Question of the Day - April 5th

[Karly]

What's the most embarrassing thing that has ever happened to you?

[AmyP]

I've had plenty, but the one that was probably the roughest at the time was when I was 11.

I was in a dance competition and my costume was basically a leotard and a poodle skirt (it was to Rock 'n' Roll Party Queen from Grease). Three steps into the dance, my poodle skirt was around my ankles. :blush: For some reason, the velcro on the waistband wouldn't hold, even though I'd worn it several times without a problem. Not a terrible thing, but mortifying when you're 11!!!! I stepped out of it and finished up the dance, but I was so embarrassed! I burst into tears when I got off the stage, and then my poor mother had to re-do my makeup because I had another number to do. My mom felt bad enough as it was, seeing as she was the one who'd made the skirt. We got last place for that dance too, IIRC. I remember out of sympathy for me, my teacher let me be the one to collect ribbons for one of the other numbers. We never did that number again as that was the last competition of the season, but I remember using the skirt for a Halloween costume and maybe a school play or something and using a LOT of safety pins.

I look back on it now and laugh, but it sure didn't seem funny to me at the time.

ETA: I used that story in a ton of different school assignments afterwards, so I guess it was good for something!

[Shel]

I got locked in porta potty at a football game my senior year of high school and had to be cut out of it by the fire department. When I came out there was this huge crowd of people applauding.

Good times

[Melissa]

I was in a huge lecture hall in college (those 300+ seaters). The professor liked to walk around the classroom and I had just dropped my books on the floor. The professor was in the area and said, "Hang on I'll get them" so of course the whole class is watching, well I got up to get them as well. The seats were like the ones at a movie theater they flip up and down. When I got up I didn't realize the seat went up and I didn't put my hand down to catch the seat before I sat and I came crashing down onto the floor with the whole class watching. Go me!

[Bridget]

In High School we had dress up days (like for Homecoming and whatnot) and on a western themed day I made a little cow on wheels that I dragged around behind me. Yeah, nodding head in agreement of how dumb that was. :lol: So a guy stole the cow from me and announced it that afternoon at an assembly (I was in StuCo so I was the announcer at the assembly). He said I had to sing in front of the whole school to get it back, so the kids started clapping and chanting for me to sing (but in kind of a funny "we love ya" way and also kind of a "we are enjoying watching your misery and are laughing at you" way). So I had to sing.

To this day it's the number 1 memory I'd like not to have. It was really embarassing.

[Becca]

I honestly cannot pinpoint my Most Embarassing Moment right now...give me a few hours to think about it :chin:

[Hannabanana]

In High School we had dress up days (like for Homecoming and whatnot) and on a western themed day I made a little cow on wheels that I dragged around behind me. Yeah, nodding head in agreement of how dumb that was. :lol: So a guy stole the cow from me and announced it that afternoon at an assembly (I was in StuCo so I was the announcer at the assembly). He said I had to sing in front of the whole school to get it back, so the kids started clapping and chanting for me to sing (but in kind of a funny "we love ya" way and also kind of a "we are enjoying watching your misery and are laughing at you" way). So I had to sing.

To this day it's the number 1 memory I'd like not to have. It was really embarassing.

What did ya sing? :lol:

[Eva]

Setting my hair on fire with a bunsen burner in Microbiology lab in university. :shuffle:

[schwanda]

I think I've blocked them all out! I seriously have issues with public embarassment.... :rolleyes:

Amanda

[Becca]

