What’s the worst second-hand embarrassment you’ve ever felt? – 17 moments of unforgettable cringe
10.
‘Watching my divorced jobless sisters’ life coaching videos on Instagram’
-CrazyGrazy
11.
‘A colleague of mine gave his resignation. Just a little context, he’s a fairly attractive man.
‘Well, this woman from HR comes by his cubicle, to wish him for this future, IG? Anyway she gives him a lap dance right there in front of the whole office.’
-Truevibe_
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‘Years ago I went to see a friend do standup comedy. It was a group of us that went to watch him. We fake laughed the whole time because NOBODY else in the place was laughing. The jokes just weren’t funny and I felt the worst secondhand embarrassment of my life. Decided then that I’ll never go see another friend do standup again unless I’m 100% sure they’re going to be funny…. Guy that came on after him killed though.’
-mysteryShmeat
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‘My parents and I went to our favorite pizza place and they had a new waitress. I can’t recall her name, but it was either Russian or Eastern European etc. She had a strong accent to match.
‘My parents picked up on the accent and immediately said (to her face) “I hear your accent and I just want to call you Olga, haha”
‘I’ve never wanted to spontaneously combust more than in that moment. I tried to make eye contact with the poor girl to nonverbally apologize for them. She took it in stride though, since she very obviously didn’t want to piss off paying customers. “You can call me Olga if you like.”
‘And they did. From then on they literally disregarded her actual name and, whether at the restaurant or referring to her in conversation elsewhere, they kept fucking calling her that.
‘I honestly hate my parents sometimes, and those times are almost always when they’re released onto the public. Especially when ‘the public’ are people who aren’t upper-white middle-class homegrown Americans. They become like children at the zoo.’
-Cutter9792
14.
‘The ukulele “apology” heard ‘round the world. 🤣’
-Petty-in-P1nk
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‘My wife, who’s usually pretty rational, had a full on Karen moment at a restaurant because they didn’t have an outdoor table available for us with an umbrella. I actually looked at her and said “you are embarrassing me” and walked back out the front door.’
-Grand_Raccoon0923
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‘In 2017, my younger brother and I were on a tour of the Warner Brothers lot where they filmed Big Bang Theory, and as the tour guide was talking about it, my brother shouted “BOTSWANA” (back when people were making variations of ‘Bazinga’ as memes). The tour guide asked “I’m sorry?”, and he doubled down and said it 2 more times, loudly. No one else on the bus got it, the tour guide awkwardly moved on, and the ripples of embarrassment felt by him through me have echoed through the years.’
-PowderedSugarDaddy
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‘A friend of mine had to do pullups in gym class, facing the class, with a raging boner.’
-gogozrx
Source; Reddit, Image: Screenshot