I do. I have a few memories that strike when my guard is down... and they are so embarrassing for me that I literally have to pause and regain my composure.
I've actually had some pretty bad things happen to me, but they don't haunt me nearly as much as the embarrassing things do. I guess I am just prone to embarrassment!
Do you have any painfully embarrassing memories that haunt you?
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
Thankfully no!
You should share those embarrassing moments. It'll help with the healing process! 
hostess / eggplant / 11068 posts
I have an embarrassing moment involving a boy I had a giant crush on. In hindsight, it is nothing but as a 14-year old girl, I thought my life was over!
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
I'll share mine. My mom still tells everyone this story. My family and I went to China for the first time in 1998, and they don't have "Western" toilets (they do now since the Olympics were there and all) and never having to squat to pee before, I made a big ole mess. All over myself. Now when I visit a country that makes me squat and pee, all I can think about is that incident. Sigh...
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
Oh yes. It's amazing how much I get affected by remember embarrassing moments. Probably the worst is when I peed my pants during a talent show rehearsal in the 4th grade. THE FOURTH GRADE!! And it's not like I was a bedwetter or usually had a problem. I just didn't want to ask to leave the rehearsal to use the bathroom. Bad decision.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@Alivoo01: I tried to squat and pee recently, and peed all over my pants that I had around my ankles. There is no expertise that comes with age in this department, apparently.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@mrbee: Definitely hanging on next to the car on a dirt road with 3 of my friends in the car waiting for me. And I had to get back in the car with soaking wet jean shorts.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@mrbee: Recently, I had the same issue come up while we were camping, and I took off my pants completely and threw them far away form me while taking care of my business. Then I put them back on again afterwards. It was great. Luckily it was dark out, so I don't think I flashed my goods to anyone.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@highwire: It would have been kind of awesome if you couldn't find your pants afterward. Not for you, though. Just for the story value.
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
@highwire: @mrbee: LOL!!! How does one even master peeing while squatting with pants anyhow?! Skirts/dresses, sure, but the restriction of the pants around the ankles makes it uber difficult.
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@mrbee: Well, I did only manage to put my underwear back on one leg and not on the other leg. I didn't notice until the next morning.
GOLD / squash / 13464 posts
@highwire: If I have to pee while camping I ALWAYS totally take my pants off. I will never learn proper aim.
Perhaps we both need to invest in this: http://www.go-girl.com/
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@Alivoo01: NO idea. I don't think I'll be practicing any more either, so I will probably never learn.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@highwire: That's still better than the dirt car scenario!
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@MamaMoose: I have seriously considered bringing a funnel with me....
bananas / 9357 posts
@Alivoo01: I just got back from Taiwan and had never seen a squatting toilet before in my life! haha I had to have my SIL explain how to use it. Would definitely be harder with pants on!
I have an embarrassing moment that happened in Taiwan that I'll never forget. It was my first morning there and we were staying with my DH's grandma. I got a really bad bloody nose and was hiding up in the bedroom waiting for it to stop. My DH insisted I come down so they can see why I'm taking so long. I told him to just tell them about my nose, and I'll be down when it stops. He pushed it, so I went down stairs.
His grandma and dad were down there. Of course they don't speak english, but she motioned for me to sit down and lean back. I obliged and immediately blood started running down the back of my throat. I leaned forward, but then she wanted me to sit in this chair and lean back. Mind you it was sweltering and I was already sweating. Then she got a bowl of water and started patting all over my face with water. I had just did my makeup! His dad was all up in my face and they're both speaking Chinese. Blood was running down my throat again. It was so overwhelming that I started crying. I was looking at my husband out of the corner of my eye glaring at him to tell them to stop. His grandma continued with the water and his dad was attempting to dry my tears. I think someone mentioned the hospital! I was SO embarrassed! I'll never forget it. At least now we can have a laugh about it.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@mrskc: That's an old Chinese remedy for bloody noses!
http://susangaer.com/studentprojects/nosebleed.htm
Whenever someone starts doing something different to me when I'm sick, it always turns out to be Chinese medicine!
bananas / 9357 posts
@mrbee: Well for this white girl, I had no clue what was going on, so it was very overwhelming!
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
@mrskc: Oh no!! Bless your heart!! My parents used to put water all over my face when I had a nosebleed as a kid also. That or put a wet towel on my forehead. Wonder what it is about the water on the face and nosebleeds?
