Embarrassing moments

[Sparky]

That reminds me of the time I opened my car door and somehow managed to wing my glasses with the top corner of the door, sending my glasses flying across the parking lot. (Fortunately these were sunglasses, this was before I started wearing prescription glasses.)

Or the time I was trying to look at an item in a large box on the top shelf at Walmart, and someone had left a metal toolbox on top, and it fell on my face and my glasses (real ones) went flying...Although that wasn't really my fault.

But then no one was there to witness either of these events so I guess they weren't particularly "embarrassing".

[Partymember]

oh God Sparky that must've hurt!

I remember the time i broke my finger. It last Halloween, it was cold and my hands were pretty numb. I planted them on the trunk of a car and hopped up there... and sat on my finger and broke it

[Sparky]

Being hit by the toolbox hurt, yeah.

I have never broken any bones. I seriously don't know how I've managed that. I have however scraped off large quantities of skin.

[Partymember]

ouch.

Yeah i'm thankful that i've never broken a leg or an arm. Or that i haven't yet.

[Lynnie]

I've only broken a toe. I was eight years old, and was (foolishly) swinging back and forth on a kitchen cabinet door. The door broke off its hinges and the bottom edge of it landed right on my toe. It's still slightly crooked to this day.

I didn't break it, but I messed my elbow up when I was 12. I took a running start before jumping over a fence on a playground, and didn't jump high enough. My foot caught the fence and I crashed into the ground- right on my elbow. I had it in a sling for two weeks. And although no bone was broken, I messed the cartilage up because when looking at my elbows side by side now, you can clearly see they don't match. And whenever cold/wet weather is on its way, I can feel it coming in that elbow.

Eh hem, we're getting off topic, sorry.

Now for an EM of not mine, but my mother's. Once when we were at the airport, my brother, mother and I were waiting at the gate so we could watch my aunt's plane take off (this is pre-9/11). Now, for many years my bro always wore baseball caps, and I came up with a way to distract him when he was irritating me- grab the cap off his head and fling it as far as I could in the opposite direction. He'd always stop bugging me and take off to retrieve his cap. Always worked like a charm. Anyway, this day at the airport, my goofy bro was bugging my mom and I. Mom had caught on to my little trick, and she had done it a few times herself. So she grabbed his cap off his head and flung it as hard as she could. There was a middle aged man sitting in one of the seats near by, reading a newspaper, minding his own business. And suddenly this hat comes flying toward him, crashes into his paper, tears it out of his hand, and then lands in his lap. He looks over to where the hat had come from, and sees two kids suddenly crack up something fierce, and their mother red in the face from devastating embarrassment. She goes over and apologizes, he hands her the hat, and then she comes back to where we're still busting our guts, and to this day, I have still never seen my mother's face so red. Now days, all it takes is one of us to say "Remember when Mommy threw the hat at the man?" and the next 10 or so minutes are easily filled with fits of laughter. And she still blushes at the memory.

To add to the story, I entered it in a radio contest for Mother's Day a few years later, it was read on the air, and my mother won a month's worth of free maid service.

My mother has since learned to always look where you're flinging a hat before flinging it.

[BluebottleFlyer]

This really happened, not long ago...I'd just left after an appointment at the Jobcentre (fellow Brits will know what I'm talking about), and I was halfway up the road when I realised my backpack wasn't on my shoulder, so I went back down to the Jobcentre to see if it was there. When I got there I found that all the Jobcentre staff were stood outside the building for some reason. When I asked one of them why, she told me that the building had been evacuated because someone had found an unattended bag under one of the desks, and they had to evacuate in case said bag had explosives or something. The bag was my backpack...I nearly died of embarassment.
For a moment I even thought they'd get the police involved, but thankfully it all got cleared up. One of the staff even said I'd done them a favour by making their day a bit more exciting, lol.

[scary_dream]

That reminds me of my friend!! This actually happened as well.

For my best friend Ethan's birthday, our friend made an "All-around-town" scavenger hunt for him. One of the items to be hunted was an old briefcase duct taped under the top of a slide at a nearby elementary school.

They evacuated the school, then brought the cops, firemen, and even the bomb squad with their little detonator robot out. The robot destroyed it to find out what it REALLY was!

