Most embarrassing moments as a child & adult

Get_Right

Same, I went to rush as a sophomore with my roommate, never planning on pledging. Our school was about 30% greek so it wasn't the only scene on campus. Met a group that I liked and we both pledged. I was lucky, it was a non-hazing fraternity, and we wore that like a badge of honor. Let's just say my social life on campus changed dramatically once I joined. And mostly for the better although it did not help my grades. We did some crazy fun stuff and had the best parties. It was the 80s. To this day I have a group text with 60+ brothers. We may not see each other that often, but we are still in touch. I find that to be amazing. I could call any of them at anytime anywhere across the country. We have had a few get togethers, reunions on campus, meet ups at ball games, and they are always awesome. Bad news is that we have also had three funerals. We are getting to that point in our lives.

lastexitlondon

Wtf is a frat and hazing?

Get_Right

lastexitlondon said:

Wtf is a frat and hazing?

AI generated:
A fraternity is a social organization of people who share common goals and interests. Fraternities are also known as Greek organizations because many early fraternities used Greek letters as identifiers.

Hazing is a form of abuse that involves humiliating, degrading, or endangering someone as a condition of joining or participating in a group. 
Commonly includes physical mistreatment or abuse.

lastexitlondon

Ah sounds like the army

PureandEasy

lastexitlondon said:

My list is way too long

love it.  I remember as a young adult at a friend's house where we used to hang out all the time.  The new thing was dark beer, and I had 3 Michelob dark beers and I felt sick, I stepped away from the table, walked out the front door, got in my car, rode around the block and puked my guts up.  I guess it's really not embarrassing since no one knew as I returned to the party as if nothing happened.  Dark beer is gross.  

markymark550

As a child, it was probably misspelling the word mayor in the 3rd grade spelling bee. The teacher moderating the competition had a very heavy southern accent and didn't enunciate well (especially if she was to run a spelling bee), so I heard her say mare, which I spelled correctly. In hindsight I should have asked for a definition so she would've said something like an elected leader of a city or town instead of female horse. I felt like such an idiot.

I feel like everyone does stupid stuff under the influence and I'm not counting those times. So as an adult, it has to be whenever I have to do any type of public speaking. I'm good in one-on-one settings or small groups, but get very uncomfortable in front of large crowds. I've never been one to seek out being the center of attention, so all the people looking/staring causes my nerves to take over. Inevitably I get tongue tied or say something wrong and feel like people judge me badly for it.

So basically, make me feel stupid and I'll be embarrassed about it when in reality nobody probably even pays attention to it.

PureandEasy

markymark550 said:

As a child, it was probably misspelling the word mayor in the 3rd grade spelling bee. The teacher moderating the competition had a very heavy southern accent and didn't enunciate well (especially if she was to run a spelling bee), so I heard her say mare, which I spelled correctly. In hindsight I should have asked for a definition so she would've said something like an elected leader of a city or town instead of female horse. I felt like such an idiot.

I feel like everyone does stupid stuff under the influence and I'm not counting those times. So as an adult, it has to be whenever I have to do any type of public speaking. I'm good in one-on-one settings or small groups, but get very uncomfortable in front of large crowds. I've never been one to seek out being the center of attention, so all the people looking/staring causes my nerves to take over. Inevitably I get tongue tied or say something wrong and feel like people judge me badly for it.

So basically, make me feel stupid and I'll be embarrassed about it when in reality nobody probably even pays attention to it.

You just brought back a childhood memory for me, I was probably in 3rd or 4th grade as well, spelling bee, had to spell the name of states.  I lived in New Jersey and I spelled New Jersey wrong.  I believe I spelled it New Jersy.  Like you said, nobody pays attention but it's funny what we as individuals remember many, many years later.  I remember being mortified.  

PJ_Soul

I have had many profoundly embarrassing moments. I feel like I've had more than most, but that could be biased? Maybe not, honestly.

I suppose my first most embarrassing moment was a doozie. 

I was a drama kid in high school, so I was in Fiddler on the Roof when I was about 16. At one point during the wedding dance I and 3 others had to lift the bride on a chair and spin her around in the air. When I bent over to pick up the chair, my old-ass, moth-eaten costume decided to just completely give up. It exploded at the seams in everywhere possible, literally.  It wasn fucked up. It pretty much disintegrated ( maybe i should have sued the costume company). 

