February 10, 2022 | Eul Basa

Mega Embarrassing Moments


Getting embarrassed every once and a while is a part of the human experience, but most people would probably prefer not to have any embarrassing moments at all. That's understandable since some situations can leave people traumatized for years to come. Unfortunately, the following stories prove that very idea—here are some of the most embarrassing moments these people on Reddit have experienced:


1. Trial by Fire

The first time I ever spoke in public was a debate competition when I was 13. Welp, I peed myself in front of teachers, peers, opponents, other schools, judges, and any other descriptor for a person in that 200-person audience. I was embarrassed but decided that nothing more embarrassing would likely happen if I spoke in public again, and now I have no fear of public speaking.

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2. I Just Had It

I had always struggled with public speaking, but during one class presentation, I just couldn't take it anymore. I stood up, looked over at the whole class, and simply couldn't make my mouth form words. So, I grabbed my backpack, and without a word walked out of the door and took myself straight to the principal's office. In the end, my teacher made me a deal that I could avoid failing the assignment by giving the speech to her alone after school. I was incredibly grateful for that.

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3. That Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means

When I was young, I didn't know the difference between “getting laid” and “getting laid off.” Had no idea that these things are completely different, and I would use them almost interchangeably. So, when my dad lost his job one year, the next day at school I went around explaining to all my classmates: "Yeah, things aren't going well at my house, my dad got laid yesterday."

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4. Cringey Computer Cover

When I was in college, I walked in on my roommate while he was watching racy movies in our dorm room. As soon as I walked in, I could tell he just panicked and sat there for one second until calmly turning the monitor off. He then proceeded to take his computer apart for half an hour, saying that he couldn't seem to figure out what was wrong with it. I cringed.

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5. The Family That Eats Together…

I was at my best friend’s house, and in the middle of dinner with his family, his parents decided to announce to their children (and me) that they would be getting a divorce and splitting up the family. The most embarrassing and worst part was that I couldn't leave, because my parents were out of town and I was staying with them.

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6. Ballgame Belcher

I got into my car to run to the store one night. The baseball game was on the radio. Suddenly, the announcer belched mid-word as he was delivering an advertisement for some betting website. All I heard was, "Head on over to play baAAHGHGHLLL..." It sounded like his insides tried to stage a prison break followed by five seconds of intensely awkward silent air. I was crying.

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7. Multi-Tasking

I once got two speeding tickets in one afternoon. One was in a boat, the other was in a car.

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8. Epic Fail

I had a humor speech assignment in my junior year of high school. A female classmate of mine clearly went to the world wide web for her material. She showed up with a stapled packet in her hand and introduced her humor speech as, "The 10 Worst Ways to Commit Suicide." They were all awful with a terrible delivery. There was nothing funny about it and it just didn’t work.

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9. You’re Screwed

I was born missing one of my cuspid teeth, and I had a tooth implant done just a few years ago. In other words, they put a screw in my mouth. Not long after, my boyfriend's dad had a surgery where they put a few screws in his hip. Hearing this news, I immediately told him, in front of their whole family, "Hey, we can be screw buddies!!" They still won't let it go.

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10. Don’t Toot Your Horn

On the second day of band class when I was in the fifth grade, I ripped a fat toot while our teacher was speaking. The hard plastic chair definitely amplified it to a nearly destructive level of sound. EVERYONE was looking over at me, but I guess I was just in the right mood because, I, and my best friend next to me were laughing hysterically. I remember looking up and seeing some others giggling. Even our teacher was stifling a laugh.

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11. The Odyssey

When I was in middle school, I was at a birthday party for a friend of mine who lived a couple of blocks down the street from me. In the middle of the party, I suddenly got the biggest urge to poop. My crush was at the party, and the only bathroom was right next to the living room where everyone was, so I knew I couldn't go there. This is where it all unraveled.

I told my friend I had to run home because my mom needed help with something. I tried calling her or my dad to come pick me up, but neither answered, so I had to walk. I wanted to run, but was afraid if I did it would let loose, so I determinedly sped-walk home. I got about three houses away from my house, and then it happened.

It became too much, and I pooped my pants. Then when I got home, no one was there and I realized I didn't have my keys, so I was locked out. I waddled around to my sister's window as it was always unlocked, pried it open, and very carefully maneuvered my poop-covered self into the bedroom. Oh wait, there’s more.

Unfortunately, her bed was under the window, and on my way down, I smeared poop all over one of her pillows. I went into the bathroom, cleaned up, changed my pants, threw out the poop-covered pillow, then headed back to the party. No one questioned me, and no one ever found out what happened. But I still know.

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12. This Girl Is On Fire

Many years ago when women would use a lot of hair spray in their hair, I had a one-night stand with a girl. It ended horribly. After we got busy, she went to light up a smoke and her ENTIRE head turned into a fireball. So there I was, completely naked, beating this chick's head with a pillow to put the fire out. Once she was no longer Ghost Rider, she grabbed her clothes and ran to the bathroom.

She got dressed and ran out of my house crying. Years later, I found out that she was a friend of my roommate's girlfriend at the time. I found this out because she came with my roommate's girlfriend to a party at my house. The same house where she lit her skull on fire. We did not speak of it that night or any other time we crossed paths thereafter.

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13. The Black Sheep of the Family

I didn’t know alpacas were animals until I was 27. I thought "alpaca" meant "made from llama hair," much like wool is “made from sheep hair.”

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14. Bloody Mary Anyone?

I was at a girl’s house in high school and we were all secretly drinking in her backyard. Then, her friend needed to use the bathroom and walked full force right into the sliding glass door. Her friend's parents were right inside that room watching TV. Her nose was bleeding so bad that she had to have her parents come to pick her up.

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15. An Apple a Day…

Until I was 25, I thought all apples tasted like Red Delicious. I tried a Red Delicious as a kid, hated it, and assumed that’s just what apples tasted like. I was pleasantly surprised when my wife introduced me to Honeycrisp apples...decades later.

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16. No Fooling Pops

It was my freshman year of college and everyone was back home on holiday break. I had my two best friends from high school over to stay the night at my parents' house. We got some booze and also a bag of blow. We hung out in the large finished basement. It had comfy couches, a full bathroom, etc., and we occasionally stepped outside for smoke breaks. Which is how we got ourselves into big trouble.

When we went outside, we accidentally locked ourselves out. We had to go around to another entrance, where we encountered my dad in the kitchen. We were all wasted and tried to make brief, casual conversation. After a couple of minutes, my dad said, "Well you girls all seem to have the sniffles tonight!" I don't even remember what we said in response, but we made our way back to the basement ASAP. He totally knew that we had been snorting stuff. It was so very uncomfortable.

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17. Code Blue

I had the nickname “Blue” for a while. It was short for “blue-light special” because I got lost in a K-Mart on a boy scout trip when I was like 11...

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18. Head Banger Bang Up

I was at a Motley Crue concert in a big arena and before the show started, all the lights were on and a beach ball was being passed around. The whole crowd was watching the beach ball while people were filing into the floor section. When the ball reached the floor, a large man was walking out holding two full beers. He went to kick the ball and fell flat on his back and spilled both drinks on his face. The whole stadium was laughing.

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19. He Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good

Around Christmas when I was seven, I was watching a movie with my parents and heard the characters talk about adult movies and such, if you catch my drift. I asked my parents what it meant, and they didn't tell me, so I looked it up on our family computer. Well, once I saw what it was, I got terrified I wouldn’t get anything for Christmas from Santa.

So I wrote a letter to him apologizing. He wrote me back and said it was ok. The next year, I realized Santa was my parents. It still keeps me up at night.

