Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Most Embarrassing Moments

My German teacher warned us against spitting into other peoples faces when pronouncing your German. But this happened when I was talking to my friend in English. I just carried on like nothing happened. I later mentioned it to my other friend. I wanted to hide my head in a hole.
I am not a great downhill skier but you would think that I would use caution when riding the chair lifts. I sat down beside my friend but obviously, I didn't sit back because when the chair lift moved. I moved too, sliding off my seat and ten feet below on my back I landed into the snow. The chair lift attendant, came too me roaring with laughter and said, "I don't mean to be rude, but that was the funniest thing I saw." I broke down laughing too and waved to my friend who was still in the chair lift.
It is a good morning at my brother's house and I just settled down for a cup of coffee when the subject of snoring was brought up. "I could hear you snoring," my brother said. "I was in the next room!" I exclaimed. The walls are paper thin, I thought to myself. "How humiliating!" I exclaimed.
I got off the Greycoach bus expecting my sister to be there waiting somewhere in front of the Royal York hotel. For an hour I paced up and down in front of the Royal York, and once in a while, I would turn the corner and check if she was there. We were just meeting to have a nice little dinner. There was no sign of her, so I tried to phone her in-laws but the operator said that the number was no longer in service. I had trouble finding the number to begin with because I am just getting used to my bifocals. I walked up to a Starbucks and used the phone beside the store. I tried the in-laws again, hoping I made a mistake but still the operator said that the line was no longer in service. I paced up and down in front of the hotel and it dawned on me to call my other sister, Lucy. I got her voice message and told her where I was and was waiting for my other sister. I waited outside again. At this point I was crying and hoping that the ground would swallow me up if I lied down like the homeless people. I had visions of my sister never finding me and then I would show up on a police report as a missing person. What felt like ten minutes became an hour and I suddenly spotted my sister. Instead of thanking my lucky stars, I ranted and raved like a lunatic. My sister was trying to calm me down and bring me back to the planet. while I was saying I was such an idiot for not having a cell phone. It would be so easy to dial her number and an hour could have been saved. But my sister brought me down to the moment and reality saying that nothing bad happened and it wasn't the end of the world. I thought of going home but we walked to a fabulous vegetarian restaurant called Fresh and had a great dinner. It seemed like my life was over missing my sister but I am glad it wasn't because I would have never have tasted the fresh food at Fresh.

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