We lifted the chair with a girl on top.of it, and my dress had exploded. It fell off of my entire top half, and i wasn't even wearing a bra because it had a built-in bodice, and for those of you who din't me, i have enormous tits, LOL. If I did anything other than continued the fucking wedding dance I would have dropped the girl up in the chair. I had to fucking keep up the dance until it was over, in front of 700 people, with my breasts exposed, during a fiddler on the roof wedding. 

I heard people start to laugh and clap and shit. Once I finally got off stage I burst into tears obviously. It was pretty awful.

I actually went to a very kind high school in general, so after that happened, of course there was talk, but the nickname that came out of it for me was "zip". Simply because everyone figured my zipper on my dress exploded, lol. Very mild and kind! I didn't get sexually harassed or anything, so that's cool I guess.

I've had other experiences that were about at that level embarrassment-wise, but that is the one that was in front of the most people, by far.

brianlux

On Halloween day when I was in kindergarten, all us kids wore costumes to school.  Half way through each day, our teaching had us all lie down for ten minute for us to take a nap (also known as teacher needing a break, lol).  So when it came to nap time, the teacher told us to take off our costumes ad lie down for ten minutes.  What she meant of course, was to remove things like crowns or capes or other accoutrements.  I thought she meant everything.  Being an obedient little kid, I took off my one piece skeleton costume that my mother had made and suddenly realized I was the only kid in the class standing there with nothing on but my underpants.  OK, I'll admit it.  I'm pretty sure I cried. 

HughFreakingDillon

PJ_Soul said:

I have had many profoundly embarrassing moments. I feel like I've had more than most, but that could be biased? Maybe not, honestly.

I suppose my first most embarrassing moment was a doozie. 

I was a drama kid in high school, so I was in Fiddler on the Roof when I was about 16. At one point during the wedding dance I and 3 others had to lift the bride on a chair and spin her around in the air. When I bent over to pick up the chair, my old-ass, moth-eaten costume decided to just completely give up. It exploded at the seams in everywhere possible, literally.  It wasn fucked up. It pretty much disintegrated ( maybe i should have sued the costume company). 

We lifted the chair with a girl on top.of it, and my dress had exploded. It fell off of my entire top half, and i wasn't even wearing a bra because it had a built-in bodice, and for those of you who din't me, i have enormous tits, LOL. If I did anything other than continued the fucking wedding dance I would have dropped the girl up in the chair. I had to fucking keep up the dance until it was over, in front of 700 people, with my breasts exposed, during a fiddler on the roof wedding. 

I heard people start to laugh and clap and shit. Once I finally got off stage I burst into tears obviously. It was pretty awful.

I actually went to a very kind high school in general, so after that happened, of course there was talk, but the nickname that came out of it for me was "zip". Simply because everyone figured my zipper on my dress exploded, lol. Very mild and kind! I didn't get sexually harassed or anything, so that's cool I guess.

I've had other experiences that were about at that level embarrassment-wise, but that is the one that was in front of the most people, by far.

LMAO oh my god. 

brianlux

PJ_Soul said:

I have had many profoundly embarrassing moments. I feel like I've had more than most, but that could be biased? Maybe not, honestly.

I suppose my first most embarrassing moment was a doozie. 

I was a drama kid in high school, so I was in Fiddler on the Roof when I was about 16. At one point during the wedding dance I and 3 others had to lift the bride on a chair and spin her around in the air. When I bent over to pick up the chair, my old-ass, moth-eaten costume decided to just completely give up. It exploded at the seams in everywhere possible, literally.  It wasn fucked up. It pretty much disintegrated ( maybe i should have sued the costume company). 

We lifted the chair with a girl on top.of it, and my dress had exploded. It fell off of my entire top half, and i wasn't even wearing a bra because it had a built-in bodice, and for those of you who din't me, i have enormous tits, LOL. If I did anything other than continued the fucking wedding dance I would have dropped the girl up in the chair. I had to fucking keep up the dance until it was over, in front of 700 people, with my breasts exposed, during a fiddler on the roof wedding. 

I heard people start to laugh and clap and shit. Once I finally got off stage I burst into tears obviously. It was pretty awful.

I actually went to a very kind high school in general, so after that happened, of course there was talk, but the nickname that came out of it for me was "zip". Simply because everyone figured my zipper on my dress exploded, lol. Very mild and kind! I didn't get sexually harassed or anything, so that's cool I guess.

I've had other experiences that were about at that level embarrassment-wise, but that is the one that was in front of the most people, by far.

