Just for Fun What's your most embarrassing moment?

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Wes B said:
I shared this, a loooong time ago. I suppose there are now enough new readers for it...

In high school, I took Latin to meet my language requirement. While most students stayed only two years and then took another language, I was one of the crazies who took it further. There were only three students in the class. It's by far my smallest class ever, and no one could hide anything...

We were about to begin translating the legend of King Midas, and the teacher asked what Midas was famous for. I leaned over to the guy next to me and whispered, "Mufflers." Huge mistake.

He burst out laughing, then I burst out, too. I'm suspecting some time-distortion in my embarrassment with the episode, but it seemed like we kept starting and stopping our laughter for maybe 3-4 minutes, with the teacher and the other student staring at us. We'd apologize, quiet down, then one of us would let out the tiniest snort and we'd both start laughing again.

I think we wound the episode down, both silently convulsing, struggling not to let out any sound, lest we start it all up again. It's curious, but the teacher never asked what was so funny. Maybe this tiny group that showed real interest in her subject needed more nurturing, so she cut us a break. Still, I cringe to remember it... :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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😂 That is a good joke. I honestly wish I could have been there to share with the laughs. Little outbursts of humor like really helps us get through most days, especially high school.
 
Quiet Spirit 2.0 said:
I worked in a small-town library for a few years. I worked the circulation desk. One day a young woman was on the other side of the desk. She wore what looked like a maternity-top blouse. I asked her "When are you due?" She looked at me strangely and repeated what she thought I was asking. I repeated my statement at least two more times. Her response was, "I AM NOT PREGNANT!" A little while later, the Children's Librarian told us the young woman was an assistant at one of the Christian day cares located in that town. I vowed not to ask a question like that ever agoin.
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🤣 I'm sorry, but I feel like each of us has a moment when we ask that type of question at least once in our lives. Really couldn't help cracking up when I read your post. Thank you.
 
Hey, laughter is good medicine, right?

Yeah, about the NOT PREGANT comment, I remember when I was about 3 seeing a guy that I thought looked like he was pregnant. Fortunately, I knew even then both that men can NOT be pregnant and not to say what I thought in his hearing.
 
S. D. said:
Oh no, LOL. But working in a greenhouse sounds neat! What were your duties?

Hey, have you heard from InkwellandQuill recently? I know some of y'all used to stay in touch via email. I haven't heard from her a while and I was just wondering how I could check in on her (we never corresponded outside of the site).
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Haha, I will say that working in a greenhouse is nowhere near as fun as it might sound. 😅 Or at the very least, what made it not fun was having a mean, horrible boss who made me nervous. But anyways, I mostly watered plants, moved plants around to different areas, and did LOTS of planting. The planting was actually pretty fun. I would stand in the back and nobody would bother me, and I'd listen to music and drop seeds into little holes. And then I'd also help customers and answer questions.

Unfortunately, I have not heard from InkWellandQuill. She was not one of the ones I got in touch with outside the site. Sorry about that!
 
P.M. Turner said:
Haha, I will say that working in a greenhouse is nowhere near as fun as it might sound. 😅 Or at the very least, what made it not fun was having a mean, horrible boss who made me nervous. But anyways, I mostly watered plants, moved plants around to different areas, and did LOTS of planting. The planting was actually pretty fun. I would stand in the back and nobody would bother me, and I'd listen to music and drop seeds into little holes. And then I'd also help customers and answer questions.

Unfortunately, I have not heard from InkWellandQuill. She was not one of the ones I got in touch with outside the site. Sorry about that!
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Neat! It sounds peaceful, though. (The planting seeds part, lol)

No worries! Just thought I’d ask. Do you know if anyone else kept in contact with her?
 
S. D. said:
Neat! It sounds peaceful, though. (The planting seeds part, lol)

No worries! Just thought I’d ask. Do you know if anyone else kept in contact with her?
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I don't know, I'm sorry! Hopefully maybe she'll pop back on to the site sometime.
 
Lynae Fisher said:
Oh dear. Why did you have to bring this up?
Sooo.... One day I was doing my evening chores of counting and locking up my feathered friends when a southern storm was brewing. Now I was outside, in the coop, remember. Not in the house. No people around to care about manners. Right? So I went ahead and released the southern storm, which turned out to be a fairly noisy flatulation. The entire flock (I think King Rusty the Magnificent was reigning at that time) with the king, and all the great queens and princesses of the Chickingdom turned suddenly and STARED at me! Now if you've ever seen a chicken stare... it is really funny to begin with, when they look at you with both eyes. But when the WHOLE FLOCK of formerly sleepy bird turned around and stared, I started laughing --which only made them stare more. Turns out, chicks can be pretty judgmental.
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Hilarious! I've never heard the term "southern storm" used before to describe flatulence.
 
S. D. said:
I know, I know. This has been done several times before. But it's been a while, so...
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What's your most embarrassing moment??

Mine is from when I was in ballet class, many, many moons ago. Two other girls and I were on a ballet barre together, (big mistake, since I was the tallest of the three and in the middle) and we were doing an exercise which involves leaning over and trying to touch your nose to your knees. When I was coming up from it, I hit the girl in front of me in the bottom. 😂 We both laughed about it.

What's yours?
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Lynae Fisher's story brought to mind a situation that a former co-worker shared with me. He was working at a psychiatric hospital as a nurse and was required to stay near a doctor for some task. His own "southern storm" was painfully brewing, and the doctor was taking his sweet time. Eventually, he opted for what he hoped would be a soundless release. Instead, he let out a juicy blast that set the nearby window blinds to rattling. :D
 
Kim K said:
Hilarious! I've never heard the term "southern storm" used before to describe flatulence.
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Yeah, um... I don't know if anyone else calls it that, but my Mom and I started calling it that when I was studying Anatomy and Physiology to get my CCH because sometimes it is called 'wind' or something, so we started saying northern and southern storms. Besides, that seems to be a better way of warning people about 'weather forecast' so as to avoid such incidents as with the doctor story, lol. But our family has a lot of strange words for things, so I don't know if anyone else calls it that or not.
 
I was multi-tasking one day, as I love yet hate to do. This particular day, I was typing an email to my now-husband and simultaneously talking to a senior electrical engineer at work. I was a junior engineer at the time. As I'm wrapping up the call, and email, my writing brain and my speaking brain get jumbled and I say, "Ok, thanks Dave, love you." To the senior engineer. He was like "Uuummmmm ...." 🤣
 
William D'Andrea said:
I've suddenly got an idea. How about asking the reverse?
"What was your finest moment, or moments, that you want people to know about?"
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This is an interesting idea! I feel like we should start a separate thread for this. Humble brags, y'know. 😅 I would love to hear some of y'all's finest moments!
 
Lynae Fisher said:
Somehow I don't think that would be as intertaining... Plus that requires bragging...
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I mean, speaking for myself I would definitely be entertained hearing answers from you guys!

As for the bragging, that part doesn't bother me too much either . . . probably due to my community theater background. Us actors are known to be an egotistical lot. 😂
 
S. D. said:
Hey, have you heard from InkwellandQuill recently? I know some of y'all used to stay in touch via email. I haven't heard from her a while and I was just wondering how I could check in on her (we never corresponded outside of the site).
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No. She hasn't been around for over a year. I wouldn't know to check on her. Do you know if she is on social media somewhere?
 
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