People Share The Most Cringeworthy Things They've Done And That Still Keep Them Up At Night
Things like these stay stuck in your head forever
Doing cringeworthy things that you will eventually regret years later is just part of growing up. Awkward situations are just inevitable, the coolest and most successful person on this planet has probably had at least one cringeworthy interaction in their life.
The worst part about being part of a cringeworthy interaction is that it stays with you forever, you will never forget it and once it casually pops into your head, you will feel this deep shame and embarrassment that is even worse your initial feeling.
The people below have really outdone themselves in the cringe department and they were nice enough to share their stories with us.
1. Secret Stalker
My crush came to my house to do a high school project. It involved the Internet and while she sat next to me she tried to navigate to Google on my computer. Unfortunately, the address bar auto-filled and took her to my last Google search. Page two of results for her name. Every link had been clicked. We both just sat in silence.
2. You have no one to blame but yourself
Last year on New Year’s Eve I was at a big bar in New York with friends and I got kind of drunk and went outside for a cigarette at one point. I must have actually been outside for the countdown, because when I came back in I looked at my phone and it was like 12:02 and I asked my friend why there wasn’t a countdown done by the DJ. I couldn’t really hear what he said, so I went up to the DJ and asked to use the mic and I did a second countdown. In front of the entire bar. With hundreds of people. Starting at “30”. And no one joined in.
3. Can you imagine how embarrassed she must've felt
I was out with my dad at some event. I was maybe 14 or 15. It was an off-roading club and it was his first event to go to. I was tired and we were getting ready to leave. I saw my dad talking to some people, he was like leaning on their car, looking into their window and talking to them. I came up and put my head on his shoulder/chest area and looked into the car for a couple seconds just to hang out and see who he was talking to. It wasn’t my dad. It just looked like him from behind. All conversation stopped and it didn’t hit me for like 20 seconds. Then I said nothing and walked away.
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4. Never judge too quickly
My coworker and I were taking the stairs to get to my office to be healthy. He mentioned my skirt was on crooked so I readjusted it as we stepped out and a bunch of the bosses were there, staring at 2 people coming out of the emergency staircase all flushed and sweaty, and one of them readjusting her skirt. The raised eyebrows were bad enough, the smirk from this really pervy boss was the worst.
5. That is just the worst
I was really sick one day in high school, and my mother thought I was faking it and still made me go. I sneezed so hard I crapped myself. It was everywhere. I called her to ask if she could pick me up from school or at least bring me a change of clothes, she still thought I was lying.
Luckily my gym teacher found me a pair of pants, but I had to deal with my shame for the rest of the school year. I got made fun of a lot for that
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6. A true Guitar Hero
In sixth grade, I started playing Guitar Hero III. That was my intro into any music differing from hip hop, so I basically threw the entire track list onto my iPod and would walk around campus air guitaring. Or more like air guitar-heroing I guess? Anyway, one day in class my teacher asked the class if any of us played an instrument and the conversation went like this:
“Hey, don’t you play guitar?”
“No, I actually play Guitar Hero. Basically the same thing.”
I do actually play guitar now and this thought makes me cringe so much.
7. Uh oh, he screwed up
During my alcohol phase I went on Facebook to search for and pore over pictures of my crush. When I woke up in the morning, I realised that I had actually created an event with her name as the title.
8. He gave them more incentive
When I was in middle school (6th grade) these older kids were making fun of me, so I turned and yelled at them “I can’t hear you I have a POTATO IN MY EAR” Like I was the smartest person on earth.
They proceeded to continue making fun of me and my potato ear.
9. Rejected by a mean teacher
In middle school we had this mean cooking teacher that everyone hated, until our last year of being there, she seemed to lighten up a lot.
On our last day of school everyone was hugging her and saying goodbye in the front part of the school, and I decided “why the hell not, she’s pretty cool”. So as she was walking up the walkway towards me and I put out my arms to hug her, well she walked right past me, and I hear laughter from behind me, and its my crush and her friends dying of laughter.
Still kills me to this day.
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10. Their friendship survived this incident
In primary school around grade 3 (age 9) my friends convinced me to go talk to this girl who I had the biggest crush on
I awkwardly went up to her and started talking to her and my jerk mate came up and pantsed me in front of her
Thankfully he didn’t manage to pull down my undies as well but being 9 years old this girl squealed and then avoided me for ages afterwards
Also the guy who dacked me, we’re still best mates all these year later so he likes to remind me all the time.
11. There's nothing worse than unreciprocated love
I once wrote a letter in second grade to my best friend’s older sister that was in fourth grade, it was gushy and gooey and romantic.
He passed it on and I sort of forgot about it until one day several weeks later when I asked him ‘oh by the way what did she say?’ and he responded ‘she kind of just laughed’.
I still cringe when she brings it up and we’re now in our 20’s
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12. Unintentional racism
My friends and I used to watch a British comedy called ‘The league of Gentlemen” there was a scene where a character said “You! Monkey man.”
For some stupid reason we coined the phrase and used it to wind each other up.
One night we were in the pub watching the World Cup (football) and Ronaldinho came on to the screen and I shouted “You! Monkey Man” in a packed pub. Obviously there were people of different races there.
It was absolutely horrifying. It just came out without thinking, I’m not in the slightest bit racist.
13. Don't ever go back
I tried to pick up the teller at a bank… I haven’t been back to that branch in a good 5 years or so.
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14. Life is full of disappointment
I had a female family friend. We ended up going to the same school in the end and she was having a party that evening. We were across the room from each other in the canteen, in two separate lunch queues.
There was a lot of shouting across from people trying to talk to their friends and I caught her calling to me and trying to say something. I keep shouting back ‘WHAT?!’ cos it’s so noisy.
Me: I CAN’T HEAR YOU BUT WE CAN CHAT AT THE PARTY YEAH?
Room suddenly goes quet.
Her: YOU’RE NOT INVITED AND I’M NOT EVEN TRYING TO TALK TO YOU.
Turns out she was trying to talk to her friend behind me.
Don’t know why this makes me cringe everytime I think back to it. But it’s probably to do with how cool I felt at 11 being friends with one of the cool girls by default.
Who it turns out never really liked me anyway.
15. Oh dear lord
I ran just like Naruto throughout high school. From switching class to class, during lunch time, catching the bus, etc. I always thought I was cool.
16. Poor girl
Guess it’s not as cringy now considering I was a kid when it first happened; but back in first grade we were writing a test or something and I had to go to the washroom BADLY, but the teacher refused to let me go until the tests were finished so I pissed all over my chair. There was a huge puddle all over the floor.
The girl next to me asked me what was all over my seat and I said it must have been water, she dipped her fingers in it and licked it up and said “yep it’s just water.” No one ended up finding out I pissed myself so that’s always good.
Ayoub
