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vonda · Posted: November 08 2003, 8:45 AM Post subject:

Don't know why I thought of this, but last night, as I was sitting, watching TV, ALL NIGHT LONG, with some horrible stomach thing going on, I thought of starting this thread. I was wondering if we could share embarrassing moments, thought that would be fun. I'll start, duh!!

WELL, when Noah had to have his eye surgery at John's Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, my husband and I kissed him goodbye and he headed for the OR. Well we were going to go to the cafeteria to get something to eat, but first I had to go to the ladies room. AND, of course, not being prepared, I had started my period, and had NOTHING with me. So I balled up some toilet paper as a last resort, NOT comfortable, but it worked. Well, we then headed to the cafeteria. To get there, we walked down a LONG hallway, in the elevator, down another long hallway, and finally we were there. Now I was the one leading us to the cafeteria, with my husband RIGHT behind me, and about 10 others following us. I was walking around, picking out what I wanted to eat, all the while thinking NOTHING was wrong, when a group of ladies sitting at a table kept staring at me. Finally one came up to me and whispered "you have toilet paper hanging out of your pants. OMG. I had a LONG stream of toilet paper coming out of the top of my jeans and hanging CLEAR down to my fricking knee!!! Now you would THINK that my husband would have noticed this!!!But, no, he said he didn't see it at all. I walked ALL that way with this thing hanging out and he didn't notice it at all!!! HUH? I could have DIED right on the spot. I guess since we've been married for 15 years, he doesn't watch my butt like he used to!!! ha ha Vonda

Annieo · Posted: November 08 2003, 12:42 PM Post subject:

I once answered the phone and assumed the caller was my friend Jeff who I hadn't talked to in awhile. I was real friendly and asked him how he was, etc., etc. Then he said he was looking for my friend Beth's phone number because he wanted to ask her to go to a wedding with him. I said that was really weird because I knew another guy who wanted to ask her to a wedding. He asked me who and I told him about this weirdo I'd gone to high school with who now worked in a shoe store at the mall. He had helped Beth with a pair of shoes recently when she and I were out shopping together and now had a crush on her. He seemed surprised and asked me the guy's name. I said it was Ted. And he said, "Ann, this is Ted." I could have died! Here I was telling him awful things about himself. Then I couldn't give him my friend's number because she wanted nothing to do with him. The call ended very awkwardly, needless to say!

Annieo

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Emdad · Posted: November 08 2003, 1:57 PM Post subject:

Waaaaay back, say, 1976, I was driving my uber-cool, detailed, equipped with mags, driving lights, combo 8-track player/AM-FM/CB radio FORD PINTO one late summer evening. Windows down, girlfriend at my side, the stereo's playin Chicago 7. Gets to the song, "Happy Man." Mellow, Fender Rhodes piano and conga drums, singin' about how his heart has been taken by his love. Life is too good. I turn to my lady and say, "I think about you every time I hear this song", with all the sue-whave-ity that a 17-year old sex machine nerd preacher's kid pinto driver can muster. I look at her with my dreamy eyes, and she coldly stares back at me and says, "that's what you told Laura*, last year." - a mutual friend that I had "gone with" for a while. DOH!
World gone mad. Sabotaged by my own emotions and lack of proper short-term memory. I haven't had a favorite song OR ever said anything like that to another Woman since.
*Yes, it's been so long now that I can't even remember this girl's name, but it's not Laura.
Thanks for reminding me.

jenna b · Posted: November 08 2003, 6:09 PM Post subject:

several years ago, an old friend from high school wanted to set me up with her husband's friend. she arranged a bbq and invited a bunch of her neighbors so that it wouldn't be an akward situation for me and hubby's friend. she had warned me that todd (name changed to protect the innocent) was kind of a geek, but was a really nice guy. so, i show up not expecting much but looking forward to the bbq. i had been there for a while when todd walked in. he was not geeky looking at all. so me and my friend are in her bedroom talking about todd. she's telling me that he used to have glasses and a dorky hair cut but it had been a while since she saw him and he had changed for the better, much better. we were talking about him for about 15 minutes when we returned to the kitchen. her husband and todd were standing there, right next to the baby monitor that was turned on, the other part of the monitor was in the bedroom. i was so embarrased! luckily, we were saying how much better he was than expected, but still...

i have seen a similar scenario on a commercial, never thought it would happen to me! todd and i became good friends, there was no chemistry though. we never did talk about that first day that we met, it still embarrasses me.

