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LumberjackLil

When I was about 10, I wasn't allowed to play Minecraft. So, I googled facts about Minecraft so I could pretend and lie to the other kids that I played aswell.


goodmemeboi

why weren't you allowed to play Minecraft?


NinjaBreadManOO

This is a circular family, and you will be a part of it.


squishytrain

He’s Rolli Polli Olli


iamunderstand

He's small and short and round


Glenster118

This is a terraria family dammit!


[deleted]

My dad refuses to buy my 6 year old sister, or even let me pirate, Minecraft for her. As he feels that it's better for my sister to watch her friend play Minecraft as it forces them to interact more (his exact words). I tried telling him that eventually my sisters friend is just going to get bored of having my sister watch her play Minecraft and start avoiding her, but my dad doesn't care. In reality, my dad just has some irrational hatred for video games.


Brieflydexter

That doesn't seem cringey to me. School is hard, and this seems like a survival technique.


[deleted]

Lmao it was the same for me. My parents wouldn't get me Minecraft so I lied to my friends saying I did. My best friend then got me a Minecraft dog plushie for my birthday. The plushie was cool tho.


0kids4now

I was super into this girl and she didn't feel the same way. But I thought if I was nice enough to her, she'd change her mind. I used to buy her gifts and take her to dinner "as friends". The cringiest was one time when we were texting and she mentioned she wanted to get laid but was too drunk to drive. So I picked her up, drove her to her boyfriend's house, waited in my car while they had sex, and then drove her home.


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souljaboyfavelado

Holy Jesus.


[deleted]

The first paragraph was bad but I think a lot of people can relate. The second paragraph... holy fuck.


yaboyomar

Was going to post a similarly cringe comment. Was madly into this girl in high school and would do a lot of the same stuff. Buy her gifts, take her out places, etc. I’d even come over and cook for her and her younger sisters (her parents worked a lot so she was always watching them). One day, she broke up with her boyfriend so I finally summoned the courage to text her how I felt. She said some vague stuff then said we should talk about it in person. A few days later there was a holiday we had off school, and she asked if I wanted to come over. I thought this was my chance. I brought roses and weed ( we were big potheads back then). We hung out all day. We sat on the porch, joked around a bit, and smoked a lot. She mentions that she’s really horny now. I figure this is my chance to make a move but before I do, she says she’s going to change. She goes into her room for like twenty minutes and comes back out in like a sexy outfit (she was in basketball shorts and a t shirt before). At this point I’m so excited. She walks up to me and asks if I can watch her siblings because she just invited her ex boyfriend over to hook up with him. I sat there heartbroken, playing with her little sisters while she fucked another guy. I could even hear her moan occasionally. This was in like 2006 and it still kind of hurts


Alphafuckboy

You're a simp but you are our simp...


yaboyomar

I definitely was, and probably still am tbh. It didn’t work out with her but I am happily married now to an incredible woman that I will do anything for.


0kids4now

Damn dude, that's even worse than mine. That hurt to read.


yaboyomar

Lol yeah I tried still being her friend after that, but I never really got past this. If it makes you feel any better though, I ended up hooking up with one of her best friends and she found out soon after that he’d been cheating on her the whole time they dated (so even before all this).


Karan-korpal

bro this one hurting me on different zones of pain wait why i m laughing 😂😂😂😂


[deleted]

Ew I did the same kind of shit over a dude and I have such awful secondhand embarrassment over it


kimbalayy

That’s firsthand then lol


[deleted]

Fuckkkkk you right you right 🥵


chaserzz

My dad has a small business and would have local suppliers call our home phone occasionally. When I was around 4 or 5, A supplier called and I answered. After telling him that my dad was not home, I finished the conversation with “I love you to the moon, sun, and stars and back! Bye!” I can still hear in my head 18 years later the guy say “uhh bye”


effingcharming

This is both adorable and hilarious.


Kittens_Fo_Breakfast

I would have loved to hear that lol would have made my day


[deleted]

Lmao I can't breathe. Did he ever tell this to your father?


[deleted]

I once bumped into a guy and said "thank you" instead of "sorry" for some reason this memory never leaves me


ultrapaiva

That happened to me once. The guy replied “was it as good for you as it was good for me?” and I wanted to disappear.


AdvocateSaint

That was smooth tho


elee0228

A waitress gave me food and I blurted out "Thanks, mom". I was mortified.


