#embarrassment day

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@valeriannnn submitted:

OK SO THIS IS ONLY ABOUT A MONTH LATE

but back when you had that embarrassment day story sharing fest i just could not find this video

i stumbled upon it today (bookmarked!) and felt the need to share, even if its embarrassingly belated (fitting)

2:26 is when the story itself starts, before that is just setting the scene

aaaa, I laughed way too hard

“your lights confused me”

[curlicuecal]

My first day at gymnastics summer camp, I accidentally went to the wrong dance class. I didn't realize that until ten minutes in when everyone just casually tossed off some move that I had not reliably learned how to do. I spent the next five (endless) minutes trying not to gallumph TOO obviously while everyone else ran gracefully around like gazelles, and finally maneuvered myself to and out the door without saying anything to the instructor, because I couldn't bear to admit my screwup.

*dances*

*continues dancing*

*dances out door*

[curlicuecal]

AHA finally came up with a good one. In like first grade i stuck my head into the back hole in one of those blue plastic chairs cause I was bored and also just to see if I could. The teacher was on the verge of calling the fire department to when I finally figured out how to get my head out.

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I used to have really long hair, and one day in high school the kid in the desk (the kind where the seat and desk are molded together) behind me pushed his desk up too close to my seat and pinned my hair. I didn't notice until I had to get up for a presentation, and I stood up so fast that it yanked me back over the desk behind me and onto the kid. (It was extra horrifying because it was dead silent when this happened and I made quite a lot of noise falling down.) I lost a chunk of hair too.

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Anime club Halloween party/costume contest. Unlike the previous year when everyone went all-out, that was the year everybody decided to half-ass it. I didn't get the memo. Got all decked out in costume, walked across campus announcing to anyone that looked at me funny that I was going to the ~Anime Club Halloween Party~ (this wasn't even on Halloween btw), got there, not only was I the only one in costume, I was the only one who brought a snack. I "won" a pack of strawberry pocky.

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On my first day of college I got dropped off early. Super nervous and wanted to do everything right. Found my classroom and marched in. It was full of people and halfway through class. Everything stopped dead. They started at me. "Hi," I said in a loud clear voice. Turned around, walked out without another word, died of embarrassment, prayed I wouldn't have to go back in and face them again. (I didn't, turns out I was so early I crashed the class before mine.)

hahaha

My very first grad class, I found the classroom door closed.  Couldn’t remember the room number, didn’t have my phone with me.  Peeked in the door, a bunch of people turned to look at me, panicked and left.

Had to write the professor an apology email for missing the first class because I couldn’t find the classroom (and it was over by the time I got back to my office to check the room number).

Later, classmates asked me why I had poked my head into the room and then left.

[curlicuecal]

OH I THOUGHT OF A GOOD ONE

So, I was going to a department party with some graduate friends.  V is driving a group of us, as the designated driver.  It’s getting pretty late, and we’re having trouble finding K to pick him up.  So she calls him up: “Hey K, it’s V, we’re on our way to your house and we need directions.”

There follows a protracted period of him giving us directions and us driving around in baffled circles because we can’t find any of the streets he’s mentioning and we’re group debating back and forth with him because he can’t figure out what neighborhood we’re in.

Finally V realizes: she’s called the wrong K.  This K is a dude from undergrad who she hasn’t seen in years, and who lives in a completely different state.

The best part of the story?  College-friend-K, who apparently received an out-of-the-blue phone call saying, “Hi, we’re on our way to your house, give us directions,” and just went with it.

[curlicuecal]

In high school, I went on a Scavenger Hunt for canned food. We were to meet up at a boy's house. I parked the car, grabbed my bag of canned food, walked into the wrong house and dumped the canned food on the couch. The man sitting there, who I assumed was the boy's father, stood up and looked at me quite perplexed. I said, "Where do you want me to put these?" He continued to stare at me incredulously. It suddenly dawned on me I was in the wrong house. I ran out of the house without explanation.

oh my GOD