to face the music I couldn't come out. It makes me sick to my stomach how freaked out my parents were for absolutely no good reason.

Anyway I thought it would be fun and maybe a little cathartic to ask: what embarrassing moments still haunt you? Please don't post anything that's unkind to another person, let's stick to our own stories. Also I would suggest not posting anything that could damage your career or social life, or anything that's too much of a bummer ;) .

 

[Smugness]

Accidently showed my teacher my avatar on this forum lmao

 

[Princess Viola]

I peed my pants in 6th grade because my computer class teacher had a strict rule of 'Only one person out at a time' and some girl left like 10 minutes ago and hadn't come back yet and I was too scared to tell the teacher that it was an emergency.

The teacher had to get a mop to clean it up (yes it was THAT bad, there was a puddle on the chair AND floor), I had to put my pants and underwear in a plastic bag, put on my gym shorts, and call home to have my grandpa pick me up.

 

[Kraken3dfx]

The 2016 US Election, that counts, right?

 

[Deleted member 39374]

farting loudly on accident on a movie set.

 

[Robin]

I peed my pants in 6th grade because my computer class teacher had a strict rule of 'Only one person out at a time' and some girl left like 10 minutes ago and hadn't come back yet and I was too scared to tell the teacher that it was an emergency.

The teacher had to get a mop to clean it up (yes it was THAT bad, there was a puddle on the chair AND floor), I had to put my pants and underwear in a plastic bag, put on my gym shorts, and call home to have my grandpa pick me up.

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That's awful. For what it's worth I had an extreme fear of public restrooms until I had to get over it in college. I had some close calls.

farting loudly on accident on a movie set.

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I'm gonna need details on this one. I'm begging you.

 

[Bakercat]

I screamed very loudly to my now fiancé in public, "will you be my girlfriend!?" She never lets me live it down.

More serious, I was doing a presentation in my psychology class about sex and I put a few memes in there to lighten up the mood. The jokes fell flat and my professor wrote on my grade it was very inappropriate. I still can't look that professor in the eye lol.

 

[GaijinDensetsu]

I played poker bad at a casino one time and some crusty scag commented on it.

 

[DarthSpider]

I was sick one day in 6th grade and I wanted to stay home but my mom made me go to school. I made it alright through most of the day but I barfed in home ec which was the last period of the day. Another girl barfed in that class because she smelled my barf.

Another time in high school I was at a beach party with some cute girls. We had come in from the water and sat down at a picnic table to eat or whatever. When we got up, there was an incredibly detailed imprint of my ass and balls left on the picnic bench for everyone to laugh at.

 

[Dalek]

My mom asked me to record Dateline on a VHS tape for her. I did so. Later that night I put in a porno VHS.

the next day my mom stopped by my room to talk about something. I said "oh! I forgot to show you this!" I pressed play on the VCR and there were 2 people getting it on. I silently stopped the tape and changed the subject. "So what time did you say you were getting home tonight?"

We've never spoken about it since.

 

[Menx64]

I was rejected twice, and while embarrassing, I remember those moments foundly, since growing up I didn't belive I had the guts to do it.

 

[Deleted member 39374]

I'm gonna need details on this one. I'm begging you.

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A group of us (including some lead cast) were hanging out between scenes on down time, sitting in a circle talking/socializing. It was very intimate- the first couple days of a shoot where everybody is getting to know each other and first impressions are critical if you want to build lasting industry relationships.

I tried to let a fart out quietly but I lost control of my ass and it came out loud and shrill, reverbing against the carpet. And this was during a pause in the conversation. Everybody looked at me and laughed like I was a child.

 

[Reeks]

In 5th grade I walked down the hall between classes and everyone was smiling at me. Just as I realized something was amis, I heard laughing behind me. I didn't know what was going on until the most popular girl, Natalie, came up to me and whispered in my ear, "you should go to the bathroom and check your pants." I rushed past my classmates and when I got the bathroom, I saw a huge blood spot on the back of my beige pants. I had to go to the nurse who gave me huge blue sweat pants to wear. I ended up calling my mom and begging her to come get me from school. What made things worse was it was before anyone else I knew started their peiord.

I think it's funny now but was mortified for years.

