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[LizInFL]

Thanks danib for the suggestion!

What is your most embarrassing moment? 

[LizInFL]

I will be the sacrificial lamb and go first...

In fifth grade, we were having a discussion about the Chinese policy of limiting the number of children per household and boys being the preferred sex. Being a well-read/informed little 11 y.o., I mentioned an article I'd read recently about some small towns in China actually posting women's menstruation schedules on a public blackboard as a way of keeping track of pregnancies, etc.

Except I didn't say "menstruation"...I said "masturbation".

As soon as it came out of my mouth, I *knew* I had said the wrong thing, but I could not come up with the right word. I remember my teacher looking kind of startled but she just KOKO. Of course the class started snickering. TBH, I did not have a clue what masturbation even was or where I'd heard the word. I had to go home and look it up in the big dictionary (b/c the abridged version did not have that word, lol). I was beyond embarrassed, and b/c I was the "good girl", that made it worse, and it was talked about for days. To this day, 20 years later, my face still burns when I think about it.

I have had other moments since then, of course, but nothing that compares with the horror of that day/week.

[goldenlove3]

I don't know if this is my most embarrassing moment but your stories reminded me of this one.

In 5th grade, I had a crush on this kid named Brett who had zero interest in me. During Valentine's Day, the school had a thing going where you can send cards to other students in other classrooms. Well my younger sister, trying to be my wingman, sent Brett a card telling him that I liked him. I honestly have no idea what she wrote in the letter or what exactly had happened, but I just remember the whole class had to put their heads down and the lights were out. Kids were wondering what was going on and I just remember Brett telling everyone that my sister had sent him a letter telling him that I love him. OMG I was mortified!

[tjanca22]

Fifth grade I was at a church picnic and running around playing with friends. One of the boys I had a crush on was chasing after me so I'm running away from him trying to be cute, turn around for 1 second and run right into a tree just outside the shelter where everyone saw me do it. Of course I scrape my forehead, a knee, and my nose started bleeding everywhere. My crush just laughed and went to go chase one of the other girls and didn't give another thought about me. My mom made me sit next to her and I couldn't play anymore for the rest of the afternoon.

[cookswithwine9]

I think I was around 13 yo and just developing my breasts. My family was on vacation with family friends who had a son that was my age. I had a huge crush on him! We were swimming in the hotel pool and I had bought a new straight across bathing suit top to show off my new boobs. I jumped into the water and when I came up my top had fell off and was sitting around my belly button. I was standing in waist deep water so my crush definitely saw! He raised his eye brows at me, at which point I looked down, saw my non existent top. I was mortified! I remember thinking why should I ever wear tops again since the world had already seen my breasts lol

[jubilantsquirrel]

Oh lord, there are just so many moments.

The time I dropped my Disney Princess day of the week underwear when I was walking from my tent to the showers at camp. I didn't realize it until after my shower when I didn't have any clean underwear. Everyone saw them and the counselors kept making announcements that whoever dropped their underwear please go pick them up. I was too embarrassed so I just left them there until the end of camp when a counselor finally picked them up and threw them away.

Then there was the time I was spinning in circles in the middle of my street with my eyes shut. I tripped over the curb and smacked right into my neighbor's mailbox (they had built a big wooden house thing for the mailbox) and tumbled down the hill of their front yard. I had a fat lip and a black eye along with some other little cuts and bruises. My mom wouldn't let me stay home the next day so I told everyone at school that I was hit by a car because I thought it would make me sound like a badass. It didn't work, they all still laughed at me.

Then there was the time I was wearing a much too low cut shirt and had a nip slip as I walked past the table of popular seniors in the cafeteria.

And who could forget the time I was playing in a tennis match and I went to hit the ball as hard as I could, missed the ball but hit myself in the face with the side of the racket. I ended up giving myself a giant goose egg on my forehead 3 days before prom.

There's more I can share if anyone is bored and needs a good laugh.

[kleigh]

I am cringing at these lol. And I could prob give examples for days of how clumsy, clueless, awkward, and unlucky I was as a child.

Ok I'll go with the this one. When I was in Brownies/Girl Scouts (fourth grade) we had a weekend camping trip - in the woods with tents. When we first got to the campgrounds the kids went exploring while the chaperones set up camp. We found the bathrooms which were about 5 minutes away from our site. So someone pointed out these symbols graffitied on the bathroom building - a circle with a star inside it - there were a lot of them. And then they all started saying how it's the devil, the bathrooms were being used as a place to summon the devil and all this devil stuff. I was TERRIFIED of the "devil" as a kid.

On the second (last) night of camp I woke up in the middle of the night with really bad stomach pain, I had to poop. I tried waking up the two girls in my tent to go to the bathrooms with me but they would. not. budge. I was SO SCARED to go to the devil worship bathrooms in the middle of the night esp by myself, so I pooped my pants right there in the tent. How sad. I had no change of clothes left bc we had gone in the pool earlier and clothes were not even close to dry.

The next morning we were doing a morning hike before we packed up and went home. I had to hike with poop in my underwear. One of the chaperones (my best friends mom) pulled me aside and asked if I had to go to the bathroom because I smelled. I told her what happened. Bless her heart. She took us back and "secretly" got me cleaned up and had me put on her sweatpants, as if it wasn't obvious they were wayyyy too big.

[LizInFL]

It's interesting to me that so many of our 'most embarrassing' moments happened 15+ years ago. I guess just goes to show how traumatic middle/high school can be. That stuff sticks with you!