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20. ‘Snot A Good Way To Pass The Time

I was stuck in traffic. The car next to me was going to be there for a while. I got settled in, got my tunes blazing. I looked to my right and there was this girl digging deep with her fingers into both nostrils. She looked to her left and saw me looking at her. You could tell she had just totally blanked on the cars around her. She turned deep, deep red. But that wasn't the worst part.

She slinked way down and stayed like that for the next 10 miles. There would be a moment or two where we would get a car length or so apart, but we would end up side by side again, and she would instantly turn red.

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21. Can’t You Read the Sign?

Many years ago, there was a club in Toledo that had the bathrooms marked “Men” on the women's bathroom and “Women” on the men's bathroom...underneath the word, there was an arrow pointing the bathroom next to it. It was a hoot. I fell for it the first time I was there, just as everyone fell for it the first time they were there.

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22. Crutch Klutz

I remember a new girl came to our high school and she had a broken leg. She was on crutches, and everyone noticed that. One day everyone was in the cafeteria and she came and got in line. She slowly made her way through the line, but right before she reached the cashier, her two crutches hit some water and spread apart. She face-planted with a loud slap. It was as horrible as you imagined. I never saw her again.

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23. A Hands-on Solution

Years and years ago, I was at my friend’s parents’ place and couldn’t flush a bowel movement. Eventually, I flushed enough that it flooded the bowl to nearly overflowing levels, but it was still stuck. I heard my friend ask if I was OK through the door and I just said "yep,” hoping the terror wasn’t creeping out of my voice.

I had to get out of there, but I couldn't leave my poop-particled water to stagnate there. So I resorted to drastic measures. I did the only thing I could and stuck my hand in the bowl and punched that poop into pieces with my bare hands.  It was single-handedly the worst thing that ever happened to me, but I got the problem fixed I guess, so that was good. Yep, my hand stunk afterward. Some say it still does to this day.

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24. Know Your Audience

It was my senior year in high school and I was in health class. We had an officer come and talk about random stuff. He started going off about a kid from a local middle school that had brought a gun to school. It was a big story in the local news at the time. He then disclosed that after the investigation, they found out that he was frequently abused by his parents, which no one was aware of. But there was one huge mistake he didn't know he made.

Little did he know that the older brother of the victim was sitting right in front of him. The whole class sat there awkwardly.

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25. Delayed Development

If I have even one drink before going to sleep, I’m going to wet the bed. I’m a 25-year-old woman with the bladder of a 3-year-old, apparently.

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26. Pump And Circumstance

About 10 years ago I was walking into a gas station and a middle-aged man was pumping gas. He tried to awkwardly make a comment about the t-shirt that I was wearing. I believe it was a Motorhead shirt. He asked me if I liked some band and ran out of steam with his attempt to flirt. I assumed flirting was his motive, at least.

I went in and paid. Upon exiting the store and walking to the pump I watched him half-wave goodbye as he prepared to drive away. He took off a little quick and took the gas nozzle with him. It was still attached to his tank. He ripped it all the way out of the pump. It was impressive. I thought it was better than his attempt at conversation, but felt awful for him. He was totally mortified.

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27. Single and Not Ready to Mingle

I had a tendency to get super obsessive over my crushes growing up. Total lovesick "I will straight-up marry you right now" obsessive. I went the whole nine yards: extravagant love letters, angsty writing in my journal, weird photos and music video montages, dreaming and daydreaming...yeah, all the cringey, creepy stuff.

I was a lonely kid with a lot of feelings and an emotionally painful home life. I didn't stop until one girl legitimately thought of me as her "stalker" in a quasi-endearing way. That's when it hit home for me that my idea of love was wrong, and you have to get to know someone to have a relationship with them. Haven’t looked back since, but it’s cringey to think of.

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28. Too Much Drama

It all happened during a performance of the high school play. Someone backstage had their microphone on. I'll never forget the words I heard. She said, “I used a condom on your mom last night.” Everyone in the audience, which was made up mostly of parents, heard it. It was like something from a movie. She then had to go out on stage because she had obviously missed her cue.

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29. Caught Red-Handed

I once sat on a red pastel crayon in middle school. I was wearing white pants.

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30. On Shallow Ground

I have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). I had just started a new job and was fresh to life in America. My boss told me that the washrooms in the hallway were for number twos. It was my second week and I was alone at work. My IBS kicked in big time and when I have an IBS issue, it's instant. I panicked. I ran to the washrooms in the hallway and absolutely dropped it like it's hot in the toilet.

I flushed and realized these weren’t regular, deep European toilets, they were extremely shallow. The excess flushing kept rising up in the bowl until it was coming out all over. It flooded the entire washroom. I had to stand on the toilet seat as the poo water was going everywhere. I calmly walked back into the office in a state of shock and panic.

I went to get the mop at the back of the office when the cleaning person arrived. Then it went from embarrassing to nightmarish. I could hear her screaming, “OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD.” I had to pretend I didn't know what was wrong. She asked me if someone had used the washroom in the hallway and I was like, “Sorry. I'm new, I didn't know there were toilets in the hallway.”

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31. Fair-Weather Friends

When I was in elementary school, the popular girl in my class was having a birthday party. Somehow, I got invited. My parents dropped me off at her house and they were all playing with Barbies. I didn't know we were supposed to bring them. So, feeling awkward, I went to the bathroom and hung out there for a bit.

When I came out, all the other girls were gone. Like, the house was almost completely empty and quiet. Then the mom came around the corner and asked why I didn't go to the movies with the rest of the girls...The mom had to call my parents and explain that I got ditched and they needed to come pick me up. That one hurt.

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32. Road Trippin’

I was road tripping and meeting up with a friend in a small city. It was surprisingly hot there and we only brought clothes for colder weather, so I had to wear my swimsuit under my leggings. I was feeling so self-conscious about my dumb outfit, I started nervously rambling as we walked down a long hill. I stumbled on the cracked sidewalk and lost my balance.

I thought I had regained it but instead fell in the most awkward, preventable, slow motion ever sitting position, off the sidewalk and into the grass. My friend didn’t even grab me because he thought I was doing some type of interpretive dance or something. When I landed in my final position, I stuck my entire right hand into a fresh pile of dog poo and my leggings were ripped. We didn’t even laugh cause he was just too weirded out by me.

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33. The Long Walk

When I was in third grade, I had to walk from one side of the room to the other to line up for something. Every other step I took was a toot. Like a loud and obvious one. The class cracked up and were as brutal as third graders are expected to be. That is also the year I called my teacher “mom.” Third grade me was a confused and gassy hot mess.

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34. A Case Of Mistaken Identity

I was working at a restaurant and the bar was full. I was entering some drinks into the computer that was next to a patron who was saving a seat for his friend. An old high school friend of his came up to him. They chatted a bit and talked about how nice it was to see each other. She asked if he minded if she took the seat next to him.

He apologized and told her that he was actually meeting someone. She said in a confused voice, "We were supposed to be meeting." All the blood drained from his face. He realized he thought he had been talking to someone else. They were both mortified. He began profusely apologizing and said she should at least sit down and have a margarita with him. I don't know how the conversation went after that but it was so hard to witness.

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35. Write What You Know

When I was 13, I wrote a pretty detailed fan fiction about my favorite anime. That wouldn't be so embarrassing, except for the fact that the details included me and a character who was 26 playing strip poker, among other dirty things my 13-year-old mind came up with. But here’s where I really screwed myself over.

I THEN decided to print the story out so I could read it later and make edits. However, I decided to bring it into the bathroom to read while I took a bath, and left it in there when I was done. My dad found it and read it, and let's just say he was not happy with the writing content his daughter decided to pick.

