Embarrassing Moments

[Plant Woman]

What are some of your embarrassing moments?

I had one yesterday when we went to the movie theatre to watch Stardust. We bought a large bag of popcorn and sat down to watch the opening ads and other things to entertain you before the movie starts. We sat in a row that was the front of a section in the middle. I had the bag for a moment and was going to pass it to my SO, when I fumbled it and spilled about a third of it across the floor.

It wouldn't have been so bad, had we sat in seats with other seats in front of us. The mess wouldn't have been so obvious. But no, we were right there in front where people had to pass by to get to their seats. The popcorn was sprawled across the walkway and when people walked by the sound of crunching reached our ears. Even worse, no one else was sitting in this section, so everyone that came into the theatre knew where the mess came from.

I can't take me anywhere.

[Pinecone]

I guess the funniest one was back in the eighties. It was popular to have wigs that were really long and I wore one out dancing at a night club and hubby 'dipped' me after the dance and it fell off onto the dance floor! OMG!!!

[Brimshack]

Well there were all those times I went to school naked.

Oh wait...

[freemonkey]

This must have been in the 80's, maybe the 90's, whenever those wide elastic belts with dinner plate sized buckles that were clasped by a mere hook were so popular.

So I'm at this wedding, dancing and the belt comes unhooked. And flies across the dance floor like a giant rubberband. Luckily, no one got hit.

Only one of the embarrassing moments in my life.

[Ex-zombie]

I don't do embarrassing things. It's all done on purpose.:innocent:

[Petra]

I caught fire once, at wedding. It was about 6 years ago, and in the middle of winter. I had on this gorgeous, flowing, sheer, full length dress on, with a long black tighter fitting underdress. I'd borrowed it from my mother for the night (she has excellent taste), and she'd bought it as evening wear from a pricey boutique in Biscarrosse-Plage, in France. As it was cold, I also had a dress coat that I'd just bought for myself a couple of days prior. We were standing outside watching an amazing fireworks display (it was an intimate, eccentric and spectacular wedding), and the champagne was flowing perhaps a little too freely, not to mention the seasonally sweet bud. Anyway, as I stood there, chatting and marveling at the display, I found myself backed up a little too close to a huge outdoor candle. I didn't notice, but the pyrotechnics guy noticed that I was alight. Luckily, he put me out before the flames were able to damage mum's fabulous outfit. Whew! Wrecked my coat, though - HUGE burnt hole in the back. Anyway, a little later, while back inside and seated at one of the tables, I decided to get up to go dance. They had a great band for the night - a cheeky, quirky, poppy jazz trio called Popcorn - they were neat. Anyway, so I drag my chair out from the table and stand up. I didn't realise that the over dress part of my outfit had been caught under the chair leg, so I pretty much ripped that in half. Boy, was I in trouble! But, that was not all. The wedding was held at a gorgeous country estate in the country, and there were cows in a neighbouring paddock. Anyway, my flatmate at the time, Paul, who was also old friends with the couple getting hitched, said "Petra, I've got a doob that so and so gave me, and it's really wicked weed. There's not much to go around, so where should we go smoke it". "Over there, in the paddock, by the tree", I replied all enthusiastic like. And off I galloped to climb the fence, which was electric. But I didn't really realise it was electric till I was almost over it, 'cos I was getting fairly wild by that time. Anyway, I fell off the fence on the cows' side of it. And got cow poo all over my calf. (Hehe, geddit? Calf. :giggle:) Ewww! Boy, did I need hosing off. And luckily there was a hose, and Paul happily did the honours, while we fell about laughing like little kids. It was hell of a night, and I think I may have been a fairly large part of the entertainment. :blush: :laugh:




Oh, yeah, and I also wore stripes with spots once. But that was in the early 80's, so maybe that doesn't really count. :blush:


So rest assured, PW - I can't take me anywhere, either! :wave:

[Ensign Steve]

Stripes with spots? How embarrassing!

[lisarea]

I think we can all agree that the 80s were pretty embarassing all around.

I never dressed funny or had stupid hair or anything, but I do remember the rest of you guys doing that.

[Uthgar the Brazen]

I once, yes in the 80's, wore a shirt with horizontal stripes with pants that had vertical stripes. It wasn't until very late afternoon that I noticed. I happened to look down, and the jolt of trying to reconcile the two was overpowering. I ran home quickly and changed.

[LadyShea]

It was like 1986 and we went to see Laser Floyd or Laser Zeppelin or one of those at the planetarium in Denver. It was packed as always. I had just had a bad breakup and so hadn't eaten in days, and was looking at some psychedelic jewelry (some sort of optical illusion in the paint) in the lobby and totally fainted. I guess I hit my head on the display case on the way down, and my eyes stayed open all staring so I freaked out all the stoned people. I woke up to mutterings of "dude she's tripping".

[biochemgirl]

It was my first week of classes, brand spanking new, wet behind the ears, freshmen in college which I was all of seventeen. I was trying to be oh so cool walking around campus and not have that "I'm a freshman and I'm lost!" stamped on my forehead. Well I was walking up the stairs to go in a building and I trip (fell up the stairs, still haven't figured how that is possible) and I take a hard fall but not before falling against the trashcan and sending the lid rolling down the stairs in front of a nice crowd of people. Ahhh, the trama :scaredbaby:

[curses]

The one that stands out for me was the third grade school play. See, the thing is that you had to be in the play whether you wanted to or not. They made me be Betsy Ross. Now, I don't remember actually being on stage, but I do remember walking back to class from the bathroom a few days later and hearing a class watching a recording of the play. I heard my voice, so I tiptoed up to the window in the door. The entire class, teacher included, were roaring in laughter at my performance. Thing was I did look silly in the way too large costume and little bitty voice coming from a hat that was covering my entire head.

Scarred me for life. Must have, I can still sing you the song that I had to sing.

[Ymir's blood]

Must have, I can still sing you the song that I had to sing.
* Ymir's blood will hold you to that. :wave:

As for me, well the forum isn't large enough to hold a catalog of my embarrassing moments. Most of them have been caused by lack of attention to what I'm doing. My head tends to stay in the clouds.

One that wasn't caused by that occurred when I was working in a restaurant years ago. I walked into the men's room and noticed that a stall was occupied. I thought it was one of my friends and said, "smells like a walrus died in here." It turned out to be one of the vendors. He didn't say anything and I could have passed it off as just being rude. Inside though, it did embarrass me quite a bit.

[Corona688]

You know those big double-doors with the stationary beam in the middle, that the doors open away from? When I was in elementary, I remember not looking where I was going and walking right into the beam instead of through the open doors on either side. Not lightly, either. SMACK. They never let me forget that one.

Come to think of it, that may have been when I broke my nose. People still notice something a bit odd about it.

[Plant Woman]

:rofl:

Remember I am laughing with you, not at you. :giggles:

[Uthgar the Brazen]

:rofl:

Remember I am laughing with you, not at you. :giggles:

Bollix, I'm laughing at you. :taunt:

[Potato]

Back when I was a junior in high school, I had a huge crush on a really hot popular senior guy. During some class, I left to go to the bathroom and saw him in the hallway. We passed each other and in my stupid effort to my slick and cool, I decided to put on some chapstick. I reached into my pocket and instead pulled out a AA battery and put it to my lips before I realized what it was. He laughed at me. I felt like an idiot.

Stupid boys.

[JoeP]

I think I may have been a fairly large part of the entertainment.
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