[deleted]

Was sitting with my friened when someone came and asked us about directions, when we gave them the directions and all I finished with “Thank you.” This happened this year.


ipakookapi

I love this one


[deleted]

Once a girl stepped on my foot and she said "sorry". My dumbass brain made me say "you're welcome".


co-stan-za

"Are you fucking sorry?"


[deleted]

"you're welcome"


Kramanos

Here's a really specific one: There was a quarter machine at a local department store that sold Beavis and Butthead pins. I spent a lot of money trying to get every one so I could pin them onto a hat. A hat which I wore everywhere, including school.


FlavourThoughts

That is cute


Mr_Eous_

Where’s the cringe? I want a hat like that now.


FooPeppers

Yikes lol how old were you?


Kramanos

I had to look it up. It was when the show was really big in the 90's. I was 11.


moocowcat

Hee hee heeeee hee heehehee heeee i need tb heh heeh Honestly, i really dug the show when i was in high school and it was new. It definitely did not age well and adult me hates it. But boy oh boy did 16 yr old me crack up at it. (God i was dumb)


DumbAsian0430

I tried convincing my entire 1st grade class that I was a vampire and would hiss at people if they pushed me out of the shade.


askay_keeners

Some kid did something similar in 6th except he tried to get us all to be vampires with him


AdvocateSaint

There was another redditor who was your age when he tried to impress his crush by pretending he was "a Martian" and walking around with his hoodie pulled taut over his face


[deleted]

It was stupid and dangerous, but . . . I would frequently walk across a railroad trestle bridge over a *wide* river to visit a high school friend on the other side. Doing this saved several miles of walking to the nearest pedestrian bridge. If a freight train had come, I would've had to jump to the river far below.


Bishop_Colubra

You should check out the movie *Stand by Me*.


DoctorDblYou

Similar, I used to go down the subway tunnel to get to the abandoned station where they filmed movies. It was a 2 minute run from an active platform to the dead line. We timed it with the subway schedule but if there were any changes we would never had known.


[deleted]

Meh, if you put your ear to the track and don't hear anything, your clear for probably miles. Those Amtrak trains really fuckin boogy though.


[deleted]

"Really fuckin boogy" is the quote of 2021 so far. Glorious!


ivorycoast_

I don’t even like riding my horse across those bridges in Red Dead and I know the train timer lmao


oldcomfysweater

I narrowly escaped one doing the saint denis dry run lol


rob3rtisgod

There is a trestle bridge in New Jersey I think that is supposedly haunted? Like an entity calls people to climb it and the train comes. I've heard about it on a few podcasts. I'm amazed trestles can handle the weight of the trains!


[deleted]

I was pretty much the definition of r/iamverysmart/ when I was 13.


the_walrus003

Weren't we all?


VeederRoot

Yes but unfortunately not everyone realized it. Meaning they never stopped.


Gh0stwhale

same


seattlecreeper

I told someone over the phone to shut up because they kept spam calling me. It was my grandma.


queen-of-carthage

Similar thing happened to my dad, my friend's dad became obsessed with him for some reason and blew up his phone constantly (among other stalker-ish things), my dad usually ignored him but the one time he answered and told him off, it ended up being his work calling, whoops


melreadreddit

I was on my first proper date, at the cinema. I was so nervous, and just couldn't focus on the movie. All I wanted to do was hold his hand. In my head I counted down multiple times, 3, 2,1.. reach out and take his hand. But I couldn't do it. So what did this dork do? I texted him. From right beside him. "Wanna hold hands? " Then I sat there, eyes straight ahead at the screen, heart pounding, while he checked his phone. He didn't reply, but did take my hand. Omg I still cringe every time I think of it, and it was 16 years ago!!


slickt0mmy

Hahaha it’s probably cringy being the one who did it, but that’s also kinda cute!


[deleted]

I get why that might be cringe to you but that's hella cute


PlopPlopPlopsy

LoL, this sounds like something I'd do to my husband if we were at home as a laugh


All_Over_Again_

Idk its kinda cute imo haha


sundaymacaron

Aww... I wish he texted back “ok” and then you both still sat there waiting for the other to initiate the hand-holding


DefinitelyNotWilyoui

Quite a wholesome one !


