How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In which Hank wonders at some stories of his own humiliation, and why he feels it sometimes, but not other times. The trick is finding people and places that support you in being you so that you are comfortable feeling right even after finding out you are wrong.
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OK, I'll go first. About a month ago I was out dancing and the bar was closing and there was a huge crowd outside of the club. Katherine and I were pushing through the club and I was like "Scuse me, pardon me, I'm old and need to get home to my dog and cat" and then this guy was like "HEY! You're awesome." and I was like "OH! Do you watch SciShow or Vlogbrothers or Crash Course?" and he was like "Uhh...I just mean for getting from over there to over here...." and I was like "......." and then I ran away as fast as I could.
Nothing is more embarrassing than watching a video you made 5 years ago. At least that's what I thought. Then my relatives wanted to see them.
**internal screaming**
I was in a really underground bookstore with an older woman (who is an English teacher and even worked for a newspaper). I noticed "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" and read the title aloud to her but pronounced it as Ti-be-shin... like how you'd say Venetian. I will never forget her face when she heard me butcher a simple word like Tibetan, and it has haunted me for months lol
could it be that we're not directly watching you so it doesn't process anybody heard you say the word wrong
This isn't my most embarrassing moment. (I'm not sure what is but anyway) looking at old art! I was like "wow I'm so great. Look at these great drawings of animals. Yes". *drawing actually looks like potato*
A guy came towards me in the street and held his hand up in a high fivey way so I gave him a high five he kept moving forward but lowered his hand to the height of his five year old daughter who happened to be standing a few steps behind me and gave here the proper high five.
I texted the girl I liked for several hours, flirting really romantically. Found out the next day I was texting her brother.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAA
😨
That's gay my dude
Hahaha, this one is great!
Gay
Embarrassing moments huh?
Let me think...
There was the time I snuck up behind a friend, wrapped my hands around their eyes and went "guess who!" only for them to turn around and not be my friend but a complete stranger.
Or the time I pronounced fatigue "fat-e-gew" for 18 years of my life and when my mum heard me say it she almost crashed the car laughing.
Or the time I asked my friends why Sir Gourney Weaver was a sir and not a dame (after they finished laughing they kindly informed me that Sigourney was her first name).
Or the time my friend and I were shopping for mini badges to put on our school bags and I saw one that I thought was just a funny use of the word beaver, so I walked around with a "take me to your beaver" badge on my school bag for 3 years.
Or the time I lost my footing walking to class and to stop myself from falling backwards I charged forward but there were people everywhere so I screamed "GET OUT OF THE WAY" and steamrollered up the path with people diving and scattering to avoid me.
Or the time I thought the boy I liked was waving at me so I waved back and got distracted and walked into a pole and in my reaction to walking into a pole I fell down some stairs (he was waving at the person behind me).
Or the time I was in a fitting room for 15 minutes because I got stuck in the dress I was trying on, and the sales assistant kept trying to come in to check if I was ok, and I eventually struggled out of it only to realise I'd been trying on a jumpsuit and had got stuck in one of the legs...
And these are just the stories that come to mind straight away. I have a lot more.
I hope my existence makes you all feel like you're doing ok as humans.
I'M LAUGHING SO HARD AT THE JUMPSUIT ONE
Sir Gourney Weaver is the best. I love that omg.
Woah!
Wow, that did make me feel better! ;)
Also, all the pronounciation blunders I've seen make me especially glad that my native language is easy to speak and write. Words are pronounced exactly as they are written and vice versa. This has made me very cautious with English and I find myself constantly using the listen-feature of Google translator to check how a word is supposed to be pronounced.
These are amazing thank you. Just picturing you screaming "get out of the way" made me giggle. Sounds like something I would do
OK...I broke my foot trying to tie my shoes...and I am, by profession, a physical therapist.
+Gregory P how did you manage that?
SomeoneBeginingWithI I was in a hurry to get dressed to go out to the ballet (!!!), and I tried to tie one of my dress shoes while standing on the other foot. I lost my balance, came down hard on the right side of my foot... CRRRRACKKK! Two months in a cast, couldn't put any weight on it until it came off.
+Gregory P i think this is the best one ive read on here
one of the best 😂 love this sharing here. Best sharing page in youtube so far. It’s a phenomenon
So i was sitting in bio class when i was about 14 yrs old and the teacher was talking about the human anatomy, and in particular the veins. So he then proceeds to ask the class "Does anybody know what the large vein next to the aorta is called" so hilarious 14-year-old me jumped up out of my seat and blurted out "It's called the B-orta!". A complete dead, painful and awkward silence followed while I laughed as hard as I could at my own joke. When I realized no one was laughing I just stood there frozen by embarrassment while everybody was looking at me like they just saw a ghost. I slowly lowered myself back into my seat while everybody, including the teacher, stared at me.
I never answered another question in that class that year.
That is actually a great joke. I would have laughed if I'd been there. ;)
LoL That is hilarious!
dude that's fucking hilarious you killed that and they were all wrong
😂😂 omg.. that was funny. But I understand the situation. Horrible people
Omg that happened to me 😅 After 11 years later of schooling I did that again 😒 and 2 final years in school I was scared to speak
I decided to announce in front of a class of about 30 kids that ducks cannot fly. I for some reason had them mistaken in my mind with chickens but you know whatever
Lmao
+Ashley Ford Maybe you were thinking of penguins or ostriches? lolol
But chickens can fly
There's nothing funnier than this person talking about he once made a mistake, and in the same sentence make the same mistake without noticing
chickens can fly a bit too (I'm a chicken owner btw)
A few months ago I went to the movies with a friend and the place where you buy tickets is outside the theater. The movie ticket was $11 so I handed over a ten and then a one. Except it was windy. So the one dollar bill flew away. So of course I chased it. In heels. While people pointed and laughed. I ran across the entire parking lot, which was very large, like five or six storefronts wide. And then I ran all the way back to the highly un-amused employee who was waiting for me. And then she asked if I had a rewards card, which I did. Which gave me a discount... of one dollar.
This is amazing. If it makes you feel any better the employee probably forgot about this shortly after.
unquestionablelogic Honestly if I'm going to unintentionally be people's entertainment I hope they remember it and use it as an anecdote at parties. Then it was worth it.
This is wonderful, I wish I had such a beautifully embarrassing story!
This is so beautifully perfect. Thank you for sharing. You are awesome.
This is hilarious :D
I showed up about an hour and thirty minutes early to my first day of my psychology class a few years ago. I was the first student to arrive, so I took a seat in the front row of the classroom. I had been waiting at least 45 minutes for someone to show up but still nobody had come in yet. It was just me sitting in there by myself. So to pass the time, I figured I would listen to some music. I was listening to the song Justin Timberlake made for SNL called "Dick in a Box", and because I had been waiting in there by myself for so long, I kept replaying the song. By the third time that I replayed the song, I had actually begun to sing along a little bit. Normally when I sing a song, I sing in a silly voice so it doesn't look like I take myself too seriously. But because I actually like the song and find it catchy, I was singing along quite passionately. I was using some really good headphones that day too, so I couldn't hear anything but the song. Due to the fact that I was sitting in the very front of the room and the entrance to the class was in the very back of the room, I had failed to notice that the room was steadily filling up with students behind me while I was passionately singing along to a song about presenting my genitals in a box. It was only until someone sat in the desk next to me that I had realized the error of my ways. After my classmate sat next to me, I immediately panicked. I knew she had to have heard my loud singing. But she said nothing. Then I turned around to find a room completely full of my new classmates behind me. Some of them were laughing, some of them stared in confusion and slight disbelief. Needless to say, I had made the most priceless first impression ever.
90s kid lol 😂 this is the best story
aw haha
Jesus this makes me feel slightly better
This is impossible 😂
LMAOOOO
I moved around A LOT as a child. I went to something like 40+ elementary schools. In 2nd grade I threw up on the little boy who sat next to me.
Fast forward a couple decades, I was telling my husband that story. You know what he said? "Some new girl threw up on me in 2nd grade. What school were you in then?" ...It was me. I threw up on him in 2nd grade. The first time I ever met my future husband, I threw up on him, then moved out of the school, and didn't see him again til senior year in high school.
That is strangely adorable.
That story is actually pretty damn awesome.
This is pretty much the best story I've ever heard.
This is literally the greatest romance story of all time. Please someone make a book and/or movie on this.
1. Slow clap for best 1st meeting story ever. 2. We need one of there Green brothers to send both of them free merch!
You know what's helped me so much? I forgive people their little flubs. Every time someone is embarrassed, I remember that it could have been me; if anyone says anything, I'll defend them. It makes it easy to have faith that someone might be sympathetic when it's my turn to make a mistake. Even if that's illogical, it's like Hank said about confidence: If you can handle making mistakes, you'll seem a lot cooler. All you've got to do is break the cycle.
woodfur00 That's a cool sentiment, and you have a neat profile picture.
where have u been in all my life?
I need someone like you tbh
this comforts me after embarrasing myself in my class gc. thank youu💗
This actually helped me not feel embarrassed about my mistakes. Thanks!
I know a guy who broke his rib sneezing
😂😂 this made my day) ty)
My sister's friend almost killed someone by farting.
+Natalie Speil
That's it? Where's the story? Sounds like it would be a good one.
***** So my sister's friend once farted in an elevator. When the other person walked in, the smell was so bad that they threw up. Then they slipped on their vomit and hit their head, which gave the person a concussion.
+Clara Jane I pulled a muscle coughing a few weeks ago.
My dad was in church. He got up to go to the bathroom, and then came and sat down and held my mom's hand or so he thought. Turns out he had sat in the wrong pew and was holding the hand of an entirely different woman altogether.Funny thing is, she never said anything, so he didn't even notice until the end of service, and meanwhile my mom was like, "Where the hell has Stuart disappeared to?" When he told her, my mom thought it was hysterically funny, so did I!
Maybe the woman was lonely and he was a blessing to her.
