By Ani Madanyan

Have you ever told a joke and nobody laughed? Or been waved at and thought it was towards you, but it was for the person behind you? Embarrassment–I hate it. Let’s ask people what their most embarrassing stories are because as much as I hate it, they sure are funny.

As our first story-teller, we have Lilah Nick:

“In 5th grade, I was in a tap dance for a dance performance called Hot Chocolate. In the beginning of the dance we had to stand in one big line facing the audience, and I was in the front. This meant that I had to lead everyone out when we were placed on stage. On the first performance of it, I started walking out and told the girl behind me to follow, and she said, ‘Okay’ and started to follow behind me, and then she stopped before leaving the wings, and I didn’t realize. So, I was the only person standing on stage, and I turned around and saw no one there, and the whole audience started laughing, and I was so mad and embarrassed.”

Lilah Nick, Sophomore

Lilah decided to share two, so here’s the next one:

“In mock trial, I was super unprepared and was writing my cross examination questions right before the trial. It ended up going super well, and I was excited to do my closing because I thought it was super good. Once the defense finished, the judge asked, “Prosecution, are you ready for your rebuttal?” and I wanted to die right then. I had NO IDEA there was a rebuttal, and I was just sitting there wide eyed and so scared. I was so close to just saying, ‘Our other attorney will be giving that’ and throw Luke under the bus. I ended up doing it, but I messed up so much. It was just so bad, but I still got MVP for that round.” 

Lilah

Next up, Sienna Price: 

“When we were on holiday in Italy, like always my dad thinks he knows the directions to everywhere. So we were driving down the street and turned down this smaller alley, not knowing it was market day! Streets in Italy are small anyway, and with market stalls on either side of the road, it does not leave much road to drive. All the Italian market sellers started shouting and waving their hands at the car as my dad knocked down a few market stalls! It was one of the most embarrassing days in my life.”

Sienna Price, 8th Grade

Next Up Abby Assefa:

“Last year CSF held the Valentine’s Day Vignette, so my friends and I decided to do a little karaoke moment. We decided to perform L.O.V.E. song while spelling out love with our bodies. When we performed the song, we literally spelt love backwards and no one knew the words to the song. Right after we were done, a student that was in our group coughed into the microphone without wearing a mask. It was definitely a moment.”

Abby Assefa, Freshman

Do you have some fun embarrassing stories? Leave yours in the comments. I would love to see them!