Most Embarassing Moment
In public. At work. On a day when I had an important meeting with the public relations firm from Atlanta. I was sitting in the meeting, across from the bigwigs, and as I crossed my legs, to my horror I saw … well, I saw what you are seeing in the photograph.
I gasped audibly. Our vice president of marketing, who was sitting beside me, looked at me and whispered, “Are you alright?” I gave a feeble, “Yes,” and proceeded to slip my tan shoe off and hide it behind my chair.
Instantly I thought, That’s it, this is the beginning of the end, I’m losing it. I have Alzheimer’s. I quickly did a brain scan, trying to recall how I did such an insanely ridiculous thing. Then I remembered how my morning had been.
Son had to be at school extra early for a band performance at a local elementary school, so my hubby took him. But before my son left, I had to make sure he had his gift for an underprivileged student, his music, his sack lunch, and a box full of What God Wants for Christmas bracelets for the band to hand out.
After the guys left I was getting dressed in my room. The brown shoes are new, so I slipped off a tan shoe, laced up a brown shoe and was doing the, “which shoe would look better” thing when my daughter yelled, “Mom, come here, I need you!” She was struggling to get her just prescribed contacts into her eyes and was having quite a bit of trouble. After assisting and encouraging her for about five minutes she finally got them in her eyes. Then, I realized we had to leave “now” and out the door we flew to get her to school on time and me to my meeting on time.
Joy of all joys, I am not losing my mind to Alzheimer’s. I’m just a busy mom who naturally “lost her mind” while caring for her children and putting their needs before her own. The relief from that realization tempered the blow of my obvious lack of fashion sense for the rest of the day. Not only am I a busy mom, I’m a practical mom—it would be ridiculous to drive all the way home just to spare my pride. Besides, I brought much joy and belly laughter to many friends at FamilyLife.
And hey, the next time I am asked, “What’s your most embarrassing moment?” I have an answer all lined up.
So do tell, what’s your most embarrassing moment?
LOL – what a great story.
Hilarious! I'm also laughing out loud. Definitely something I would do…and blog about. 🙂
Well, the most embarrasing moment I can publicly speak about was when I was working for a non-profit ministry. The director and I were meeting with the head of a large foundation, asking for funding for the ministry.
Everything was going well. Yet I noticed that both the foundation director and the head of our ministry were glancing at each other and smiling. Finally, the smiling turned to laughing before they let me in on their private joke.
As it turned out, the suit that I had just purchased for the meeting still had the tag tacked to the sleeve. I had been gesturing for emphasis as I spoke about our ministry, but the foundation director couldn't hear anything I said because he was so distracted by the tag.
Oh well. At least I had matching shoes, though.
In over 20 years of work experience, I have never worn different shoes to work.
I have a new standard to aspire to.
When I was 8 months pregnant, I was visitng my dad in California. I enjoyed a swim in his pool, and then went into the bathroom to wash the chlorine out of my hair. Unbeknownst to me, the lock on the bathroom door was broken. After my shower, as I was toweling off my back, my hugely pregnant (fully exposed) front was facing the door. You can guess what happened next. The door swung open and in walked my sister's 20-year-old boyfriend…
He got the surprise of his life!
It has been 7 years, and I still have a hard time looking him in the eye sometimes!
Darlin, when you're my age, you're lucky to be able to find 2 shoes, much less 2 that match!
Wow! What a riot…I think they both look good! Why not wear both???? ( :
Okay, I witnessed this personally — and Miss Tracy, you exhibited much grace in the face of ridiculous embarrassment. Lesser women would have disappeared instantaneously or drawn excessive attention to themselves.
Hey all – thanks for laughing "with" me and helping me to not take myself too seriously! It's all good, as my son would say!Scott and Emily thanks for sharing your embarassing moments – and Emily I'll take mismatched shoes over a missing bath towel any day! Blessings to all! Tracey 🙂
I'm not a mom. At all. But I'm a dad. And my most embarrassing moment was serving a meal in a restaurant when I was in high school. I had a meal perched on each palm, plus one balanced on each forearm.
And I was about six feet from the table of the folks who ordered it. Their eyes lit up at the sight. I smiled. They smiled.
And then I exploded. A co-worker had come up behind me and tickled me—kind of a lightning fast jab and twist maneuver—but it was enough to jolt me into electric spasms and send their meals cartwheeling in slow motion through the air just a few feet from their table.
My co-worker was gone, without a trace, leaving me looking like a complete freak-show without an explanation.
"Uh… sorry."
I didn't kill my co-worker. She was a girl. I had a crush on her. Oh, the inhumanities we swallow for "love."