What's the most cringe worthy thing that happened to you as a pre-teen?

In the first year of high school in a new school, I found out how to access the gym bathrooms through the roof. The problem was where I was standing, I had a very hard time actually seeing anything well, because there was a big column in the way. The only way to see it better would be to stealthy go down the side of the roof, hope I don't fall down to my death and that nobody looked up to that exact spot, jump to the side aligned to the wall and hold myself against the tiny window and then push it to the side, after that squeeze my way to a tiny little place, where I could see things better if I poke my head out, but I would have to be careful, since if I stood up, everyone on the bathroom would be able to see me.

One day, one of the hottest girls from my school was having class together with my class - she was a senior. I went to my usual spot and then heard her voice. The dangerous window called my name. I heard her voice getting distant, which means she was going to the shower. Eventually, after not being able to hear her voice anymore, I made a decision. It worked. I felt abnormally happy and relieved. Slowly, I poked my head out and then...

I saw a bunch of dudes, from my class and from M's class. Dongs hanging, bullshit, balls, pranks and a whole lot of things I was already used to and didn't want to see anymore. Thing is, though, I thought about the fact that there was no way to go back the way I came. My initial plan was to use the girls' bathroom to get out, after they all left. I remembered that the girl's bathroom wasn't locked after they used it, but the guys were - don't know why -, so I would have to get out of there quick. I started to think how didn't I hear their male voices from where I was and then I look around and my head started to clear up. The bathrooms were aligned side ways from the school, and not linear as I thought. I hadn't thought about it because their doors were side to side, so I assumed they were side to side to each other, not that the girls' bathroom actually had a long corridor and was located behind the guys' bathroom, not side to side.

I had to stay there. It felt like days.. Eventually, the guys left and I immediately jumped down the place I was. I went to the door and it was locked. Luckily, I could hear voices outside. I knocked on the door and after a couple of laughs from other students, the teacher came and unlocked the door, asking me what happened. I told her I was with stomachache. I think she bought it. Fortunately there was only like five or six people outside and nobody from my class.

Later I tried to confirm what went wrong and I found out I had indeed miscalculated. The window for the girl's bathroom was on the other side of the roof, not the side I was on. The bathrooms were not aligned in the building like the classrooms - like I assumed it was. - were. In fact, after looking at it, there was no way to get there, since the other side of the roof had a big water tank in the way and then after it was just wall and the window in the middle. There was a huge room in the side of both bathrooms, where the appliances for the gym class were stored and I didn't know about it, which was the reason for my miscalculation and for the bathrooms to be behind one another if looked aligned to the way the classrooms were.

After the mouth-to-mouth communication, some people started to make jokes related to that kind of situation. It took me sometime to figure out they were actually making fun of me.

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