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36. Language Barfs Class

I was sitting in my 12th grade English class and all of a sudden, this kid got up. He started running towards the door. Apparently, he wasn't feeling well and was heading for the bathroom. Unfortunately, he didn't quite make it and absolutely sprayed vomit all over the door. He tried to put his hand in front of his mouth to cover it, which ended up like a thumb-over-the-hose type situation.

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37. Batter up

During a rec baseball game when I was 7 or 8, I had to pee really badly. I even told my coach, but he said I was up to bat and couldn’t run off now. I should’ve struck out on purpose, but I wasn’t that clever and couldn’t think anyway. When I got on base, I couldn’t hold it any longer…and peed my pants on the diamond.

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38. Waterpark Peep Show

When I was about 15 years old, I was at a waterpark. I was floating through the lazy river and came around the bend to see an absolutely gorgeous young lifeguard on the side. It took all of my courage, but I  smiled and waved a little. He looked at me like I was insane. I only realized why far too late. I got a little further and found out that one of the waterfalls had pushed my bikini top down and I had smiled at him with one of my breasts out.

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39. Teacher’s Pet

I always used to volunteer to help out with first-day registration at my middle school. All my friends gave me heck for being a suck-up. But, well, the real reason I did it was if you volunteered, you got to pick your locker rather than having one randomly assigned. And see, I had a gigantic crush on my English teacher.

So both 7th and 8th grade years of middle school, I wound up with a locker directly across from his classroom so I could see him every day. And I found the most ridiculous excuses possible to have to go to my locker. I may have also sent him the world's most cringe-inducing anonymous valentine my 8th-grade year.

I'm pretty sure he knew it was me, but I didn't care, I was completely smitten. So it was kind of like that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa gets a crush on Mr. Bergstrom. Except it wasn't charming in any way. It was awkward and terrible and a wee bit stalkerish. Not having the chance to apologize to him for being such a weirdo is among my biggest regrets in life—unfortunately he passed unexpectedly just after I started high school.

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40. Wheelin’ And Reelin’

When I was just a young teenager, I went for a run at the neighborhood park. I was wrapping up my third or so lap when I realized some boys, who were about my age, were hanging around the path on their bikes just ahead of me. As I approached, one of them popped a wheelie and called out, "Hey, how's your run going?" Actually, it was more like, "Hey, how's your run goi--" because as he was speaking, he proceeded to crash into the enormous metal lamp post directly in front of him.

There was an extremely loud clanging sound as he smacked his face into the post and fell off his bike and onto the concrete path. All of his friends laughed and I admit, I let out a small chuckle too, which I immediately felt pretty terrible about. They were gone by the time I had my next lap and I never noticed them at the park again.

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41. Female Trouble

When I was a little kid, I used to go to the ladies’ washroom in my school. They were much cleaner than the boys’ bathrooms and I hate going to the bathroom outside of the stalls, so I figured why not? But one day, I saw the toilet water was filled with blood and ever since that moment, I stopped using ladies washroom.

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42. High Shine Shiner

I was installing some appliances in a customer's house with two other co-workers. I went to step into the backyard and the glass door was really clean so I walked into it. My foot hit it, then my knee, then my head, and I stumbled back. One co-worker instantly cracked out some joke and he and the other started laughing like hyenas. Even the lady whose house it was tried not to laugh, but failed pretty badly.

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43. Safety First

I have smacked my face on our glass door and the side window of vehicles so many times, my husband thinks I need a helmet. How it happens: something will catch my attention—my dogs barking, my husband pointing at something as we drive by—and I'll overly-excitedly go to press my face against the glass to see. Every darn time.

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44. Indecent Proposal

I was driving through the middle of Mississippi, in a very backwoodsy area. I stopped at some dirty, hole-in-the-wall gas station to fill up and use their bathroom. I was using the stall and someone came in behind me to use the urinal. We were the only two men in there. This complete stranger said to me, "You want anything?" I froze in terror. I was speechless.

He said, "Hello? You in there?" I seriously thought I was getting propositioned, straight up Deliverance style. Just then another person entered the bathroom. This guy was shocked to recognize him as his grandson. As I went to quickly escape, this guy was red as a beet and profusely apologized to me. He thought I was his grandson in the stall. Thank goodness, but I still booked it out of there real quick.

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45. The Fugitive

While I was visiting my girlfriend’s family’s home one summer during college, I had to use the bathroom. I had been there a couple of days and had to go “el numero dos.” So I went, it was huge, and it clogged the toilet horribly. Now, this was no ordinary bathroom, either: It’s a makeshift bathroom in the basement that’s half finished.

Panicking, I looked around to find a plunger. There wasn’t one. So, I found a sort of barbecue knife thing, and I tried to stab and cut the poop up, didn’t work. It smelled so horrible, you could smell it up to the kitchen. Freaking out at this point, I asked my girlfriend what to do. Her response was somehow more embarrassing.

She was crying laughing at me, and then told me to just go home—a three hour drive—and flee the scene. Thing is, I actually did it. I got my stuff, headed home, and never ever spoke about it again. Her dad apparently had to try and fix it over the course of three full days. I NEVER EVER will go poop at that house EVER again.

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46. Schooled

I backed out of an angled parking space into a homeless guy riding a bicycle—in front of dozens of high school kids. I was an adult when this happened. The impact knocked the poor guy off his bike, but when I got out to check on him, he was already riding away, saying he was ok. Some of the high school boys yelled, “NICE DRIVING!”

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47. Purr-Fect Poem

I’m a 39-year-old dude, and I talk to my cat in baby voice. I also make up baby-voice poems for him on the fly. My most recent creation goes a little something like this: His name is Gunz / An he is bad / Wen he is naughty / It makes me mad / But he is cute / And liks to snuggle / n dat is why / I giv him huggles.

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48. Exposed

One time when I was at a swimming pool, I saw a kid with his mom. The kid was probably around 10 or 12 years old. He was changing and he had a towel covering himself. His mom was holding the towel, however, she lost her grip. The towel fell down and everyone saw the poor boy naked. He ran away crying. I still feel bad for that kid to this day.

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49. Eye on the “Prize”

I was on vacation somewhere in Spain. I was religiously working out back then, so I even got a contract for this local gym for this one month. While there, I met this local girl who only spoke Spanish. First we only did small talk, then we went on some dates. First going to the pool with her brothers, later going out alone.

I really liked her, but I didn't dare to talk much, since my Spanish was...poor. I figured we were just friends. We were out on a date, playing pool, when suddenly she puts some egg-shaped plastic container into my hand. It looks like one of those containers that contain small prizes you get from those carnival machines.

So we were there playing pool, and she pushes this plastic egg container into my hand. I smile and say something like “muchas gracias” and pocket the egg, preparing for my next shot. She shakes her head in protest. She gestures at my pocket. She also says something—well, a lot—in Spanish. Mostly, I understand "No." I'm lost. When I figured out what she meant, I went red.

Finally, she loses her patience, face palms, and shoves her hand down my pocket, where I put the egg. Pulls it out. Opens it. It contains a condom. I finally understand. I'm such an idiot.

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50. Freaky Father-In-Law

My wife and I lived with her elderly parents, who were 73 and 69. They were both super nice and we all got along well. Her dad was a pretty serious/manly and quiet type of guy. They liked for us all to go for breakfast every Sunday. He would go and sit in the car, and that’s how we know it was time to go. One Sunday I was hungover from a party and I looked out the window.