😂😂
When I was in the 6th grade we wrote our first real essay. It was typed and checked many times and the final was perfect. The teacher had told us to double space the entire essay, which I thought was a bit extreme, but I did it nonetheless. When I got my paper back it wasn't graded it just said "See me!" In bright red pen. So during lunch I asked the teacher what I did wrong. She told me that I needed to double space the essay. I knew SHE must be mistaken because I had spent hours double spacing that essay. She later informed me, after an entire recess of arguing with her, that double spacing an essay did not mean hitting the space bar twice between each word. That was the day I learned that even if you double space something, it's really not double spaced at all.
Alexandra Riva What is double spacing?
@@godspoopychild8287 I believe it refers to the space between the lines. In the US (and probably in some other countries too), among the requirements regarding the formatting of essays is 2.0 spacing between the lines.
I thought the same thing, fortunately, after typing a few words, I was thinking to my self this doesn't make sense and looked it up
I thought the exact same thing!
I once tackled a complete stranger at a theme park. I was getting off a roller coaster and saw my brother, so I thought it might be funny to jump on his back.
Not my brother.
I have never run so fast in my life.
I am laughing so hard! Ah, I'm sorry but that is hysterical
angelswave88
At least my misfortune can bring others amusement. xD
Yeah, that's a great story well told. Love those succinct punch lines that hit you in the face and leave you giggling for hours.
When my cousin was little she did a very similar thing at Disneyworld. She thought this guy was her dad and went up behind him and smacked him REALLY hard on the butt. Wasn't her dad. Man, did that guy jump HIGH.
PompTheMoose
Haha, that's hilarious!
Unfortunately I was 18 when this happened to me.
I was called on by the teacher to read from the textbook in science class, and since I get nervous and stutter when I read aloud, I said "orgasm" instead "organism". The mortification was palpable.
I almost did that once but wasn't embarrassed in the slightest. I said, "orgas-" paused, caught myself, and finished, "-nism."
I did the same thing but reversed. I would see the word orgasm (I was 12) and read it as organism so I was so confused for at least 3 years until someone read it aloud
I'VE DONE THAT EXACT SAME THING!!! *cries happily* I'm not alone....
My friendl did that too. But I saved her by finishing her word. Thankfully. The Class still laughed tho
I literally did this while talking to MY MOM.
My name is Matthew. I spelled it Mathew. For eighteen years.
How???
My cousin's name is Matthew and my brother's name is Michael, I've been writing both of these name pretty much my whole life, I still have to say Matt Hew when I wright it and still go letter by letter for my brother's name and my own (Elizabeth), also I still have to say wed-nes-day in order to write Wednesday
I keep thinking the difference is matt and then hew..
Matt Hollingsworth You spelled it in a slightly more french way.
Hahaha that was nice 🤣
I accidentally forgot to delete something I wrote when I was angrily writing a speech at 3 am -- the words being "shove this up my ass"
I accidentally read it to my apush class, forgetting I added that, and someone pissed themselves
Paige LeComer lol
I’m literally sobbing I audibly started hollering out loud thank you person who wrote this 6 years ago
Not literally I hope?
😂😂😂😂
Sorry but.. This is the funniest 😂😂
i get embarrased over literally the smallest things and it has to stop
Me too 😭😭😭
I was teaching a class of young kids and told them narwhals were make-believe. I compared them with unicorns, and gently corrected the kids who said they were real. Then told my fellow teacher how cute it was that the kids thought narwhals were real, and got corrected myself. Oh my god.
I have...so many questions
How did you first learn about narwals? And what was the lesson you were teaching that narwhals came up?
😂😂😂 there is legit footage of them this is so funny. In an adorable way ofc.
This is so helpful for me. I have anxiety and think that being embarrassed is the worst thing in the world. But it's all part of being human!
When I was an exchange student in Sweden I made it into the school musical. Of course I'm in Sweden so the musical will all be in Swedish, obvisously. I was happy staying in the background just trying to get the songs right and overall it was such a great experience. Although, I did get one line in the musical where I ran out and yelled "SAVE HER!" in Swedish which is "reda henne" but at every rehearsal I would forget it and my friends would constantly have to remind me. Mind you at this point I was fluent in Swedish and I didn't understand why I kept forgetting this simple phrase. Opening night of the musical everything was going swell and then it gets to my part. I realized I was on the wrong side of the stage and my friends were on the other side. I had to go now so I ran out onto the stage with my game face on and yelled "ROKA HENNE!" Roka means "to shave" in Swedish. So I ran out during a very dramatic scene and yelled "SHAVE HER" in front of 300 Swedish people. It doesn't stop there sadly. I didn't know "Roka" meant "to shave" so I stayed true to my role and didn't break character because I thought I said the correct phrase. So I kept yelling my line with bold intensity! Then when I went off stage and my friends just stared at me like I'd just killed someone. Then they proceeded to tell me what "Roka" meant and that I was yelling shave her shave her! on stage. I was mortified, I felt so stupid. At curtain call when we gave our director flowers the first thing he said when he got the microphone was "Haha as you might have noticed we do have an American exchange student with us." THAT WAS JUST THE CHERRY ON THE TOP! Haha but now I'm able to laugh at it but at the time I was extremely embarrassed and just wanted to hide.
GraceanneParks hahahah that was hilarious 🤣 I’m from Sweden and it’s Raka not Roka but I understand what u mean 🤣😂
Omg. What an experience. Gives me hope
I NEVER LAUGHED THIS HARD READING A RUclips COMMENT
That's quite hilarious. Save is actually rädda and shave is raka, though.
I almost choked laughing at your comment, but I was having my lunch and accidentally flipped my plate when laughing.
In which ***** wonders at some stories of his own humiliation, and why he feels it sometimes, but not other times. The trick is finding people and places that support you in being you so that you are comfortable feeling right even after finding out you are wrong.
This is some really great advice as always Hank! I really needed this advice today, so thank you 😊
Once someone was saying goodbye to me and they put their hand up to wave but i misinterpreted the sign and high fived then! I was so embarrassed I just walked away!
I went once went to an anime convention last year on the last day because my sister's favorite celebrity concert was on the first two days and I didn't bother to check if the convention was on the same time(*also found this out the day after refunds expired). I was late and the people in the badge booth already left so I couldn't check in with my pass/registration, and I proceeded to cry in the bathroom stall of how grumpy my sister was for waking up late to drive to the convention after the concert. Lucky some people helped me out of the stall and let me in even after badge booth was closed even though I already brought my registration.
*Lesson of anime convention go-ers : PLAN AHEAD AND CHECK DATES!!!
hank i speek latin you do not know how many times i have miss pronounced ablative i say it like theres ai where the second a is any way i just decided this worrying about is only going to lead to youre face and either the floor, someones fist, a wall, or the table connecting very quickly and very painfully but it is important we learn but its in the past unless you have a time machine dont worry youle be fine **says abalitive wrong then a brick flys through the window and its me in the face** also hank some times even if you dont worry about it pain will still follow so just remember these words " when pronouncing wrong DUCK!"
Grabbing a stranger's face and almost stabbing them with a fork while wearing a blindfold. Don't ask why...
The best reply to the video that I can come up with is that if someone is pronouncing a word wrong that means that they read it, and that they read. Nothing to be ashamed of for learning from reading.
+Cassandra Loynd (Cal) This comment made my day. Pretty much. I have slight hearing problems, so it's sometimes difficult for me to pick up on the right pronunciations. So, a good bit of my pronunciation comes from having read them, rather than hearing them.
I used to confuse the words esophagus and urethra when I was younger...and I would occasionally say that I have a something stuck in my urethra. Sounds pleasant, doesn't it? XD
Lmaooooo wow
I said it as as-phag-uss when I was younger xD. Most people thought I was saying asparagus ;3
Yeah I’ve had kidney stones too
IM DYING 😂😂😂
At the end of my second year of university, I had an exam that I was studying late into the night for. I had multiple exams lined up on consecutive days and it made studying difficult. After finishing all the studying I could manage, I tried to go to bed, but of course, the stress of whether the exam would go well kept me awake for quite a while longer. I don't remember when I got to sleep, but I remember when I woke up. I woke up at 10:50am. My exam was at 9am. It was legitimately a nightmare come true, and the whole time I was running to the exam building I was wondering if it really was a dream. But it wasn't. Knowing it was too late to start the exam, I decided to find my professor. When I did, I broke down in sobs trying to tell her what happened. This was a French class, and the professor's English actually wasn't fantastic, but in my mindset I could not muster the brain energy to explain in my second language, let alone muster a lot of coherence in my native English. But luckily, she was very forgiving, and said that I was a good student, and she let me write the exam later that day by myself. After meeting with her, I went into the bathroom and sobbed for a little while.
Yeah. I carry that with me. I haven't told my parents or my friends that this happened. Just my professor and I know. Thank goodness. My prof is an angel, by the way.
:)
I'm so glad there was a happy ending to that! I has a similar experience to the SAT, thankfully it wasn't a, "get there or never take it again" kind of thing.
I actually have lived through the nightmare of walking into a class to realize that there was an exam that day. It was a hectic semester overall, I had been really busy the week before, and since the professor posted the notes online, I was planning on catching up that weekend (it was a Friday). I ended up getting a 25% on that exam and having to drop the class.
WOW! That is a pretty amazing story!!
You're awesome. Good job on not giving up and using a little bit of probably-genuine tears!
in school I had to give a speech on something we were interested in, I did mine of greek mythology. I mentioned the story of Sisyphus... But for the whole thing, I called him Syphilis...
in my school, i had to give a speech i was prepared for and during the speech, i forgot the starting sentences and i stuttered a lot...
😢me too @@sauceontoes3457
10 years ago I was telling a joke before about 50 people. It was like whole 2 minutes long and had pretty much no punchline. No one laughed, everyone just stared at me, and even those who weren't listening at all looked at me wondering why everyone's so silent all of a sudden.
This comment doesn't have a punchline either. This is embarrassing.
I understand you so well! I'm really bad at telling jokes, even if they do have a punchline...
Ahh same here, then I'd laugh and awkwardly stop when I notice no one else is laughing :/
Right, or I'd say something like "you may not realize it now but it's actually quite funny" ...
