As a child, did you ever do something to embarrass yourself?

When I was in 2nd grade, my teacher was reading a story to the class. I got bored and wanted something to occupy myself, so I tied my shoelaces together so I could then take them apart. I kept dong this, making the knot tighter and more difficult to undo, until I couldn’t actually get them apart. When the story was over, I had to ask the teacher to untie my shoelaces, and had to sit at my desk for some tie with no shoes on.

No. Never. I was the coolest kid ever.

The stuff I’ve done as an adult is much more embarrassing.

lol @rockstargrrrlie Thanks for sharing!

I told my kindergarten class that it was my birthday when it really wasn’t just so I could be the “leader” for the day. I got busted when a friend rode home w/ me and asked my mom for a piece of birthday cake. She made me march in the next morning and apologize to the class and admit that I lied!

One time in 2nd grade (I would have been 7 years old), I accidentally walked into the girls’ bathroom. There were two girls in there at the sinks and I just remember standing there with my mouth open in shock and one of them goes “what are you doing?” and I just started crying. :(

That was so embarrassing that I was traumatized by it!

It’s funny because my boyfriend told me he accidentally walked into the girls’ bathroom in 4th grade and it was empty and so he quickly left and assumed it was over. Then later on he found out someone had seen him from afar and that person was telling everyone and people were laughing at him. Pretty bad.

I outed my mother’s affair while at dinner in a restaurant. I was about six and was taken to dinner with my parents and an Uncle and aunt. The conversation went like this:

Aunt: “What did you learn at school today”/
Me: ” We learned how babies are made.

Restaurant: “total silence – waiting.”

Father: “I am surprised that they taught you that. Did you understand it.”?
Me: “Yes, except, when mommy has her baby, are you going to be the Daddy or will Uncle John be the Daddy”?

Restaurant: “Embarrassed small talk with no one looking our way.”

Me – alone with my father after everyone else had hurriedly left the table: “Can I have dessert now”?

We had a new neighbor with a really cute dog. My mom and I were taking a walk, and the man and the dog were walking about 30 fed ahead of us. I wanted to pet the dog, and asked my mom what his name was, and she told me Mike. So I started calling, “Mike! Here, Mike!! Come on fella, come on!” trying to get the dog’s attention.

Turns out, Mike was the owner’s name. The dog’s name was Missy.

When you have an “accident” and you are in the second grade. That’s pretty embarrassing.
@PandoraBoxx and @DarkScribe funny lurve. (:

@DarkScribe Wow. You win this question.

When I was racing my brother down a long strip of sidewalk in a plaza, someone opened the door to the side of the sidewalk and I sprinted right into the door. I had the biggest mountian of a bump on my forehead ):

When I was in the first grade we were having SSR Silent Sustained Reading, my favorite part of the day! and the teacher told us not to speak, not to say a word until she told us reading time was over. So, I sat there and pee’d my pants! I was so embarrassed I just started crying and then a girl next to me screamed “OH MY GOD she just pee’d all over the floor!” The teacher explained to me that if I had to pee, I should have said something…but she told us not to speak until she said!

With 5 older siblings to keep up with I was potty trained by the time I was two. However, in kindergarden I decided to skip over this fact when one of my friends had an accident. She came back from the office and they had given her some clothes to change into, and some Mario underwear!! Holy cow, I was excited about those so I decided I wanted some too. After 30 minutes of trying to force myself to wet my pants my efforts paid off with a trip to the office… Only I didn’t get the Mario underwear, I was stuck with boring Mickey Mouse. I even asked the nurse for Mario but she said they did not have anymore… shucks.
I thought my dignity was worth sacrificing for a pair of Mario underwear, that is until I had to go home and explain to my mom I peed my pants for the first time since I was two!! (Not to mention the ridicule from my 5 older siblings.)

How old qualifies as “childhood”? I’ve got 2 mortifying stories,but I was in high school for both of them.

@maggiesmom1 You should share them anyways. I’m always up for a laugh =)

When I was five, I stole a candy bar in a Five and Dime store. I had it in my pocket, but I was running my hand along the shelf (back then shelving units had metal and glass edges) and I cut my finger really bad. My Mom turned to ask me what was wrong as I started crying from all the blood coming out of my finger, somehow the stolen candy bar was found, and I was admonished that the cut finger was God punishing me for stealing.

The embarrassing part was finally figuring out that there is no God that hurts small kids for misdemeanour theft.

Okay here’s one.
Bleh. This was freshman year of high school. It was Homecoming. All the classes would work on floats that we would run in the HC parade & that night at the Homecoming game around the football field at halftime. Big floats like on the flatbed of a pickup truck. Okay. Halftime comes & we all run out to run around the field with our float while waving manically at the crowd & generally being smart aleks. We get the float all the way up the field (more in front of the visitor’s stands), turn it around & head back down, in front of our home stands. At approximately the 50 yard line, in full view of everyone in the stands, I hit a hiccup in the field, trip & fall. Bad, right? Well, not so much yet. As I’m tumbling to the ground, the float runs me over. Yeah. Runs. Me. Over. Like a possum. The float finishes its roadkill of me and rolls off to its destination. I leap to my feet & run off after it, hoping no one saw. Ummm….right. Then, I realize I’m missing a shoe. Looking back over my shoulder, I see it sitting, mockingly, on the 50 yard line. As I run back to get it, applause starts in the stands. So, famehor I am, I bowed. I BOWED. Just like the dork I am.

@maggiesmom1 Did anyone catch it on video? I’d love to see it. lol

No, no one caught it on tape, as far as I know. At least no one told me they did. I don’t think I could actually watch it without dying.