You know whats really, REALLY embarrassing?

[GirlinContempt]

Collapsing in public.
At work.
And hospital gowns.
:blush:

I could REALLY use someone else making a fool of themselves, it'd make me feel better.

[progmom]

1. are you ok, sweetie?

:hug:

[GirlinContempt]

4. I *think* so

:hug: thanks hon

[Shell Beau]

2. Come hang with me and you'll feel better!

I always embarrass myself!!

[GirlinContempt]

5. Sounds like a plan

[u4ic]

3. What happened?!?

Hope you're ok! :hug:

[GirlinContempt]

6. I'm still not entirely sure

[Shell Beau]

7. You are okay, right?

Hope so! :hug:

[GirlinContempt]

12. I seem to be

[skygazer]

8. Okay, I've got one for you

At my father's wedding, I was seated on a stool, wearing high heels with the heels hooked over one of the rails on the stool (you can see where this is going, can't you?). Yup, leaned forward to get my drink and the whole stool went over, I couldn't get my feet out quick enough and went SPLAT! face down on the dance floor in front of all the guest. :blush:

Hope you're okay. :hug:

[GirlinContempt]

10. Ouch!

Thanks

[XNASA]

9. My top 3 embarrassing moments all involved either....

...collapsing, or hospitals.


I hope you're alright.

[GirlinContempt]

11. Thanks

[jpgray]

13. Like a grotesquely failed asthmaticeog thread which attracts only mockery?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4652505

[GirlinContempt]

15. aww jpgrey

you're so sweet for cheerin' me up like that :P

[jpgray]

18. And in thanks you've given me an irritated vowel

Signed, jpgrAy

[GirlinContempt]

20. greygreygrey

suck it up, princess

[jpgray]

22. That's better, but say it more slowly

:P

[GirlinContempt]

23. gggggg

you sure you wanna open that door? It's locked for a reason

[GirlinContempt]

27. rrrrr

[jpgray]

30. You can stop there

At this point I think I'm obligated to ask you if you're still wearing the hospital gown? :shrug:

[GirlinContempt]

31. I *do* enjoy the freedom

Enemas in an instant!
I'll leave it up to your imagination

[Richardo]

33. GiC performs John Cage's "As Slow as Possible"

:rofl:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2728595.stm

[jpgray]

36. I wish the GD twins would perform 4'33"

[Richardo]

37. ;-)

:toast: to the gratuitous 4'33" reference.

[jpgray]

38. It's almost obligatory--the one John Cage reference everyone will know

But few know that he was the most prolific composer for the "prepared piano" after Liberace.

[Left Is Write]

14. First...

I hope you are okay. Collapsing worries me!

Second...we've all been embarrassed from time to time. Shall I tell you the story about the time I was accidentally doing production on the air and I was swearing up and down at our copywriter, thinking only I could hear me?

[GirlinContempt]

16. Thats pretty embarrassing

[Left Is Write]

19. Yes, it certainly was...

I can't tell you how many calls I took from people who were concerned that I might be fired over that incident.

No, I wasn't fired, though my boss pulled the legs of a couple of longtime listeners.

He actually thought it was funny. If it had been more than a one-time thing, I suspect it would have lost its amusing luster.

[billyskank]

17. Oh hey, what happened?

I'm sorry to hear you have been in trouble. :hug:

[GirlinContempt]

24. Not exactly sure

except that I went boom

[billyskank]

28. My thoughts are with you

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Eep! Hope you're okay.

My embarrassing moment:

I as at a local show one time, there was no security, since it was a fairly small show, but the venue (an outdoor venue) had a fence to keep a gap between the crowd and the stage. I was already at the front of the crowd, and the singer said for us to jump the fence because the gap was pissing him off. I was the first one over the fence, but I caught my toe on the top of the fence and went face first into the ground in front of everyone, both the crowd and the band. The singer stopped singin and helped me up, but it was pretty embarrassing. Hurt a little too, haha.

[GirlinContempt]

25. Awww

Sounds pretty painful

[ghostsofgiants]

32. Luckily it was a pretty rockin' show, so the adrenaline was flowing

Didn't really phase me much. I was sore the next day though, haha.

[billyskank]

26. Okay. While a student, being caught drunk by the cops

while I was standing on a construction site standing atop the cab of a digger, proudly peeing into its bucket.

Actually at the time the drunkenness prevented me from feeling the shame that is due. My contrition only developed afterwards.

When they asked me, "what are you doing?" I replied, "physics."

:blush:

[GirlinContempt]

34. "Physics"

:rofl:

[LaraMN]

29. That happened to me once. I got a concussion. Y'know why it happened?

Because I was PREGNANT!:scared:
(ok- now if you really are, I'll feel like an asshole.)

[GirlinContempt]

35. If I'm pregnant

god has some serious explaining to do

[LaraMN]

39. He usually does.

I'd appreciate an explanation of why I was born with a deep-seated fear of the number seven.

[Patiod]

40. Fibroids can cause a lot of embarrassing incidents

too gross to go into on a mixed board. Just imagine every horrible thing you were afraid might happen to you when you first found out about getting your period, then multiply by 100.

One incident had me holed up in the boonies somewhere at a Holiday Inn bathroom for a few hours while my friend went to buy pants for me at the nearest WalMart.
Another event happened on a crowded train platform at rush hour (fortunately, people pay no attention to the condition of your clothing when they're late for their train).
Plus lots of embarrassment at work, when I'd go home wearing a suit jacket with sweat pants -- I'm lucky that my co-workers are mostly 1) women, many of whom have had fibroids themselves or 2) guys with Aspergers who wouldn't notice if I were wearing a tiger costume and had an arrow through my head.

