Completely cringe worthy moments

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What are some of your most cringe worthy moments?

I'll start us off. I bumped into a client at an evening event at a trade show who represented a national government we had worked for. He had employed our company to do some pretty important economic analysis for them and for us a big contract. I'd just necked a few beers and when he came over I thought he was someone else I had a more casual relationship with for a split second and patted him on his very bald head. I still cringe now several years on.

I'm sure I have more but so do all of you. What makes you wince at the memory?
 
Used to work in a supermarket when I was at school.
Passed a guy a couple of times who was staring at the same section of shelving so on the third time asked him if he 'needed a hand'.

Guy was a double amputee.

He just burst out laughing at the look on my face and asked where the cayenne pepper was whilst he waited for his Mrs.
 
Went for a job interview on friday half way thru my shift (got the guy i was working with to carry on for an hour)

On coming out of the elevator after the interview who should be sitting in reception waiting for a meeting.... my boss.

Unbelievable.
 
I used to work on telesales for the MEN, and I had a customer ring in about placing an ad that didn't end well. It all started well, they wanted to place the ad etc, so part of my patter was to make a joke when taking their details to keep the rapport going eg "you don't sound like a Mrs, Dave lololol". I hadn't got the first name yet so I rolled that one out and she was a Mrs, with a very gruff voice.
 
A girl I know likes to have an occasional party at her apartment in central London. There are usually quite interesting people in attendance - **** knows why she invites me along, I don't have floppy hair, I didn't go to Eton or some international school in Switzerland or similar and I don't usually attend "house parties" where you supposed to get dressed up and a pianist is playing in the living room. I'd had an invite to the next one and had been looking through the Facebook event listing to see who else was going - she has a lot of female friends and they're pretty much all hot. One of the hot female friends had caught my eye (lets call her Jane Bloggs) and as you do on Facebook you I had a quick browse... Sure enough Jane Bloggs likes to go on holiday a lot and upload pictures of herself in a bikini on a yacht, in a bikini doing yoga on some beach, in a bikini meeting some giant tortoises on a private island etc.. essentially she looks very good in a bikini.

A day later I'm meeting my friend (the party host) and having coffee, I have my laptop with me and we're discussing a particular topic, I want to bring up a paper I'd seen and so open up my browser history (yes massive schoolboy error but this is on my non-porn work safe browser so I didn't stop to think) of course in the browsing history there are numerous entries along the lines of "Facebook - Jane Bloggs pictures".... there is no denying it, we're both staring at the screen and there is the browser history showing that I've blatantly Facebook stalked her ridiculously hot friend. :eek:
 
I take it the word "cringe" meaning embarrassing or awkward moments? I did google it but it gave me multiple meanings of the word.

I wear hearing aids and I'm deaf enough that I should know sign language. However, my eyesight is so bad that I was never able to learn it. I've had numerous occasions where other deaf people assume that I can sign then it becomes awkward as I don't know how to sign back. Obviously with the eyesight thing, I can't do lipspeaker either. Sometimes I'll get my phone out and start writing out a text message of what I was meant to say back and show the message to them (if they haven't already ran off).
 
Not mine, but my cleaning supervisor. The PA to my boss came in to the office and bent over to pick up some packages. He looked at her and went "I never knew you were pregnant".

Pawnless Endgame said:
I take it the word "cringe" meaning embarrassing or awkward moments? I did google it but it gave me multiple meanings of the word.

I wear hearing aids and I'm deaf enough that I should know sign language. However, my eyesight is so bad that I was never able to learn it. I've had numerous occasions where other deaf people assume that I can sign then it becomes awkward as I don't know how to sign back. Obviously with the eyesight thing, I can't do lipspeaker either. Sometimes I'll get my phone out and start writing out a text message of what I was meant to say back and show the message to them (if they haven't already ran off).
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I BELIEVE THE CORRECT TERM IS FAUX PAS.
 
