# Things That Are Embarrassing To Share...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 9, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265 "2015-02-09T23:08:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/41 "2015-02-12T00:00:30Z")
Yeah, what is it with car-bound nose-mining? Dudes, you realize you’re basically in a glass box, right? 😕
From Presidents and Kings to scum of the Earth.
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### Author:  [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/42 "2015-02-12T00:15:45Z")
I have a uterine prolapse. Only my doctor knows. Women share a lot of things but that’s not one of them.
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### Author:  [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/43 "2015-02-12T00:34:01Z")
Gee, this happened to me just today! I was on my way to a meeting, carrying my iPhone and iPad, but I really had to pee so I stopped first in the restroom. I balanced the phone and iPad somewhat precariously on top of the toilet paper holder and as I was pulling down my pants, the iPad and phone fell off the holder. I lurched to grab them before they hit the tile floor – and peed my pants. Not a total, all-out soaker, but enough that it was icky.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/44 "2015-02-12T00:48:20Z")
> [@ryobserver](#):
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> Heh. I should have started this thread last week, the day I realized (just as I was about to go home from work) that I’d been wearing mismatched shoes all day. No, not mismatched socks–mismatched shoes.
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> Not a subtle mismatch, either; the only thing they had in common was they were both black, and both New Balance brand. One was a standard low-quarter black walking shoe, mostly smooth leather; the other was more of a lightweight hiking boot with a mesh upper, red trim and gray laces.
I did this once. They were both high-topped black boots, but one from the old Blondo pair and one from the not-quite identical new pair I bought when the old ones started to wear out.
Not as embarrassing as some people’s backwards clothing stories, but halfway home on a transatlantic flight a couple of years I found myself staring at the knitted cable pattern on my sweater and wondering why I had never noticed how odd it was before. That would be because I had never worn it inside out before.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/45 "2015-02-12T00:54:32Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#):
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> When I was very little my parents told me that I could pick my nose all I wanted in the privacy of the bathroom or my own bedroom but never where anybody else could see because nobody wants to see that shit.
…or have pictures of All Those People posted in a Very public forum Right Before Valentines Day. 😉
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### Author:  [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/46 "2015-02-12T02:00:51Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#):
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> I assume you know this from personal experience, right?
> 🙂
Well it sounded like a good idea at the time. Sort of like when I shaved the left side of my 'stache and the right side of my beard. You have to do something really crazy now and then just to make sure you’re sane. 😉
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/47 "2015-02-12T02:09:54Z")
In my head but never uttered out loud, I refer to the state of being warm and cozy in bed as “being all snuggle bunny.” I don’t know why, or remember when it started, but I _did_ find [someone else online](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snuggle+bunny&defid=6399615) who calls it that so there’s at least two of us who use this idiotic term.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/48 "2015-02-12T02:20:25Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> If not, it just changes the question from “Hey, where’s the access port?” to “Hey, how come there’s a label… oh” when you pull the front down.
This sort of ties in with the thread about no-label underwear, doesn’t it?
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> I find that, if I’m wearing properly fitted slacks, it’s hard to notice right away when one’s fly is still open.
True. One starts contemplating the ZZTop solution (Velcro).
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#):
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> I did that once, except it was sideways. I wore a thong and in the morning I somehow put my legs through the wrong holes. Didn’t notice until my mid-morning bathroom break at work.
Sounds like a \*very \*scanty thong, with good elastic.
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### Author:  [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/49 "2015-02-12T02:37:17Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#):
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> He told me about the time he was caught by his company commander choking the chicken in the CC’s office.
My first thought was which article(s) of the UCMJ could you use to charge that violation under. My second thought was going the counseling statement route and how much fun it would be to try and write that up in military speak.
Since you got me thinking military and sex, to get back to the OP…
I’ve used chem lights to look at porn magazines.
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/50 "2015-02-12T02:57:46Z")
> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Okay, this is embarrassing: How _do_ you pronounce Hermione?
Rowling actually put the pronounciation in the book _Goblet of Fire_ because she was tired of people pronouncing it Her-moin (rhymes with “her coin”)
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### Author:  [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/51 "2015-02-12T04:36:10Z")
> [@jabiru](#):
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> I have a uterine prolapse. Only my doctor knows. Women share a lot of things but that’s not one of them.
I used to know a woman (not a friend, barely an acquaintance) who shared with me and my then-husband the story (with lots of details) about The Day Her Uterus Fell Out. :eek: It was way more than I ever wanted to know about a near-stranger’s hoo-ha.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/52 "2015-02-12T11:37:47Z")
I went to work one day with mismatched shoes. Both were brown and both were SAS loafers (tho not the same style), but one was about 25 years older than the other and speckled with paint and other stains. In my defense, I dressed in semi-dark because at the time, I was working but my husband was still retired.
Another dressing-in-the-dark tale - when I was first in the Navy, I worked mids for a year. One of my coworkers was a big ol’ Texan named Ray. He was about 6’8" with the biggest hands and feet I’d ever seen. So when he showed up for work one night wearing pink socks, I think I was more amazed that one could get pink socks in that size!! OK, they were probably once white and they went thru the laundry with something red, but still… Naturally, we all gave Ray a ration about that for some time, till the next person did something stupid. 😃
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/53 "2015-02-12T16:06:12Z")
Then there was the time I went to the washroom at work and discovered that I’d been wearing my gocchies backwards all day… and my T-shirt.
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### Author:  [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/54 "2015-02-12T16:09:08Z")
> [@BaldDude](#):
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> Not too embarrassing, but I pronounced Hermione’s name as “her me own” for the entire Harry Potter book series
I didn’t know, until reading this comment, that Hermione \*\*wasn’t \*\*pronounced that way. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/55 "2015-02-12T17:33:31Z")
If I recall (I haven’t read the books) there is a scene in one of the books where Hermione deliberately corrects the pronunciation of her name, for this very reason.
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/56 "2015-02-12T18:43:04Z")
> [@Laggard](#):
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> I voted for Reagan in '84.
I got you beat: I voted for Bush in 2000.
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### Author:  [@PandaMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaMom)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-embarrassing-to-share/712265/57 "2015-02-12T20:03:47Z")
I am not pretentious, or stuffy, or bitchy. (well, yes I am bitchy). So for this to come out of my mouth, to this day makes me want to hide under a table… We were eating breakfast at IHOP. I had ordered eggs benedict and they were horrible. The waitress came over and asked how things were tasting. I said “well, the hollandaise sauce on this meal doesn’t taste right. It tastes more like a bechamel. It’s all wrong” The waitress just looked at me like I grew a second head. My husband said “its not tart enough…” And I, realizing what I had just said, and how incredibly pretentious it sounded…prayed for God to open the ground and swallow me and my table into the fiery pits of hell. My husband still laughs about that (it was a year ago), and I still cringe with embarrassment.
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