Twenty most embarrassing situations in Japan

By Ken Y-N ( January 23, 2012 at 00:03) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

For such a bold title, this survey from goo Ranking into what embarrassing experiences made people wish a hole would come and swallow them up produced, on the whole, rather tame answers.

Demographics

Over the 25th and 26th of November 2011 1,074 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.4% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 14.7% in their twenties, 26.9% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.7% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

I quite regularly talk to myself in the office and the corridors, but I either don?t care or just do a cough to cover it up. I often snore and sometimes drool on trains, but what the heck, I?m asleep so I don?t care!

Ranking result

Q: When did you wish a hole would come and swallow you up? (Sample size=1,074)

Rank	?	Score
1	When I realised my fly, other fastener was open	100
2=	When I tripped over my own two feet	87.5
2=	When I called out to who I thought was a friend but it turned out to be a complete stranger	87.5
4=	When I sent mail to the wrong address	71.4
4=	When someone in front of me waved to someone behind me but I waved back	71.4
6	When I walked into a glass door	55.6
7	When I drooled while sleeping on the train	50.4
8	When I had seaweed flakes stuck on my teeth	49.6
9	When I had to speak in front of a large group but got stage fright	41.1
10	When I smugly but wrongly read a word in kanji	35.5
11	When I called a boss, teacher ?Mum?	31.0
12	When I spoke to myself in a loud voice	30.6
13	When I talked about someone at length, but realised I had their name wrong	28.2
14	When I went out with the price tag still attached to my clothes	27.8
15	When I wore a no-sleeve top but forgot to shave my armpits	24.2
16	When I left the toilet with paper stuck to my clothes	22.2
17	When I did a smelly fart in a packed train	20.6
18	When I got onto a crowded lift and the overloaded alarm sounded	14.9
19	When I grabbed onto the strap in the train but I had an underarm sweat stain	14.5
20	When someone took my photo and could see my underwear	14.1

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