That's seriously impressive that you hung in there and went through with the dance.  A lesser soul would have run off stage and let the bride fall.   If nothing else, it makes for a hell of a good story!

HughFreakingDillon

lucky there was no phones then. PJSoul's ducks would be all over the internet. 

PureandEasy

I too laughed hysterically at both Brian and PJSoul's stories.  Needed it.  Thanks for sharing your humiliating experiences.  Forgive me for laughing.

brianlux

HughFreakingDillon said:

lucky there was no phones then. PJSoul's ducks would be all over the internet. 

OMG, hadn't thought of that. 

brianlux

PureandEasy said:

I too laughed hysterically at both Brian and PJSoul's stories.  Needed it.  Thanks for sharing your humiliating experiences.  Forgive me for laughing.

I'm glad it gave you a laugh!  Good medicine these days! 

Purple Fairy Tree

Yeah this thread is hilarious, the later ones anyway.  I don't think I'm brave enough to share but I have recollected quite a few moments.

mace1229

I have a lot of dumb moments and I enjoy sharing them at work, we always need a good laugh. Like I only learned recently it's "laminate." I have called it "eliminate" my whole life. it wasn't until I was sending an email to ask someone to "eliminate" a paper for me and it kept coming up in the auto spell check. I had to google it to find out there is no E in front.

But my favorite story is from a long time ago, not so much embarrassing because I was pretty little, but it's still a running joke in my family. 
I always loved Chinese food as a little kid, and still do. I was in about first grade and we were at my favorite Chinese restaurant. My dad asks me "Do you know why you like Chinese food so much, and why you eat with chopsticks?" "No, dad."
As my dad points to one of the pieces of art on the wall "You see that paint of a boat there?" Thats the boat you and your real parents were coming to America on when it sank. When you washed up ashore we just took you in as our own. And that's why Chinese food is your favorite."
I didn't think anything of it, was just thankful they took me in! Until a couple years later, I was in the third grade. A girl was crying in class and the teacher stopped class to ask her what was wrong. She said some boys were teasing her because she was adopted. I didn't want her to feel alone and left out, so I blurted out "Thats okay, my parents adopted me from a Chinese family!" My teacher got really angry, asked who told me that, so I told them my dad. My teacher calls home to tell my parents the story I made up in class, and of course my mom throws me under the bus and says "I don't know where he gets these ideas, we'll talk to him about it."
That was the day I learned I wasn't Chinese.

It became the running joke. When I would act up as a teenager my parents would say things like "we should have left you on the beach!" And we still joke about it. They took me to Chinese food for my birthday a couple weeks ago. 

Purple Fairy Tree

@mace1229 lol

PJ_Soul

HughFreakingDillon said:

lucky there was no phones then. PJSoul's ducks would be all over the internet. 

Dude! I hadn't thought of that either! THANK GOD!!!!

HughFreakingDillon

mace1229 said:

I have a lot of dumb moments and I enjoy sharing them at work, we always need a good laugh. Like I only learned recently it's "laminate." I have called it "eliminate" my whole life. it wasn't until I was sending an email to ask someone to "eliminate" a paper for me and it kept coming up in the auto spell check. I had to google it to find out there is no E in front.

But my favorite story is from a long time ago, not so much embarrassing because I was pretty little, but it's still a running joke in my family. 
I always loved Chinese food as a little kid, and still do. I was in about first grade and we were at my favorite Chinese restaurant. My dad asks me "Do you know why you like Chinese food so much, and why you eat with chopsticks?" "No, dad."
As my dad points to one of the pieces of art on the wall "You see that paint of a boat there?" Thats the boat you and your real parents were coming to America on when it sank. When you washed up ashore we just took you in as our own. And that's why Chinese food is your favorite."
I didn't think anything of it, was just thankful they took me in! Until a couple years later, I was in the third grade. A girl was crying in class and the teacher stopped class to ask her what was wrong. She said some boys were teasing her because she was adopted. I didn't want her to feel alone and left out, so I blurted out "Thats okay, my parents adopted me from a Chinese family!" My teacher got really angry, asked who told me that, so I told them my dad. My teacher calls home to tell my parents the story I made up in class, and of course my mom throws me under the bus and says "I don't know where he gets these ideas, we'll talk to him about it."
That was the day I learned I wasn't Chinese.

It became the running joke. When I would act up as a teenager my parents would say things like "we should have left you on the beach!" And we still joke about it. They took me to Chinese food for my birthday a couple weeks ago. 

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