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For example, I'm terrified of smelling bad

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Unintentionally saying something insensitive

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

All of them, real or imagined.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yes.

Both before and after.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Me too! I love having different colognes and layering them, but am also afraid of horseshoeing myself and being that guy who smells obnoxious, too much of a good thing. I once heard "cologne should be noticed, not announced" and I have kept it in mind ever since.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yup, women have something similar: "perfume should be discovered, not announced"

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Overstaying my welcome

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I sometimes choke on nothing. Happens very, very rarely but it gets ugly when I do it.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Passing out in public. I've done it 3 times, none of them because I was drunk, and let me tell you, that embarrassment lasts a lifetime. It hasn't happened in like 25 years, but if I feel even slightly off, I'll excuse myself and go find a quiet corner, because I would rather die there alone than be remembered as that person who fainted in public.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I feel this as well. I have a condition that makes it hard to breathe, so sometimes I just blackout from lack of oxygen. The only time this happened in public, I had a seizure to accompany and wet myself. I woke up with a bunch of dudes looking over me and had some stranger's fingers in my mouth because he was worried I'd bite my tongue. Yeah. No thanks

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Laughing really hard when I haven't been to the toilet recently and I pee myself.

So I go to the toilet a lot just in case.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When the waitress says, “Enjoy your meal!” and I respond, “You too!”

Sheer existential dread.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

One time someone said to me "Happy Birthday", on my birthday, and I said "Thanks, you too". It wasn't also their Birthday.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not really faux pas per se, but I have a very minor condition that makes my walking look slightly uncomfortable. I can either walk with very much tolerable pain or look a tiny bit funny. I am always self aware of it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Bad breath. I have a toothbrush and paste at work so I can immediately fix it if I even think my breath might be funky.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's not a social faux pas, it's a severe mental health condition, but I have some fear of becoming a hoarder. My partner and I have several of the risk factors, so I keep trying to get rid of stuff.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Laughing at an inappropriate moment

I do it farly often so I'm very scared of it

this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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