Embarrassing Parent Stories

ByeBabyBunting · November 2013

What is the most embarrassing thing your parents did when you were a kid?

Mine: My mom baked and presented to me, in front of my friends, a pink "coming of age" cake to celebrate the beginning of my period. I still don't know if I've forgiven her.

CinemaGoddess · November 2013

Oh my fuck. I would've killed my mom.

MetrosPhoenix · November 2013

My dad used to do all those stupid dad jokes in public. Like when he was done his meal, the waitress would say "do you want a box for that?" And he would say "no, but I'll wrestle you for it."

BluepointToasted · November 2013

That's awesome. She had to have known what she was doing

msdrdg · November 2013

My Mom opened the front door of our house, stood in the doorway screamed "I'm msdrdg's Mom" and proceeded to dance and sing "That's the way it has to be cause that's the way I like it".
She had seen Dino on Arsineo Hall (sp?) the night before.

ByeBabyBunting · November 2013

That's awesome. She had to have known what she was doing

She's a hippie, so I think it might have been genuine pride? I don't know. I still know those girls and it gets mentioned whenever they want to torture me.

scoutkate · November 2013

My dad would just randomly sing, "Everybody dance now!" and start busting a move in front of my friends. My friends all loved it but I was mortified. Looking back, I think it's amazing and hilarious.

BluepointToasted · November 2013

That is even funnier if she was genuinely proud, lol.

lildevil968 · November 2013

My mom was banned from all of my sporting events by the school administration, due to how she acted at one of my softball games. How embarassing.

LoveActually4 · November 2013

My mom farted during my junior high school boy/girl dance party. It cleared the room. I told everyone it was our dog so she wasn't embarrassed but a part of me died on the inside. Then we all slow danced to MJ's You Are Not Alone for the rest of the night while plugging our noses.

JackoftheBox · November 2013

When I was expecting guests, my mother on more than one occasion would answer the door with out her dentures in. She has had dentures forever just FYI.

theseaword · November 2013

I heard the phrase "hey, Twilightmv: isn't that your mom?" way too often. My mom was always showing up when I was out with my friends. They'd decide to see a movie too! Or I'd forgotten to take some medicine and she was bringing it for me. Ugh.

Also, once we had some classmates over and she served reduced fat Oreos and everyone thought they were stale. Very minor in retrospect, but I remembered being humiliated.

nixieknox3 · November 2013

my dad is just goofy and would mortify me by being a corny dad. he would drop me off at school and when we would be right in front of the school, he would roll down the windows, rank up the radio and make me take the steering wheel so he could rock out and play air guitar. he would also answer the phone by saying "last name's nut house, top nut speaking".

my mother is mentally ill, she would have screaming outbursts and rage out at me over nothing and would not care if i had friends over. i never had friends over.

Drea926 · November 2013

My dad would lean over like a hunchback and do a Quasimodo impression and shout "Esmeralda!" in public places.

Eleventy11 · November 2013

My Dad would get on the intercom (back when they had the phones on poles around the store to make announcements) at Wal-Mart when I was little and say "Corky Fay, please report to the toys" If I had friends with me, he would make up ridiculous nicknames for them too.

Disneygeek77 · November 2013

Hmmm let me see if I can think of them all

well he liked to work out in denim overalls ( no shirt ) and a bandana on his head. One day he came into my work dressed like that too.
one day we were watching the news about a local flood and there was my dad...with the news reporter...in a row boat. We don't even have a boat.
I was in choir in high school and it was a tradition during the Christmas concert that all choir alumni can come and sing Silent Night with us. I was talking to my friends when I looked over and saw my dad standing there. He never went to my high school and was never in choir.
This didn't happen to me but one day my mom and sister were driving around town and started to make fun of a guy riding his lawn mower in the street. Turns out it was him.

sandyapples · November 2013

My dad used to sunbathe in our yard in a speedo. We didn't have a fence and lived next to a park.

NotSharknado · November 2013

bearsbearsbears said:
When I was a senior in HS and on a college tour, it was really hot and the guide gave us waterbottles to drink out of. My parents got into a giant water fight and soaked each other. I was so embarrassed.

That is so cool!

NotSharknado · November 2013

Me and Dh are those embarrassing parents. It kills Ds that we race shopping carts in the grocery store.

Spapeggy · November 2013

My dad would go with me to buy pads and then run up and down every isle holding them above his head. All while screaming "price check price check" over and over. He's 6'3 and the racks weren't very tall so you just saw a hand with pads running around.

I started my period at my friends house, blood covered inside my shorts. Went to my house across the street where my parents had 10 or more close friends over. My mom announced I was a woman. Ahhhh. My dads done tons but I always laughed. He's funny.

Nita2603 · November 2013

My mother was one of the people who want to be the 'cool parent' and just miss the mark. Constantly. I have been mortified by her as long as I can remember. Still am.

missyishere · November 2013

My mom was embarrassing in the most awesomely inappropriate ways. I am think you can all only imagine considering I am a product of hers.

randomsalpal · November 2013

One of the things I miss the most about my dad was that when he was embarrassing, he really had no clue.

kelseypie · November 2013

My family was touring a cave when I was probably 10 or 11. The tour guide was showing us a large set of very old bones that were found inside and asked if anybody could guess what the animal was.
My Dad, not really being serious, "A mastodon?"

Tour guide, (snot-like) "Um. No. A mastodon would be MUCH larger."

My Dad, now being a smart ass, "A BABY mastodon??"

Tour guide, (annoyed sigh), "It's a bear..."

My mom was a high school teacher. At my school. In our small town. I had her class. My freshman year...

Disneygeek77 · November 2013

Oh wait thought of another one.

Our local main street was popular on the weekend with cruisers. Lots and lots of cruisers. Well when I was in the car, that was when my dad decided to cruise down main street with the radio blasting talk radio or classical music.

LaurelBee · November 2013

my grandma and grandpa had a pool with a diving board and would throw huge parties all the time. Once when I was a gangly preteen in a padded swim suit, I went up on the diving board and jumped off. I heard my grandma yell "looks like Laurelbee is getting a bosom!" My mom yelled back "no, it's a padded swim suit." I could hear the laughs from under the water.

LadyXaverian · November 2013

For the most part, my parents were cool (in a good way), and I wasn't embarrassed by them. Something that my dad did that was embarrassing then but that I'm proud of now: He is a musician/entertainer, and he is most "famous" for his children's music and theater. Well, when I was in elementary school, he was a part of a traveling theater group that went school-to-school doing a performance about "good touch" and "bad touch" and about not keeping secrets if someone was touching you in a "bad" way. It was called the "Feelings Yes, Feelings No" program, and there was a theme song with it that went, "My body's no body's body but mine, you have your own body let me have mine."

Kids loved to sing that at my sister and me incessantly. 25 years later, I can still sing that dang song.

But now, totally proud that my Dad was a part of that.

CurlyQ284 · November 2013

My mom drove a minivan and my dad drove this HUUUUUGE old Buick. It was as big as a boat and a POS. We were waiting for her to pick us up after school and she must have traded for the day and showed up in the Buick. My brothers friend was waiting with us and he said "dude, is that your mom?" We hurried up and got in the car. He started chasing us as she pulled away "Mrs. [last name]! I think the tail pipe is coming off!" It was definitely dragging on the ground behind us. I wanted to die so so bad.