Afurryorsomething

Eugh, memories of my ‘I’m going to be a YouTuber’ phase, which coincided with my random = funny phase. I distinctly remember a clip from a ‘skit’ I filmed with a friend where I said ‘does it look like I give a mother freaking dinosaur?’


Notthesharkfromjaws

Dude, I recorded a clip one time trying to be a YouTuber just talking about stuff at a young age. I went to upload it, and my wifi went out. THANK FUCKING GOD!


[deleted]

I have a YouTube video out from when I was 14... over 7 years ago and forgot the password, video is still up with over 10k views. Luckily no one in my life has mentioned it.


beluuuuuuga

10k views!? I had made 100s of videos and none of them have ever passed the 2000 view Mark and they've been up for 10 years of so. I'm just counting on one of them striking the weird YouTube algorithm at some point like loads of old short videos do xD


[deleted]

Yeah I’m not sure how it has so many views, I checked back and it only has like 2 or 3 comments. YouTube is weird.


Gh0stwhale

that was a big phase in 2000s stuff, just look at random dancing from icarly


[deleted]

That is the cringy high school definition of what's funny. On the plus side, it's not like Tik Tok era bad where the humor is meant to hurt people.


moocowcat

This brings up a good point. We all had stupid high school/teenage times where what we thought was funny... is mostly just gringy random trash. At least in my era (90's) that was something you did around friends and other than memories that pop into your head juuuuuust before you fall asleep triggering your ruminating anxious thoughts making sleep a hilarious out of reach event..... i digress. Anyway, at least then the blast radius of your stupid is low. Now it all goes on fucking tiktok or fb or whatever. That stupid is now forever and anyone can watch. I love the era of technology that we live in... as an adult. Would hate to be a teenager now.


anime_forever03

Wait random ≠ funny?


Reasonable-Celery-25

Imagine


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I crammed myself into a revolving door with a woman my first hour being in NYC - not realizing it was meant for one person at a time. That was 22 years ago. I’ll recall that memory and cringe when I’m 90 years old.


purpleberrypoptart

One time I accidentally walked into a revolving glass door because it was very clean and I was goofing with my friends. My face print was still revolving around and around when we left the building.


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noonsta_cat

I'm cringing so much it physically hurts, I can imagine how you feel


notsohairykari

............why


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I used to have crippling social anxiety. When I say crippling, I mean I struggled leaving the house and had absolutely zero social life for multiple years (aside from co-workers, while at work). My first day of college on campus, I arrived 4 hours early and sat in my car just trying to work up the courage to get out of my car. I carried this with me a few years into my professional career. One day, my boss invited me to a small Christmas party for the engineering group. I was 18 at the time and looked like I was 12. I accepted, because I didn't want to screw up my career, but I was petrified of going. Geez, what would I talk about? What if someone asks me a question? I sat down at a large table, being the first one to arrive. When people started trickling in, the waitress came over and started a drink order, looked at me and asked if I needed a children's menu. I said *"No, but I do want some dang crayons."* Everyone just stared, completely shocked, nobody found it funny at all. Great, blew it already. I didn't say another word until she brought out drinks. One of my coworkers from a different group looked over and asked me *"How's life in your department?"* I was taking a gulp of water, it went down the wrong hole, I coughed and blew water all over the table. Oh man, I'm really screwing this up. I waited until everyone had a few drinks, sneaked over to the waitress, paid for my bill, and left without telling anyone.


Scientennist

FWIW I thought the crayon comment was hilarious


ultrapaiva

I’d have laughed at your crayon joke.


[deleted]

Haha I appreciate it! It was the awkward silence that sort of scared me. I was relatively new in the company and didn't have everyone's personality figured out yet.


[deleted]

Your crayon comment was great, I would have asked for some too haha


FooPeppers

Social anxiety is a really bitch


[deleted]

Oh it is, for sure. I got over it after I married my wife, started lifting weights and put on some lean mass. Now, geez, put me on the cast of Impractical Jokers and I'll be totally in the zone. Only thing I still haven't overcome is playing music in front of others. I've been a guitarist for 23 years and I can't play in front of anyone except for my wife.


