Fluff Day! What is your most embarassing moment?

[Mr.MouseFan]

In honor of Fluff Day 2003, I thought I'd ask what all of your most embarassing moments are?

Fittingly, mine happened at the Magic Kingdom. I was a freshman in high school at the time and, after a year of hard work, I finally achieved one of my biggest goals in life, to perform at the Magic Kingdom. So, it's show day and we're backstage, right behind the big door next to the firestation on Main Street. We're dressed to the nines in our brand new band uniforms. We were, as Mickey himself would say, Neat 'n Pretty! So, the band I was in, we had a step off drill that we did right before we started marching, it involved doing a squat and some funky stuff with your head and whatnot. Anywho, the announcer comes over the loudspeaker, "Ladies and Gentlemen, Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom is proud to present todays performer in our Magic Music Days"....blah blah. So, the big door opens and we're given the signal to do our step off drill. I squat, do my thing and pop back up. Unfortunately, my suspenders decided to keep going and totally snapped off my pants! I couldn't do anything about it because the doors had already opened and we were in full view of the audience. So, with my left hand, I grabbed my pants to hold them up as well as my jacket to hold it down..and with my right, I played my trumpet. Talk about the longest 15 minutes of my life! My dream had gone terribly awry as I had nearly ruined the dreams of many people by nearly exposing them to my nether region! Alas, at least it gave me a good story to tell to my kids someday...LOL.

 

[TigH]

Oh no!!!! That is like a nightmare! Good thing you were able to hold yourself together and still play the trumpet!

This isn't my most embarassing moment, but it's the first one I thought of.

My sister and I used to spend every weekend (it seemed) at my cousin's house. We were all between the ages of 5-7 at that time (four of us). We loved to play hide and seek in their house. It was the house my mom grew up in (In Massachusetts) and had lots of nice hiding places. A favorite place to hide was in the bathtub behind the shower curtain.

One day during hide and seek I was hiding behind the shower curtain. My Uncle (Mom's youngest brother) didn't know I was hiding in there and he came in to use the bathroom....seated! I was so embarassed! As soon as he left, I high tailed it out of there!!! Apparently the adults thought this was a very funny story and decided to tell my Uncle. He got very red in the face and was probably more embarassed than I was!

 

[CamColt]

I was at a Bruins game at the old Boston Garden when I was 21. I went to get a couple beers for me and my friend. When I was returning to the seats, I looked around, trying to find where I was going. I noticed the stairs were a little wet and thought, Oh I should be careful. Well, with that my friend saw me looking around and yelled "KATIE!", so a ton of people looked. Then I started walking, and slipped right down the stairs. The good news...somehow I managed to salvage the beers.

 

[tkyes]

This is the only one I can think of right now -

I was in 5th grade and had a crush on the cutest boy in school who was in 6th grade. It was first thing in the morning before school started and he was walking behind me. I turned the corner to go down the hall and tripped on my lovely, clunky, moon boots (whoever invented those god awful things should be shot)! Landed flat on my face!

I was so mortified!



tamie

 

[FOJMO]

I guess mine would have to be the one that just recently happened to me on Feb. 1st of this year. (Forgive me if some of you have read this on the boards before).

I was the lead (Mama Rose) in "Gypsy" at a nearby community theatre. On the next to the last performance, I was doing my big number at the end of the show. I was on stage, in a spotlight, in a very emotional, angry song, when I got too close to the edge of the stage and fell right into the orchestra pit!!!!

It was in front of a full house (300+ people) and you could hear a pin drop! When I opened my eyes (I think I closed them when I started falling, hoping that when I opened them it would all be a bad dream), two audience members who were nurses were there asking me questions.

Long story short, I got up (with my both legs bleeding, but nothing broken) to the thunderous applause and standing ovation of the audience, and went back up on stage, asked the musical director (in the pit) "OK, where did we leave off?" and continued with the song. We only had a few lines of dialogue left after the song, so we finished the show and I came back on for the curtain call to another standing ovation.

I came back the next day for the final show, a matinee. It was about 4 days later that I was in agony with my legs.

It was the most embarrassing moment, by far, but also the most exhilarating!!!

 

[RUDisney]

I had invited one of my boyfriends to my house to play family games with me, my parents, and siblings, when a knock is heard at the door. It was my other boyfriend, who was not invited, but was in the neighborhood, so he decided to drop by... like he'd never heard of a phone? The thing was, they were polar opposites. The one who was invited was a big, preppie, football player type and the one who showed up unexpectedly, was a long-haired rock and roller guy. R&R guy knew about FB guy, but not the other way around, although we had an agreement that we were not exclusive. It took some fancy footwork to get rid of R&R guy and then some explaining to FB guy to make him believe that I didn't set up the whole thing.

