15 People Speak About Embarrassing Things That Actually Happened to Someone Else

Embarrassing situations are just part of life. We can avoid them sometimes, but most of the time, they are sudden and unexpected.

You should take comfort in the fact that embarrassing situations happen to all people, not just you. Of course, it's much better when they happen to someone else, allowing us to appreciate the humor of the moment without feeling embarrassed.

Well, maybe feeling a little guilty for laughing… but definitely not embarrassed. People on Reddit share stories of embarrassing moments that happened to someone else, and we have selected some of the best.

Some of them are funny, while others just bring back some bad memories…

1. They never learn…

"I work near a college campus. The day Pokémon Go came out, all hell broke loose. I saw a guy who was playing the app walk directly into a pole that was just a bit taller than his junk because he wasn’t looking up from his phone. Nuts were smashed. I camped out near that pole every day at lunch to watch people playing Pokémon wander into it. On day three, here comes the guy from day one, right into the same pole. Nuts smashed again!"

2. It wasn’t me - it was the chair…

"My best friend from high school farted during quiet reading time in English class. It must have been loud because the popular girls surrounding her looked up in disgust. In a panic, my friend grabbed her seat and, with forced bewilderment, said, 'Oh my! My chair is so squeaky!' She then proceeded to rock and shift positions frantically, but the chair didn’t make a sound. Clearly defeated, my friend spent the rest of the class burning in self-loathing."

3. That is sexual harassment…

"My brother was in an HR course, and they were doing presentations on different issues in the workplace. One group ended their presentation by showing a clip they found online about sexual harassment in the workplace. For some reason, they never bothered to watch the full video because halfway through, it turned into a porno, and the entire class was cringing and trying not to burst out laughing."

4. So cruel…

"All the kids in my 5th-grade class were passing out Valentine’s during our party. When I finished, I went back to my desk and found a huge Hallmark-style envelope on my desk, too big to fit in the box I had decorated.

Confused, I opened it and found a real Valentine’s card with a declaration of love from a classmate named Vinnie. My teacher saw me reading it, grabbed it, and cheekily read it out loud to the class. I was mortified. I

didn’t think for a moment she would be cruel enough, but then she said who it was from, and my heart sank. Vinnie hid his head in his arms at his desk, began to cry and shake, then ran off to the bathroom.

I have never seen a more embarrassing moment, and I hated my teacher for the rest of the year. I still do, in fact. I’m so sorry, Vinnie."

5. Just a towel

"A female co-worker was working from home (we’re all remote employees), joined a conference call, and didn’t realize she was also broadcasting her webcam. We all saw her in only a towel. The call got very quiet until someone privately IMed her, and she shut it off."

6. That was subtle…

"I was with my old aunt on the bus once. She’s a bit deaf, so she tends to speak louder than necessary. She leans over to me and, in a hushed but VERY audible voice that everyone heard, says to me

‘OMG, look at that woman’s gross baby… no, look, it’s so gross, oh my god…’ -nudges at me hard-‘… look at it!’ The woman with the baby was sitting right next to us across the aisle, within earshot. Cringe."

7. Home movie

"A kid in my school was put in a group project for a productions class. He was very weird, odd, and awkward. Anyhow, long story short, he took a camera home to ‘review’ footage.

The next day, it was time to review the project in front of the class. Evidently, he had filmed himself masturbating but hadn’t quite erased all the film by taping over it. Apparently, the class caught just a couple of frames of him jerking off right at the end of the film.

The class was in hour 7, so he immediately ran out of class and onto the bus. Before the bus could leave, he was approached by a group of administrative staff. He ended up having a panic attack on the bus, kicking, screaming, and flailing.

Anyhow, he works at a gas station now. Good luck to you, Andrew."

8. Keep it in, man…

"In my freshman year of college, five weeks in, I had a group project. My group decided to write a script and read it to the class. All four of us were up there reading and semi-acting out this 10-page script, and everyone in class started kind of giggling.

In between lines, I made eye contact with this girl I was kind of seeing, and she kept laughing towards me. I thought maybe a booger was hanging from my nose or my zipper was undone, but nope. It turned out that the kid next to me had a boner and did the little tuck-in waistband trick.

The head of his penis was sticking out, and he was wearing a small shirt, so anytime he lifted his arms or moved around, everyone saw the tip of his penis… Everyone joked about it when he wouldn’t show up to class."

9. Keep walking....

"At the San Francisco airport, a man was running down the escalator and tripped at the very end, face-planting with so much force that he slid a little. The guy got up and kept running, tripped, and fell on his face again… then got up and just walked."

10. "Turtle Sex Noises”

"A girl in my design class got up to give her presentation. Her computer was hooked to the projector and it was on. She opened her email to find the presentation she sent herself, and as soon as the email opened, someone in class said, ‘(name), why do you have an email titled Turtle Sex Noises?’

Her head whipped around to the screen, and she shouted, ‘OH MY GOD!’ and then she JUMPED in front of the screen as she forgot how projectors work. So ‘Turtle Sex Noises’ was now projected on her boobs, and she stammered to quickly tell us that her boyfriend sent her the link, that the video is adorable, and so on.

She went on to do the presentation, but the class wouldn’t shut up about the turtles, so she played the video and hid her face as this turtle made adorable squeaky sounds while making love to a shoe, and the class just lost it."

11. Laugh it away...

"In middle school, I had a friend who was a walking disaster. I could write a novel with all the embarrassing things that have happened to her. For the sake of anonymity, I’ll only tell one.

She wore a knee-length skirt to school one day, one of those that has a little slit on each side. The slits weren’t very long, maybe a little over an inch on either side. Well, throughout the day, this girl somehow managed to slowly rip both sides all the way up the entire length of the skirt.

By the end of the day, she was essentially just wearing a flap of fabric over her front and back. It just so happened to be very windy while we waited for the bus outside. I’ll never forget her face as she stood there clutching both flaps of fabric to her body as best she could.

Luckily, she was one who could laugh at her own misfortunes. We both got a good laugh at that one."

12. Face plant...

"I was in the 8th grade, walking and talking with a girl who had a crush on me. She was really going all out trying to impress me, swishing her hips, cracking awful jokes, and trying to be smart when we walked by a building entrance with a raised slab in front of the door.

She failed to notice it and, with her hands in her pockets, tripped up and pulled off an amazing face plant. God, she was so embarrassed; her whole face was red. To my credit, I didn’t laugh and helped her up, but inside, I was crying with laughter."

13. Awful teacher...

"When I was in elementary school in second grade, we had a really cruel and strict teacher. She refused to let the red-haired girl go to the bathroom during morning prayer (private school).

She peed her pants in front of the entire class first thing in the morning. I don’t recall any classmates ever giving her crap about it, but I’m pretty sure no one ever forgot it."

14. Meeting went on...

"We were sitting in a marketing meeting. The guy leading the meeting said, ‘Okay, let’s think about this: what is something we all should have more of, but don’t?’ or something like that.

My awkward coworker said, ‘… Sex?’ No one laughed. It was a pregnant pause. The meeting went on as if nothing had happened."

15. BFF

"When I was in kindergarten, my class started singing the Alphabet Letters. A boy sitting next to me was pooping himself while singing.

He became my best friend. We are now 20 years old, and I still remember that day."