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What embarrassing moments still haunt you?
- Thread starter Robin
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Sometimes, to this day, I forget to raise my hand when I have a question in a class and just blurt it out. Usually professors don't mind, I guess because they'd rather have a student who actually cares about learning the material than a student who just falls asleep in class or browsers Reddit/Facebook or whatever. But a couple years ago, one day, a professor went off on me for it. I can't remember what exactly he said, but at one point he yelled "This is MY class, not YOURS, I decide how to lecture and when students ask questions, got it?!". Still embarrassed about it and I always try to have humility wrt questions I ask now.
One time when I was really young (like 11 I think), on a Boy Scouts camping trip, I decided to review every single opening theme to Pokemon there was up until that point while me and a few guys were waiting for the showers. The other guys were kinda nerdy/awkward too but they all told me at multiple points during my rant that they didn't care and I just kept going for some reason. Ridiculously cringey.
For some reason, at one point during Sophomore year of college, I admitted to my roommates that I tried to suck my own dick when I was younger. This isn't even what I'm embarrassed about, but rather the fact that at the time I didn't realize that this would be something that most guys would look at as being a gay act. I partially said it because I wanted to give off the vibe of me being that weird dude with no filter (and they openly talked about sex stuff all the time, so in context it wasn't like inappropriate), but I thought it was weird just because I thought the conceit of someone trying to give themselves a blowjob was silly in a sort of preposterous way, like how flexible someone would have to be to do that. At the time I was a bisexual person who still didn't realize he was bisexual. After I told them the thing about me trying to do it they made some joke about how that's gay and I told them it wasn't. A while later (like, several months, by that point I wasn't really thinking about the dick sucking thing) they occasionally made jokes about the fact that I might be bi. When I realized I was bi I initially wondered how they figured it out before I did, but only recently did I realize how ridiculous I must have sounded as a "straight" guy who tried to suck his own dick.
One time when I was like 9 I tried to sell my uncle the poster of Catwoman that came in Nintendo Power because he said he thought Halle Barry was hot. He just laughed it off. It was just an offhand comment and I'm almost sure no one remembers this but the other day I legitimately couldn't stop thinking about this when I was trying to go to bed. I would also make references to Nintendo Power in conversations frequently, when talking to people who didn't read it when I was a kid. I'm just cringing thinking of this now ugh.
One time when I was just starting to play competitive Melee, I was at a Smashfest and people were talking about the stage Fountain of Dreams ("FoD") and I mistook it for them talking about the stage Final Destination ("FD"). I said several things in reference to FD and no one said anything. I've made a lot of dumb mistakes like this at Melee tournaments when I was new, which mostly just led to me being the quiet guy who looks at his phone in between matches during friendly rotations because I was scared of sounding like an idiot.
One time in Middle School a kid was wearing aBindidot and I asked them how they got it, as if it were a permanent thing on their body. They said that they accidentally stapled themselves there. I obviously now know that this was really insensitive of me and probably contributed to that kid feeling weird for wearing one, and I feel really bad about it.
I have a LOT of moments like these, these are just a few that came to my mind.
One time when I was really young (like 11 I think), on a Boy Scouts camping trip, I decided to review every single opening theme to Pokemon there was up until that point while me and a few guys were waiting for the showers. The other guys were kinda nerdy/awkward too but they all told me at multiple points during my rant that they didn't care and I just kept going for some reason. Ridiculously cringey.
For some reason, at one point during Sophomore year of college, I admitted to my roommates that I tried to suck my own dick when I was younger. This isn't even what I'm embarrassed about, but rather the fact that at the time I didn't realize that this would be something that most guys would look at as being a gay act. I partially said it because I wanted to give off the vibe of me being that weird dude with no filter (and they openly talked about sex stuff all the time, so in context it wasn't like inappropriate), but I thought it was weird just because I thought the conceit of someone trying to give themselves a blowjob was silly in a sort of preposterous way, like how flexible someone would have to be to do that. At the time I was a bisexual person who still didn't realize he was bisexual. After I told them the thing about me trying to do it they made some joke about how that's gay and I told them it wasn't. A while later (like, several months, by that point I wasn't really thinking about the dick sucking thing) they occasionally made jokes about the fact that I might be bi. When I realized I was bi I initially wondered how they figured it out before I did, but only recently did I realize how ridiculous I must have sounded as a "straight" guy who tried to suck his own dick.
