We took ourselves out to the streets of London to find out your most cringe-worthy family-meets-school tales.
Emily, 14
My brother had the lead in the school play as Dr Frank-N-furter in the Rocky Horror Picture show. He couldn’t afford to buy a costume so he raided my underwear drawer instead. Not only did he make a complete idiot of himself in women’s clothing, but whole school saw my bra and pants as well.
Nosheen, 16
I managed to convince my mum to write a note excusing me from sports day but I forgot to ask her what she had written. Imagine my shame when the teacher announced in front of the whole calls, including my crush, that I had to sit inside by the loos because of my ‘chronic and unexpected diarrhoea.’
Trisha, 15
My dad is a teacher at my school. If that isn’t embarrassing enough he insists on trying to prove he is still cool, even though he isn’t. Last year he took assembly and tried to make it more relevant to us by adding in stuff about music. He got mixed up and kept talking about Kerplunk instead of Krunk, Ditzy Rascal instead of Dizzee Rascal and Scum instead of Grime. I’ll never live it down.
Kaitlin, 16
One day I got in my mum’s car to get a lift home after school. I was rummaging in my bag for something while I rambled on about what a bad day I’d had because I’d got my period and it had gone everywhere when I heard giggling in the back seat. I turn round and there were two first years in the back. I was just turning to my mum to ask wheat they were doing they when I realised it wasn’t my mum. I’d got in completely the wrong car.
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