What cringe things did you do during high school?

[Catler]

Inspired by some of the replies here: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/were-you-bullied-at-school.150338/

What cringe things did you do while in HS? Could have been how you acted, something you said, basically anything. I know for a fact you all have something cringey in your past, so why not relive the embarrassment here?

 

[TotalNematodeDeath]

I had an all orange outfit complete with dragon ball merch and cargo shorts, I also slicked back my hair at the time. In retrospect I feel no shame and I wish I had went even nuttier with my hair.

 

[feralneet]

I was introverted but also gregarious. I took some things too seriously and others not serious enough. I still believed that love could be transcendent. I wore zippered sweaters/hoodies a lot because I was self conscious despite looking fine. I was lead in the school play. I was on the golf team. I played french horn. I went to my gf's family's lakeside cabin and had to stay in the pop up trailer to keep us from fucking. She woke me up one morning and we ended up going at it fairly quietly. After finishing we re-dressed and opened the door to see her entire family less than 10ft away eating breakfast around the fire pit. Cringe enough yet? I am aware this post is also cringey.

 

[Broseph]

I think it would have to be the fact I looked like some skater punk faggot who wore hot topic merch and checkered vans. Also I was supremely autistic, edgy and "too cool for mainstream stuff man" just listened to music on my CD player and never talked to anyone on the bus or in class that much. Thank god atheism wasn't a big thing back then.

You literally described me in high school except I didn't wear checkered Vans.

 

[Huh what?]

This attractive goth chick had a crush on me and said I looked like Kurt Cobain. She was DTF but I ruined it by being a sperg who had no clue how to interact with women. Instead of actually talking to her, I kept grilling and quizzing her about 90's rock bands and all sorts of autistic shit until she just stopped talking to me. It took years for me to realize what I did wrong.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

not high school but it’s a story i’ll never forget this from my time being in school

this was around fall and we took state wide tests as it was towards the end of the school year. it was like any other day in class and we were talking the test. the room was quiet, the blinds were pretty open so you could see outside. i was facing towards looking into the classroom so i would have to turn around to see if anything was going on.

i’m filling out some multiple choice question when all i hear from a distance is a faint tard scream fading in then out. i try to hold into my laughter because at first i didn’t recognize what it was until it took me a second. there was a special ed kid who was running around the school naked with his diaper on his head while his wranglers were chasing him. i personally didn’t get to watch it but i could only visualize how that went

i don’t really have many cringe moments from school cause i usually kept to myself and didn’t really talk a whole lot lol. all the “cringe” moments i had were from talking to other people

like a time where i befriended a potential school shooter lol

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I joined the gay and straight alliance club to support a friend that came out, but it was awkward and ended up leaving.

Lol
I was at a dance once in college and a girl told me she was in the gay straight alliance and I asked her what side of the alliance she was on. She looked taken aback and said that was a heck of a question. I thought it was funny. Still do.


Probably won't powerlevel me (might), we had this guy in my high school who liked to dress up in suits on Fridays. Called it Fancy Friday. I think it was a real thing at other places, but it mostly existed by his will. This dude was a real goofball, well-liked. I started doing the same, full three-piece suit, sometimes a top hat. I was kind of neckbeard adjacent, in that I had a good number of neckbeard traits and interests, but not the whole complex. Of course there were some that looked down on it, but mostly people were actually pretty nice. They usually were in high school. Several other guys and even one pretty girl started to join in, but they didn't have the willpower or desire to keep it up for more than a few weeks. Someone nominated me for best dressed (superlative for yearbook), but I didn't win and I'm glad I didn't because that deserved to go to someone who kept themselves well put together, in a normal way, every day, not someone who just wears costumes sometimes.

Now I wear the same kind of clothes every day to work.

I wish I was more outgoing back in those days, because I think people were a lot better back then and by not being more involved I kind of cheated myself of a community I could have been a part of if I'd been friendlier. I don't think I was outright unfriendly, but I wasn't proactive.

 

[YellowIsACoolColor]

I think this thread should be moved to General Discussion as there's a lot of threads similar to this like School Stories and Autism Stories.

 

[eatler]

I can’t say too much because I grew up in a town where there was nothing. But back when I was a kid I only wore suits until senior year. I loved the 30/40s that I dressed like it (even In gym I had a special gym shirt, vest and tie). I don’t suit up anymore though but I do still like that timeframe with the Art Deco and all that.

 

[dick brain]

Peak.

 

[Screamer_2]

Maybe when I was 15/16 went through a phase of wearing a metal necklace. It was a flat matte snake chain type type one. We thought they were cool. There was some lame but thought it was cool pendant on it. It was something our group of friends all went through a phase of.

Another lame cringe thing was putting up pictures of bands on my wall. You'd get the music magazines. Pull out a poster of Blink 182 and stick it on the wall. Totally was done because it was what you though true and honest music fans did.

 

[Yamaha YM2612]

7th grade but

You know that thing where you put glue on your hand and it dries and you peel it off?

I was doing that once and this girl in class wanted me to "untie some knots" on shirt
..aka grab her tits I guess. I couldn't because of the glue on my hand

I die inside every time I think about it

 

[Neighborhood Janny]

7th grade but

You know that thing where you put glue on your hand and it dries and you peel it off?

I was doing that once and this girl in class wanted me to "untie some knots" on shirt
..aka grab her tits I guess. I couldn't because of the glue on my hand

I die inside every time I think about it

So close to greatness, but so far from attaining it. Was she hot though?

 

[Kim]

I wore anime t-shirts daily during years 11 and 12. I will never live down the shame and I will never go to a high school reunion.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Tried to get other girls at my Catholic school to read the Red Dwarf novels.

 

[Yamaha YM2612]

So close to greatness, but so far from attaining it. Was she hot though?

So fucking hot dude. Like one of the s-tier popular girls

It's hard to explain, her top had like, two strings on it with knots on the end, kind of like a hoodie has but it was a regular girly top

So the knots were resting on her tits and she wanted me to undo them for no reason I can think of lol

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I was an athletic kid, played sports, go a few medals, but got really fat during puberty up until my last year of highschool where i lost all the weight. When you are a fat kid everything you do is cringe.

 

[neurotardvirgin]

I had a phase in 8th-9th grade where I got a little too carried away with my YTP obsession (to the degree of reciting/acting out Poops & their respective source material cutscenes; down to IRL sentence mixing) - to which I was *rightfully* met with reprehension for my spastic mishaps.

 

[Tingle]

Skipped eating lunch most days to go to the library and read TV Tropes articles. Also one time I wore one of those bulky black peacoats for a while, only I didn't realize it barely fit me and made me look like a borderline retard until a teacher filmed the class for some event and I saw how stupid I looked.