Most Embarrassing thing that's happened to you in public?

[MetalMamaRocks]

I'll start ... I had recently moved from New York state to Southern Kentucky and was having a hard time fitting in. I talked differently, dressed differently, and being a teenager, was extremely self conscious.

I had a crush on this really cute musician guy (think James Taylor with long blonde hair) and he finally asked me out. We went on a double-date with another couple to some bars on lower Broadway in Nashville. We stopped at a honky tonk named Tootsies Orchid Lounge and sat on the second level. I was trying to be inconspicuous because I was under aged, but they didn't card me and were serving me drinks. I got up to go use the bathroom, and proceeded to trip and fall down the stairs. In Tootsies. On a busy Saturday night. I was so embarrassed! But thankfully not hurt.

Anyone else been humiliated like this?

[mivanqua]

MMR, I could write a novel the size of The Tommyknockers about all of the stupid and/or ridiculous shit I've done/said in public! Nothing racist or hateful, but certainly stupid!
Here's a good one....
In the 90s, I went to see Frank Black (AKA Black Francis from the Pixies) and the Catholics in downtown Richmond. I was seeing this girl and we had just discovered lemon drops. You know the stuff. Lemon wedge dipped in sugar put in your mouth post vodka shot....We drank so much that she had to stay home. I went, but I struggled. So the opening band came on and I was right in the front. The guitar player clicked the distortion pedal for a heartfelt indie sludge solo...I whispered in my friend Robin's (who I was completely in love with) ear "watch this..." and I reached down and turned off his distortion pedal when he turned around. He whipped back around and saw me bending back up with a grin. I did that one more time a bit later and the singer (nobody has been able to tell me what this means so if you know, let me know) licked his thumb and put it on my forehead. Don't worry, I'm still me, so after the show was over, i walked over to the bands merch table, which they were manning together, and apologized, saying I was just stupid drunk and not used to that. Do you know what the super nice guitar player said to me? He said "I don't give a shit, at least you showed some interest. Most places we go, everyone's talking and doesn't pay any attention to us." Can you believe that? I'm still embarrassed about it to this day despite this. I'm a musician myself, and if someone did that to me, I'd be HORRIFIED! In fact, that's why I don't play open mics anymore. Nobody listens. They're just yapping away and getting drunk. So there ya go MMR. A tale from my past that embarrasses the hell out of me to this day. There was no excuse for that shit, especially since I myself am a musician. As payment for my shitty misdeed, I barely remember Frank Black's performance, and it was right after the second album came out. His post-Pixies swan-song (the first eponymous one and the next one after "Teenager of the Year" ("Cult of Ray") were super awesome also, but "Teenager of the Year" was really something special) Also, I met Frank Black that night in the crowd and drunkenly told him how great he was and how much I loved the Pixies and requested a toast. "To all of your great work and much more to come" I said, and we tapped our beer cups together but HE DIDN'T DRINK after! Now, understand....I had bought Surfer Rosa probably five different times because friends kept stealing them, along with all of the others. I was offended. You can't take a sip of beer after a toast ABOUT you? Kim Deal was WAY cooler when I met her years later. She actually talked about her neighbors dog and all kinds of other stuff while chain smoking a couple of cigarettes outside of a club she was playing with me. She was really fun.

[MetalMamaRocks]

Lol, Mivanqua that sounds like one of those "here, hold my beer" moments!

[mivanqua]

I've got a crazy one from when I was a kid (11) and I'll share it if you share one about when.you were a kid....

[CatfatherB]

...I've got one!

Don't recall the exact year in the mid-late 90's I went to see Quiet Riot in a small club and may I add I was quiet drunk...

I was standing in the club when these kids started moshing...and in my drunken mind I was thinking "they better not touch me"...well the second time they did I shoved one of them back while yelling why the hell are you moshing to Quiet friggin Riot!!

After I bounced my cigarette off the guys nose a security guard grabbed my hand and told me...we don't hold our beers like that!! I was holding the long neck like a club!

I felt bad about my "redneck" ways as I sat at a table the rest of the night sobering up, the guard was pretty cool about cuz I should have been kicked out and arrested for my actions?

Long story short...when a stupid situation arises like that now, I just leave before "Billy bad-ass" comes out!!

[MetalMamaRocks]

...I've got one!

