56 Embarrassing Childhood Moments That Would Have Gone Viral If Social Media Existed Back Then

"I (14M at the time) was at my sister's hockey banquet. 300 girls (babes) in attendance. As the speaker approached the podium (Don Cherry for you hockey fans), I was leaning back on my chair. Indeed I leaned too far.

I began to fall back on the chair and grabbed the table cloth to hang on to. I ended up pulling the entire KFC food party banquet food onto my head and lap, gravy included. My elbows also hit the piano keys behind me, making a massive B flat note throughout the gymnasium. When Mr Cherry got to the microphone he said "thank you Maestro'. I died a little that day."

prguitarman said:
"The time I drank a whole bottle of ketchup and proceeded to throw it all up. Then my mom walked in and thought I was vomiting blood and screamed. I was maybe 3 years old but still remember that."

clockworkbox replied:
"Your poor Mom! I’m sure that was terrifying at the time, but hilarious in Heinz-sight."

"Putting toilet paper in my butt like a horse tail, and running around the house naked with cups as hooves. I’m sure there is a picture, but I have no access to that."

"In 5th grade I was in a school musical production where in one song I was the "boogie woogie reindeer", and during the song I was supposed to dance. Well, my mom had just showed me the movie Coyote Ugly, so I thought the best course of action was to dance like the girls in that movie. I'm sure there's still a home video out there of the 5th grade boy dancing like a stripper..."

"My sister closed the sliding van door. I screamed.

Mom: 'KYMBERLY! You do NOT scream right after a door closes, it makes me think someone got their hand caught in it!'

Me while bawling: 'I did.'"

"I had a stomach bug once in middle school and the f***ing nurse didn’t believe me (I may have cried wolf before). I suffered through school all day until finally my last period. We were taking a test and I asked my teacher if I could go to the bathroom and before I could finish speaking I projectile vomited over her shoulder and mostly into the trash can. The jock in the class was like “Woah, your throw up looks like sprite!” And even in my stupor I was like what the f***? My teacher made the horse girl walk me to the nurse with the soiled trash bin and horse girl was actually super cool about it. Told me not to be embarrassed and took my mind off it by talking about horses."

"When I was in second grade, I got stuck in a baby swing at a playground and the fire department had to use the jaws of life to cut me out of it."

"After receiving the CD as a gift, singing the entirety of Boys II Men’s “I’ll Make Love To You” on my 8th birthday to my parents, aunt & uncle, and both sets of grandparents - one of which is VERY religious.

'Throw your clothes... on the floor... I’m gonna take my clothes off too.'"

"It was halloween and I was in my Superman costume (7yrs old). I was with my cousin who was a Power Ranger along with my mom and dad. It was one the last homes we visited that night. We knocked on the door and the owner opens up, gives candy and out of no where, a fully grown Doberman squeezes through and chases me for a block or two. I was running full blast, my cape flying all over and shouting. Behind me, the Doberman. Behind the Doberman was my dad chasing after us and behind my dad, the dog owner chasing after us, too. Haha my mom has a deep fear of dogs. I saw her hide behind a tree along with my cousin. Good times."

"Chasing the ice cream truck in my undies when I was 3 yelling 'WAIT MY MOM’S GOT MONEY!'"

"I burned my house down to a crisp when I was 4. The news channel attempted to interview me (a 4yr old) and all I kept saying was "I like Fire". My brother had to pull me away from that situation..."

"Tripping knees first into the cactus display at a botanical garden. My mum picked needles out of my knees for weeks."

"I remember back in fourth grade I went to a fair and they had a booth where a guy would pour different colored sand in a bottle to create pretty designs. I asked my Dad to get me one with the black, blue, and white that looked like the colors of the Carolina panthers so I could give it to a girl I was crushing on that sometimes wore a Panthers coat. I gave it to her at recess but at some point during the day she had uncorked and poured it into my backpack. She told me to give girls diamonds instead of dirt and she and her friends called me Sandy.

I remember being so sad that I asked for water instead of soda with dinner that night. I'm guessing that made some kind of sense at the time."

"Getting sent out within 20 seconds of entering the classroom for farting."

"When I was about 14, a large male ostrich outrageously flirted with me, doing a full mating dance, leaning back, crouching and flailing his wings. My family and family friends witnessed the maniacal monochromatic moth*****ker and nearly died from laughing so hard. I was mortified. Fortunately I never saw him again."

"When I was around 4 years old, I would get cheeky often and do things I wasn't allowed to do. When my parents asked me if I did something, I would lie but it would be very obvious. When they confronted me about it, I asked how they knew. My mother said that a big, red circle would appear on my forehead whenever I lied. Afterwards my parents asked me again if I did said thing.

Me, thinking I was an absolute genius, would facepalm my forehead and deny everything."

"Trying to impress my crush by showing him how high I could kick. I slipped and broke my wrist."

"Walking onto the mud after they half drained the Lynn River. I fell up to my armpits in mud and had to be rescued by the fire dept. By the time the firefighters got me out there must have been 50 - 100 people standing around watching my dumb a** get pulled from the mud."

"At 14, I peed my pants in the back of a cab on our way back from hanging out with the juvenile delinquents at a local military school we snuck out of our dorm to visit.

The ironic touch, for me, was that I was living in a dorm at a college in Virginia instead of going to high-school, because I was in a "gifted" program.

Yeah, I was gifted. Gifted with a complete lack of common sense."

"My very first time playing drums in front of anyone other than my parents, I broke the stool and fell off the stage right before the first song. I’m very fat."