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HOW TO DO WITH EMABARRASSMENT!
Sometimes when something really embarrassing happens to you think your life is over. Well if you read this advise, you'll realise that you'll live. If something embarrassing just happened just then, by the time you have read this you would have forgotten what you were embarrassed about! So start reading to avoid being in hysterics!!!!!!

CLAIM IT!
You know when you see someone trip over in the street and they pretend it didn't happen? They stare straight ahead, poker faced and they think by not drawing attention to themselves no one will notice. Well we all did and yes, they did look pretty stupid! No point in denying it. Now rewind: you see the same person trip over, but instead of trying to play it cool, they break into a grin or start to laugh a little. You'll have a little chuckle too, because, well, it's damn funny! Besides, anyone who doesn't take themselves too seriously scores another point in your book. Your laughing with them - because you've been they're before - not at them.
Take another mortifying moment. You're at a party and you desperatly need to go to the toilet. You do, and isn't the best, and then you realise you can't flush the toilet. There's a crowd outside lining up for their turn in the loo. So what do you do? Climb hurriedly out the window and run for your life or you can take the other option - leave the bathroom and say something to the eagerly awaiting masses. Big tip: don;t pretend it didn't happen. The reason your embarrassed is because there are other people around who've witnessed (albeit second-hand) an otherwise private matter, so there's little use in wishing them into thin air. You need to deal. Yes, it is embarrasing, but so is spitting on you crush during your first one-on-one convo, or dropping pancakes with maple syrup on your paying customer, which your friend did last week at her (former) job. This is where a little humor goes a long way. Try saying something "you'll have to wait a while, it's not pretty in there". You need to be quick on your feet and act like you're totally unfazed. If you run and hide, you'll only make matters worse, because people will know that your embarrassed, and you'll only have to deal with them later. The quicker you deal with it, the quicker they'll forget about, which means the odds of having the story make the rounds of the party, twice, are lessened considerably.

TAKE ACTION!
Ok, so you've just been caught singing into your hairspray in front of your older brother and all his cool mates. You thought no one was home but he walks into your room to borrow some cd's only to discover you pretending to be Christina Aguilera in front of you mirror. His friends are laughing and you want the gtroung to swallow you up. If leaving the scene of the crime is out of the question, and your bro and his friends can't stop making fun of you, you need to put a stop to it, now. Don't make the affront personal, but you need to make clear that their failure to let go of the joke is really immature. Something like "listen, if thats the funniest thing you've ever seen, you need to get out more" should do the trick. Think about how Hugh Grant handled himself a few years back when he decided Elizabeth Hurley's dress scence wasn't doing it for him anymore and embarked on a little rendezvous with someone named divine in the back seat of his car, only to the police pay him a little visit during the act. Slightly more embarrassing than having bra ex-communicate itself form your boobs mid volleyball match. Having your infidelities, along with a none-too-flattering mug shot, exposed to the world would be highly embarrasing to say the least. How did he handle the humiliation? Did he run and hide? Tell the police it was his body double and not him? No Way! He dived head first into the american talk show circiut, poking fun at himself, admitting he had been a doofus! Instead of his carear being nelegated to late night infomercialss and us thinking he was a no-good sleaze-bag, we admired him for his honesty. We identified wiht him because he's stuffed up big time and the whole thing blew over alot quicker then if he'd tryed to deny it.

YOU'LL LIVE!
If all above fails, it's always good to throw bit of perspective in the mix. Yes relising you've left the curtain to the changeroom open and unwittingly flashed your g-string clad lill-white butt cheeks to the spunky salesman and half the store is embarrassing as hell, but you'll live through it. Theres things about embarrasment is that it passes. Sure, it's usually into horror and mortifying at first, but give it a few days -a week maybe, if the bruise is particuly big - and you'll soon be laughing so much, you'll wonder what all the grief was for. In fact, in a kind of strange way, you'll be thankful for the experience because of the hours of amusment it porvides for you and your friends. Think about it this way - alif without embarrament is a dull life. A girl who doesn't take risks is a dull girl. Avoiding certain situations or people in order to prevent anything anything embarrassing happening makes a limited extence. Plus the more times you get embarrased, the better you'll be of getting yourself out of it!!

DON'T!
Dont's overdo it when you laugh, you will only lokk like you are trying to cover the embarrassment and you'll look pretty stupid!

If you have any tips, questions or problems with embarrasment, email us at jaimee_12@hotmail.com

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