In the last couple of days I've read an amazing number of posts involving some pretty embarrassing moments for some of my friends. Every one of them made me either laugh or smile. And reading how mortified some of you were made me start thinking about some pretty embarrassing things I've experienced. So in an effort to lighten things up a little here at Nanaville because really, onion roasted potatoes are good but they're not funny, I give you five of my most mortifying moments.
- When I eloped at 18 and found myself transplanted in Denver from southeast Texas, snow and ice were something I'd never had any experience with at all. I'll never forget riding a city bus from our apartment to downtown Denver, on my way to work, dressed in my nicest light-weight outfit and wearing spike heels, on a bitter icy cold day. The moment I stepped off that bus, my feet flew out from under me and I slid several feet before I stopped right at the feet of a big group of businessmen on their way to work. I'd never even heard of snow boots.
- My neighbor Becky was way way pregnant. We were chatting over our clotheslines one afternoon and I asked her, "Are you EVER going to have that baby?" That's when she told me the baby was two weeks old and peacefully sleeping inside if I'd like to run over and see him.
- Rob and I gave Krissy a tricycle for her second birthday. We also gave her a kitten. A real one. The whole family, including Rob's mom, was on the patio celebrating her birthday. Krissy tried several times to make that kitty stay in the little basket on the handlebars of her new trike. After very laboriously climbing off the trike, stuffing the kitty back into the basket and laboriously climbing back onto the trike three times, only to watch the kitty jump out again, she very sweetly said, "Oh #&!# it!" And it wasn't darn. It was the bad word. The big one.
My mother-in-law gave Rob a filthy look and he informed her that Krissy hadn't learned that word from him. (This was during my not-so-good-with-my-faith period.) - You know how when you're nine months pregnant and well, you get a little "gassy" and well, there's just so much pressure on everything, sometimes you, um, toot? I was in the grocery store and had asked the pharmacist to help me find something. So he was walking right alongside me when I suddenly knew what was going to happen. And every time I took another step, it did, loudly. Truly, I have never been so completely mortified in my entire life. Hands down, the most embarrassing thing I've ever experienced.
- This didn't happen to me but I was there and it was so awful, even I was embarrassed. My mother-in-law and I were walking out of a building in downtown Frederick. OK, it was a small town, but still. When the sun hit her eyes, she sneezed. And her false teeth went FLYING out of her mouth and landed ten feet away on the sidewalk. The bottom teeth hung tight but those uppers went sailing! And she laughed so hard that she wet her pants.
There. That should lighten things up a little around here. Got any good stories you want to share with us? If I can tell you about that tooting thing, well, you can tell us anything.
I just received an email telling me that Kristin over at Mama's So Called Life did a post about embarrassing moments and set Mr. Linky up. So if you'd like to post (or have already posted) your embarrassing moments, go here to link to the rest of us who have no pride or shame whatsover.
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That's why they give us those things!! Hey, please link to my daughter's embarrassing post linky thing. She's having trouble getting people over there. Maybe you already did,and I didn't check!
Oops - forgot to give you the link. It's http://kristenssocalledlife.blogspot.com/2006/09/whats-your-most-embarassing-moment.html
Oh Barb, nine months pregnant and gassy is killing me. I'm so sorry but your embarrassment has brought me much laughter. Thanks for that!
I also left you a note in my comments, but in case you don't see it, know that I would love for my post to be used on Faith Lifts if it works out. And thanks.
This is so funny! Thanks for the laugh.
Thanks for the laugh.... it was much needed around here. I just got back from grocery shopping with 3 little ones:-0 What was I thinking? And both my cat and dog had accidents while I was gone. So this was a much needed smile for me.... thanks!!!!
LOL!!!
I once asked my sister's friend when her baby was due. She wasn't pregnant.
When I was pregnant with my last child, I became very scatterbrained. I was going to work one day and I worked on the 8th floor... so I got in the elevator and could swear I pressed the 8 button, but when the doors opened, there I was on the first floor, and people waiting for the elevator... I was just so bewildered and confused that when I finally figured out what I did, I was really embarrassed!
And, over the past few weeks, my daughter and I have both had to have work done on our cars that have caused us to need rental cars. I was in an accident and her car was damamged when her tires were stolen. When she returned her rental car, she forgot to take the remote for the garage door out. I razzed her about that a little bit, because what if the didn't find it and we didn't get it back? So yesterday I returned my rental car. You see where this is going, right? I had to take her somewhere last night, and had to ask her to use her remote to close the garage door because.... mine had been left in the rental car.
Oh my goodness, you had me busting out in laughter...laughter really is the best medicine. Thanks for lightening up the mood! *smile* :)
I just now read all of yours - cracked me up!! Thanks for linking to Kristen. It'll be fun.
(Connie, you should do your own post and link it!)
Apparently I succeeded in lightening the mood around here. I knew that nine months pregnant episode was going to cause a few snickers.
thanks for lightening the mood! I think we've all had some pretty embarassing moments! I once went to work in 2 different colored shoes! one black and 1 navy blue - in the darkened closet they looked teh same color and they were the same style. Didn't notice it until I got in the office with the flourescent lights!
and I had an incident like your MIL - laughing so hard I wet my pants too! Yeah, embarassing!