Hang on, is the joke without the punchline the one about the guy who takes a girl to prom?
oneeyedhusky My brother tried to tell that joke and forgot the word 'punch'.
Imagine an assembly with 70 people in the gym (the whole tiny school from a rule town that most people know each other). And a lady announces an award not so clearly and a random ass kid stands up thinking it is his, so he walks up to the stand to receive the award and the teacher has the most confusing face and says it's not for him In front of the well known crowd of students and teachers. So that kid walks to the other end of the gym and sits down with no award and the whole room is silent.....
I am still cringing about that moment still😖😖😖😖😖😖😖
How bad was that do you think😳😳😳😳😳😳
OMG that sound horribly embaresing.
Thank you for sharing. I'm 52 and still do dumb things that make me cringe, just did one today. I think it keeps me humble.
Do you mean to say the school was from a "rural" town?
Troy Petryk That happened to my friend in grade 5 and I was watching as they went up to recieve the reward but the girl behind her had a really similar name and the girl though she wasn't meant to get the award so she walked back down. So my friend tried to grab the award but the teacher was giving her a weird look and when she finally took it she walked back and read that it wasn't her and she had to walk all the way to the front again to return it.This other girl was so confused (she was really popular so people didn't laugh at her)
Last summer, I was working as a lifeguard at a water park. My birthday is in July and what they did at work on your birthday is write your name on the white board so everyone knows it's your birthday. It was pretty busy on my birthday, and I was assigned to the lazy river. I was walking along the rim of the river from one spot in the rotation to another. One of my friends (also a lifeguad) yells "Happy Birthday" at me from his spot across the river. I looked over at him and was about thank him when my foot missed the rim entirely and goes into the water. I fall with the left side of my body on my hands and knees on solid ground and the right side of my body in the water. My water bottle also fell in the water and started floating down the river. Some guy in the river swam it back to me. He hands it to me and awkwardly goes "uhhh...happy birthday..."
Happy Birthday!
*Trips and falls on face* aw man, not again...
It's been 15 years I think, but I still remember it in horrific, humiliating detail. We were doing an obstacle course in gym class, I was about ten, and I was running behind my huge crush, the cutest boy in my year. Being so near to him, I obviously wanted to be super cool and effortless, which of course led me to being completely inattentive. So all of a sudden, while I'm climbing up over the top of one of the obstacles, I lose my balance - I feel myself going backwards, and flailing in my panic, I reach out for anything near me to stop my fall - that turned out to be my crush, or more precisely his gym shorts. Before I knew what was going on, I'd pulled his pants down, and he was shrieking, so loudly that everyone heard it, "She's raping me! She's raping me!"
Yeah. Imagine the nicknames for me afterwards. It was not pretty.
oh my god
I'm so sorry
zekelyness thanks. I'm good now though, they did let me forget it eventually, and the nick names for me turned into more along the lines of 'nerd' rather than 'rapist', infinitely more preferable.
stupid things like this make life awesome
Literally would of ran as far away from there, into the woods, dug a deep hole, buried myself 50 feet under and died. I'm so sorry
one time my church pastor was like "its not to late to get baptized! if you still wanna go to the back we gotcha!" and I wasnt paying attention and i saw a friend standing in the back that i hadnt seen in a while so i walked to go say hi to this friend aND EVERYBODY STARTED CLAPPING FOR ME AND I HAD TO BE LIKE NO NONONNON NO i was just saying hello you can chill dont look at me. OH LORDY IT WAS HORRIBLE
This sounds like a comedy sketch haha
Alex Veselak *TWO YEARS LATE* but I have always had that fear during that portion of church like "WHAT IF I NEED TO PEE" would I just disappoint the pastor or get everyone excited oooooor
Hilarious omg ...deathly afraid of this
😂😂
😂😂😂ohh mehn
My favorite embarrassing story:
When I was about 6, maybe 7, a friendly little dog with curly white fur (very cute) would sometimes visit our street from one street over. Its name was Muffin. I played with it while my sister went inside to get our dog's leash, so we could walk it back to its owner. While she did that, my friends came out and were a little afraid of the dog, being that they didn't know how friendly it was. So, doing my best to help show how friendly it was, I picked it up and said, "See? He's really nice".
And it bit my face.
Six stitches on a little scar I've still got just left of my nose, and three more above my lip. This happened the week before a family car trip to Canada, so it was a huge inconvenience for my parents. There was sticky pink antibiotic syrup because I refused to swallow pills, so my parents are officially saints for not strangling me on that trip.
Morals of the story:
1. Check your sources before you cite them.
2. Real life irony is so much more awesome than the stuff in movies.
3. You're probably not as smart as you think you are.
Omg I'm so sorry. But that was crazy
im so sorry i hope youre fine now
That’s awful!! But I will admit I burst out in laughter reading the first half 😅
I had a dog named muffin, she was put down because of an infection
Oh god. Here goes:
I've suffered from PCOS(Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) for several years. This means that I will sometimes go for months without a period, and then run into a brick wall...of blood. A couple years ago, I had one of those moments. I got up from my chair in English class, and then I felt everything. Within moments my pants were soaked. I tried the old tie-the-jacket-around the-waist trick, but it was running all the way down my legs. I walked all the way across the school to the nurses office looking like a stabbing victim. Then I had to talk to the nurse and wait for my parents to pick me up. Oh god. It hurts to think about it.
The worst thing is that it could easily happen again and I have no way to predict it. I've tried everything, so please no medical advice.
Thank you, this makes me feel much better about all of my awkward teenager boners in high school.
well, i never thought i'd share this, but for the sake of solidarity...
i was raised by my father, who would probably rather eat poisonous lizards than talk about lady parts. so, when i was 13 and i got mine, i figured it was just like any other bodily function: i could just do my business on the toilet and go on with my day. it seems strange that no one in my family thought to explain tampons. long story short, it ended up falling upon the school nurse. D-X yeesh, I don't even like to think about it!
I cant believe I am about to tell this on the internet, I was 13, in youth group and feeling a little cramp-y. I had not ever had my period before, but my grandmother told me "it will feel like you have wet yourself." We were in the middle of my youth pastor giving a sermon and, it felt like I wet myself. I looked down and my pants were red. I ran off to the bathroom. When the sermon was over we would all always get into maybe 5 or so little groups and discuss, I went up to the one my pastors wife was in and said "Um, I just started my period for the first time, what do I do?" In which, every female in the group, all stood up, and started running around to each group asking if anyone had a pad. I ran back off to the bathroom, where my best friend and eventually my pastors wife, came to give me a pad. SO, basically, my ENTIRE YOUTH GROUP was aware when I first started my period.
So, in 1999, I was a middle-aged military woman in Kuwait, wearing a light colored uniform (desert camouflage), working 12 hour shifts. I was driving a very large forklift, moving around explosives (my Air Force job was Munitions Maintenance) in an area that had been bombed 10 years before, so there were no bathrooms available, just a port-a-potty. It was VERY hot there, about 110 degrees F, and so we all drank a lot of water, every chance we got ... we never felt sweaty because the sweat evaporated almost instantly. So, some 6 hours into the day, we stopped for a lunch break, and went back to the main munitions area, where a senior noncommissioned officer walked up to me and, obviously very embarrassed, told me that my pants were stained and I should probably go rinse them out. I ended up walking about a mile to the only place there was any running water, went into the bathroom there, and sound the whole back of my pants was stained with dried blood, down as far as my knees. The 5 men I was working with hadn't let me know. :( I had no way to stop other people (who would be 99% male) from coming into the bathroom as I stood there in my still wet underwear and uniform top, rinsing out the pants. I was lucky that no one came in, but I was sure worried about it. In my time left there, no one ever said a word about it.
It's been nearly 20 years and I still cringe when I think about it, and worry that it's the source of amusement to some of the people I worked with.
Am 41 and ofcourse here cz of a cringe moment at work ( was scrollin my ph durin work meeting,dint realise my camera was on.I was dressed proper but wasnt payin attention to the meeting)
I am not very articulate so pardon me if this comes out wrong.I do feel for all the women on the thread here.I have gone through ' bleeding on a white skirt' day at school.I am over it but even at 41 I am sure I would be embarassed if it were to happen to me.I would like to think men at this age or men in the services would be better ? More mature and not smirk/chuckle at such moments of ours.Don't know
I gave a book report about Looking for Alaska in my english class in 9th grade and pronounced COLONEL like it's spelled and not like kernel.. people still bring it up to me hahaha
In many other languages colonel is actually pronounced exactly as written.
I actually do that all the time. To be honest, I think we should just redefine its pronunciation because it would be easier to say and easier to spell!
Did the same thing during a high school play read-through. Haha
Even though I know it's 'kernel', I still say 'colonel' to myself when reading and it shall inevitably slip out in actual conversation one day. :P
Dude...I always say colonel..... :o
OH I have a few good ones! The first I can remember is when I was around 13 when skinny jeans were just becoming like mainstream. Since I had never worn a pair I thought the whole point was to go a few sizes smaller than you actually were to make yourself look "skinnier". So me, being a chubby 13 year old girl whose hips were just forming from puberty, tried on a size 10 when I was normally a size 14. I thought they looked pretty good as I tried them on and even contemplated rolling them up to see how they would look. Not bad. As I tried to roll them down, all it seemed to be doing was squishing my leg fat together, resulting in the obstruction of jeans. My legs started going purple and tingly and it was at that moment I began panicking. I jumped around the changeroom and lost my footing, banging my head on the lock. All I can remember after that is my mum standing over me with a shop assistant, and a paramedic. I had to get cut out of the jeans in front of like ten people and the whole time my mum could not stop laughing. I had a really bad concussion too.
