Believe it or not. In 3rd grade, I was sitting in the small food court at the McChord Air Force Base BX. Probably eating a slice of cheese pizza, I saw a GI Walk up to the Metal Slug 2 machine and begin to play it. I quietly laughed to myself, thinking "What a stupid soldier, he'd rather play that old 2D piece of shit rather than the Killer Instinct or Virtua Fighter 2 machines right next to him." Little did I know, that when I would play Metal Slug some odd years later, that it would instantly become one of my favorite video game series. That soldier had taste. Far more than I had at that time. Now look at me, completely immersed in this nostalgic world of 2D gaming. Kind of embarrassing in retrospect how I scrutinized that man.
Back when I was in uni I came home from the pub drunk as fuck one night. Tried to get into my room but the key didn't work... tried the handle and found it was unlocked. So waiting to see what's been nicked I walk in and fuck me if there isn't a Chinese guy standing there. I start yelling and swearing at him, asking him what he's doing in my room, and he's all "what? WHAT?!". Then I notice a laptop on the desk, which was odd because I didn't have a laptop at that time. Now it's worth pointing out that the block I was in had a mirrored layout and two identical entrances. I almost always came in through the east-facing one. That night I came in from the west. You can probably figure it out. The poor bastard took it remarkably well. And just to cement my utter navigational incompetence, I managed to do exactly the same thing a week later... minus all the shouting.
LoL oops, that should have been "3rd." Typing at 6AM with no sleep sometimes makes you hit a key next to what you meant to push
When I was a young teen, I was walking along the street with my buddies and a group of hot girls were on the other side of the road. I was looking at them and did not notice the lamp post ahead. Unfortunately I walked directly into it. I did it again about a year later, only this time it was looking at the Ridge Racer arcade machine across the street in an arcade at the beach and it was a no parking sign post (UK). Doh...
Fell in love with a girl, who felt the same, then I managed to screw it up with my stupid actions and ruined it all. Then my buddy thought it'd be a great laugh if he took everything I ever said and forwarded to her....add some blackmail and that's pretty much it. So basically I took something I had a good grasp on, and crushed it, without meaning too.... ...oh there was also a time I mouthed off to Dean Kamen about the faults of FIRST, without realizing who he was......
Most embarrassing was when I mouthed off about a really stupid boss of mine in France, only to discover that the studio microphone was still switched on and he was standing in the control booth looking directly at me. I really wanted the ground to swallow me up! We had a terrible relationship anyway, but that didn't help. Kind of taught me to keep my opinions to myself when it relates to money. Personally embarrassing when I was a kid was almost drowning at the hands of the lead guitarist (Graham) from Wet Wet Wet when we were all on holiday. Whole group of us sea canoeing and he tipped over, grabbed the nearest object to steady himself and that was me! He stayed upright, I did an Eskimo roll. He looked uber cool, I looked a dufus in front of these already giggling girls (it was when the Wets were famous). It was a LONG time ago and many more embarrassing things have happened, but not safe for here lol.
I played Doppelkopf (card game) with my family and I lost 16 times in a row, all the games that evening. I was pretty sulky afterwards, and now that I think about it that was pretty childish I should have taken it with more humor.
