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We were having a discussion about the 1896 election and for some reason I mispronounced tariff. :(


I'm not a very social person. *shrugs*

What's your most embarrassing moment?

Hmm..... Oh Yeah! I Was In Kindergarden, My Mom Made Me Wear The Pants Which Don't Clip On. I Had No Idea How To Hook The Thing Back In. I Asked A Group Of Girls To Help Me With It. Oh My God Was That Embarrising.

Once, during a race riot, these Black Panthers asked me to make the molotov cocktails. Well, I accidentally used bottled water instead of gasoline, and everyone called me a jerk.
Then they realized that I was white and chased after me with folding chairs. Fortunately, I wasn't fatally embarrased as my pursuers weren't long able to resist the alure of the chairs, and soon fell to sitting in their former weapons and discussing the weather.

I don't really get embarrassed, so to speak, very easily. Nothing can do it for me, because after the briefest momentary discomfort I realize how stupid it was and laugh moreso than anybody else. When people bring it up in the future, I kinda just stand by and say "Yeah, that's good times...."

However, to play along, the most "embarrassed" I've been was recently, I was up at work one day (not working, just picking something up) and went to the bathroom. The chick in the stall next to me said "Hi, can you get me some toilet paper?" Well....being the kind soul I am, I politely offered some at the bottom of the stall. When she didn't take it I set it on the ground. A moment later she said "No, I really need more toilet paper." I thought this was a little weird and kinda gross, so I put some more (about three times as much as the original offering) down on the floor and right afterwards she said "Okay, thanks. Bye". I guess she was on a cell phone and completely oblivious to my "kindness". No clue whether or not she noticed the little TP shrine on the floor between the stalls.

See? Not terribly embarrassing. I didn't even lose face in front of anybody. I just felt foolish for a couple seconds.

While up at Penn State I was bending over reading a map and my o so trusting wrestling teammate ran up from behind and pants'd me.

Now this was no ordinary pantsing, he got the underwear and everything. Sure enough behind me was 470 girls from the volleyball and soccer camps that were there.

...I threw him into a thorn bush and it took an hour to get him out.

I was 15, my choir was singing in front of about 3,000 people including the govenor of my state, the secretary of state (US) and a dozen or so TV stations, we were at the state capitol, coming down the stairs in the dark with candles, singing Carol of the Bells, I tripped on the front of my dress, fell down the stairs, I took about 7 people with me, and caught one on fire. :(

The tape is funny now, but right then I thought I was going to die. I remember a secret service agent helping me up, I was crying and he was just smiling at me, I thought I was going to die.

I was 15, my choir was singing in front of about 3,000 people including the govenor of my state, the secretary of state (US) and a dozen or so TV stations, we were at the state capitol, coming down the stairs in the dark with candles, singing Carol of the Bells, I tripped on the front of my dress, fell down the stairs, I took about 7 people with me, and caught one on fire. :(

The tape is funny now, but right then I thought I was going to die. I remember a secret service agent helping me up, I was crying and he was just smiling at me, I thought I was going to die.
Dear god:D

:headbang:

I was giving a big oral report that I had memorized.... totally confident I get up in front of my peers, and begin to speak. I stumble over a word, frown, and repeat it. Again I can't pronounce it. I try a third time, and one more a garbled nonsense word comes out. I panic and forget everything. My friend sitting in the front begins quietly saying my speech for me as I fixate on her and repeat everything she says, while every1 looks confused at my monotone. Finally, sum1 sitting next to my friend who's telling me wut say notices and begins to laugh...

I was 15, my choir was singing in front of about 3,000 people including the govenor of my state, the secretary of state (US) and a dozen or so TV stations, we were at the state capitol, coming down the stairs in the dark with candles, singing Carol of the Bells, I tripped on the front of my dress, fell down the stairs, I took about 7 people with me, and caught one on fire. :(

The tape is funny now, but right then I thought I was going to die. I remember a secret service agent helping me up, I was crying and he was just smiling at me, I thought I was going to die.

