What do you do when you're embarassed? Or, what SHOULD you do when you're embarassed?

Question

Like, say you have a crowd of people in front of you and you speak something crazy into a loudspeaker.

What do you do afterwards to live down the embarassment?

Answer 1

i usually make a joke of myself, like when i was pregnant i went to my friends wedding and as i was walking down the stairs of the church i tripped and fell. i was ok, but of course it was in front of everyone, they were waiting for the bride and groom to come out.
i stood up, took a bow, said 'ta da!' and proceeded to tell everyone how i had to be the center of attention at all times.
i still have people bring that up, it was funny, but i could have crawled in a hole at that time

Answer 2

I embarass very easily and unfortunately my hubby tends to embarass me alot around friends! When I'm embarassed, I normally withdraw into myself and go all quiet and get upset. I know though, what I should be doing is laughing it off and acting like it doesn't matter. Because if I laugh it off, then I know that everyone else will laugh it off as well and not think anything of it. But it's very hard to do though!

Answer 3

Laugh at yourself before anybody else does. This way you play down the incident as a minor thing in your life.

Answer 4

I would just pretend that I'm right and everybody's too stupid to understand what I was saying. Same with anything else. If someone asked me what I was doing, I would say 'stop trying to force your bourgeoisie opinions of behaviour onto everyone else'.

Answer 5

I would giggle and smile a little and then try to forget it. it's REALLY embarassing when people can tell your embarassed.

Answer 6

Hideout until the smoke clears.

Answer 7

Turn red as a beet. Not much you can do but go on.

Answer 8

if they look at me i would live down the embarrassment otherwise i would laugh

Answer 9

I laugh, it calms me down, and makes me feel better.

Answer 10

you have to learn to laugh at yourself, and say wow i too make mistakes