Hospital gowns ain't nothing compared to hemorrhaging in public. But collapsing at work isn't any fun either. Hope all is okay.

/Got it fixed, no more embarrassing incidents.

[GirlinContempt]

48. Yikes

Glad you got that fixed

[ccjlld]

54. Done that horrible hemorraging in public thing

Have had to leave work. The worst was on vacation, we had just arrived at Devil's Tower and wouldn't you know......

Have also done the collapsing in public. Forgot to take my Paxil 2 days in a row, also had problems with anemia from the above, felt the intense panic attack coming on, got fuzzy and my ears started buzzing, asked the girl in the store if there was anywhere to sit down and then woke up on the floor to paramedics talking to me.

Kinda scary but more embarassing.

Hope you're ok!

[Patiod]

58. Man, Devil's Tower is in the middle of NOWHERE

went through there on our way to Deadwood. I had my surgery scheduled at the time, was on pretty strong hormones to make sure I didn't get my period until then (I was honestly afraid of bleeding to death - it's hard to describe to anyone who hasn't experienced it -- it really IS hemorraging). Could NEVER have traveled in that condition.

The anemia part wasn't fun either.

One word of advice to anyone with fibroids/anemia: don't take a vacation at 8000 feet when you're severely anemic. Spent one of our first nights in the mountains hyperventilating and tachycardic. My SO was scared he was going to lose me - we were debating going to a hospital and getting oxygen. Fortunately after that it was just weakness and shortness of breath.

I assume you've had yours taken care of as well, and are back in the land of the iron-rich!!

[ccjlld]

60. Am on hormones

but haven't taken the surgical route yet because I haven't totally given up on the idea of kids. It has slacked off a bit with the hormones so it's not as bad as when it was at it's worst. My anemia got so bad, my hemoglobin was down around 6, I had to have a transfusion, two units. My husband said I was "two quarts" low. I just remember that when I would walk from the living room to the bedroom, my heart would beat so fast I thought I would die. I take iron daily and during my cycle take 3 a day. So far, it's under control. But sooner or later, I think I'm gonna have to opt for the surgery.

[SmokingJacket]

41. I passed out at work once, when I worked at a car parts store.

Then, vomited up a banana.

:blush:

Hope you're okay! :hi:

[GirlinContempt]

49. Ew!

Thanks

[henslee]

42. My dad collapsed in an airport and didn't tell any of his family until

months later when I found out by accident. It broke my heart and worried me sick.

[GirlinContempt]

50. Wow I'm sorry to hear that

[graywarrior]

43. Whoa, that's embarrassing.

BUT. Someone opened up the restroom door while I was hitching up my pants yesterday. And the door leads right into the reception area where...you guessed it....approximately 8 students standing there gaping in at me. (My pants were still around my knees.)Top that one.

[GirlinContempt]

51. Ack!

[lakemonster11]

44. This might make you feel better.

I fell off my barstool last night and into the arms of a friend's boyfriend (who I don't know well), stomping on my boyfriend's foot in the process. (I wasn't drunk, I just lost my balance). :blush:

[GirlinContempt]

52. Eeeek

at least if you'd been drunk it'd be better, no?

[swag]

45. Hey, hon. Hope you're all better.

And there's certainly no reason for you to feel embarrassed.

[GirlinContempt]

53. All better? No

Better? Yes.

And I totally need to feel embarassed.

[Beware the Beast Man]

46. It's not as if you were rushed to the hospital,

with a toy truck inserted somewhere.

You have nothing to be embarrassed about, but I do hope you feel better. :pals:

[GirlinContempt]

55. EWWWWWW

:hug: thanks

[Magrittes Pipe]

56. You KNEW better than to give me the remote control.

:eyes:

[Beware the Beast Man]

57. Har-de-har-har...

Do you know what it's like to have a plastic Stomper wheel pushing against your colon wall? It's no freaking picnic!

[Magrittes Pipe]

61. I was thinking of this one:

Did you ever find the cab?

[In_The_Wind]

47. I hope you're feeling better.

This oops should distract you for awhile. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=4059993


I tripped over a piece of luggage someone pulling as they walked in front of me.
I was watching Megan and not looking down at my feet!

[GirlinContempt]

62. Thanks Joan

[u4ic]

59. GiC, I should tell you about an embarrassing moment

When I was in grade 9, we went to a taping of "The Great Debate" at CBC.

As it was the first time I had been in a studio, I weaved my way to the front of the line, and sat in the first seat nearest the stairs, in the first aisle.

The topic was "socialism vs capitalism".

I had no idea what either was. :rofl:

I had no idea that Pierre Berton interviewed audience members beforehand on the debate subject matter.

Guess who's the first to be asked? I can't remember EXACTLY what I said, but it was silly enough that the audience burst out laughing; no doubt something befitting of a grade 9er who had no idea what they were talking about.

Later, in between shooting breaks (there were 2 more episodes being shot), a few from my high school came up to me and snarked on the girl who made a fool of herself at the beginning of the show. (they didn't realize it was me)

There we go...I made an idiot of myself in front for the whole country to see. :blush:

[GirlinContempt]

63. hehehe

ok that's pretty funny ;) But you were young!