#2694 Most embarrassing moment(s). Have you had that feeling when an embarrassing situation presses its memory back into your present state? We all have. Sometimes it can make you feel hot, even sweaty. Does me anyway. How about two of them, two most embarrassing moments coming back at the same time? First one: I'm standing at a coffee bar at Honolulu International Airport, waiting for my flight. A man comes up next to me and I'm distantly aware of him when he taps me on the arm. I turn to look, and he wordlessly points at my arm where I finally notice that I've left the tag on my fashionable new silk sports jacket, purchased just for this trip. Fast forward about five or six years. I'm recently back on the mainland where you people have been pumping your own gas for awhile. Because of unique circumstances, I've never done that but can certainly figure it out, can't I? My car hasn't arrived yet, I'm driving a borrowed one and it needs gas. No problem. I pull up, do all the right things and begin pouring a goodly amount of gas into the place where you lift up the gas door and real close to the hole leading to the gas tank. For more than a few seconds it runs onto the surface of the gas station and from there fairly lavishly into the street. I'm watching the numbers, amazed at how fast the amount goes up. So, this guy one car over says, "Hey!" and points to the gas flood I'm causing. Yikes. Embarrassing moment number two. Why these, why now? I've just realized twenty-five or so years later, a little hotly and sweatily, that it was the same guy
posted by Rick at 1:24 PM

** Just a note for myself - "Donna" is at her site which was Jim's but he's her husband if it's the same one from L's partner at the old RTFTWC which still exists at http://right-thinking.blogspot.com/ . My site appears abandoned too, but I'm just too busy to keep it up regularly. And it's harder to type with these new eyes (no cataracts.) ANYway, she reviews or has reviewed more movies than anyone alive and a good place to head to when you just want a yes or no. mho 13 MAR 18
posted by Rick at 12:03 PM