My Most Embarrassing Moment at School

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Just for fun, we asked the Mamapedia community to recall their most cringe-worthy moment at school. Here are a few of our favorites:

My Most Embarrassing Moment at School

• In third grade, my mom put my lunch in a brown grocery bag. This looks HUGE next to an eight year old. When I took out my huge bag to go have lunch, the teacher asked if it was my show and tell. I sadly lied and then walked home for the day.

• Once when I was in the 6th grade, a pair of my underwear was washed & got stuck in my pant leg. As I was swinging my legs under my desk in class, the underwear worked its way down my pant leg and landed on the floor under my desk. A couple of boys noticed it. I was so embarrassed!

• My third grade teacher wouldn’t allow me to go to the restroom after lunch, claiming I was trying to get out of math. Finally one day, full to bursting, I just let loose and peed all over the desk. I was a mix of mortified and triumphant. She got in trouble.

• The day I mistakenly tucked the back of my dress into my tights in kindergarten. It still stings!

• Our 11th grade swim teacher allowed us to bring our own swimsuits to school one day. I dove underwater, swam to the shallow end, stood up, felt cold and looked down to discover the top part of my swimsuit at my waist. I bore all to all onlookers!

• I vomited on my universally disliked second grade teacher. They had to clear the classroom. Embarrassment was quickly exchanged for notoriety. I’d gladly let someone else take that fame!

• OMG I still laugh when I think about this. I dropped my pencil on the floor and apparently had a lot of gas building up because when I leaned over sideways to get it off the floor, I passed gas really loud. I still get red and flushed when I think about it. The whole class heard it and laughed.

• It was the first day of school. I was a sophomore/junior in Law & Ethics class. Teacher was reading off attendance & we were to go up & grab a book. The books were sitting up front under the blackboard. I went & grabbed mine quickly. On the way up, I hit my head on the chalk tray & blacked out.

• During freshman year in high school, someone got my locker open, took out my Maxi pads, and stuck them all over the lockers. Even though it wasn’t a prank on me, I was MORTIFIED because they were MY pads!!

• My most embarrassing moment was when I was singing and a bug flew into my mouth. Then I was choking…OMG.

• I got some sort of award at a high school assembly and as I walked on to the stage, my shoe fell off. I tried to slip it back on quickly and discreetly, but to no avail. I ended up shuffling on & off the stage dragging my shoe and everyone thought I was drunk.

• Not sure what grade I was in, but I wore one dress shoe and one sneaker to school. I lived a block away but the teacher wouldn’t let me go home to change. Needless to say, I went home for lunch that day!

• I had to run through the gym to get something in the locker room. The doorstop slammed down when the door was only halfway open and I ran face-first into the door — right in front of the entire boys basketball team. Yup, that was embarrassing!

• I was driving to school during my senior year when my radiator hose blew, causing lots of steam right in front of the high school. I was headed in to class when I heard sirens, and ran back out. A bus driver claimed she saw flames and had called the fire dept. Everyone was talking!!

• When I was in 2nd grade, my mom bought me these really cute pencil skirts. I could do the splits back then, but not in a pencil skirt. Good thing I wore cute underwear!

• When I was in third grade, my grandfather sent me some clothes for my birthday/Christmas. My mother thought it was a sweat suit and sent me to school in it. They were actually pajamas – see-through yellow pajamas. I spent the entire day with the shirt (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) tied around my waist because my underwear was very visible. I’m glad my mother had me wear a T-shirt underneath.

• I was 19 and in college. At that age I didn’t know how to properly sort clothes when doing laundry, and lazily washed everything together. One cool fall day after study group, I got up to put on my jacket and when I pushed my arm through the sleeve, out fell a pair of pink underwear! I was soooo embarrassed. From that day forward, I NEVER washed underwear with anything else but other underwear. I learned that lesson the hard way.

Have a ‘most embarrassing school moment’ story you are willing to share? Please comment below to add yours to the list.