for some reason this memory popped into my head a minute ago.
i went to the doctor a few years ago. i can’t remember why, probably just a physical. anyway, i was asked to go into the bathroom and “fill the cup.” as i was walking back down the hall with a full cup, the nurse met me in the hallway to take it, and i must have stumbled or lost my balance, but i* spilled the cup on her*. not the whole thing, but about a quarter of it. i couldn’t believe it. i turned beet-red and tried to apologize, but all that came out was, “I-I-oh, um…I…”
the nurse just took it in stride, giggling and saying “oops! lemme just take that for you, if you could wait while i blah blah blah”. Other than the “oops” you’d have thought she didn’t even notice.
i, on the other hand, couldn’t look her in eye when i left, i felt like such an ass.
as i said, this happened years ago but when i remembered it, i felt just as embarrassed as the day it happened.
so have you ever done something so stupid/embarrassing that the mere thought of it makes you blush? not in the “now i can laugh about it” way, but in the "oh god, why did i do that?? " way
Oh, then there was the time in Jr High when I wore a skirt to school, and when I got home, my maxi pad wasn’t there… no idea where or when it fell out, or who may have seen…
Well, acconav, if it’s any comfort, medical types are used to getting MUCH worse stuff on their clothes, hard as that may be to imagine while eating breakfast. At least piss washes out.
Oh, I have many memories like this for me, but nothing truly horrible, just my stupid mouth getting in the way of my brain.
At an old job, not once, but twice, I was talking about another employee with others when they silently let me know he was sitting mere feet away from us and could hear everything we were saying. I wasn’t dissing him either time, but…relating humorous anecdotes(yeah, that’s it!) I still want to crawl in a hole when I think about it.
Once, when I was selling computers at a retail chain store, I was talking with a customer about ergonomic keyboards, and how they have helped me type quicker. And then I said, “Then again, I’m still just a hunt-and-pecker.”
When I was working in a large megachain bookstore, a regular customer wanted me to recommend a book. I pulled out a copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (I had just finished reading it [finally!]) and handed it to him. He got excited and said loudly:
Wow! I love Dick! Do you like Dick?
Bad enough in itself, but then I said: Yes, that’s some great stuff.
It hit us both when we heard the manager laughing his ass off one aisle over.