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Craig. HA! That battered fish story was great!  I love embarrassing moments. We all have them.  Ummmmmm I don`t think I`m prepared to share mine just yet. Embarrassment is one of those traits unique to humans and I`m not sure why a particular story makes all of the other humans chuckle.

Quick 911 moment (as that seems to be one of the topics) You may have heard the one about the little old lady that called 911 because she couldn`t open a bottle. She was having a bad day and called the dispatcher crying and desperate saying she just wanted to relax and have a beer. They sent a squad car and happily obliged........being old does have its advantages doesn`t it?

 

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~Eric
JE Design Group, LLC
If all you do is what you`ve done, then all you`ll get is what you`ve got.
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Good Story Eric!

Here is on for the embarrassing category for me (and I don`t embarrass easy).

When I was younger, about 13-14, we came from Portland, OR to a lake here in Central Oregon, about a 3 and a half hour drive.  When we got to the lake I had to use the facilities something awful, so when I saw the little building I ran inside and hit the first stall that I saw. 

After a second or two, I could hear the voices of girls, I had gone in to the wrong one!  I hung out in the stall for about an hour with the steady steam of girls in and out till I got up the courage to just bolt out the door!

 

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Tony Sorensen Performance Detailing www.performance-detailing.com info@performance-detailing.com tojealca@gmail.com

So my brother`s an inventor, and has a product involving pumpkin seeds. Along with other things, he`s been interested in marketing these. One of his friends is a major IT contractor in the upstate New York area, working with all businesses to help increase commerce to a blighted place.

Doug (my brother) was talking with John, the friend. They`ve been friends since college, and explaining the product and how he was looking for investment. Not long after the conversation, John was at a business party with a boatload of people: bankers, corporate types, business leaders, etc.

John started talking about Doug`s product. The more he talked, the more people came over to listen and ask questions. A number of bankers wanted to know how they could invest, and some business owners asked more questions about distribution.

So John and Doug were talking a few days after the party. John told Doug all about how astonishing it is that people with lots of money will buy into just about anything. He explained what had transpired and Doug was very excited! "So did you give them my name? How much money would they invest? When can we get started?"

John said he hadn`t followed up on any of it. Stunned, Doug asked "why not?"

"I thought you were kidding!" was John`s reply.

(Yeeesh!! LOL!! .....yes, Doug still talks to John...but with a verbal shake of his head whenever he mentions him.)

Speaking of embarassing moments....

Almost eleven years ago, I was returning from lunch when a woman walked out of a bathroom and cut me off in the hallway.  I had to move to avoid being bump into. Although I found her behavior to be rude, I noticed there were two problems she probably wasn`t aware of.  I attempted to stop her before she could walk into the highly populated common area where the elevators were.  Obviously she found my attempt to delay her to be a nuisance.  She whipped around and snapped "what do you want?"  Given her tone, I deceided to only tell her about the toilet paper which was trailing from her shoe and remained silent about the other problem. 

She huffed in discust and wiped the toilet paper off leaving it lingering in the hallway. She was so rude that I decided to kept quite and allowed her to embarass herself.  I watched as she briskly approached the common area to catch an elevator.  People were turning their heads left and right but not one single person approached her.  Instead they were wispering to each other, snickering and pointing to her. 

Oblivious as to what was occuring she climbed into the elevator.  We had probably traveled two maybe three floors before another person tried to tell her she had an embarassing problem.  She was just as rude to them as she had been to me; but unlike me they didn`t remain silent.  Instead they took great pleasure in telling her to pull her skirt out of her nylons and to stop flashing her rear end to everyone & their brother.   The woman turned three shades of red and quickly pulled her skirt out of her nylons.  That was the first and last time I ever saw her in the building.

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Nicole Champagne
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