[Quique]

I'm deathly afraid of roaches. Most people hate them but, oh you don't understand, I have a very serious phobia!

Anyway, yesterday I went to go get me some coffee, and as I was being handed my change, I gasped VERY loudly and was visibly startled by something on the floor that appeared to be scurrying along. I thought it may have been a roach.

Turns out it was only a quarter that had fallen and rolled on the floor from the clerks hand while being handed my change.

I was so embarrassed, lol! I wasn't about to explain that I thought it was a roach, haha. So, I just pretended nothing happened, picked up the quarter, and left. It was more embarrassing than it sounds.

Feel free to share some of yours.

[katethegreat]

Anything that sounds vaguely like a wasp or a bee is enough to distract me and set in 'the fear' to the point where I just can't function as a human and once abandoned my basket in a supermarket...there's far too many stories, most of them hideously embarrassing maybe I'll post a selection

[InaraSanguine]

In 9th grade, I was allowed to audition for a show at school with sheet music. I wasn't cast in the show (and I wasn't a big fan of the song) so I never even looked at the thing again, or bothered learning the words.

6 months later, the director asked me to sing the same song in a concert on Friday. It was Wednesday. I said yes.

NEVER SAY YES IF YOU KNOW THAT YOU WON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO LEARN THE SONG!

Anyway, I went home and practiced. And practiced, but when showtime came...I wasn't prepared and I started in the wrong key. And proceeded to forget ALL the words. I had to "dance" my way through the song because the pianist litarally hated me and REFUSED to stop playing until the song was over.

I was completely mortified. And spent the next three minutes backstage trying to pull myself together for the next number.

Anyway, that was the first and last time THAT ever happened.

I think that really is my most embarassing moment. I mean, besides all the clumsy things I've done...like hitting my shin and flipping head over heels on a bench....

[Matthew]

[Salome]

whats a wuss LMFAO!

[Quique]

lol.

I think I'm a mega wuss over the quarter rolling incident, lol. That's for sure!

And Salome was probably pretty darn embarrassed over puking all over the place after getting socked by that bitch, lol.

[Salome]

gee Quique..thnaks for putting it so sympathetically!

but yes..none of your stories were as embarassing as that.

[Quique]

Awww...*gently pats tummy*

Did you like, throw up in front of a lot of people, or was it somewhere more private?

I threw up on Wayne's lap once after drinking one too many Tanqueray and tonics. I just laughed as he recoiled in horror, lol. He had to wash his pants. After they dried, we discovered he had left his cell phone in his pant pocket! It no longer worked. That night was such a mess, lol.

He repayed the favor by throwing up in my car once.

[Salome]

It was at a bar. she punched mei n the gut in front of like 30 people.

[Jordan]

[Da_Dark_Dude]

[Aimee]

I was in Dublin on holiday travelling round staying in budget B&B's with a group of friends.

One evening I was flirting heavily with a guy who was also staying at the B&B, lots of eye contact, cheeky comments, the usual stuff. Nothing happened that night but the next morning I was in the communal bathroom, not looking at my most glamorous [pre-wash, pre-teeth-clean, pre-hair-brush]. I was actually sitting on the loo having a pee and the door opened and in he walked.

I was too embarrassed to go down to the breakfast room and face him again and very glad to be leaving the B&B that day.

Moral: if you don’t know the lock on the door make SURE its fully locked.

[lostquiche]

It was backstage, and a freind and I were (quite loudly) doing our secret handshake. She stopped, but I didn't notice and kept doing it for a few more second until I realized the room was deathly silent. I turned around and lo and behold, the stage manager (complete biotch, eveyone's worst fear) was standing behind me. She proceeded to scream at me and chew me out in front to the whole room. Then I went on stage and still humiliated and shaken, proceeded to drop the person I was suppoed to be supporting in that awful moment of silence between the last note and the applause. It echoed. She hurt her ankle.

[Aimee]

secret handshake??

Is this a euphemism?

[Salome]

While what you were doing was wrong..the stage manager was out of line acting that way. its not the stage manager's job to rattle a performer so bad they f*ck up on stage!

was this a pro house?

[lostquiche]

[Salome]

well in high school stage managers are as inept as everyone else. it it was a pro or even a community theatre..that stage manager would be out on their ass for jeopordizing a show because they handled the situation the wrong way.

[benjivaudeville]

First time I ever stood on a stage was when we were allowed to explore the set of a production of the Ladykillers. I was thrilled and ran over to the fake phone-box (one wall was missing so dialogue could be clearly heard.)

I picked up the phone and spoke in it then hung up. Then as, I started flicking through the phone book in front of me, I went to lean on the wall facing the audience. I fell through the gap and landed with a thump on the floor. To finish it off, I started crying.

Anyone care to hear more of my embarrassing moments?

[Salome]

"ladykillers" is that the same as the Alec Guinness film?

[benjivaudeville]

Yup.

[Salome]

I didnt know it was based on a play. its one of my favorite Guinness films.

[benjivaudeville]

I don't know whether it was a play originally or not. I just know that I went and saw one. Haha.

Back to the topic. First day at school in England and we'd sat there for a while and my foot had gone to sleep. End of assembly and everyone started to file out of the hall. I stood up and started to walk but because of my dead foot I fell over. I got up and started again, and I fell over again. I was getting embarrassed now as everyone was laughing at me. I got up once more and started walking. I fell again and hit my face on the Headteacher's shoes. I cried.

[NoOneMournsTheWicked]

First day of frisbee in gym today, and we were playing some monkey in the middle like game. I was partnered with my boyfriend and another friend, and since I'm the smallest, they thought it would be funny if I was in the middle. Wrong. Two seconds in, my boyfriend pegged me in the face with a frisbee. I have a little cut on my nose and a gash going along right above my lip and my nose started bleeding. And to top it off, my gym teacher pointed me out as the first 'frisbee casualty', so I couldn't even suffer privately. The whole class was laughing at me.

[Maid Marian]

I went on a holiday with the Girl Guides and we stayed in a boarding house. Our pack leader told us firmly not to get out of bed, and made three girls sleep downstairs because they'd sneaked out. She came up the stairs and caught me just as I was trying to go down and see the other girls. When I saw her I jumped, tripped, and knocked her down the stairs. We landed in a heap at the bottom just as the manageress and a couple of posh guests having drinks in the front room came out to see what was going on.

Another time my science teacher caught me doodling all over my exercise book, took it away from me and started reading my scribbles out to the class: "My Personal Diary, by Marian: Jenny is a slag, I hate PE, hello Kevin can I borrow 50p" and so on. The class didn't let me forget it for weeks.