ETA: nevermind! Mr. Bee published a link before I hit submit on my response. oops!
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@Alivoo01: In Chinese medicine, nosebleeds are created by hot blood... hence all that cold water and those ice packs.
pomelo / 5331 posts
@highwire: I totally did that. Granted, I was in college and wasted drunk. But still. Embarrassing.
My Most Embarrassing Moment was in 7th grade. I was wearing light blue jeans and got my period, all over my pants -- during lunch hour. There were like 250 kids walking down this one hall for lunch, and there I am oblivious to the huge blood spot on the back of my jeans. Until a girl from the deaf class said, "You've got the blood on the pants," really loudly. Yeah. To this day, I'm still nervous.
coconut / 8854 posts
My most embarressing moment was the first day of high school. I only knew 1 other person there, I was sooo nervous. Well I was walking to my class with my 1 friend that I knew, and we were walking down the stairs. Well I fell down the entire flight of stairs! I didn't get hurt luckily, but EVERYONE saw! I was "that freshman that fell down the stairs" the entire year 
persimmon / 1341 posts
I have 2. Both from high school. First, I was walking down the hall feeling all good about myself because I was rocking a cute sweater and my new high heeled black boots with cute jeans, with a heavy backpack of course. Well, apparently they had just clean the slick linoleum floor and my shoes had no traction, at all so I wiped out and landed flat on my butt. Luckily it was still awhile before school started so the hall wasn't as packed as it could have been and only a handful of people saw. Still sucked though.
Story number 2 is way, way worse. Hanging out with some friends after school before practice and we were playing frisbee. Somehow the frisbee ended up on the roof and me being the littlest person got volunteered to get on a boy's shoulders and retrieve it. Naturally, it was the boy I had a crush on at the time. Not sure exactly what happened but I remember I was laughing so incredibly hard I ended up peeing my pants as I was getting off his shoulders. It was mortifying. I'm not 100% sure if anybody noticed but I made up some excuse about needing to run home before practice so I could change. Humiliating!
GOLD / eggplant / 11517 posts
@ladyfingers: There was definitely a substance involved in my story also...
wonderful olive / 19353 posts
Looks like a lot of our embarrassing stories involve peeing on oneself or a bodily function.
persimmon / 1341 posts
@mrbee: Luckily, no. I'm not sure I would have ever been able to show my face in town again. I was mostly off his shoulders and it wasn't like a huge gush with a puddle or anything.
grapefruit / 4703 posts
@eeh: Ah! At least it wasn't while you were still ON his shoulders!
As for the falling, I've fallen several times in public. The three most embarrassing were:
1. In a crowded restaurant while the hostess was showing us to our table
2. In a supermarket aisle (the aisle was empty, but I still won't go there anymore because I'm sure the employees were laughing at me on the security footage)
3. On my college campus, on my way to my dad's car, with four (yes four) pies in my arms - I was going home for Thanksgiving and they were selling homemade pies. I threw them all up in the air.
pomegranate / 3716 posts
In Jr. yr of high school, I was wearing a skirt that had 2 layers, a lining on the inside and a mesh-fabric outer layer. After gym class (when you had to change in and out of your gym clothes), I was walking back to my next class. And then one of my friends saw me and literally SHOVED me into the girls bathroom.
Turns out my inner lining layer was tucked into my underwear, and the outer mesh layer provided NO coverage. I had walked down a LONG hallway and no one told me
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@Rachel: +1000 for throwing four pies in the air!!! Wow, epic.
grapefruit / 4703 posts
@mrbee: yeah, and then I desperately grasped at them for the whole way down - I only saved two - haha so embarrassing
persimmon / 1341 posts
Ok Mr. Bee..I think enough of us have shared our embarrassing stories that it's time for you to fess up and share. Sort of like the HIMYM episode where Barney will only tell his story after everyone has shared their own embarrassing story.
pear / 1764 posts
I don't get embarrassed too easily, but I actually had one just a couple years ago that made me want to curl up in bed when I got home! I was walking in one of the main parts of a grocery big box store wearing these FABULOUS fall boots & fell on my butt! A whole bunch of people saw & offered help! Plus the stuff I was holding fell out of my hands 
eh!
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