# What Is Your Most Humiliating Experience? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 16, 2007, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167 "2007-01-16T07:08:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167/21 "2007-01-17T05:46:49Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] My life is full of them. When it comes to **monstro** , it’s better to ask “What is your LEAST humiliating experience?” 'Cuz I could be here all day. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Awww **Monstro**. I live pretty much like that too. If I don’t embarrass myself unintentionally at least twice a week, there’s something out of alignment with the world. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167/22 "2007-01-17T10:18:14Z")
I’ve discovered I don’t remember it. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167/23 "2007-01-17T11:55:52Z")
I can’t particularly think of a time where I felt humiliated. I think you would need to care what others think as a prerequisite. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167/24 "2007-01-17T14:26:51Z")
[QUOTE=monstro] There was the time in the fifth grade that I forgot my notes for the speech I was supposed to give in front of the whole school. I was running for class president against–wait for it!–my twin sister. She was eloquent and charming, while I was a stumbling, bumbling idiot. After the assembly, my class shit-talked about me to the teacher WHILE I was in the room. Guess who won the election? When I told my father about it, he was totally non-sympathetic. I just wanted to die. [/QUOTE] Sorry I whooped your ass, **monstro**. But if it makes you feel better, I have no memory whatsoever of the speeches we gave, and I doubt anyone else does. So you’re probably the only person alive who remembers this humiliating day. That’s a good consolation, right? I swear, I must have experienced some head trauma somewhere along the line because you remember so many more things than I do! Maybe Ga Tech permanently fucked up my memory banks. Yeah, I think that was it. ---
**Author:** ![Molly\_Polly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@Molly\_Polly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molly_Polly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167/25 "2007-01-17T16:01:02Z")
Got called into an interview just as I took a sip from a water fountain. Being distracted by the call, I got water on my chin, wiped it on my hand, and then got trapped by the personnel guy who grabbed my hand before I could find a place to wipe it. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167/26 "2007-01-18T00:05:45Z")
Eating a chilidog that had bought for lunch and been sitting on the counter since morning for dinner, because we all went out for lunch. The bus ride home was _unpleasant_. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167/27 "2007-01-18T00:42:31Z")
During divorce proceedings I went to my neighbors’ to leave papers for her to pick up. But she was already there with a new boyfriend I had never met. He scurried out and no words were said by us or the neighbors either. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167/28 "2007-01-18T05:02:09Z")
[QUOTE=jsc1953] I was in college – a large Division I NCAA type college, and noticed a sign posted in the gym for open walk-on tryouts for the men’s baseball team. I’d never played hardball in my life, but I was a great slow-pitch softball player…so I figured, what the hell. I could be a diamond in the rough, a raw undiscovered natural talent. No, I wasn’t. I got into the batting cages with a pitching machine, and after a dozen or so pitches whizzed by, never even came close to even fouling one off. The head coach – bless him – a former MLB player and alumnus, said “ok, thanks, kid…you wanna take some ground balls?” I thanked him, and just slunk off. [/QUOTE] He he. I almost had a similar experience. When I was at Texas, they held open tryouts for the basketball team after a coaching change and some player defections had left the bench woefully short. I was a halfway decent point guard in pick-up games on good days, but I had been cut from the 9th grade basketball team for being a foot shorter and two steps slower than everyone else. I was now 5’9" and faster, but no where near NCAA D-I level. I thought trying out would be a good experience, and playing ball at Texas had been my dream when I was in elementary school. I went and got the tryout forms, and read the schedule. Day one was: show up at the gym at 4:30 am and run wind sprints for like an hour. Ha. The heck with that. To add to the thread: When I was in 5th grade, our school was structured so that there were groups of two classrooms, connected by a hallway in the back that had the bathrooms (small closets with a toilet in them) and a door to the playground. When my class was lining up for recess one day, I was in the bathroom taking a pee. I must’ve been singing to my self or something, because suddenly the teacher opened the bathroom door thinking I was screaming in pain – meanwhile all the girls lined up to go outside are craning their necks to get a look at me. I probably peed on the wall turning away so quick. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-humiliating-experience/388167.md?page=1)