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At my old college, my friends and I had a tendency to break out into song... in public. After we finished eating at the cafeteria we would be belting out, "POOR UNFORTUNATE SOULS!" I don't think we bothered anyone- everyone was really goofy and silly so we were sort of normal.(It was a big artsy school with an excellent theater program so I suspect we were all crazy people deep down.)
Well anyway, we decided to take a late night walk one evening and on the way back we linked arms and started singing, "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" from the Wizard of Oz. Then in the distance... I see the man that had taken hold of my heart. He was shaking his head, laughing at us.
It was more of a laughing with us than at us but I was mortified because I thought he thought I was drunk. xD ((While at the same time-- I MADE HIM SMILE! Miss the simple joys in life, haha xD))
I'm an embarrassing person. I'm very clumsy and can fall over even if I'm standing perfectly still.(Lord only knows what I'd be like if I didn't take ballet lessons... O_O) So I'm OK with making fun of myself... in fact I enjoy making people laugh at my "expense" but if I feel like people think I do "unchristian" things or did something with malice I can get very upset, anxious, and embarrassed. x3
Well anyway, we decided to take a late night walk one evening and on the way back we linked arms and started singing, "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" from the Wizard of Oz. Then in the distance... I see the man that had taken hold of my heart. He was shaking his head, laughing at us.
It was more of a laughing with us than at us but I was mortified because I thought he thought I was drunk. xD ((While at the same time-- I MADE HIM SMILE! Miss the simple joys in life, haha xD))
I'm an embarrassing person. I'm very clumsy and can fall over even if I'm standing perfectly still.(Lord only knows what I'd be like if I didn't take ballet lessons... O_O) So I'm OK with making fun of myself... in fact I enjoy making people laugh at my "expense" but if I feel like people think I do "unchristian" things or did something with malice I can get very upset, anxious, and embarrassed. x3
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My most recent:
Having breakfast with friends at Denny's, kidding around...had this brilliant idea to shoot a spitwad through my straw. My friends ducked and it hit the guy in the next booth in the back of the head. He didn't appear very friendly when he first turned around, but I think the fact that my face turned as red as my hair was helpful in conveying my sincere humiliation with my apology because he started laughing at me.
Having breakfast with friends at Denny's, kidding around...had this brilliant idea to shoot a spitwad through my straw. My friends ducked and it hit the guy in the next booth in the back of the head. He didn't appear very friendly when he first turned around, but I think the fact that my face turned as red as my hair was helpful in conveying my sincere humiliation with my apology because he started laughing at me.
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When I was little, my cousins, aunt, mom, brother, and I went to the zoo. We all had a box of animal crackers and we were just looking around at the animals, having a good time. Then, I saw them. Tortoises. I thought these tortoises were pretty cool. They were like really slow dinosaurs, and they were right in front of me for me to see. Now I was a very compassionate kid. Too compassionate. So I threw an animal cracker over the fence so Mr. Tortoise can have a snack too. Then my cousin sees me and joins me. What great hearts we have- sharing with "the least of these." We felt all warm inside, kind of like the tortoises because they're cold-blooded and it was a hot day...
My mother sees this too now and she is enraged. She grabbed my cousin and me and growled,"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! DON'T FEED THE ANIMALS!" and everyone was laughing at us. What did I do wrong? I didn't know the animals couldn't have animal crackers, but it seemed like everyone else did. So the whole rest of the time, I worse shame as my sunscreen and hoped the tortoises didn't die lol
Every time I get a box of animal crackers at the grocery store, I think about this event. Looks like I've been SCARRED!
My mother sees this too now and she is enraged. She grabbed my cousin and me and growled,"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! DON'T FEED THE ANIMALS!" and everyone was laughing at us. What did I do wrong? I didn't know the animals couldn't have animal crackers, but it seemed like everyone else did. So the whole rest of the time, I worse shame as my sunscreen and hoped the tortoises didn't die lol
Every time I get a box of animal crackers at the grocery store, I think about this event. Looks like I've been SCARRED!
I was very young with Grandpa at a department store in the nearby mall. I wandered away a bit over to the big escalator that had lots of people on it who were being moved upstairs. Being low to the ground I spotted something at the base of the escalator. Curiosity got the best of me and I pushed what turned out to be the emergency shutoff button. I looked up at the stopped stairs and everyone started to walk up the 'broken' escalator. Before I could get away, a big man was standing over me saying "Little boy, did you do that?" I ran as fast as I could back to Grandpa and didn't say a thing. I was safe - no one hunted me down. 