One time when I was like 9 I tried to sell my uncle the poster of Catwoman that came in Nintendo Power because he said he thought Halle Barry was hot. He just laughed it off. It was just an offhand comment and I'm almost sure no one remembers this but the other day I legitimately couldn't stop thinking about this when I was trying to go to bed. I would also make references to Nintendo Power in conversations frequently, when talking to people who didn't read it when I was a kid. I'm just cringing thinking of this now ugh.
One time when I was just starting to play competitive Melee, I was at a Smashfest and people were talking about the stage Fountain of Dreams ("FoD") and I mistook it for them talking about the stage Final Destination ("FD"). I said several things in reference to FD and no one said anything. I've made a lot of dumb mistakes like this at Melee tournaments when I was new, which mostly just led to me being the quiet guy who looks at his phone in between matches during friendly rotations because I was scared of sounding like an idiot.
One time in Middle School a kid was wearing aBindidot and I asked them how they got it, as if it were a permanent thing on their body. They said that they accidentally stapled themselves there. I obviously now know that this was really insensitive of me and probably contributed to that kid feeling weird for wearing one, and I feel really bad about it.
I have a LOT of moments like these, these are just a few that came to my mind.
When I was in middle school, at some point we had a substitute teacher for a few weeks and I crushed hard on her. She was young, like 25 top, and yeah she was pretty. I hoped she would notice me somehow.
One day I was sick, and for like five seconds I had the biggest snot you've EVER seen. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was just like this kid from Wind Waker :
It was going up and down as if it was elastic, and I was freaking out. I was looking for a tissue but I didn't have one. And that's when I realized she had stopped talking. I looked up, and she was staring at me, her mouth open like her jaw had dropped. It was the longest second of my life. I had no choice... I wiped the snot with my arm. I was sitting at the back and no one else saw it. The silence lingered for a few more seconds and she resumed her lecture.
I still feel very cold inside when I think about it, just as if it just happened, and it was 17 years ago.
One day I was sick, and for like five seconds I had the biggest snot you've EVER seen. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was just like this kid from Wind Waker :
It was going up and down as if it was elastic, and I was freaking out. I was looking for a tissue but I didn't have one. And that's when I realized she had stopped talking. I looked up, and she was staring at me, her mouth open like her jaw had dropped. It was the longest second of my life. I had no choice... I wiped the snot with my arm. I was sitting at the back and no one else saw it. The silence lingered for a few more seconds and she resumed her lecture.
I still feel very cold inside when I think about it, just as if it just happened, and it was 17 years ago.
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When I was in middle school, at some point we had a substitute teacher for a few weeks and I crushed hard on her. She was young, like 25 top, and yeah she was pretty. I hoped she would notice me somehow.
One day I was sick, and for like five seconds I had the biggest snot you've EVER seen. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was just like this kid from Wind Waker :
It was going up and down as if it was elastic, and I was freaking out. I was looking for a tissue but I didn't have one. And that's when I realized she had stopped talking. I looked up, and she was staring at me, her mouth open like her jaw had dropped. It was the longest second of my life. I had no choice... I wiped the snot with my arm. I was sitting at the back and no one else saw it. The silence lingered for a few more seconds and she resumed her lecture.
I still feel very cold inside when I think about it, just as if it just happened, and it was 17 years ago.
I can actually top this. One time in college at the dining hall someone made me laugh so hard this giant snot came out of my nose and landed in my soda, still hanging out of my nose. I pulled the rest of it out of my nose and into the soda and had to shamefully get up for napkins and a new drink. I remember one of my friends just like, stopped eating and was like "im not hungry anymore". I have the image of the snot floating on the top of the soft drink burned into my head still. Fuck.
Another one I remember that's probably more embarrassing for the other person rather than myself, but I remember waking up and then going into the bathroom only to find a butt plug on the sink (they had been washing it I guess).
That awkward moment when I have to go and tell my family that someone left their butt plug in the bathroom.
Around 1995 I lived in NYC.
My friends from New Jersey would often come visit.