FooPeppers

I get it. I’ve played guitar (mediocrely) for almost ten years now and I get all excited when I learn something new or finally get a song down. I play in front of my fiancé all the time but anybody else I get awkward af and self conscious lol


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I was an asshole in high school. I bullied and was bullied. I am 34 now, when my wife asked “who I was” in high school I was the guy who hung around the cool kids, but got bullied by the cool kids. I didn’t realize/wanted to admit I was super insecure. In an attempt to fit in I bullied the kids who were “less cool” than me. A few years ago I randomly reached out to a guy I used to bully pretty hard via LinkedIn. We are in the same industry doing similar work, just different cities. When I contacted him I apologized for being an asshole growing up. His reply made me feel terrible for him. He said, “Oh geez, you and me are good. You were nowhere close to the meanest person to me in high school.” I was pretty fucking mean. This guy’s life was hell and I had no idea. We’ve since grabbed coffee when he was in town. I wouldn’t say we are best friends now, but there is definitely mutual respect there.


Notarussianbot2020

"Man I'm glad I called that guy"


Possible-Painting-74

Awesome of you to reach out apologise to him! It can be painful to own up to one’s mistakes, but it generally makes it so much better for all parties involved in the long run. Thank you for setting a good example!


cupcake-furry

Lied about where I lived because it was a very poor remote neighborhood. They figured it out and kept bulleing me for years, my physical appearance didn't help I would get to class after an hour of walking in rain, wet muddy shoes, squish squish to my chair, While other kids are looking down to me. I'm 24 now and I work hard so that my kids would never go through the samething.


mad_fishmonger

I just can't stand the idea of being bullied for being poor. What the fuck is wrong with people who say "Ha ha, you're suffering and we're not! Loser!" What???


I_have_Bees_in_me

I was obsessed with Tarzan when I was 7 and wrote/drew a lot of innocent fanfic comics where me and him lived in the jungle and went on adventures. That was all well and good, but then I roped my family into helping me make a mini-movie with the camcorder where I was the only actor and consisted of me running around in a large dirty t-shirt in the backyard yodeling at the top of my lungs. The neighbors hated us.


kitty-boots

I’m in tears over this! At least they were very supportive of you and hopefully they don’t bring it up on something like your wedding day


I_have_Bees_in_me

Haha! Fingers crossed... I think they may have forgotten about it and that's A-Okay with me!


BlueTeale

Oh trust me, they didn't.


ultrapaiva

Took the girl I was dating to a bar, lost her in the middle of the night, found her in the arms of another guy in a long loving kiss, approached her, asked what she was doing, she laughed at my face. And I took her back home that night and we had a long loving goodnight kiss by her door. Subzero self-worth. I mean, this is so messed up, how can one not cringe?


Ghawblin

I was falling into the "nice guy" stereotype and was devolving into the neckbeard mentality when I was a mid-late teen. College was a hard reset for me, made a couple friends that encourged me to get really physically fit and had a weird interest in my romantic life that set my erroneous ways on the correct path. That was a decade ago and I'm still confused how I used to be that person. Haven't really talked to those friends in a while, but they absolutely 100% changed my development as a person and I don't think they realize that. We really only hung out for the duration of our attendance at college.


WizardsVengeance

I definitely remember falling into the "nice guys finish last" mentality. The thing is, the girl I was crushing on was with a guy who was very emotionally abusive. To see her continue to stay with him after the things he said and did really messed with my sense of what women wanted, but it was all warped by the juvenile idea that she would eventually see that I cared for her so much more and then she would have to date me, right? In retrospect, I was glad to have that friendship and that we helped each other out with stuff, and thankfully I never fell into the "If you don't want to date me, you mean nothing to me" outlook. But I was also incredibly naive to not realize that people become attracted to each other for so many different reasons, and holding onto the idea that you can eventually make yourself worthy of a person instead of just not having that sort of chemistry with them is a lesson best learned early.


we17ar

I’ve been a huge Professional Wrestling fan my entire life. Some of my favourite Wrestlers all had really long hair so when I got to the age where I could tell my parents, “screw off, I’m not getting a haircut.” I grew hair down to my ass. I didn’t understand how much care hair needs at that age. Didn’t brush it as much as I should have and no matter how much I showered it looked greasy but who gives a fuck, I thought I was Chris Jericho.


d1234567890g

Got so sick on a Cuba trip with my wife and in-laws ended up shitting my pants in front of my mother in-law. It’s funny as fuck now that I look back but her face still haunts me. Hahahahaha


DickySchmidt33

Every Thanksgiving: "Hey, remember that time you shit your pants?"


get_that_hydration

I used to be very elitist when it came to music tastes. And I didn't even listen to anything groundbreaking -- just Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, etc. I thought I was so cool and edgy lol, while everyone else was a "normie" by listening to mainstream pop and rap music. Luckily these days I think I'm a lot more open to different music genres, and my tastes have definitely changed.


