Do I Embarrass You?

You all totally rock and I am really excited about getting down to answering the questions. This should help me make it through the month. I'm thinking that I'll answer one a day and then as needed if I can't think of anything to write about. My Sunday post is coming early today as the rest of the afternoon will find me at the library doing research and paying 33 cents/page for photocopies. Please send dimes.

Lindsey asks, "What is your most embarrassing moment ever?"

Well jeez, how can I pick just one? I tend to embarrass myself a lot. There was the time that I fell into a fountain at an indoor mall and had to be sent out the back entrance. Or there were all those times where I got called on in class and didn't know the answer because I never do my reading, ever, and I just wanted to crawl under the chair and die. Just thinking about them makes me feel sick to my stomach. So I'd have to say that my most embarrassing moment ever changes all the time. This morning the embarrassing moment that pops into my mind is one that happened earlier this year.

As a preface to the story you should know that I work in a small office and that I work for a Baptist organization. This all means that mostly all of the bosses are men and mostly all of the employees are white. I'll also put out there that I'm not racist just because 1) I am not and 2) I'd hate for you to think I am. I'm not going to go in to explaining all the ways I am not racist because when people do that they always end up sounding defensive and, well, racist. Okay, end of preface.

So, remember how I told you I was bossy? Well this means that I spend a lot of time telling people what to do. Sometimes I mean it, other times, most times, I don't really care and am just being an ass and will follow my order with yelling "DO IT!!!!!!" because really, I'm just kidding.

Well, I work with an African-American girl, we'll call her LaTisha. One afternoon, close to 5:00, I asked LaTisha if she had done something I'd asked her to do that day. She said no, she hadn't done it, and that she'd do it tomorrow. Doing it tomorrow was fine. No big deal, but of course I couldn't say that. Instead I said to her, "DO IT NOW!!!!! YOU ARE MY SLAVE!!!" That's right, I called LaTisha, the only non-white person in our office, my slave. Insert foot into mouth and die, right? Now of course I would have called anyone else in the office "my slave" too but, why oh why did it have to be her? WHY?? Luckily she is awesome and just gave me a look and laughed but goodness gracious, I just wanted to die. I was so embarrassed.

So yes, that's my most embarrassing moment ever, for today. What's yours? Blog all about it and keep your questions coming. We have a lot of days left in November!!!