I had someone come up to me at church one time asking when I was due. I was wearing one of those high waisted floral dresses (in fashion 10+ years ago).
"I am not." And she ended our conversation quickly!!!
Oh My WORD Barb you are hallarious # 5 is killing me here,I wet myself. #2 would have mortified me more than# 5, This is so FUNNY, I know you are Boomama must be related in the hallarious department somehow.
I am so not funny I have descovered since I have been blogging. It must be a gift to make people crack up like this.
They just got better as I read through them. It is a rainy day in Corpus Christi, so you brightened my day. I once asked a girl I had not seen in a few years when she was expecting. She was very offended since she wasn't even pregnant. I felt so bad and apologies did not help. I hope she has forgotten. I haven't and I will never assume something like that again. Okay, now I'm gloomy again. I better read some other funny stories to get cheery again.
First laugh I've had alllll day (and it's almost 4pm). It acutally blocked out the sound of the kids fighting and slamming doors ... which is the current domestic environment we are surviving.
I think I'm going wireless with the laptop and running for the bathroom. I do believe there is a lock on that door.
This I'm going to do - PA side. I have quite the list....
I've done that, too, Michelle. The shoe thing. But I guarantee you I never go near the whole when-are-you-due thing any more. I don't care if she's standing in a puddle of fluid, I'm not ever asking a woman when her baby's due again. Huh uh. Ever.
Those are pretty embarrassing. I'm sure it's much easier to talk about way after the fact. I have 2 stories I never care to recount to anybody, that's how bad they are. And, okay, the gas thing, something about those store aisles really get the air out.
Ok darlin- I have officially put up humilation for all to see. Love you!!!
Barb,
Those were each pretty embarassing, but funny!
Whenever I get embarassed I really blush! I've been the subject of lots of teasing because of it. My husband finds it endearing, I find it well...embarassing!
You crack me up! Oh, and I made those potatoes for my family tonight. DELICIOUS! Thanks for the recipe - so easy!
Oh Barb, I'm still laughing. Of course it's always funnier when it happens to someone else.
How hilarious!! Laughter is good!
The tooitn' one had me really going between ROFL and my heart goin' out to you. And does your mother know you told on her? Too funny! Well I gotta say you've a lot of courage listing not 1 but 5. Good for you and thanks for the chuckle on an otherwise boring Saturday night!
Oh those were hilarious. The tooting was a classic, I actually tried to help you stop while I was reading it. Don't even ask how.
Don't worry, Lauren. I'm not about to ask. :-)
Too funny! This reminds me of the column I used to read in Young Miss magazine. "Was My Face Red" I think it was. Well, when I get embarrassed, I blush from head to toe. Bright, hot red. If #4 had been me, I'm sure I would have died on the spot. Or burst into flames. Likely both. LOL.
I seem to have successfully blocked the memories of most of my "moments", but I'll see if can dredge up a few.
oh - I thank you for that great laugh!!! what a riot. I am sooooo sorry about the tooting thing. But when you are pregnant really you cannot be blamed!!!
Those are so funny. We all have these moments. My husband is worse than me though. He seems to like to stick his foot in his mouth on a consistent basis. If I am around I usually try to cover for him but he's like a kid saying "no thats not what I'm trying to say," as he repeats the thing over and over again. When we walk away I tell him how he slipeed and he can't believe he didn't catch himself. You would think he would of learned after all these years. Christina
Those were hilarious! Where would we be if we couldnt laugh at ourselves?
The pooting story made me embarrased for you. And the flying dentures? That BEGS to be a scene in a movie. Good grief. And there's no way out of something like that. A friend of mine told the story of when her widowed mother was dating her would-be adoptive father. I believe it was a first date or nearly so, and Mom had Love Interest over for a homecooked meal. Afterward, as they adjourned to the living room, she began to poot with every step. Laughing that hysterical, giggly, I-could-die laugh, she just backed her pooting self out of the living room and down the hall.
And they lived happily ever after.
I forgot about asking a woman when she's due -that's one I won't do either - I wait until they mention they are carrying a baby! I learned that one from my mom. She was out talking to a neighbor who really looked about 8-9 months pregnant. She said she had this perfectly round pregnant looking belly and was thin everywhere else. She asked when she was due. Yep, the lady said she wasn't pregnant. My mom just wanted to disappear.
Ack! That's awful, and yet so very, very funny. Poor you! And I can't even imagine never having seen snow! :)
*Gasp!* and "Oh no!" to every single one of those! They're great, in a "how embarrassing that must've been for you" kind of way. ;)
Thanks for sharing!
I hate the gassy pregnant thing. Of course, but about 30 weeks, I couldn't have cared less! People just loved to be around me...=)
Robin
Oh, Barb, this is priceless! How funny! No, a pregnant woman cannot be blamed!
Now, those are some great embarassing moments. Particularly the "tooting" incident. Man, what we women go through to have our precious ones!!
Thanks for linking to me!
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