Monday, November 30, 2009

So far, so good

I have been following Mrs. Flinger's blog for quite a while now, because I love the style in which she writes, and the stories are fascinating to me. This morning, when I was catching up on posts from the weekend, I ran across a recent post of hers that intrigues me. She is starting a writing group that once a week, will be given an idea to write a blog post about. The first one was for today, so let's see if I can give this a whirl.

Today's topic was to post about your most embarrasing moment. This is actually quite a difficult topic for me, because I have spent my entire life in a carefully orchestrated attempt to not stand out in a crowd. I don't embarrass easily, or rather, I DO embarrass quite easily, but I do everything in my power to avoid those situations to begin with. I attempt to fade into the woodwork when possible, I overplan events to make sure every tiny detail is in place, I try not to talk about a topic unless I know that my information is correct, etc.

Sure, I have embarrassing moments, like the rest of the world. I have tripped up stairs in high school, I have spilled food or drink on clothes at an important time. There was the time that I fell asleep in the chair in my boss' office while I waited for him to get off the phone. Life is full of small moments that make me blush, but I have been sitting here for almost an hour trying to come up with a "most" embarrassing moment, and the truth is, I just don't have one. So far, I have been successful in my ongoing crusade to avoid that kind of notice, I guess.

I just hope I can keep up the trend.

This post is part of the Write of Passage challenge. Please stop by and join the fun!

6 comments:

  1. You are very lucky! I'm actually not easily embarassed so this was easy for me. If something actually made me blush, then that was it!

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  2. My next-most embarrassing story may be the amount of time I have been trying to get Mr Linky to work.

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  3. I'm with you. I don't have those moments because I am not easily embarassed. I see them as what they are, freaking hilarious. My dad always asks me if I know the difference between comedy and tragedy.

    Its comedy when it happens to someone else.
    Its tragedy when it happens to you.

    I like to just laugh it all off as if I were an observer.

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  4. I'm not the most easily embarrassed person, either but like you, I tend to try avoiding those types of situations like the plague in the first place. ;-)

    And yeah, like Brigid said, my next moment may be trying to get the damn linky thingy working! (Or well, actually - remembering to put it on my post to begin with! LOL)

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  5. ever since i pushed out babies in front of a live audience of family members and hospital staff, i don't get embarrassed easily. except when i think about moments from my younger days.
    i still, to this day, can blush when i think about stuff that happened to me when i was various ages of young.

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  6. I had the same thought when I saw the topic... I just couldn't think of a really good moment. I kept thinking, "But I don't really have one!"

    I like how you incorporated your thought process around that into this post.

    (BTW, I finally did remember a really big one and wrote about it.)

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