No matter how innocuous the situation, there is always an embarrassing moment waiting just around the corner to strike even the most cool and collected of us. Everyone has a touch of "socially awkward penguin" about them, of course. Whether it's a bodily function run amock or a unfortunately timed moment of verbal diarrhoea, minor social embarrassments can cause all the blood to rush to our face, our toes to curl and for us to cringe until you feel like your head might explode. Let's just rewind those last few seconds and pretend that never happened, shall we? No? Oh well. It's all about how you recover from the moment... and if you're anything like me, things are usually resolved through much blushing and internally squirming. What's even worse than embarrassing yourself, though? Embarrassing yourself and everyone around you at the same time. Unfortunately, dragging everyone else down with you into your deep, desperate mortified pit of humiliation won't lessen your own pain - all you can do is hope that once everyone pushes through the initial cringe worthy moments, you'll all come out on the other side laughing about it. Here's our list of 10 social situations which are just downright embarrassing for all involved...