 

[lilallybean]

Oh my...I can't believe that I am telling you all this but here it goes. I work really long hours 3 days in a row 5pm to 7am at a mental hospital. Due to sick kids my sched one week was up with sick kids-work-home with sick kids-work-home with sick kids-work and then FINALLY my sis kept the kids and I got to sleep! Well working nights can make it really hard to sleep during the day. I like to sleep in the dark. We have a REALLY big walk in closet, hubby and I decided to put a roll away bed in there so I can sleep in the dark. Works great, had a little fan in there and a white noise sound machine and it was nice and dark. Well on this certain morning I came home and locked the front door, set the security alarm (which I have to have due to my line of work) turned on the noise machine to drown out dogs/phone and went straight up to my "spare bed room" and just crashed. I woke up to somebody opening the door, when I started to get up and see what was going on there was suddenly a man yelling at me to stop and put my hands up. There was a gun in my face!!! I walked out trying to hold my blanket around myself as I was in my night shirt and skivies. There were 2 officers in my room!!! The security system had gone off and when I did not clear the thing the police were sent to my home. Gesh..try to live that down. Mind you these same officers bring patients to me at work so all my coworkers found out about it. My nic name at work for a while was "pistols and panties Jones" geshhhh what friends!

 

[TigH]

Originally posted by lilallybean
My nic name at work for a while was "pistols and panties Jones" geshhhh what friends!

TOO FUNNY!!! I am glad you shared this story. I think you need a new tag or username though!

 

[CathyCanada]

Ok I just remembered this one, although I'm sure I have a lot more that I have conveniently suppressed deep in my sub-conscious!

When I was in Grade 8, I had a bone disease in my knee (Osgood Schlatter disease) and had to have a straight leg ankle to upper thigh cast for 8 weeks.
I get the cast on and my Dad drives me to school early the first day so that I can manoeuvre the very long staircase to get down to my class before the rest of the school came in. So here I am going one step at a time, straight leg first not quite used to this stupid thing and at the top of the staircase I hear "what happened to you?" and it was the cutest boy in the school who I had a major crush on. I had gone down about 25 of the 30 stairs at the time, stopped to tell him and then proceeded my decline....putting the wrong leg down first! Before I knew it, I was spinning down the stairs trying desperately to grab the handrail. Nothing was hurt except my pride and the guy came running down to see if I was ok. I was mortified but put on a brave face. Never made the mistake of putting the not-casted leg down the steps first again though!
CC

 

[ABCMom]

When DH and I first started dating he still lived in the fraternity house. One evening there was a huge party going on in the house and I wasn't feeling too well and He didn;t really want to hang around either, so we went upstairs to his room. I layed down in bed and tried to go to sleep and he sat down at the desk and turned on a basketball game. Several minutes passed and we heard a commotion outside the door and then about 40 or so of his fraternity brothers broke into one of their very raunchy fraternity songs serenading us- assuming that there was more going on in the room than there really was.
Everyone in the house that night knew what was going on and we went to a fairly small college so there weren't too many folks on campus who didn't hear about it. I didn't walk through the front door of that house again for a very long time.

 

[lilallybean]

Was just telling my Dh about all this thread and he said "What youdidn't tell them about THEEEE float trip?" So, here is that story. My family has an annual river float trip, about 20-25 folks most times ranging in age from 2-60. We have a great time. This one year I decided to keep going when most of the group stopped to swim so I could get back to camp and start supper. Well I hit a low point in the river and had to get out and drag the raft for a few feet. I am TERRIFED of snakes. While leaning over I felt something hit my back and thought "ARGHHHH its one of THOSE things!!!" I was ina little panic state and was looking all around to make sure it was gone. I looked and looked and could not see it! I glanced across the river and there were about 6 young men most likely about 18-20 years old (I am 32). They were all sitting there just with this look like umm...
I looked down and it dawned on me it was NOT a snake that I felt on my back...it was the clasp of my swim suit top! Ended up that we had to ride back to camp on the same bus with these kids and I was the talk of the day. GESHHH! Only in my world!

 

[Mr.MouseFan]

Originally posted by FOJMO
I was on stage, in a spotlight, in a very emotional, angry song, when I got too close to the edge of the stage and fell right into the orchestra pit!!!!

Lord, LOL....all I can picture is America's Funniest Home Videos! That is so funny!

Originally posted by lilallybean
"pistols and panties Jones"
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ROFLMBO! That is hilarious!

Thanks for sharing your stories, everyone!

 

[Patabel]

Mine was when I was in my mid-twenties. I was at a waterpark, and was wearing a halter-style swimsuit. I was going down the innertube slide, when I failed to notice that somewhere along the slide, my halter strap unhooked. Could not imagine why I kept getting some "strange" looks, until I looked down to see that I was "flashing" to the world! The entire haltertop had folded down! Needless to say, my DH and the friends we were with thought it was hysterical and I don't believe I stopped blushing until the next day!