...not the most embarassing incident for me but the first one I still remember!
...not the most embarassing incident for me but the first one I still remember!
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When I was in college, my junior year I remember my roommate talking with me and saying , 'We should go to the 'Green With Envy' dance.' This was a dance where your roommate sets you up with a girl to go eat somewhere fancy--or, deviled ham is what my date got. And crackers. Hey, it was spicy flavor. I was a cheapskate so , OK, just kidding, I took her to a nice Greek restaurant-- and then congregate with rest of the going-outers at the dance. So......let's back up, and, sorry, I am a long storyteller. Absolutely positive it's the green in me
I said, 'Ok, let's do it.'
We then gave our lists of who would be cool if we could go 'green' with them.
I went to my roommates first choice and she said 'no,' someone already had asked her.
So, I went to his 2nd choice and, bingo!, he was set up.
Now, we started asking girls about a week and a half ahead of time to improve our chances occasion girl we liked not yet asked to the dance.
Anyhoo, my roommate and I would congregate nightly and hash things out .
There wasn't't much 'hashing' for him, since his 2nd choice said 'I do,' I mean, 'yes.'
But, me? I kept asking him , questions like, 'did you get her? What about her. Or, her.'
My rooommate kept saying, 'Yeah, I'm doing good, I am working on it. I'll.have someone for you to go with.'
So, the dance night rolled around and, sure enough, a girl I knew was who I was told I was going with.
I got her a corsage that night and I dressed up fancy and we ate fancy food with my rooommate and hisand. date and then went dancing.
So, finally, the night was over and it went well, I wasn't't but really attracted to my date, so, nothing extraordinary of us, but she was a nice girl and so night ended. That night I was back with my roommate in the dorm and he told me something I will never forget...
'Ed, you are not going to believe this. But your going on this dance almost never happened. I went down your list and no one would say 'yes' of them ((I listed 5 or 6 girls). I asked out 12 girls and I was just about to give up but then God answered prayer. One of the girls you liked called me and said her roommate would go with you.'
, OK, just kidding, I took her to a nice Greek restaurant-- and then congregate with rest of the going-outers at the dance. So......let's back up, and, sorry, I am a long storyteller. Absolutely positive it's the green in me I said, 'Ok, let's do it.'
We then gave our lists of who would be cool if we could go 'green' with them.
I went to my roommates first choice and she said 'no,' someone already had asked her.
So, I went to his 2nd choice and, bingo!, he was set up.
Now, we started asking girls about a week and a half ahead of time to improve our chances occasion girl we liked not yet asked to the dance.
Anyhoo, my roommate and I would congregate nightly and hash things out .
There wasn't't much 'hashing' for him, since his 2nd choice said 'I do,' I mean, 'yes.'
But, me? I kept asking him , questions like, 'did you get her? What about her. Or, her.'
My rooommate kept saying, 'Yeah, I'm doing good, I am working on it. I'll.have someone for you to go with.'
So, the dance night rolled around and, sure enough, a girl I knew was who I was told I was going with.
I got her a corsage that night and I dressed up fancy and we ate fancy food with my rooommate and hisand. date and then went dancing.
So, finally, the night was over and it went well, I wasn't't but really attracted to my date, so, nothing extraordinary of us, but she was a nice girl and so night ended. That night I was back with my roommate in the dorm and he told me something I will never forget...
'Ed, you are not going to believe this. But your going on this dance almost never happened. I went down your list and no one would say 'yes' of them ((I listed 5 or 6 girls). I asked out 12 girls and I was just about to give up but then God answered prayer. One of the girls you liked called me and said her roommate would go with you.'
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my most embarrassing story.....
i was 18 and went camping with a few friends up in an extremely remote area of Utah, we had a friend drop us off up there and promise to come back a week later. there was a small town about five miles away and we would hike back and forth everyday, just for something to do, it was that boring! well, we had scouted out this area the year before and it had plenty of water available in a stream about half a mile away. so we were set: food, full water jugs, plenty of kerosene, yeah.
only, the stream was dry when we checked it out on day three! so we had to go to water rationing, no washing up at all! which was fine, there was NO ONE up there at all so we could stink and we would never know it.
well, day 6 and it started to rain. we shucked off our clothing jumped up on the bench we had and started lathering ourselves as well as our clothing down. out of literally nowhere, a school bus full of girl scouts comes roaring within ten feet of us!
