I’m sorry, but if #13 happened to me, I think I’d have to flee the country.

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Note: Responses have been edited for length/clarity.

"My mother gave the tampon to me and told me to go into the boat's tiny restroom stall and stick it up in me. I couldn't get it up there. I tried and tried and cried. My mom couldn't get it up there either. 

She went and got practically every female on the boat, and I had six various female adults standing around me with the bathroom door open, all trying to give me directions on how to get it up there.

Finally, one woman just reached down and painfully shoved it in. Some of these people I had never even met before that day. It was so humiliating and frankly very weird. They all acted like it was nothing, but I was so mad at my mother for making it a free-for-all to watch me have my first period. HUMILIATION."

"A little while into the show, I suddenly see my dad, who I can tell is very intoxicated, trying to take photos with one of the bouncer dudes between the guardrail and the stage. He was acting a fool. We enjoyed the rest of the show, but it turned out my dad was so drunk that we had to call another one of my friends' parents to come pick us up and bring us home. It was honestly mortifying. 

Years later, I found out his friend who met him there gave my dad his first Adderall that night, and they were both doing Jägerbombs, so..."

"One day, as a teen girl, we were grocery shopping. I happened to see two cute college boys at the end of the row. I was a bit ahead of my dad with the cart, and he wanted me to wait. I kept going. So, he started yelling, 'Gert! Wait!' at the top of his lungs. The cute boys turned to see who he was calling, so I kept walking and refused to admit it was me. To this day, I turn beet red thinking about it."

"After that, she sat me down and went, 'As long as you're having fun and doing this in your own privacy, enjoy, honey.' 

We haven't spoken of it since, but we've grown a lot closer lmao."

"Recent car trips, landscaping, and my birthday party were all included in this evening's show. Seeing the birthday slides in the show of me smiling, lighting, and blowing out candles had me thinking, 'Surely he didn't include the one of me opening the boxed bra I got as a gift.' 

Then, there it was. The picture of me opening my bra.

I ran out of the room crying before the next slide could come on, since I knew it MUST be the try-on picture. Sure enough, the hilarious laughter from the living room told me that beautiful David Tucky had just seen 11-year-old, half-naked, way-pudgy me trying on an ugly 1960s cotton bra! 

It's something I've never forgotten and something I will always remember when I'm tempted to tease someone by embarrassing them."

"Mind you, his folks were very religious and conservative. I didn't leave the room the rest of the day. I finally got the courage to go to her, apologize, and tell her that if she's just as embarrassed as I am, maybe we could just forget it. It took me months to move past that. Same for my mother-in-law."

"We arrived in the city an hour and a half later. As soon as she exited the car, I noticed the whole back of her dress was rolled up in her pantyhose. I said, 'Uh...Mom! You need to fix the back of your dress.' We both burst out laughing. She grabbed her coat and wouldn't take it off all night!"