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From: The Washington Post

Why it’s good to show you’re embarrassed

The Washington Post:

Maybe you asked a woman when she was due, only to learn that she wasn’t pregnant. Perhaps you accidentally “replied all” with an inappropriate remark, or walked right into a sliding glass door at a busy restaurant.

We all have embarrassing moments. And in the age of the Internet, a lot of them are preserved for posterity — 50 Cent’s hilariously failed pitch at a Mets game, for example, or Katy Perry slipping over and over again in a pile of cake, and then having to crawl off stage. If you ever need to feel better about yourself, reddit’s “merry cringemas” thread features plenty of awkward kisses, stories about romantic confessions that were met with silence, terrible halting public speeches, and attempts to show off that went horribly wrong.

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