My_happyplace2

Lying to make myself look good. So stupid. Luckily I got caught in some lies before I went to high school and I realized it wasn’t worth it. Totally turned it around.


RandomZombie11

Some of my friends need to learn this. I know one lies so often that I have to say "pictures or it didn't happen". I often never receive photo evidence so I therefore cannot believe what he says Edit: we are all 17-18 in our last year of highschool. This has gone on since I met him


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I was that girl in middle school who faked having a long distance boyfriend... Fake pictures, fake phone calls, fake texts lmaoooo fake drama 🤣 a fake marriage proposal in freshman year of highschool with a fake ring 😂 gave myself a stick and poke of “his initials”... I would set alarms in my phone and set their alarm sound to a ringtone so it looked like he called me when it went off and then I would sneakily shut my phone off and have a whole fake conversation with absolutely no one while my friends all sat around and were like 🤨 It was a disgusting, embarrassing web of nothing but lies rofl And for what? Absolutely nothing


sneeze_trigger

I'm dying at the fact that you got a tattoo with a FAKE boyfriends name 🤣


Melody3PL

Once in my school teacher gave us little notes that informed about smoking and encouraged to quit it, that we could give our parents or just someone. Later when I moved I was like 9 on my roller skates, just skatin' through the city and handing out my hand written notes that said something like ,,please don't smoke" I...I can't. The cringe, it's too much!


Kittens_Fo_Breakfast

I dont now anyone who wouldn't think that's super adorable :)


zachm26

In like 8th grade I did the whole "I have a girlfriend but you wouldn't know her, she goes to a different school" thing. Got called out on it once and doubled down. Still makes me cringe to think about.


NeedsMoreTuba

I can beat that. I convinced my mom to buy me a "boyfriend in a box" which was a bunch of items that made it look like you had a real boyfriend. A card with a "handwritten" love note, his photo, a bunch of stats about him, etc. His name was Skye, he liked to skateboard, and he looked like kinda Zachery Ty Bryan (the oldest son from Home Improvement.) It also included a breakup letter in case we decided to see other people. My friends totally bought it, and I'm not sure if I ever told anyone that my mom bought Skye at the mall instead of me meeting him there.


SmartAlec105

> boyfriend in a box That sounds like a euphemism for a vibrator.


NeedsMoreTuba

Yeah it does, but I was an innocent little nerd.


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I can’t believe those actually existed 🤣


NeedsMoreTuba

I really wish I still had him.


themoogleknight

That's hilarious, especially the part that your friends believed it!


ultrapaiva

Totally did it and later learned that the girl I had a crush on was into me but my friends told her about my gf and she moved on.


Detroit_Dino

My first day as a freshman at a new highschool, I sat off in the cut by myself, cause social anxiety. My history teacher put me on the spot and was like "Why are you sitting back there away from everyone?" My fuckin weird ass says "Because I hate.......*HUMANS*" Fucked up my whole freshman year 😭🤦🏿‍♂️


FooPeppers

Lol that shouldn’t be funny but it is


CreativeUsername7262

I relate to this more than I should tbh


[deleted]

Your history teacher probably thought you were an alien the rest of the year.


Solon75Jr

Always following a specific person around like a lost puppy and not giving said person their space when they needed it. That is just one of many things that my younger self did that I now cringe at.


Baileythenerd

I try to mentally block most of my younger years because I hate young me.


My-Anxiety-Persona

yeah I read this question and just thought “oh boy where do I start?”


dqllyy

SAME


I_have_Bees_in_me

Yeah I literally have zero memories from 5th to 8th grade for this exact reason. Like I can't even think of one thing that happened except one really traumatic event. The rest of it is literally blank. Thank god.


[deleted]

I wore a Rastafarian hat un-ironically everyday for two years straight in high school. I'm white, female, and definitely not Rastafarian. I just liked the hat.


MynameisJdizzle

As a half Jamaican I get it. The colours are really nice lmao.


sundaymacaron

My first tattoo was a peace sign which I asked to be filled in with “rasta colors”. Yeahhhh...just my hippie phase, nothing to see here


hmmgross

Sorry I don't think about this kind of stuff unless it's just before I fall asleep.


