Apparently, the "walk of shame" wasn't as shameful in the '70s, back when they sold special pantsuits for the occasion. But nowadays, we women aren't quite as enthused to drag ourselves home in the harsh light of day still dressed up for a night out. But don't worry: there's a kit for that.

I had a friend in college who dressed up as a Catholic school girl for Halloween, stayed over at a guy's place, and had to walk home in her skirt and knee socks the next morning. What's the most embarrassing walk home you've had from a previous night's hookup? Were you wearing a ridiculous getup or did you run into someone you'd rather not run into? Share your best stories below — and don't forget to log out if you want to comment anonymously.









Sonia Rykiel
Shu Uemura
Paul Smith
I went to a fraternity party from freshman year of college and ended up staying the night with this boy a couple of floors down from my dorm room. I woke up the next morning looking quite a fright.
I was so groggy, I had my heels in my hand, mascara dripping down my face, hair a mess..and started walking up the flight of stairs to get back to my room.
It was a Saturday morning, and an entire tour group was coming down the stairs while I was going up them. Parents and potential students galore. I had to push past them (and their giggles), in order to get up to my room.
Awful!
1oh kate, that's terrible
mine is walk of shame that many girls on my campus have done...the main campus is on one side of a river, and most of the frat houses are on the other side of the river. certainly no fun to walk of shame in a new england january across a bridge, braving the icy cold winds. the worst is when you'd stumble by all those chipper people on their morning runs...
2I went to college at a small private and very conservative catholic school, and one morning I was walking home from my boyfriends dorm at aprox. 7am wearing my clothes from a party the night before. I ran into not one, but two priests on my way, one of which was the advisor to the club I ran on campus. They are probably still lighting candles for me.
3My friend once had the walk of Fame (no shame here) in a ZEBRA costume! It was appx a 30-min walk on a sunday not-that-early-morning
4I went out dancing with my friend one night and ended up crashing at her place because I was too drunk to drive home. I overslept the next morning and had to rush to an 8 am class without having time to change or shower. I had on a semi sheer black shirt that not only dipped low, but showed the belly, a black bra, and super tight/low ride jeans with the knee high black stiletto boots. I walk into class (a class of about 15 guys and only 2 other girls) and they're all eyeing me up and laughing, thinking the worst. Even the professor made a joke about my attire.
Not really a walk of shame, but most people probably didn't believe I my excuse for why I hadn't made it home.
5I've probably mentioned this on other threads, but my best next-morning homecoming involved walking into my friend's house and taking my coat off only to find I was naked underneath... we were laughing so hard trying to figure out what had happened to my dress until I found it in my purse
classic weffie hahaha
6This is not my story, although I was walking home at the time..but from my boyfriends dorm and in my normal clothes. Anyway I walked past this girl in short shorts, a halter, with makeup running down her face and her hair a mess...with no shoes
It was middle of winter...20 degrees out probably
I felt so awful because i had on thermals, a hat, a coat, etc. I really hope her walk wasnt too long...but you think the guy she stayed with would have lent her a pair of shoes for the walk, *sshole.
7I got smashed at a Halloween party and realized too late that I had forgotten my keys. I crashed at a friend's house who loaned me a set of her husband's pajamas to wear home (in lieu of my costume, which involved a corset). My roommates were going out, so I asked them to hide some keys in the bushes next to our door. I looked like a moron standing in a bush in pajamas and black stilettos fishing around for keys.
8My friend and I went out for Halloween one year. Leaving the bar, we followed this guy back to his hotel which ended up NOT being a couple of blocks away, and it was snowing. I was dressed a little more conservative (for halloween), but my friend was clad quite scantily and we had cars stopping to pick us up, ugh. We made it back to our own hotel in time for breakfast, so we decided to sit down for a bagel and creeped out a table of older women. No hooking up was actually involved that night, but still shameful.
9i went out on a very warm night in early march in these cute little kitten heeled flip flop type shoes... just really flimsy little nothing shoes. and i also wore a frilly mini skirt and a jean jacket.
10stayed over at a guys house and the next morning we wake up and its SNOWING outside like a crazy storm; icy and windy and the like.
it was quite a walk home to say the least slipping and sliding and trying to stay warm in my stupid and poorly thought out get-up. and the worst part was my mother drove by me because she was coming to pick me up from school for the weekend but she didnt know it was me. luckily she stopped off somewhere first to get something before coming to my house so i had time to hurry home, put pajamas on and jump in my bed and pretend i'd been home the whole time.
LOL what a nightmare
My worst walk of shame happened when I was 15 years old. One of the other school buses had a fight on it, where knives were drawn (nobody was hurt with the knife...the kid was just scared and stupid), and they locked down the entire school parking lot for a couple of hours. They would not let us go back into the school to use the bathroom, or anything.
After a while, we took matters into our own hands. The back of our bus was against a wooded area, and we talked the bus driver into opening the back door without setting off the emergency alarm. A couple of us scoped out places in the woods for guys and girls to pee without seeing each other, and were in charge of making sure that it stayed that way.
Those of us on guard duty, decided that it would be a nice time to smoke something to calm down (not tobacco). I was feeling really..."toasty" was the word back then.
After everyone was finished, my girlfriend came outside and was all over me, trying to see how hot she could get me before we had to go. I had to run and scramble onto the bus, to make it back on the bus when it was our turn to leave the parking lot.
My girlfriend and I were not allowed to sit together on the bus. She sat near the back, and my seat was in the middle. I sort of noticed that the bus was really quiet for some reason, but thought nothing of it. Just before I got to my seat, a girl that was a purely platonic friend of mine, calmly puts her hand on my chest, mumbles something like "Let me get that for you", and puts my still semi-stiff penis back into my pants.
I and everyone around us laughed to the point of tears. It was hilarious. I had a sudden jump in popularity with girls at school after that as well.
11My boss. I ran into my boss. Yes. Luckily she's a really fun, laid back woman, and really more of a friend. It also doesn't hurt that I work in a really casual setting (a summer camp!) She'd been asking me about the new guy I'd been seeing for a couple of weeks. When I saw her at 7am, messy-haired and makeup-less on my walk back home from his place, she just laughed and said, "It must be going well! See you in a few hours." I've never rushed so hard to make sure I wasn't late to work!
12Anonymous (Post #2), you totally go/went to MIT!! All the frat houses are near BU. I went to BU, so I know that.
13I remember once I came back from a boyfriend's in college. I had on a dress and heels and I'm sure some melted makeup and bed head hair for sure. Plus I think some high heels on that had stains from spilled drinks and only God knows what. I had a hicky or bruise or something on my neck. I just got through lecturing my room mate I wasn't sleeping with him and then she pointed out that my dress was on inside out.
14Just a quick question: does no one carry a brush or makeup in your purse??!? It would be easy to brush out your hair and throw on some pressed powder, at least.
15Def having sex with my best guy friend during a party and walking downstairs afterwords
16Naked, I had to walk back completely naked. A girlfriend and I went skinny dipping in what we thought was a secluded pond near campus and while we were in the water a couple of guys took our clothes. It was twilight and hardly anyone was around to see us but we were seen and we never got our clothes back.
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