# Stuff your s/o does just to embarrass you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880 "2003-06-10T15:24:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/21 "2003-06-11T01:46:49Z")
I was once walking with my wife in the Mall. We were holding hands and chit-chatting about whatever. I very nonchalantly and subtley started steering her toward one of the many large support columns you see in the mall there. She never noticed and wasn’t even watching where we were going until she walked right into the column. She hit me in the arm really hard. ---
**Author:** ![g8rguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@g8rguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/g8rguy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/22 "2003-06-11T02:02:50Z")
I am so so so infinitely glad that I don’t know any of you people or your assorted SOs. I do _not_ handle being embarrassed. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/23 "2003-06-11T02:43:12Z")
He embarrasses me by being nonexistant. [sub]I should get points for originality.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/24 "2003-06-11T02:43:28Z")
_furiously taking notes_ _considers pissed-off queerpunk englishman_ _tears up notes_ ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/25 "2003-06-11T02:59:40Z")
I am definitely the _embarasser_, not the embarassee. The weekend before last I spent an evening at an outdoor party. When darkness fell and the only light was from the propane lamps and the bonfire, my friends and I took turns leaping onto each other out of the bushes, while whoever was being leapt upon screeched; “Save me, Buffy!” If **UDA** had been there, she would have been mortified. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/26 "2003-06-11T04:22:40Z")
My ex-boyfriend, the passive-aggressive poster child, would loudly complain to ME, in a voice meant to be overheard, about the poor/rude/slow/whatever service he was receiving from the salesperson/waiter/whatever. I finally broke him of it one day by taking the salesperson by the arm and saying, “MY FRIEND WANTS TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE SERVICE HE’S RECEIVING FROM YOU.” Then I turned to my ex. “TELL HIM. TELL HIM EXACTLY WHAT YOU TOLD ME. GO ON, TELL HIM. YOU DON’T HAVE TO STAND FOR THIS!” Ex turned white as a sheet (which was a pretty good trick, seeing as he is not Caucasian) and never pulled this stunt again. Yes, we’re still friends. ---
**Author:** ![insomnia4AM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@insomnia4AM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insomnia4AM)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/27 "2003-06-11T04:31:32Z")
My ex and I used to walk into a store, and then he would walk way ahead of me, and when I would catch up to him, he would run away, and yell, “Stay away from me! No, I don’t want to date you! How many times do I have to tell you!” He didn’t last much longer. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/28 "2003-06-11T18:19:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*Awwwwwww, MAN! You mean to tell me that _my_ SO will still be doing this shit 20 years from now??? \*\* Not only that, but your SO’s eyesight will have probably fallen by the wayside then, so who knows where his groping hands might end up on you? But really, it’s just our way of saying, “I love you.” 🆒 Oh, and, “I’m horny.” Yeah… of course it also means, “I love you and your rack! Besides, all the other women keep calling the police when I do the same thing to them. Are you horny yet?” As for me, MY SO tends to wear these empire-waist dresses which make _all_ women look knocked-up. Which isn’t embarrasing per se; if someone asks about the impending pregnancy, in fact, I just tell them she’s my sister. And that I’m very proud… ---
**Author:** ![Potter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Potter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potter)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880/29 "2003-06-11T19:16:32Z")
My boyfriend posts regularly to an internet message board where I lurk and occasionally post. He is consistantly and _maliciously_ witty, informed, adorable, intelligent and sweet: this makes my tired little posts look lame in the extreme, makes people wonder what he did to get stuck with a humourless schmuck like me, and he should stop it right now because it makes me look bad. He’s so mean to me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-your-s-o-does-just-to-embarrass-you/180880.md?page=1)