What about our most embarassing moments?

[Turid]

Not many postings here! I certainly do NOT hope it's because abolitionists lack humor.......

I have a suggestion though: What about posting our most embarassing moments? I love hearing about other's embarassing moments. Just don't expect me to share my own!! ;D Besides: They would take up the entire forum!

Love,
Turid

[angel]

Aw Turid...hahaha! I am like you, there have been so many of them it would take a book to write them all! I will think on it and give ya one tho..keep watchin!!!

[angel]

Okay Tulla, here is one of them, I went to the store with someone who was my boyfriend at the time....we went into J.C. Penny's and we split up, he went in the menswear dept, and I went to the womens section, well, got a few items and went in search of my boyfriend, and seen this guy who from the back, I SWEAR was him talking and laughing really close with this other gal, so I proceeded to march up to him and say "hey what is UP??!!" well, turns out is was not him! I wanted to just melt into the floor! I looked like a real idiot!

[lene]

I was in the U.S last summer and I had visted a friend in Oklahoma, right outside Tulsa. Well, I was headed back to Paris, Texas because I had a plane to catch. I was going back to Norway. On my way to my friend I got lost, so she offered me directions that would be easier when I was going back to Texas. To make a long story short - I didn't take an easy route back to Texas. I ended up in Lyndon, Kansas! I had went the wrong way for more than four hours! There was no other alternative than to turn around and go back. On my way back I got lost AGAIN, but after 14 hours in the car, I got back to the apartment and could pack all my stuff. The problem now was that since I had been on a detour and spend way more money than my budget could hold, I didn't have the money to pay for my plane ticket. I had to pay a fee of 150 dollars becuase I had changed the date to go back home. The moral is - never leave home without a visa card. I had money on my account, but it took two days to wire them to the U.S - and again to make a long story short, I overstayed my visa because I went the wrong way - and didn't have a visa card. I went to the U.S on a visa waiver program - and can now never do that again, because I overstayed by six days. It truly is my most embarrassing story. I have never broken any laws, and when I did, it had to be an immigration law. When I mess up, I make sure I do it properly.

[tulla63]

OK. Since I started the thread, I should at least provide one gem from my HUGE collection of embarassing moments. Stay tuned for more..... (Thanks Lene, for not telling this story before I got the chance myself......)

Well - it seemed as a good idea at the time..........

I'd been sitting on a plane from Oslo to Newark which takes almost 8 hours. You cannot smoke in planes anymore. After a while, I had problems concentrating about the book I brought to take my thoughts off from cigarettes, so I put it away and concentrated on hours, minutes and seconds left to landing.

When I finally arrived in Newark, there was no room where I could smoke there either, and I didn't have enough time to go out of the airport area and in again to board my next flight.

On my next flight from Newark to Houston, I was going crazy. A Norwegian was sitting next to me, and he was talking all the time. I got annoyed with this very nice and polite man - thinking: "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE - SO I CAN TRY TO SLEEP", and other unfair and totally unreasonable things. Actually, I was annoyed with everything. No one could have said as much as "hello" to me without me going off as a bomb!. I was beginning to chew on my pencil, the "NO SMOKING" sign didn't help me much - it simply reminded me of this intense urge to lit up a smoke!

Then I came up with a really brainy idea: I brought a plastic bag, a cigarette, lighter and my purse into the lavatory. At this point, I had totally lost touch with reality. I wasn't at all thinking. Just acting. I took the plastic bag over my head, a cigarette in my mouth, and lit it up - INSIDE THE SAME PLASTIC BAG as my head. In the lavatory......

I was in heaven!!!!

....for a while.....

Suddenly, there was a "knock, knock" on the door. I panicked. Put the cig under running water, ligther inside the pocket of my pants, and I had no idea what to do with the smoke-filled plastic bag I had kept around my head, so it took a couple of minutes and I opened the door and there was a flight attendant telling me that I had been smoking, the alarm had gone off, and that I would be fined.

I made as I didn't at all speak English, and just looked at her with two BIG BLUE eyes which really made me look like I had just fallen off some planet in outer space and that I had no idea whatsoever what she was talking about. (Probably why I wasn't fined after all.......)

When I got back in my seat, I read the warning about how much they can fine you if you smoke in planes. I would still have been in debt and this was back in 1997.

I'm laughing at it NOW, but I can assure you: I didn't laugh then!! Just wish I had a photo of self with head inside plastic bag and a panic-stricken expression in my eyes! ;D

Thinking back, I cannot - not if my life depended on it - understand HOW THE H*** I could come up with such an idiotic idea, but smoke withdrawal REALLY does some nasty things to your reasoning at times!