Okay, thanks to my little sister...I think I have a winner.
Every year my hometown has a big parade on the final day of the exhibition. Last year I went with B, my sis and Kenny. WELLL my dad was standing across the street from us and wouldn't you know it...Kenny sees him and starts running to him. "PAPA...MY PAPA! I COMIN!" Now not that the parade goes by fast by any stretch of the means, but the next enrty in the parade happened to have been my brother (dressed as a large Robin, the mascot of the Robin's Donuts where he works) and so my brother grabbed him when he got into the street. Well you can imagine Kenny's horror, having a large bird grab you when you're just trying to get to your Papa. He starts SCREAMING and kicking. Of course I run to his rescue, only to trip on my own two feet and skin my knee just as Kenny knocks my brother's "head" off. So there we all are in the middle of the street in all our glorious chaos, Kenny laughing as he realized it was "uncle" holding him, Uncle with his robin's head knocked off laughing at me, and me sitting on the road bleeding from the knee laughing only to cover my pain. All this for everyone to see...and trust me, see they did! Everyone was laughing their butts off - including my DH, my sister and my dad. Through the window of the restaurant we were infront of I could see my grama and great-aunt laughing so hard they were crying! What a caring family I have. I slowly got up to get Kenny and he started screaming "me go uncle....go way" so my brother had to take him the rest of the length of the parade just to keep him happy.
I hope you can all have a good laugh at this...I know I am NOW! :)

[Karri]

The first that comes to mind was when I was in high school and was driving to school and the roads were complete ice. I turned onto the road that lead to school (essentially, the driveway to the school, if you will) only to be faced with a line of cars that were at a complete standstill. I tried stopping, but it was no good. I became one with another classmate's large truck. Naturally, EVERYONE and their mother saw it. And I was already known for my, uh, driving skills :shuffle:
And to top it off, the jerk wore my VW symbol on a chain around his neck all day, so that everyone was aware of it.

[gulp!]

On my very first business trip for my big Wall St. job, I got on the wrong plane and flew to Cincinnati instead of Atlanta. :heee:

What's really weird, though, is that the only empty seat left on the Cincy flight was the same one that I was ticketed for on the Atlanta flight, which is why I didn't notice my mistake until we had landed.

[Bridget]

Setting my hair on fire with a bunsen burner in Microbiology lab in university. :shuffle:

:lol:

Sorry. Couldn't help it.

[Shel]

Setting my hair on fire with a bunsen burner in Microbiology lab in university. :shuffle:

After my senior homecoming one girl reached across a table at Pizza Hut and caught her hair on fire on a candle. Lots of hairspray + candle = torch

[MrsPeacefrog]

I was in biology class in year 9, our teacher was a pretty young hip guy who always liked to be "one of us" so he was doing a bit of tongue in cheek with one of my fellow students. He literally was bagging her out over her ability to do something, I can't remember now what it was. But I felt bad for her so it prompted me to step up and say "Yes well she did just get the lead in the high school play" (she had an amazing voice) Everyone just burst out laughing and so did he as he responds "Yes I know! I GAVE it to her" He apparantly was the teacher running the play :blush:

Very embarassing.

I do have quite a few more that were more traumatizing than that moment, but I chose to not type them out so I don't have to relive the embarassment


Can I tell you my sisters too because this one I still wet my pants over.

When we were younger we would do day trips to different places with. We had gone to see some caves and we were in the car ready to go home and my dad spotted a small take away shop and gave my sister some money to go buy some Icecream drumsticks. She came back saying that it cost more money, my parents were surprised at the cost but gave her the money anyway, when she came back she was holding a small greasy bag. She had bought Chicken drumsticks instead of the icecream variety! :lol2: we were killing ourselves laughing hysterically and she had to go back into the store and return them and tell them that she actually wanted icecream drumsticks. Man, that story gets me everytime!

[Mary]

I walked down a street in downtown Denver with my skirt tucked into my pantyhose in the back. People were honking and I didn't realize they were honking at me until I walked into my building and someone told me!

Mary

[MrsPeacefrog]

:lol2: That's a shocker, Mary.

[pam]

On my very first business trip for my big Wall St. job, I got on the wrong plane and flew to Cincinnati instead of Atlanta. :heee:

What's really weird, though, is that the only empty seat left on the Cincy flight was the same one that I was ticketed for on the Atlanta flight, which is why I didn't notice my mistake until we had landed.

My dad loved to tell the story where he had boarded his plane in Los Angeles to New York to go to his sister's suprise birthday part. He got off the plane for a smoke. Got back on. Woke up to find out they were landing in Floriday rather than New York.