Most embarrassing moments.....

[teigyr]

Oh so very many but here is my top two.

When I moved to Washington, I had an apartment on the first floor. It backed up to a hill with underbrush and plants and because I had cats that would climb behind the blinds and make noise (the blinds rattled), I left the blinds up in my bedroom. There was nothing out there, no trails or anything and nobody ever went on that side of the apartment building.

I would get home from work around 1am so I would sleep rather late. During the summer it would get warm and I often would fall asleep on top of the covers. With no clothes on.

One morning around 9am I heard, in my sleep, the phrase "on the bed". I opened my eyes, looked toward the window, and the faces of about 7 schoolchildren were pressed against the window. I screamed and yelled about as many obscenities as someone can come up with after just waking up. The schoolchildren ran off.

I was horrified. I could no longer sleep in that room even with the blinds down. As a few months went by, it dawned on me that I was probably older than their mothers. And a kid seeing their mother naked would deem it as being gross. I alternated between being embarassed by being seen and offended because maybe they DID think it was gross. This was only about six years ago...so who knows. Either way, it's bad.

More recently and a few years after this, I got braces. I was single and lo and behold I had a DATE. I had never met this guy - he was a friend of a mutual friend who thought we would be perfect together. We had e-mailed and talked on the phone and liked each other a LOT. I hadn't eaten in public since getting braces and I was feeling pretty insecure about them. What I did in those cases is pretend like I am totally ok and gosh darn it I am PROUD of having braces. I'm good at faking it. After panic-ridden e-mail to friends with braces, I learned that when you eat, swishing water can dislodge food. Good. My date and I went out for drinks then went out for dinner. I tried to get something that wouldn't stick in my teeth though I learned pasta (which is what I got) was a BAD decision. As I tried to be semi-elegant with my food and wine, I quietly got a mouthful of water and tried to swish it around to get the bits of food out. I am not graceful. I did end up spitting the water (and dislodged food) out over the table and onto my date. We got married about a year and a half later

[RolliePollie]

Three nudity related embarassing moments...

#1 Very embarassing:
I am house-sitting my parents' house, which is up for sale. There is a lock-box on the porch, but realtors are supposed to call before they show it. It was early afternoon on a Sunday and I hopped in the shower (which has clear glass doors) and left the bathroom door wide open as usual. I'm sure you can all guess what happened. Yup, a realtor brought a family of five to see the house while I was in the shower. Just as I heard voices and realized there were people in the house, a little toddler girl peeked in the door at me from down the hall. Holy Cow! I spun around, shut off the water, and yelled that I was home and in the shower!!!! The realtor yelled back that they would stay in the living room until I said it was ok. That poor toddler is probably scarred for life.

#2 Really extremely embarassing:
Got off work early and decided to go on a bike ride. I live in a rural area and don't typically worry about people being able to see in through the windows. I needed to change my clothes, so I stripped down completely naked in the front bedroom, which has huge windows and looks out on the front walkway. I guess I was bending over to get my feet out of my underwear or something, and when I stood up (now completely naked), there were a man and a woman, who I vaguely recognized as neighbors from up the street, coming up the front walk. They looked right in the window at me...I hit the deck and crawled out of the room into the hall to hide. They never did come knock on the door, which leads me to believe thhe did, in fact, see me standing there in all my horrifyingly white and flabby glory!!!

#3 Long term embarassing:
My old house was a fixer-upper. Renovations took forever because I couldn't afford to do everything at once. For the longest time, I used old fabric shower curtains as curtains in my bedroom. My neighbor's house was very close, and they had several windows that looked directly at my bedroom windows, including their kitchen window, which did not have curtains. Of course, things go on in a bedroom, like changing clothes, etc. (nothing steamy or anything, thank goodness ) - and at night, these things go on with the lights turned on. One night, I went out to the garage. I had left the lights on in the bedroom, and when I turned to go back to the house, I was in shock. Those shower curtains were completely see-through! OMG, my neighbors could see everything!!!! My only hope is that they were never looking. Yeah right.