whats a fella to do?
i can still the advisers throwing coats against the windows so none (or fewer) of them could see us.....
had the term face-palm existed back then, yup.....
the bus went on up the road, turned around and came back down passed us again, only we were now in some brush since we heard it coming this time.....
i was 18 and went camping with a few friends up in an extremely remote area of Utah, we had a friend drop us off up there and promise to come back a week later. there was a small town about five miles away and we would hike back and forth everyday, just for something to do, it was that boring! well, we had scouted out this area the year before and it had plenty of water available in a stream about half a mile away. so we were set: food, full water jugs, plenty of kerosene, yeah.
only, the stream was dry when we checked it out on day three! so we had to go to water rationing, no washing up at all! which was fine, there was NO ONE up there at all so we could stink and we would never know it.
well, day 6 and it started to rain. we shucked off our clothing jumped up on the bench we had and started lathering ourselves as well as our clothing down. out of literally nowhere, a school bus full of girl scouts comes roaring within ten feet of us!
whats a fella to do?
i can still the advisers throwing coats against the windows so none (or fewer) of them could see us.....
had the term face-palm existed back then, yup.....
the bus went on up the road, turned around and came back down passed us again, only we were now in some brush since we heard it coming this time.....
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I was working an accident and paramedics let me know that they'd found drugs on one of their patients. I had snow and ice all over my shoes, so when I jumped up into the back of their ambulance...on their freshly washed/waxed floor, my feet flew out from under me and I ended up sprawled on the pavement with a concussion and my dignity.
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I went to a house explosion and when I arrived, the volunteer firefighters had the road back to the house all cluttered and I had to park far away to leave room for the firetrucks to get in and out. My partner and I started walking across a heavily snow covered cornfield to the house in total darkness and all of the sudden I sank completely down into an 6 foot snowfilled ditch and he had to pull me up. Lesson learned: If you are walking across a snow filled cornfield in the dark, let the OTHER guy go first
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I went to a house explosion and when I arrived, the volunteer firefighters had the road back to the house all cluttered and I had to park far away to leave room for the firetrucks to get in and out. My partner and I started walking across a heavily snow covered cornfield to the house in total darkness and all of the sudden I sank completely down into an 6 foot snowfilled ditch and he had to pull me up.
Lesson learned: If you are walking across a snow filled cornfield in the dark, let the OTHER guy go first Okay, another:
I was 17 and my next younger brother and I, with a bunch of kids from High School went on a camp out on one of the local Colorado passes. It was late at night and the outhouse was about 100 yards uphill from the campground. So, I ran up there flung open the door and jumped in. The floor collapsed from under me and dropped me in!
I wiggled back around to face the door, wedged into the floor at mid-chest, my legs dangling, my hands on the floor pushing me up as high as I could. I tried hollering but no one heard me.
About two hours later the door is opened by some woman whom was driving over the pass and decided to stop. Of course, she had a flashlight and had quite a fright. Her husband hears the screams and comes running and decides I am some sort of pervert that needs his head kicked to Mars.
I finally goet him to LISTEN, by capturing his foot and dropping in the doorway, to what had happened to me and to go down the hill to get my friends. It took five of them to get the boards all pushed back down while the husband hauled me out!
Needless to say, the woman had to find some bushes, I got to go take a bath in the creek and then wore a girls set of pj's (pink with ruffles!) and sat around the fire for hours roasting the only pair of clothing I brought.....
No, I did not live that one down at school! My nickname went from Flake to Ruffles.
I was 17 and my next younger brother and I, with a bunch of kids from High School went on a camp out on one of the local Colorado passes. It was late at night and the outhouse was about 100 yards uphill from the campground. So, I ran up there flung open the door and jumped in. The floor collapsed from under me and dropped me in!
I wiggled back around to face the door, wedged into the floor at mid-chest, my legs dangling, my hands on the floor pushing me up as high as I could. I tried hollering but no one heard me.
About two hours later the door is opened by some woman whom was driving over the pass and decided to stop. Of course, she had a flashlight and had quite a fright. Her husband hears the screams and comes running and decides I am some sort of pervert that needs his head kicked to Mars.
I finally goet him to LISTEN, by capturing his foot and dropping in the doorway, to what had happened to me and to go down the hill to get my friends. It took five of them to get the boards all pushed back down while the husband hauled me out!
Needless to say, the woman had to find some bushes, I got to go take a bath in the creek and then wore a girls set of pj's (pink with ruffles!) and sat around the fire for hours roasting the only pair of clothing I brought.....