The other mortifying experience was a couple of years ago. Our school got this French exchange student who was probably the hottest piece of man I had ever laid eyes upon. He was in the year above me, and my group of friends and I would just gawk over him from afar. Seriously though, this guy was tall, tan, had the best jawline in the world (and his butt looked incredible the school pants). So we have these classrooms where the doors open outwards into this tiny hall, and you always have to be cautious when walking down the hall to make sure you don't get hit in the face (can you guess where this story is going??). And I found myself running down the hallway to catch up to my friends when the bell went. I completely forgot about the door but in a split second all I could see was this French exchange student standing on the otherside of the glass door with wide eyes. I fell backwards and my skirt when up and oh god I can feel the embarrassment. His whole class was either laughing or gasping as they stared at me and the French exchange student was just like *o*. I didn't know what to do so I just sat up, and he was like "Are you okay?" in his delicious sweet accent and all I did was mimic his accent and say "bonjour baguette je'taime" and I ran off.
OH MY GOD the skinny jeans incident made me laugh tears, I think that's the most embarassing thing I've ever heard :'D
MultiSuperPotato im glad my misfortune can provide happiness for others :')
bONJOUR BAGUETTE JE'TAIME IM DYING THAT IS GREAT I AM SO SORRY
One day it wasn't windy at home, so I decided to wear a skirt to school (in Australia we wear uniforms, but this day we had an excursion so we could wear free dress). When I got to school it was really windy and my skirt blew up... Yeah, not the best experience...
I think things like being exposed is worse than mistakes in speech and that cuz it reveals you...
But the jeans story is so funny!!! X'D
Oh God, that last part though! You are really funny!
Embarrassment is self shame. No one can put shame on you but you. If you don't accept the shame that others wish you to feel, then the you can't be embarrassed
How can I stop accepting the shame that others wish for me to feel?
+Dj T7700 You self assess if the shame is valid and if not you choose not to feel it based on your own truth and not on some oneelses truth. It is an act of introspection and self confidence more then anything else. Quite empowering actually
Thats the biggest lie ever
Yeah lemme just tell anxiety that. Smh mind over matter isn't always the answer
I choked on stage while giving a speech infront of atleast 500 people including my crush and classmates in school. Everyone laughed at me, even the teachers. I was made fun of for the whole year(2016). It drained my self-esteem and my confidence so much that I was on the verge of suicide. I became depressed, I had lost all hope and I had even stopped going outside of my house. That made me paranoid and unsociable. Because of that, I had started taking drugs and other harmful things. But after almost an year and a half, I have decided to finally rise up from this mess. I'm currently giving my best and doing all I can to get my shit together again. That spark in me is is slowly turning into the fiery ball of flames that it was, once again. I'm in a mindset that if I have nothing to live for, I best find something to die for! :' )And thank you vlogbrothers for giving us an opportunity to share our painful experiences! It really feels much more better after opening up! Thank you once again!
Whoa... Chill
Umm... All that because you choked on stage?
I absolutely hate getting embarrassed, but getting depressed and doing drugs? Isn’t that too much
Things can be embarassing and it's easy to take it to heart especially with peers teasing and making fun. Glad you feel better now!
@@randomguy263 I've been there, it's Terrible
I am in a program at my school where we keep work for certain classes on iPads. I didn't realize that my sound was on from watching youtube on it the night before... So we were writing in English about heroes in today's literature and I wrote something in the wrong spot. I tried to copy and paste the text, but instead of pressing copy I accidentally pressed "speak." That is how my iPad started screaming PERCY JACKSON!!! BRAVE!!! LOYAL!!! CONSTANTLY SAVES THE WORLD FROM DANGER!!!!! in a dead silent classroom, causing everyone to laugh and stare at me.
Priceless!
Too funny!
Hello there fellow demigod :)
I once gave a health and safety presentation in which I several times reiterated the difference between flammable and inflammable materials. It was in the notes as "combustible" and "incombustible" but somehow I said it wrong and when I found out I was slightly embarrassed but because it was for the safety of colleagues the really embarassing part was having to go to each of those colleagues individually, explain precisely how wrong I was and make sure my mistake wasn't in fact causing a worse safety risk than the one I was trying to prevent in the first place which meant 20-25 conversations about my wrongness in detail over the course of 3 days.
😂 you are not alone. I too confused between inflammable and flammable.
I want shirts that say "I am a towering mountain of ignorance!" and "All simplicity is a lie!"
I got down on one knee and proposed to a girl at Disneyland who didn't really want to be with me. I didn't know this at the time but I couldn't tell why in that moment everything felt wrong. I just told myself hey, You've never done this so maybe this is how you are suppose to feel. Over the course of the next three months We went on living together, picked a date and started planning the wedding. We were about to go taste cakes when I came home from work and she admitted to me that she was in love with someone else and had been long before we got engaged. So then everything wrong in our relationship made sense and so did why I felt so strange on proposal day. The culmination of those few months were the most embarrassed I have ever been.
Weren't you supposed to make us laugh?
dude, i'm so sorry. but look at the bright side, if she said yes even though she was in love before the engagement, be glad she got up the nerve to tell you. it could've been a lot worse than embarrased
best of lucks, and don't get discouraged because of it. i don't know how long ago that was, but i hope you were able to move on :)
The feels..
Bullet dodged! Divorce is *much* messier than break-ups! I agree with Alan X and think you're both fortunate that she was able to be honest with you instead of dooming you both to an unhappy marriage.
Aww that story is evil!! ♡♡
Embarrassing story? Get ready!
Me and a group of 15 friends were staying at this club get together in a hall (it was supervised and stuff) and we decided to watch movies. I was in onesie but I also had pyjama bottoms on and after a while it started to feel really hot.
I felt like my legs were turning into lava but in order to get out and change to just my underwear in my onesie I would need to climb over everyone and change outside and I couldn't.
I was literally so awkward and so lazy that I couldn't leave so I thought of something that I thought was a masterpiece.
I would bring my legs and arms into the onesie like some kind of fluffy cocoon and take off my bottoms like that.
It SEEMED to look like it was feasible so I gave it a shot.
What actually happened is that my underwear got caught in the bottoms and wanting to go along with them, causing them all to become incredibly tangled and stuck and me being paralyzed in a fetal position inside my onesie.
I was literally trapped inside my own onesie. MY ONESIE HAD BECOME MY OWN PRSION!
I could not move without ripping my underwear or bottoms so I just decided to wait it out and hoped everyone went to sleep.
Of course that's not what happened and I had to crawl my self outside to untangle myself, my friend described it like a Giraffe in a amniotic sac trying to walk.
I still cry silently at night knowing that it happened and when the question "Why don't I have a girlfriend?" comes to mind, that is the answer.
Thank you for sharing! you actually brought a tear to my eye from laughing so much, and what excellent descriptive words you have in this story! A+
James H
This kind of makes the 3 cringe attacks that took to write it worth it. Thanks!
Hahahaha, if it makes you feel better, I have 12708417 more embarrassing stories than that! They just aren't at all funny, unlike this one :)
gigiky
Its only funny because you are laughing at my pain like some sadist! :)
Did you think it was funny when I had to roll myself out the room with 15 other people watching (one of which was a girl that I wanted to make out with too!).
That's hilarious! It doesn't make you unbeatable, by most peoples standards. People love to date someone with funny stories, but this one's also cute, so extra points there.
One time, I was at a parent-principal meeting thing. Because it was a mandatory meeting thing. The principals phone was on the desk sitting on the edge of the desk. It was super tense, the phone suddenly started to blare "I FEEL GOOD" I screamed in front of like 10 teachers. Smacked the phone, it flew across the room, shattered on the wall and fell into the sink full of water. It started sparking, then it exploded.
Why smack it?
Victor Houle i assume it was the 'fight' half of the fight or flight response
That's the most hilarious thing I've ever heard, and also, you're awesome.
Great! Haha, you're awesome!
Once my friends and I were doing a project in science class a year or two ago. We'd worked pretty hard on layout and finding the right font and all (and also we had worked a lot on the actual presentation). Anyway, we got ready with the PowerPoint and everything, and we were really nervous. Then, the text turned into squares instead of letters, and we just looked at each other, completely terrified. We then kind of laughed, because we felt really embarrassed about it all. I then just had to say: "Yeah, this is supposed to say virus, just so you know" and go on even more nervous than I was to start with.
IM WHEEZING
English is not my first language, so I mixed up the words recipe and receipt. So, when I asked a cashier in England to not give me the recipe she looked quite confused...
That's not so bad, it's kind of cute actually :) I was at my friend's house whose first language wasn't english, and I asked her if I could get her dad's recipe for the yummy food he made (he didn't speak English) and she thought I was asking for the leftovers. They gave me the leftovers, and I was too embarrassed to correct her XD
*Warning, this story is kinda gross*
So I was a late bloomer and in 9th grade I still hadn't gotten my period. I knew what it was but it just hadn't happened to me yet. So I was in gym class, and that day we we're going weight training. Most of the equipment in the circuit we we're doing was sit-down equipment. Being the lazy person that I am, I chose to do those first. Low and behold about half way through the class a girl screamed when she found blood on the seat. At first I didn't know what had happened, so when the teacher yelled at us all and asked us who did it, I honestly said it wasn't me. but later found out that it was in fact my blood. And that's the story of how I got my first period.
Tbh I was Really nervous to even post this because it still makes me embarrassed... Sigh.
Something like this has happened to everyone! My friend got really heavy flow in the middle of class and left a puddle of blood on the seat and the floor. You're not the only one! XD
OhHeyItsHonor One time I was at work and my period started (not my first period), but I didn't realize it and then a guy I had a crush on was like, "there's dirt or something on your pants". So I went to the bathroom to look and new right away it was blood. Fortunately I had a tampon on me, but there was still a stain, so I literally turned my around so the stain was in front because I had to wear an apron at work anyways. When I went back out the guy asked what it was and I was just like, "I don't know, I guess dirt or something."
Aww, you should not feel embarrassed about that. It was totally beyond your control and it's quite normal, I know so many girls who have similar stories (the worst one being my friend who wore tight white trousers one summer when we went to meet some guys...you can guess how that went).
Your teacher is the one who looks bad in your story. In that situation, s/he should not have made a big deal out of it and definitely shouldn't have yelled and asked who it was in front of everyone as if the girl (you, in this case) had done anything wrong. If that had happened to me, my mum would've probably complained to the school because that behaviour from a teacher is not okay.