NoobCannon said:
Went for a job interview on friday half way thru my shift (got the guy i was working with to carry on for an hour)

On coming out of the elevator after the interview who should be sitting in reception waiting for a meeting.... my boss.

Unbelievable.
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Did you do the polite thing and ask your boss whether they were there for the job interview too?
 
Plowed into the back of someone when they slammed the anchors on for absolutely nothing, got out screaming and shouting.. Dude was the ceo of the company I worked for.
 
At a pretty low point after uni I did charity door-to-door sales for literally 4 days. One of those days a heavily pregnant woman answered the door and I started the schpeel, shortly followed by her saying she wasn't the homeowner but she'd get her friend.

The friend arrived at the door and I said "oh you're pregnant too!". She wasn't.

Cue me trying to complete the pitch in utter despair whilst wishing the ground would swallow me up.
 
Probably the most embarrassing one for me was at uni. I lived in a massive house with eight other people, so once you factored in friends and girlfriends/boyfriends there were often 15+ people in the house.

Anyway, one night there were about 15-20 of us in the living room watching a film. Our living room had been added to the house as part of an extension, and for some reason it was slightly lower than the room it joined onto and had been connected by a patio door. We'd turned all the lights off for the film, but just as it was about to start someone suggested some film snacks. Great idea I thought, and volunteered to go and grab them. As I left the room, I did a little hop to step up into the room adjoining the living room, only to hop head/face first into the patio doors. What added to the embarrassment was that it was me who had shut the patio doors.

On another occasion I went paintballing with a group of friends. One of the staff was handing out face camouflage paint, so me and a few friends decided to use it. What I didn't realise is that my friends took a tiny bit from the pot and added two small lines, one under each eye, like you sometimes see the NFL players have. I took a pretty large scoop and starting camoing up, only to realise when it was too late that I'd really gone overboard. Five minutes later in the safety briefing the instructor commented that it was cool to see people using the face paint, and upon seeing me he exclaimed in front of about 50-60 people 'woah dude, you've really gone to town with the face paint'. I was mortified!
 
Dunno about cringe worthy but one of the more awkward moments work related - we'd had some emergency and I'd been working like 3 days in a row with hardly any sleep and got called into a meeting for a debrief once it was all sorted - there was some women there from outside the company auditor or something and I was sitting across from her so tired I was completely zoned out - became conscious after awhile from the look on her face that she thought I was fixated on her breasts.
 
Rroff said:
Dunno about cringe worthy but one of the more awkward moments work related - we'd had some emergency and I'd been working like 3 days in a row with hardly any sleep and got called into a meeting for a debrief once it was all sorted - there was some women there from outside the company auditor or something and I was sitting across from her so tired I was completely zoned out - became conscious after awhile from the look on her face that she thought I was fixated on her breasts.
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I have a few but one that springs to mind...

At university I rented two different houses. For my 2nd and 3rd years I had two different sets of housemates... one group of boys in my 2nd year and then a group of girls in my 3rd year.

Being the only common denominator, I was in my room about a week before the new term when the landlord knocked on my door unannounced.

I was half asleep at the time and totally unprepared for any visit, so when she shouted through the door to “come meet the girls”, I chucked on the first pair of trousers I could find.

Anyway, got downstairs and it was clear that 2 of the 3 girls were gorgeous. We made small talk and I introduced myself then about half an hour later I said goodbye and retreated back to my room.

......it was only then that I realised that I’d chucked on some tracksuit trousers and had been wearing them completely backwards :D

They must have thought I was a lunatic!
 
bowey said:
Plowed into the back of someone when they slammed the anchors on for absolutely nothing, got out screaming and shouting.. Dude was the ceo of the company I worked for.
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The cringey bit there is you ranting at someone else, when it was your fault for leaving an insufficient gap to the vehicle in front.
 
When Facebook was relatively new I decided to look up an ex boyfriend for a nosy.

I entered his name in the search bar, and it took me a few attempts to find him. My sister told me a few weeks later I'd actually entered his name into the part where you upload your status, so his name was on my wall for all that time (both married with children).
 
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