Love,
Turid

[angel]

HA!HA!HA!! Tulla that is too funny!! I'm still laughing!! You HAVE to tell us more!! Cmon now, you can tell us! I read it twice and i'm laughin so hard! Thanks for the laugh, I needed it!!! I can picture it...hahahahahahahhahaahha! I am laughing with ya, not atcha!!!! That's a good one, whoooeeee!

[tulla63]

angel said:

Okay Tulla, here is one of them, I went to the store with someone who was my boyfriend at the time....we went into J.C. Penny's and we split up, he went in the menswear dept, and I went to the womens section, well, got a few items and went in search of my boyfriend, and seen this guy who from the back, I SWEAR was him talking and laughing really close with this other gal, so I proceeded to march up to him and say "hey what is UP??!!" well, turns out is was not him! I wanted to just melt into the floor! I looked like a real idiot!

This sounds like when my husband and I had stopped at a gas station to get some soda. The back seat of the car was full of travel cages for cats, and I'd asked him about a million times to put them in the trunk. This time he said: "OK - I'll put them in the trunk while you go buy soda".

I got a coke, went out of the gas station, and there he sits - IN THE CAR. I was expecting him to be in the process of moving the cages. He just sat there!!

I opened the door on the passenger side, jumped into the car and said: "WHY THE **** ARE YOU STILL SITTING HERE?".

It was the wrong car. The person who was sitting there, just minding his own business I guess, probably thought I had escaped from a nearby looney-bin........

To my defense: It WAS a grey car!! The fact that it was a much bigger and A LOT more expensive type of car didn't matter, because I only notice the color of a car anyway.

I turned around, and there my husband was busy moving cages from the back seat to the trunk.......

I've been thinking about this, and decided that my worst ones will not be released before 20 years after my death. It's the only comfort I have: "After 100 years, everything is forgotten". (Probably......)

Love,
Turid

[angel]

HAAAAAAA!HAAAAA!HAAAA! Oh my gosh!!! Tulla!!! What did that guy say??! HAHAHA! I knew better than to drink my coffee while reading this new post!! I'm laughing so hard my sides hurt!! Thanks for the added humor, Tulla, you are an asset to this board!

[cajunricejr]

Here is a good one my son pulled on me. When he was 5 I had to take him to the clinic to get his shots updated for him to start school. I had a mountian of paperwork to fill out so I told him to go sit in the waiting room. Not noticing that the cover for the fire alarm was missing, I went to work filling out the paperwork. All of a sudden the fire alarm goes off!!!!!!!!!! What is worse is that the nurses couldn't figure out how to turn the d#@m thing off. I wanted to crawl under an chair and die!!!!!!

[angel]

Hahahahaha! Cajun, aren't kids great? I know well what you felt like, having been there various times with my three!! hahahaha! Never had one pull an alarm tho! hahahahahah! Too funny!

[Lili]

Well if I am a world recorder in anything I am in embarrassing myself.
This is one embarrassing moment out of thousands:
I’ve been living for some time in Germany and this happened the first month I’ve been there. I’ve had some guests with children for weekend and went shopping. It wasn’t easy thing at all not knowing the language so I usually took the things from the shelves, but wanted to buy some sausages children like a lot, so I had to go to counter, Sausage is called Lyoner (Lyon-city in France). The same sausage in my country is called Pariser (as Paris-France). Pariser in Germany is name for condoms - I had no clue about that.
-good afternoon, may I help you
-good afternoon, please 300 grams Pariser.
- My dear lady, the pharmacy is the next door, but what for God’s sake do you need 300 grams for?
- me have very much children my home. (thinking those Germans really don’t eat like normal people)
- oh, I understand..(in the meantime all the shop employees gathered around laughing)..but still you will have to go to the pharmacy, we do not sell them here
- (very annoyed)-you no sell? I see my eyes one on you!!!! (raging with anger when he looked down his pants and the whole shop was dying of laughter)

I went very, very angry out of the shop thinking what rude people live in this country, wanted just to pack my bags and return to my home country..when I’ve got the explanation of what I’ve sad, was so embarrassed that for one year never entered that shop, though it was in the neighborhood.

[Lili]

Good that I’ve read Tulla’s post about smoking in plane lavatory..When I have to travel first that I feel is horror – no smoking for at least 5 hours. I’ve always thought should I go to the lavatory and have half a cigarette, or just two smokes, but thanks heaven was always suspicious they have some kind of detectors..Very tricky these non-smokers are

[angel]

hahahahaha Lil!! I would have LOVED to been there! More please.....heehee