Dont worry, leaks happen to every girl, me included!
Period stories get really funny after awhile.
My grossest period story:
in Gr.9 my class went on a skiing trip in the winter. At this time my periods were still pretty irregular but very heavy. I was skiing and enjoying the day and finally near the end I went back to the lodge for lunch, and when I went to the bathroom, it was bloody hell down there. I'd started my period without realizing it, and I'd been skiing without a bathroom break for a good 3-4 hours. It was soaked through 3 layers of cloth. Thankfully I was wearing thick snowpants and those didn't soak through. I hadn't brought any pads or anything either and no change of clothes, so I had to pad with toilet paper and endure the rest of the day and the bus ride home.
So glad no one found out that day.
In 2002, age 17, I won tickets to meet Alicia Keys backstage. This conversation ensued:
Me: Hi, I'm Tiara.
AK: Hi, Alicia.
Me: No, the name's Tiara.
AK: Yeah I get that - I was just introducing myself.
Me: ...*dies of fail*
She was pretty gracious about it, which helped!
I can imagine your face when she said "Alicia".
J Costa One of confusion?
if you died of fail... are you a ghost? a vampire? a zombie? a ghostly vampire-zombie?
To be fair, it would be weird to assume you didn't know what her name was
I was the donkey in a nativity play when I was little and I was supposed to pretend to trip over a guard wire on a tent and say "Whoops my clumsy feet again" but I actually tripped over it fell on my face and cried on stage and had to have a teacher come up and say it for me before escorting me off the stage. they were filming it
i mean u could say it was dedication to the role
This does not really have much to do with the video, just something I wanted to say.
When I subscribed the Vlogbrothers' channel I was thinking "Hey, these guys make some interesting videos." but did not expect much more.
Only now I am beginning to realize of what I have become a part, meaning Nerdfighteria. As someone who normally avoids the comment section I am positively surprised about how warm and welcoming an environment the comments under every single one of John's and Hank's are.
Keep it up, nerdfighters, you are awesome.
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we often think that shame we're feeling has to do with who we are but it really isn't. We're not actually "stupid" or whatever, it's not who we are but rather what we're feeling. And if we learn to let them go, those feelings flee as fast as they arrived.
needed this tysm
It was the first day of primary school. (I was 7). The teacher asked people to read aloud. There was this long apprehensive, awkward silence which seemed to stretch forever in my memory. So, I volunteered because obviously, I was the most intelligent 7 year old that had ever existed(according to my mother). After I was done, there was an even longer silence that the aforementioned silence. I felt like a rockstar because, to be fair, I hadn't stuttered once and so I had assumed that I had done an exceptionally fantastic job. The teacher burst out laughing. I had mispronounced at least 18 different words. The most prominent being colour which I had pronounced as ko-lor for some unfathomable reason. I was known as ko-lor for, I shit you not, at least 4 years after that incident. The teacher felt really bad for laughing but I never forgave her and secretly, harboured a ridiculously prolonged grudge against her. Suffice to say, I don't read aloud anymore.
DFTBA
it still haunts me to this day
These embarassing stories are making me laugh so much haha
She was a terrible teacher, speaking as a teacher, you only laugh afterwards in the staffroom in a "how-cute" way
I had a moment like that. I was late handing in my homework, so the next day my teacher decided to announce this to the class. I blushed. People started laughing. I blushed harder. It was a vicious circle. UGH! I can't do ANYTHING in front of a class without feeling painfully anxious, and I mean that literally- my left palm hurts incredibly when I feel too anxious.
I feel for you. ;-)
I remember in art history class that I was reporting about French artists. Keep in mind that my county is bilingual, Filipino and English are the official languages, and we don't really care whether or not we say foreign words properly. Since I know a bit of French, I tried pronouncing the French names à la Français. My classmates, laughed rather uncontrollably since they aren't used to the nasal vowels associated with French. I however, wasn't embarrassed, I was quite glad really since I had their attention. Most students, including me, don't listen to boring history lectures.
Not really embarrassing to me now, I look back on this and laugh, but: I was taking an RE exam in school, which was an hour long. Half an hour in, I'd finished the question, so I embellished for 15 more mins. Check the clock, make up more crap for ten mins. Only at 5 minutes to the hour do I turn over the paper and realise that I'm supposed to do two questions, not one. So I missed out on 50% of the mark for not turning the page. That boiled me up at the time.
***** My pain was mitigated because I was able to retake the exam. I hope you get the same option!
Been there... haha
This is so me it's sad!
When people correct me, I usually respond with: It's amazing how we learn new things every day!
Amazing I will respond same thing on my mistake
Awesome!
I had a few embarrassing moments in college. One, when reading a Virginia Woolf book out loud I mispronounced "persevering" because it was split by a line break, so I said "per" and then "severing" like with a knife. During my honors thesis presentation I used the word "coy" to mean the opposite of what it means, and even more embarrassing I just said "I think I used that word wrong just now," and kept going. Similarly, once during an improv class I used the word "mortifying" to mean "amazing" because I couldn't think fast enough. And then, too, I admitted "that's not the right word for that but whatever," which made it way worse. Needless to say, I learned what mortifying really meant that day.
So many options! I was on the speech and debate team in HS. On an out of town tournament at UC Berkeley, my team and I were hanging out on the stage in the auditorium where much later that day the award ceremony would be done. At some point I laid down to take a nap on the stage, knowing in about 2 hours or so the ceremony would start. Flashforward to later and I wake up, all alone on the stage. I sit up and look around, thinking, "Wut?" Ah, look, it is 45 minutes before the start of the ceremony and teams have already started to claim seats. By teams I mean about 300 people were in the auditorium. Watching me sleep. Including my own team, in the first two rows, laughing their butts off. I then tripped going off the stage to make it better. Great times!
I'm replying to my own comment because there's just so much embarrassment I can share!
AP World History class, sophomore year of HS. The class was immediately after lunch. During that lunch, something, I don't know what, set my best friend and I off in a case of the giggles. The kind where you can't stop, you're becoming hysterical, it kinda hurts, but even if you do calm down just a look or some word can set you off again. Bell rings, best friend and I head to AP World. Our teacher says to the class, "Today we're going to watch a clip from Band of Brothers when they find the concentration camps. It is very hard to watch, and I want you all to be mature about it." Yeah. Through no fault of the teacher or Band of Brothers, Romy and I couldn't stop laughing. We fell to the floor laughing. We apologized as we were laughing, "We're sorry we're sorry we can't stop we don't mean to we can't stop!" The class and the teacher looked on aghast. We were eventually excused from class to go clean ourselves up, because we'd laughed so much snot had gotten all over us.
In a general show of ignorance (since remedied!): My British roommate and I went to a friend's flat in Cairo, Egypt to play Scrabble. The friend hosting was from Norway, and another person from Singapore was joining us. At a certain point both the friend from Norway and person from Singapore were winning (both my roommate and myself were English teachers), and I said, "I can't believe the non-native speakers are winning!" To which the Singaporean replied, "My native language is English." Oops.
Catherine Litten hahaha! I'm from Singapore and we get that a lot ;)
Ah, Speech and Debate at it's finest ;) I'm a debater. I can think of countless cringe-worthy things I've done in round and not in round :P
I had a Greek professor that hated all cell phones, computers, anything that was not yet commonplace in 1980. He would dock points from your grade if any electronic made a noise in class. As such, I always made sure my phone was on silent before his class. One day I had about half an hour before I had to get to class, so I started up my laptop to work on an essay. My computer wouldn't start and I realized my motherboard was probably shot. I couldn't even get it to turn off. I ran out of time, put my laptop in my bag, and went to class, intending to deal with it later. About 20 minutes into class, the Windows start up music came out of my backpack. But not the normal Windows start up music; the slow and scratchy, zombie-horror flick inspired Window start up music played back on a scratched record through a cheap cell phone speaker. It took a full two minutes to get through the little tune. All the while I was staring in horror at my bag and trying to apologize to my professor. I just kept saying, "I don't know what's happening. Why is it making that noise?" Fortunately he just said, "The machines are taking over!" and moved on with the lecture. Later that week, I bought a Mac.
You have a real gift for writing, that description of the music, so funny I'm actually crying laughing!
LOL "The machines are taking over!" xD
Your professor is a nutjob xD
I had a weird moment when I was a teenager where someone was trying to do the kiss-you-on-both-cheeks thing. You know, the friendly, platonic kiss on both cheeks? I kissed her on the lips. Still cringe inside every time I remember it.
I've done something similar where one of my friends was trying to do the kiss-on-the-cheeks things so naturally I decided to do that too, but we both went to the same side and very nearly kissed on the lips. I then moved to the other side, and the SAME THING HAPPENED again, at which point she just blushed a lot and casually ran away. Couldn't look at her without shame for days.
that's hillarious lol
this absolutely kills me lol. what was the reaction?
Every year I participate in this program that I sign up for through my school choir class called Solo and Ensemble. Singers and instrumentalists bring solos or ensembles to play in front of a judge who rates your performance from 1 to 5, 1 being the best and 5 being the worst. My first year, when I was in seventh grade, I sang a song called Go Way From My Window. The first verse goes "Go way from my window, go way from my door. Go way, I wish you to leave me, and bother me know more." The second verse is "Go way from my window, go way from my heart. You broke it up into peices, and now my love depart." During the second verse, I sang "Go way from my window, go way from my door. You broke it up into pieces." My friends made fun of me for the next two years about how someone broke my door. I can't even think about it without cringing.
Haha that's actually a cute mistake! At least it sorta still made sense!
Haha, thanks cx
One time my friend and I did a duet for the Christmas play at our church singing Mary Did you Know and half way through the last verse, I started singing the second verse... No one noticed (cuz my friend is amazing and she changed to fit with me and we both ended up singing the second verse) but it was still really bad...
Despite that, we had an elderly guy tell us afterwards that we should go on "that show Guy Sebastian was on." Haha!
