What’s the most embarrassing moment you had in school…
 

… or sixth form/college.

I definitely had those moments but in-between falling asleep in class one Friday (severe insomnia left me up for close to 48 hours with no more than an hour of actual sleep, but they didn’t know that) and a girl thinking I took a picture of her when really I was literally taking a screenshot of what was one the whiteboard (misinterpretations are the most annoying thing in the world), lower sixth wasn’t my finest hour in terms of having non-awkward moments. I’ve been involved in genuinely very awkward and embarrassing things in my time but those two are top-of-my-head, for whatever reason.

Oh. Got a bit of tissue-roll stuck to my shoe in Year 6. I’m normally very discreet about my toilet business and leave my business very-much in there but this time toilet-paper made it onto my Velcro shoes and it took me a minute to realise that.

As for the insomnia business, well. I was mostly suffering in silence but went down the Valium route for a minute. It got me to sleep but the problem I had then was waking up to my alarm consistently. It didn’t help with morning vitality.

I would’ve taken the insomnia thing with me to the grave in secrecy if it didn’t become so obvious that something obviously wasn’t right. People working on the assumption that you get more than 2 hours of sleep a night.

The one that instantly sprung to mind was in about year 5 or 6 where we were all gathered in assembly, sitting cross-legged on the floor as we did, and I can't remember whether it was me chuckling at something that caused it, but I let out a huge fart. It wasn't long and drawn out, and mercifully it wasn't even smelly. But it was loud. It was like the shot heard round the world. And I don't know what possessed me, but I happened to have a fiver on me that day, and in a bizarre attempt to mitigate the embarrassment, I took it out of my pocket and started flashing it about as everyone stared on in both bemusement and disgust. The headteacher even singled me out and directly told me to put it away. It was a minor fiasco.

Ouch.

Yeah, I haven’t passed wind in public, still. Like I say I’ve always been very discreet about stuff like that. But there have been times when my stomach’s rumbled or phone bleeped and people thinking I’d passed wind because of the sound.

I remember literally ******** myself at School in around year 4 or 5.

Let's just say I had to be discreet about it.:laugh:

One thing that the insomnia business taught me was to hold space for the fact that you just don’t always know what’s going on in people’s personal lives. You might judge, speculate and gossip based on what’s happening on the outside but there are often involved reasons for what’s happening. I didn’t just fall asleep in class because I was up too late watching Breaking Bad or was partying the night before (I don’t even party like that). At that point I was exhausted and distinctly pre-diazepam so my body had no choice but to go with it.

It’s always easy to gossip and judge but half the time you haven’t got a clue what’s really going on, and a lot of things have circumstances that explain those happenings. Having a genuine sleep disorder really is the unmitigated ghetto and that’s without even having something like narcolepsy or cataplexy that really do lend themselves to embarrassing moments. Because there you can fall asleep in the middle of anywhere (driving no less) or slump into semi-consciousness just randomly because you laughed too hard or had an orgasm. Insomnia’s a minor ting compared to that but it’s still a thing and can be quite debilitating.

Aged 11 in first year I wet myself.

Highly excruciating. The teacher flatly refused to let me go to the toilet for an hour.

Everybody was like oh how disgusting. I never lived it down.

Ugh. Teachers can be horrendous for not letting people go to the toilet. You need it when you need it, not when the bell rings.

That's terrible.

Did the Teacher get into trouble for causing that?

Year 6. I was captain of the football team and every week myself and the man of the match of the match for that week would be required to write a report on the game, just a page or whatever on how the game went. That was fine, however we'd be required to read it out in Assembly in front of the whole School Friday mornings. I didn't look forward to that part, anyway one morning me and this other kid started reading it out and got the giggles, in front of the whole school. Literally couldn't stop laughing, then all the other kids started laughing, even some of the teachers were too. Ah man, looking back it was funny, but at the time it was a kind of torture, the more it went on the harder it was to stop :laugh: ....The headmaster wasn't impressed at all. :laugh:

My last (and only) year in secondary school in England.
My sister and I preferred out of school activities and were carted from school to school to see which one we belonged to by the police.
No chance of us making it easier for them.:laugh:

I was very quiet at school. Uni though...there I things I could tell you all, but I will take them to my grave.

Probably calling my primary 5 Teacher Mum by mistake

He didnt even laugh

I do believe that a lot of things that happen in uni should stay there. Take what you need to take to the grave, Liv. I don’t blame ya.

LOL...thanks Red. Nice to know you understand.

Where to begin? :joker:

In P6 (so aged about 10) I forgot my PE shorts and the teacher made me wear a pair that were several sizes too small. It was mortifying. Like... classmates weren't even laughing, they were being sympathetic and one even said to the teacher that they were being cruel. When it's too bad for a class of 10 year olds to take the piss, that's when you KNOW it's really bad :joker:. My mum was furious :umm2:.

High school I went through in a state of nonchalance and elitist disregard for anyone not in my immediate circle so I didn't really do "embarrassment". Thankfully I'm not like that any more!

@Kate did the cruel little ***** give you a nickname for wetting yourself?

I dont think I've ever done anything to embarrassing at school, I did however feel embarrassed at the drop of a hat. I would go bright red at anything.


I do however vaguely remeber pooping my pants at sunday school one sunday. I was sat alone in the corner when my mum came to pick me up.

I've also **** myself during school time. I think I was about ten or eleven. I didn't think to list it as an embarrassing moment, because thank the almighty that no one ever found out about it. :laugh: In fact I'm not even totally sure that I'd fully done it while I was at school. But I knew that it was happening and that I definitely didn't want to be on school grounds when it finally did happen. So I feigned sickness (not a total lie, but no one's gonna be specific about the exact nature of the sickness that you're feeling when it's...that), and was allowed to leave school for home. All I know is that I'd definitely followed through by the time the bus arrived at my stop. At the risk of oversharing

I feel through a plate glass window in the bus station in front of EVERYONE. Thought I was being cool and went to lean back on the window.......there was no glass in it and ended in a heap on the floor. I skipped school for days after that, I was mortified. :laugh:

Yes, pissy knickers :bawling:

:joker:

We had a teacher called pissy Henderson.. only cause her first name was chrissy..



Please dont shout at me if I ever rrefer to you as pissy knickers when we fall out again.:blush: