It's weird that I am struggling to think of a real embarrassing situation. The one time that affected me that I can remember was probably around Std 2 where I was playing club football and did Cubs/Scouts.
When the new year started, I was "promoted" to team lead or whatever it's called in Cubs/Scout. There was another kid in my team (sorry, I forget the terminology) that was a year older than me, and his dad was pissed that he wasn't picked as leader as "he is the eldest". But it worked more about badges and leadership than age, but that didn't matter to this dad. So he complained to the Scout leader who basically told him to FO.
Turns out that later that year when the football season started, this same dad became the coach of the football team and he started to bench me every game. To top it off, he even made his son captain of the team even though he was crap and a bit of a wimp. So when the 3rd game started and I got benched again, my mom was pissed and had it out on the pitch with him. I was f****** embarrassed about that, wanted to die
It ended well though as the club "owners" saw the issue and knew my mom as I had been playing since grade 1, and went to investigate. Turns out this dad had not only lied about his football coaching qualifications, he lied about his son's age purely so he could put him in a younger team and make him captain. He even lied about his son earning "Eastern Transvaal" colours which was what you aimed for when playing in JHB. The following week the dad and son were no longer seen and I found out from my mom both the dad and son were kicked out of the club.
A few weeks later we played another local club and low and behold there he was with his son. The dad was one of those running up and down the side-lines shouting at his son and others even though he wasn't the couch. At some point he argued with the linesman to which next thing he just took his son off the pitch and left. I never saw then again.
What a horrible father/man he was
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