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Well, I have embarrassing moments everyday.. so, I suppose I'll just tell you about my most recent, ha,
on Tuesday when I was working the front desk, I had to clean the desk and lobby windows, I cleaned the ones on the right, and then I went to clean the ones on the left - and when i sprayed the window, all of the solution flew back at me. Apparently, someone had the window open and I didn't even realize it.
Lauren was keeping me company at that time, so unfortunately she saw it happen also..
Since I do dumb things all the time, I've learned how to get over them quickly, right as it happens I'm kind of like, "oh my gosh.. I seriously just did that?!", but now and almost immediately after I just laugh about it, because I can never understand why/how so many things like that happen to me! (:
I guess this kind of qualifies as an embarrassing moment, but it is also a dumb blonde moment too, so it's a bit of both!
During my freshman year, I'm going to the gym with two friends and we are on the treadmills. We're running along for about 15 minutes or so, and I completely wipe out and fall off the treadmill. After that, I get up and try to act like nothing happened, even though I scraped up my chin and knees pretty badly. So, silly me decides to try to get back on the treadmill as it's still going. As you can imagine, it did not go very well and I fell off the treadmill AGAIN. After those two failures, I learned my lesson and stopped the treadmill and then got back to running; without falling this time. :) My two friends were half concerned and half laughing at me. They also just had to tell everyone else on our floor about it. :)
It's hard for me to try not to think about the silly embarrassing things I do, but when they do happen I try my best to shake it off and keep on going without reliving the incident. We are only human after all, not perfect robots (silly analogy, I know... but it works). :)
Like Laura, embarrassing moments and situations seem to sit comfortably in my shadow (for example, the dancing at the desk incident).
There are far too many to remember but one that stands out had to do with a texting malfunction. I have this uncle Lee, who lives 40 min from my house but who I am not very close to. In fact, in all my 21 years I have never been over to his house. Now I have this other friend named Lee, who goes to Stout and was a security assistant the past two years (thats how I met him). Well, the Stout Lee kid and I formed a friendship, and we started this stupid tradition that if we saw each other in the commons we'd text the other "I SEE YOU!!" and then wait for the person to look at their phone and try to find you. Anyway, so one day I saw Lee in the commons and texted who I thought was my friend Lee "I SEE YOU!! :)"
..... too bad that Lee (my uncle) and Lee (my friend) are right next to each other in my phone. At the next family gathering my uncle approached me about my text, asking me if I had come to his house. After explaining myself to him, he replied, "GOOD! Cause I was watching TV in my underwear!"
Moral of the story? separate relatives and friends in your phone.
A close second to this story would be on move in day my freshman year when all my stuff was being brought up by football players and the first box (which bottomed out) happened to be my underwear and bras and as the football player stood holding an empty box all of my dedicates were all over the grass, on display for the world to see.
Honestly when embarrassing stuff like this happens to me, I usually find it just as hilarious as other people do. Life is funny, and to be caught up in the little "whoopsies of life" is a waste of energy in my opinion.... unless of course you think Martin is going to be watching you dance on camera.
PPS Good blog idea, love it, lets have more fun blogs like this more often, I feel like I really get to know the staff better!
When I was about 10 my grandparents were having a moving sale for my great grandma's house cause she was moving to a nursing home, and I was helping them. One lady bought a microwave that we were selling and then brought back later because the turn table didn't spin (because it was melted to the bottom because my great grandma would put things in the microwave for 99:99 and forget about them and then come back and reheat them for 99:99). Then later that day a lady came to the garage sale and was talking with my grandma and said "did anybody buy that microwave yet?" and I said "Yeah, this one mean old lady bought it but then returned it just because it didn't spin." And the lady replied, "yeah, that was me."
AAGHH! She had changed clothes and everyhing! Who does that? I didn't recognize her at all.....it was embarrassing.
I felt really embarrassed/ashamed/rude at the moment, but since I was pretty young I got over it really quickly. I laugh at it today and try to remember that sometimes my honesty can get me into trouble.
Laura - LOL, that must have been some powerful wind outside.
Amanda - You have to step on the sides of the treadmill while it's going, and then jump on.
Lauren - I've called people with same names before, that's always awkward too. I'm glad you liked the post.
I don't get too embarrassed easily but maybe it's because I try to avoid things that could potentially be embarrassing. Anyways, once my mom and I were at goodwill and she was trying on some sandals/heels so she took her socks off. When we were checking out she decided she had to put her socks back on. The check out lady had finished scanning everything and told her the total. My mom told her "one second" and continued to put on her socks. There were at least 2 people in line behind us and she was making everyone wait to put her socks on. I was sooo embarrassed I had to leave.
I know it's not something that happened to me but I can honestly say that it's a time that I've felt most embarrassed.