One Friday night while walking through Greenwich Village around 10 deep, already drunk as could be at around 7 PM, we saw the actor Matt Dillon.
So what do I do?
Go right up to him and scream in his face "We're gonna do it for Johnny. WE GOT TO DO IT FOR JOHNNY!!!"
He called me a loser.
One of my friends told him to go fuck himself.
He said fuck you to that friend and something about getting a life.
Next thing I know we are chasing Matt Dillon down the streets of NYC until he finally hopped in a cab.
I am still embarrassed to this day over this. The Outsiders is one of my favorite movies growing up.
I saw plenty of "famous" people in NYC and never did anything like I did on that night.
I should note I eventually stopped drinking completely. To this day that is still the case. I had a bit of an issue and alcoholism runs in my family. Just seemed like a prudent move. This encounter was no doubt one of the highlights of dumb stupid embarrassing shit I did while drunk.
My friends from New Jersey would often come visit.
One Friday night while walking through Greenwich Village around 10 deep, already drunk as could be at around 7 PM, we saw the actor Matt Dillon.
So what do I do?
Go right up to him and scream in his face "We're gonna do it for Johnny. WE GOT TO DO IT FOR JOHNNY!!!"
He called me a loser.
One of my friends told him to go fuck himself.
He said fuck you to that friend and something about getting a life.
Next thing I know we are chasing Matt Dillon down the streets of NYC until he finally hopped in a cab.
I am still embarrassed to this day over this. The Outsiders is one of my favorite movies growing up.
I saw plenty of "famous" people in NYC and never did anything like I did on that night.
I should note I eventually stopped drinking completely. To this day that is still the case. I had a bit of an issue and alcoholism runs in my family. Just seemed like a prudent move. This encounter was no doubt one of the highlights of dumb stupid embarrassing shit I did while drunk.
I had a wardrobe malfunction while performing Hamlet in a middle school play. My pants fell on stage in front of a room full of parents and staff.
Reposting from the cringe thread:
When I was a teen, I was an awkward little shit. Just moved to the country, a bit of a social outcast, no real friends, fat and not exactly a looker. Anyway, being fat I wasn't exactly into sports, so when gym class came along, I never played with the guys, or did so once or twice a month. We have like 8 periods in the month? So yeah, I wasn't the only guy to do so, we usually used it as an excuse to be around the girls in the class, real primo asshole teen material. Anyway, one day I was the only one who decided to play with the girls, wasn't in the mood to be the fat goalkeeper again or go into the gym hall for some ping pong, just wanted to shoot some hoops. The girls encouraged me as well to join them, and I said why the hell not? Had a crush on one of them, so I thought today I might even ask her out during the downtime, when alone with her. Things didn't exactly pan out, but not for the reasons you think so. Nothing at all.
What went down was a boys worst nightmare, but my insane tetosterone fueled mind instead of being embarrassed beyond recognition, I took it in stride. Gym Teacher was off in the teachers lounge having a smoke, the boys where on the other side of the yard, and we where over on the far end kinda isolated. So while playing, the girls decided it would be "fun", again 4-5 girls and 1 guy, to play a no rules full contact game with pushing pulling, the works. Well it only took about a minute or so for the fun to transform into a raging boner for me. Sweatpants and boners are like oil and water, that shit will rise no matter how hard you tried. They started teasing me, saying things like enjoying yourself are you?, wow it looks kinda small that way, or what now that you're losing to us you had to make an excuse to just up and run away? Again, instead of being embarrassed, I was pissed as fuck both at myself but at them for thinking a thing like that would stop me from playing with them. So what did I do? For an entire gym period I played full body contact basketball with 5 girls, raging boner flapping in the wind, as they pressed their selves on me and continued to tease me. Thinking back on it, my current self would be too self aware to take it like I did, I would have probably being asking for forgiveness and locked myself away forever. And again, nothing came from it at all. Didn't date anyone of em, didn't do anything out of the wind with any of the girls in my class, its just so bad overall. Especially when throughout the year, they would still tease me about it, continue to always insist I play with em, or generally corner me during breaks between class and ask me how he's doing. Its a surprise how fucking horny everyone was, and how salty I left behind middle school
When I was a teen, I was an awkward little shit. Just moved to the country, a bit of a social outcast, no real friends, fat and not exactly a looker. Anyway, being fat I wasn't exactly into sports, so when gym class came along, I never played with the guys, or did so once or twice a month. We have like 8 periods in the month? So yeah, I wasn't the only guy to do so, we usually used it as an excuse to be around the girls in the class, real primo asshole teen material. Anyway, one day I was the only one who decided to play with the girls, wasn't in the mood to be the fat goalkeeper again or go into the gym hall for some ping pong, just wanted to shoot some hoops. The girls encouraged me as well to join them, and I said why the hell not? Had a crush on one of them, so I thought today I might even ask her out during the downtime, when alone with her. Things didn't exactly pan out, but not for the reasons you think so. Nothing at all.