Oh my god, that deserves a- Lawl! :D

btw the chick I caught on fire was fine, she just had to get a hair cut ;) apparently the amount of hairspray she had used made her all the more flamable so she figured it was her fault and really did like the hair cut she ended up with, so she didn't try to kill me or anything (which is always nice)

that was lucky

I don't get embarrassed too easy either, but the worst I've dealt with was probably getting tackled by my buddy on the stage at high school graduation... what an idiot...

However, I was at a seminar for work training with a few people from my office. The CEO decided to do an impromptu appearance and stop by to see all the newbies. This girl who was sitting at my table at the front was hardcore embarrassed. He walked in and said hello to everyone and turned to her and asked her what she did. She explained that she was a linguist. He goes: "oh, what language?"
She says: "arabic"
He says something I can't understand or replicate and she just sat there light a deer in the headlights... man that must have sucked...

My most embarassing moment was at my school dance, Last night, I'm a freshman, and I was hanging out with my friends... One of my friends is this hot guy, Jessie,whell... I was walking with him and he grabbed a balloon and starts squeezing it and goes "chi-chi" and then I blushed... then later I was sitting down, and he sits right next to me and starts to flirt with me then everyone looks at us, and I said "will you go out with me?" and then he goes "... umm whell.... you see..." then his girlfriend Dosay walks up and grabs him and I knew that everyone had heard me... and Dosay gives me this dirty look and my X started to laugh and I then tripped on my way out.... not necessarily embarassing... but... it did make me feel bad...:eek:I want to kill Dosay...:mp5:

:( Most embarressing moment was when my cat snuck into my coat pocket and we were talking about animal cruelty and i almost blew my nose with it.

:( Most embarressing moment was when my cat snuck into my coat pocket and we were talking about animal cruelty and i almost blew my nose with it.
....How does that almost happen? It's a cat. A cat is considerably larger than a Kleenex.

I commend your embarrassed efforts, though.

We were playing a gig at a large birthday party (some 300 people). Though I wasn't initially nervous, I really didn't want to fuck up, as a great many of the audience was personal friends, and the birthday boy was our ex-lead singer.

Of course, as soon as we got started on the 2nd song, I noticed the bass was off. Perhaps 2-3 years later (that's how it felt), I realised he'd started playing the wrong song. So after careful deliberation (read: in a state of utter panic), I decided to hurl a drumstick at him.
As luck would have it, he turned right at that second, resulting in me breaking a string on his bass. And we had no spares.

A couple of tunes later, I split a stick down the middle (don't ask me how, I have no idea how something like that can happen). While that in itself wouldn't normally be a problem, I'd only brought two spare sticks, and since I happened to split the damn thing right when I was switching to the ride cymbal, my hand slipped when I picked up my last spare stick.

It hit our lead guitarist in the back of the head. Hard. Very hard. He got a nice little bleeding bump out of it, and of course stopped playing. Which we then all did.

I played the last 3 songs of the set with one stick & a stupid look of disbelief on my face.

The first time I was thrown out and barricaded out of the boy's locker room naked I was more or less mortified.

For about thirty seconds. Then I realized what a fabulous opportunity i had here and I strolled into the nearby music class. Mayhem ensued.

Now here's the best part; I didn't get into a single ounce of trouble. The guys that threw me out did.

Of course, being a freshman, I wasn't allowed to get the upper hand on upperclassmen so they got rather horrible revenge. But by the fourth time I got thrown out of the locker roo naked, they realized the futility of this. I'd just prowl the school corridor looking for the right classroom to make my presence felt. :D

But those first thirty seconds were pretty embarrassing.

Many moons ago I got my period a few days earlier than expected. Was hanging out with a bunch of guys. They were acting strange. Went to the bathroom eventually, realized I'd been walking around with a big blood patch soaking through my jeans. I just about died. What a curse. :p

in geography back in high school once our teacher asked a question, which i forget, to which the answer was victoria falls. but part of my brain was thinking 'maybe its niagra falls?'...

so obvious muggins here blurted out 'viagra falls', much to the amusement of the class.