My friend took it well, though. He wasn't embarrassed and he didn't go to jail because it's not like he intentionally CALLED IN a bomb threat. Still, a good story that would have made my face turn red for sure had it been me!

Here's the news story. I had to copy and paste because I had to go through a cached Google page that looked kind of crappy. It's followed by a link to it if you want to see pictures:


Suspicious briefcase linked to scavenger hunt
By MATT SWEARENGIN, SENIOR Staff Writer
DURANT - A briefcase taped to a slide on a playground at Northwest Heights Elementary School as part of a harmless scavenger hunt was detonated Friday afternoon by a bomb squad robot.

Police were called at 8:54 a.m. after a teacher's aide saw the briefcase.

The school, located at 1715 University Blvd., was quickly evacuated and the students were escorted to the intermediate school, according to Durant School Superintendent Dr. Terry James, who said police took an extremely cautious perspective.

“The procedure worked perfectly,” James said at the scene. “They all walked over in good order.”

Other school sites were checked and no other suspicious-looking devices were found, according to James. Parents were allowed to pick up their children and other schools remained in session.

Police learned later that afternoon that the briefcase had been placed there by teenagers as part of a scavenger hunt for a friend's birthday party.

However, at the time it was found, it was considered of suspicious nature. Oklahoma Highway Patrol Bomb Squad Technician Robert Daws called for OHP's bomb squad truck from Oklahoma City, police said. A robot was used to approach the briefcase that was taped with duct tape to the top of the slide. The robot was equipped with a pole to prod at the briefcase.

The robot tipped over while prodding at the briefcase, and a few minutes later two OHP bomb squad technicians, wearing protective suits, walked out and uprighted the robot.

One of the technicians then pulled the briefcase down from the slide. The briefcase was placed on the ground and the technicians walked away.

A few minutes later at approximately 1:15, a technician yelled “fire in the hole,” and a device on the robot fired a charge that blew open the briefcase. The technicians, still in their bomb suits, then approached the blown-open briefcase and learned that nothing was inside it, according to police.

People in the area had been asked to go inside or stay behind buildings for safety reasons, although onlookers watched from parking areas at businesses off North 19th Avenue. A couple of people pulled out binoculars and others used their cell phones to call people and describe what they were watching.

“It's not everyday you get to see a bomb squad in action,” a man said.

After the scare was over, police learned the briefcase was part of a scavenger hunt. It had been painted with glow-in-the dark paint, according to Police Chief Gary Rudick.

“It appears to us that there was no deliberate intent on the part of these young people to cause the level of fear and concern that was the result of the package at the school,” Rudick said, in a news release. “We are relieved that the event was not intended to be a threat or to cause alarm, but simply a result of actions by teenagers who did not perceive their actions would ever cause such a ruckus.”

No charges will be filed against the teens because there was never any criminal intent. Although they were scared to come forward at first, fearing they would get in trouble, Rudick said one of them even offered to speak to the press to assure people that the incident was not intended to be a threat.

“It would be difficult to prosecute someone for a criminal act in this case without some identified intent,” Rudick said. “Their intent was to play a game. It is just a sad commentary on our society that we have to interpret such innocent actions as a serious threat.”

In addition to Durant Police and OHP, the Durant Fire Department, Durant Emergency Management, Bryan County EMS and the Bryan County Sheriff's Office were among agencies who responded. Durant Police reserve officers were called in to take routine reports while the regular officers were tied down at the perimeter set up around the school.

“This all began when a school employee noticed the package taped to the playground,” Rudick said. “She did the right thing and we think the response by the school and emergency responders was appropriate, especially considering the recent threats nationally against schools, the upsurge in school-related violence and the unknown we were dealing with.”"

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[jekylljuice]

Originally Posted by Sparky

Being hit by the toolbox hurt, yeah.

I have never broken any bones. I seriously don't know how I've managed that. I have however scraped off large quantities of skin.

I have broken my arm, but I wouldn't say that I'm at all embarrassed about it. After all, with hindsight I was just a seven-year-old kid too young and naive to fully understand her limitations. And at the time I was way too distressed to feel a great deal else.

[Sparky]

Okay s_d...LOL at the robot falling over while prodding at the briefcase with a stick.

[scary_dream]

I know!! The mental image is hilarious.