‘What’s an embarrassing but very silly thing your parents did growing up?’ – 23 highly ridiculous adults who should have known better
13.
‘My dad drove us all the way to a shopping centre in the next town before he realised he had his slippers on. We sat in the car for five minutes whilst mum tried to persuade him that he was just going to have to swallow his pride and walk around in his slippers, because we were not all going home again because of his mistake.
‘He was too proud. In the end, he sat in the car park and read the paper for hours whilst we went shopping.’
–BobBobBobBobBobDave
14.
‘My mate’s mum would 1000% win the award for being the most embarrassing woman in history (absolutely lovely woman though). One time, it was raining, and he’d forgotten his raincoat, so she made him wear a Tesco bag around his ears and told him he had to run home from school so that there was enough air in the bag to keep it upright. The crazy part is that he did this without a second’s thought.’
–PlatformFeeling8451
15.
‘My parents came to pick me (a kid from a council estate) up from my first senior school (which was a very posh grammar school) disco wearing Groucho Marx glasses, complete with built in moustaches, and sat in the car right outside the door to the hall wearing them with the windows down. I wanted to DIE of embarrassment.’
–Blunder_Woman
16.
‘Dad was leaning on a wooden fence to somebody’s garden while waiting for me and my sister to come out of primary school. When basically the whole school was leaving and me and my sister were walking up to him the fence caved in and he ended up flat on his back in the fence owner’s back garden. Literally everybody saw and I am still reminded of it occasionally.’
–ConsiderationMurky29
17.
‘My mum and I were in a cafe having lunch one Saturday. My dad came in very drunk being annoying to my mum. He left after a couple of minutes, and the owner came over and apologised, thinking it was a local whino.
‘My mum said ‘Don’t worry, it’s my husband’. I told her that she may not want to admit that, and she should look behind her. Across the road, there was my dad on a packed high street mooning us in front of shocked shoppers.’
–unbelievablydull82
18.
‘I was on holiday in Scotland with my parents and my dad went up to this man insistent that they’d worked together in the 80s. This man had no clue who my dad was and my dad kept trying to talk to him about the IT company he’d spent his whole life working for.
‘Anyway, my mum went over and it turned out the man was one of the antiques experts off Flog It and my dad just recognised him from there and had got confused. My mum was excited about meeting a celebrity and took selfies with him.’
–umbrellatalk
19.
‘My dad used to swing round lampposts. Not every one, it was usually if we were walking and came to an adjoining road and there was one on the junction. He’d walk fast to build up speed, grab it one handed and leap, so he’d twirl 360⁰ around it then just keep walking.
‘As you can imagine, this was almost terminally embarrassing to teenage me. I look back and think it’s hilarious now. He’s always had a silly side.’
–shuffling_crabwise
20.
‘In the early 90s my Mum took us swimming to a place with slides/lazy river/wave machine and when we got in the water realised she hadn’t packed herself a swimming costume but a ‘body’ – a cotton vest top that did up with poppers down below. It went completely and utterly see-through, we were all horrified!’
–Memms-
21.
‘In the mid 90s my dad was convinced you didn’t need a passport to travel to France on the ferry. It never occurred to him to actually check this. We arrived in Calais and were basically turned back. Everyone stared at us like we were criminals. Lost the whole holiday and thousands of pounds.’
–CheekyYoghurts
22.
‘My parents referred to the box room as the glory hole, therefore so did I. I was horrified when I found out what a glory hole was! It explained a lot of the funny looks I’d received when casually mentioning the glory hole in conversations. I’m not sure if it’s a Scottish thing?’
–smoking-gnu
23.
‘My parents were naturists so every day was an embarrassment with them. Probably the worst was when they thought a particular part of Slapton Sands was the naturist part and took their kit off in front of a lot of families who weren’t expecting it.’
–Medium_Click1145
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