Awkward Moments

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Assalamu-alaikum,

I've had many awkward moments :hiding:......I guess in a way, even though we hate to admit it - these experiences usually serve to humble us, and keep us level-headed.....Alhamdulillah.

One that comes to mind:

I was in high school (that awkward, self-conscious time in ones life), and I was asked to give a talk in assembly about Eid-ul-Adha.
My aim was to completely by-heart my speech, and not need to refer to my thumb-notes at all.

So, on the day of the speech.....everything starts off pretty smoothly.....until I go COMPLETELY blank.....I couldnt remember a word further.....I just stared at the crowd, mumbling.....and they stared back at me, as if I was some queer creature on display :embarrass

To make matters worse, I had not been following my speech on my notes....so, I then had to start paging through my thumb notes, trying to find where I had last ended in the speech.
In those few minutes, I just wished the earth could open up and swallow me whole!


Yep, the kids definitley remembered me after that royal fail, lol!


Oh well.....
Lesson learnt: dont try to by-heart your talks......
Unless u are able to converse with the audience naturally, its bound to end up in stage-fright.......and wishing that you could do disappearing acts like Houdini :embarrass


Salaam
 
This was like 10+ years ago, I nearly drowned when I was first learning to swim

At the time *:phew
Now? *;D
 
When I was like 15 years old, I was at a swimming pool watching my friends swim and one of the friends pushed me into the pool. I acted as if i was going to drown in a pool with almost the depth of my height, 6ft. :phew All of them laughing at me saying that I would not have drowned in a pool of that depth anyway. :embarrassed I still dont know how to swim, I am hydrophobic. :phew
 
awkward moment for me off the top of my head I was walking through my high school commons area in a large building and a LOT of kids were wandering around and i was wearing a long skirt and boots and all of a sudden... oops my boot slid on a pickle that had been dropped... just a slice of one. and my feet ended up out from under me and i hit the floor hard... 20 years later i can't forget that one....

two other big ones for me were at the university...
one... and i was about 24 or 25ish. i was in the dorm elevator heading up to the room where i was going to be ... I had JUST moved in .. .first semester i had a nice older indian lady ( think india not native america ) asked me if i was moving my son or daughter into the dorm ... i explained to her that i was the student but i KNOW my face was more shades of red than i had thought possible...

another time i was working in the music library since we had a huge, really good, music department .... and i had a student come up and ask me for a recording of a piece... we had all types from records to cd's ... i handed her the record and she asked me what it was and what to do with it. I was so embarrased because i just couldn't believe she didnt know and i felt so old for the same reason.
serena
 
It feels so good :D after knowing that all the awkward things :skeleton: doesn't happen with you only. :statisfie
 
I remembered this yesterday, when I visited my dad's office. And I felt nostalgic when I spotted a certain cabin... Okay, so here it goes. One evening, we were shopping and decided to take a break for prayer, so we stopped at dad's office.(which is in the same building) My dad was gone for prayer, and we prayed at the office itself. After praying, we were simply strolling around when we reached the boss' cabin. Every cabin has a big door(actually a window with the size of a door), that looks as if it has been never opened. And who would? Although, it had railings outside, they had big gaps in between, and looked scary. So, my sister wanted to see what happens if we opened it. :hmm: I was strictly against the idea and refused immediately. But I didn't know what had gotten into me, the next moment, I pulled the door open. :X As it opened an inch, my heart began pumping harder and tried pushing it back. But it didn't. I didn't want to see what happens if we pull more so, I didn't dare. Me and my sister both pushing the door back with all our might, hoping dad doesn't come back already and mom doesn't suspect anything from the neighbour cabin. We were constantly praying to God. As we helplessly pushed, I wondered if the door will break and what if we fell off? Just then, I heard the same words from mom from behind. :skeleton: The only things rolling in my head at that time was that WHY THE HELL DID I PICK BOSS' CABIN?! And then suddenly, the door pushed back and locked. I was so happy, me and sister jumped away from that evil door and ran away from the cabin, shuting it good! It's been a year now, and still I don't understand why I did that when I had no intention to do so. :?
 
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Good thing you didn't open that door, peace_maker. There was probably some Lovecraftian horror in there that was going to suck your brains out. ;D

I hope not to have an awkward moment of my own this weekend. I won't go into any more details than that...
 
