Innocuous things that make you irrationally embarrassed

he was like c'mon, no big deal

Oh my fucking god, I fucking hate that forced "COME ON, HAVE SOME FUN! BE LOUD! I DON'T KNOW YOU AT ALL, BUT I KNOW YOU LIKE FUN, WHICH IS UNIVERSALLY DEFINED AS TALKING LIKE THIS! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO, IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE SHY! BEING SHY IS SOMETHING TO BE ASHAMED OF! I WILL STOP YOU FROM BEING SHY BY PHYSICAL FORCE IF NECESSARY! COME ON! FUN!" shit.

Joygoat, you are seriously my hero for standing up to that guy.

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Coldstone also refers to their sizes by embarrassing phrases, one being "Gotta have it." I don't know if they *make* you use them but they do seem to expect it.

good for you, joygoat - i too will go out of my way to avoid those kinds of places bc i find that stuff mortifying. i don't even like singing happy birthday to anyone.

I used to secretly tell the waiters at restaurants that it was my dad's birthday. They'd come out with candles and funny hats and sing songs to him.

Funny thing was that 1.) He was my step-dad and 2.) it wasn't his birthday. I was a horrible child.

lol I actually went to Firehouse after reading this thread. I walk in, nobody shouts Firehouse....a first. everybody behind me, though, got the half-hearted "Welcome to fiyah-hoooooowwww-ssuh!", albeit it was a bit deflated.

lately the very innocuous embarrassing thing = fast food/restaurant folk forgetting my drinks. The last three times I ordered out, two of the drivers forgot the drink I ordered, and I had to have them go back and get it and drive it back. I always hate that awkward "uh, excuse me!" moment because sometimes the drivers, in a (well-intentioned) effort to show they're sorry and be helpful, do this overdramatic Shakespearean apology when I'm really like 's'ok, not gonna die, just...want my drink!'.

this thread has drifted somewhat from things that are irrationally embarrassing but yesterday i found myself grocery shopping and there was a woman stocking in the area where i wanted to grab some berries and some fennel and maybe some other things. i hadn't really decided yet, was still deciding what i wanted. she stepped aside and implied that i should go ahead, she said "take your time"

i stood there for like 5 seconds completely immobile and then asked her to please continue what she was doing because her standing behind me watching me choose my food was making me feel really uncomfortable. she didn't get it and was like "no go ahead, i'm ok" and i had to be like NO, PLEASE and then she finally saw the look in my eyes and understood that letting me go first was what was making me uncomfortable and that i would rather not be watched (that's what was really bothering me)

it was really really embarrassing, the whole thing

Was that perhaps at the yogurt section?

Fennel yogurt? Perish the thought.

nope, the produce section
also i haven't had a chobani in months! i have been eating plain greek yog with a variety of jams and it is so much better in taste as well as lingering emotional feeling.

Does chobani not make plain? I mostly prefer plain yogurts but they don't have them at costco

they do but -- i repeat -- the only reason i had any interest in gd chobani yogurt was the passion fruit flavor
it's not the yog itself
it's the PASSION FRIUT

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fruit

froot

PASSOIN FRIUT

within seconds someone should come along and say how they don't like/can't handle the seeds and then we will know that everything has gone back to normal

I basically only eat fage with honey now. Because it's like a desert.

have you guys ever eaten actual passion fruit?

my dad grew up in peru where they call them granadillas. they also nicknamed them "mucous fruits" because eating them is like sucking mucous

"mucous" looks weird - is it spelled "mucus?"

they are the best fruit. i'm trying to find seedlings locally so i can finally grow my own, bc @ $3 EACH that's just too ridiculous, even for the best fruit ever.

the passion of the fruit

Granadilla isn't pomegranate?

i'm increasingly embarrassed by the entire process of grocery shopping. getting your sustenance = being forced to navigate an artificial grid of product displays while interacting with or trying not to interact with strangers who are being forced to do the same thing, then waiting in line with said strangers while wage slaves handle your plastic-wrapped food, and you're all crowded together and inevitably someone feels like they have to "be friendly" like we're all there by choice. also convinced everything about the yogurt aisle is basically "don't you want this healthy ice cream" and am pretty embarrassed to enter it, though yes i do want this healthy ice cream.

also displaying what will soon be the contents of your fridge and pantry to like 20 randoms, and seeing what everyone else's will be.

wow, grocery shopping is, like, the world's most relaxing activity for me. embarrassment does not compute

at least not in peru xp to la lechera. GIS for granadilla also brings up passion fruits

i am getting sick of all the people standing around deliberating blankly while they shop. like, don't you do this a lot? like every week or two? for most of your adult life? are you eating food you have never had the slightest experience of? can you not just grab an onion and throw it in your basket? does so much hang on your buying exactly the right combination of things? you're going to eat it all and shit it out and then come right back and do it all again, is it really worth it to you or to me to stand around in a daze cluttering up the aisles?

