It’s March 15th and time for my Ides of March Contest!
Remember poor Julius Caesar and what happened to him on the Ides? Well, did you have a day where nothing went right? Or is there a moment where you were embarrassed beyond all belief?
Tell us a little bit about it today by midnight EST (or just drop by and leave a comment) and you could win the following:
DARKNESS CALLS (UK edition) autographed by Caridad
DREAMS AND DESIRES anthology autographed by Lois Winston
KISSES TO GO autographed by Irene Peterson
OVER THE MOON autographed by Virginia Kantra
TWO WEEKS WITH A STRANGER autographed by Debra Mullins
To get you all started, here’s one of my most embarrassing moments!
I had lost some weight and was on my way to work. Suddenly I felt something sliding down beneath my dress and I couldn’t get a hold of it. Next thing I knew, I was standing at the exit to the subway station with my slip down around my ankles. Somehow I managed to step out of it before anyone noticed (or if they did, no one did a thing in typical New York style!)
Do you have a moment like this that you would rather forget? If you do, spill the beans for us.
lol Caridad! That’s a memorable meet :o)
I don’t know about you, but it’s been fun and enlightening. Also, as someone mentioned, it’s also been great to share all these moments ’cause it lets us know we are not alone.
O.k., I’m going to chime in with a couple that sound almost like repeats . I don’t know what it is about half slips, but they’re obviously evil! LOL When I was working at a LARGE university (40,000+ students), I was walking across campus to the student center one beautiful spring day. It was midday, class change, and yes–I felt my slip live up to its name. There were kids rushing all around me, and I just kept going, kicking it off the sidewalk toward the bushes!
And on the subject of stairs, and falling…WAY back (sometime just after the Dark Ages ) when I was a lowly freshman in high school, my English teacher sent me to the library to pick up a book they were holding for her. I found out it was at the upstairs librarian’s desk so,I headed up the spiral staircase, passing a table full of senior boys next to it. I got about a third of the way up, tripped, and slid on my stomach ALL the way back down, landing at the bottom, right next to the table, with my skirt up around my waist. I was amazed to find I couldn’t REALLY die of mortification. Grace in action here!
WoW! These are some great stories and funny ones 😆
Caridad I am in the Northeast of NJ 🙂 It’s so cold now and raining 🙁
Thank you. My period is just weird like that LoL. Oh wow hot flashes instead hmm.
Thank you for stopping by my blog today hun. Will post some excerpts for Melissa tomorrow if you want to come by again 🙂
Hugssss
Linda.H.
ROTFL! Loving this- thanks Caridad what a great idea!
My own story isn’t sad…so dont go aww- a bad outcome actually gave me lots of time to spend with and to appreciate my family.
K-so that said… my most embarrassing moment is more like the gift that keeps on giving LOL. Almost three years ago (at age 32) I broke my tibia in 20 pieces while walking. No I wasnt chewing gum at the time lol and I didn’t even hit the ground…it literally shattered in midair. It was a fluke, one of those moments that all the fates have to align for just the right moment for something to happen- uneven pavement caused my ankle to roll and since i was stepping off a curb-torque and tortion combined to create a mini explosion in my leg lol. the fragments also damaged my femoral artery as a result i have lots of metal and 4 scars-two that are a foot long and two that are 6-8 inches long. I get lots of horrified questions when i wear shorts “What happened” “How did you…” And have to explain that I did it while walking. Not even speed walking- or something competitive like that lol. It was so insane an injury that my best friend let people think it was due to a biking accident. And someone else that it was done on a motor bike. I have gone into hospitals and been told by doctors, nurses, physios and admin “We’ve heard about you”. I’ve participated in a study on after effects of traumatic injury and had to explain that “Yes I understood the question…NO i didnt give half an answer- I did that much damage walking-no i didnt hit the pavement first and no i dont have osteporosis” Its quite funny now… and my kids try to stick magnets to my leg…and with the swelling I get we like to take household items and press them in to leave imprints- we look forward to causing a bit of a freakout at airport security one day with the metal detectors. If you can’t laugh at yourself…you might as well not get up in the morning 😀
When I was in high school, many many years ago I took mostly business classes. One day while sitting in my shorthand class and listening to the teacher discuss the different symbols for letter and words. I sat at my desk with a ball point pen in my mouth. I was sucking on it, not the tip but the other end. The next thing I knew I got this funny taste in my mouth. I took the pen out of my mouth and looked at it and there was blue ink all over the place. I was sitting next to my best friend and she started cracking up. I had blue ink all over my hands and in my mouth. I got up and went to the teacher and told her what happened and asked if I could go to the bathroom. She excused me. Just let me tell you how embarrassed I was, my mouth and teeth were blue for two days.