He was in his car waiting. I thought I better hurry and get going, as he valued punctuality. As I waltzed over to the car, I saw his eyes dart up at me. Then, he kind of fumbled with his phone. I thought nothing of it and jumped in the back and bid him good morning. I wish I'd never witnessed this next part. There was nothing but loud moaning sounds blaring from his phone as he desperately tried to turn it off.

After about five seconds, he was finally able to shut it off. Since I was hungover, I was feeling a bit fuzzy so I was pretty dazed and confused. I felt so uncomfortable, I actually brought up the weather. As I was talking, the moaning sound effects blared out AGAIN and I had to endure a few more seconds of him desperately trying to turn it off. I had nothing to bring us out of that one. Never addressed it and we sat in silence for five minutes before my wife and her mom joined us.

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51. I Want to “Escape” That Answer

Yesterday, I was playing a trivia game. When they asked "What is the longest key on the keyboard?” I answered “The ‘Shift’ key.”

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52. His Kick Gave Quite A Blow

Many years ago, I spent a summer working in the administration building of a large chemical plant. Our department went to a presentation given by a local officer about parking lot safety. He demonstrated several techniques to thwart attackers. He went to demonstrate a kick and let out a loud toot when he did. He bravely continued as if it didn’t happen and no one acknowledged it. I was barely 20 and struggled mightily to keep a straight face.

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53. Siri, Let the Earth Swallow Me

I got my first iPhone about 7 or 8 years ago, and it was the first to have Siri. I was listening to a lot of hip hop at the time, and the phrase I chose to say to Siri was “I love it when you call me Big Papa” like the Notorious BIG song. Siri asked me if I wanted her to call me Big Papa. Why the heck not, I thought.

So this event totally left my memory until about two years later, when iI was looking for an email I had sent from my phone. I found it, and was horrified to learn that it had been signed off from “Big Papa.” Everything I had sent from my phone in those two years, including job related emails and even applications, had been signed off from “Big Papa.”

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54. The Pickup Artist

Once, at a casino, I witnessed one of those stereotypical pickup artists try to make his move on a woman who looked 20 years younger than him. The number of ways he tried convincing the girl to make out with him was insane and very cringe-inducing. Eventually, she just called him a creep or something and left. The dude had no shame and was seriously menacing, but I have to say, his dedication was objectively impressive.

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55. Get Your Head in the Game

This is one of the cringiest stories from my past. It was probably the most embarrassed I have ever been. Back when I was in high school, I went out with a girl I had a huge crush on. We went to the zoo and then grabbed some food. It was great and I had an amazing time, but we had to split up in order to get our trains that were going in opposite directions.

As we said goodbye, I awkwardly tried to lean in for a kiss while she went in to hug me. I ended up head-butting her in the face and her nose started bleeding. I was so embarrassed that I asked, "Are you okay" and when she said, "I think so," I just waved goodbye and ran into the train station. I avoided her for weeks after and never went on a date with her again.

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56. My Dad Was Mucking Embarrassed

I grew up in eastern Europe. Once, my dad got into a drunken bar fight. His punishment was bizarre and cruel. Officers caught him and he was "sentenced" to be mucked the next day. Mucking is an informal sort of punishment they used, where basically you're taken to a cowshed, tied up in the corner, have 6-8 shovelfuls of manure shoveled onto you, and you're left there until sundown to think about your actions.

I remember him hugging me right before he left to serve his four hours on the farm, saying that it was a good lesson for us kids not to do what he did, and he accepts the punishment. I could tell he was really shaken up, which surprised me. He looked utterly miserable and embarrassed afterward, and my mom complained about the stench for DAYS.

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57. Caught With Your Pants Down

In physical education at school, we had to do this thing where you lie on your back with your legs in the air. You then move your legs in a pedalling motion. I was chosen for a demonstration. This turned into an utter disaster. I was wearing boxer shorts, and imagine how embarrassed 12-year-old me felt when some of my junk popped out to say hello.

As discretely as I could, with about 30 people watching, I tucked it away. When it was mentioned afterwards, I just denied that it had happened. Denied it repeatedly in the hope that everybody present might just decide they were mistaken about what they believed they saw. I don’t think it worked in the slightest.

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58. Porta Potty Panic

I was in the military. One night, I watched a female soldier with a bad stomach problem run into a porta-potty. She was ripping her pants down while opening the door. We immediately heard the noise from her release and, at the same time, the noise from the girl that she had just sat down on top of. Both ran out of the little blue bathroom screaming and horrified.

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59. We’ve Got Ourselves a Situation

The other day, I took a poop in a shared office bathroom, not knowing that the toilet was out of order. I chose this bathroom because it has a window that you can open. Upon flushing, the toilet wouldn't flush. Okay, I think to myself, we got ourselves a situation. This bathroom was right off of the break room, and there were quite a few people who saw me go into it.

I was in there for long enough that it was clear to anyone paying attention that I was probably pooping. After a few flushes and waiting, my heart rate up at this point, most of it went down. But there was a stubborn piece that broke off and would not go down. Waiting and waiting and waiting. Finally, I had to come to a decision.

Do I take the poop and throw it in the garbage? Do I wrap it in toilet paper hoping nobody notices? Do I take the toilet paper wrapped doodoo and take it to the other bathroom and flush it? Do I throw it out the window? I took a wad of TP, fished the poop out of the toilet, wrapped it in more toilet paper, and I started to put it in the garbage… But then a little voice in my head told me, no. Under no circumstances are you throwing your own poop in the garbage can at work. This is your place of employment. You are respected here. You'll never sleep at night again if you do this. So I then took the poop and shoved it down the toilet as far as I could. I couldn't see it anymore.

I went to wash my hands in scalding hot water. More people can be heard in the break room. At this point, I must let go, and let God take over. I went back to my desk, praying to God that no one suspected anything, and that the poop didn't just flow back. A few minutes later when the coast was clear, I checked.

The poop was gone. Panic attack over. It was kind of hard to accept the fact that I had stood there holding my own poop, in my work clothes and everything.

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60. A Memorable Sunday Service

I was in church with my whole school for the annual Founders Day service. The Bishop gave the Lord's Prayer. In the split second of silence after the "Amen," someone broke wind really loudly. I tried not to laugh out loud by grabbing my nose, but then a massive nosebleed ensued. I had to walk out of the church bleeding profusely and laughing. But it wasn't over. 

I went outside and found one of the art teachers and one of the English teachers kissing. They looked quite embarrassed and freaked out at the blood-soaked, cackling 14-year-old that had discovered their romantic tryst.

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61. Quite a Transformation

I'm a straight male. When the Transformers movie first came out, I didn't realize that Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox were different performers. I knew there was a "hot girl" in it, and I also knew that a person named Shia LaBeouf was in it, who I thought was female. Every time someone talked about the Transformers movie for a 6 month period, I always commented on how hot Shia LaBeouf was.

I always got weird looks and never knew why. Finally, I saw some trailer or something that made me realize my mistake. Not one of my friends could have corrected me!?!

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62. It Wouldn’t Leaf Me Alone

I was walking across the parking lot towards the entrance of the grocery store as a man was walking out. The sun was shining directly in my face. Suddenly, I noticed something sort of fluttering around next to my face. I assumed it was some kind of bug and started freaking out. I was frantically moving my upper body around to dodge it and trying to swat it, making what I’m sure was a rather unattractive face.

It was a leaf. The man walking towards me, who did not have the sun in his eyes and could see it was a leaf, tried to stifle his laughter as he passed.

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63. Did I Do That?

When I was writing the SAT, I finished a section early, and because it was an early morning test, I decided to take a quick 15-minute nap before the next section. While semi-asleep, I tooted and startled myself awake in a silent classroom, surrounded by 20 kids from my school. Looks of shock and terror, as well as muffled laughter, quickly filled the room. There was still over an hour to go in the test.