This isn't exactly a specific story and I'm not sure if I'm the only one who deals with this or not but does anyone else get super embarrassed when they say something stupid in class, like when a teacher calls on you....and your answer is like, super dumb...and the next thing you know you're spending the rest of the day or a few days or weeks or even months living down that one moment. And you're thinking of other stuff you COULD'VE or SHOULD'VE said and it kinda kills you. I think the real issue is just caring about what other people think of you. I realized my problem was thinking that if I answered something wrong or said something really stupid, I would convince myself that other people would somehow think I'm not smart, or someone who's really ignorant or doesn't know what they're talking about. But in reality I realized NOBODY CARES. That one thing you said doesn't determine who you are. So yeah. That's my really long 'story' I guess. Just wondering if anyone else feels the same.
that is /literally/ my life in a nutshell. I am /terrified/ of being wrong...well anywhere. Slipping up. making a mistake. because I genuinely feel terrible. I think its more of a self-viewing thing for me rather than 'oh no now {insert being} thinks im dumb' because really I couldn't care less. its more of a 'what were you thinking you shouldn't have spoken up why did you start this for yourself'. I replay a situation several times before and after it happens. things I should do, things I could have said better. I feel embarrassed, but its through self-observation, looking through the shattered glass I try to pretend is not cracked. I guess a second hand thought is pondering what others think, but usually its just me. I don't proof read essays but I make up for it by overly proof-reading my life. whoops xp
I can usually get things right in any classes I'm in right now except my god damn History class. I'm not exactly *devastated* by being wrong, but it just doesn't feel right.
I had this problem in highschool ... i also had this thing where i would try to tell a joke (or say something in a funny/joking way) when called upon, and the whole class would just go quiet and look at me and i'd just think to myself "was that really so hard to interperet as a joke?? like why didn't people even pretend to laugh?"
at this point in my life i can't even _really_ tell if it actually was how people reacted to me, or if my mind just exaggerated the lack of response to make it seem like a really long, drawn-out awkward moment.
I seriously thought I was the only one who spent that long thinking about something INCREDIBLY STUPID I said in class, haha! I also think about the fact that other people say dumb things in class too, and I don't spend all my time thinking about it... so in reality, you're right, NOBODY cares.
yes! oh my goodness, I remember last year in my chemistry class, the teacher called me and I wasn't listening for a split-second like I usually do, so I said a stupid answer for an easy question and he called someone else and I was sooo embarrassed! Even to this day, I wonder why I feel like that over the little insignificant things. But I'm overly emotional sometimes, and I don't think I can help it. The worst part is that I feel my face heat up and and literally have to hold back tears and pretend like everything's fine, which is REALLY hard, and then an acquaintance across the room asks if you're okay and I just feel like everyone can see my emotions on my face, even though I think I'm hiding it well. * shivers * Worst feeling ever. * cringe cringe cringe *
In high school a hypnotist did an assembly at my school. He did a trick on the crowd to make people think their hands were stuck together and it worked on me. So he said "if your hands are stuck together come to the front to get them released". Little did I know that was a signal for all his already picked volunteers to go up on stage.
So I'm sitting in front of my whole senior class realizing "oh crap I'm not supposed to be up here". Meanwhile he's going down the line putting people to sleep on command. He gets to me and it doesn't work but I thought it would look more stupid to sit there staring at him so I pretend to fall asleep. But I had gum in my mouth and kept chewing the gum and only realized that after the entire auditorium erupted in laughter. The worse part is afterwards everybody thought I was screwing with the hypnotist when I was really just scrambling trying to not look stupid.
Danny Leach lmao
Oh my God this one is so good
Yesterday, right before I was about to go on stage to do a show, I broke down in tears SOBBING about how much drama club meant to me, and literally couldn't breathe properly and spilled my entire life about how I've never had any friends.Some people cried with me, some people smiled sypathetically, and some people stood there dead faced...it's fine.
All I really wanted to say was, "You guys are cool, and I love being in Drama Club." But unfortunately for me, that's not what came out.
This is not embarrassing. ☺ Sometimes tears just come out in the wrong time and place. But it's okay you were honest in expressing what you felt. I've always wanted to tell my classmates how much they meant to me before I moved to another school but I never did. And I somehow regret it.
I once chased a kid off my seat on an aeroplane, only to immediately realize it wasn't my seat after all. Kid, if you're out there: I'm so sorry!
I used to pronounce queue as cue-ee, until my mom corrected me.
When seeing other people be wrong though, I never quite get to the You're Cool part, I mostly just feel so much secondhand embarrassment that I don't even notice their own reaction.
OH THAT'S NOTHING! I used to pronounce queue "Kway-way." I mean...if it's pronounced cue why isn't the word just the letter Q.
***** It's French from the beginning, right, so it the pronunciation won't make sense :D "queue"
There's literally no way to write the french pronunciation in english, :)
French is my first language by the way.
sKebess The "eu" sound is a mix of o and e pronounced in a way that I can't think of in english.
ME too!
When I was in secondary school, one day it was very hot out so my friends and I ate lunch in a teacher's room. We were just chatting about things and making small talk and the conversation carried on without me, eventually. Just then, I started getting some very painful cramps and thought, "man, my uterus is angry" and just as I was about to contribute to the conversation finally, I started with "Uterus--" and then was so shocked I said it out loud to my very conservative, middle aged, male teacher that I couldn't save the situation. I still cringe.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does things like that! D:
That teacher probably doesn't even remember the incident. I mean, you only said one word. Of a body part. Found in all* bio-sex females. I hereby publicly give you permission to stop cringing and instead giggle to yourself.
*excepting, you know, things that happen
You're not the only one, don't worry! Yesterday at school I screamed the word condom, without realising that my elderly English teacher was right behind me... She didn't seem very happy.
But you know, thing like this happen all the time. Plus, condoms and uteruses are pretty normal things!
Jenny Atanasova I think there's a difference between having a brain fart and screaming a word to get attention. I mean, sure it's embarrassing to have someone overhear you talking about something that many people are not comfortable speaking of, but surely you didn't think screaming out "condom" would make others pay no mind?
I actually wasn't trying to get attention, my friends were talking about something so I screamed out a sentence with the word condom in it. And, you know, sometimes you happen to say something a bit more loudly than you intented to. Also, I was focusing on the fact that I hadn't noticed that my teacher was behind me. Just trying to relate to your story. :)
I once had a Creative Writing presentation in which we presented a compilation of songs, poems and other media that we felt best described our inner thoughts and feelings at the time. Me being the questioning, curious and all-around moody teenager that I was, one of the three songs I chose was "Always", by Saliva (prounounced Sah-lye-vah)
Or as I liked to say for the full 15 minutes of my presentation SAL-EH-VAH.
After my 15 minutes of doom was up, I was approached by the snottiest and most privileged member of our freshman class who then reamed me in front of about 25 clearly listening teenagers. I was mortified, and proceeded to put my head down for 30 full minutes until the bell rang.
THAT was 2006, A FULL TEN YEARS AGO, and I can still tell you what color shirt she was wearing.
(it was lime green.)
Sartre was all: "Hell is other people," and this is why.
Between the ages of 3-5, human children develop the ability to think of other minds operating independently of theirs. From that point, we can't help but think of ourselves (at least partially) as both us-inside-us and us-as-we-must-look-to-those-other-minds, both subject & object. We *literally* become self-conscious.
Then, because we don't think about them complexly, we assume those people are as obsessed with us as we are, so everything we think they might be thinking about us gets distorted into some crazy BLARGLEWARGLESTUPIDTHEY'RESOSTUPIDWARGLE.
Yet another reason to spend time getting out of your own head - when you actually listen to what other people are thinking & internalize it, you realize that most of the energy you put into keeping up a façade of being smart or cool or in-control or whatever is wasted.
As for me, I totally misquoted Sartre for *years* - I thought that quote meant "people suck." People don't suck, looking at yourself in a funhouse mirror that makes you look ugly sucks.
(Bonus embarrassment: when I was 4-5, we went on a field trip to the fire department. Everyone was asking questions about the engine, the hoses, the pole...I wanted in on that action, so I raised my hand and asked: "Why is the moon still out if it's daytime?" The firemen didn't really know how to respond to that.)
first 3 paragraphs are the best thing i read today!
That last bit would so be me if I was there.
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In fifth grade we did a variety show in school, a part of which had one of the students pretending to be one of our teachers at the end of a skit. Supposedly, the teacher didn't know, and this was to be a hilarious ribbing during the performance mocking his large beard and notorious dislike of wearing shoes. The gag was supposed to be revealed during the first performance. I did not understand what was happening, and being a fan of cameos in movies, asked the teacher if he would be playing the part of himself in the skit. The few kids in the classroom groaned that I had spoiled the surprise and I still carry the fresh shame of this moment as a 34 year old who pays bills, has health insurance, and has been out of school for more than 15 years.
You know, I've done that many times. Ruin a surprise. Recently there was cake at work for a co-worker. I didn't read the cake, but I spread the news of it, to the person it was for. I've done the same with a card, because we have group cards for people for stuff (birthdays, wedding congrats, etc) and more than a few times, I accidently told the person for whom the card was for to remember to sign the card. People avoid telling me because they think I'll ruin the 'surprise' but I do so because no one tells me not too!!
It's funny that the kids thought the teacher didn't know about the skit.
Oh, I thought of an even better one. Once, in junior high I was going to PE class and was confused because when I got there there was only one other girl in the locker room changing with me. For some reason I decided everyone else must be silly and I was clearly either late or it was a just a weird day or something. So I got changed and went into the gym to start PE only to discover that this was the entirely wrong period and I was basically skipping one of my classes entirely on accident. So my gym teacher wrote me a note and sent me back to my humanities class. I cried. I was mortified. But it's kind of funny years later.