[pandabrrr]

My most recent embarrassing moment happened last month. Hubby and I were taking a day trip Portland and visited one of the malls. I had just found out I was expecting so it was all I could think about. We had just passed a poster for Planned Parenthood when a gal at a kiosk tried to hand me a small silver square package. I said "no thanks, I'm already pregnant" thinking she was handing me a condom. She followed me for a few feet, still trying to hand it to me so I told her I didn't need a condom since I'm pregnant. She turned purple and said it was a deep sea mineral face cream. She kept trying to push her sample on me and I was so humiliated I couldn't move. Hubs had to yank me away.

[goldenlove3]

Apr 14, 2016 11:29:17 GMT -5 starbuck27 said:

Apr 14, 2016 11:24:34 GMT -5 tgrimes1980 said:

I started my period while performing Snow Queen on stage in a white tutu. Not only did the whole audience see, but it was televised. Since it was Nutcracker, they played that shit from Thanksgiving til New Years.

Oh my God.

Ohmygodohmygodohmygod.

This was exactly my reaction! tgrimes1980 OMG!!

[goldenlove3]

Apr 14, 2016 11:56:37 GMT -5 LizInFL said:

It's interesting to me that so many of our 'most embarrassing' moments happened 15+ years ago. I guess just goes to show how traumatic middle/high school can be. That stuff sticks with you!

I realized that too. I'm trying to think of an adult embarrassing moment!

[htk1113]

Several moments of awkward, ill timed farts come to mind from my childhood as well as numerous nip slips at the pool (I don't wear two pieces anymore because of them). This memory embarrasses me now but at the time I didn't think anything of it, I'm sure. I was in elementary school (fourth grade maybe?) and told a camp counselor I liked that I had a tickle fight with a friend and found out my butt was ticklish. Mortifying! I'm sure he was like "WTF?"

More recently, I was doing the deed with mh and for a second, I thought about work and before I could stop myself I made a raspberry noise with my mouth as a sort of stress reliever. MH stopped and was like "am I boring you?" OMG! That was probably the worst thing I have done during sex. I have not been embarrassed in front of mh since before we were dating.

[tallblonde]

tgrimes1980 stahhhhhp! Dying.

[tallblonde]

I'm having trouble identifying the "most" embarrassing one, but a relatively recent one was biking in Block Island with friends while 17 weeks pregnant. It was hilly and the bikes were heavy - I was winded and was slower than my friends, which was fine, whatever. Then we get to an overlook and I'm like eh, why are my pants wet. Thank God I was wearing kind of shiny black Capri leggings so no one could tell, but pretty sure I peed.

I quickly went from the #1 proponent of renting bikes to being over it.

[LizInFL]

tgrimes1980 that is a traumatic moment. Did you realize what was happening during the piece, or not until later?

More recently...I fell on the dance floor at my wedding. By all accounts I did it fairly gracefully (relatively speaking), and in my defense my cousin's foot got caught up in my dress and that is what tripped me up. I'm sure everyone thought I was obliterated...but I'd only had half a glass of champagne at that point.

[buckyb]

When I was in college we decided to do a pub crawl. At one point I really had to pee but the line was so long for the women's restroom. A few of us snuck in the men's room (one where we could lock the door). I had to pee so bad that I tried to pee in the urinal and basically peed all over my pants. I tied a sweatshirt around my waist and keep on drinking. Classy.

[shedreamsincolor]

Had a little too much to drink at a family wedding and my husband and I were "swing dancing." Forgot I was wearing a thong under my dress and when my husband spun me several family members got a great view of my ass when my dress flew up. Classy over here!

[buckyb]

Apr 15, 2016 17:51:33 GMT -5 @sarahwithanh said:

Apr 14, 2016 18:25:31 GMT -5 buckyb said:

When I was in college we decided to do a pub crawl. At one point I really had to pee but the line was so long for the women's restroom. A few of us snuck in the men's room (one where we could lock the door). I had to pee so bad that I tried to pee in the urinal and basically peed all over my pants. I tied a sweatshirt around my waist and keep on drinking. Classy.

Are you a badger? If so we weren't disqualified from the party school rankings for nothing! We are professionals!

Yes, Badger for life!!! I don't even want to think about the amount of alcohol I consumed those four years. #worthit

[calindi]

Oh man, so many cringe worthy moments here! I feel for you ladies!

Mine was in 6th grade - I went to the bathroom to discover I had my period, so I went back to class to get my pads in my backpack. But the teacher wouldn't let me leave again. I tried to sneak out, and she made me sit on a chair in front of class. My period leaked through my pants and left a red spot on the chair when we stood to leave. I was absolutely mortified.

[buckyb]

That's terrible calindi. I bet your teacher felt awful afterwards (or at least I hope they did)

[calindi]

buckyb - I certainly don't think she did. She was evil, and I hated her long before that. She got fired a few years later for making her class do "advertisements" for Nazi concentration camps as part of her WWII lesson plan. And I remember my Mom was like, "That is what they finally fired her for? They should have gotten rid of her years ago!"

[tinydancer15]

Clearly I'm late to the party. But I'm dying over here. Also, it makes me SO sad that elementary / middle school was so unkind to us ! calindi that's so awful, I'm glad she got fired eventually.

Mine was in 4th grade too. I had to pee so bad and only one person could go at a time. By the time it was my turn Im pretty sure I peed on the way over there and I was so mortified I just stayed in the bathroom. My class went to lunch and recess and didn't realize I was missing. I literally was locked in that stall for about 3 hours. Finally my teacher went to the bathroom and I shyly said "Mrs. Wright?" She obviously was super nice and felt horrible. Time like that make me so glad I'm an adult now.