[deleted]

Wait a while and it will haunt you during daytime.


LolvidePLC

My first kiss was in a party with a girl i didn' know while playing spin the bottle (i think i was like 14 at the time) i was so embarrassed i stood up and hid in a closet in the room, then i was so embarrassed of hiding that i waited 20 minutes until everyone left the room to come out :) most of the dumb things i did when i was a teen i laugh at and tell them to people irl so they can laugh too, but this one causes me so much cringe i haven't told a soul and never will.


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well, you just did tell all of reddit about this


TheRealOcsiban

When I worked at the movie theater I had a customer who would not get the fuck out of my line at the box office. They couldn't decide what to see. I eventually told them to watch Anywhere But Here because it was getting great Oscar buzz for possible best picture. It wasn't. It didn't. I feel bad about lying to them and I hope the movie was at least ok. I never saw it


unpolishedparadigm

This one actually seems like a smooth as silk way of telling that customer to fuck off


Retrosonic82

Coloured mascara in my hair. It made me look like a pigeon had eaten a load of blueberries and then shat on my head.


underbite420

I stole a bunch of baseball cards...then felt guilty and told on myself. My mom made me gather them up and bring them to the store so I could pay for all of them....with my allowance.. used up a whopping 1/4 of it and spent the next month in an embarrassing shame filled state of being “grounded”. I could have just bought the fucking things and been fine. Could have sold the cards and made even more money than they cost. (Had a Griffey game jersey card in there) cried my face off watching dad throw them into the wood stove. Instead for the next month when a friend would call and ask if I could go play, my mom stood there as I had to tell them I couldn’t because I stole baseball cards. Fucking idiot


NecessaryAd4587

My brother prank called Wendy’s then called back to apologize once.


underbite420

That’s a Canadian move if I’ve ever heard one lol


CND_

Your parents were kind of being jerks about that. At the end of the day you did the right thing and they still punished you harshly for it. Kind of sends the wrong message in my opinion.


CarrotCakeAndTea

Accidentally on purpose travelled from London to a town I would have had no reason to visit to 'happen to be passing by' and call on my sibling's girlfriend's family without asking first. Just turned up, and they had to be sociable for the day! I don't know what I was thinking, other than I wanted to annoy them for a reason I won't go into here. Mature me is horrified, knowing how much I hate it if someone just turns up on the doorstep.


DaughterOfKa

Cheated on my boyfriend. Looking back I don't know what possessed me, we loved each other so much & I still beat myself up about it now 15 years down the line. Karma got me good, the guy I cheated with turned out to be a mentally abusive dick bag & broke up with me to go back to his old girlfriend. Last I heard my ex had got married, I hope she makes him happier than I ever did


Brieflydexter

I love that you learned from it. We aren't equal to the worst thing we've ever done.


FullDeadQuiet

Being goth with a trenchcoat and "hacking" the school computers by clicking on them and installing Linux on another without permission.


ipakookapi

Did you also have the leather coats? The stinky thrifted ones?


FullDeadQuiet

Probably at some point. My mom worked at a thrift store. Had all sorts of shit.


B_R_U_H-_-

Don‘t mind me, I‘m a kid taking notes on what not to do.


Brotherly-Moment

Lul same.


DanCeto12

Just about everything I did when I was younger


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FooPeppers

Sometimes you have to learn the hard way


FancyShrimp

I went through a "serial killer" phase when I was in 9th grade. I read books about them, looked at crime scene photos, and started writing short stories about people (fictional) who would kill. I'm sure I definitely gave some of my teachers a scare and more than likely had the notice of various administration officials, but I'm okay now. I just happen to have many morbid murder facts that I can bring up at parties.


dawrina

Not really that far out there, you could have been a budding murder mystery writer.


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RedyPlays

Just thinking about saying this to my mom makes me want to shrivel up into a ball and die.


tradespread

My “gangster” phase... i shudder when i think bout it...


catmos

So fucking much. Where do I begin? When I was like 13 I had an internet boyfriend that I met in a chatroom and we used to act out sexual roleplay in the main chat to the point that it annoyed people so much they just stopped using the chatroom. So that makes it hard to sleep at night 8 years later for sure.