Don't recall the exact year in the mid-late 90's I went to see Quiet Riot in a small club and may I add I was quiet drunk...

I was standing in the club when these kids started moshing...and in my drunken mind I was thinking "they better not touch me"...well the second time they did I shoved one of them back while yelling why the hell are you moshing to Quiet friggin Riot!!

After I bounced my cigarette off the guys nose a security guard grabbed my hand and told me...we don't hold our beers like that!! I was holding the long neck like a club!

I felt bad about my "redneck" ways as I sat at a table the rest of the night sobering up, the guard was pretty cool about cuz I should have been kicked out and arrested for my actions?

Long story short...when a stupid situation arises like that now, I just leave before "Billy bad-ass" comes out!!

Lol, who moshes in a club anyways? I've never seen that!

[beathappening]

Miv,
I've loved the Pixies and the Breeders for so long, since I was 16. Surfer Rosa and Pod were very important albums to me as a high schooler just starting to play in bands. Never got around to Black's solo stuff though. I thought Trompe Le Monde and later Breeders stuff (even Last Splash was somewhat uneven) were disappointing compared to their heyday, so I glossed over it. I ought to try to give it another chance now.

If you watch the documentary "loudquietloud", you'll see that they're all recovering alcoholics and don't allow alcohol on their reunion tours, so don't feel offended. Good doc though, and there are some very awkward parts mainly due to their drummer David Lovering


As far as on topic, I'm still trying to recall an embarrassing moment I actually remember. I've done a ton of embarrassing stuff while intoxicated, but does it count if your friends/the cops have to fill in the blanks?

[MetalMamaRocks]

I've got a crazy one from when I was a kid (11) and I'll share it if you share one about when.you were a kid....

Okay, I've got one. Going all the way back to my first day of kindergarten. I was all decked out in a little frilly dress and bows in my hair. Mom drove me, and when we got to school she came around the car, opened the door, and took my hand to go in the school.

Well I didn't want anything to do with that, so i layed down in the front seat and started kicking and screaming "I don't want to go to school!". She finally talked me into going in and I sat at my desk and was fine.

Later the teacher had us stand up one by one and state our names. She goes all around the room and gets to this one little boy. He stands up, turns around and looks at me, and says in his little Beavis and Butthead voice, "Ha ha, I saw your panties". What a little twerp!

[brave777]

When i was in fifth grade, a school bus dropped me off. i was walking home when i saw this beautiful awesome red flower whiten arms reach above the bricks. I pull my arm out and snatched it with my hand. And then i hear " THATS NOT NICE!" i looked, and i dont know how i missed her, it was an older lady on her knee's with garden gloves planting flowers to make her property look good. Oh boy i felt stupid.

When i was in 3rd or 4th grade, i always had this girl chase me all the time, well it all stopped after one incident. This time i was behind her on playground chasing her and when she decided to go down the slide i was was right behind her going down the slide. I dont know why but she pulled her hand back out to hold to something? Yes literally, she accidently pulled my on my pants and partly grabbed my package as we both slid down the slide. Each time school bus was dropping us off, she was quiet and looked out the window while i looked at her trying to figure out what happened.

[MetalMamaRocks]

Brave, I bet that was pretty embarrassing for that little girl too!

[Strangbrew048]

In the 7th grade, I was in a track meet at my school. I had started my period that year, and was afraid of tampons -So I was wearing a pad. While running, I felt something happening in my shorts. Something was awry. I swept my hand at my bottom and I felt the pad was hanging out. There was nothing I could do but rip it out, ball it up, and throw it. I was in the middle of an 800 meter race. It went behind the bleachers. Lol. This was like 30 years ago, and I think I blocked out if anyone saw me. I know they saw me throw something
Edit: Yall i do apologize.sorry, It is gross but it happened and well,
I keep things too real sometimes.

[FartBlaster]

Got pants at the beach in shallow water

[Love_Redz]

When I was fifteen my mom caught me having sex with the maid needless to say we didn’t have a maid anymore more, now that was embarrassing, I’m glad my mom didn’t report her she was thirty years old and married, hope you don’t judge I was young and my hormones were raging

[CatfatherB]

When I was fifteen my mom caught me having sex with the maid needless to say we didn’t have a maid anymore more, now that was embarrassing, I’m glad my mom didn’t report her she was thirty years old and married, hope you don’t judge I was young and my hormones were raging

[StringThing]

When I was in highschool I was a fervent alcoholic. I would drink in school between periods. Just go into a stall, open up my water bottle of tequila or whiskey, and drink. Was kind of a quiet kid.

