Day 10: Most embarrassing moment (s). Spill.
Embarrassing moments abound in my world. As I say here, my clumsiness can be forgivable but maybe my moments of shamefacedness have caused many to laugh at me and I can now say I have learned to join in and laugh too.
Sitting here running through scenarios I could share, many stories surface... The one where my brother had to carry me from a taxi to my house, colouring my hair bright orange here in Korea would suffice also. Or how about that time I had a complete conversation with someone that thought I was someone else? In which I attempted to bluff my way through in order to not be 'found out'. Yeah those could be good.
But instead I am going to take you back a 'few' years for this one... My first year of university. Ahem, just a few years ago..
In my first year, my biggest lecture was psychology 101. It would have had approximately 400 students in attendance and was a large lecture hall. Me in amongst the crowd, just a number and on this particular day I didn't sit next to anyone I knew. I also sat right at the start of the row - closest to the wall - meaning= no escape.
This lecture was an early one, and on this particular day I had brought H20 with me as I was 'dry' from the previous night's escapade. So here I am prepped and ready for focusedness and hydration. Pen hovering above the page, sitting on the edge of my seat. I greet the person who sits next to me; it's a full house this morning. She also places everything down on the desk, a pump bottle, her papers etc.
The lecture is now in full swing, notes are scribbled and I am getting through my water fast. I am thirsty and know I will finish the bottle in this first lecture. As we near the end of the talk, I am suddenly aware of a feeling of awkwardness - you know that feeling when someone is squirming and building up to wanting to say something to you and you can feel it so thick, like it's overshadowing you? Yes. I remember and I think this is why I always remember this moment...
The moment I look down to realize that I have been chugging down this strangers pump bottle the whole time. Reaching away from where my bottle stands pristine and untouched to theirs !!!!!
And I am trapped.
I know for a fact my heart started pumping and I wanted to be swallowed into the crevices of the old lecture hall.
I think why it is so embarrasing is because there was NO ESCAPE and the person definitely knew and was annoyed. I had to sit their for a whole 10 minutes more, wallowing in that awkward scenario and thinking through why I had done such a weird thing?
Bahahaha. I like to think their water just tasted better. I have fine taste in water.
So their you go, hold your bottles close or else I may just swipe them from underneath you!
Embarrassing moments abound in my world. As I say here, my clumsiness can be forgivable but maybe my moments of shamefacedness have caused many to laugh at me and I can now say I have learned to join in and laugh too.
Sitting here running through scenarios I could share, many stories surface... The one where my brother had to carry me from a taxi to my house, colouring my hair bright orange here in Korea would suffice also. Or how about that time I had a complete conversation with someone that thought I was someone else? In which I attempted to bluff my way through in order to not be 'found out'. Yeah those could be good.
But instead I am going to take you back a 'few' years for this one... My first year of university. Ahem, just a few years ago..
In my first year, my biggest lecture was psychology 101. It would have had approximately 400 students in attendance and was a large lecture hall. Me in amongst the crowd, just a number and on this particular day I didn't sit next to anyone I knew. I also sat right at the start of the row - closest to the wall - meaning= no escape.
This lecture was an early one, and on this particular day I had brought H20 with me as I was 'dry' from the previous night's escapade. So here I am prepped and ready for focusedness and hydration. Pen hovering above the page, sitting on the edge of my seat. I greet the person who sits next to me; it's a full house this morning. She also places everything down on the desk, a pump bottle, her papers etc.
The lecture is now in full swing, notes are scribbled and I am getting through my water fast. I am thirsty and know I will finish the bottle in this first lecture. As we near the end of the talk, I am suddenly aware of a feeling of awkwardness - you know that feeling when someone is squirming and building up to wanting to say something to you and you can feel it so thick, like it's overshadowing you? Yes. I remember and I think this is why I always remember this moment...
The moment I look down to realize that I have been chugging down this strangers pump bottle the whole time. Reaching away from where my bottle stands pristine and untouched to theirs !!!!!
And I am trapped.
I know for a fact my heart started pumping and I wanted to be swallowed into the crevices of the old lecture hall.
I think why it is so embarrasing is because there was NO ESCAPE and the person definitely knew and was annoyed. I had to sit their for a whole 10 minutes more, wallowing in that awkward scenario and thinking through why I had done such a weird thing?
Bahahaha. I like to think their water just tasted better. I have fine taste in water.
So their you go, hold your bottles close or else I may just swipe them from underneath you!
Love it! That would have made me squirm as well. I have done the conversation thing as well, when I've thought my partner was walking beside me in a shopping mall and it was a complete stranger. Mind you, he went one better when he reached slightly behind him to hold 'my' hand only to find it wasn't me.
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