Cringe

[Sunless Sky]

Do you have any cringey moments in your life that you look back on with horror?

 

[user 188685]

yes,when I was in high school,someone was watching me on my porch,taking a shower.

 

[user 148069]

I had a My Chemical Romance phase. I'm not proud that I know the words to the Black Parade song.

 

[Francis]

At least ten.

The cringiest one was when I was a pre teen and screamed imitating a black metal vocalist in a CHURCH, and all the old people turned around in horror. 100% cringe, I turned red as a tomato. NOT my greatest moment but I did do that.

 

[user 188522]

My cringe moment happened when I picked up a quarter near a wall. A group of boys started yelling at me that they were playing a game that involved hitting the quarter with the ball. I threw the quarter down and walked away.

Now 45 years later, it is laughable; at the time, it was cringe-worthy

 

[Francis]

My cringe moment happened when I picked up a quarter near a wall. A group of boys started yelling at me that they were playing a game that involved hitting the quarter with the ball. I threw the quarter down and walked away.

Now 45 years later, it is laughable; at the time, it was cringe-worthy

That actually sounds like a fun game they were playing.

 

[TheSkaFish]

Yeah. For most of grade school through college I was just out of touch with my peers, and I was too shy and afraid of being teased to express myself. So I came off like I wasn't interested in anything, because I didn't put any of myself out there (I was big into Star Wars, Transformers, and other things like that).

I also cringe at times when I was bullied and just stood there like a deer in the headlights not knowing what to say or do, when I should have fought back, but I was too worried about getting in trouble to stick up for myself (thank you, ineffectual dumbass Zero Tolerance Policy!).

Then there were the times that I got caught up in negative obsessions, and got off course in life because I paid attention to these obsessions instead of what I should have been paying attention to.

Finally, just any time when I tried to fit in where I didn't belong, especially with crushes that I thought I liked, but that I look back on now and I'm like, "what was I thinking?!?!"

 

[ringwood]

I was such a shy, uncool nerd in school. In Grade 10, I moved to a new area and school and I used to carry around this tote bag that had images of Boy George all over it. Of course, this was around the time that Culture Club was over and everyone thought Boy George was a drug-riddled ass (OK - well, that was probably true at the time). I just had no sense of what was 'cool' and would be appreciated by my classmates - I soon found out that carrying around a Boy George tote bag wasn't on the coolness radar.

(P.S. These days, I would STILL carry around a Boy George tote bag, but that's only because I've grown up and don't give a flying fresia what everyone else thinks. I do me.)

 

[user 188685]

That actually sounds like a fun game they were playing.

Yes it does

 

[Sunless Sky]

Yeah. For most of grade school through college I was just out of touch with my peers, and I was too shy and afraid of being teased to express myself. So I came off like I wasn't interested in anything, because I didn't put any of myself out there (I was big into Star Wars, Transformers, and other things like that).

I also cringe at times when I was bullied and just stood there like a deer in the headlights not knowing what to say or do, when I should have fought back, but I was too worried about getting in trouble to stick up for myself (thank you, dumbass ineffectual Zero Tolerance Policy!).

Then there were the times that I got caught up in negative obsessions, and got off course in life because I paid attention to these obsessions instead of what I should have been paying attention to.

Finally, just any time when I tried to fit in where I didn't belong, especially with crushes that I thought I liked, but that I look back on now and I'm like, "what was I thinking?!?!"

I was a bit of a firecracker when I was a kid and I specialised in beating up bullies. Not out of any moral objection or "white knightness", I just liked a good fight. Sadly though, as I grew up, I repressed that side of me as I didn't want to cause my parents any problems. That was the beginning though and eventually I developed an anger problem.

Thinking back, I would probably beat up more kids if I could go back in time.

 

[user 164061]

Do you have any cringey moments in your life that you look back on with horror?

Yep. Like picking up a dog turd at a super young age while thinking it was a stick

 

[Nicolelt]

Great....now I am thinking about them.

 

[Sunless Sky]

Yep. Like picking up a dog turd at a super young age while thinking it was a stick

Oh yeah? I once picked up a bag of Human feces .

It was at my dorm. A couple of the cleaning crew actually went in a bag and left it on the sidewalk. I walked up to it, all curious, and picked it up.

Here's the thing though, the cleaning crew saw me picking up the bag and said nothing

 

[user 164061]

Oh yeah? I once picked up a bag of Human feces .

It was at my dorm. A couple of the cleaning crew actually went in a bag and left it on the sidewalk. I walked up to it, all curious, and picked it up.

Here's the thing though, the cleaning crew saw me picking up the bag and said nothing

And they thought "here comes the honeysuckle shifter"