Awkward (and sometimes embarrassing) life moments you think about at complete random?

[Bruscoe]

So, this is a scenario I’m willing to bet a lot of you have encountered at least a few times. Essentially, you’ll either be doing some random task, listening to a conversation or sleeping, when a completely unrelated and random thought of a prior life moment suddenly pops back into your head for no reason. Most of the time, it’s of the awkward kind, and it sorta makes you feel slightly embarrassed despite said event happening a long time ago.

As an example for me, I’ll randomly think about an action I’ve done in Middle School to gain student popularity, only for me to regret doing it afterwards. This thought then comes to me again as an adult while I’m showering. Why? No real reason. It just happens.

So, what minor awkward moment(s) from your life have you thought about at complete random?

 

[Midoriya]

Oh gosh, I'm trying to think of an example now because I'm sure there's been plenty in my life. I'll have to come back later with more I think of, but I guess one for now would be the time when I was dressed up as Saitama from One-Punch Man for an event. Someone walked by me while I was walking down the sidewalk and asked me what I'm supposed to be dressed up as, and another person I knew semi-well said "you don't know?! He's Saitama from One-Punch Man!" Except he said it so loud that basically the entire block could hear, it was really embarrassing.

 

[CoolJhon]

In third grade we had a day where we could all bring our own games and play them. I brought my switch and was REALLY into Cuphead at the time. But the teacher was SUPER religious and refused to let me play it because the Devil and Hell are in the game. So I may or may not have started crying and making a fuss about it

In my pre K or Kindergarten Art class, there was a spot to put our finished art. On top of it, there was a big stop sight that read “STOP! IS YIUR NAME ON THAT?” and every time someone went to use it I would look dead at them and say in a pretty loud voice “STOP!! IS YOUR NAME ON THAT?!” And after a few times the teacher said in a loud angry voice “[CoolJhon], STOP!” Looking back it was pretty funny but at the time I was in pure SHOCK.

 

[Giddy]

For most of my life, I have been incredibily shy, but have always wanted to push myself to talk to people.
I was on a bus on the way to college and the person in front of me I believe was watching Supernatural on their phone. It took me a few bus stops later to actually tae the plunge and ask them if that is Supernatural, and how much I really liked the show.
I don't really remember his response too well, but it wasn't like he was actively wanted to talk more so the conversation was dropped pretty quickly.

But it was when it was time for me to get off for my stop, it was also the same stop he was getting off, and it looked so AWKWARD because it almost looked like I was following him? We were going the same way, and I was just dieing inside, worrying if he thought I was following him at all, or even worse that was indeed thinking too much about it, and he didn't even know I was walking the same way as him; but I felt so disgusted with myself. (I was right behind him walking)
I hate this memory with a passion XD

 

[Beanz]

okay this one was very recently but i’ll share anyway:

this happened in my college art class; the background information to all this is kind of hard to explain but we were watching a performance piece where the artist would sit very still and stare at an audience member who would sit in the opposite chair facing the artist (for a more clear explanation, google marina abramovic 736 hour silent peice.) in short, to participate in the performance you have to be vulnerable.

my professor is very enthusiastic and can come off as eccentric, she’s one of those people who appreciates vulnerability. she asked everyone to get up and find a partner so we can do the same thing that happened in the 736 hour performance piece. of course there’s one person missing that day so that meant that there would be groups of two and only one person would be left over, so the professor said that person would have to do it with her.

ofc IM THE PERSON who doesn’t find a partner. i have to do it with the professor, that’s fine. the partner activity included holding hands and staring at your partner for 2 or so minutes.

i’m holding her hands and staring at her, she’s staring back and it’s so AWKARD. don’t get me wrong, she’s a very kind person but it was so weird. i kept having to look away and i was sweating. after that i think she had to leave the room to go wash her hands

 

[SkyKnight03]

The first time I rode a public bus on my own. I was leaving my college campus.

I had to tell the driver where to drop me off. Except I named the entire state I lived in instead of just the drop off spot.

 

[Bruscoe]

Here's one I remember. When I was in my 8th grade Spanish class, we had the opportunity to write on mini whiteboards and share (school appropriate) comments on anything you wanted to say. These would then be displayed around the classroom. Dummy me decided to write a compliment directed at the crush I had at the time, as I knew she also attended the class during a different hour. It was a pretty generic message, and it stated something along the lines of "[Girl] is an awesome person!!!". The teacher didn't seem to have a problem with it, as I found out my crush ended up seeing it later in the day. When the school day was over, I vividly remember the moment when I left my locker, her coming over, grabbing my arm, and replying "you're an awesome person too, Trevor!". We then hugged and walked out of school together. That little moment made me blush.

What sort of makes it awkward for me now is how I decided to communicate the message. Everyone else who looked at the mini whiteboards could clearly see that I had a crush on this girl, but for some reason, no one made fun of either of us for it. Unfortunately, I couldn't build the friendship any further, as we later went to separate high schools and my anxiety began to build up over having to face major changes to my daily routine. I'm fairly certain that I've seen her randomly in public since then, but we haven't made any effort to restore our friendship.

 

[VernalLapin]

One time I was at a garage sale wearing a my hero academia shirt and someone complimented it and we told each other our favorite characters but I was really awkward and I said “und…” instead of and. I live in the US so it was Not normal to just randomly speak German

 

[BTCircley]

One time, there was an awkward silence in my class. Then a lot of chaotic things happen.