Describe your most embarrassing moment
It is ridiculous how hard I have had to think about this one. I've had embarrassing moments, but I am hard pressed to pick the one that is the most embarrassing. There is nothing that really stands out as one that makes me cringe to think about it. I think I'm really lucky that there isn't anything that is that embarrassing. So I guess I'm just going to mention some that I think of and maybe I'll figure out the most embarrassing.
One that I think of when I think of embarrassing moments happened in junior high (the old school name for middle school), but I didn't realize it had happened until after the fact. Your nana made me a cute wrap-around denim skirt that I liked wearing to school. In my math class, I was sitting at my desk and didn't realize that one flap of the skirt had caught on the back of the chair and so I was flashing the students behind me. Thankfully my math teacher saw what had happened and called me up to his desk without letting me know what was going on. When I sat back down, my skirt didn't catch on the chair and everything was back to normal. He told me about it later, but since I didn't realize it had happened and no one else said anything about it, it wasn't as embarrassing as it would have been if I had known about it.
Another embarrassing moment would have happened in college. My sophomore year I tried out for the musical Grease and got the part of Jan, which is a much cooler part in the musical than it is in the movie. It was my first play and so I worked really hard and made sure that I was completely ready for opening night. I was getting ready to walk on stage for the first scene where I had lines, carrying a basket with a burger and potato chips. Right as I walked on stage, I tripped and dropped the basket on the ground. I was definitely embarrassed, but the director and all of my fellow actors and actresses had stressed that the show had to go on, no matter what, so I just kept going with the scene. Thankfully I didn't have time to fret about it, so it didn't embarrass me as much as it could have.
Probably one that ranks pretty high happened as a teacher, and it definitely shouldn't have happened. I don't think I was a team leader for the whole year, but it might have been the year that all of us were team leaders so it was likely my turn. Another teacher and I were in a meeting with all of the exploratory teachers to figure out some schedule issues. I had been pulled from my class and was not happy about having to miss time with my students, especially when I hadn't known about it in advance so I wasn't prepared to have some one else teach. We were all sitting there waiting for one teacher to show up. I offered to go and get him so that I would be able to get back to my class as soon as possible. My principal at the time yelled at me and said that I shouldn't act like my class was any more important than anyone else's class. He kept going for a little while after that, though I can't remember exactly what he said because I was so angry that I couldn't focus. It was embarrassing to be called out like that in front of my co-workers, but I think the way he did it made me more angry than embarrassed.
Well...there are three examples of embarrassing moments. I hope you are lucky enough to be like your mom and not have an embarrassing moment that stays that strongly in your mind.
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