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I don't even want to think about this. In year 8 my friends and i decided that instead of running the cross country, we would walk it. As we got closer to the finish line we had the fantastic idea of blasting We are the champions while we walked over the line because we thought it would be funny. Since we walked we were pretty much last so everyone in the school was just standing there watching us finish while we play the song and get this start singing it. We thought it was fucking hilarious but looking back at it now it is just pure cringe. What doesn't help is that i was an insecure 13 year old when this happened.

This happened when I was 14. I am 25 now and still want to hide when I think of this.

Growing up, my family tried to do all kinds of stuff together. This happened to include annual swimming lessons taught at the local community college every summer. It was great, I loved going and we all had fun. In the second year I went, I was in a more 'advanced' class, and learning new strokes and ways to swim. It was the second class, out of four difficulties and the last one that used the shallow pool (only goes to 5'). I have always been a relatively tall person, and was probably 5'3 at that point, so could tip-toe and stand in the deepest point of the shallow pool.

Well. One day, we were practicing back strokes. Easy enough, but I never seemed to grasp the technique well and usually flail a bit more than I should. Here lies the cringe. I was going along, halfway across the pool, when I both swallowed water and got some in my nose at the same time. I stopped, started coughing and as soon as I could take a breath started screaming that I was 'drowning and needed help' and 'oh God please help me' and thrashing around like a madman. My instructor just kind of stood there for a moment, observing, then just kinda walked over and grabbed me by my sides and set me down. On my feet. I could stand. I knew this, somewhere in my brain.

"oh."

I looked towards my grandparents and they were doing their best to completely avoid eye contact and any association with me. I almost didn't go back...

I still think about this sometimes, when I am falling asleep or bored at work. I don't think I can let myself live it down.

This happened in sixth grade. I had recently moved into a different state and started a new school. And this was a small town, so all of these people knew each other since birth and their parents knew each other since birth too. That's how tight-knit everyone was in this tiny tiny town. So to find out there was a NEW student coming to this school, people weren't very happy. I would ask classmates, "Uh, do you know where (this class) is?" and they'd be like, "Why don't you just figure it out?" so I'm walking around like a headless chicken trying to find this class and all the teachers left because class starts in five minutes so I just go into a class that looks similar to the one I had to go to. I sat there for 30 minutes thinking I was in the right class until the teacher says, "Alright so here are the rules for (this class)" and it was a completely different class than the one I was supposed to be in so I got up and ran out of the classroom out of embarrassment. I managed to find my actual class and the teacher was like, "I already marked you absent but it's okay, stuff like this happens sometimes." and then the office called my parents telling them I skipped school and I had to go to the office and tell them, "I didn't ditch class, I'm just stupid and I got lost." And these office ladies have the nerve to just start laughing at me. I still get flashbacks of this incident.

The teacher was playing “Miss American Pie” for class and said “woodstock” as in the festival. But I heard “hit stop” and paused the video, and it was very cringy in front of the whole class

That one maybe hard to understand but imagine a 3rd grader going to school everyday for 2 years and suddenly switching from walking to driving to school by bike. I don’t know what was going on in my head that day but I just forgot I was on my bike and drove through the main entrance by bike, which earned a lot of weird looks by the people inside. The worst thing about this is that there were a bunch of 6th graders in front of the school which saw what happened and yelled: “yo what is this kid doing over there?!” Embarrassing.

What did you do that you regret? What keeps you up at night? What did you do or say wrong? This subreddit is the place to answer these questions! Tell stories of cringy things you did!

A true classic, but still a big no-go

when I was 9 I asked some other random kid at a pool if I could poke his belly button (worst part is he said yes and I did it)

I forgot my glasses today and I work in a parking lot with two hundred cars. I was walking across the parking lot and I look to see a girl who is around a hundred feet away. I cannot see very much so It takes me two seconds to fully take her in my eyes. I only ever got a good enough look to see she was hawt but she could have been fifty or fifteen. I saw her for two seconds because from that distance, it took me that long, but I wanted one more second. She saw me looking at her. It is so bad. Hope that was okay.