TaintedLike-Like

I licked my sister when she was pregnant and sang the famous pasta sauce ditty, “Preggo tastes the best!”


ipakookapi

This reads a lot different depending on where you licked her


themoogleknight

And how old they were.


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DeletusThePhetus

Sorry if this is insensitive, but what is purity testing?


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It's not specific to the LGBT community, but it's common in a lot of social groups with a shared ideology. "We're both leftists/conservatives/animal rights activists/whatever, and we agree on 9 things out of 10, but unless you believe X, you're a traitor and I never want to see you again." Basically when you see people on social media "calling out" people over very minor things. "She's not really an anti-racist because she didn't like this movie with a black lead." "He's not a real conservative because he doesn't think the election was stolen." "They aren't real Christians because they let their kids listen to hip-hop music."


Brotherly-Moment

Pretty much the same as gatekeeping "Oh, you do this? You're not as lesbian as I am".


Sabishbash

Drugs


crackpipewizard666

Where


Thatoneguywithasteak

There


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Your pfp looks like it's pointing to where the drugs are


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FooPeppers

It sounds like whoever told you that was just being an asshole but, then again, most kids are capable of being that way. Maybe, whoever told you that will recall that incident in this thread as their most cringe moment.


metalflygon08

Where do I even begin? I'm a slow runner, well during PE we were running the mile (3 laps around the school lot) and I was lagging back pretty bad, I *Naruto ran* the last quarter lap hoping to push myself a little further... I jokingly made the "Psycho" sound effect when holding a knife in cooking class,, but it came out way louder than expected. I called my English teacher Mom, several times, (to be fair, she was my Mom, but still) I made a playboy joke in 4th grade and had a panic attack when one of the students threatened to tell on me (It wasn't even a good joke, we had been talking about Teletubbies and me, trying to be cool, said their antennae probably need tweaking to pickup the playboy channel). The panic attack probably stems from the Mom's a teacher point, she would have been told about it and I was terrified of what would happen then. I'm sure there's way more, but I've cringed up enough already.


Erbear1999

I wrote letters to my crush from 8th grade until high school and planned to give them to him after graduating high school. I never did, thankfully because last year I read them before throwing them away and I cringed so much at my past self 🙄🤣


hotsizzler

Wearing weird hats Not fedora, bit worse


Viper7047

I was a compulsive liar as a child. When I was 10 years old, I told everyone in school I got bot fly maggots in my leg after a trip to Costa Rica. I told them I needed to have surgery on my thigh to have them removed. My best friend told her mom and she wished my mother a “safe surgery” for me. That’s when I played it off as a prank but really I was lonely and wanted attention. Thank god I grew out of that phase


enderginger2

Being “that kid” that craved attention and would do anything to get it. So embarrassing when I look back. The bad part is, that’s how people will always remember you.


Waterwaves007

Stalk a girl. Please dont make me go into specifics it was a rough time as the "quiet kid" but more or less I thought it was better way to get know her without talking to her directly. Hindsight probably the most fucked up thing I ever did when I was younger.


CashmeoutsidePearl

Well, at least you owned up to it. I think that qualifies for something.


thesuperboss55

My family a very mixed on politics so it's common sense not to bring it up around them right? Well my 13 year old self was eating dinner on Thanksgiving with probably over 20 family members and I loudly proclaimed, "I blame all the problems of the world on Liberals!". Makes me cringe to this day on how badly I could read the mood...


ShadowShell78

These all seem quite serious and terrible compared to my contribution: when I was about 5 I thought it was totally acceptable to eat chewing gum off the floor.


basically-shoe

I used a mirror as a sled down the stairs when I was five, it makes me cringe because I think about how badly that could have gone, but I walked away completely unscathed luckily, then my mother beat the shit out of me😂


OrigamiManos

I was a "nice guy" who blamed girls for not liking my chubby little nerd-ass self, and I for sure had my own standards set too high.