 

[MIMIC]

More serious, I was doing a presentation in my psychology class about sex and I put a few memes in there to lighten up the mood. The jokes fell flat and my professor wrote on my grade it was very inappropriate. I still can't look that professor in the eye lol.

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I was there. It was worse than you think.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

One of my friends loudly "joked" about chokeslamming Zach Galifianakis through a table at an Irish pub without realizing who he was talking about roughly five or six years ago, and Zach heard him. I still remember the look on Zach's face as he walked past the table and another one of my friends went "Hey, look who it is!". Zach just went "Yup." and stormed right past us without another word.

Another time, one of my friends babbled for a good 20 minutes straight about wanting to fuck Olivia Wilde when we were drinking at the same bar as her while Jason Sudeikis was about ten feet away from us. I had my head buried in my hands the entire time and just repeatedly chanted "shut up. shut up. shut up. shut up.", but he didn't listen.

Basically, I had some really immature, crappy friends in the past, and I am very glad to be rid of them.

 

[Bakercat]

I was there. It was worse than you think.

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Awesome lol

 

[Jon Carter]

Too many. Some are mistakes I made in my first relationship, others are random, like that time an acquaintance saw me in Las Vegas and said hey, and I thought he was somebody else so I started talking to him in French. Too bad he's Korean. His girlfriend next to him had trouble containing her laughter once she understood I took him for somebody else.

 

[eclipze]

That time I got black out white girl wasted, kicked out of strip club, played by 2 rando chicks who stole my cell and check card after I supposedly took them home whom proceeded to charge over a grand in shit from all over the city. That was a fun night.

 

[gfxtwin]

Public speaking in my advertising classes (i was inherently bad at it, shitty flow, boring voice, ugly, uninteresting, with the charisma of a log), but that's the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Unknown Unknown]

Twenty-one and wasted I pulled the inside doors of an elevator open and got stuck between floors. Took awhile(maybe 40 minutes) to figure out how to get the doors to unlatch and close. It was late at night and building maintenance was closed. Almost called the fire department. My girlfriend and her roommate came looking for me about 10 minutes into the ordeal and tried to break me out with a prybar they borrowed from a neighbour after being unsuccessful with their fingernails. When the doors opened they said I looked bright red. Some of that was from embarrassment but i think it was mostly fear. Fortunately, I didn't develop a phobia. Although, the thought of that night is still with me in the back of my mind and haven't done that with the doors again.
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I had an experience at the casino too. I had just turned 18, had little experience with adult women and was a virgin. It was a Friday night, I was playing blackjack for the first time and had placed my chips incorrectly. The smoking hot 25ish y/o dealer noticed. She looked me in the eye, smiled wryly and said my chips were reversed and that it was probably how I preferred it. Full table and everyone nearby laughed. I nearly ran away. Later, I wondered how she knew.

 

[Stiler]

One of my first was when I was in elementary school in 7th grade. This wasn't a large school at all, In the cafeteria they had like 5 long rows of bench style tables and then right in the middle had like 5 "round" tables with normal seats around them, and then 5 more rows or so of the long bench tables.

My friends and I when we ate lunch we would sit in the middle at one of the round tables. One of my friends was kind of a cut up and would pull all kinds of things in school to get people to laugh. Now one thing I was known for was my laugh, I had a very strange high-pitched sustained laugh when I really got going, whenever I laughed like that it would make other people laugh.

So one day we went to lunch and sat down at our table like any other day, but this time we had a "guest." The principal decided to sit down at our table and have lunch with us. Now the principal wasn't a bad guy, at all, in fact he was a pretty nice guy actually, but he was the principal and still did everything you'd expect (IE punishments).

So while we are eating my friend who likes to joke around starts playing with his food, while the principal is literally right there. He starts making obscene gesters when he's not looking at us and I start cracking up. Before I know it I start laughing and I have my mouth full of milk, which I then proceed to projectile spew right on the principal. My friends start laughing, he has milk coming out his nose, I keep laughing and get really really loud, before you know it EVERYONE starts laughing, I look up and even the principal is laughing. Luckily none of us got in trouble for that, I'm glad he had a sense of humor, though I'm sure he wasn't happy about having milk on his suit.

