Though cringe may often be confined to bad YouTube compilations, Contrapoints video essays, and the internet's ever-expanding cast of commedia dell'arte characters — looking at you, Shane Dawson — there's a whole lot of cringe to be found outside the confines of our computers. Case in point? All the strange, weirdos the fine folks of r/AskReddit have encountered while out and about.

From flash mobs gone wrong to very public — and very rejected — marriage proposals, here are 20 of the most cringe-inducing things people have ever seen in the wild.