'Asked my crush out, she said, "Omg ew"': 15 Moments of ultimate cringe that keep people awake at night

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    Center DELUCA
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    What cringe thing that you did in your lifetime keeps you up at night?
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    BeginningGlove Lie about stupid things like how rich my parents were, places we'd travelled to, etc (I grew up dirt poor with struggling parents).
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    [deleted] My old Facebook statuses from the 2008- 2012 Those stupid Farmville shares, with posts that are typed LIKE tHis BeCaUSE IT lookEd COOL
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    Japulaaa It was my first day in high school and we were supposed to introduce ourselves through a skit, well I introduced myself like I was a WWE wrestler, complete with my own "ring-entrance walk", chants that I thought were supposed to hype up my new classmates and even had a made up wrestler nickname LMAO I still wake up sweating every now and then remembering that
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    yamsnz In an attempt to be less awkward I'm trying to take more time to think before I speak. This backfired in a big way in December. I ran into a cousin who I hadn't seen for a few years. He said hello and I was trying to think of a greeting since it was just about Christmas. I thought I would say seasons greetings or something but then I realized that might be a bit lame.
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    So while I'm internalizing this in my head I'm basically just staring at the guy. Who is probably thinking I don't recognize him so now I begin to panic. Now I will need to include his name in this greeting so he doesn't think I'm It's been a long time, I still haven't said anything. It feels like the most time ever since anyone has ever talked. So in my head I'm like okay SAY SOMETHING. Anything has got to be better than this.
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    But in my panic all words leave my brain and what comes out is.... "CONGRATULATIONS..... Joshua"
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    donotthrowawayyet. Gonna use a throwaway for this one because it literally still makes me cringe really hard and the people involved probably don't know, or they're so kind that they pretend not to. I moved to a different city when I was in 9th grade and would mostly keep in touch with my classmates on yahoo chats (yeah, I'm ancient). I was a shy kid and wasn't adjusting super well in the new school, but my old friends kept asking about my new friends so I invented one.
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    His name was Chris, I think, and he was Australian. (and no I didn't know of Chris Hemsworth at the time). I gave him his own yahoo chat ID and everything. Made him talk to my friends. He got particularly close to one of my female friends. She ended up telling me she had a crush on him. This was messed up because
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    a) Chris didn't exist so she technically had a crush on me I think? b) One of my other friends had a major crush on her and this imaginary Chris was now messing up his chances.
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    I went into panic mode and ended up having Chris move back to Australia and stop using his account. I did not plan that well and my friends probably know if was me and didn't want to embarrass me with a confrontation, bless them. It's been over a decade and I still physically cringe when I think of that time. The two friends of mine did end up dating and were together for a couple of years. I'm still in touch with those guys.
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    rlover77887 My crush came to my house to do a high school project. It involved the Internet and while she sat next to me she tried to navigate to Google on my computer. Unfortunately, the address bar auto-filled and took her to my last Google search... page two of results for her name. Every link had been clicked. We both just sat in silence.
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    Denpants Asked my crush out, she said "omg ew what the and ran away. Her friends nearby looked like they had witnessed a m I am still haunted by this.
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    Steph CurryMustard. When I was a teenager I had a little crush on one of my female friends. One day she starts hitting on me and suggestively nibbles and on my finger. I get all nervous and jokingly say "Hey you don't know where that finger's been!" I wake up some nights in a cold sweat remembering the look on her face at that moment.
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    bigbubster Leaned in for a kiss that was not hinted at like I thought it was.
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    BumbleBamble I was very shy growing up and had trouble carrying a conversation. Writing was a strength, though, so I decided to hand write a note to the girl I had a crush on and put it in her locker (cringe by itself).
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    To my surprise, she came up and started talking to me the next day after school. I had imagined her most likely ignoring my letter or if anything writing back. I was so extremely flustered all I could focus on was her smile and the heat of my full-face blush. She finished what she had to say and walked away. Then, to my horror, I realized I had no idea what she said.
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    shuckels I lied to my counselors about getting into a certain pre-med program that apparently was a MUCH bigger deal than I thought it was right before leaving for college... I had gotten into A premed program but when asked on the spot I couldn't recall and I just agreed to whatever name was thrown out for it. They got super excited and congratulated me and I assumed that would be the end of it.
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    Well... They made a huge announcement the next day over the PA system of the School congratulating me and even gave me a certificate and took pictures shaking my hand... teachers were congratulating me all day and I even started getting special treatment. I'm sure they eventually found our after I left the and I've been to embarrassed to even visit my old highschool...
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    A_CGI_for_ants there are lots of instances but the one that i recall is this. It's optional give your teacher some flowers day at school. I ask if i can get flowers the morning of like the dumbass person I am. My stepmom is just like "oh well go without them since you didn't prepare." Cut to me walking to school. I find these weeds wuth tiny little orange flowers on them. I thought they were pretty so i picked some. I gave my teacher some dug up weeds with roots still attached and all as flowers
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    TheFire_Eagle Picture it, kids. I'm a pimple speckled 17 year old who thinks his Star Wars tie (Catholic school, ties required but you got to wear any tie you wanted) was a form of rebellion against "the man." I'm crushing hard on this girl. I don't know what to do. So I turn to movies for ideas. I wrote her a very, very bad poem proclaiming my love for her. I wrote it on fancy paper. I slipped it into her locker. Then, I timed it out so that I was standing behind her around the time she would b
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    in a pre-YouTube world trying to make. The fantasy was that she would open the letter, be touched deeply, turn and I'd be there and then we'd ride off into the sunset. In reality, she turned around, was surprised to find my idiot behind her with a lurking eating grin on his face, and when I asked if she got my letter she said "What letter?" A moment of terror filled me as I worried I put it in the wrong locker. Nope. I stuck it in the vent of her locker door and it fell to the bottom of her lock
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    fox_tatertot In 3rd and 4th Grade.. I legit thought I was a cat. LIKE LEGIT. I hissed, meowed, and scratched at people. And I also licked myself. (Not like full on bathing, but like my hands and stuff.. ew..) and I always told people that "I was a cat on the inside-." I cringe so hard at this now..
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    [deleted] got into a roast battle with a particularly witty dude (he started it), I was losing badly, and in a daze of panic what do I say? "I'd rather smell like pickle juice than smell like orphan you Bruce Wayne wannabe". Cue
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    everyone calling me a heartless though the guy I was talking to didn't seem to mind too much, just slightly miffed. More than I can say for myself, I felt like an still makes me cringe in the shower 7 years later
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