One time I was drunk and realized I had drivers ed that day. This would be fine if it was a classroom day, or if I was not driving that day (sometimes you'd just ride along.) But that day was my day to drive. I'd already told my teacher once I couldn't drive due to some 'medication' I was on. I was young and dumb (am still dumb) but I was not about to drive drunk in front of my instructor. So I decided that instead I would drink alone in the bathroom. Ended up passing out and pissing myself.

Next thing I know I'm waking up on the floor with someone looking over me and asking if I'm alright. I don't know what I said. Ended up having an ambulance called and I had to go to the hospital. It was all around embarrassing. I remember being wheelchaired from the bathroom to the nurse's office, and I remember yelling at the police officer who searched my bags, telling him it was illegal to search. He was a good guy. Found alcohol in my bag but didn't charge me for it. I ended up getting something akin to 'disturbing the peace' and got off very lightly, thank god.

Thankfully the next week someone got drunk and shit their pants in the hallway, and the infamy around me being wheelchaired kind of died off. It was weird though. Some people almost seemed to admire me for getting so drunk in school I had to be carried off to the hospital. It was not my proudest moment and I wish I could've given teenage me a big shake so I could tell myself to pay attention in school, and to stop drinking/doing drugs all the time.

[D_B_C]

When I was fifteen my mom caught me having sex with the maid needless to say we didn’t have a maid anymore more, now that was embarrassing, I’m glad my mom didn’t report her she was thirty years old and married, hope you don’t judge I was young and my hormones were raging

AWESOME STORY!!

[MycatTimmy]

One of many embarrassing moments I’ve had happened when I was about 6. I was at my Saturday morning dance class. I was a new student and was sooo excited. I just knew that I was going to be a Prima Ballerina ! I was wearing a pink leotard with a pink tutu. Well during the class I raised my hand as I had to go to the bathroom. The teacher led me to the bathroom then went back to class. After about 10 minutes went by and I didn’t return the teacher came back to check on me. There I was, trapped in the stall, my leotard twisted around my head, with one arm trapped up next to my head, totally unable to see a thing, standing in a puddle of urine.
The following Saturday I was in Swimming lessons.

[D_B_C]

When I was 8 me and my older brother shared a room, seprate beds, but same room. He was 10 at the time, he had bed wetting issues into his early teens. Once my grandmother and my aunt was over early one morning having coffee with my mom. I woke up to find my brother had done it again and i was furious! I ran in the kitchen and yelled "Mom!! He had a wet dream again" my grandmother spewed her coffee out and my moms face turned blood red! She just quietly said, "Ok,son, I will take care of it...

At 8 years old I thought i knew what a wet dream was....boy was I wrong...

[IndelibleDotInk]

When I was fifteen my mom caught me having sex with the maid needless to say we didn’t have a maid anymore more, now that was embarrassing, I’m glad my mom didn’t report her she was thirty years old and married, hope you don’t judge I was young and my hormones were raging

ROCK ON! High fricking five like a mofo!

[Greyfeather]

Few years ago I was walking around a crowded store, my mind on my shopping list. I was wearing a pair of snugly fitting trousers - which I realize, at this moment, is kind of unusual for me because I'm mostly a skirt/dress gal. Anyway, I felt something pulling on the hem of my pants. I looked down and saw a pair of underpants hanging behind the heal of my shoe, nice bright blue color, flapping along merrily at the hem of my pants. At that very moment they decided to disengage and lay there on the floor for any and all to see. I bent down, grabbed the panties and shoved them into my bag. There were probably a few people wondering just how in the hell a woman's underpants could suddenly un-gird themselves then travel down a pant leg and find freedom like that.

Btw: this isn't just a woman thing. If you pull your pants off at the end of the day (or whatever ) and hook your thumbs in your underpants to take them off at the same time, your underwear might just stay in those pants if you're in a hurry and don't toss the drawers in the hamper. If you're as absent minded as I am, check your trousers for sneaky underwear before putting them on. Also: no need to get grossed out. Those 'floor panties' had gone through the wash WITH those trousers.

