Embarrassment...

OK, so my friend Laura posted a tag about her most embarrassing moment and after you read it, you are supposed to comment on it then you are it (meaning you have to post your most embarrassing moment too)! This was a very interesting thought to me. I have, in fact been avoiding reading the whole post until this morning as I have been reflecting on what I might write as my most embarrassing moment...I have all these stories I tell about slightly embarrassing moments in my life when people ask, but let's be honest, the REALLY embarrassing stories are not ones I like to repeat-even years later...

That being said, this is probably my actual most embarrassing story that I rarely tell...I don't know why it embarrassed me so much, but it did, and I can still feel my cheeks filling with blood and getting red as I begin to type this...silly!!

OK-when I was a teenager, I got a ticket for an accident I had. In order to get it off my record and avoid a huge jump in my insurance (which my parents paid at the time), my dad used his great skills as a lawyer to make a deal. SO, instead of the ticket on my record, I did as many deal-making Americans before me had done, and I went to traffic school. This consisted of all day on a Saturday in a room in the courthouse with guards & security everywhere, and with other bored, uninterested law-breakers and a very boring teacher. It was like a day of prison...

There were crazy rules of the day to be sure you satisfied all of the required hours, nay minutes of traffic school-one such rule was that you couldn't leave the room for any reason except at designated breaks. This is never a good thing for me as I have had bladder problems since I was a small child. Needless to say, minutes into our morning, I had to pee like crazy, and could not leave the room until our first designated break hours later. I sat there as I should holding it for hours, and as the break was coming up, I was on the brink of a serious problem, so seconds before the teacher officially let the class go, I bolted for the door, convinced the guard to let me out just a second early, and bolted for the bathroom. I rushed into the bathroom and into the stall, and happily made it! Yeah!!!

I was so happy about the whole thing I literally let out a loud audible sign of relief in the stall (I may even have mumbled a "Nice..." under my breath). Then I opened the door of the stall to a FULL room of men standing with their backs to me (thank goodness) at urinals, all of them were of course looking over their shoulders at me with shock and laughter. It was mortifying, and I wished I had been graceful or funny and said something like "sorry, the ladies room had a line" but instead, I turned bright red, ran into my prison and hid in the back of the room. First thing back in class the teacher called me up to demonstrate something and no joke every man in the room started to laugh hysterically...

So, there you go. My embarrassing moment! Now that you read it, feel free to comment and them you can consider yourself tagged to post your most embarrassing moment as well!