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What is the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to you when you were a kid?
Hollanda:
Oh I have so many. I was reminded of this by someone on Facebook. Much to my utter embarrassment!!
/BG At school I had a huuuuuuuuuuuge crush on a lad called Eddie. He was 2 years older than me and I fancied him like mad from when I was 11 to the age of about 17. I kind of stalked him with love letters (ugh) and he took it really, really well. He called me his greatest fan. He used to wait for me outside school to make sure my bullies didn't try to attack me, and made sure I got home OK. Basically, he turned out to be one of the best friends I ever had. He's now married (and his wife is lovely) and we keep in touch on Facebook. He constantly comments on pictures of my baby and DF and he get on really well. /BG
Anyway. I was in the school choir and we did small concerts in front of the school. The whole school. I was standing at the front in these concerts as I was (and still am) quite short. On this particular occasion, the elastic in my knickers snapped at the exact second we started singing. I was not wearing tights and there was very little I could do apart from keep hold of them, over my skirt. That song seemed to last forever. Oh, the shame. Eddie was sitting right near the front because he was a prefect at the time. I think I nearly died. When the concert finally finished, I went straight to the Nurse's office and explained what had happened. I had to get my mum to come to the school with some new ones. The other kids bullied me about that for absolutely ages. I look back at it now and still blush furiously. Eddie, to his credit, never did jibe me about it. His friends did, though. :( After that day I always made sure I wore tights under my skirt, and kept a spare pair in my bag!!!!
What about you guys anyway?? xxx
Thipu1:
This could be an interesting thread and it's odd that no one has responded.
Thinking back, there must have been things in my larval stages that made me want to fall through the floor. Everyone must have had tthings like this but we don't remember them.
I do remember a time when I was about 6 years old. I got drunk at my Grandparent's 50th Anniversary party. The adults were dancing and I ate the fruit left in their cocktail glasses. I was found asleep under a table.
I was six at the time.
Dazi:
Really, I have too many to name...here are a few:
Oddly, the first one is a choir story too. I was first soprano, so I was on the top, far right if you were in the audience. I had a very hectic day and really hadn't eaten much. My bloodsugar got too low and combined with the heat from the lights and nerves, I fainted and fell off the back of the platform. Luckily, the curtain was still closed and I broke my fall on a male friend that happened to be walking behind me. He sort of caught me, but we still went down. I got teased for stagefright for a few years.
In first grade and in daycare I barfed all over my teacher. I still say it was her fault for making me eat things I I said would make me sick. Ditto for the daycare worker making me drink milk...I get "strings" from drinking plain milk.
In third grade I had a really bad stomach ache. I told the teacher, but she wouldn't let me go to the nurse or office. I sneezed and ended up spewing from both ends. I would guess about a third of the students and the teacher followed suit with the barfing. It was REALLY AWFUL. I was sick for almost two solid weeks. Strangely, it was the girls that tormented me the most on this. The boys were quite impressed with the distance I managed to eject bodily fluids.
GreenEyedHawk:
When I was in the 8th grade, I was sitting in class, writing an exam. I had one foot tucked under me on my chair, so of course I ended up cutting off the circulation to my foot til it was totally numb, though I didn't realise it at the time. When I went to hand in my exam, my foot was completely dead and unresponsive; it felt like I had a block of wood on the end of my leg. I managed a few steps, staggered forward and fell with a resounding crash into the front of the teacher's desk, in front of my entire class.
I'm now 30, and probably not that much more coordinated than I was then.
Ceallach:
When I was 8 years old, the math teacher who would give a pop quiz every week, then we'd mark each other's test, then the whole class would have to stand up at their desks. She'd call out as follows:
"Sit down if you got 20 out of 20 correct..... Sit down if you got 19 out of 20 correct..... Sit down if you got 18 out of 20 correct...." and so forth.
And then when she got down to 3 out of 20 and I was the only child in the class still standing, she mocked me for it and everybody laughed. I can clearly recall standing there, with her scathing expression fixed on me while my classmates (including my so-called friends) laughed at me. It wasn't just in passing, she stopped to call me out on it and made a joke. I was a very self-conscious child and was mortified.
Oh, and for the record - I could *read* rings around those kids. They assigned a book for us to read, and I took it home and read the entire book the first night. In class we were supposed to sit in a circle and take turns s-l-o-w-l-y reading one sentence at a time each. Most of my classmates could barely read even though they were clearly *so* much smarter than me and not mock-worthy. I wish we'd had spelling bees, I would have won those and then who'd be laughing? Incidentally, those kids weren't nasty, it was just one of those group situations - everybody was laughing. Years later one of the girls asked me why I'd dropped out from school and I said I didn't like Mrs Jones. She said "Oh yeah, she was such a terrible teacher. Nobody from our class liked her." So I imagine I missed more bullying and nasty behaviour throughout the year. (I dropped out a few weeks after the above incident and was homeschooled until age 16). But that was such an embarassing experience.
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