Those Embarrassing Moments
Have you had one of those oops moments lately? You know the ones I mean. One of those times when you wished you hadn’t left the house in quite the condition you did. Well I had one yesterday.
I was feeling quite pleased with myself as I drove home after spending several hours running errands all over town. In the process of my errands, I went into the library, stopped at a drugstore, went to the grocery store, and hit several other stores.
Then, I happened to brush my hand through the back of my hair, and felt a huge, sticky glob. A quick check revealed that it was toothpaste, and lots of it, spread over a large bunch of hair, matted together and sticking straight out. Now I know I brushed my hair as I was getting ready to leave home. But apparently in the process of brushing my teeth, I managed to somehow get a bunch of toothpaste on my hand, and rub it into my hair. Yuck!
I don’t think I saw anyone that I know…at least I hope I didn’t. So, all in all, not too bad of an episode. Definitely not as bad as my high school goof of wearing shoes from two different pairs (and drastically different colors), and not noticing it until school was nearly out. And even that pales in comparison to this classic goof from Designing Women.
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Xina, it totally broke my concentration! From that point on, every time we were in a pose where I could see my legs, I would just stare at the inside-out seams.
LinnieGayl…..Discovering your clothing is inside out is always good after the fact. Me, running through the mall, which was fairly crowded that day, with my jacket inside out…well, I have to wonder what people thought, but it was good for a laugh especially now after all these years. You in your yoga class is another thing, since you discovered it while you were in the midst of it. You can’t just take them off and turn them right side out. I suppose it broke your concentration! :)
Xina, great stories! Last night half way through yoga class I discovered I’d put my yoga pants on inside out…sort of destroyed the mood the instructor was trying to get us into.
This stuff happens to me all the time. Just the other day, I am walking through Macy’s and hear a click, click, click coming from my kitten heel Circa Joan and David sandals (my favorites..they are comfortable). I think that the heel must be broken and I discover one of those big security tags stuck to my shoe! I brought it to the nearest clerk, and she apologized! Next…..Out to dinner with my husband and my friend and her hubby…had a glass of wine before I left….had 2 at the restaurant (because they made me do it!). The waiter came back for the final time and I was putting my jacket on upside down. Yeah…lovely. He looked and me and kind of smirked. The others got a real kick out of that one. One more…..When my daughter was in 1st grade (she is 20 now) I was shopping and in a dressing room when suddenly I looked at my watch and realized her bus was due at our house in about 5 minutes. I pulled on my clothing in a massive hurry and rushed through the mall…made it in time…however, I discovered my jacket was inside out. wonderful. I’ve got bad luck with jackets it seems. Oh well….it makes for such, ah…wonderful memories!
AndyR, oh no! Even the most minor things are traumatic in junior high. Yikes!
I had my skirt caught in my half-slip (not as bad as Julia) but it was in junior high. Talk about traumatic!
Oh Lee, LOL! Setting off an alarm at the Louvre is definitely a good one.
Gosh, there have been so many that I try to forget them. One that was rather funny was when I set an alarm off at the Louvre in Paris. I was looking at some famous bed and wanted to get a closer look. Unfortunately there was a step which I didn’t see and that triggered the alarm. A couple of tourists gave me a dirty look so I slinked away down the hall and saw the guard coming by to check out the noise. I told him I had accidentally set the alarm off. He seemed rather blase about it so obviously it wasn’t an unusual occurrence.
Donna, that was a good one…and bunny slippers would have been really funny.
Heather, great attitude laughing when you fall down. Yes, the clip reminded me of just how wonderful the writing was for that show.
Cindy, oh dear! Yep, black and black probably hid it.
Diana, I can’t even imagine going all day with one lens missing. I’m can only see fuzzy shapes without my glasses. But, I did once lose the whole color plate on the side of a pair of glasses and didn’t notice it for days.
Once at the end of a school day I realized that my glasses were missing one of the lenses. I immediately got up to look for it and had my friend help me search the floor in our class.
I found it at home!
Whoops! I have the kind where I say something inappropriate – like being at a funeral and saying something stupid like ‘kill me now’ or ‘I could just die’.
Last night I got home and discovered a hole in the back of my shorts. Thankfully they aren’t tights so I don’t think anyone noticed. Having black panties on probably kept it secret also (jean shorts)
Donna – I went to my parents for a BBQ and discovered when I got there I had worn my slippers also – that is just too easy to get away with ;)
Heather – I laugh after I fall also unless I’ve really hurt myself – then I lay there for a minute.
Hopefully, no one noticed. I slipped coming into school this year (only time in nine years) in front of teenagers. I laughed, got up, and kept going. To work in a high school you have to have pretty thick skin, plus I do embarrassing stuff all the time.
Loved the clip. It reminds me of how much I miss that show and it’s great writing.
Good one!!!
My last most embarrassing ‘oops’ moment was about two hours into an evening at a bar; I looked down and realized I had worn my slippers. Wouldn’t have been so bad, as they were parked under the table *most* of the time, but it was karaoke night, and so many times I had stood up in front of a bar full of people singing… with bedroom slippers on my feet.
Sigh.
At least they weren’t bunny slippers.
And no, it didn’t stop me from singing again!