![]() “I was in a small restaurant with my dad and brother and when I went to the bathroom, I decided to belt out the chorus to Weird Al’s ‘The White Stuff’ at full volume, thinking the bathroom would contain my vocals,” wrote maip23. While that’s incredibly embarrassing, at least it was an involuntary bodily function-which isn’t the case in this next story. “Of course, I tried to cover it up by saying, ‘What? Why are you all staring at me?’ The teacher even helped me out by shifting attention away, God bless her soul. Before you know it, I was in the middle of the class-everyone silent, every pair of eyes on me-as I came to the terms with the fact that I had just done the loudest public fart known to man.” ![]() “I had been holding in a fart for a few minutes and wasn’t too worried about it.” “Back in 8th grade, I had just come back from lunch break and was sitting down for science class,” wrote Nozdoz. Decades later, and it still kills me to think about it.” When you’re a kid, you don’t know the intricacies of certain…bodily functions. “I was about to punch him, until he says, ‘You punch like a girl.’ The whole class laughed, the teacher laughed, and I walked back to my seat without ever swinging the punch. We’re going out on a limb here, but we think that this happened in front of the entire class. ![]() “I get out of my seat-in front of the entire class-walk over to him-in front of the entire class-and start swinging my arm in a wind up like Donkey Kong in Super Smash Bros. I don’t remember what it was, but I decided to punch him.” One day, he says something to me in the middle of class, in front of everyone, that pushed me too far. “Video games like the original Super Smash Bros. “In first grade, I was a pretty normal kid who liked to play video games,” wrote X-Maelstrom-X. Some people learn that lesson the hard way. Video games don’t really teach you about life. In her defense, we also had misconceptions about lily pads when we were kids. First, though, we gave an embarrassing explanation to the managers of the gardens as to why one of their giant lily pads had a child-shaped hole in it.” Safe to say, it did not, and it was a long, wet walk back to the car. “I thought it would be an excellent idea to try and hop onto one to see if it would hold my weight. You can probably see where this is going. I suddenly had memories of watching frogs jump on smaller lily pads.” “While there, I was drawn to these giant lily pads. “When I was 7, my family and I were visiting Edinburgh, and we decided to go to the botanical gardens,” wrote novakw. We found a few of the best, then edited them slightly for grammar and readability. In other words, you’re a bit of a doofus.Įveryone has a few horribly embarrassing stories of their youth, and in a recent Reddit thread, the site’s users shared some of their most humiliating moments. You’re not exactly logical, your critical thinking skills are limited, and you’re still learning how to empathize with other people. This aligns with J.K. Rowling's explanation of the dementors being a metaphor for depression caused by personal trauma.When you’re young, you don’t really understand anything about the world around you. ![]() Fortunately, Professor Remus Lupin (David Thewlis) is on hand to explain to Harry that the reason the Dementors affect him much worse than other students is that he has experienced far more trauma than anyone else. That is far from the last time Harry could collapse when faced with a Dementor, and he grows to feel extremely self-conscious and ashamed of what he views as his lack of mental toughness. The Slytherins, led by Draco Malfoy, lose no time in roundly mocking Harry for his fainting spell. In the face of the creature's ability to suck all the happiness out of a person and leave them with nothing but their worst memories, Harry finds himself completely overwhelmed, to the point of passing out. News of Harry's collapse quickly spreads around the school. ![]() The dementors are brought to Hogwarts in Harry's third year to protect the school from Sirius Black, and Harry has his first run-in with a Dementor on the Hogwarts Express at the start of the year. ![]()
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