🤯 INCRÍVEL: 26 Times People Reached Heights Of Cringe They Didn’t Know They Could 😲
Cringe is everywhere around us—within us, even. So, when Reddit user PaddedValls made a post on r/AskUK inviting people to share their most embarrassing moments, many did. We at Bored Panda thought it would be a nice idea to pick out the wildest stories and remind each other that we’re all exceptionally good at making fools of ourselves. It might not be very comforting in the moment, but after enough time passes, at least we’re left with something to laugh about.
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In a restaurant I needed to [gas], so waited for a loud bit in the background music, then let rip. Then remembered I had earphones on.
A bit similar to yours, I walked all the way to a nearby village, about 4 miles to meet a girl when I was about 16.
I didn’t have money for the bus but didn’t tell her that. unbeknown to me I had grass and leaves all in my hair. She was very confused.
I had to confess I had walked and taken a shortcut through a corn field
It must have worked as she married me and we’ve been together for nearly 20 years
Her grandad gave me a lift back home when it was time for me go. Apparently, I had won him over straight away having walked all that way to meet his granddaughter.
“Embarrassment is a light form of shame, a universal emotion designed to inhibit anti-social behavior,” psychoanalyst and AEDP psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel told Bored Panda.
“When we do something that makes us stand out in a way we don’t like or want, we are signaled by feelings of embarrassment to stop,” added Jacobs Hendel, the author of It’s Not Always Depression.
My boss told all of us that she had an inoperable brain tumor. Without missing a beat I said, “I told you this place would [end] you.” It’s been 20 years, I’m still mortified.
Yeah this is easy. In my 20s, I had a crush on someone at work. I bumped into him on the way back from the works canteen one afternoon, I’d told my team I was going and asked if anyone had any orders. Consequently I had my arms filled with chocolate and crisps.
He said something like “I hope that’s not all for you”
I said – I will never know why – in a squeaky cartoon character voice, “I’m actually a little squirrel storing up all my nuts for the winter”
He looked sort of horrified. I went into a panic mode and exited the scene quickly… doing little jumps and squeaks LIKE A SQUIRREL
It was a lonely summer.
As much as we would like to avoid it, being cringe is part of being human, and we have to accept this fact to be better equipped to handle the experience. “We can’t prevent it without restricting our authenticity,” Jacobs Hendel explained.
That being said, the psychotherapist reassured us that when we feel embarrassed, there are many actions we can take, both internally and externally, to minimize a bad feeling, primarily:
1. Immediately show ourselves compassion.
2. Listen to our embarrassment and learn what caused us to feel that way. Then, think through whether we deserve to feel embarrassed and determine if we need to apologize or if we should simply forgive ourselves and move on.
For example, Jacobs Hendel said, if we mistake a pair of paper knickers at a spa for a shower cap, we can:
1. Recognize and validate our feeling of embarrassment: “Yikes, I’m so embarrassed!” (We can use the Change Triangle as guide);
2. Say to ourselves, “Oops. Everyone makes mistakes. It’s okay.” Then, be kind to ourselves, ask others for kindness, and demonstrate understanding.
When I was at University there was a blind student whose lectures were in the same building as mine. He had a guide dog – a Golden Retriever – and being young I decided to speak to him – you know, prove I considered him as just another student, I wasn’t ableist, etc etc.
And what was the first thing that fell out of my mouth when I opened it?
“Isn’t your dog a lovely colour?”
To his eternal credit, he grinned and replied, “So they tell me.”.
I was working long hours building a studio set. I ended up staying in a nearby Travelodge, paid for by work. The next day, in front of the carpenters and warehouse guys and all assembled people I said to the boss “Thank you for last night. And this morning.”.
Licensed mental health counselor/psychotherapist Leon Garber, who is also the man behind the blog Leon’s Existential Cafe, told Bored Panda that one must also question whether they’re taking something personally.
“This means that maybe they’re misinterpreting others’ reactions to them. In the case of shame and public disgrace lining up, we have to ask ourselves if it’s possible that what we’ve done or who we are really isn’t that awful, despite the negative feedback,” he explained.
When I was maybe 8 or so I really fancied this girl in my class but she was ‘going out’ with my best friend at the time. One day they broke up, as kids do, and I saw my chance. Asked her out, she said yes, and I invited her to mine to hang out one afternoon. I figured I needed to buy her a gift so I went to New Look and found a hot pink necklace that said ‘[attractive]’. That’s perfect, I thought! Bought it for all of two quid and showed my mum when I got home. She laughed and told me it was highly inappropriate for an 8 year old. Gave it to her anyway and she broke up with me because she didn’t like it.
edit: should add that i ended up a flaming [intimate] so, was probably for the best.
I was standing at my back fence smoking a joint, and the Amazon deliverer came up to me and asked “are you 13?” Me, a bit stoned and waiting for parts for a vape, assumed she was asking my age to verify if I was over 18 and take the package. I looked at her like she was stupid and said “yeah of course, I’m 28 years old!”
She says “…I mean, is your house number 13?”
Not the worst in the world, but I felt so stupid after 😭.
I was working on a huge building site as an apprentice. I often had to take drawings to the site office of another company who were sharing the job with the company who I worked for.
I always took the opportunity to ‘chat up’ their hot admin girl and had boasted to others on the site that she was flirting with me.
