Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

your secret yogurt shame

also i thought this was a thread for irrational embarrassment
you don't have to get it

I think yogurt has been cast as ladyfood or diet food or food for people with IBS, so there's definitely a gendered/medicalized/both aura about it, too. Also those horrendous commercials with bridesmaids eating yogurt and talking about how good it is compared to various tedious events in their lives.

i sometimes eat dannon fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt and am unembarrassed

i believe this is the only milieu in which i have encountered the boysenberry

it's like the cheesy poofs of yogurt

I've disliked watching ppl eat yogurt since childhood. It peaked in the college cafeteria when I saw a friend eating a giant jiggly bowl of blueberry yog.

I avoided sitting with him. Yogurt requires no chewing,Iike baby food.

is the eating of ice cream easier to witness?

One of my most-remembered bits from One Day at a Time is Ms. Romano complaining about yogurt and how even saying it is unappealing. "Yo-GURT... yo-GURT!"

Moderately, it's less jiggly.

Maybe that's why I'm ashamed of yogurt!! All I remember abt that show is the abundance of plants.

I remember the many plants too.

Also I just realized, 'Ms. Romano' = a dairy product complaining about another dairy product...

I mostly remember the high-waisted trousers and enviably winged hair.

And the damn theme song, the words to which are taking up valuable space in my brain where Jeff's social security number and work phone should go.

My supermarket sells passion fruit, but they're like $3 EACH and not ripe at all. There's a farmers market close to work that has been known to sell nice ripe ones for much cheaper. I looked into growing them myself, but it sounded kind of tricky and the plants take a couple of years to bear fruit.

Next time I see them I'll send some to you, LL - pf is probably my favorite fruit.

Also I just realized, 'Ms. Romano' = a dairy product complaining about another dairy product...

is this why la lechera is complaining too?

anyway: people who can't control the volume of their voice. I'm sure I do this sometimes & I get embarrassed if I noticed but when other people do it & don't notice I'm kinda mortified although there's no reason i should even care

people yelling in public/talking loud enough that other can hear from a distance freak me out, i have a pavolovian reaction to it that sends a chill up my spine. i was so glad to move out of my old neighborhood cuz yelling down streets is basically how everyone there communicates.

as someone who often finds himself continuing phone conversations in my building's elevator and politely lowering my volume so as to not bother anyone else, I'm annoyed and embarrassed for people who don't do the same (it'd be a cliche to think they're doing it because they're trying to impress others around them, but it sometimes seems that way...but then again that might just be bc I live in L.A.)

is this why la lechera is complaining too?
yes, i am a dairy product! a sweet delicious dairy product. i just thank the heavens every single day that i am not yogurt.

Using a cellphone in public.

I know, I know, I should've gotten over this sometime around 1998.

ex-coworkers who come back to the office to visit

even if they're friends, or people I like, it's just so awkward and strange and I honestly don't know how they could even walk in the front door without dying of embarrassment. I can't even fathom doing such a thing. It's so... sad.

yup... it's weird for everyone involved. half the people don't know the person, the other half kind of do this weird fawning thing, and the person in question's all "so you're still all working and stuff huh?"

we have a quasi old coworker back ... he left when the company moved about 6 months ago. he never found a new job since he still lives with his parents, so he's working here for a month on some random project. i wouldn't care so much if he wasn't kinda weird with me, trying to posture and shit when i'm around, and then getting nervous when i'm just looking at him while he's talking. what is up with that? another innocuous thing that makes you irrationally angry.

oh, this is the embarrassed thread. posting in one thread thinking it's another, that at least fits here.

one guy I used to work with has come by 3 times since he was let go, ostensibly to give someone in the office something or other, but each time he ends up standing at my cubicle and we make smalltalk and I'm like...dude...why are you here

haha...i've done this, but then again i was really going in to visit my old boss so it wasn't the same as a total random walk-in. but everyone did seem flummoxed.

i think they were wondering why i did it

http://kytx.images.worldnow.com/images/15256193_BG1.jpg

It actually used to piss me off a little bit at my old job, especially there toward the end when I was really, really looking for a way out.

"Hey, it's Baker! Still in this same old studio? Wow, I think that cart deck was still there even when I was here. Daniel B. still come around?"

I'm all shut the fuck up -your history is my present - I'm not your nostalgia - yeah daniel b still comes around.

No joke TWO ex-coworkers visited our office within half an hour of each other this afternoon.

And they took complete tours of the sales floor, hanging out at people's desks and going into manager's offices and OH MY GOD YOU'VE MOVED EVERYONE AROUND and OH WOW and uhhhhhh just let me die of embarrassment for you both, this is a terrible idea and you should leave

My last job (the terrible one!) is the only one I've ever contemplating visiting and it's just bc I really liked my coworkers. Also there was definitely a culture of people returning after they left. I think working in that environment forged steel bonds of coworkership in the blue-hot fires of WTFery. But so far I've just met up w/ friends from that job outside of work (also the first job I've left where I've stayed habitually in touch w/ former coworkers, unless you count the restaurant where Jesse and I met).

My office is a pretty nice place to work, granted, so I'm not completely mystified as to why they'd come back. But still. I guess I just still have that ingrained thing of WORK vs LIFE. They're pretty firmly compartmentalized for me, I can't see myself ever missing too many people there, no matter how friendly they are. I would definitely, absolutely rather catch up with ex-coworkers outside of work at a social gathering than ever go back to my old office to say hi.

If I'm being totally honest, the desire to go back and visit is to see if all the complete weirdos are still so fucking weird.

<3

I've gone by my old job twice now, I think? I only left in August and still am on the same campus and my old office is right across from where I can get free DVDs at the library so it sort of feels strange to not stop in when people see me through the giant windows. I like everyone there for the most part so it isn't super awkward or anything.

There's a different vibe to it when you work in an office park where visiting would require a special trip. That may be part of why I would feel okay visiting my last job, too. It's in a big, central public building with lots of public services and a train station so it wouldn't be weird for me to pop in.

Clicking on the profile of someone who leaves a comment on your meetup group. Seeing they are a member of many naturist groups. Reading the posts on their profile page. Seeing the thumbnails of the people who wrote the posts.

not irrational!

ha no, was just taking this as a catch-all thread like the anger one.

When (on TV or in a big crowd) people start clapping along with the music on each beat. It's so flipping dorky.

People who misspell fairly comman words in Craigslist postings. Especially those using "rod iron" for "wrought iron." Chihuahua also gets a lot of misspellings, but they're usually funny ("Chiwawa").

Chester drawers.

Bedroom suit.

definatly

I grew up amidst an entire county of people who said bedroom suit, such that I just now had to go to the internet to determine why that was wrong and what it should actually be. (I have avoided embarrassment by saying "bedroom furniture.")

maybe 'bedroom suit' is like 'birthday suit', describing nudity w/a different purpose (sex)

Bedroom eyes, peering out of your bedroom suit.

bedroom suit + tails = furries

People who misspell fairly comman words

ALWAYS HAPPENS.

Is there a name for the rule that says "whenever you write a post criticising someone's spelling or grammar, you will make a mistake yourself"?

Haha, and I made sure I spelled "misspell" correctly (one "s" or two?).

And yes, chester drawers is another favorite.

And I swear I've seen colder sack for cul de sac.