Just another way our clothes can make us look like fools

[mivanqua]

your underwear might just stay in those pants

I count on it...for da LADIEZ!

[MycatTimmy]

Metalmama thank you for starting this thread. Every time I see a new entry I know that I’m guaranteed a chuckle if not outright laughs.

[MetalMamaRocks]

Metalmama thank you for starting this thread. Every time I see a new entry I know that I’m guaranteed a chuckle if not outright laughs.

You're welcome! I think embarrassing situations is something we can all relate to. I have so many!

[broccolibear]

Oh boy... My freshman year in high school they were looking for a student band to play a few songs at the pep rally or whatever. I started playing guitar in middle school so my good musician friend recruited me along with 2 other people to do it. I was on guitar, we couldn't find a singer so my friend played bass and sang (he could not sing in the slightest back then. It was bad and he knows it), we had a keyboard player, and we had a drummer. We maybe got 2 rehearsals in and we were ignorant high schoolers so we didn't even have the equipment to have a proper rehearsal where we could all hear each other. No mic, no keyboard amp, a puny bass amp, a slightly less puny guitar amp that sounds like a buzzsaw, and not even a drum kit lol. So it was basically me just playing the songs solo on guitar with a bit of noise in the background. Sounds like a good plan, right?

So come time for the show... our drummer still couldn't procure a drum kit to use so he quit on us last minute. Still no keyboard amp so that was inaudible. My friend realized he couldn't play bass and sing at the same time so he just held it and pretended to play. The school did give us a PA system to use, but like I said, my friend COULD NOT SING AT ALL so we would have been better off without it.

And guess what songs we played... Prayer Of the Refugee by Rise Against, and get this... Before I Forget by Slipknot. Why we thought those were good choices for a high school pep rally, I have no clue.

I did okay, about as good as you'd expect a fairly decent high school guitar player to do. But yeah... the performance as a whole was extremely embarrassing to be a part of. People weren't mean about it or anything and we all had a sense of humor, but apparently it was memorable enough that people still remembered it years later after high school. On multiple occasions I've encountered people I went to high school with at parties or whatever, and they'd be like "wait a minute, you played the pep rally that one year didn't you??"

[IndelibleDotInk]

When I was in highschool I was a fervent alcoholic. I would drink in school between periods. Just go into a stall, open up my water bottle of tequila or whiskey, and drink. Was kind of a quiet kid.

One time I was drunk and realized I had drivers ed that day. This would be fine if it was a classroom day, or if I was not driving that day (sometimes you'd just ride along.) But that day was my day to drive. I'd already told my teacher once I couldn't drive due to some 'medication' I was on. I was young and dumb (am still dumb) but I was not about to drive drunk in front of my instructor. So I decided that instead I would drink alone in the bathroom. Ended up passing out and pissing myself.

Next thing I know I'm waking up on the floor with someone looking over me and asking if I'm alright. I don't know what I said. Ended up having an ambulance called and I had to go to the hospital. It was all around embarrassing. I remember being wheelchaired from the bathroom to the nurse's office, and I remember yelling at the police officer who searched my bags, telling him it was illegal to search. He was a good guy. Found alcohol in my bag but didn't charge me for it. I ended up getting something akin to 'disturbing the peace' and got off very lightly, thank god.

Thankfully the next week someone got drunk and shit their pants in the hallway, and the infamy around me being wheelchaired kind of died off. It was weird though. Some people almost seemed to admire me for getting so drunk in school I had to be carried off to the hospital. It was not my proudest moment and I wish I could've given teenage me a big shake so I could tell myself to pay attention in school, and to stop drinking/doing drugs all the time.

Sophomore year of highschool, my parents and sister were at a church camp weekend and I threw a moderately wild party, a friend got super drunk and locked himself in the bathroom and passed out while taking a crap, most of which ended up on the floor. We looked in the window from outside and my best friend was like 'I think he's dead!' and we broke in and cleaned him up. The next morning I kicked him until he woke up and made him clean the bathroom. Then my parents came home early and I just barely managed to hide the bong; liquor bottles and beer cans were everywhere, I got in a little trouble. My friend who shit himself was super embarrassed, but it wasn't too bad, we didn't let anyone look or take pictures, we cleaned him up and didn't really tease him much.