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Any embarrassing moments ?

Dillon

Dillon

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im not one to share of anything embarrassing I’ve done in my life but hey why not.
I would recall the embarrassing thing that happened was back in elementary school. Back in 4th grade I was chosen to do the Pledge of Allegience to the flag along with one other person that was chosen chosen from each grade, 1st-5th. I went into the principal’s office with the other kids who I had no clue who they were. Over the intercom The principal starts off saying good morning....blah blah blah throughout the whole school. Before I said the pledge we had to say our names. It it came to be my turn I was stuttering where I couldn’t say my name saying “I can’t spit it out” and the principal helped me out. Shortly after some of the kids were making fun of me but suprisingly people forgot all about what happened within a few hours.

Another embarrassing moment which I say is number one was back in middle school when the school decided to put me in a ABC class which is a special needs class with kids who were way more low functioning than I am. It didn’t make sense since I was taking all regular classes and two honors classes making As and Bs but the school treated me like I knew no better. Anyway that class would be my last class for today after finishing my regular classes. I didn’t do nothing in that class except my homework while the other students were playing around and stuff the teacher just sat there and mainly treated me like garbage. It was so embarrassing walking out of that class room having people taunt you, automatically assuming I was autistic I mean I am but still.

So....anyone else got any embarrassing moments?
 
Too many to count. Most relate to my difficulty recognizing faces.

When I was newly married, I hugged my mother-in-law from behind, because I couldn’t tell the difference between her and my wife. She took it as a compliment. 23 years later, I’m still embarrassed by the memory.*

Sneaking up behind my child in an open play area at the California Adventure and tickling her - only to discover it’s not my daughter. I turned around and walked away quickly without saying anything.

Introducing myself to a lady at a community service project, and having her look at me like I’m an idiot, because I’ve seen her every Sunday at church for two years. Trying to explain that I didn’t recognize her as the I-Know-You-From-Church lady because she wasn’t wearing a dress.

My (computer geek) joke is “You’ve changed your hash. I don’t recognize you.”

* Let me know if you have a time machine. I don’t want to kill Hitler, meet Shakespeare, or invest in Apple. I just want to stop myself from doing a few things.
 
Way too many embarrassing moments. A selection:
20 years ago, first week of high school, we went on a camping trip with all the new students to get to know each other. I got really annoyed by one boy, expressed my annoyance to this girl I was sharing a bunk bed with. Turns out she was his twin sister. We didn’t become friends.

5 years ago, working as an intern in the ER of a small hospital. I had to perform a physical on a 16- year old. She brought a man, I estimated he was around 50. I had to perform a vaginal and rectal exam, so I asked her if she wouldn’t feel more comfortable if her dad left the room for that. Turned out he was her boyfriend. They were very offended. After that I stopped making assumptions about relationships altogether in the workplace.
 
I'm sorry that you had to endure taunting. I know how horrible it can feel and I'm glad for you, that you will never have to walk out of that classroom, again.

I have had so many embarrasing moments, but, the first that come to mind are the multiple occasions that I have realized that something has gone over my head. It can take me weeks or longer to have an epiphany, or, realize the meaning of what someone had mentioned in conversation, and how my response had very little, if anything to do with what had been spoken of. This has happened to me, time and again.

I'm not sure if I felt embarrassed, shame or regret, or all, three, but, when I was in elementary school, I had been on the playground with some of my classmates and I wasn't aware that the average person didn't experience the effects of a type of synesthesia I have, and I made a remark about how good the purple paint that devided the handball courts, smelled. I was made fun of for that (and other quirks), for a long time to come.

I would become quite anxious while riding the school bus, which would perpetuate a vocal tic that often accompanied my anxiety, that I would do everything in my power, not to let happen until I returned home, but, on a few occasions I could not control them and many of the kids would point at me and laugh, which caused me to break down in tears, from the shame and embarrassment I felt.

