People shared their cringiest teen moments and it’s a hideously relatable read – 17 face-reddening tales

9.
‘I was a big fan of (a crush on more like) Michael J Fox, so used to wear an outfit exactly the like the one in Back To the Future and used to skateboard. No I did not do dangerous hanging on truck stuff.

‘Trying to skateboard is dangerous enough. Yes, I’m a girl. Yes, it was fucking sad and God I wish I was kidding.’
TeetheMoose

10.
‘The things that still make me cringe myself inside out occasionally, 20ish years later, are mostly times where I said something mean or thoughtless in an attempt to look cool or fit in. I still did not look cool, or fit in, I was just more of an asshole.’
mmmkarmabacon

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‘Pretended I enjoyed reading classic literature (fiction and non fiction) while also pretending that I hated everything my peers liked because obviously I was smart and they weren’t.

‘There’s only so long you can pretend you 1. like and 2. understand Immanuel Kant when you’re 15. It gets exhausting.’
Fit_Cicada7954

12.

‘Drawing whiskers on my face with eyeliner like Dan and Phil at the age of 13.

‘Vandalising all the gcse maths textbooks in our classroom (every page 89 had a cartoon man standing up and I always drew a willy on him). Going into Ann Summers with one of my mates, yelling ‘dillllldooooo’ and running out’
miz_moon

13.

‘I would play air drums in clubs to try and attract girls because I thought they’d see I had good rhythm which would obviously equal being good at the sex.

‘An old friend recently reminded me of this and I crinkled up like a molusc with lemon juice on.’
BrightonTownCrier

14.

‘Had a couple of sips of alcohol at a party and then proceeded to be “drunk”. Obviously was not drunk. People looking and asking why I was doing that but I doubled down as I had started. The shame.’
HeverAfter

15..

‘I used to get dressed up, put eyeshadow on (badly) and go for a walk with my iPod, thinking I’d end up bumping into someone and falling in love like in a film.’
EngineerMoney2173

16.

‘I acquired a tape recording of a BFG audiobook. Used to pull up next to rude boys in their Vauxhall novas while they were blaring music and play the BFG at full volume over it.’
InfiniteVish

17.

‘I was proper into ‘madchester’ and Britpop in general. During the easter holidays, I went to Manchester on a day trip, and insisted on going to The Hacienda.

‘Obviously I couldn’t go in because it was a rainy weekday afternoon and also because I was about 14, so I just got a photo taken outside to prove that I went and had a mad night out in Manchester.

‘I thought I was cool as fuck and looked like a chubby Ian Brown, but I looked more like when Perry from Kevin and Perry came back from their trip to Manchester.’
uncle_monty

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