Embarrassing Times People Botched Verbal Attempts to Impress

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    Font - Posted by u/Klutzy-Hippo402 5 hours ago What is the most thing you've ever said to embarrassing someone you were trying to impress?
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    Font - throwitawaybongybong 2 hr. ago I didn't say anything. When I get nervous, I tend to burp a tiny bit uncontrollably. I burped in my manager's face. 490 Reply Share
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    Font - Sonnyboy1990 - 2 hr. ago Trying to lie about my age. Her: "You're too young, how old are you?" Me: "I..eh um..I'm like 20 or 21 I am." As the Sentence left my mouth I realised how ridiculous I had just sounded. ↑ 412 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Murphyitsnotyou. 2 hr. ago Was sat round a camp fire at a festival with a few friends and some random women that had joined us. Everyone was drinking, talking and having a good time. One of the women got up and said to her friends "I'm gonna go and grab something from the tent, you coming?".
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    Font - One friend replied "nah, I'm gonna stay here and get fu ked". My drinken stupid a se took it wrong and blurted out "I'll fi ck ya". She looks a bit shocked and goes "that's not really what I meant but thanks I guess". She meant get fu ked up on bc ɔze and I still cringe about it almost 30 years later.
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    Font - inexistences · 3 hr. ago When my dad was a kid, he tried to impress an older lady. She had asked him what he was studying, and he confidently told her "Latin". She seemed really impressed by this, so she asked him to speak a bit of Latin to her. He
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    Font - knew one word, and created a bunch of other words around it that sounded Latin-ish. She frowned and told him it was a bad thing to lie. Her job? Latin teacher. 2.3k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - SuvenPan - 4 hr. ago · edited 3 hr. ago One day I went to my boss's chamber and saw his arm in a cast. I wanted to say something sympathetic and score some brownie points but what I said was "sir, your arm is broken". He looked at me and said "I know". 1.7k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Naca-7. 3 hr. ago · edited 2 hr. ago I told a musician I like that I liked a specific song. It was not his song. 1.2k ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Ok-Fudge8848 2 hr. ago I did once (truthfully) tell a girl from Austria that I didn't know what the capital of Austria was - which wouldn't be too embarrassing, except that I was wearing a t-shirt which said 'Vienna Rocks" on it at the time. She thought I was joking. 520 Reply Share
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    Font - skam_skins 4 hr. ago. edited 3 hr. ago Kissed a girl for the first time when I was 13, something prompted me to say "average" and she loathed me for the rest of the academic year. Cut to 6
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    Font - years later I matched with her on bumble. We met, we se <ed and she looked me dead in the eye and said "average". She is my bestfriend now. 4.4k Reply Share
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    Font - . Imaginary-Eye1569 4 hr. ago At one meeting I tried to utter a pick-up line, but it ended up sounding like a malfunctioning robot: "Do you have Wi-Fi? Because I feel a strong connection! ↑ 416 Reply Share
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    Font - Creative-Ad5487.5 hr. ago I once attempted to impress someone with my extensive knowledge of ancient civilizations, but accidentally referred to the Aztecs as the 'Avocados. SEP ↑ 776 Reply Share
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    Font - Radiants_Table 2 hr. ago I was getting to know a girl once. She said "I'm a librarian". I said "I'm a Capricorn". ↑ 177 ↓ → Reply Reply Share
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    Font - Tight-Writer3099 3 hr. ago Once, I confidently declared that I had mastered the art of levitation, but immediately tripped over my own feet and fell face-first)))) ↑ 56 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - phibii 2 hr. ago "..so you study here?" I said this when she was in front of her classroom. 14 Reply Share
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    Font - GifArrow 2 hr. ago "Gum would be perfection." Chandler Bing ● 45 Reply Share
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    Font - AdParking2320. 2 hr. ago Looking at old photos of her I didn't recognise.... "Who's that fat chick?" 72 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - pukhtoon1234. 3 hr. ago I was trying to impress a girl among a group of girls and a spittle from my mouth hit her in the eye. Needless to say, I left quietly leaving behind a hullabaloo 28 Reply Share
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    Font - Smegma_Surfer 1 hr. ago "if you had brains in your cheeks, you'd be smarter" It was a compliment, in my head Reply Share 5
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    Font - Annie_Brand 3 hr. ago My university boyfriend invited me to meet his friends at a house party. His friends were known to be quite judgmental and historically not nice to their friends' girlfriends.
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    Font - I was so nervous on the way in the car, so my boyfriend kept telling me to just try and spend some time with a guy called Johan (the nicest one of the bunch).
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    Font - As we pulled up, one of the friends came out to the car and my boyfriend said: “That's Johan. Talk to him." I got out, extended my hand, and said: “Hi, I'm Johan." There was no way to recover from that. ↑ 845 ↓ Reply Share

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