A more recent embarrasement/shame/regret - I had only been a member, here, for all of 3 weeks, and decided to 'follow' a couple members who I found I had some things in common with, or I simply found their posts of interest, and who have been members of the forum for quite some time. A couple days, later, I realized that it was, possibly, quite inappropriate or worse, that I had followed members who might very well have found it, at the very least, presumptuous, and possibly, even a bit scary, to be followed by someone they had hardly said two words to. Needless to say, I hurriedly, unfollowed them, after being overcome with that realization, but, of course, I've been worried about that...
 
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Loren said:
A more recent embarrasement/shame/regret - I had only been a member, here, for all of 3 weeks, and decided to 'follow' a couple members who I found I had some things in common with, or I simply found their posts of interest, and who have been members of the forum for quite some time. A couple days, later, I realized that it was, possibly, quite inappropriate or worse, that I had followed members who might very well have found it, at the very least, presumptuous, and possibly, even a bit scary, to be followed by someone they had hardly said two words to. Needless to say, I hurriedly, unfollowed them, after being overcome with that realization, but, of course, I've been worried about that...
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I don't think you need to worry to much about that one, if you followed them they probably took it as a compliment and I don't think you need to know someone well to follow them - it's not like adding friends on Facebook, if you like their posts, then why not?

I've had numerous such embarrassing moments. One was that I confused two people with the same name; one who is straight and married, and another gay friend who had just come out. I wrote to the straight friend, "congratulations on coming out. That must have taken some real courage!"
 
Loren said:
I'm sorry that you had to endure taunting. I know how horrible it can feel and I'm glad for you, that you will never have to walk out of that classroom, again.

I have had so many embarrasing moments, but, the first that come to mind are the multiple occasions that I have realized that something has gone over my head. It can take me weeks or longer to have an epiphany, or, realize the meaning of what someone had mentioned in conversation, and how my response had very little, if anything to do with what had been spoken of. This has happened to me, time and again.

I'm not sure if I felt embarrassed, shame or regret, or all, three, but, when I was in elementary school, I had been on the playground with some of my classmates and I wasn't aware that the average person didn't experience the effects of a type of synesthesia I have, and I made a remark about how good the purple paint that devided the handball courts, smelled. I was made fun of for that (and other quirks), for a long time to come.

I would become quite anxious while riding the school bus, which would perpetuate a vocal tic that often accompanied my anxiety, that I would do everything in my power, not to let happen until I returned home, but, on a few occasions I could not control them and many of the kids would point at me and laugh, which caused me to break down in tears, from the shame and embarrassment I felt.

A more recent embarrasement/shame/regret - I had only been a member, here, for all of 3 weeks, and decided to 'follow' a couple members who I found I had some things in common with, or I simply found their posts of interest, and who have been members of the forum for quite some time. A couple days, later, I realized that it was, possibly, quite inappropriate or worse, that I had followed members who might very well have found it, at the very least, presumptuous, and possibly, even a bit scary, to be followed by someone they had hardly said two words to. Needless to say, I hurriedly, unfollowed them, after being overcome with that realization, but, of course, I've been worried about that...
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Yeah true but the bullying didn’t bother me as much as how I was feeling going into that classroom. It was a class of about 9 kids in total and most of them had the mind of a 4 year old acting up and I think 2 of them were non verbal. I don’t have a problem with anyone only that the school decided I struggled with some social cues so let’s put me in that class. I would’ve been just fine if they had not assigned me to that class at all.
How embarrassed I was to be in that class I would sometimes skip it, not go at all but the teacher caught on to me about that.
 
There was one time at school, the regular maths teacher was off, Mr Bradley, so a substitute was taking the lesson, it was just after break and I'd just been to the Khazi, but I needed badly to go again, so up goes my hand "Can I go to the toilet please?", I asked, teacher said "No you should've gone at break", I'm like "I did but now I need to go again", she said no again, so I ended up wetting myself!

MOST embarrassing, and also probably highly illegal, even in the late 80's, I can't help having a weak bladder.
 
