Most embarrassing moment

[Sir Toose]

Patti pontificating on prophilectec preservatifs spurned this thread in my mind... Post em if you've got em.


Here's mine:
Picture the moment... my first week on the job. I was hired to revamp a process of sharing data between cad systems and a database. Within the first few days I had made some signifigant progress. My boss was happy and apparently told some of the others in the office about it.

So... I'm in the kitchen one morning and intent on getting coffee. We have these machines that dispense coffee... you get a cup, put it under the tap, push the button and out flows the java. One of my co-workers walks in and says hi. She proceeds to tell me how my boss is bragging to everyone about how smart I am. I am listening to this in the coffee getting process. I respond saying something like "oh really?" whereupon I set my cup on the counter instead of in the machine. So I'm feeling really cool as two other girls walk in the first one tells them about what my boss said. I then turn around (thinking the cup is in the machine) and turn on the machine.

Coffee is now dispensing in waves onto my shirt, pants, the floor etc. The girls screaming with laughter run out and leave me feeling very.........smart.

[sadesdrk]

Oh Toose! That is so....FUNNY! I hate to laugh at your expense, but that is a good one! Wasn't the coffee, like, really hot?! Ouch! Double ouch with humiliation factor...:)

My embarrassing moment. The one I will never live down, it's similar to yours, in that my ego was bruised.

I was in the seventh grade. I was a tall girl then, as I am now, but I wasn't particularly comfortable with it ( love it now, though;D)
Anyhoo...It was during P.E. We were doing a co-ed P.E. day. I was the only girl left doing the high jump with the boys. All the other girls couldn't make it over the bar anymore. I was feeling pretty cool, because all the boys were giving me compliments, and suggesting I go out for track so I could compete. Then the bar was raised, and it was my turn to attempt. My ego is totally inflated at this time, and I have no worries that I'll get over.
I get a running start...jump over...and land on my neck, displacing a rib from my sternum.
The wind is knocked out of me, and I'm lying on the gym-mat...heaving and gasping for breath. I finally get my wind back, and look up to see the coach and all the boys starring down at me. A couple of guys are snickering and trying not to laugh out loud. Needless to say, I saw a doctor and he popped my rib back in with little, to no effort...but I had weeks of " saving face" to endure, that was much more painful.:(

[patti]

oooooh great thread.........and i inspired it?? heh heh..MOFO headline "patti inspires the embarassment thread!"......does that word come from "bare @ss"? or the other way around? (I LOVE etymology)
anyway, i will sure be posting on this site from time to time, as my memory allows me to recall embarassing events that have been repressed.
a pretty good one happened today at the dentist......my little girl had her first check-up and cleaning......the dentist and hygenist were both telling me that the Pacifyer has to stop!!.....and i knew that; it's just that pacifiers were so VERBOTEN when i was a kid........i delight in buying MY daughter "passies" because my mom NEVER let me have one. i said to my dentist "i want a pacifier!" and he said "we'll get you a pacifyer patti", then i said " i suppose a boyfriend would solve the problem".........i think they were more embarassed than i was.
i didn't mean it that way......really

[thmilin]

oooh, you sillies.

toose, i'm very sorry.

sades ... how can that be embarassing? well i understand how but those boys were jerks for laughing at you in a moment like that - come on, displaced rib bones?! boys suck.

patti darling, you did that one to yourself. :D

but, truthfully, i do believe there is a thread on the exact same topic elsewhere ... pages and pages deep. TWT would know. i seem to recall being forced to find a topic to expose myself with and trying to pick one out of the many ...

until T confirms, I won't though.

so nyah! ;)

[The Silver Bullet]

In year 8 [grade 8], I was practising a mime for a competition. I didn't want to do it, but I had to and so I was working it out. I was doing a mime based around getting ready for a date. I had never shaved at this stage and so I had to get the whole "shape of the razor" in my hand thing worked out with a real razor. Anyway, so there I am holding it, getting the feel of it when I notice in the mirror that one of my eyebrows seems longer than the other. I believe I could fix it, so I try. Nope, now the other is longer, whoops, no, the other one is...hang on...

Anyhoo, next thing I know, I have no eyebrows. School the next day, someone turns to me -- you have VERY light eyebrows. Yeah, I know. Hang on....there's not even any there!!

Sitting there, sweating, wondering what to say....I blurt it out.

"WELL, I DIDN'T SHAVE THEM OFF!!!"



The next six months were hell.
I'm used to it now. People sometimes lean over my face and say "they're growing back" despite their having been back for over two years. I get the final laugh on them, it just proves how f*cked those people are that they need to bring it up even now.

But yeah, at the time.....

[patti]

here's a good one, but at someone else's expense; there was a kid in the daycare/playroom at the health club where i work, and whoever dropped him off didn't sign themselves in......we asked the little boy what him mommy's name was....he said "mommy".we said, no, what's her name? he said, "mommy". no, what does your daddy call her? he answered "carol". okay, now whats your daddy's name? "daddy". no ..........your daddy's name?..."daddy". okay.........what does your mommy call him?....."@sshole".
:laugh:

[Yoda]

I haven't had too many. One time when I was 10 I got into a fight at school and cried. I didn't cry while I fought, though. That would've shown weakness. :D That was a little embarassing, but not too bad, because everyone else was basically 10, too, so no one thought badly of me.

I guess the worst would have to be my little sister blurting out something about a crush with a girl I was rather fond of right there, along with her sister, and a few friends. I honestly get a bit angry every single time I think of it.

[sadesdrk]

Originally posted by thmilin
sades ... how can that be embarassing? well i understand how but those boys were jerks for laughing at you in a moment like that - come on, displaced rib bones?! boys suck.

It was. I cryed about it the whole way to the doctors and threw up in the doctor's waste basket, I was so upset. Ad Nauseum.

[Groovy_Moovie]

My older sister was mad at me one time, and I was coming out of the shower into my room and in front of all her friends she pulled my towel off. :blush:

[Naisy]

I dont know if it counts as embarressing because it was self inflicted but part of a school assembly and part of a dare. I did an Indian dance in front of the school wearing nothing but fluro pink jocks.

[gummo]

Mine would be with my first period in dance class when we were doing stretches on the white floor...oh boy. But then the next day I had an accident in Religion class when I went to pick up my test. I sat down too hard on my chair and some disgustingness came out and onto the chair. My friend had to run me to the bathroom while another cleaned up the spot on the chair.

[undercoverlover]

That is every girl's nightmare. I feel your pain*stifles laugh* however I do not share your experiences

[Groovy_Moovie]

I feel bad about what I did to my aunt-
When I was eight or something and my aunt got stuck under the porch during a big family get-together. Me and my cousin instead of getting help, we proceeded to remove her shoes and tickle her for (now I admit) an inappropriate amount of time, about 15 minutes. When she was begging us to stop we didn't notice that she had wet herself. Man, did I get hell for that and rightfully so.