Alright folks, what was your most embarrassing incident?

Tupac · #1 06-25-2011, 10:30 PM

It seems like my life is a giant embarrassment, haha. It's tough to think of the most embarrassing scenario when there's too many to name.

Well, I was around 13 at the time, and I played soccer in a club. It was a pretty big club, and the sidelines were always filled the brim with relatives and people watching. I was playing defense, and the other guys were attacking. The ball was passed to me, and I was really nervous. So I saw someone in my peripherals in the middle and passed it to him. Low and behold, he was on the other team. I'll never forget the sound of everyone shouting "NO!" as I passed it right to him. He then kicked it right into the goal. I felt like a deer in a head lights. No one said even a word to me. Just silence. Now, if this isn't bad enough, it gets even worse. I was trying REALLY hard to redeem myself the rest of the game. I was chasing one kid down really fast, so fast that I just fell forward while sprinting, right on my stomach. It knocked the wind out of me... real bad. If anyone has had the wind knocked out of them before, they know the feeling. I couldn't stand and I could barely breath, I was just gasping and making a strange hiccuping sound. I had to be helped off the field, and then just went home. It was one of the very few games my grandmother ever got to watch my play. I then cried in my room for the rest of the day. The whole event was nothing but sheer humiliation.

It still shakes me to speak of it, I hope you guys don't disappoint!

Quickie · #2 06-25-2011, 10:40 PM

Replying to this thread?

Selta · #3 06-25-2011, 10:58 PM

I'm not sure I can pick which one is most embarrassing. And I'm not sure I'd share any on a public forum either

Ursus Tyrannus · #4 06-25-2011, 11:13 PM

Most embarrassing? No way, I aint tellin that here, I aint even tellin the top three here...but I got one I'm not sure I've actually told anyone before and its music related.

I took saxophone lessons as a kid, this was in the 4th grade. The teacher said I was a very good at playing it but I needed work reading the music, I tended to get confused playing and reading at the same time. So I practiced and practiced for the big recital the students gave for both the parents and the whole school at the end of the year. So the big day arrives and I'm up on stage and I can actually see mom and dad and there's a whole big crowd of parents along with the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade classes. And I'm just so proud of myself and I'm thinkin this is great. Were playing along when all the other kids on stage turn the page in their music books at the same time...except me...I'm still only halfway down the page.
Pure panic set in and I actually forgot how to read music. After a few feeble honked notes from my desert dry mouth I stopped actually playing all together. I just kept the saxophone to my mouth, moving my hands like I'm playing, watching and waiting to turn the page when everyone else does, all the while praying to any deity who will listen to drop a giant meteor on the auditorium. At least that way no one will notice I'm just pretending to play.
I didnt last much longer on the saxophone.

Tupac · #5 06-25-2011, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon

I'm not sure I can pick which one is most embarrassing. And I'm not sure I'd share any on a public forum either

Dawww, c'mon. I spent a while reluctantly typing that paragraph, if I could do it you can too! It wasn't easy, 'twas a bad memory.

Quickie · #6 06-25-2011, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Ray Salamon

I'm not sure I can pick which one is most embarrassing. And I'm not sure I'd share any on a public forum either

Me either...I'm over 40 and have so many I could share......sigh.

Selta · #7 06-25-2011, 11:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Quickie

Me either...I'm over 40 and have so many I could share......sigh.

I'm only 25 and feel that I have too many for my age

I'll have to think of one that I'd be comfortable sharing with strangers sometime.

Chebass88 · #8 06-26-2011, 06:44 AM

When I was in 8th grade, our church youth group took a day trip to NYC. The usual tourist stuff - twin towers, drive around, etc. We stopped at a diner on the way home (Mastori's, if anyone cares to know), where this fat kid ate WAY TOO MUCH.

The big meal in my belly soon presented a pressing need to have a sit-down. Unfortunately, we were riding a school bus, so there was no can on the bus. After a while (~15 minutes or so), I absolutely could not hold it anymore, and the worst happened. I went. Everyone immediately started griping, and trying to open windows. It was over Christmas break, so they had the heat on - one of those school buses where it is either no heat or scorching heat. It was the latter. Needless to say, it stunk bad.

When we got back to the church, I ran into the bathroom to clean up. I was pretty terrified of my dad finding out, so I set out cleaning up. I ended up clogging the two toilets in the restroom. The youth group leader was doing to rounds and found me in there, so I told him what happened. At this point, I wanted to run away - I was super embarassed and really scared of what would happen when my dad found out. He told my dad (who was waiting to drive me home), who then came into the restroom to help out. Two toilets got clogged because I tried to salvage the long underwear my dad made me wear that day (for walking around NYC). To my surprise, he was pretty understanding about it, and told me some stories when he had been in similar situations. He even let me throw out the long underwear and told me not to worry about the clogged toilets.

I still get comments from one of my friends (and my dad) about long bus trips. This is probably the worst one...