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64. The Kitchen Just Got Hotter

My boss’s name was BJ, and he liked to go on vacation a lot, so we started referring to taking a vacation day as a “BJ”. Yes, this came back to bite us, big time. One day, we were in a morning circle meeting with about 30 people. Our Executive Director, who was a woman, started praising our head chef for a good job. He was a nice, somewhat shy guy.

Not thinking, he said, “I should get two BJs for that!” He turned bright red and we laughed for five minutes straight.

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65. Clock’s a-Ticking

I can't read analog clocks. I was sick the day we learned how to in grade 3, and I was too scared to ask anyone after that. I'm also really dyslexic and used to get really embarrassed by how slow I was at learning new things compared to other kids, so I never tried. Maybe I'll give it a go some time, but for now it’s my embarrassing secret.

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66. No Use Crying Over A Spilled Pint

I was sitting with my partner and toddler at a borderline fancy brewpub. We were sitting two tables away from a young guy who was on his phone, waiting for the server to bring his drinks. The server came with his drinks and dropped an entire pint of beer and a pint of water on his lap. He just kept calm and tried to dry himself off a bit. He called his wife to bring him another pair of pants and got new drinks.

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67. I’ve Got a Bright Idea

For a period of almost a year when I was  around 20 and living alone, I forgot how fridge lights worked. One day, I was getting something from the top shelf of the fridge and noticed how warm the bulb was. It was a new apartment, and my fridge there didn’t have a cover on the light; it was just a bare bulb. I reacted in the dumbest way possible.

My first thought was, "Oh my God, how can my food stay cold next to this?!" From then on, I was very careful of how I put food in, always keeping the area near the light free of food. I'd awkwardly stack stuff on the sides of the fridge so that the space on the shelf below the bulb (the "warm spot") was clear.

About eight-nine months later, I was moving things around in the fridge and accidentally hit the door sensor switch. The light turned off. That’s when I remembered how fridges actually work, and that the bulb isn’t’ just warming up my food all the time when the door is closed. Thankfully, no one knew about it. Until now, I guess.

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68. Flirting With Disaster

I was running in the park but had finished my run and was walking out. This guy who was about 10 years older than me, and had kids with him, stopped me. He tried to flirt with me, and within a one or two-minute conversation, told me he had been watching me. He asked me if I was running to try and lose weight and asked me for a phone number, but I declined.

It was basically a master course in what not to say. I wonder if it's one of those things he looks back on and cringes, because I sure do.

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69. Their Minds Were In The Gutter

It was the first day of school and I was the new kid. We were all taking turns introducing each other. We had to say our names, our hobbies and interests, and stuff like that. When my turn came, an adorable girl I now call my best friend kept giving her input after I said something. Things like, "Oh yeah! I've read/seen it too!" and so on.

So, when it was her turn, I decided to do the same. I did what she did and it was fine until she said she liked and was reading the Twilight series. She was looking at me as she was saying it. When she saw my eyebrows rise slightly and my head tilt, she blushed. Then she immediately added something bizarre: "THE CLEAN VERSION! THE CLEAN VERSION!”

I had raised my eyebrows because I was intrigued that she liked the "vampire romance" stuff, not because of anything else. It shocked me that she would be so quick to assume that I thought she was reading something inappropriate. Heck, I didn't even know there was a "clean" or a "dirty" version. I found it to be a little suspicious and I suspected that she actually may have been reading the "unclean" version, if there even was such a thing.

She blushed even more when she saw my eyebrow skyrocket at her reaction, and the teacher's look of, "excuse me, there's a dirty version?" She was understandably flustered. She finished her introduction in a hurry and sat back down. The class was dirty-minded as a whole, so I can only guess what they were thinking after that.

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70. Does This Impress You?

My freshman year of college, I went to a pre-Halloween-party hangout at a friend from high school’s apartment. He was a junior, and the first friend I ever had with his own place. I also had an enormous, elementary school-style crush on him. I would like to reiterate that this was a pregame, and we were planning on going to an actual party soon.

Not knowing my limits, I immediately drank a bottle of something, took several shots, and ate a bunch of Halloween candy. I was rolling around on the floor in a short skirt, completely unable to be a person. Meanwhile, another freshman was throwing up in the bathroom. At this point, I am laying across several people who are sitting on the couch, and I suddenly realize I have to throw up, too.

I run to the bathroom, but I don’t make it. By the way, where I’m standing in the hallway, I am completely visible from the living room. I lean back, and proceed to projectile vomit all over the kid who was already laying on the bathroom floor. Suddenly, I lose control of my bladder. I am now peeing on the floor, and still vomiting all over my poor classmate’s pants.

I cleaned it up, and went back to the party. I am now dating the person whose apartment it was. I want to add that I was dressed as Velma from Scooby-Doo.

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71. Kiss and Tell

Back when I was young and before YouTube, I looked up “How to Kiss” on the Internet. It was a Yahoo answers page that usually came up. There wasn't much useful information, it was all "just do what comes naturally," but the idea of kissing was unnatural to me at the time. When I finally came to my first kiss…I screwed it up so bad.

I spent so much time trying to process everything I had read and put it into my mouth and tongue that I sort of just became completely and utterly frozen for the entire time. She was trying to do something fun and I was just "WHERE DOES MY MOUTH GO IF SHE GOES LEFT HELP ME INTERNET" But the Internet couldn't help.

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72. The Festival Flirt

I was on my first official date with my partner and we were at a festival when this girl came up to us to say hi to him. She was clearly flirting with him and her friends gave me this smug look like “you have no chance with him,” which I started laughing at. The chick ignored me and asked if he was doing anything right now because she wanted to talk in private. His response shut her right down.

He was like, “Well I'm on a date with my girlfriend right now. So, no.” The look on her face still sustains me years later.

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73. This Thing’s Got Legs

I grew up in a landlocked state, and my brother had seafood allergies, so my family pretty much never ate seafood. I didn’t find out that shrimp have legs until I was 18. I was totally astonished. I really thought shrimp just sort of...shrimped along the bottom of the sea.

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74. Caught With A Full Load

One night during my senior year of high school, I went out with a girl who I had been dating for a bit. We ended up in the back seat and it was our first time doing anything intimate. She used a shirt I had on earlier to clean up our friskiness. We had some more fun and I got her back before curfew. I got home just as my dad was heading to bed.

He heard me come in, asked how the date went, turned the corner, looked at me, and started laughing. He said, "I see it went well enough." I had put the wrong shirt back on and had a big load of my spooge right on the front of it. It had been scrunched like tie-dye and stretched back out. He walked away shaking his head. He made jokes about it for at least a week.

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75. Riding a Low

One day at school, I accidentally jumped into a random person's car thinking it was my friend's. Absolutely terrified a mother and her son. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I then quickly got out and watched them speed off, and I never felt my face heat up so fast. To make it worse, the son ran up to me a week later and chatted away while I was too embarrassed to say anything return.

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76. Gotta Love A Man In A Uniform

I used to work in a big cafeteria at a department store. We had uniforms that we changed into and out of on-site. One day I was working when a guy walked past me and greeted me by name. At first, I didn't recognize him because he was out of uniform. Then I realized who it was and loudly blurted out, "Oh Bill, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on.” Multiple customers heard it.

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77. Here’s the Scoop

When I was about four years old, I liked to be naked a lot in my house. I don’t know why, but I had an ice cream scooper, the kind with a wire on it, and for some reason I had it around my “private area.” I was pushing the trigger on it, and my junk got caught into it. I was screaming, and it wouldn’t come off.