What went down was a boys worst nightmare, but my insane tetosterone fueled mind instead of being embarrassed beyond recognition, I took it in stride. Gym Teacher was off in the teachers lounge having a smoke, the boys where on the other side of the yard, and we where over on the far end kinda isolated. So while playing, the girls decided it would be "fun", again 4-5 girls and 1 guy, to play a no rules full contact game with pushing pulling, the works. Well it only took about a minute or so for the fun to transform into a raging boner for me. Sweatpants and boners are like oil and water, that shit will rise no matter how hard you tried. They started teasing me, saying things like enjoying yourself are you?, wow it looks kinda small that way, or what now that you're losing to us you had to make an excuse to just up and run away? Again, instead of being embarrassed, I was pissed as fuck both at myself but at them for thinking a thing like that would stop me from playing with them. So what did I do? For an entire gym period I played full body contact basketball with 5 girls, raging boner flapping in the wind, as they pressed their selves on me and continued to tease me. Thinking back on it, my current self would be too self aware to take it like I did, I would have probably being asking for forgiveness and locked myself away forever. And again, nothing came from it at all. Didn't date anyone of em, didn't do anything out of the wind with any of the girls in my class, its just so bad overall. Especially when throughout the year, they would still tease me about it, continue to always insist I play with em, or generally corner me during breaks between class and ask me how he's doing. Its a surprise how fucking horny everyone was, and how salty I left behind middle school
I was at a funeral last summer and had my phone on silent. But somehow it turned silent off and started making all these GPS voices. I quickly turned it off but for about 5 seconds during the cremation it was making sounds and voices and beeps.
Ironically I felt like dying. Then I fainted outside from the heat. I take that as karma for not just turning my phone off. Lesson fucking learned. I still cringe about it almost daily. Felt really bad for the guy's friends and family there (he was a friend of my dad's, I was just there for emotional support).
Ironically I felt like dying. Then I fainted outside from the heat. I take that as karma for not just turning my phone off. Lesson fucking learned. I still cringe about it almost daily. Felt really bad for the guy's friends and family there (he was a friend of my dad's, I was just there for emotional support).
Years ago I went a little too far with the mom jokes on one my friends. He warned me but I just had to open my mouth again. He punched me on the arm and then on my back a couple times as I ducked my head and covered up with my arms. I didn't fight back because well, we were friends and I definitely asked for it.
I guess I looked hilarious covering my head. That became known as "the fetal position" and I still get bagged on about it to this day.
I guess I looked hilarious covering my head. That became known as "the fetal position" and I still get bagged on about it to this day.
Two urn related posts in the same minute huh...
I had a moment yesterday that'll haunt me for awhile. Decided to check out Animal Kingdom in Orlando. Made a bee- line for a ride called Flight of Passage. At the start of the line, they have a replica of the "seat" for folks to try before potentially wasting their time in line. I tried the replica and the Disney person said the calf restraint was borderline but the actual seats are more forgiving. So I stand in line for over 2 hours, get decontaminated, get assigned an Avatar, go to sit in the little Seat thing and the fucking calf things won't fully extend. A person comes over and checks everything. She says the back is fine but she needs me to push my legs in as much as possible and get on my toes. I do it but no luck. She pushes a smidge, but it won't lock.
I have large legs/calves and I just couldn't shove my body in any further.. I was forcing so hard I thought I might pop the top off the "seat."
I was told i need to leave the ride.. all very visible/audible and had to make the walk of shame past 15 other riders and down about a half mile of empty hallway. The long path out should be called the "hallway of contemplation."
