Hubs shared a story from work with me the other night. Hubs is a welder. I often only know what about every 3rd word means. So I typically nod along, smile when he gets excited and so forth. But last night he told me a story where I understood every word and had me laughing in the end.
He works with a guy we’ll call James (since that’s his name). James took his daughters to a fast food restrurant last week. It was pouring down rain, but they went inside (don’t know why he didn’t hit the drive-thru, I’m thinking potty break).
As I said, pouring down rain. The girls take off running across the parking lot, James following behind. He’s in sandles of some sort, running on wet pavement. A car–who’s pulling up to the drive thru–graciously stops and lets them run across. Just as James is passing in front of the car, he slips.
His feet fly out from under him and he lands flat on his back. “I was spread out like a dead man,” James claims.
He lays there for a few minutes. I can picture his daughters (who are about teenagers or pre-teen I believe) under the fast-food roof laughing their butts off. Either that or they tucked chin, pulled hair around their face and hustled inside like they didn’t know the man laying out looking dead in the pouring rain.
The car who stopped? She drives around James laying on the pavement to pull up at the drive-thru! Never rolled down her window to see if he’s okay or anything.
Reminds me of a time when I was in high school. I was walking next to my friend. A pep-rally had just let out and we were leaving for the day. She waves over her shoulder and says bye to a boy she was crushing on. I’m looking in the same direction as she, over my shoulder. Then I hear a THUMP.
And my friend stumbles back. She’d walked right into a pole.
So, funny or not? Anybody share my humor to laugh at people humiliating themselves? My friend and I laughed and were fine. Poor James ended up with a sprained ankle. Got a publicly humiliated story of your own?
Keri Ford
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I can’t believe the lady didn’t even stop to see if he was alright! Maybe she didn’t want to embarrass him further? But still!
I admit it. I’m the one you’d be laughing at.
If there is something in my path, you can bet I’ll stump my toe, bump my shoulder or just plain run smack dab into it. I’ve been told my brain works faster than my body. Thinks I’m in the clear before I actually am. LOL
I think the woman must have been starving to have driven around an injured man to get to the drive-thru.
One (I’ve got lots) of mine happened the first year I was a teacher. There was a pep rally and I was carrying a buttload of papers to grade. I had on the cutest (kinda short) wrap skirt. It was really hot that day and they had those big fans set on either side of the gym. Yep, I stepped right in front of the fan. Couldn’t even pull it down because my hands were full of papers. Had to endure jokes about the color of my panties all day.
Yep, I taught seniors and was only 22 years old.
Fun.
Melissa, that was what I said, “I can’t believe she didn’t stop!”
I think everyone has some public humiliation in their life time. I choose to block those memories out!
Amy, maybe that was it, she just had to have a burger and couldn’t wait any longer.
Ouch, flashing your panties to the seniors, not cool. I be those seniors still remember you because of that!
Keri, that woman must have been REALLY starving!
I have had an incident where I have been “purposely” embarrassed by my hubby-to-be. Almost every time we go into Wal-Mart together, he makes it his main goal to embarrass me. His favorite thing to do is grab my arm REALLY tight so I can’t get away, and he will start singing the song “Time of Your Life” by Green Day VERY loudly so everyone can hear. It is SO embarrassing, but it is hilarious too. That is one of the many reasons why I love him so much. =)
I have run into a pole before while walking and had a pigeon fly smack into the side of my head. Two separate incidents but both stuck out in my mind.
Its always funny when it isn’t you.
Oh, Jamie, you must really love him. I couldn’t do it!
Its always funny when it isn’t you. LOL–So true!
Your bird story reminded me: we were 15 or so and on vacation with my dad. I don’t remember where we were, but we were in a crowd of 150-200 people when bird crap landed on my dad’s shoulder. Of course, us all being young girls immediately screamed out “EWW!” which further embarressed him.
My first thought was, ‘She didn’t stop!” Even though you and your friends knew he was ok, she didn’t know him nor know that. But then when your friend walks into a pole (reminds me of that commercial on TV where the news man does that, ouch) but I laugh too!
How was the fast food? LOL