A day where nothing went right…I had a patient’s sister yelling at me because she thought something was wrong with her sister, we couldn’t find anything, she was not happy about that, she was determined something was not right. We sent her to the ER and they couldn’t find anything either! While I am trying to deal with that, another patient falls and get stuck under her wheelchair! Then later that night, another patient falls and tries to blame me, I wasn’t even in the room!
I was at a book store and got some books and wasn’t looking at the front of the van I was walking up to . I put the key in the lock and couldn’t get it unlocked, Then I looked up and seen it wasn’t the right van ; it was one that looked like mine. I hope noone saw and thought I was trying to take their van
Wow! I feel better now. I guess I am not the only one who has been a victim of an embarassing moment. Years ago a coworker and I were talking bad about another coworker who we were both angry about. Her office is next to ours and we thought she was out. Well I was feeling better after venting and then I hear a voice saying “You know Ican hear everything you are saying.” I was so embarassed and things were pretty uncomfortable for me for awhile until we made our peace.
That’s a good one, Lis. The first reminds me of how I “really met” my husband.
I had seen him at freshman orientation and we had exchanged names but got pulled away quickly by friends. I realized in the next few days that we were both BIO majors and in many of the same classes.
So he walks into the first lecture class for one of our BIO courses. I had of course scoped out where he would be sitting. What does he do? Sit in the wrong seat. What do I do? I tell him he’s in the wrong seat.
He gets up, checks it out and then sits down a row behind me, smiling all the time ’cause he knew he had caught my attention!!
I didn’t think I had that many embarassing moments till I read this thread. Two of the worst come to mind. First was in high school accounting class. The guy I liked at the time was on the other side of the room and we were allowed to wear our walkmans because it was an 82 minute class and it helped the time pass quicker when we were doing the workbooks. So anyways, our desks were arranged three across so I was between two of my friends and talking about stuff with the earphones on. Didn’t quite realize how loud I’d been talking till he turned and waved, he heard the entire conversation about him. That was mortifying.
Second ones about 5 years ago. My best friend and I were at an NHL game and the team was unveiling the third jersey. It was also halloween. So lots of people in costume. And I’d just bought the new jersey since I found one with my fave player’s name on it. So we’re sitting in our seats, tv timeout comes along (which is when they usually move the camera in the arena and put people up on the scoreboard) so there’s different groups of people decked out in costumes and suddenly there’s me and my best friend up on the screen and say “oh my god we’re on the screen’ The ENTIRE arena laughs, including both benches and since we’re close to the ice some of the players look and grin. She goes beet red, I’m trying not to stare up at the screen and praying it goes away. We ended up there for at least 45 seconds. People came up to us for the rest of the night. I don’t think she’s ever forgiven me for that one lol
I have had the firefighters come at 4 in the morning when a sensor went off. Not pleasant but he was large and nice to look at!
Yes I wanna know that too – just makes things a bit easier to take in, when the firefigher or police men are cute *grin*
That’s a nightmare. When we first moved into our house, one thing after another broke and the final straw was when we woke up and water was pouring in through the ceiling of the den. A tree limb had come down like a javelin and pierced the roof above it and the rain was just pouring in.
On the plus side — were any of the firefighters or police men cute?
Oh no!! Computers make it so much easier to do things like that. I hope no one really bitched back at you.
I have the day nothing went right starting with a thunderstorm that woke us at 5 am when a branch from a tree got tangled in our electric wire causing a fire and making our power go out. First the fire company and police arrive but the fire was out and there was nothing they could do so I waited for the electric company and they came out and fixed it several hours later. The kids get home from school and I am so tired from being woken up and being scared by everything that I’m making some tea and I hear the sound of running water and go downstairs to investigate and see that water is pouring out of the ceiling because my daughter had flushed the upstairs toilet and it have overflowed.
I definitely think it’s done that so I am really glad we can all feel more comfortable about all the funky things that happen to us.
And I so totally understand about the traveling and wanting someone to baby you by picking you up at the airport!
I’m really enjoying the posts today! I guess my life has been very dull. I really can’t think of anything to add to all these funny stories!