One day near the end of Summer I went round there, and she said “I guess I won’t be seeing you after this week eh”
I looked confused and asked why, and she said “because the school holidays are finishing and you’ll be going back to school”
She thought I was a schoolboy helping my dad out over the Summer.
When it comes to the internet in particular, one website recently asked 3,000 Americans about online behavior, posts, trends, etc., that they deemed cringe.
Los Angeles was ranked as the number one cringiest city when it came to social media usage, followed by Seattle and Nashville, while the top (or worst?) activities were:
- Captioning cliché quotes like “good vibes only”
- Lip-syncing to songs in stories
- Posting overly filtered or photoshopped pictures
- Recreating TikTok dances
- Themed day posts like #MotivationMonday or #ThrowbackThursday
Hadn’t long started my first job as an IT apprentice. I was a really shy, quiet teenager who barely spoke, let alone cracked jokes or did “banter”.
One day my boss asked if I had finished doing something. I thought it would be funny to reply with a Simpsons quote – “As long as there are absolutely no followup questions, yes, yes I have”.
But I f****d it up and actually said “As long as you don’t ask me again, yes”.
Boss had a real short fuse but somehow managed to keep from exploding at me, although I could tell he wanted to as he went bright red.
He just stood there for a second before silently walking off as I hoped a hole would open up in the floor.
Oh just thought of another one – was chatting to the old lady next door about a cat that kept trying to get into people’s houses. I meant to say “I wouldn’t mind it coming in but I’m allergic to cat hair and get a really bad reaction”, but stumbled over my words and said “really bad erection”…
During a work conversation about musical instruments we’d learned when we were young, a Chinese colleague said she’d played the piano. I asked whether she’d learned Chopsticks. I had precisely no thought for the connection, until everyone sort of just moved away from disgusting racist me.
Without looking, when I was a young teen, I started walking with another family in the supermarket right next to their trolley. I only realised as I was about to put a bag of crisps in their trolley and got an awkward look from Not-My-Mum lady.
I scarpered, never seen them since, I often wonder what life would have been like..
I went to my work Christmas Party in black skinny jeans and a flannel shirt, literally all of the other 100+ guys there were in suit and tie.
In year 8 or 9 I didn’t want to do sports day at school so I pretended to faint, right on the field infront of the whole school while the teachers carried me inside.
Not my cringe but my sister’s. She’s a very relaxed chatty personality and upon joining her new office job, she accidentally said love you at the end of a Teams call to her boss. Mortifying!
Bumped into an old friend, his face looked a bit swollen so I jovially said hello and went [darn] h**l mate you been stung by a bee or something what’s happened there (while laughing).
His response – no mate, I’ve got cancer and I’ve lost half my jaw.
Proceeded to show me, I’ve never wanted to jump into the biggest hole I could find more in my life.
My first ever job out of university was working for a consultancy in London, and it had an open plan office where we were all sat and could hear all and see all. It was quite a stuffy environment as you might expect, very old school place.
Anyway on the end of my FIRST day, I went to go home, I had my headphones in already and I tried to say “Ok, bye guys!” to the people near me.
What actually happened was me shouting “OK BYE GAYS!” at the top of my lungs to the entire floor.
Dance off. A f*****g dance-off. I still can’t believe it many years later…. while I was at uni, God knows what possessed me, but I have been grossly ashamed ever since.
A friend of mine (who was a bit of a metal fan and had shoulder length hair) really fancied a girl and she said something about not liking long hair on men, so he cut off his hair that night with scissors and gave her a carrier bag full of hair in school the next day, as an overblown romantic gesture.
She was pretty freaked out and it didn’t work, obviously.
In 1993 or 94 I went to my then girlfriend’s 21st birthday party in beige baggy suit trousers, white grandad shirt, and a matching beige waistcoat. I looked like an absolute [jerk].
School reunion… 25 years I think it was. We (group) were having a conversation about teacher’s nicknames and I related the one about Miss Biscup who was rather well endowed in the chest department, being called Miss Bigcups.
To Miss Biscup.
Kicked my shoe off on a bus, which sped 3 seats away. Had to get up with 1 shoe on, tap the person on the shoulder who was sitting in the seat my shoe landed under and ask them to get up so I could retrieve it!!
I thought a bartender was asking me out when he asked for my email for an email receipt. I pointed to my ring finger and said ‘I’m engaged’.
It was the first time I’d ever been asked for an email receipt, if that’s any excuse. It haunts me to this day.
Sat in the sixth form centre having a conversation in a group of around 10 or so.
I can’t remember what the guy said to me, due to the sheer embarrassment of what happened next, but whatever he said, I replied with the classic teenager line of ‘Your Mum’.
Instantly remembered his mum died in an accident.
In my panic I apologise and say ‘oh Your Dad’.
Instantly remembered his dad died in the same accident.
Cue me wanting the earth to swallow me whole.
I had a crush (I feel like most cringey stories start with that, right?!)
I had a crush on this guy who had loads of friends and was cool. Our group of friends had been on a trip out at camp, and I’d taken lots of pics, but I had some space left on the roll. So, bored, I got a scrabble board and wrote every cheesy word for love and [intimacy] that I could fit into the scrabble board, and his name in the middle, and took a picture of it. Had the roll processed. Forgot about the scrabble picture…
Everyone in our friend group wanted to see, and one of the girls snatched the pictures out of my hands before I’d looked through them. Found that one. I was the laughing stock of everyone.
Did I mention I’m also a guy?
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