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vonda · Posted: November 08 2003, 6:27 PM Post subject:

Oh, these are so funny, makes the toilet paper hanging out of my pants seem normal, ha ha. Vonda

Amy Jensen · Posted: November 08 2003, 6:48 PM Post subject:

Love these! I am trying to think of a *cringe* moment. I'm SURE it will come to me.....!

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gbesco · Posted: November 08 2003, 9:52 PM Post subject:

16 months ago, we bought a new house. A neighbor had brought over a plate of cookies as a welcome to us. A few days later, I went to bring the plate back. I left the house in a rush without taking a look in the mirror. I gave my neighbor my best smile & said 'thank you!!' She got this horrible look on her face & ran her tongue over her teeth as she was talking to me. I wondered if I had something in my teeth, so luckily I laid off the smiling & talking & excused myself. I came home & looked in the mirror & realized I had a bunch of crumbs from blue corn tortilla chips stuck in between my front 4 teeth. It looked like a mouthful of cavities!! My face still gets red thinking about it...

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vonda · Posted: November 09 2003, 8:10 AM Post subject:

Bethany that is SO funny. You know we should right a book together, these are all hilarious. Good laughing medicine!! Vonda

Sally/Grandma to Mya · Posted: November 09 2003, 2:23 PM Post subject:

I have one...
Only 4 years ago. Manny's grandkids had given us these great red travel mugs for Christmas. I took mine to work with me everyday. Well one day I wanted to warm up my tea so I was going to the microwave. One of my co-workers asked me if I had ever used that cup in the microwave before. "Of course" I lied through my teeth, but what harm could an innocent travel mug be. Well I stuck it in there and within 10 seconds, sparks were flying. Before I could say OH SH*T there were flames. Well coming from a fire fighting background I know the first thing you do is un plug the microwave and hope the flames should die out eventually, you will have a ruined microwave...but that is it. Well this man, playing super hero comes running up and as I am yelling NO DON'T OPEN THE DOOR. HE does just that. A big puff of black smoke comes pooring out and cup bursts into flames. The fire alarm goes off and the entire five story building is evacuated...INTO THE RAIN...OMG. It was horrible. The man tried putting a metal trash can over the burning cup and lifted it up after a minute causing another huge puff of smoke. He finally broke the glass of the fire extinguisher and put the fire out, ruining everything in sight. Of course the fire department came. The building manager wanted to keep my melted pile of cup as evidence, but I made him give it back. To this day our building manager calls me "Smokey". I hid in my bosses office as long as I could that day. I was in tears I was SOOO embarrased. I still am.

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Annieo · Posted: November 10 2003, 12:11 PM Post subject:

Oh Sally! That one's really bad!!! At least it makes for a really good story!

Annieo

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hannahsmommy · Posted: November 10 2003, 1:14 PM Post subject:

First of all these are all hilarious. Sally yours made me think of my Father in Law. When he was working he traveled around the world fixing paper making machines, and at every place he went there was a sign.. mike Plat you are NOT to use the microwave! He set many a place on fire. I am trying to weed through my MANY embarassing moments and print up the best one.

Kerry · Posted: November 10 2003, 3:53 PM Post subject:

Years ago I worked in a pharmacy (CVS, I think it was). I was working at the front register area, and my best friend was working in the back at the pharmacy counter. We were 16 or 17 at the time. Anyway, a really cute boy whom we both had a "secret" crush on came into the store. I wanted to discreetly alert my friend to his presence in the store, so I decided to "jog" down one of the aisles to tell her. I'm not the most graceful person in the world to begin with, so it's no surprize that as I was running down the aisle, I tripped over my own foot, and went sliding down the aisle..headfirst...like I was trying to steal second base or something. As I slid to a stop, I hear a teenage boy's voice behind me...trying desperately not to laugh, saying "Holy crap...are you okay?" Of course it was the cute boy..and of course I had a MAJOR rug burn on the palm of my hand that was the most painful thing EVER..I'm trying not to cry, he's trying not to laugh, and my friend who had seen the whole thing from the pharmacy counter is trying not to pee her pants. Very traumatizing.