After a hellish day of getting screamed at in work and putting up with my chatterbox friend, who does not know how to stop talking, I wrote a really long email to myself, which I do, or used to do, when I get mad. I bitched my heart out then pressed the send to all button.
Noooooooooo!!!!!!!!
My memory is mercifully short when it comes to embarrassing moments and there have been a few! The only one I could think of was one of those times when I was complaining to my friend about one of our teachers, who wasn’t one of the nicest teachers, and who do you think walked past us right there and then? And you could tell she had heard me…
OMG, these are hilariuous!
My most embarrassing moment was in nursing school. We were doing our clinical rotations when I was asked to show a small group of first year students how to conduct a head-to-toe assessment on a patient. Now let me explain that as a student we were not assigned lockers for our things. In other words, anything we might need for the day we carried along with us. So imagine my patient’s amusement when rather than retrieving my pen light from my pocket to check her eyes, I pulled out a tampon! I was mortified, but all the first year students got a huge laugh out of it lol. So much for appearing professional huh?
Hi Caridad,
If the blog today was ever meant to make us feel comfortable about our embarrassing situations. it worked big time.. Now all my embarrassing little moments seems…little…compared to all these embarrassing situations.
I had another friend who was standing at the copier talking with another (male) co-worker when the elastic gave out on her slip and it (like your experience) pooled around her ankles. Everyone just had to laugh (including her) because this was the kind of thing that happened to her all the time. She was just one of those calamity jane types.
Most of this kind of stuff that happens to me is just pathetic. Like an exhausted trip back from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. I had been travelling for something like 26 hours and had been unable to sleep on the plane. After finding myself in tears from exhaustion in the airport in Chicago and just generally having a pity party I got to the airport in my hometown loaded up my enormous luggage into the back of my mini van and drove home. Once I parked in front of the house. (It must have been after midnight), I got out and unloaded my luggage. I was so relieved to finally be home and had just thought to myself that nothing else could go wrong, nothing else could hurt me. I could go in the house and go to bed for two days. I reached up and grabbed the strap on the hatchback and pulled hard to close it. Unfortunately I was too close and it whacked the top of my head and really hurt my feelings. I stood in the front yard and bawled. I learned alot during that trip. Most importantly always have a car service pick you up and return you home from the airport.
Hi Caridad! Had to stop by to attend your special blog party today. Also, I couldn’t resist reading others embarrassing moments if for no other reason than to help myself feel better about the multitude of mine! LOL Let’s see….well once I was in Walmart and decided to try on a swim suit that was on sale. For some insane reason, I came bopping out of the dressing room wearing the bikini to check and see if there was another size. I didn’t even think about the fact that I was wearing it or that gosh know who could be walking by that moment. Well, a guy was pushing his shopping cart right down the aisle by me at that very moment and I guess the site of me (good or bad?) caught him off guard and he stopped looking where his cart was headed. He ran smack dab into a hug display of talking baby dolls and they crashed to the floor in the loudest way….followed by the dolls saying “I want my Mommy!” over and over again. Now, in retrospect that is darned funny but at the time…I slunk back into the dressing room totally embarrassed…and nearly “bare a$$ed” as well. LOL Chow!
Hey Mary looks like we both need to get our boss’s checked into the “looney towers” *sigh*
But wow what classic stories all you guys – thanks for the chuckle!
Well, It’s not mine but it’s funny nonetheless. I have a friend who was going into a taco bell with her daughters. She was walking across the parking lot wearing some kind of skirt that was long, wide and filmy. Just as she approached Joe Montana (Former 49ers quarterback in case you’re really really young) walking out of the restaurant as she walked in, a big wind came up and blew her skirt up over her head. She refers to that as the day she showed Joe Montana her panties.
Caridad, Look on the bright side. At least you can say that you lost some weight! 🙂
I’ve never heard of a straight A student being a bad influence! lol
I think we’ve all had those “period” moments. I started when I was at the movie theater. I was glad it was dark and I was only with my girlfriends and not on a date but I had to call my mom to come and get me.
LOL, D! I can’t imagine how he must have felt when it turned out to be his wife.
Seems like it worked out okay for you, Kurtis!
This happened when I was about 19. I had a real short mini on with nylon panty hose (with a couple of holes in them), and no panties. As I boarded a London bus, the whole thing raised from the back exposing my bum (and the holes in the hose). A middle aged gent behind me quietly pulled the hem down and held it there till I was safely on. I thanked him all red-faced, and he said “s’alright, love,” and winked. Even today I blush a little while I write this.
