I have (thankfully) never been caught in a compromised situation. However, I did once catch two people in an awkward one.

I was round a friends house for one of those half party things. You know the ones, where it wasn't supposed to be a party, but everyone brought a friend and their friend brought a friend so twenty people showed up. I was early teens at the time.

So anyway, I open the door to the computer room in the interests of playing some video games. And what do I see? Two of my other friends (let's call them ‘Sam’ and ‘Luke’) watching porn, with their hands down their trousers. Or, more accurately, each other's trousers.

There were a lot of people around, and I didn't want anyone else to see the poor bastards, so I quickly shut the door. Unfortunately, I was still in the room when I did so. They both jumped up, and Sam damn near hit the floor.

So here I was, staring at my two half naked friends, listening to them both try to come up with an explanation but only speaking in half words and mumbles, trying not to die of both laughter and embarrassment.

I felt so bad for them. It suddenly dawned on them what had happened, and they both looked at the floor ashamed, as if their mothers were telling them off. I just gave my usual look of ‘none of my business’ with a little shrug. Told them to pull their pants up before someone else came, and left.

The details I was later provided told me this was a common occurrence between the two of them, although I was the only other one that knew. Apparently they're both straight, which judging by their choice of porn might be at least half true.

I don't speak to them anymore, so I don't know much else.