what makes you cringe - follow on from giggles

[Mr and Mrs luvpie]

So after laughing at the other post I was found to be in the following situation so thought what is the most embarrasing/cringeworthy situation you've been in. This is mine:-

This morning sitting at the Breakfast table with two boys, baby and (and this is the reason I wanted to curl up and die) my mother when the 8 yr old says in a very loud voice
'Mummy you know the man fits into the woman how does it do that?'

As I tried not to make eye contact with my mother, or laugh, or blush and try to think of how to explain the facts of life the boys he carried on......

'Because reading the packet of the gingerbread man cutters it says the man and the woman are the same size but when you open it the man is sitting inside the mummy cutter, so the packet is lying as he must be shorter.'

Oh how I love my children!

[ina]

Sorry - but that did make me giggle...

[shell]

yes,had to laugh,did you wear that fixed smile mums have when trying to find a hole to go into,or an open door?

[Milims]

There in lies the problem - you cringe and we all hoot with laughter!

I have to say that one of my most embarrasing moments was when my son was about 3 he always mixed up his "P" sounds and his "F" sounds and, in the middle of the supermarket, announced in a very loud voice that he wanted a big "Pish"!

[Annpan]

This afternoon we were sitting in the living room with the in-laws, all having tea. My (nearly) 2 year old walked up to me and spat out a biscuit into my hand... I just sat there smiling, that polite, glazed smile. Really, why do children have no idea about etiquette

[mrsflibble]

swearing in front of nanny, granny, any of her grandads, great aunts, great uncles etc doesn't really bother me as they've all had kids and more surprisingly they don't all look back on their child raising time with rose tinted specs... it's when she starts swearing on busses, generally at other people's children that makes me cringe. she once called Tea's oldest boy a "s*d". also she uses the word a*$e; she's almost broken that habit but she still saves it for choice moments. it's always in context though so I can't fault her on that

I have a terrible short term memory and I put things down and forget where I've put them and then forget I was holding them in the first place. this only makes me cringe when hubby comes off a week of nights and finds my personal "erotica" stash out of its hidey-hole. He knows I have it, he knows because he's the one who sourced and bound it for me and made it as a valentines gift one year...(he's so sweet ) but it's still cringeworthy.

[Russian Doll]

we mae the mistake of letting alex pee outside behind a bush when we were coaght short once...now at every given moment if he needs the loo regardless of where he is he will pull his pants down and scream wee wee mummy...the best place had to be on the 100 bus

[Millymollymandy]

Brilliant! I love that one Tea.

Keep 'em coming guys!

[Rosendula]

I love TV programmes that make me cringe, like Frasier, Doc Martin and the likes.

Kids are the best though. Today we had a man around to put up a new TV aerial. While he was here, my 2-year-old went into the kitchen and shouted, "Oh bugger! I'm not having a good day!" (those with young children might recognize part of that as the catchphrase of Primrose from Fifi and the Flowertots). Thankfully, when I came out of the cringe I realised the aerial man had no chance of hearing her, but I'm cringing at the thought of her doing it in a public place

I also cringe every time I think of the extremely long string of obscenities I fired at my parents last Christmas when I finally got round to telling them what I thought of them (I put up with them being horrid to me and my partner, and being horrid about my children, but when they started being nasty to my children, that was it )

I have to admit, I do get immense pleasure from watching someone else cringe. I used to work in a pub and went to serve a man who was stood in a group of his friends and family. He told me his order, but I didn't hear and asked him to repeat it. He told me again, and again I didn't hear. This time when I asked him to repeat it, his reply was "Oh, for God's sake! Are you deaf or something?" I explained calmly that yes, I am completely deaf in one ear. I'll never forget the look on his face

[Russian Doll]

Brilliant! I love that one Tea.

Keep 'em coming guys!

glad you did i must admit to going a very bright shade of red at the time