Well, i am ALWAYS embarrassing myself wherever I go because I never remember to think before I act.
Your stories reminded me of one time:
I was on the swim team, and I was in my swimsuit and standing next to the pool after practice. I was looking in my bag for my towel and a permission form for my coach, and was digging around with such vigor that my panties flew out of my bag, through the air, and and landed on the head of the (older) guy I liked! Not to mention they were sort of wet, because I had just gotten out of the pool and my hands were in the bag.
It was TERRIBLE, I tell you but I managed to get a good laugh out of it anyway.
This is a good one about the nuts! Did you see the one about men’s balls?
I was working in the Security Office at Dragon Hill Lodge, Seoul, South Korea.
Another guy and I were looking at the Security Camera at the Pool area. There was a really cute lady sunning herself out there; we could not see her face, which was blocked by a support column.
Our Boss walked in and caught us looking at this Bikini beauty. After scolding us, he also watched with us. He was also watching the beauty sun herself. He also made some comments about her.
Suddenly, when the lady moved; we saw her face; he stiffened, and suddenly spoke out –
“Hey, that’s my wife.”
Ooops!
ROFLMAO!! That is really really too funny about the “men’s balls”!
LOL! The one boob peek. You were lucky it was an all girls school. I guess if you weren’t the boys would have felt lucky?! 🙂
Mine was when I was at the pool and my best friend that was a girl was in front of me and i didn’t realize that my thing was out and I bumped into her from behind and she went ump.
A couple weeks later she asked me out.
She was my first kiss.
My sister and I were at the mall and passed by a store that sold a variety of nuts. As we were looking at the display case, the boy behind the counter asked if we needed any help. I replied, “No, I’m just looking at your nuts.” My sister started to laugh hysterically, the boy grinned, and I turned beet-red and walked away. To this day, my sister has never let me forget.
Hugs, Linda. We’ve all her period moments, darn! Mine came just as I was leaving a client’s office. By the time the taxi got to the airport, it was all over my suit.
That’s tough. It’s only natural to interact with your colleagues at work, especially since you spend so much time there.
Embarrassing..well, here’s one..I was at the golf store comparing different kinds of golf balls. I was unhappy with the women’s type I had been using. After browsing for several minutes, I was approached by one of the good-looking gentlemen who works at the store. He asked if he could help me. Without thinking, I looked at him and said, “I think I like playing with men’s balls.” and they all just burst out laughing..LOL
I was in 2nd year high school and we had just finished swimming and we were getting changed. This girl was knocking on the door so I opened the door for her. She asked me a question at the same time she was looking at me as if I was crazy then I turned around the whole class was laughing at me I asked what were they laughing at they all pointed at my boob when I looked at it it was sticking out of my bra I was lucky that was an all girls SCHOOL
Thanks for the hugs. I sure can use one now. I am feeling a little under the weather. Just last wk it was so cold now it’s so hot. We are expecting some snow this wk though. Talk about flu weather LoL.
Hate when that happens. Get your period out of no where. See mine’s change on me so I don’t know when I will actually get it. Sometimes I get it in the first wk of the month or sometimes towards the middle around the 16th or so. This time I caught it in time. I had to go to the bath room and I realized I got it. Thank God I was home for this one LoL.
Btw if you all like to you can stop by my blog today. I have some fun things going on there also 😉
Hugssss
Linda.H.
Rita, I have the same boss…lol only she won’t let me talk to anyone in the hospital and requires the area we are in to be silent. No talking or anything at all. The phone rings and she comes to see who we are talking to. Grrrrr..
Right now, I’m running on no sleep cause my room was removed while I was at work so they could redo the floors and I had to sleep on the couch which didn’t happen.
My boss just came in and fussed about a memo I wrote explaining a new rule from Medicare and I’m about ready to pull my hair out too.
OMG! That is too funny and yes, embarrassing. And all because of some broccoli. I hope that when you ate it you didn’t have it in your teeth all day.
Which one should I choose? LOL There are so many. I’ll start with this one:
I was in Publix grocery store one day years ago, checking out the broccoli, when this woman customer came up to me and told me to be careful, the floor was wet from the veggie sprinklers. I thanked her.
Then I bent forward to grab a bunch of broccoli when the sprinklers came on. But it wasn’t a fine mist. Oh no. I got seriously sprayed! I wiped myself off best as I could with the only thing I had in my basket–a Publix shopping circular, and finished shopping. I noticed everyone staring at me and figured I must look like a half-drowned rat or something. I told the manager they needed to get those sprinklers fixed, they shouldn’t be soaking the produce and any unsuspecting customers!
