This is pretty self explanatory. You saw someone doing someone embarassing, and you are the one that feels bad for them.
So, have this ever happened to you?
Yes, this happens a lot.
One time in particular, when I was working in retail selling pro-audio gear, a guy came in an started asking questions about Cubase, which is a particular music recording and production software similar to ProTools (better than ProTools in my opinion). Anyway, it's pronounced like most would probably pronounce it by looking at it, like Q-base. There were three of us behind the counter talking to him, and he kept pronouncing it like coo-boss-ee, like it was Italian or something. He was just a regular American schmoe, so I couldn't figure out why he was pronouncing it that way. And he was confident about it, like that was definately how it was pronounced. Meanwhile, while I was aware what he was really referring to, my two coworkers kept nodding their heads but clearly they had that "deer in the headlights" look, like they had no idea what product he was talking about but were going along with it.
So, here's a guy who is genuinely trying to ask about the software and mispronouncing it, and sooner or later one of my coworkers is going to figure it out and blurt out "Oh, you mean Cubase." This conversation went on for probably 5 minutes, but seemed like 20, because I knew the guy was going to be embarassed when it inevitably happened, but I was powerless to stop it, and I felt embarassed for him in the meantime.
It happens to me all the time, so much I forget it a lot.
Yes, many times. To avoid any arguments, lets just say that much of a former President's time in office embarrassed me for him.
When I was in the Army, I was in a unit that had no females, then changed missions and females were allowed in it. The first was a new First Sergeant (Highest ranking NCO in the company). Her first day she conducted PT, and afterwards had a huddle with us, basically saying telling us a bit about herself and what she expected from us, whatever. After she was done she asked if anyone had any questions, and some moron E-5 asks "How do you feel about X" where X is a very very odd sex act between a man and a woman (think 'pearl necklace').
Quote from: ghouck on May 03, 2011, 07:48:16 PM
"How do you feel about X" where X is a very very odd sex act between a man and a woman (think 'pearl necklace').
Well...
Its not
that odd. *ahem*
But maybe we're thinking of two different things. :wink:
My father used to do this to me all the time. Though now I can totally appreciate it now that I have kids. :bouncegiggle:
He'd often see a pretty girl while we were out and say, "look Mark isn't she pretty" out loud.
My dad was also always one for putting his foot in his mouth. I remember growing up I had a second cousin who was kind of homely in her younger years. Then she kind of grew into herself after puberty. We hadn't seen her for a bit until her grandmother's funeral. My dad said outloud during a quiet moment that "she wasn't that ugly any more".
A few years ago I was standing in line at a pharmacy, and the woman in front of me was yapping on her cell phone. Pretty loudly. Okay, people will do that, it's somewhat rude. She reached the pharmacist at the window, and she continued to have her yappy conversation on the cell phone while simultaneously having a b***hy-attitude conversation with the pharmacist.
I was intensely uncomfortable just standing behind her. After she left, the pharmacist and I regarded each other for a long moment, and I said, "did that really just happen?" He nodded and said that people do that sometimes.
Quote from: ghouck on May 03, 2011, 07:48:16 PM
Yes, many times. To avoid any arguments, lets just say that much of a former President's time in office embarrassed me for him.
When I was in the Army, I was in a unit that had no females, then changed missions and females were allowed in it. The first was a new First Sergeant (Highest ranking NCO in the company). Her first day she conducted PT, and afterwards had a huddle with us, basically saying telling us a bit about herself and what she expected from us, whatever. After she was done she asked if anyone had any questions, and some moron E-5 asks "How do you feel about X" where X is a very very odd sex act between a man and a woman (think 'pearl necklace').
So that is what that ZZ Top song was about! (I had never heard the term before!)
Okay I read the topic title wrong. I thought it meant stuff I got embarrassed for doing. But Yeah there is someone who is a great friend of mine, but she always says stuff at the wrong time during class, and it just kinda makes me feel embarrassed for her.
Quote from: ghouck on May 03, 2011, 07:48:16 PM
Yes, many times. To avoid any arguments, lets just say that much of a former President's time in office embarrassed me for him.
When I was in the Army, I was in a unit that had no females, then changed missions and females were allowed in it. The first was a new First Sergeant (Highest ranking NCO in the company). Her first day she conducted PT, and afterwards had a huddle with us, basically saying telling us a bit about herself and what she expected from us, whatever. After she was done she asked if anyone had any questions, and some moron E-5 asks "How do you feel about X" where X is a very very odd sex act between a man and a woman (think 'pearl necklace').
So how bad was everybody smoked for this afterwards?
Last winter we had a court appointment (nothing bad, just some estate papers we had to sign) and parked our car in a parking garage. I reminded my father to grab his jacket (from the backseat) since it was freezing cold.
