Small mistakes you've made in the past that make you cringe.

caustic 1 · 06-02-2015 10:54AM

Wrote out a few and re-read them and I just couldn't, even anonymous, it's embarrassing.:o

TheBeardedLady · 06-02-2015 10:58AM

I still cringe when I think about it. My dad brought me to the St Patrick's Parade in Dublin when I was about 12, so almost hitting puberty. After the parade, we head to a pub with a kind of under 12s disco thing going on. Everyone had friends to dance with and I was kinda looking on all shy.

My dad was having a pint and obviously feels sorry for me and he tells me he's going to ask the kids if I can dance with him while I begged him not to and he says, "It'll be grand - I'll just go up and ask them now!"

Anyway, he goes up to a boy, a very handsome young man if I remember correctly, and asks him to dance with me and the boy looks at my dad like he was a mad man and stares over at me like I was a weirdo while I turned a bright puce colour and wanted to the ground to swallow me up and says, "Eh...no!". I wanted to die.

I still cringe for my 12 year-old self now. He was always doing embarrassing stuff like that without meaning to, bless him.

vangoz · 06-02-2015 12:15PM

strobe wrote: »

I went to some 'interactive experience' thing before when I was a kid. It was based the the Alien movies that Signoury Weaver was in. You know the ones. Anyway it was pretty cool. It was all done up like a big spaceship and there was strobe lighting and smoke machines and stuff. And guys dressed up as space marines, with replca machine guns firing blanks and occasionally guys dressed in these awesome really well done alien costumes, that'd grab out at you from vents and things, or rush past the intersecting corridor as you approached and the space marines would tell you to get down and start shooting after them and stuff. That was actually brilliant come to think of it. They should do more things like that for kids.

Anyway, we got to an airlock, or ammo room or some thing. And we were all jumpy as fvck by this point. And there was a noise in the distance and one of the two remaining marines (think we'd started with 5, but were down to two at this point) left and went off to check it out, followed by gun fire and screaming, then silence, and the other marine with us yelling "everyone down!!" and pointing his gun towards the only way into the room waiting for the aliens to rush in and murder rape the fvck out of us all.

So it was a pretty tense moment, and out of nervousness I started chewing on the collar of my jacket. I felt it slowly start to tug in my mouth but was just totally focused on the way in, watching out for aliens, and kept hold. And when I finally looked over, turns out it was the kid beside me's jacket color. I kept a grip and nervously chewed away not really grasping just what I was doing. Until I noticed he was looking at me with the fear of death in his eyes, not of aliens, but of the clearly deranged kid that had started chewing on his clothes and was steadfastly refusing to stop. We got caught in this weird eye contact thing where I continued to chew and he continued to try and back away.

Was this Alien Terror in the Square?

donegaLroad · 06-02-2015 12:24PM

Some years ago I was working for a construction company, and on my way home I over-took a very long line of traffic only to realise I wasn't going to make the whole line, so I had to pull in behind the car at the very front... which was a hearse. I had over-taken an entire funeral. I hadn't spotted this from the very back of the line-up, and to make matters worse I was driving a filthy work van. I had to sit behind the hearse for about 1 mile until I got a chance to overtake it.

fussyonion · 06-02-2015 12:33PM

An old school friend of mine joined Facebook recently and she added me as a friend.

She was new to the whole thing and had no idea how posting worked and how things are visible on news feeds unless you private message them, so we're chatting away on my wall, when I asked her if she ever sees any of the girls from our school days. (Let's just call them Anna and Jo).

So here's how it went:

Me: "Do you ever see Anna and Jo?"
Her: "No, they stopped talking to me ages ago. I still get gossip though. I saw Jo last week and she's PILED on the weight. Remember she was stick thin? As for Anna, she broke up with her fella 'cos he was riding Emma Smith but you cannot tell ANYONE. Anyway Anna's a cow...she's gone real fat too and Jo's a tw*t".

I was friends with both Anna and Jo. This girl had posted all of the above on my WALL so everyone could see it.

Anna writes: "Maybe learn how to private message, Lisa? And I already knew my fella was cheating on me. But it's all good 'cos I'm with your ex now. You know the one; the one you stalked for nearly a year cos you were so heartbroken. Yep, together now. Expecting a baby also hence the weight-gain

"

Cue a private message from Lisa absolutely cringeing 'cos she realised what she'd done.

osarusan · 06-02-2015 12:54PM

Why didn't you just delete her post, or hide it from your timeline?

charlietheminxx · 06-02-2015 01:56PM

You used not to be able to remove posts from mobile (maybe 4+ years ago). I know this because my ex once got hammered wrote me a heart pouring message after we broke up and posted it to my wall instead of sending it privately. I was in work when I saw it and couldn't delete it. Not my mistake, but was still pretty awful that details of our break up and stuff about our sex life was there for all to see!

strobe · 06-02-2015 05:32PM

vangoz wrote: »

Was this Alien Terror in the Square?