I had a similar experience. Let me paint the scene, the bell just rang in the late afternoon, we then left the class room after the teacher left, packing all our things. I thought we were going home, you see, in my country, we all get assigned to one classroom for the year and it's the teachers that go around the school to teach. My classmates headed in the direction of the school gate, but I went to another classroom to go get my best friend since we were neighbors and walked home together. As I got there, they looked like they were still busy, but there was no teacher. When my friend saw me, he went out and asked me what I was doing there, I told him I was waiting for him to go home. He was surprised that we got to go home early. I said to him that it was 4 already(4 is our dismissal time). He said that it was still 3, I looked around and saw that no one was leaving. I was like SHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT!!!!!!!! I then realized that I was supposed to be in the computer class and ran to it light speed. When I got there, I was sighed with relief as the teacher was not in the room, just my classmates. When one of them asked me what happened, I told her,"I don't wanna talk about it." It's rather fortunate that my teacher in that subject is barely in class. I was only about 15 minutes late but the idea of cutting class mortifies me. This only happened a few months ago.
***** Wow! I commend you for being able to stay calm and laugh at such a situation. But I guess, university is just different. If/when I go there, my mentality about it might change.
You should have taken oppurtunity of the situation and ditched class to have fun at gym
Three years ago, in a small town in New-Brunswick, my then- boyfriend was buddies with one of the few asians in town. He told me that Ni How was Hello in mandarin...there was that convenience store up the street run by the few other asians in town, I said "Ni how!" thinking I was so smart and they replied, "That's chinese, we're korean!".
I just blushed with embarassment and left but that was the start of a year of friendly business with those people.
+Cynthia Sonier new brunswick, nj? it's not a small town
I mean the Canadian province
In secondary school I was sat in assembly and they were giving out sports awards to students. I was chatting to my friend and not really paying attention, and I thought I heard my name called out. I never did any sports for the school, but for some reason I automatically stood up, and went to collect my reward for playing tennis (something I never did) only to be told the award was for Jake WATSON, who was standing behind me. Cue 200 teenagers and teachers laughing at me and everyone calling me Jake Watson for the rest of the year.
I feel sick just writing that!
oh no that's embarrassing but also OK :)
I know that pain, my name is Helen, i was the only one in school but there was an ellen and a few other name who caught me of guard more than once if i wasn't paying attention
Well based on your username you’re called Jake so u did hear your first name, this was an honest mistake 😊 and tennis is a popular adult sport, never too late to pick up haha
Anyone else ever yawned so wide that a burp slipped out?
I pulled a face muscle once. Never doing that again.
Matt Palka
NO WAY I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PEOPLE TO EVER DO THAT!(which is ridiculous now that I think about it being as so many people on the planet their is, Not even counting all of human history! At least a FEW others must have done that as well but oh well now its conformed and I can feel better.
IT SUCKED. I will never power-yawn again. Hooray for empathy!
Matt Palka
It was even worse due to the fact that it was in class an it HURT! I wanted to tell the teacher but how do you explain something like that? and even if i did why would she believe me!?
Haha, it's not like you'd want to talk when it's sprained. Just being a giant white board, eraser, and marker to class. XD
Today, I had a zoom meeting with my class and I accidentally left the mic unmuted. I started singing an embarrassing song and my whole class heard and laughed at me.
A zoom meeting is what brought me here too... I ended up walking in on my brothers work meeting on zoom and I leaned down and my face was right in front of the camera and he was trying to tell me that he was in a meeting then I realised and I ended up screaming his name rlly loudly and I just got out of bed too so I was still in my pyjamas and had messy hair and everything...
its not my story but one of my friends was doing Phone calls for a fund raiser. She lefter a message for one of the people on the list and at the end, said "In Jesus name amen...." paused in horror, and then hung up.
jacob massengale I have a similar story. I worked as a customer service rep for 3 years, many moons ago. I often said, "How may I help you?" and, "Please hold." So, one time I heard myself say, " How may I hold you?" The customer and I had a good laugh and now we both have a funny story to tell.
😂😂
Hm embarrassing things. Once in second grade (I think) I was changing after sport, and I was missing one boot, so I was just walking around asking people if they'd seen it for about twenty minutes before discovering it had been stuck to the Velcro thingy of my coat hood, and it had been hanging beside my face the whole time. And NO ONE bothered to tell me.
that is so funny omg
Due to me being an Indian, I don't really meet a lot of people named Michael. However, I read a LOT of American books. Hence, up until a couple of years ago, I thought that Michael was pronounced Mishale. I am sorry.
In fairness, the French pronunciation isn't that far off.
Pragnya Konanur true I'm Sri Lankan just read novrls
Luke Trust some times it's Mi-ka-el though
Pragnya Konanur wait what? I pronounce it as Mi-Shel
You're actually not wrong, a couple years back I had a male Indonesian friend who had the name Michael but it was pronounced Mishale (or like Michelle). Thankfully he was a cool guy so he wasn't subject to a lot of bullying
Today is my day off and my loving wife left me a boiled egg for breakfast. I forgot that she told me about the egg so after while it got pretty cold.
I decided to warm it up in the microwave with some other food instead of boiling it again. After I took it out I decided to sit in the living in room and watch Californication on Netflix where I stuck the fork in the egg and watched it instantly explode in my face.
Not only did the egg go absolutely everywhere but I was also pelted by hot gooey egg yolks. To top it off my cat was sitting next to me and got startled by the egg exploding. He ran across my lap and dug his nails into me.
I just wanted some god damn breakfast. I'm too tired for this shit. Excuse me while I go get the vacuum cleaner.
I love how a story starting with a loving wife ends in cursing. ;) At least you said excuse me!
When I was in first grade I proclaimed that hot dogs grew on bushes. You can obviously tell because of the wrinkled ends where they are picked from the bush / vines. People looked at me like I was from Mars ...
I totally would have believed this when I was little. I kinda like this idea better than the truth about hot dogs, actually...
Yeah, I wish I had a hot-dog bush in my backyard right now, it would probably produce much more healthy 'dogs.
I don’t remember feeling embarrassed when I was little up until I was like 9, then I began to notice myself around others
Meat cucumbers
Even though I do a LOT of embarrassing things, I rarely if ever get embarrassed. Whenever I did something stupid I used to get super embarrassed, but I would also be kind of excited to go tell my friends because I knew it would make us all laugh together. Then whenever I got embarrassed I started owning it, and I would tell people about that stupid thing I did and everyone laughed, but with me not at me. And that's how I learned to own it. So yeah, use your embarrassment as a tool to make people laugh because making people laugh is the best feeling
I once spent a lot of time practicing a speech pronouncing "erratic" as "erotic" my freshman year and didn't find out the difference until my teacher had to explain it to me in front of the rest of the class XD
last night at church i thought a little boy called me “really pretty.” got super flattered and gave him a hug bcs i needed to hear something like that. found out the next day he was saying “greedy” bcs i was drinking more than one cup of the coffee i made. i found this out from his mom in hysterics. i’m going to vomit.
Omggg 😂😂 now this is pure embarrassment ☠️☠️💀💀
awwww i guess you are a wonderful human....i really wanna hug you for that
I'm a new volunteer at a zoo and today a big group of visitors asked me for directions to the reptile building. Being so new, I had no idea where it was. I told them I could take them there, they agreed, and I started trying to lead them... only to get to a map on the trail, awkwardly "explain" where the building was, and leave as soon as I could.
Where I live high school starts in grade 7 and ends in grade 11. in the seventh grade I was running through the massive cafeteria, running late and eager to get to my clique eating at the back, when I tripped over my own feet, fell on my chest, and skidded several feet with my legs in the air like some cartoon. The whole cafeteria went quiet and looked at me. However, I was ridiculously comfortable with myself and just got up and went over to my table. Weirdly the fact that I wasn't embarrassed was one of the budding reasons that the kids in my grade would all soon think i was a freak. Children are strange.
You went full scorpion 😂🦂
Literally yesterday I was shopping with a friend for groceries in Wegmans, and (if you don't know this) they have weigh stations for produce so you can print a barcode for the cost of however much produce you bought. Anyways, was holding some zucchini and my friend was like 6 or 7 feet away from me. So I get her attention, point at her, and say a bit loudly "get me a bag". For the zucchini, you know? Unfortunately there was a guy standing between the two of us, next to a weigh station where there are bags. And he was quite certain that I was demanding he himself stop his grocery shopping and get me a bag. He was just like "okay" and started getting me a bag. I then had to explain that I wasn't ordering strangers around, I was actually talking to my friend.
That's hilarious and you're awesome.
That guy is also pretty great for agreeing to help a random imperious stranger, and I'm sure after the explanation no harm was done at all :)
1. Yes. Wegmans. Yes.
2. That is absolutely hilarious.
I can never think of embarrassing stories ever. Like everyone else has these hilarious stories and then there's just me sitting in the corner like "I fall up the stairs in front of people (including the person that I have a HUGE crush on) on pretty much a once-a-week basis. I hate falling up the stairs. With a burning passion.
I honestly laughed a bit too hard at this
One time, my crush revealed to me that he liked one of my friends. I basically celebrated and acted like a 10 year old that recieved an xbox for christmas, in full support of his intrest. I thought it would help to act like i was happy for him, because I wanted to be closer friends with him. I'm still not sure why I spent all that time being "excited" for my friends, (and they are both still my friends now...) when I was secretly deep down wishing that girl was me. They are in a relationship now and I cringe that one moment started a series of lies in a friendship that I cant ever change back. This is too dark for this lighthearted video... but embarassment is embarrassment so there you go, hahaha. look at this haunting mistake i created. anyone else in 2018?
i wIsh I wAs hEAtHeR
Once I was a part of a production of "Much Ado About Nothing" and I was being interviewed for the newspaper. She asked why I liked Shakespeare. I responded " I like how he uses words and stuff" and I was quoted in the paper. I've never felt so dumb in my whole life.
This is my favorite story so far. I also like how Shakespeare uses words and stuff! You're awesome :)
Agreed - this one is fantastic. I can't believe they actually used the quote.
To be fair: If that had been a headline, I'd have read the article for sure! :D Thinking about using this in my next English exam...
"I am a towering mountain of ignorance and simplicity is a lie. "
I want that on a shirt
I don't know if it would fit. But yes, I do too.
I was thinking that too.
I have a picture of him saying simplicity is a lie as my wallpaper. I need this. We need to make this a thing. Nerdfighters unite!