Another time when I was in my junior year of hs our French class took a field trip to the local museum for a culture day (basically having a bunch of people from all over the world there to share their culture, including France, hence why we went).

The museum itself isn't that big, but it is two stories tall. After we got done upstairs with the presentations we were all going back down the stairwell. There was about 10 people in front of me and about twenty or so behind me. Somehow going down the last row of steps I "missed" one and then proceeded to fall down the stairs, about 10 steps or so total, I just kind of "slid" down them on my stomach and then fell over when I got to the bottom. Everyone started laughing at me, on top of it all my ankle was freaking sore as hell and I basically had to hobble on it all day.

 

[Robin]

One of my first was when I was in elementary school in 7th grade. This wasn't a large school at all, In the cafeteria they had like 5 long rows of bench style tables and then right in the middle had like 5 "round" tables with normal seats around them, and then 5 more rows or so of the long bench tables.

My friends and I when we ate lunch we would sit in the middle at one of the round tables. One of my friends was kind of a cut up and would pull all kinds of things in school to get people to laugh. Now one thing I was known for was my laugh, I had a very strange high-pitched sustained laugh when I really got going, whenever I laughed like that it would make other people laugh.

So one day we went to lunch and sat down at our table like any other day, but this time we had a "guest." The principal decided to sit down at our table and have lunch with us. Now the principal wasn't a bad guy, at all, in fact he was a pretty nice guy actually, but he was the principal and still did everything you'd expect (IE punishments).

So while we are eating my friend who likes to joke around starts playing with his food, while the principal is literally right there. He starts making obscene gesters when he's not looking at us and I start cracking up. Before I know it I start laughing and I have my mouth full of milk, which I then proceed to projectile spew right on the principal. My friends start laughing, he has milk coming out his nose, I keep laughing and get really really loud, before you know it EVERYONE starts laughing, I look up and even the principal is laughing. Luckily none of us got in trouble for that, I'm glad he had a sense of humor, though I'm sure he wasn't happy about having milk on his suit.

Another time when I was in my junior year of hs our French class took a field trip to the local museum for a culture day (basically having a bunch of people from all over the world there to share their culture, including France, hence why we went).

The museum itself isn't that big, but it is two stories tall. After we got done upstairs with the presentations we were all going back down the stairwell. There was about 10 people in front of me and about twenty or so behind me. Somehow going down the last row of steps I "missed" one and then proceeded to fall down the stairs, about 10 steps or so total, I just kind of "slid" down them on my stomach and then fell over when I got to the bottom. Everyone started laughing at me, on top of it all my ankle was freaking sore as hell and I basically had to hobble on it all day.

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That principal story is actually really cute! Also that's a nice gesture of the principal to eat with the students.

 

[Einchy]

Dozing off in high school and letting a massive one rip 'cus for a second there I forgot I was in class.

 

[KarmaCow]

More awkward than embarrassing but when a teacher asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up I said I wanted to blow things up because I had honestly no idea what to say but I had just watched a show about pyrotechnics so it popped into my head.

What made it especially awkward was that this was the week after 9/11.

 

[Witch]

I have a quiet voice, so public speaking is a nightmare for me. My voice gets tired easily, and gets even quieter when I speak for longer than a minute straight. Adding anxiety to that, there's no way anyone not in the front row can hear me. I'm just not meant for public speaking.

So, in university I had a professor make fun of my voice for like, 3 minutes straight DURING my presentation. She even knew I had an exam to get to and I didn't have much time, but she still wanted to go, "Imagine if one day I gave a lecture in this voice," in a mocking quiet voice to make fun of me. And she went on and on.

 

[Stiler]

That principal story is actually really cute! Also that's a nice gesture of the principal to eat with the students.

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Yeah he was my favorite principal of all the schools I went too, was only there for like 3 years or so but never forgot him. He was just one of those rare people that made everyone around him happy, never made the students scared of him or anything like some other principals did.

 

[Jpop]

I screamed very loudly to my now fiancé in public, "will you be my girlfriend!?" She never lets me live it down.

More serious, I was doing a presentation in my psychology class about sex and I put a few memes in there to lighten up the mood. The jokes fell flat and my professor wrote on my grade it was very inappropriate. I still can't look that professor in the eye lol.

