These Embarrassing Moments Actually Happened and were submitted by real people.
My boyfriend and I broke up a while back. I soon realized just how
much he meant to me, so I decided to send him an email to tell him
how I felt. I addressed the note to "Sweet Pea" -- my silly nickname
for him -- and I told him how much I loved and missed him. Seconds
after hitting the "Send" button, I realized, to my horror, that I
had somehow sent the email out to every single employee in the
company that I worked for. I decided that the best course of action
was to lay low and pretend that it never happened. Until a few days
later, when I received a message from a fellow employee that said,
"Sweet Pea, we love and miss you too and I speak this from the
whole company." So much for laying low!
-- Theresa, AL
My boyfriend and I went out dancing with friends one Friday night.
I hadn't been out in a while because I had recently given birth
to my daughter. I was very excited to be out and I guess got
a little carried away, because I ended up climbing on top of a
table to dance. As soon as I stood up on the table, a ceiling fan
whacked me in the head and knocked me out cold. My b/f said
that after I was knocked out, I simply fell backwards and slowly
slid down the wall. I had to be rushed to the hospital to have all
sorts of tests done. That's not exactly my idea of a fun night out!
-- Brenda, PA
My then-boyfriend and I had only dating for about two weeks.
We took a drive up into the mountains with his father (who was
going hunting). (I should mention that it was the dead of winter.)
In order to get to the hunting spot, we had to cross a small
creek. The problem was that there was no bridge. The only thing
to do was jump. It was only about four feet wide, so it was an
easy jump, really. "No problem," I thought to myself.
The men crossed without incident, but as I jumped I was looking
down at the ground, at the point where I would land. Which is
why I did not see the huge tree branch that whacked me in the
head. Needless to say, it was painful. But things got worse.
When my head hit the branch, I was thrown off balance. I tried
to grab the branch, but it was covered with ice and my hands
slipped off, which landed me right in the 30 degree water.
When I finally got myself out of the water, my entire right side
was soaking wet and my shoes were encased in ice. I had to walk
in the cold like this until we reached the hunting site. When we
finally reached the site, my boyfriend and his father built a
fire and I started to warm up a bit. The thing is, my feet were
so frozen that I couldn't feel them and I didn't realize that I
had them too close to the fire until my shoes went up in three
inch flames! We decided to go home about a half-hour later. We figured that it
was better to quit while we were ahead -- or at least before I
got myself into any more trouble. Walking back to the car, we had
to go down a small hill. I don't know what happened, but I slipped,
fell and slid all the way to the bottom of the hill! This time I
got completely, to-the-bone soaked. I was so wet and cold that I
had to take off most of my clothing in the car. The only thing
that was dry was my t-shirt, so I rode home wearing just that,
with a coat over my lap!
--Christine, NV
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