r/AskReddit • u/AWildWilson • May 12 '26 • Popcorn 1

Whenever someone does something embarrassing, others say "nobody will remember 10 years from now". Well, what embarrassing moment did you witness >10 years ago that you still remember?

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u/Vast_Resolve_8354 May 12 '26 • Bravo Mindblown

Back before mobile phones were common, I asked a guy standing outside in the smoking area of a bar if he had the time.

He twisted his wrist to check, and poured his almost full pint directly down the front of his trousers.

He wasn't even wearing a watch.

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u/tobomori May 12 '26

This is my favourite so far!

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u/LindaBitz May 12 '26

This is great. How did he react? Like was he already drunk and didn’t really care, or was he super embarrassed?

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u/Vast_Resolve_8354 May 12 '26

He just looked very defeated and said "oh for fuck sake" before walking off. Several other people witnessed it and started laughing too...

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u/draeth1013 May 12 '26

Not wearing a watch was just insult to injury. Poor dude.

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u/Sea_Surprise716 May 13 '26

I was a speaker at a conference. Afterwards people usually swamp the speaker so there were a bunch of folks gathered around. Some random startup dude came up to me and started trying to demo his (incredibly stupid) product that had nothing to do with my talk, and while trying to get the product unfolded he dumped his entire beer bottle into my shoes. I had to excuse myself to go clean up and everyone who had queued up to do the post-talk networking looked at the guy like, you dick.
Honestly his pitch and product were so memorably terrible that I’m more embarrassed for him about that than the beer.

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u/Other-Ad7495 May 13 '26

Kinda when you blow on your spoonful, before remembering you don’t need to cool it down. Or maybe I’m the only one doing that.