Embarrassing moments In retrospect

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Do you have embarrassing memories for which you only realize much later that you made social blunders?
Is it just me? Getting mortified at my old less subdued (flaming autistic) self.
I mean the blunders caused by autism are many and ongoing but sometimes I look back and realize there were even more mistakes than I realized

I made a video about one for me
Hope you share any funny blunder you made, without realizing till much later

Too many to count. I even had one today.

Do share!

I insisted to my wife that it takes 16 hours to drive from NYC to Chicago.

Turns out most people do it in under 14 hours.

I didn’t do the proper research.

I took a job at a pizza place when I was 15 because my friend wanted me to work with her. I went against my gut and decided to do it. Big mistake. It was extremely toxic and the owner would verbally attack me multiple times a day. It was also sensory overload between pies flying out of the oven, phone ringing, people at the register and everyone behind the counter constantly running around bumping into each other. I lasted a week before I was fired for anxiety attacks and poor interpersonal skills.

I remember when I was about 14 I was with my cousin (she was a year older than me), and we were walking in a park one evening and came across a big group of kids that were in my cousin's class that were loitering. They started teasing us, like teenagers do, saying that a boy in their group wants to have sex with me (even though he didn't really, but it was just silly teenage banter). I took it the wrong way and instead of just laughing along with them I folded my arms stubbornly and looked away. That made them mock me further, so I walked away. While that sounds like the right thing to do, it's not really the right thing to do when you're a teenager dealing with teenage banter, no matter how stupid or inappropriate it sounds. When they went away, my cousin was mad at me, saying that I embarrassed myself in front of her classmates and that I "made a fool of myself" and that I should have just laughed along with them. I refused to listen to my cousin, but looking back I realised she was right. I wish I had just took these teenage things with a pinch of salt, even if they didn't make much sense to me.

Yeah, this happens a lot.

Lol yes
Too many to count

i feel most of my interactions with people are embarrassing, but i have some delay to perceive it? it's like i get excited talking and talking but then when it's finished and i stop to think and i just realize the clues i missed about how the person isn't interested