No, I did not live that one down at school! My nickname went from Flake to Ruffles.
I was working an accident and paramedics let me know that they'd found drugs on one of their patients. I had snow and ice all over my shoes, so when I jumped up into the back of their ambulance...on their freshly washed/waxed floor, my feet flew out from under me and I ended up sprawled on the pavement with a concussion and my dignity.
Lesson learned: If you are walking across a snow filled cornfield in the dark, let the OTHER guy go first
I'll go ahead and give one of mine. I was probably 13 or 14 when I took a good friend along on a church youth weekend camping trip and he was reaaally warming up to the girl that I had a major crush on. Sooooo, that night I told him (in what I thought was a whisper) to "stay away from Vienna, she's mine." My dad who was one of the adults on the trip replied from outside the tent that I might want to keep my voice down because other people might hear. The next thing I heard from across the camp site was Vienna's voice saying "yeah, especially Vienna."
I would have been perfectly happy if someone would have just packed me up inside my tent for the drive home the next day.
I would have been perfectly happy if someone would have just packed me up inside my tent for the drive home the next day.
Of course there's the time in high school when I was working for my neighbor in a scenery studio in Ca. Someone had sent me upstairs to look for something (the tool crib had kind of a loft area above it) I wasn't paying attention when I stepped over a protrusion from the floor and proceeded to crash through the suspended ceiling over the office area. I ended up hanging in mid air tangled up in some phone and data cables. What I hadn't noticed was that the protrusion was the top of the wall between the tool crib and the office area.
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When I was little, I liked to play with chewing gum. My mom put me in my car seat and when she got in, I asked if I could have some gum. My mom reminded me that I always made a mess with it every time she game me chewing gum, but I asked her politely, so she gave me a stick. "Don't make a mess. Keep it in your mouth."
When we got to our destination, I had to make an excuse... I made a spider web or gum over my car seat. Even worse, it was summer, which meant the gum was melting all over the place. She was not happy.
I also wasn't allowed to have wax animals from the zoo moldarama. Those also got left in the car.
In case you've never seen this genius "Mold-a-rama" check out this video:
MOLD-A-RAMA MACHINE - YouTube
It's a machine that makes wax figurines for 50 cents.
When we got to our destination, I had to make an excuse... I made a spider web or gum over my car seat. Even worse, it was summer, which meant the gum was melting all over the place. She was not happy.
I also wasn't allowed to have wax animals from the zoo moldarama. Those also got left in the car.
In case you've never seen this genius "Mold-a-rama" check out this video:
MOLD-A-RAMA MACHINE - YouTube
It's a machine that makes wax figurines for 50 cents.
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I'll go ahead and give one of mine. I was probably 13 or 14 when I took a good friend along on a church youth weekend camping trip and he was reaaally warming up to the girl that I had a major crush on. Sooooo, that night I told him (in what I thought was a whisper) to "stay away from Vienna, she's mine." My dad who was one of the adults on the trip replied from outside the tent that I might want to keep my voice down because other people might hear. The next thing I heard from across the camp site was Vienna's voice saying "yeah, especially Vienna."
I would have been perfectly happy if someone would have just packed me up inside my tent for the drive home the next day.
I would have been perfectly happy if someone would have just packed me up inside my tent for the drive home the next day.
Anyway...
Someone got a hold of it and it spread like wild fire. I was embarrassed, but he's still my friend after all these years. He messages me on facebook sometimes and says we should catch up, so it all works out lol
Never again!
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I worked at Disney one summer as a teen and my first day on the job I went to put away some stuff in the freezer and the door shut behind me. It was the end of the night and I couldnt figure out how to open the door so I kept knocking and hoping someone would get me out . FINALLY my manager came in and I had been moving the door the wrong way. She gave me a look like I was a nutjob.
SAME thing happened to me abroad once. I thought I was trapped inside my apartment building but you open exterior doors in the opposite direction in France. Another woman who had to walk her dog rescued me.
SAME thing happened to me abroad once. I thought I was trapped inside my apartment building but you open exterior doors in the opposite direction in France. Another woman who had to walk her dog rescued me.
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My junior year of high school I was dating a college guy (don't do that...) and was writing him a letter in drama class. The teacher took a couple of us to another room to practice something for a competition that was coming up. While I was gone, a boy who had been bugging me to date him got the letter out of my stuff and read it out loud to the class. One of the girls finally told me..