Those of you who have met me know I am prone to embarrassment, to the amusement of everyone. It’s nice that I can bring smiles to people’s faces, but it takes a toll when I am the object of their mirth. I remember one time, in seventh grade, I was in Orchestra class, and the string on my viola popped clean off. I took it to my sectionals teacher, who was busy with the bass section, and she asked me to hold her instrument while she replaced my string. As she walked to the office, she informed everyone that “Aggie snapped her G string.”
Everyone laughed and smirked.
Everyone but me. Why? Because I had no freakin’ idea what a G string was!!!
Go ahead and laugh. You live far, far away from me anyway.
Anyway, I asked my teacher about it after class, and she explained, to which I rolled my eyes and said that women would never wear such things.
My innocence is completely shattered, by the way.
So, what kind of embarrassing moments have y’all enjoyed in your lives? 😀
*cross-posted at H&B.
March 22nd, 2013 at 10:43 AM
Geez. There’s so many to choose from, the vast majority of which I would not care to dredge back up out of the dim dark recesses of the cranial cavity. I’ll just sum them up: My Life.
March 22nd, 2013 at 10:44 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Hope you have a safe trip!
March 25th, 2013 at 9:46 AM
It was an excellent trip! See blog for details.
March 22nd, 2013 at 4:19 PM
The viola? I always pictured you as a harpist (but never a harpy). 😀
March 22nd, 2013 at 6:09 PM
I can see me as a harpy, especially on schooldays 😀
March 22nd, 2013 at 8:22 PM
I once stood up on a full schoolbus and screamed at a kid I thought was picking on my brother. I marched up the aisle and sat with lil brother and very loudly and very angrily told said bully to pick on someone his own size.
The bus driver informed me when we got to school that – this time – it hadn’t been that kid causing the problem. I felt pretty mortified.
More recently I sent a terse and pointed email to a coworker and it turned out I had misread something. Thank goodness for recalling email. I felt like such a heel.
March 23rd, 2013 at 9:36 AM
I’ve had my share of that, too!
March 22nd, 2013 at 10:13 PM
I once delivered an entire 45 minute lecture on the anatomy of the crayfish when I was a TA in college with my zipper down.
March 23rd, 2013 at 9:37 AM
Now THAT is epic!! 😀
March 23rd, 2013 at 11:36 AM
I really don’t have anything to add to this conversation.
Not because I have NEVER ever done anything to embarrass myself, just the fact that I have done so many things I regret that I’ve managed to scrub them from my memory with copious amounts of alcohol!
Unfortunately like so many others I too have good friends that are sitting on videos that will throw them in my face at the drop of a hat for a few laughs.
March 23rd, 2013 at 3:13 PM
Isn’t that what friends are for? Thanks for dropping by!
March 23rd, 2013 at 8:47 PM
Can’t think of anything off the top of my head that was too mortifying, so have this instead.
March 24th, 2013 at 1:29 PM
Love it, love it!
March 24th, 2013 at 8:07 PM
Aggie, I found a hat for you.
March 25th, 2013 at 6:41 AM
Oooooohhhh….. 😀
March 25th, 2013 at 2:13 AM
The lights on my Tahoe has a 3 level progressive switch, push the “1” button, the amber lights in the rear window come on. Press “2′, and the red and blue lights in the rear window outside mirrors , and the deer smucker also come on, press “3”, and the main lightbar ( a Federal VISION SLR LED bar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqPCduMug6o ) comes on. I was once driving down a back road, and I saw a friend down in the ditch clearing out purple loosestrife. I thought I would give her a GRONK on the airhorn, and reached over and punched not the A/H button on the controller, but the “3” button just above it. There was a Ford Econoline van coming towards me, minding his own business, who almost went in the ditch when all my lights came on. I promptly hit the OFF button, and slinked off with my tail between my legs.
March 25th, 2013 at 6:42 AM
Is it bad that I laughed?? 😀
March 26th, 2013 at 5:35 AM
No, I smile myself as I look back on it.
March 26th, 2013 at 9:07 AM
My dad still likes to tease me about our trip to DC when I was 10. I pronounced the Potomac river as “Pot-o-mack”, Phonics worked for me!
March 26th, 2013 at 10:15 AM
You know, that’s how I pronounced it until college.
I denounce myself 😀
March 27th, 2013 at 8:43 PM
I could tell you here, but you can visit and read about them instead: http://davestuff.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/when-a-doorknob-is-not-a-doorknob/
March 28th, 2013 at 6:53 AM
Thanks, going to read now 🙂
(reads)
BWAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! 😀