Wildly Painful Humiliations
Some moments are embarrassing. Some moments, however, are so humiliating that they can cause full of physical pain. These stories fall in the latter category.
1. I Just Had It
I had always struggled with public speaking, but during one class presentation, I just couldn't take it anymore. I stood up, looked over at the whole class, and simply couldn't make my mouth form words. So, I grabbed my backpack, and without a word walked out of the door and took myself straight to the principal's office. In the end, my teacher made me a deal that I could avoid failing the assignment by giving the speech to her alone after school. I was incredibly grateful for that.
2. Cringey Computer Cover
When I was in college, I walked in on my roommate while he was watching racy movies in our dorm room. As soon as I walked in, I could tell he just panicked and sat there for one second until calmly turning the monitor off.
He then proceeded to take his computer apart for half an hour, saying that he couldn't seem to figure out what was wrong with it. I cringed.
3. Ballgame Belcher
I got into my car to run to the store one night. The baseball game was on the radio. Suddenly, the announcer belched mid-word as he was delivering an advertisement for some betting website. All I heard was, "Head on over to play baAAHGHGHLLL..."
It sounded like his insides tried to stage a prison break followed by five seconds of intensely awkward silent air. I was crying.
4. Epic Fail
I had a humor speech assignment in my junior year of high school. A female classmate of mine clearly went to the world wide web for her material. She showed up with a stapled packet in her hand and introduced her humor speech as, "
The 10 Worst Ways to Commit Suicide." They were all awful with a terrible delivery. There was nothing funny about it and it just didn’t work.