Normally, one would just open the door and grab the jacket from the backseat. Not my father. For some unknown reason (brainfart most likely) he opened the trunk door, crawled inside and reached for his jacket from behind the backseat in the most inconvenient way possible. Took him nearly one minute, with us - the rest of the family and a few friends - standing there and watching in amazement.
Since it was family my father's doings wasn't really embarrassing, but kind of awkward and odd.
Before I got married I had a girlfriend who was a stripper exotic dancer (although, she wasn't working in that profession while I was with her). She was very outgoing and would often be the center of attention when she entered a room. She would often do "attention getting" things that were embarrassing to me. One time she had her leg up on a chair and was straightening her nylons and a guy glanced at her for about 1 second. She looked at him and said very loudly, "Why don't you take a really good look. I don't mind." The guy's wife was standing beside him and got mad and the guy who had very innocently glanced at my girlfriend (who was making a big show of fixing her nylons and obviously TRYING to get people to look) looked really embarrassed and didn't know what to say. I felt bad for the guy . . . and his wife. I was always nervous that she would do stuff like this . . . I never knew when the next "incident" would occur. One time, we were at the Medieval Manor in Boston and she got in a fight with some girls at the table beside us. It was my birthday and cake was flying around and stuff. Very humiliating.
Quote from: Flick James on May 03, 2011, 03:13:23 PM
One time in particular, when I was working in retail selling pro-audio gear, a guy came in an started asking questions about Cubase, which is a particular music recording and production software similar to ProTools (better than ProTools in my opinion). Anyway, it's pronounced like most would probably pronounce it by looking at it, like Q-base. There were three of us behind the counter talking to him, and he kept pronouncing it like coo-boss-ee
The music software named after a Polish sausage. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: flackbait on May 04, 2011, 12:33:40 AM
Quote from: ghouck on May 03, 2011, 07:48:16 PM
Yes, many times. To avoid any arguments, lets just say that much of a former President's time in office embarrassed me for him.
When I was in the Army, I was in a unit that had no females, then changed missions and females were allowed in it. The first was a new First Sergeant (Highest ranking NCO in the company). Her first day she conducted PT, and afterwards had a huddle with us, basically saying telling us a bit about herself and what she expected from us, whatever. After she was done she asked if anyone had any questions, and some moron E-5 asks "How do you feel about X" where X is a very very odd sex act between a man and a woman (think 'pearl necklace').
So how bad was everybody smoked for this afterwards?
None, but I never saw that guy again, and nobody talked about it.
Once I was out with a friend of mine (no longer a friend for some good reasons) and we were shopping for a cookout we were having for some friends.
He started calling the food by different names.
Instead of Purdue chicken legs, it was "Purdue b***h Legs"..
Jello Pudding pops were "Jello Pud Pops".....
A bottle of Coke was "a bottle of Co*k.."
And then he went thru the store naming everything. He called watermelon "ni**er fruit" and then asked me if I wanted to pick up a "coconut bastard pie" (coconut custard pie).
Everyone in the store looked at us like we were 12-point bucks on opening day of deer season. I quietly walked out and got in the car, with my friend following, and we had an argument about his actions.
Needless to say, someone else had to go to the store for us that day.
I arrived to a Halloween party with a friend back in 2008. My friend and I came to the backyard where everyone was and aloud he said something like I'm going to take a dump and went intside. There was akward for two minutes until I said something like "He usually isn't that cordinal."
:bouncegiggle: :bouncegiggle:
No, or at least, I do not remember being embarassed by something someone else did. Of course, that is probably because I have probably embarassed myself more times than someone else has. Which embarassing moments I have tried hard to forget.
A woman came in Lowe's once, when I worked there, with her extremely large and obviously extremely mentally-impaired son. Without any warning whatsoever, he dropped his pants, took a huge dump in the middle of the floor, and started masturbating furiously while he was at it. I felt so bad for that woman.
On a somewhat less depressing note, I was in the food court at the mall once, sitting near a family of indigenous Australians, obviously on vacation. Suddenly, a soccer-mom type saw them and shouted to her husband, in exactly the same tone you would use if you saw an interesting animal in a zoo, "Look, Honey! Some of those black people from Australia!" Then, even worse, she got out her phone to take a picture of them, but her husband dragged her away. I didn't feel bad for the woman, but her poor husband looked like he wanted to die.
My wife and I were on vacation at Disney with her family and my brother was there too. Of course that scenario alone is a recipe for disaster. Well, stuff had started boiling up between her sister doing something to scare my son who was two at the time. Then this boiled over into character breakfast and she ended up fighting with her mom over something. Eventually this lead to F-Bombs being yelled out while Mickey and his gang were making their way through the room. The grand finale ended up with my wife storming out of breakfast with me in tail yearing to crawl in a hole.
Lesson learned, NEVER go on vacation with in-laws. The rest of the vacation was miserable and awkward whenever we came across her family. Luckily my brother, the only one we hooked up with frequently, kept me sane.