10 People Reveal Their Most Mortifying Experiences They Can’t Forget

We’ve all experienced those cringe-worthy moments we wish we could erase from memory. Yet, some brave souls have chosen to share their most awkward experiences online. These ten true stories are bound to make you chuckle, gasp in disbelief, and possibly even want to curl up in a blanket. You’ll definitely be relieved that you weren’t the one living through them!

1.

I bravely signed up for karaoke night at a bar, feeling confident. As I stepped on stage and started belting out my favorite song, I noticed my ex sitting in the corner. Mid-verse, I forgot the lyrics and awkwardly started making up words. The crowd was laughing, and I could feel my face turning red. The worst part? My ex recorded the whole thing.

2.

When I was young, we had a pajama day at school, but I always wore my boxers to sleep. Obviously, a kid can’t show up to school in just underwear, but I was too little to understand that. Why my mom allowed me to go and even drove me there, I have no idea. It was the most embarrassing day of my life, and the school had to call my parents to come pick me up halfway through the day.

NerfCat / Reddit

3.

It was my 16th birthday and my family went to a fancy Italian restaurant. The staff came over to sing happy birthday to me, and my dad started singing along loudly in a bad Italian opera kind of accent (we are not Italian).

The staff was so stunned that they just stopped singing. The other customers around us laughed and applauded, and the staff just walked away. I was mortified.

Original_Score / Reddit

4.

My mom always yells my name unintentionally. I’ve asked her 100 times to use her cell phone or look for me. I never hear anyone else’s names being yelled out! It happens so much that I’ve stopped going out with her as much.

We had a family dinner with aunts, uncles, and cousins, and I don’t know how it came up because I was in another conversation, but I heard her say, “GinaLinetti4Prez has a gynecologist appointment next week!” WHY!? We were at a restaurant too! Everything went silent.

GinaLinetti4Prez / Reddit

5.

My ex gf was a waitress, and we were out to dinner with my parents. My mother pulls the “trying to use an expired coupon” move on the waiter. She simply refused to accept that time is a thing and that the written date had passed.

While I zone out and wait for my mom to either win or be escorted out by management, my ex was slowly losing her mind. She suddenly snatches the dollar bill sized coupon from my mother’s hand and eats it. Literally tore it and shoved the pieces in her mouth. She says that since there’s no more coupon, there’s no deal.

tuckerx78 / Reddit

6.

I saw a friend, who was upset that his girlfriend corrected his grammar, throw himself on a couch and kick his feet and pound his fists, while he cried out, “Don’t correct me. You’re not my mom!” She kicked him out of her apartment and broke up with him. I wondered how she lasted so long.

BriGuy1965 / Reddit

7.

My mother called all the neighborhood moms one day, when my younger brother noticed I was growing pubic hair at 12 y.o. She made it a point of conversation to let all 10 moms know I was “becoming a man” and the calls went on for about an hour and a half — because apparently puberty is that stimulating a conversation for the neighborhood.

Ended up with a lot of “Such a little man!” comments from the neighborhood, and a couple of dads pulling me aside and letting me know that “No one needed to know”, as if I had something to do with it.

Darktal0n75 / Reddit

8.

I was in the 6th grade, we were lined up after recess, being dismissed one class at a time. I go, leaving a couple of girls in the other class giggling, so I was feeling confident. I’m walking up the stairs, smiling at them.

Suddenly, my head hits the middle partition bar thing between the double doors. My head bounds back with a huge “thud” and the teacher’s like, “Are you ok?” I pick up my ego and went inside.

loztriforce / Reddit

9.

I came home from school with head lice. Instead of telling the teacher, who’d send a letter home to everyone without specifically naming which child they noticed had lice, my mother rang every person in my class that she had the phone number of. She’d have a chat with the parent all, “She has head lice, so you need to check your kid.”

I probably got it from someone in my class and the whole class likely already had lice, but kids don’t realize that, so the whole class were calling my dirty and saying I infected them. It was horrible. I was hysterically crying while she called people.

Throwawayqwe123456 / Reddit

10.

During swim class in high school, I thought I’d impress my crush with a fancy dive. Instead, I miscalculated and belly-flopped into the water, splashing everyone nearby. To make matters worse, my swimsuit malfunctioned, leaving me red-faced and scrambling to cover myself with my hands as I quickly swam to the side. But the worst was yet to come: the next day, I walked into school to find drawings of me in that swimsuit plastered on the walls. And there was my crush, standing right there, laughing with his friends.

We all have those awkward and embarrassing moments; the key is learning to navigate them with grace and a sense of humor. Here’s another collection of cringe-worthy stories that will surely resonate!