Apparently, I had also recently watched the movie Independence Day. Remember that scene where the alien has a hold of that guy and he keeps saying “Releeeeaaaassseee meeeeeeeee”? I kept saying that over and over again in the same tone. My mom finally saw and helped get it off. My parents tell this story all the time, and I still get anxiety whenever I see an ice cream scooper. My wife also bought me one for my birthday as a joke.

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78. Always Look Ahead

A few years ago, when I was single, I was walking through the city center and passed a very attractive young lady. She turned to look at me as she walked past me. As she did, she smiled, winked, and turned back around...only to walk face-first into a no parking sign. You could hear the metallic clang as her forehead hit the post all the way across the street. One quick red face, and she was gone.

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79. An Act of God

Growing up in a very religious household, we would participate in nearly everything the church offered or planned. Every year, we would go to a training thing in Little Rock, Arkansas, where we would stay at a VERY nice hotel for three days while competing in various events like chorus, puppets, bible quiz, etc.

The last year I participated was my senior year of high school, and I was 18 years old. March madness has just begun and my family went to a sports bar for dinner to watch the first round of playoffs. When we got back, my parents and sister went to the ballroom for a worship service while me and my brother stayed in the room.

He was sitting on the sectional couch with his head toward the extended end, playing on his phone. I was rolling around the room in the office chair that was in there, also playing on my phone. I felt the urge to toot, so naturally I roll to where my brother is laying down and kick my legs up so as to go directly into his face.

In the process of kicking my legs up, I accidentally let it go. I think to myself, "Darn it. Maybe I have another one ready." Now I'm sitting in the chair while my butt is hanging off the end, holding my legs in the air, butt aimed at my brother’s face. I pushed and a nice loud slap comes out. “Nice" I think as I put my legs down.

As soon as my feet hit the floor, I feel a distinctly warm, wet feeling in my lower region. I jump up while exclaiming "Ipoopedmypants!" My brother looks up at me running to the bathroom and asks what the heck I just said. "I JUST POOPED MY PANTS" I yell while sitting on the toilet and let the rest go. I hear him hit the ground and screech with laughter.

Now, as anyone who has pooped their pants before can tell you, you have to inspect the damage. So I kick off my shorts and boxers and hold them up to check it out, while my brother calls my mom to help us out of this situation. However, he’s laughing so hard that through the phone it sounds like he’s crying and all my mom can understand is "help" through what she assumes is tears.

She naturally immediately sends my dad up to the room. Meanwhile, I'm in the bathroom trying to figure out if I'm holding my underwear inside out, because there's poop on both the inside and the out. "Ok those are done," I think, and I throw them away and move to the shorts. But it was the same thing there; they’re done for.

My dad has now entered the room and panickedly asks my brother what's happening, while he’s still on the ground in tears laughing because I've been giving him updates on how bad the poop stains are. Once he gets the story, he calls my mom and tells her to calm down and nobody is hurt, their sons are just idiots. But it got so much worse.

I finally finish in the bathroom and finish up, having my dad bring me undergarments. I go to flush the toilet and…nothing happens. I try again, and the water rises to the top of the bowl, where it stops moving. I let my dad know and he calls the front desk, who sends a maintenance guy to unclog it. The poor sap shows up to fix the toilet with nothing but a plunger.

He walks in the bathroom, comes out 30 seconds later, and says "I'll be right back." He comes back a minute later with what looks like a roto rooter to cram my poop down this toilet. He works for about 15 minutes before the pile is gone and my dad gives him a hefty tip before he leaves. I then spend the next 30 minutes attempting to explain what happened to my parents.

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80. My Pride Got Swiped At The Mall

I work at a mall in a small town, and I was walking to get some water for my boss and myself. Just as I was passing the seating area in the center of the mall, I happened to notice a random guy on his phone. As I was passing, what I saw made me stop in my tracks. It was my face on his screen, and he was on a dating app. Right at that moment, he swiped left on ME.

He and I locked eyes and I just hustled faster past the seating area in defeat. I still can't believe this happened, but it did.

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81. Double Trouble

I went out to eat with my family once. After we were seated, I glanced at the table next to me and noticed some girl staring at me. I thought it was weird, but continued chatting with my family. I looked over again and she was still staring! After checking a third time, I noticed she was giving me a nasty mug.

I finally stood up to say something, and quickly realized it was a mirror...I was about to have an argument with my reflection.

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82. A Pregnant Pause

When I was in the Air Force, every year we would have a large party on the base that you would bring your significant other to and have dinner, drinks, dance, etc. There were several of us from our shop that were standing in a half-circle talking when a lowly Airman coworker asked our Master Sergeant’s wife when she was due. The Master Sergeant’s wife, who was overweight, retorted, "I'm not pregnant!"

We all just stood there, dumbfounded and uncomfortable until the subject was changed. I still cringe thinking about it.

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83. Pin-up Girl

A pretty girl at work arrived one day with a little brass kitten pin, pinned to her chest. Of course, your eyes are attracted to this little piece of glitter, then you get caught looking at her breasts, and as a defensive move you say "nice pin,” as if to say “I was totally not looking at your breasts, honest, I was looking at the pin.”

So this happened to her five or six times before lunch, and at lunch after yet another person commented on her "nice pin," she leaned forward to me—we were sitting at the same table—and asked "What's with everyone commenting on my pin today?" I decided to fess up, and told her the truth. Her response was perfect.

"Ah" she said, then looked down to my crotch, kept her gaze there for a good two-three seconds, looked back up slowly to my face, and said "nice belt buckle."

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84. A Hairy Situation

I was at a Red Wings hockey game. The damp humid air had made the concrete aisles slippery, especially the further away from the ice you were. A guy slipped and started sliding down the aisle from the top rows almost as if he were on a Slip ‘N Slide. My buddy reached out to try and grab him to keep from sliding another 10 or 20 rows.

The guy slid right past him, and my buddy got a panicked glint in his eyes as he lifted his hand toward me. When I saw what was in it, I nearly burst out laughing. He was clutching the guy’s toupee. My bud apparently grabbed at the dude, only to get a grip on his hairpiece as he slid down what must have been 30 rows. He was unharmed but he never returned to retrieve the hair. We decided to leave it on the armrest in case the guy decided to sneak back to get it.

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85. I Believe I Can Fly

When I was about six or seven, we had a house fire, and because of this we had to stay with my parents’ friends for a couple months. It was tense; my parents were stressed so I was stressed. One day, I got in trouble for playing a Gameboy because my parents thought video games rotted brains or something. I got so mad, I plotted a ridiculous revenge.

I convinced my brother to "suit up" and run away. To us, that meant “dress as superheroes.” We had toy superhero tools on our belt and everything, as well as a Ninja costume from a past Halloween. But when we went to leave through the front door, we got scared to go through with it because my mom was on the couch.

She saw us and burst out laughing. Which only enraged me more. So we decided to jump off the two-storey balcony instead of going through the door. I decided to wrap a sheet around my wrists and ankles, thinking it would let me glide like those squirrels. I just decided that we should jump together, but my brother was like, "No, you go first to see if it was safe."

My dumb self was chill with it, so I jumped down and felt like I was flying…for like, two seconds. And then I hit the driveway on my legs. Sprained my ankles, knees, back, and neck. But I didn't break a single bon. My brother had to stand in time-out for a couple of days while I rested in bed. My back hurt for two weeks, and I couldn't walk for the first week. Then my mom took all my toys away and made us stay in our room.