I got 2 fast passes out of it which I promptly used on Dinosaur and Everest, but holy ass was it embarrassing.
I have large legs/calves and I just couldn't shove my body in any further.. I was forcing so hard I thought I might pop the top off the "seat."
I was told i need to leave the ride.. all very visible/audible and had to make the walk of shame past 15 other riders and down about a half mile of empty hallway. The long path out should be called the "hallway of contemplation."
I got 2 fast passes out of it which I promptly used on Dinosaur and Everest, but holy ass was it embarrassing.
When my ex lied about her age oof.
I still feel like its my fault.
My best friend keeps jokin about it xd
But believe me i aint let that ever happen again. I might joke about it but it was a sucky situation and insanely embarrasing.
Well atlesst the jokes will make sure i wont be fooled next time.
Also in college a male teacher was into me that stuff was so creepy and embarassing that i was like ehm the whole time when he gave me compliments and A+s for my english tests.
These 2 probably haunt me the most especially the first cuz my brain likes to make me dream and have nightmares about said ex i guess thats my bad karma being paid for. Like how was i so stupid to fall for such a thing.
I still feel like its my fault.
My best friend keeps jokin about it xd
But believe me i aint let that ever happen again. I might joke about it but it was a sucky situation and insanely embarrasing.
Well atlesst the jokes will make sure i wont be fooled next time.
Also in college a male teacher was into me that stuff was so creepy and embarassing that i was like ehm the whole time when he gave me compliments and A+s for my english tests.
These 2 probably haunt me the most especially the first cuz my brain likes to make me dream and have nightmares about said ex i guess thats my bad karma being paid for. Like how was i so stupid to fall for such a thing.
I'll probably never get over the time in my Latin American Studies course in college, I misspoke and accidentally made myself look like a horrible racist in front of the class during the final speech of the class (I'm a white dude, so worst case scenario here). Speeches, as per with most people I'd assume, make me extremely nervous. I was sweating and stuttering over my words as is and already felt like a fool, but I got to a part of my speech where I was presenting two comparing polling results (can't remember the specific details on why), one data point being a specifically chosen majority of Latin Americans to be polled, and the other data point was essentially anyone and everyone. My notes said "a normal polling group" for the other data point so I ended up saying in front of a class of a majority of Latin American students "As you can see, this data point polled a majority of Latin American's and received these results, this poll was normal people."
I froze and realized what I said, some girl in the audience stood up and called out how shitty that sentence was, and the teacher had to escort me out because I sort of stopped functioning and couldn't coherently finish my speech. Thank god that was my final day in the class and I never had to go back again, but christ I still think back on it 6 years later and want to die when I do.
I froze and realized what I said, some girl in the audience stood up and called out how shitty that sentence was, and the teacher had to escort me out because I sort of stopped functioning and couldn't coherently finish my speech. Thank god that was my final day in the class and I never had to go back again, but christ I still think back on it 6 years later and want to die when I do.
Soooo many...
-Was playing Street Fighter II at the arcade when someone pantsed me from behind. Thankfully, they didn't grab my underwear
-In my first year of college, a 30-year-old woman from my class whom I got to know invited me to her place. She was married but talked about how her husband was cool with her having sex with other guys. Showed me her kitchen table and said she'd done it there, put her hand on my leg, and I felt suuuuuper uncomfortable. Can't believe how dense I was and didn't know what was going on, as no one had ever come on to me like that before. Could've had a sex teacher in college, but missed out due to being an awkward idiot :p
-Mom caught me doing #3 in the bathroom when I was 13 or 14. Most embarrassing shit ever
-Was playing Street Fighter II at the arcade when someone pantsed me from behind. Thankfully, they didn't grab my underwear
-In my first year of college, a 30-year-old woman from my class whom I got to know invited me to her place. She was married but talked about how her husband was cool with her having sex with other guys. Showed me her kitchen table and said she'd done it there, put her hand on my leg, and I felt suuuuuper uncomfortable. Can't believe how dense I was and didn't know what was going on, as no one had ever come on to me like that before. Could've had a sex teacher in college, but missed out due to being an awkward idiot :p
-Mom caught me doing #3 in the bathroom when I was 13 or 14. Most embarrassing shit ever