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Yeah.. Presentations in academia or in the work word aren't the place for memes. Especially when it comes to sexual subjects.

Hope you learned your lesson.

 

[gfxtwin]

I have a quiet voice, so public speaking is a nightmare for me. My voice gets tired easily, and gets even quieter when I speak for longer than a minute straight. Adding anxiety to that, there's no way anyone not in the front row can hear me. I'm just not meant for public speaking.

So, in university I had a professor make fun of my voice for like, 3 minutes straight DURING my presentation. She even knew I had an exam to get to and I didn't have much time, but she still wanted to go, "Imagine if one day I gave a lecture in this voice," in a mocking quiet voice to make fun of me. And she went on and on.

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Yep, lol. I also have a quiet voice so any time I raise it sounds very weird, almost like I'm agitated or "acting/performing", because it's not at all how I naturally speak or think. Being good at public speaking mostly comes down to personality type, which makes it fucking annoying when someone's like "anyone can be good at it", etc.

 

[Deleted member 22630]

I either repress or forget everything, so yay..

 

[Malverde]

I screamed very loudly to my now fiancé in public, "will you be my girlfriend!?" She never lets me live it down.

More serious, I was doing a presentation in my psychology class about sex and I put a few memes in there to lighten up the mood. The jokes fell flat and my professor wrote on my grade it was very inappropriate. I still can't look that professor in the eye lol.

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Oh man that sounds terrible. Can you post some slides or just describe them? I need to know just how bad it was.

 

[woodcutter]

rolled my foreskin back tight and lied to a girl for 2 months. she still has never been with an uncircumcised man! (in her head)

 

[Bakercat]

Oh man that sounds terrible. Can you post some slides or just describe them? I need to know just how bad it was.

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I don't think I have the slides anymore, but I was discussing something about females chromosomes or something being dominate over males and I put a gif of a girl in a giant vagina costume chasing a guy in a giant penis costume as a joke to represent the dominance. It's been a few years so I don't remember exactly what it was all about lol.

 

[TheCthultist]

So I was working as a cashier at a pharmacy this one time and some guy came up to check out and started making small talk. I recognized his voice but couldn't for the life of me place his face; though it was super clear that he knew me from somewhere. I continued talking trying to be as noncommittal to anything that was said while I tried to figure out where I knew him from. It eventually got to the point where he looked me in the eye and asked, more than a little concerned, if I knew who he was. When I didn't answer right away, he told me he was my uncle. My uncle who I see every couple weeks and have seen every couple weeks since I was a kid. Yet, for whatever reason, if he hadn't said that I never would have realized it and it fucking killed me inside. Found out about a week later that I have some form of Prosopagnosia and legitimately can't differentiate faces and, in many cases, have been identifying people all my life by other characteristics; but if I were to see said people in a context other than what I'm used to, I wouldn't recognize them... I'm less embarrassed now, knowing that it is more or less out of my hands, but at the time I was genuinely freaked out and horribly embarrassed... Also it's made teaching a bit of a nightmare when it comes to placing name's with faces when I run into students outside of school...

Accidently showed my teacher my avatar on this forum lmao

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...Dude...

 

[Deleted member 22630]

I don't think I have the slides anymore, but I was discussing something about females chromosomes or something being dominate over males and I put a gif of a girl in a giant vagina costume chasing a guy in a giant penis costume as a joke to represent the dominance. It's been a few years so I don't remember exactly what it was all about lol.

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That's actually pretty funny.

 

[Witch]

Yep, lol. I also have a quiet voice so any time I raise it sounds very weird, almost like I'm agitated or "acting/performing", because it's not at all how I naturally speak or think. Being good at public speaking mostly comes down to personality type, which makes it fucking annoying when someone's like "anyone can be good at it", etc.

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Yeah, you get me. Teachers and professors would always tell me to raise my voice. Most of the time I physically can't unless I'm angry or really passionate about what I'm talking about. Maybe anyone can be good at it, but it'd take years of vocal training and therapy for anxiety for people like us, lol. As for others, they just have it. My brother is a public speaking master... and then there's me.

 

[Bakercat]

That's actually pretty funny.

