11 Of The Most Embarrassing Things Kids Did That They Thought Were Cool

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mattstaff
Sep 14, 2018 12:00 PM EDT

Nothing like a cringe-packed trip down memory lane...

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  • 01
    Text - sfoxx 7h I jumped off the bleachers with my hand in the air and yelled "me o mario" because my name was called during an awards assembly in 3rd grade. I had been playing a lot of super mario 64 in my defense
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  • 02
    Text - Liontamerr 5h I stuck my tongue out when I yawned. Why? Well, Mufasa did it in the Lion King and he was super cool, so surely if / yawned like that I would also be Mufasa-levels of cool. My mom took me to the doctor because she thought something was wrong with me. I was diagnosed with "being four"
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  • 03
    Text - swtadpole 8h Wearing my socks up over my pants, and then poofing the tops up. Because I watched Stark Trek Il and thought the pants in that were futuristic or something. So it was both nerdy and tragically untrue. I was saved only because wearing your socks over your pants DID become a trend for a while (minus the poof)
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  • 04
    Text - WitchoftheWilde 6h I have two. 1. As a tomboyish girl, I wore loosened neckties to school with a black suede vest and a tank top. I wore that very outfit to picture day so now there's a commemorative photo of my shame. 2.I wore a wrist sweatband I found on the floor of my middle school locker room nonstop. It was embroidered with "As if l'd care" or something to that effect. Also wore it for picture day once.
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  • 05
    Text - HarbingerofGloom 7h Wore neon bike shorts to school...as a rotund 5th grader. Not a good look on anyone, but just tragic on me. I thought I was the shit.
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  • 06
    Text - heyfattie 7h I would wear an entire arm's worth of silly bandz in 6th grade and specifically wear short sleeves just to show them off. It was how I asserted my dominance in middle school
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  • 07
    Text - NDaveT 7h I thought wearing glasses made me look uncool so I had the bright idea to buy clip-on sunglasses and wear them all day in school.
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  • 08
    Text - tilberto 5h Ioccasionally have an involuntary flashback which makes me cringe. I was at a school friend's birthday party, where I took an old Nokia phone my dad had given me to play with I pretended to call my mum and ask for jam sandwiches when I got home. I made a big deal in front of everyone that I was making a phone call. So lame.
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  • 09
    Text - captainmagictrousers 7h In middle school, I wore a plaid suit jacket of my dad's from the 70s. I thought it was hilarious in a "so ugly it's cool" sort of way, but I probably just seemed desperate for attention.
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  • 10
    Text - nationcrafting 5h Was a nerd in my teens in the 80s. Bottletop glasses, computer and science magazines, terribly matched hand-me-down clothes, got bullied a lot by the jocks in my class, etc. But, for some reason, despite the fact that I was as stiff as an ironing board, I spent hours practicing breakdance routines to Herbie Hancock's Rockit. Everything from robot, to shoulder wave, to caterpillar, to helicopter spins ... dreaming of the day I would get to shine in front of the popular ki
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  • 11
    Text - bea_busby 3h When I was 7 or 8, I thought being a teenager was the absolute coolest thing that would ever happen to me. I'd use my mom's lipstick to paint fake pimples on my face so people might think I was a teenager.
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