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86. A Pig Prom-blem

In high school, we had some Mean Girls-style drama between me and my friends. One of them asked a boy I really liked to prom. She did this knowingly and I was really mad at her about it. But oh, I got revenge. One day we were all at her house, and I snuck around and cut up her prom dress out of spite. I thought I had gotten away with it until I got home from school the next day and my dad was waiting for me with crossed arms.

I said, "I guess this means I'm not going to prom then?" He said, "Oh no, you're going to prom, but you're going to wish you hadn't." He informed me that he had taken my own prom dress that day and hung it up in our pig barn, where it was going to stay for two weeks until prom. I was to put it on right before it was time to go. It was dreadful.

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87. The Nose Knows

I met my future wife by almost accidentally breaking her nose. We were at a summer camp, and they had some sort of activity where a large group of us had to walk around in a small space. I suddenly took a sharp turn in that small space, and my shoulder hit her nose. She fell down to the ground, holding her nose and screaming.

I said I was really sorry a few times, and then other people crowded around her. Out of awkwardness, I tried to disappear back into the crowd, which didn't really work because I was taller than most other people there. Later, she tracked me down and asked if I was the guy who hit her on the nose and then ran away, and somehow that was a good enough first impression to start dating.

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88. Eye’ll Patch Her Up

I worked in a dental office and saw this patient twice. The first time she came in was because she broke a temporary crown after falling down the stairs. She had also cut the calve of her leg in a giant V-shape. I fixed her up and sent her on her way. The second time I saw her was for a crown seat. I asked her how her leg was healing.

Before I could finish my sentence, she lifted her leg to show me and split her leg back open on this metal bar that's installed on one of our trays. There was blood everywhere. I was so frazzled. I was untrained for this kind of situation, so I asked for help. I got up and retrieved some gauze and my co-worker had handed me an eye patch.

SHE HANDED ME AN EYE PATCH FOR A LEG WOUND. She was so embarrassed that we burst out laughing. The patient ended up being okay. She was incredibly embarrassed by the whole situation, t00. The blood soaked through her pants and her stitches were ripped. She insisted she was okay to walk out the door—and she did just that. I haven’t seen her since.

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89. Midnight Run

I was at a friend’s house for a sleepover, and I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I open the door…and there is his mom shaving her parts “down there” with an electric razor. I stood for what felt like an eternity, but it couldn't have been more than five or six seconds, simply staring at this and trying to comprehend what was happening.

She said my name really quietly, half as a gasp. Then she flicked the switch off, yet held the flamingo stance over the sink she’d been in when I entered. I said "Uhhhhh" and ran back to my sleeping bag, pulled it over my head, and tried to go to sleep. The next morning, she never left her room and said she was ill. I was never allowed to stay at his place again.

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90. This Presentation Deserves Extra Credit

I was doing an extra credit presentation about a nuclear-powered engine. I tried to draw the ship itself, with all the radiation shielding, and the crew quarters, in both side view and rearview. I thought all the technology was so neat, so I was excited. I was up at the board drawing this thing. I was trying to explain what I was drawing and the repercussions of being able to have an engine that fast.

As I was drawing and explaining, I started to hear giggles. My friend sort of got my attention, and I eventually stepped back and looked up at my drawing. Horror slowly dawned on me. I realized I had basically drawn a giant male you-kn0w-what and what could possibly pass for a very round, very angry, or very fuzzy female organ on the other side.

I was mortified and I completely forgot everything I was hoping to discuss. I just sort of erased the pictures, squeaked out a few more points, answered some questions from the article, and went back to my seat.

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91. Hello, Nurse!

In 7th grade, I was sitting in French class when I got the overwhelming urge to poop. I raised my hand to excuse myself to the bathroom, but as soon as I got in the hallway, my bowels got a mind of their own and I pooped my pants. I then decided the best course of action was to waddle to the nurse’s office and hope she had spare pants.

I burst into the office, and she was in the middle of tending to another kid, who I knew. I started to mumble about needing to use her bathroom…right when the poop fell out of my shorts and down my leg, smearing all the way to the floor. The other kid and I locked eyes before he just burst out laughing. I quickly ran into the nurse’s bathroom.

She handled the situation pretty well and called my mom, and I got to go home for the rest of the day. Luckily, for my middle school dignity, the kid never told anyone about what happened. Thanks, Joey.

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92. The Old Lady Next Door

I used to live next door to a little old lady who lived on her own. I never saw very much of her at all because she kept herself to herself, as did I. Back in the days when the yellow pages used to get delivered to your door, I noticed that it had been left propped up against her front door. Days went by and the yellow pages never moved, which meant the door hadn't been opened.

I started to worry, so I knocked on her door a couple of times but there was no answer. I tried looking through the windows but couldn't see anything. A couple more days went by and still nothing. I was worried that she might have had a fall or needed some help or something, so I decided to call law enforcement. I thought they would be able to magically find out who she was and contact her next of kin or something.

Instead, two officers turned up with a battering ram, smashed the door down, and went inside wearing handkerchiefs over their noses. Five minutes later they came out, told me there was nobody home, and drove off. A few days later there was a knock at my door. It was the next-door neighbor. She asked me, "Do you know what happened to my front door?"

I told her that I had called law enforcement and they had smashed it in. I apologized profusely and luckily she was ok about it. At some point, I said, "I thought because you were an old lady on your own..." She said, "I'm 52." Apparently, she had been away on business.

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93. This Was a Test, and You Failed

When I was in basic training, we all marched to the clinic to take our urinalysis. It was a real hot summer, and because I had lost my driver’s license right before, I had a temporary paper one. They make you put all your identification in a necklace ID holder made of canvas. When I went in, I had sweat so much that all the ink on the temporary driver’s license was illegible.

They wouldn’t let me take the test. Instead, the doctor told me to go to the bathroom and fill up my canteen, then wait outside. Confused and stressed, I peed in my own canteen and waited outside. The rest of my fellow recruits came out while I was still waiting for the doctor to come get my sample. Then my drill sergeant came back out and started marching us back to the dorm.

It being over 100 degrees, he stopped us twice and ordered us all to chug our water. This is when I realized I shouldn't have peed in my own canteen. I pretended to chug it and just hoped that my drill sergeant wouldn't notice. Luckily, I got away with it. When I got back to the dorm, I tried to rinse it out. I washed that thing 10+ times, and the smell would never go away.

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94.  My Conversation Was A Bust

When I was 12, I had pretty intense social anxiety. I was in a Halloween store with my mom. I grabbed my costume and got in line to pay. Next to me was a guy, and for no reason, I started talking about the weather. I was a 12-year-old boy randomly gabbing to a grown man about the weather, and I don’t even like talking to strangers. Then, I looked over and realized it was a zombie statue and not a person at all. Luckily, no one saw any of this, so I pretended it didn’t happen.

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95. Customer Support

So I have polycystic ovarian syndrome, and I was bleeding particularly heavy one day, but still wanted to go to Michael’s because I had a coupon and it was about to expire. I had a fresh tampon, a pad, and period panties. I thought I was good to go, and I wasn’t going to be there that long. Turns out, I never made a bigger mistake in my life.

I was in the scrapbooking aisle when I felt something on my leg, I looked down, and sure enough blood was trickling down it past my shorts. I was so embarrassed. It had never been this bad before. I didn’t know what to do. Should I run? Where will I run? To my car or the bathroom? But little did I know, the worst was yet to come. I should say here that I look much younger than I am.

As I was preparing what to do next, an older woman who worked there walked by. I wasn’t sure if I should ask her for help, but before I knew it I heard myself saying “Excuse me” in a kind of panicky high-pitched voice. She looked confused, saw the blood…and then congratulated me on becoming a woman. She assured me that it was nothing to be ashamed of and that I should be proud. Uh….thanks?

