I know this because every time I’ve ever seen someone figure out they had food in their teeth, their first and only reaction is, “Why didn’t you tell me?” And my internal response is always, “I never tell anyone.” We, as a society, are oddly shy about pointing out things in other people’s teeth. If they’re anything close to a decent human being they’ll quickly understand and reciprocate the hug. Walk right past the person you thought was waving at you, approach the person right behind them, and give them a nice big hug and explain what happened.
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENTS IN LIFE HOW TO
How to avoid embarrassment: Pretend you were waving at someone else too. Then again, THEY should be mortified for waving at someone other than you. It’s fairly mortifying to wave back at someone who was actually waving at a person behind you. 7 | Thinking someone’s waving at you when they aren’t How to avoid embarrassment: Develop a sense of decency and realize your time is not more valuable than other people’s unless you’re the President, a super smart and super ripped scientist, or Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. I *wish* people were actually embarrassed about being late (and weren’t just claiming it causes embarrassment). (But only AFTER I write, “Remember: We’re in the Itchy lot.” and then I laugh and laugh to myself.) 8 | Being late How to avoid embarrassment: Sometimes if I’m in a large parking lot I’ll enter my parking space as a note in my phone. It is pretty embarrassing to walk around a parking lot frantically, constantly hitting the unlock button on your keychain (or, if you don’t have automatic locks, trying to figure out which one is YOUR 2003 Honda Civics in the sea of 2003 Honda Civics.) No one understands the whole gluten-free thing, where it came from, or why it didn’t exist five years ago, so they won’t question you any further. How to avoid embarrassment: Say you burped because you’re having digestive issues - and you think you might be gluten intolerant. They would be aghast at doing something as crude as burping while they skinny dip in Vegas or run around with turkeys stuck on their heads. The British are very proper and dignified people.
Then your cornucopia of personal embarrassments has bigger fish to fry. How to avoid embarrassment: There’s really no reason to get lost anymore with the GPS in our phones.
Which is only slightly more embarrassing than getting INTO Lost at this point even though you’ve been warned eight billion times you’re going to be grotesquely disappointed. I pulled out the top 11 most common embarrassments from the survey for this list and also wrote up a little advice on how to avoid them. The survey found the average person has four major or minor embarrassments daily. And even though it’s British, it feels applicable to other countries too - there aren’t any embarrassing moments like “Accidentally spoiling EastEnders in the lift” or “Wearing white after St. Last week, a British gambling company published the results of a survey they commissioned on embarrassing moments. Here are the 11 most embarrassing moments in life - and my advice on how to smoothly sidestep them.
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