You could put "I am a towering mountain of ignorance" on the front and "simplicity is a lie" on the back
How do we go about doing this?
I taped a croissant to my friend's ceiling fan. It flew off and hit me in the eye.
What? :'D Why?
Omg I taped a cucumber on my fan and started it then it flew out the window almost breaking the glass lmao
@@brianna3340 i just...why
I was at my 1st and last homecoming dance yesterday, senior year. and I got pushed in the middle of the dance circle and did some basic dance with my video camera -- from Audio and Video class. Then I got out, nobody laughed. They were all kinda into it. My friends took a video of me dancing and sent it to the group chat. When I saw myself dance I got so embarassed. My friends didn't laugh at me either. They all said things like "look at him go" and "YEAA". Then I got on a call with my other "friend" --I'm not a fan of him, he is really inmature. He said "bro what was that dance, that made me cringe". I just laughed and said "I don't know what I was doing I just got pushed in and kinda just did my thing" all while laughing. Now I keep on remembering the moment and start telling myself 'stop stop stop, dont think, dont think". If I keep on thinking I slap myself in the face. I likely shouldn't be embarassed but I am. Idk life is weird. Writting this makes me feel a whole lot better. If you are reading this I hope you have a wonderful day.
Story of my life, I’ve spent most of my life anxious about things that happened in the past. In spite of this I have still lived a worthwhile and productive life. I am now 58 and have tried every possible method to not feel embarrassed but still do, but that’s what I feel not who I am. I hope you find a solution that works for you.
That was just not a kind thing to say ( what your immature friend said).Most probably he is insecure and was projecting it on you.I see it as you enjoyed the music, expressed it with your dance.done and dusted.
@@williammoss5726am 41 and cringing into my pillow for havin my camera on durin a work meetin today.I was scrollin on my ph 😢.I was dressed proper atleast and sittin up at my work desk.But yeah am mortified and dont know how to face the zoom meetings tomorrow.😢
I was making bread rolls with my mum when I was like 10. We were putting the rolls into plastic bags to store. To get them as airtight as possible my mum told me to close off the bag with one hand, and put a finger into the bag to make a little hole in the neck of the bag. Then she told me to breathe in. So I did, with my finger still in the bag. She meant put my mouth to the bag and suck out all the air but I was so literal in my following of instructions I must have somehow thought the air would get out just by me breathing in with my finger being in the bag!
I have no idea if that is well explained enough for people to understand!
I got it, very funny!
I understood you. The things children do are pretty funny.
when I was little, all the funny cool kids said "your face"as a comeback. I decided to test this. And so, my friend's dad was telling us that the cake for her birthday will be out soon. I then replied "your face is the cake" AND THEN I REALIZED HOW CREEPY AND EMBARRASSING THAT SOUNDED. I WAS MORTIFIED.
I still use this comeback... lol!
Oh lord, when I moved to Canada and started school (keep in mind, I was little and didn't know English very well yet), I was very, very confused when the teachers would tell us to pull out our 'work sheet'... I had never, until that point, encountered the word 'sheet'... Instead I knew a different word... A word that sounds very similar to 'sheet'... I honestly though my teachers were cursing... In elementary school. I didn't ask anybody what the word 'sheet' actually meant, too embarrassed about my, not yet fully developed, English. I went a whole year, before I found out what the word 'sheet' meant. In retrospect, it honestly isn't even that embarrassing. But when you're eleven-years-old in a foreign country, and you don't know the language very well? It's easy to feel embarrassed over your own lack of understanding.
In the first week of college, i went there with jeans and the pajama shirt.
I spent the whole day like that and only noticed what i was wearing when i was returning home.
Trust me, there are people who go to class in full PJs. You are not alone.
My friend did that. She borrowed a shirt from her mom to wear to work. You guessed, it was a pajama top. Her mom said that's what she gets for taking her clothes without asking.
*****
I don't know why but i find that entertaining, My mom couldn't believe it for a while and she thought i changed clothes (i was clueless till that moment to what i was wearing). The funny part is that i met my cousin only once that term and it was on that day, i am still wondering if she didn't notice what i was wearing or if she was being polite.
Pei Ton
The schools i went to before college required a uniform, so the most ridiculous i saw was someone coming with a shoe in one leg and a sandal in the other leg.
One time, when I was a kid, I had just got to a new church, and I heard that someone was being teased. So, when I heard someone else talking to them, I went up to them like the knight of justice that I am and said "Leave him alone!" And they just kinda stared at me for a few seconds. Then one of them was like, "He's my friend..." and I was like, "Oh... ok...." and tried to avoid them for as many years as possible, hoping they would forget. XD
😂 i felt the embarrassment
I coach a men's softball team and we are actually pretty good. I have a whole room full of softball and pool trophies. However, our first year in league play many years ago we made it to the Championship game. I'm not one for motivational speeches, but that day I was feeling it. So I said "Men gather round I've got something to say, I'm going to give you my best Rock Knutney speech". There was instantaneous laughter and everyone walked away from me and went back to what they were doing. I was a little confused, then our pitcher came up to me and said "You know it's Knute Rockne right"?
I got my skirt tucked in my underwear. Twice. High school sucks 😂
Sarah Powell I wore a denim skirt yo school one day that fit right when I was standing but would roll up when I sat down. It was so embarrassing.
THIS HAPPENED TO ME TOOOOOO
Omg
Oh don't worry, I pronounce a lot of words wrong in my life.
And instead of "ma'am", I sometimes mistakenly say "mom".
Oh, like those brits on tv? No worries
I was reading to my class from a Roman history. The sentence came up: "The servant entered carrying two flaming braziers." (BRAE-sures) I pronounced it 'brassieres.
LOL
That’s not how it’s pronounced? Haha you just saved me from making the same mistake
The biggest embarrassing moment I can recall is a very dim memory, probably not accurate as it's been colored by re-tellings from my parents. At an early birthday party, when I was in perhaps kindergarten, I was playing outside when my mom called out that it was time for cake. I was so excited I ran into the house, my friends close behind, and there were thus many witnesses to me tripping on the rug under the table and faceplanting directly into the cake.
Alternately, there's the day I spent in the nurse's office, again in kindergarten. This one I remember quite vividly, though, and it wasn't entirely my fault. On the playground at school, I was apparently rather well liked (that didn't continue later in my schooling), and was being fought over by two of the girls. Literally. Each had me by an arm, and were pulling on me to claim me as their best friend. They both lost their grip when I tripped, and landed directly on a nest of fire ants. I was rather mortifyingly covered in calamine lotion for a while after that. And yes, I know I'm lucky to have not been allergic to the venom.
For more recent, but more private, embarrassment, I did pass out in triage while holding my wife's hand while she was being prepped to deliver our first child. In my defense, they had trouble getting her IV in, and I don't do well seeing my wife's blood dripping onto the ground.
***** Thank you. That was two years ago; I did much better with my daughter a few weeks back.
dude, now i'm just wondering what kind of school leaves nests of fire ants on the playground! :-S
& congrats on the baby, by the way :)
A few more quick embarrassing stories just for the hell of it:
A week or two ago, my mom had hired a babysitter while she worked a 12-hour night shift at the hospital (which is outrageous because I'm a high school student old enough to stay the night at other people's houses to watch thEir children, but my mom is paranoid and I'm the youngest etc etc). We were both sitting on the sofa, making idle small talk and watching tv. I begin texting my best friend, and he says something particularly hilarious. I try my best to hold in a laugh, but I can't help it. I let out a ridiculous belly-laugh, unable to stop. I can't explain why I'm laughing to the babysitter, but knowing that she is observing this odd behaviour with no idea what's going on makes me laugh even harder. After sitting there giggling uncontrollably for well over 3 minutes, she quietly asks me if I'm okay. I eventually get up and leave the room, which makes everything even more awkward.
Also, about 2 years ago, I was at lunch with the aforementioned friend and a few others. They were lightly joking about commonly noted Asian stereotypes in a stupid but somehow inoffensive way. I laugh and say something to my friend like "well hey, you're technically Asian too". I say this because I haven't known him very long, but made the assumption that he was Indian. I assumed this because 1)He appears to be Indian 2)His first name is one I haven't heard before and his last name is the name of what I thought was a Hindu god 3)His family is Muslim 4)About 20% of our school population is of Indian descent. I later found out that 1)His parents are not from India, but Guyana 2)His first name is Muslim and his last name is not a Hindu but a Roman god 3)The majority of India is not Muslim, but Hindu. He's Canadian, and his biggest pet peeve is when people assume he is Indian just because of his name and skin color. I kick myself for this every day because I feel like I was quick to label him out of ignorance and racism. He didn't call me out on it, and I don't think he really understood why I said what I did, but I'll never get over that one.
At lunch with again the same person a week ago, I brought a bunch of pudding to eat because I had just had my wisdom teeth out. It was bad enough that I was filling up on mushy toddler snacks... I was acting much more awkward than usual for some reason, and actually missed my mouth 7/10 times I tried to spoon in some pudding. I kept laughing and making weird noises and at one point my friends attempted to feed me like a child because clearly I was incapable of eating properly on my own.
The thing is, I have found friends that totally understand and accept my idiot behaviour, and that has made all the difference in my own self confidence.
Guyana's largest ethnic group is
...... wait for it..............
*Indian* . Almost all Muslims in Guyana are of Indian descent.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Guyana#Ethnic_groups
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Guyana#Demographics
Okay so, story time:
In seventh grade at my school, we were required to take a semester-long class about school and life skills. We each had to create and give a presentation on one skill/helpful life tips and I did mine on memory improvement (specifically in test preparation). One thing that I obviously brought up was the usefulness of rhymes and saying things in sing-songy ways. I gave the classic example of "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue" which 3rd graders all across America have been using for years. Except, in a slip of the tongue, I said 1942. It was SO embarrassing, especially since, at the time, I was sort of considered to be "that gifted kid" at my school.
Lisa Tarsavage
I understand and it's okay.
Today I said subtropical instead of subpolar zone, which we have been discussing for like ages.