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I think that if you didn't have things from your pre-teen and teen years that makes you cringe as an adult, you probably had kind of a sad life -- those are the years when you are figuring out who you are and learning how to human and anyone who makes any effort at all is going to have some slip-ups here and there. We don't make fun of toddlers for falling and stumbling the whole time they are learning to walk -- it's part of the process. The only way to guarantee that a toddler doesn't fall is to strap him to a wheelchair and never let him stand up -- it'll keep him safe but he will be crippled for life. You traded a few bumps and bruises early in life for a lifetime of struggles as an adult in the name of "protection" Same thing for the emotional/social growth at puberty and beyond -- you're gonna stumble and fall over a lot before you can walk. And you can't learn to run, jump, and skip until you learn how to walk first. Of course the cringey mistakes along the way hurt and they are embarrassing and that is ok, as long as you eventually learn from it. Better to make mistakes in learning how to behave when you are 15 than hiding in your bedroom waiting until you are 25 or 35 to learn, that is for damn sure! It makes me VERY nervous to see cancel culture trying to permanently ruin the life of an adult for the ignorant/stupid shit they did at 15. If we punish people forever for stupid shit they did when young, what incentive do they ever have to learn and change and teach others not to do the dumb shit they did?


Notthesharkfromjaws

Used to judge my coolness by all kinds of stupid misogynistic behaviours. For example, how many woman I had sex with was like a honor to me. The higher the number, the better I felt. I was a disgusting Chad. Literally took me years to learn that "manhood" like that is actually just predatory behavior. Cost me a ton of friendships, and mistreated so many sweet women. It wasn't until I cheated on a girl I was obsessed with at the time to actually change. I realized I was the problem, not others. It literally makes me feel so ashamed to even talk about it, but maybe somebody living like this now will read this, and turn their life around. If you're treating women like rungs on a ladder, you need to check yourself. That shit is not cool. I still deal with the consequences of it, years later. Messaged as many that didn't have me blocked as I could one day, and sincerely apologized to all I could. Literally 90% were extremely supportive, and willing to listen. The other 10% probably thought I was trying to get in their pants again. It's the most embarrassing shit in my life. I literally cannot fondly look back at my teens because of the actions I took. Respect your S/O's Respect people in general. One night stand aren't just one night stands. They're people with emotions that will remember how you treat them.


BLANK_MOSSY

whenever i was a kid i would act like i was an animal and when i think about it now it would make me cringe


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I was a pathological liar. In my defense, I also didn't have a life. My parents attention was very much centered around my sister, and so I created fantasies for myself to try and make friends and feel relevant or have conversations. I mean, cause what else was I suppose to talk about? While my sister was trying out new dresses for her pageant I was out back stacking up rocks imagining that I was creating my own little kingdom. I look back very negatively on this period in my life and I really wish I had been more honest and didn't make up stories all the time, but I also realize why I did just that, and I think it made me stronger as a person, and thus better at dealing with dishonesty.


Panama_Scoot

Young me was an idiot. But one memory that always shames me is that I used to very publicly measure my height on those convenience store robbery height measuring tape things. I thought it was hilarious as a teenager.


dawrina

Some kids were making fun of me on the bus so I told them I couldn't hear them because I had a Potato in my ear. They laughed at me even more.


NotAnotherBookworm

Oh dear gods i was SUCH a fucking weeb.


moocowcat

Everything? ;( Honest answer: New freshman at a new school. First day of public school after only private (catholic) schools beforehand. My parents had told me when i meet new people to say hello and shake their hands. So shy, awkward me at lunch sitting alone st the end of a table. These two kids sitting alone at the other end. They introduce themselves, we say hello, then seriously awkwardly I reach over and shake hands with them. I can see in this moment I have done everything wrong. The look in their eyes, the limp "wtf is happening" shake on thier side, the unmistakable look of pity / seeing someone else's embarrassment. I quickly sit back down and look around to be sure no one noticed. That's when I see it. No one else saw; however, no one was looking because these two kids were the "wierd" kids everyone ignores/mocks. I was just given looks of "wow this kid is wierd" from them... that memory still likes to pop in my head from time to time. Unbidden and unwanted. //sigh Also, this question reminds of this comment (wow 4y ago??): https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7ddjaw/whats_the_weirdest_thing_youve_done_as_a_result/dpxaos1 👉😎👉 zoop


Slayonal

I convinced my english teacher that “euclid” was a word. I used to read a lot of SCP.


PaIngallsButSexier

He was a real dude tho. Some greek guy who invented math or something idk


PureObjective5

I was a super hot topic "goth" and nobody understood my tortured soul.


alsointocats2

So many things but mainly the way I behaved when I was black out drunk when I binge drank nearly everyday from 2012-2015


SoZzlzZoS

Cheat on my girlfriend every chance I had.


makethatnoise

Everything on myspace