I don't understand what's so bad about Chobani.

I also don't interact with people there any more than I do anywhere else. "Hey, howya doin'."

Seeing what's in everyone else's cart might be my favorite part of the trip. You wonder how the makers of RC Cola stay in business until that guy gets in the next lane.

the politics of the plastic dividers and when to "make room", not knowing where to look between the horrifying magazines and accidentally catching the gazes of other people not knowing where to look. etc. always relieved when it's over. xxp

i'm one of those people standing around deliberating blankly and i don't know what to say about it other than, yes, getting stuff for more than one meal during a trip can get complicated, it's the end of the day, and here we all are in this place we don't want to be in rn.

don't want to give the impression that i can't handle being embarrassed by something innocuous itt

i see a lotta louis ck style 'this is exactly the thing i want to do right now why can't i do it' driving types at the store

i much prefer shopping after 10 at night, but lately i have been going during the day or the evening so i am exposed to these horrors

Crossing paths with my neighbouring co-worker in another part of the office, not knowing if I should say hi or make small talk ("Welp, see you back at the cubicle in 4 minutes!")

^^^^ yeah that, or similarly, when someone is crossing paths and they say "Hi <name>, how are you/how was your time off?" etc and you start answering and try to ask them "how about you" in response but they keep going, never really interested in hearing the response and leaving you alone by yourself holding the banana you bought downstairs and a soulful of shame

agree that shopping at night is nicer. xp

I love late night grocery shopping.

Coldstone also refers to their sizes by embarrassing phrases, one being "Gotta have it." I don't know if they *make* you use them but they do seem to expect it.

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I still find it fairly embarrassing to have to use the Starbucks coffee sizes. Why can't I just say S/M/L?

You can

That's what I still do. "I'll take a large." "A Venti?" "Sure, if that's a large."

I still can't get over "Medium/Large/Extra Large" at some places, but I'm getting into What's the Deal With Airplane Food? territory now.

I know I can, but I feel like I'm making things more complicated and confusing for them if I'm not using their sanctioned terminology

I'm afraid I'm going to slip up and order a medium at Wendy's where maybe they still use medium as medium when what I really wanted was a small.

Having worked there, it can throw off your rhythm if someone says "large"; you get used to the register buttons, and suddenly you have to stop for a second and think, right, large=Venti. Not a big deal, but it added a tiny bit of stress during morning shifts on the drive-thru.

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I honestly don't know the sizes off the top of my head. Forcing customers to describe their desired volume of beverage by using unfamiliar words is an interesting edict, I'll give them that.

oh god I just remembered the worst irrationally embarrassing thing that happened last month at Target

I was standing in line and a woman started putting up her stuff on the conveyor belt & she leaned over and said 'VG? Oh wow hiiii!!!!' and she turned out to be a person who had worked in my office 10 years ago. Who I thought was kinda weird back then because she dressed like a tapdancer and I never knew how to talk to her because she seemed like that kind of manic happy on the verge of tears beauty pageant kinda crazy and she was very sincerely nice and tried so hard but I always pictured her crying in the bathroom somehow and it was v unnerving

and she's still kinda the same, SUPER scary pleasant and chatty and this checkout line became the worlds slowest line right at that moment, the ppl ahead of me were paying with a $100 and the cashier didn't have change and her register was fucking up and I am trapped making smalltalk with this woman and she's asking about people she remembered from the office and ohhhh god I wanted to die

I hate running into people who no longer work in my office

i hate it even more when they come in to visit

it's just all awful and I don't know why but I hate it

i bet leonardo di caprio feels something like that if he bumps into kirk cameron at a pinkberry.

lol

Hey that's a good reason to use their wacky terminology-- I'll remember that

joygoat which college did u go to did u go to my college or was it msu or are there other schools with dairys i only know about those 2

penn st has one too