What's the cringiest thing you've ever seen a person do in public?

Worked in retail- saw a woman change her 4 year old son's diaper in the middle of a store and did not dispose of the diaper, literally just left it on the counter. I wanted to vomit. I don't know what was worse. The fact that he was 4 years old with a shitty diaper, or that the mother did not take him into a bathroom to wash him or properly clean him or herself, or that she left a used diaper full of shit on a counter.
— twistedflowers

Propose to his girlfriend in the middle of a shopping mall. (She said no.)
— jivedinmypants

I was in the computer lab at the university I was attending one Saturday morning and noticed two girls sitting together and another guy sitting a few chairs down the row from them. Periodically this guy would let out a huge belch (mouth open wide and everything) and would immediately whip his head around to see if the other girls noticed. I don't know if they guy was expecting compliments or for them to be flattered, but the girls just ignored him. He did this once every five minutes for about half an hour until I left.
— Scorpio5445

In University, as part of my degree in music (haha I know), I had to take a Sight Singing class. There was an older guy in the class (mid 40's) who I think was just taking part time courses out of interest. In class he'd belt like an opera singer, even for small exercises. One day we left class in this order: random person with their friend, then opera dude, then me. We're all walking the same way - I then hear them making fun of him, like saying "omg he's like LALALALALLALALAAAAAAA, it's horrible". The guy is literally walking 5 feet behind them, and I'm right behind him. He's straight up trying to ignore it, but they keep going and going. I just wanted to jump in a bush and pretend I hadn't witnessed that.
— np89

I was waiting for my clothes at a laundromat and noticed this dorky guy lingering near a very attractive woman. After a few minutes of thinking of the perfect line, he leaned over to her and said, "Laundry day, am I right?!" She politely smiled and I had to go wait outside.
— RageRomano

I was walking through my (very busy) town centre, and I noticed this middle-aged couple having quite an intense row. Didn't pay them much attention but saw that the dude was really annoyed at his wife/gf and getting pretty animated. This goes on for a little while and then he clearly decides arguing isn't enough and he needs to vent some other way. So he lets out a battle cry and sprints into the road looking for something to hit - doesn't see any good targets - punches the back of a passing bus (still yelling) - sprints off.
— detreville

I was 12 and walking to the city center with my friend. It was really early, like 8 am. We saw a guy across the street looking at us, touching his crotch. As we've gotten closer it turns he was masturbating to us with his dick out. We did see a flesh colored something through his hands but his dick was so small we couldn't exactly figure what it was at first.
— buscandotusonrisa

Girl in my high school walks into class one day. "Guy's, have you heard anyone talking about me? Has anyone been talking shit about me?" Me: "No... what happened?" Girl: *proceeds to explain how she gave one of her peers a little rub down at his request because he couldn't get an erection, and that she'd been caught in the act by one of the teachers* Me: "Nope, haven't heard anything" (and wishing I hadn't asked) Girl: "Ok. Thank God. I was afraid that people were gonna spread rumors about me." Classmates, newly arriving: "Why would people spread rumors about you?" Girl: *begins telling story all over again, over and over, until I'm pretty sure that the whole room was made aware of the incident*
— EatsAtomsRegularly

I was sitting in a restaurant with a couple of friends when 3 people were seated in the booth behind us. These booths were not those kind that you see in some places that completely enclose you so we could see and hear what was going on at the next table. I forget the make up of that group, but one of them was most definitely a guy, probably between 16-20, who seemed very intent on trying to impress his dinner companions and was failing horribly. We sat at the adjacent table intentionally not looking but all listening intently to the cringe occurring next to us and trying not to laugh out loud for fear of stopping what had become our dinner show. Our cringy young man had brought with him a pack of playing cards and was attempting to explain a card game to the other two people at the table, neither of which seemed particularly interested in playing or learning. It was a game that required speed. He more than once gave them demonstrations of his speed with some amazing quotes such as: "Did you see how I did that? do you know how I did that? Cause I'm quick, I have viper hands! *demonstrates again* See, Viper hands". This when on for probably 10 minutes until the necessity of eating the dinner he had ordered forced him to stop. None of us will ever forget good old Viper Hands. Edit: a couple words
— scarletnightingale

Packed subway car, heavy set woman gets on. The car is quiet as a seated male says to the woman "Excuse me, would you like my seat?" Whispering and clearly trying to avoid any attention the woman responds "No thank you I'm fine" and puts her head back down. Guy stands up drawing even more attention to the scene and says "Please, sit down, you're pregnant". With the entire subway car looking she responds "I'm not pregnant" So bad, so so bad.
— Heels2015

I once saw this guy in a bus station walk behind a random woman and cover her eyes asking her to guess who it was. She then screamed and pushed the guy away cursing him out and his face turned bright red trying to explain to her that he mistook her for his girlfriend.
— ls_2012

A freshman at my school wears a naruto headband to school everyday
— GodUsopp420

Went to the beach with my bf's friend and a woman his friend was into. For the first hour or so, it kinda seemed mutual- they flirted lightly, the touch barrier was broken, and we all had a great time! They were drinking pretty heavily but whatever beach day! But the drunker they got, the more apparent it was the feelings were *not* mutual. He got handsier and handsier, and she got meaner and meaner. We ended up going out to dinner before leaving, the four of us in the middle of a restaurant. And he kept jokingly pawing at her (NOT ok, by the way) and literally begging her to go on a date with him. She because increasingly frustrated and finally, fed up, she told him off. Loudly. Basically told him she was too good for him, he should aim lower, nobody like her would ever be with someone like him, and then demanded that he pay for her dinner. My bf and I sat quietly across the table from them, eyes like saucers and trying to pretend we weren't there.
— cmc

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