What’s the most embarrassing thing a parent has done to you?

It's probably not the only time, but it's thankfully the only one I remember (at the moment anyway.) When I was 16/17, I invited my girlfriend at the time to my house. My Mom told me we've been invited to eat next-door at my Grandparents for dinner (they're also my neighbors.) We said sure and walked over. Everything was fine, we sat down and started eating, but for some reason my Grandpa started asking me about masturbation. The conversation went something like this.

"So (My name), how often do you play ping-pong?"

"Not very often, why do you ask, Pop?"

"I mean personal ping-pong."

"Personal ping-pong, where you hit the balls and hold your paddle."

The whole room is silent. I'm starting to catch up to what he's talking about. I just kinda feign ignorance because I was pretty shy and awkward then so I couldn't really laugh it off at the time. He ends up just almost yelling:

"(My name,) I'm talking about masturbation, rosy palmed ping-ping. Get it?"

So we finished and my girlfriend and I end up leaving and went back to my house. We never did talk about it and ended up making out for the rest of the visit. I'm glad I can laugh about it now, because it was very embarrassing at the time. Sorry it's so long, but hope it's worth adding to the rest of these.

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