When I fell asleep in English class in 12th grade. I first fell foward and my head bounced off the desk and then fell out the side of the desk hitting the floor. It made a really loud noise and woke up a whole row of people whose desks were against the wall.
 
Dillon Campbell said:
Yeah true but the bullying didn’t bother me as much as how I was feeling going into that classroom. It was a class of about 9 kids in total and most of them had the mind of a 4 year old acting up and I think 2 of them were non verbal. I don’t have a problem with anyone only that the school decided I struggled with some social cues so let’s put me in that class. I would’ve been just fine if they had not assigned me to that class at all.
How embarrassed I was to be in that class I would sometimes skip it, not go at all but the teacher caught on to me about that.
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Ah, I understand, and I apologize for misunderstanding, initially.
 
Mr Allen said:
There was one time at school, the regular maths teacher was off, Mr Bradley, so a substitute was taking the lesson, it was just after break and I'd just been to the Khazi, but I needed badly to go again, so up goes my hand "Can I go to the toilet please?", I asked, teacher said "No you should've gone at break", I'm like "I did but now I need to go again", she said no again, so I ended up wetting myself!

MOST embarrassing, and also probably highly illegal, even in the late 80's, I can't help having a weak bladder.
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I actually have one kind of related to that.
In 11th grade in my calculus class we were doing a practice test since it was our first week in the class. The teacher told us she has provided calculators for us up front. I did not know where they were so I decided to use my phone as a calculator big mistake as the teacher saw me. I explained saying “I was only using it as a calculator I didn’t know where the ones you provided were” she took my phone up while I’m seeing other students using their phones.
She let me have my phone back after she made me tell the whole class that I made an idiotic mistake in using my phone and I didn’t know where the calculators were which were behind her desk and tell the class I should’ve have known better
I was literally in tears after class was over with
 
Dillon Campbell said:
I actually have one kind of related to that.
In 11th grade in my calculus class we were doing a practice test since it was our first week in the class. The teacher told us she has provided calculators for us up front. I did not know where they were so I decided to use my phone as a calculator big mistake as the teacher saw me. I explained saying “I was only using it as a calculator I didn’t know where the ones you provided were” she took my phone up while I’m seeing other students using their phones.
She let me have my phone back after she made me tell the whole class that I made an idiotic mistake in using my phone and I didn’t know where the calculators were which were behind her desk and tell the class I should’ve have known better
I was literally in tears after class was over with
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I would've made like The Rock and told her to take to take that Calculator, turn it sideways, and shove it! :D
 
By the sixth grade, while I had never learned any of the basics of physics and gravity, I did learn that when it comes to educators, some of them don't take prisoners. In my science class at that age, we were supposed to arrange ten beans in some logical, yet specific way. Different from anyone else.

Well, I took a look around me and could see so many kids had already found the most obvious manners of arranging their beans. Color, size, etc.. So I figured I needed to find some unique way that other kids had not found yet. Haza! I started to drop them in pairs to see which one appeared to hit the desktop first. No one around me commented on what I was doing. So when the exercise was completed, I had arranged all my beans by weight.

I suppose I should point out that this particular instructor seemed to have it in for me, much like "Marcellus" from the movie "Spartacus". That I had been "chosen" to be constantly picked on.

I just had no aptitude for science at the time whether I applied myself or not. And this SOB made the most of it, much to my detriment. So when it was my time to tell the class how I arranged my beans, the teacher immediately and mercilessly berated me, with much of the class roaring in laughter. It was humiliating. But what I really drew from the experience was the obvious. How was I supposed to know at the age of 11 that everything falls from the sky at the same velocity of 120 feet per second? :mad::mad::mad:

For a real teacher who sincerely wanted to educate students, it might have been a great opportunity to explain to them in a civil manner all about gravity. Instead it was used to simply "pillory" a student. Me. :(
 
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And then there was that time that I wrote a poorly phrased post on a public forum, accidentally implying that a church acquaintance was au naturale at a community service project. After the razzing I got on that forum, I was embarrassed for 9 whole seconds.
 
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