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96. The Pranked Proposal

My wife and I were eating dinner at a nice sushi restaurant. Across the aisle, there was a young couple celebrating the man's birthday. Apparently, it was his plan to ask the girl to marry him that night. He had the ring out and started on his proposal. She, however, had already made other plans for the night. Right in the middle of it, another woman, who was dressed like a gypsy, walked up.

She sat down with them and started spouting nonsense, asking all kinds of embarrassing questions. She began eating food off their plates and was generally being obnoxious. The guy tried to keep going with the proposal. The girl was trying to wave off her friend to no avail. I think she had arranged for her friend to dress up and jump in the middle of dinner as a joke on the boyfriend, not knowing his plans.

We just sat there eating our sushi and feeling bad for the poor guy. The gypsy lady was still chattering away when we left. The guy was totally deflated, while the girl looked resigned to trying to survive the night. She must have told the gypsy lady, "Keep going no matter what I say," because she did. I felt so bad for the poor guy.

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97. Long in the Tooth

I was standing in line at Wal-Mart, and the guy’s dentures in front of me fell out onto the ground. I didn’t realize what he dropped, so I bent down to get them…and saw it was a full set of teeth. I then decided not to touch them, thinking he wouldn’t want me to because he had to put them back in his mouth. Turns out, that was just the beginning of my nightmare.

Then after standing back up, I felt like that was rude and he might think I didn’t touch them because they are “gross.” So I changed my mind yet again and bent back down to grab them, but as my hand was like three inches away, I thought to myself that he definitely doesn’t want me to touch them, so I stood back up.

The entire time, this guy was standing there watching me bend down and stand up several times. The final time I stood up, he locked eyes, gave me a weird look, then snatched them aggressively and walked away. I still have no idea if I should have grabbed them or not. It was just embarrassing having him watch me be indecisive about his teeth.

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98. I Raised The Nurse’s Attention

I had an operation on my testicle when I was 15 years old, and I was in the children's ward because I was still underage. I woke up in the afternoon pretty out of it still. The ward was busy with lots of people walking through. I didn't realize I'd already mortified myself. Suddenly, nurse walked over. She wouldn't make eye contact with me and kind of looked away as she shut the curtain around my bed.

I looked down and noticed my gown had lifted up in my sleep because my member was erect.

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99. This Was Bar None The Saddest Thing Ever

I worked in bars and restaurants for years and was working at a popular Irish pub in my city. Upstairs was the main bar with booths and tables, downstairs in the basement was more seating, and the kitchen, prep kitchen, and walk-in fridges were down a hallway in the back. I had to walk partially through the dining area in order to get stuff from the walk-in fridges.

There was a large work party of over 100 people booked one night and the whole basement was reserved for them. The woman who booked everything showed up early and started setting up the table decorations she brought and prepped. Meanwhile, we were busy cooking for the regular traffic upstairs, and pre-prepping some appetizer platters.

I kept walking to the fridges to get stuff for over an hour or two. Before long, I noticed something alarming. No one was showing up. Not a single person out of the hundred or so invited. That woman must have sat there with just the two servers who were supposed to cover the party for three hours. Finally, she just apologized profusely, cleaned up her stuff, and left.

The general manager felt really bad for her. I'm pretty sure he returned her deposit and everything. The staff ended up eating the appetizer platters. I’m sure she must have been super embarrassed, and honestly, it's one of those things that's burned into my brain to this day. I still feel bad for her 10 years later and hope she's doing OK.

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100. Chump Change

About a year or so ago, I was standing in line at the grocery store, waiting to pay for my small grouping of items. The man in front of me is elderly, maybe late 80s or early 90s. He has finished his transaction and is trying to get his wallet out of his pants to pay. Now, this guy’s clothes are about two sizes too big for him, so everything is kind of hanging off of him.

Because of his advanced age and loose clothing, reaching into his back pocket to retrieve said wallet is proving to be extremely difficult. He seems to lack the strength and coordination to both maintain his reach and grab the wallet from the very deep and loose back pocket of his old man pants. This goes on for, without exaggeration, five solid minutes.

Picture a grocery store with lots of people trying to get dinner and whatnot, and everyone is basically on hold while this guy tries and tries to get his wallet out, to no avail. Now, here comes the horror. Old man, WITHOUT A WORD TO ME, points his rear end at me and just looks into my eyes. I realize that HE WANTS ME TO GET HIS WALLET OUT FOR HIM.

The realization hits me and I am frozen. There are like 10 people in line behind me all watching this happen, and who want to get home in time for Jeopardy. I start to do nothing, but then realize that this dude is genuinely looking for help. So, I reach into his back pocket to try and retrieve the wallet as quickly as possible. This is when I realize what the real problem was.

The dude has a Costanza wallet x 10. It’s huge. And heavy. I am trying to get a grip on the thing and I cannot get it past the loose fabric of the deep pocket, and more folds of what I realize are HIS OLD MAN FLOPPY BUTT FLESH. I swear I tried for like 30 seconds to get the thing, and couldn’t. But it wasn’t even over.

At this point, I turn around and see the horror on some people’s faces, because to the untrained eye, I am a dude sticking his hand down a poor old man’s pants. In a grocery store. In broad daylight. It’s at this point that I give up and tell the guy "Sir, it’s all good your stuff is on me." I cram my card into the machine and pay for his stuff, which is only like $12.

He thanks me and shuffles out of the store while I pay for my stuff and slide off to my new life as a predator of the elderly.

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101. Starstruck

Once I was in line for a Neil Gaiman book signing. As soon as it was my turn to get my book signed, I was so starstruck I blurted out the most backward thing ever: "You are my biggest fan!" I immediately realized my mistake and apologized profusely, and Neil just laughed it off and signed the book. I was so flustered I didn't pay attention to what he scribbled in.

Only after I left the area and opened up my copy of the book to realize he'd signed it with, "From your biggest fan, Neil Gaiman".

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102. Checking In

A foxy older woman executive happened to be walking by the front of my office, and I recognized her as a contact for my regional president. So, I wanted to be polite and said, “Can I take your clothes off,” instead of, “Can I take your coat.”  I turned beet red and started stammering and apologizing immediately. I am so glad that she laughed and literally patted my head, teased me, and said, “Maybe if you were my age or older, I’d give you a shot.”

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103. All Good Things Come to an End

I woke up without an alarm, had breakfast, took a bath, and drove half hour to my work feeling great. I even thought to myself on the way, "Lucky me, the traffic is very nice today." Just when I arrived, the security greeted me with the worst words possible: "Good morning, sir, working even over the holiday?" I drove all the way home and had a nap.

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104. Out to Lunch

I once had a pizza delivery guy walk in on me while I was getting a pelvic exam at the OB/GYN. My feet were up in the stirrups and my doctor's hand was in my you-know-where. Yeah, the whole bit. Apparently, the nurses had ordered a pizza and directed the guy to bring it to the break room, but he accidentally opened the wrong door.

You'd think that if you know you’re at an OB/GYN’s office, you would have the common sense to at least knock before entering any closed rooms, right? Yeah, no. It happened so fast though that he couldn't have really seen anything. I'm also pretty sure that he was more embarrassed than I was. Still, I must admit, this whole thing sounds an awful lot like the plot to a cheesy adult film.

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105. How Do You Like Them Apples?

I asked my boyfriend if he wanted an apple. He said yes, so I pulled one out of the fridge and handed it to him. He looked confused. I asked him what was wrong…his answer still blows me away to this day. He asked me to slice it for him. He'd never eaten an apple whole before. He wasn't sure how to bite into it. He was 27.

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