Kerry

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Sally/Grandma to Mya · Posted: November 10 2003, 4:11 PM Post subject:

Kerry, to this day, if there is a handsome man around, you can count on me tripping over my own feet...too funny.

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Heidi · Posted: November 11 2003, 7:55 AM Post subject:

I'm cringing just reading these-Vonda your story is tooooo close to home for me!! I think most of my embarrassing moments relate to 'that' subject!

The worst story however was when I was about 14-my Mum was kinda old fashioned and my sister and I didn't get discrete tampons, we got belted towels-ugh!! I used to keep them in the pocket of my school bag and one day the bag fell off the shelf on the bus and the 'articles' fell out-mortified is NOT the word-our school (all girls convent) used to share the school bus with the local boys school-nearly 25 years on I still shudder to think of it. Suffice to say I persuaded Mum that a little more modern approach might be in order!!

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vonda · Posted: November 11 2003, 12:44 PM Post subject:

Kerry I can SO relate, those horrible belts, the rubber underwear and those damn PILLOWS for pads, ICK!!! Vonda

Sally/Grandma to Mya · Posted: November 11 2003, 1:24 PM Post subject:

Just in case Jeff is back reading these lovely stories, I shall share one more. Before actually atending high school. Poway High to be exact, Jeff and Elizabeth probably know where that is. Anyway, my girl friend and I took summer school to get used to the whole high school idea. Well we even bought matching lime green dittos. Wow I am really dating myself there. Anyway, we were in this one class and I sat in the very back row. We had these wonderfule cloth padded chairs. We had taken a test and I was the last one finished, which is an emarrasment in itself. So I walked all the way to the front of the class and turned my test in. Got back to my chair and there was a big red blood spot. OMG...I could have died right on the spot. I had to tie my windbreaker around my waist and the ultimate worse part was that my friends father had to come get me.....
I am sure that Jeff is enjoying these wonderful stories..
tee hee.

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Amy Jensen · Posted: November 11 2003, 2:28 PM Post subject:

Oh Sally, that is horrible! As if you're not self-conscious enough in high school. Good thing you can laugh about it now!

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samantha's mom · Posted: November 11 2003, 2:42 PM Post subject:

Oh Sally that brought back memories...

When I was in high school it was like a whole new world for me since I had gone to Catholic school up until then. Well I was on my first date in 9th grade and we went over to a friends house to watch movies. We were laying on the floor watching the movie and when it was over we were going to go out. Well I get up from the floor and look down and on thier carpet was a HUGE blood stain. Everyone had seen it, I knew I was on my monthly had protection, but (as any woman knows) it had creaped up my backside and over the pad. My jeans were soaked and needless to say that was the first last and only date I went on with him. I was horrified, humilated and needless to say never outlived it by my high school friends. Elizabeth

Emdad · Posted: November 11 2003, 4:12 PM Post subject:

Ick. I'm not reading this thread anymore.

samantha's mom · Posted: November 11 2003, 4:30 PM Post subject:

Lol, I'm sorry Jeff Sad

. It just brought back memories. Is this better...What about those chargers....

vonda · Posted: November 11 2003, 6:00 PM Post subject:

Okay, I've got another one. When I was 12, and thought I was 17, I got a pair of clogs, the high kind. I was strutting through this Five and Dime store with my mom and little sister, when I saw the CUTEST guy, so of course I was strutting even more with my new cool clogs, when all of a sudden my ankle turned over in them, I fell FLAT on the floor and knocked over and entire display of deoderant, at least 1000 bottles. I HURRIED and got up off the floor and then yelled out "VALERIE, WHY DID YOU DO THAT", which was my sister's name, so then everyone looked at her. She STILL has not forgiven me for this.

Oh, and then another thing happened in high school. We were in the 10th grade and my friends and I always wore jeans to school, but on occasion we'd call each other the night before and plan to wear dresses. Well, none of us knew how to walk in dress shoes and dresses, and so just walking was embarrassing enough. But one day, as we were dressed up, and were heading for science class, three boys, who I remember just like it was yesterday, although I will NOT mention any names, decided to pull up my long, tight fitting skirt, which they did, but the darn thing was so tight that when they pulled it up, it ended up wrong side out and above my hips, where it STAYED, because I could not get it down as it was so tight. SO, there I stood, in the middle of the hallway, in between classes with hundreds of students watching me while I wiggled my skirt back down to where it belongs. I swear I'm blushing now just thinking about it. Thank God I didn't have blood all over the place, tee hee. Vonda

naomid · Posted: November 12 2003, 12:43 PM Post subject:

Okay I thought of one.