He apologized, but he never looked me in the eye. I got in line and this teenage kid (cashier) was staring fixed at my chest.
I asked him, “What?” Oh I was mad.
He went bright pink and mumbled an apology.
So I get out to my car and look at myself in the mirror. The colors from the circular had bled off–onto me! Then I look down at my chest and saw that not only were my nipples showing through the bra and tank top, but that the colors were in a swirl pattern around each boob! Sort of like a multi-colored bulls-eye.
And that was one of my better days!
OMG Girl — remind me to stay to at least 10 feet away just in case something else major happens!
I had a similar Starbucks event — sans soaked shirt. There was this really cute group of California Highway Patrolmen getting coffee. Very early in the morning, I had rolled out of bed during vacation to get a coffee fix so I could start writing.
Well, I was gaga over them (men in uniform can be so hot) that I tipped over an entire grande venti onto the floor.
I quickly mopped it up, but boy was I embarrassed!
Hello Caridad,
Nice list of books to be won 🙂
Hmm as for an embarrassing moment not to sure if I have one LoL. I have one but it’s from high school. I will be glad to share with you all.
One morning as I am wakeing up to go to school I am having really bad cramps not thinking if it was my period or anything. I was wearing white pants with a nice blouse. I went to school and my crush was in my class of course LoL. As we are sitting there doing our work I am still feeling some pain in my tummy. When the school bell rang it was time for us to go to our next class. As I got up there was blood every where. Yes I ended up getting my period in school. Mind you I had on white Jeans duh. Crazy me didn’t think it was my period. I was so embarrassed because my crush was there and everyone just laughed at me. I had to go to the nurse’s office and call my mom to bring me another pair of jeans.
Hugssss
Linda.H.
Hey there,
Ok, I am LOADED with embarrassing moments because I constantly get myself caught in these situations that I should really never be involved with in the first place. Your slip story is like an every day happening for me. 🙂
So I had this political science class in college where the teacher was the most monotonous bore. This one time I had this new book that Nora Roberts had just come out with and I was so in to it that in the middle of his class I snuck out as if to go to the bathroom (purse in hand) and I went over to the lounge, next to the bathroom, where I eagerly pulled out the book to read.
Twenty minutes later, Dr. Slane, our fantasticly monotonous professor walked up to me and goes “Hey, Nisha you better get back in there. I just gave out a quiz.”
He was my pre-law advisor too! I felt SO bad about it but he never brought it up again after that so I decided no to either!
I aced the quiz though, dont know how. 🙂
Two days ago, I was in this really nice restaurant for lunch with a friend of mine when I accidently sat on this chutney (It was an Indian restaurant). The back of my pants were splattered with red sauce (you can just imagine what it looked like!) Luckily, I had a pair of pants in my car that I just picked up from the drycleaners. I had to change in to them in the work parking lot, I was in the back seat struggling to pull these pants up when no other than a group of partners in the firm walk by! I dont think they saw my face but I’m SURE they saw the car bouncing a bit as I tried to pull my pants on. 🙂
There was also that time in high school when I fell down two flights of steps (in my plaid skirt uniform mind you) between bells when everyone else was trying to make it to class too. Oh, and I also fell in front of a starbucks once with all of the starbucks patrons watching as coffee drenched my shirt to the point where it was see through. Oh, and once I went through a WHOLE day at work with something stuck between my teeth and no one told me.
See? Told ya I’m loaded with them.
Hope you enjoyed!
Nisha
It was very embarrassing. Luckily managed to scoop up the slip and make it to work.
That sounds awful, Rita. An old roommate’s mother once blamed me for being a bad influence. I was a straight A student and on scholarship so I had to toe the line about everything I did. I guess this mom thought her daughter had to have more fun in college! LOL!
Just to expand on that, he said that he doesn’t want me to be friends with her – I think he has lots it!! But not my issue, I’m making my move, hopefully it will come soon ‘coz I’ve lost respect for him
Oh my Caridad there is no way I can top that *lol* but you’re real gusty in sharing with us!
I really don’t have any embarrassing moments but I’m in a situation currently with my boss *sigh* Today has reached breaking point – can you believe it he tells me that he doesn’t want me to have any social relationship externally with a colleague who recently joined us, as I might influence her negatively – Geez tell me that is weird or what! So Ides of March has really bitten me today in that respect that nothing is going right!