I think I've just learned to be patient with my mom and embrace peoples weirdness. It makes things less awkward and embarrassing.
One of the most memorable embarrassing moments that I can remember was back in either my Junior or Senior year of high school. It was during one of the first Improv practices. Obviously, at the start of the year we have to do icebreakers. So the icebreaker we were doing was that alliteration name game (the one where you say like "Magic Matt" and do an over-the-top gesture). When my coach was explaining the game, I was SO zoned out. I was like looking at the wood grain of the stage or at the pretty lights or something.
Basically I heard nothing on how the game was actually supposed to be played. So when it got to my turn I said, "I'm Matt and I'm the devil!!!" and made a scary face and put my hands on my head to make devil horns. Instantly the whole team bursts out laughing. I thought to myself, "Well, I didn't think it was that funny..." After a few moments everybody started explaining to me that what I did was wrong. I felt so embarrassed.
In retrospect, I just laugh at the situation. Even my old teammates bring it up: "Hey Matt! Are you the devil?!? (along with necessary reenactment). I used to be embarrassed pretty easily. Now, I feel sometimes I put my self into embarrassing moments just to make social situations awkward (because I like awkward).
I find embarrassing moments rather entertaining and personally really enjoy them.
I can think about one time when I was still in High School were were messing around in the hallway. We were of course causing a loud distraction, playing sports, and actually I think we were skipping a meeting. Anyways, while in the hallway we decided that we would play volleyball to pass time. I thought I was being really cool and diving for the ball and being just completely crazy. Next thing I know, my pants rip on my butt. The rip was so large that it went from my back pocket, nearly all the way down to my knee. Now, even though it was near the end of the day, I still had probably an hour left of school. With that, I had to walk around with ripped jeans and had to explain the story to everyone. Although it was super funny, it was somewhat embarrassing at the same time.
I had another similiar story one time. I was trying to teach a 55 year old women that I worked with, how to "Pop, Lock, and Drop It." While I was teaching her, and when I went to "Drop It," I ripped my shorts. Remind you that I'm at work, and can't leave to go change. It was super funny because I had to work with ripped pants and then when my manager came she was wondering what I was thinking because obiviously it was inappropriate to be wearing ripped shorts at work.
Typically I don't get embarrassed easily, but when/if I do I normally just laugh it off. I personally am a strong believer that you have to be able to laugh at yourself...so that's just what I do!
I too seem to have embrassing moments frequently. While I try to let them not bother me, there are some that stick with me...still to this day. This is one of those stories:
In middle school shortly after officially becoming a "woman"...I had a pad leak while in class and didn't notice it. In fact, a male classmate noticed it and pointed it out to the whole class. I didn't have a change of clothes so I made up a story that the stain had always been on my shorts and that it was paint/stain from staining our house.
I don't believe many people believed me but it made me feel better to have a retort to the teasing.
Thanks to everyone who has posted. Can't wait to hear what Justin & Mike have to share with the group.
Sorry that it is late, but here is my overdue post.
There was this one time where I made it a little goal to post on time to all staff blogs, but then I went the whole first quarter with only posting on time once! How embarrassing!...
I actually do not get embarrassed that often. The one time that comes to mind though is when I was teaching a group of scouts at my amp how to make candles out of natural materials. Walnut oils on birch bark and crammed inside of a walnut shell work well for this, but you need twine to act as a wick. While trimming the wick I used my knife, since I didn't have scissors on hand, and was not going to leave my class to go get some from my Adirondack. While using y excessively large survival knife, i came really close to cutting myself, and I said, "Now don't do this at home." I proceeded to do it again, and come very close to cutting myself again. I again said, "Really, Don't do this." The third time, I proceeded to cut deep into my left middle finger. By deep I mean knuckle showing. Not only was it very messy, yet surprisingly painless, but I made a complete fool of myself in front of a group of 5 12 year olds that all say , "AWESOME" in unison to this situation.
To be honest i dont know if i get that embarassed during life.
A big one that really sticks out to me is when i was in the 4th grade. I had just starting playing football for the first time ever and all the other kids knew so much more then me and how to play etc... The caoch yelled "who wants to kick for kickoff!?!" So of course i said that i wanted to because how hard can kicking off really be? So i get up to the ball and im wearing tennis shoes on the football field like a lot of other kids and tennis shoes dont work very well for anything to do with football. So i kick it my hardest and the ball literally goes about 5feet. So the caoch blew his whistle and said hold on hold on lets let mike redo that one. So i was glad because now i could show everyone what a "tough guy" i was at football. Did the same thing 2 more times. 5 Foot kicks and then i walked off the field because everyone laughed at me. I didnt play football again until freshman year of highschool.
Thanks Mike & Justin!
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