When I was about 17 my boyfriend and I thought it would be fun to go back to his house and have a bath together. His parents were out and we had the whole house to ourselves. So we're in the bath and suddenly we hear someone come in the front door and coming upstairs and stopping outside the bathroom door. His dad has come home early and really needs to pee! He knocks on the door and Mark says he's in the bath, his dad really needs to pee and says that he should just open the door. We have no choice but to get out of the bath, wrap towels around ourselves, open the door and rush past his dad. I'm not sure who was more mortified, I think it was red faces all round! I was supposed to stay for dinner that night but suddenly remembered something I had to do at home, I think it took about a week before I could face his dad.

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LoveMyLivi · Posted: November 13 2003, 3:36 AM Post subject:

Well, living as long as I have, I have quite a collection of "most embarassing moments" but here is one that popped into my head. It involves me and my dear hubby when we were newly weds. We were out in the front yard doing some chores when an elderly man whom was driving by stopped to chat. He was part of a food ministry and was delivering day old bread to seniors. He noticed that we were new in the neighborhood and wanted to share with us. He was quite insistant and very sweet. We are not in the habit of accepting handouts but he was so persuasive in his desire to welcome us and we did not want to offend him. So we walked over to his car. He opened the rear door and motioned to my hubby all the while chatting away. My husband was baffled, as there was not a thing to be had on the back seat as the gentleman kept insisting he take as much as he wanted. Eric surmised that the gentleman was perhaps a little "off in the head" and proceeded to humour him along, loading his arms up with "imaginary" bread. Just then, the old fellow looked at the seat and then mumbled that he must have put it in the trunk. He popped the lid and sure enough, a bounty of food appeared! Boy, was Eric's face ever red (he is so fair skinned - when he is embarrassed it shows!) It is one of my most favorite memories still to this day, to think of my guy(the strong no nonsense type) willing to engage in a round of make believe to avoid embarrassing a nutty elderly man!

[Edited by veronika Evans on 11-13-2003 at 03:38 AM]

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Sally/Grandma to Mya · Posted: November 13 2003, 10:17 AM Post subject:

Veronika...that was great. I love that story. What a nice kind hearted man your husband must be.

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NattysMommy603 · Posted: November 14 2003, 2:42 PM Post subject: Here's mine

Ok, took a day or so but i remember exactly how it happened. I worked 3rd shift at a convenience store when I first got pregnant with Natalie. I was locked in this tiny cage all night and only allowed out when no people were in the store. The doors had a magnatized lock that I just pushed and they were tight. So, one night I had a few regulars come to get gas as they did everynight. Well, I was standing on an upside down milk crate stocking cigarettes I could not reach. Haha, my not so balanced-pregnant self moved one inch to the wrong way and the crate went flying. The crate hit the window as I hit the floor. As I stood up, ever so gracefully, every customer in the lot was clapping for me! Oh, it took me days to look any of them in the eyes again. Of course, their laughing at me everynight for the week didn't help much either.

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SWoody · Posted: November 15 2003, 10:31 PM Post subject:

This thread is hilarious! My most recent embarrasing moment (there have been many) -- Ally, my husband, and I were driving on our way back from vacation last month. We were driving from Florida to Indiana and we stopped first at a big tourist attraction place in Alabama that was known for its pecans. Of course I wanted to stop and get some, so we stopped and I bought some and then we drove on and stopped at a gas station. I had to pee so I go in and pass several people on my way and someone holds the door for me and I smile and say thank you. Well, after taking care of business I'm coming back out to the car and DH is done pumping the gas and is waiting on me so I give him this HUGE toothy smile and he smiles back but then he starts staring at me with this wierd look on his face. When I get in he says "do you have something in your teeth?" and I said "I don't know do I?" He says "you had better take a look." I pull down the mirror and there is the BIGGEST, GREENEST, piece of lettuce I have ever seen stuck right there in my teeth!!! DH nearly wet his pants laughing, I could just imagine all the people I smiled at at the pecan place and gas station thinking eeewwww.....

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