^Now, that makes sense. :hmm: I must have got hypnotized by that "lovecraftian" thinggy. ;D
 
peace_maker said:
^Now, that makes sense. :hmm: I must have got hypnotized by that "lovecraftian" thinggy. ;D
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:sl:

'twas probably a shoggoth. Some of them have paralyzing gaze. Best thing is to just run as soon as you see one. You won't win a fight with them.

(I have played way too much Call of Cthulhu lately)
 
My memory is so bad, I couldnt remember so much awkward moments, except last month, I deleted wearing heels then I wore them again but I forgot my pants is widely open so the pointed heels drag my pants and I fall down in audience (they are the OPerations manager and clients), alhamdollellah there wasnt pain & I stand and recover like a beauty queen lol



Although I have bad memory, I cant forget one of the most EMBARRASSING (not awkward) moment of my life, I was Grade 3 something and my not ideal grandmother never really teach us good manner, infact she even tell us or atleast show us taking other's things. So with long story, she sometimes dry the spoiled food under the sun and cook it again and fed us. I remember we have to divide the egg for lunch at school. Sometimes if we hav cash whether from working or gift, she would take from us.

Story isnt very clear to me (i really have bad memory) but one day I was so hangry and saw money (like 1$) at my teacher's bag and took it and immediately bought lots of food and eat. Ofcourse teacher found out later and the whole class, IT IS SO EMBARRASSING in every sense... cant forget this, seriously I pray all the parents will watch over their children and guide them properly, dont let others take care of them except themselves if they can... IT WAS SO EMBARRASSING, so embarrassing, I dont know what happen next but lol I graduated 1st in the class lol??? did the teacher forgiven me or was it justified, I dont knowwww, all i know it was so embarrassing and I will never forget
 
I do a lot of facepalms... but this is a good thing. A facepalm can stop you from doing something really embarrassing. You just have to know when to stop / catch yourself / then follow up with facepalm...

The facepalm move is like pressing the record button in your memory bank. You learn a lesson before the lesson gets too tough, and embarrassing... and you never forget a facepalm haha ;D

Scimi
 
One very dark, fat class girl asked me out in front of the whole class, christian girl. I wanna go out with you, I'm like why??? Cos I like you, Well I don't like youuuuu, I said. Oh you hurting my heart, and you are hurting my eyes...+o(

Mil, mil ke yehi kali kaluti mili mujhe, chi chi astaghfirullah.
Pyaar ke naam se vishwaas utgaya hai mera....
 
Paprika said:
One very dark, fat class girl asked me out in front of the whole class, christian girl. I wanna go out with you, I'm like why??? Cos I like you, Well I don't like youuuuu, I said. Oh you hurting my heart, and you are hurting my eyes...+o(

Mil, mil ke yehi kali kaluti mili mujhe, chi chi astaghfirullah.
Pyaar ke naam se vishwaas utgaya hai mera....
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Hmm..So you had to mention the 'fat' part.
 
'Abd Al-Maajid said:
^ Why dont you share some incidents?
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you want to laugh at others !!
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why don't you share some of yours ?
 
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i am quite accident prone, so my most awkward moment was when I fell from the stairs at college. The highlight of this incident was that the guys from my class were climbing up the stairs at the same time while i was climbing down. Wait! The awkward part hasnt arrived yet! since I don't talk to guys and they are sorta afraid of talking to me, when i fell down the stairs, they standing next to me just kept standing...! they din't move, dint try to help(coz they are afraid of me) just went on staring.... that made the moment REAL AWKWARD for me. Now, when I finally tried to stand up; my bag, my abhaya were so messed up that i fell down again !
May Allah protect me from such an incident happening again!
 
^ That was very awkward :heated:. My family members often say me that I am the only person does so much crazy things in our family. :nervous: One of the examples is listed below. :skeleton:

Once I and my siblings went to public place were function which was held by a school. I and one of my sis went to a little shop at the corner and we bought a milk shake bottle (not pure milk) it was closed with a cork.

So the man opened the cork with his opener. My sister handed over to me as she had to pay the money.

Suddenly something happened to me +o(. The bottle fell down and I spilled milk on the table. :omg: Then we picked it up :heated: and thanked God :hmm: that only some part of the milk wasted. :hiding:
 

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