Oh Jesus... Scared jacket kid!?

Conall Cernach · 06-02-2015 06:10PM

strobe wrote: »

Oh Jesus... Scared jacket kid!?

Strobe your story is probably the funniest thing I have ever read on Boards. I salute you. If ever I get to make a movie or TV show I am stealing that story and including it. It really needs to be up there on the big screen.

strobe · 06-02-2015 06:26PM

caustic 1 wrote: »

Wrote out a few and re-read them and I just couldn't, even anonymous, it's embarrassing.:o

You can't dangle that in front of us and then not spill the beans. Aw go on. Don't be a tease. It'll be cathartic.

RossFixxxed · 09-02-2015 01:32PM

Posting on this thread, which lead to 115 thanks, which lead to everyone in work seeing it over my shoulder and reading it :O

Fishyfreak · 09-02-2015 03:03PM

Went for an interview wearing a novelty Simpsons tie.

What the f*ck was i thinking!

nc19 · 09-02-2015 03:07PM

When I was about 13 I called to a mates house but he wasn't there. His mother asked did I want to wait in his room. Me, wanting to sound all grown up says 'I don't want to pry'(meant impose)

Still shudder when I think of it now, over 20 years later...

brooke 2 · 09-02-2015 03:13PM

donegaLroad wrote: »

Some years ago I was working for a construction company, and on my way home I over-took a very long line of traffic only to realise I wasn't going to make the whole line, so I had to pull in behind the car at the very front... which was a hearse. I had over-taken an entire funeral. I hadn't spotted this from the very back of the line-up, and to make matters worse I was driving a filthy work van. I had to sit behind the hearse for about 1 mile until I got a chance to overtake it.

Served you right! Drivers like you get people killed!!

Deise Vu · 09-02-2015 03:14PM

In a crowded Ice Cream shop in Tramore speaking clearly and loudly to be heard above the the din: Could I have two 69's please?

Sunnyisland · 09-02-2015 03:16PM

I was in that new shopping centre in Kildare , kildare outlets ?? Anyway was getting a coffee in Starbucks big que behind me,the lady asked me for my name and I said in my big dublin voice wat ya want me name for, everybody looked around with lots of grins being passed and the young lady explained it was just so they knew which coffee was for who, no need to be getting paro...

gramar · 09-02-2015 03:54PM

I was in a nighclub years back and was looking for the toilets and saw what I thought was a hallway that looked like it might lead to them. I was just about to go in as someone was coming out so I stood back to let them pass and of course they did the same. I went to go again and lo and behold they tried to come out at the very same moment and that was when I copped it was a mirror I was just about to walk into and the other person was my own reflection. All of this of course was watched by plenty of bystanders who had a good laugh at my expense.

Dog of Tears · 09-02-2015 04:00PM

Robbed a real pigs head from a restaurant in Sth Korea.

Not really sure why I did it other than I was quite drunk and though it would be funny.

Owner chased me a couple of hundred yards down the street, but I was too quick, even with the extra weight of the pigs head.

About 10 minutes later I looked at it and wondered what da fcuk I was doing walking down the street with a pigs head, so I threw it in a bin.

I'm not proud of the entire incident.

Egginacup · 09-02-2015 04:16PM

Went on a date with a girl in Long Island one time. A real Long Island "guidette" she was....big hair, heavy makeup, etc. She was a hotty but not really my type. We went to a movie one Saturday and then for a couple of drinks but it wasn't great so I cut it short and she dropped me home about 10:30. We still snogged in the car and then I got out and she drove off. I lit a ciggy and then not ready to call it a night I walked up to 7/11 to get a six-pack. Walked up to the counter to pay and the girl looked at me and smiled kind of weirdly. 2 cops at the coffee station looked at me frowning and looked at each other and one raised an eyebrow. I left with my beer and went into a bar on the way back home and had a few. All seemed normal so I just put it down to paranoia. When I got back home about midnight with my beer ready to have some more and watch another flick I went into the kitchen to put beer in fridge. My female roomate looked at me and said "what the hell happened to you? Go look at yourself!"

In the mirror there was purple fucking lipstick ALL over my face from ear to ear. It was that real oily, glossy shit that is like paint. In the low light of the bar I guess it wasn't noticeable but in the flourescent, bright light of 7/11 I looked like a cross between Coco the Clown and the fucking Joker to the staff, punters and cops.

Jaysus.

Small mistakes you've made in the past that make you cringe.

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