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The class and professor didn't think so lol. I just shrugged it off and went about my day. I do stupid shit on a daily basis, so I get those scolding looks from people in public all the time lol.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Stood up to stretch. Stretched my arms real wide, then BAM. Out of nowhere, super loud fart escapes. No prior buildup or warning. I was in the office with all of my co-workers.

Nobody said anything. But I mean, they heard it. They had to.

 

[Chance Hale]

No comment

 

[Deleted member 14377]

I wrote out the lyrics to a 311 song in grade 9 to put it in the locker of my crush. I spent all night up and awake freaking out and didn't do it.

 

[Einchy]

That one time I did an 'evil' laugh as a goof with a friend and he thought I was trying to do a Joker laugh. I'm still haunted by that.

 

[Blairbat]

the most embarrassing moment of my life was caused by a f*&king door, specifically a door inside baskin robins.

To make a long story short, me and my cousin went in to grab some ice cream, but as I tried to open the door to leave it would not open. I must have stood there for about five minutes trying to desperately open the door, and mean while my cousin is in the background repetitively calling my name to get my attention, but I was to busy battling the door to care. So, in one last desperate attempt she yells out my name, and I quickly look back at her only to notice that she had successfully opened the right door. Apparently, the left door (the one I was trying to open) only opened for people coming inside the store, while the right door was the exit. Oops!

The worst thing about this story, is that my mom forced us to go back in to the store when she found out they got her order wrong. It was not a fun experience at all.

Anyways, this happened in southern California in Simi Vally about 7 years ago, and to this day I am still haunted by my stupidity.

 

[smoothj]

My friend told me that his son got a laptop from school and without hesitation I replied "oh yeah, they give them to underprivileged kids that cant afford one" without stopping to think what I was saying and who I was saying it to.

Fuck man that was like 10 years ago and it still haunts me.

 

[honest_ry]

Failed suicide attempts.

 

[Robin]

Over half of these posts are fart related. That's a lot of farts.

My friend told me that his son got a laptop from school and without hesitation I replied "oh yeah, they give them to underprivileged kids that cant afford one" without stopping to think what I was saying and who I was saying it to.

Fuck man that was like 10 years ago and it still haunts me.

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Woof. That reminds me of a time when I was like 12-13 and we were at my Aunt and Uncles and getting ready to leave and for whatever reason I thought it would be charming and funny to say "We'd stay longer but, we don't want to!" My Uncle burst out laughing but my mom screamed at me the whole way home in the car.

Failed suicide attempts.

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I hope you're doing alright now dude! PM me if you ever wanna talk.

 

[Samimista]

In 5th grade I walked down the hall between classes and everyone was smiling at me. Just as I realized something was amis, I heard laughing behind me. I didn't know what was going on until the most popular girl, Natalie, came up to me and whispered in my ear, "you should go to the bathroom and check your pants." I rushed past my classmates and when I got the bathroom, I saw a huge blood spot on the back of my beige pants. I had to go to the nurse who gave me huge blue sweat pants to wear. I ended up calling my mom and begging her to come get me from school. What made things worse was it was before anyone else I knew started their peiord.

I think it's funny now but was mortified for years.

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I started my period at age nine, so I can relate. :(

 

[Palookah]

Every single one of them.

Relived in technicolour mindscape every time I'm feeling slightly off-kilter.

 

[HStallion]

Oh I've got tons from middle and high school and a few from college. Having Asperger's and not being diagnosed till senior year really did a doozy on my social life. I remember being super awkward around girls and actually turned one down that wanted to go on a date because I was so awkward and unable to deal with social interaction like that. It somehow got me branded as not only weird but also gay which in my small town meant I had the plague. Needless to say this was not a good time in my life.

 

[Common Knowledge]

That time the pizza delivery man said, "enjoy your food", and I said, "thanks, you too." Horrible.

 

[Deleted member 16365]

That time the pizza delivery man said, "enjoy your food", and I said, "thanks, you too." Horrible.

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I get burned at the movies all the time with this shit. The dude who tore my ticket isn't going to enjoy any movies, asshole.

 

[DickHams]

That time the pizza delivery man said, "enjoy your food", and I said, "thanks, you too." Horrible.

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Try having a pizza delivery guy recognize you out in public, roll down his window, and ask you if you want a ride home.