Most embarrassing moments?

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You know, those wonderful times when you make a misjudgment of social cues or whatever and as a result feel like disappearing into thin air or curling up into a ball.

One comes to mind for me, surely not the worst but it felt pretty bad at the time. One day in high school, as some sort of class project I gave a presentation on the life and music of Jimi Hendrix, one of my personal SI's (if a person can be called a special interest?) I did this totally off-the-cuff, without PowerPoint or anything like that; just telling random anecdotes about Hendrix's life and childhood that I remembered from the various biographies and such I had read. It was kinda awkward, just because I never feel comfortable in these kinds of situations, but when it ended, everybody clapped and the general consensus of my classmates seemed to be "wow, that was great!/how'd he know so much off the top of his head?" Then a kid in the very front row raised his hand suddenly, and I, in a brief but massive misunderstanding, tried to give him a high-five. Much unspoken awkwardness ensued: he was simply raising it to ask me a question. I don't know why I thought otherwise; I guess it was my nervousness coupled with the fact that in light of the positive reception a high-five wouldn't be that odd at all, and I knew this guy to be generally jovial and outgoing and friendly enough to do such a thing... in any case, that was a positively humiliating moment, even if no one really said anything about it.

I had sever acid reflux and threw up all over a co-worker's leg when we were sorting bottles at the resteraunt I used to work at. All the other co-workers were telling him to wash his ass he is making people puke when they get into sniffing range.

I was walking out of the resteraunt when I was throwing out a big pot of rancid chicken soup when I slipped on the ice falling on my back spilling the nasty soup all over the upper half of my body. I was lucky there was only two other people in the resteraunt but the bastards made sure to call everyone before they went home.

When I worked at a machine shop I was cleaning up a round metal part on a polishing wheel that had a nick in the wheel. The part caught in the nick sending flying across the room into the boss's father's groin. He was 93 and told me he may not be using those parts anymore but it does not mean he likes to get hit there. My boss was laughing so hard he was crying and could not talk.

Laughing inappropriately at the Challenger shuttle disaster as a kid stands out as one of my worst ones, but there were/are many others.

The high-five and getting hit in the groin ones made me laugh.

Last June I went to an interview for the online school I'm in now, and near the end the guy held out his hand I thought he wanted to high-five for some reason, so I did, but apparently that's not what he was wanting to do. No idea what he was doing, he wasn't handing me anything nor was I supposed to hand him something.

The only other embarrassing thing I can think of was in band class in 6th grade (5 years ago ) and a girl I had a crush on was being praised by the teacher for playing something well on her flute, and I yelled out something about it being good, and then the room got quiet, that was embarrassing. Luckily everyone forgot about it.

On an off-topic note, I remember small details a lot better than anything else, like I remember her name even though she left in like 7th grade, 4 years ago, and that one time I sat with her at lunch and she ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a hamburger bun. I really wish I had a more useful memory.

No it wasn't that, he held his hand out flat, parallel to the ground, not perpendicular.

This was really embarrassing, and it happened yesterday. Okay, well I got inducted into the National Honor Society. After the ceremony, there were refreshments, and people were pretty much doing whatever. So I had a couple of refreshments, then I left. But I realized that I forgot my coat. So I went into the auditorium to get it. In the auditorium was the mayor surrounded by other members of the NHS. Trying to find a way to get to my coat, I slowly approached them (I didn't know what they were talking about, but I later realized that they were talking about what colleges they wanted to go to). So then after one kid talked, the mayor pointed to me (meaning "What about you?"). Kind of overwhelmed and confused, I said "Excuse me, I just need to get my jacket". Everyone started giggling, and I tried to laugh it off to turn it into a joke... didn't work. So as I was walking by, the mayor gave me a "WTF" face. Then the dean jokingly told the mayor (feeling embarrassed for me) "He is a new member." But that was really embarrassing.