Gonna keep some of the details vague for the sake of anonymity. I recently joined a sports club, and I signed up for a competition. This would’ve been my second time attending the club. A couple of days before the organiser announced that there was a dress theme. Initially he said that the theme was ‘best dressed’ then he added that he really meant the ‘most entertaining’ and said there would be prizes for the best outfit. Well I decided to go a bit overkill on this and wear a cosplay outfit that had been sitting in my closet for a while. It has bright colours, a scary mask, and it stands out a lot. As I know no one at the club, I was also thinking it would be a good icebreaker as we could all discuss our costumes together. The day comes around and I hype myself up on the walk there feeling very excited about this event, and some guy even complimented me on my outfit! Only as I approach the building things seem a bit off because I don’t see anyone else approaching the building in entertaining outfits/costumes. Oh well, perhaps I’ll see them at the meeting point. Lo and behold, when I got there I discovered that I had made a huge misjudgement. No one is wearing any costumes, they are just dressed slightly more formal than usual and one person is wearing a jersey of our rival club. They all look at me rather baffled and slightly concerned. I stuck around for a few minutes hoping that other people will also show up in something entertaining but no one did. I bailed after a few minutes as I could not handle the embarrassment and did a one mile walk of shame back home where two kids cried because they found my costume too scary. I am just going to disappear from that club forever.
TL;DR: Misinterpreted the dress theme for an event at my sports club, and wore something extremely wacky which confused everybody there. I decided to go home out of embarrassment, even though the event itself was quite expensive.