More embarrassing moments
A few months ago, you told of your most embarassing moments, and since then, the mail hasn’t stopped coming in.
There are those who empathised with the unfortunates who wrote in, and those who shared their own stories, which we’ve compiled for this, your most embarrassing moments, part two.
I have bad skin and I have to wear make-up all the time. This gets a bit tricky when I’m around people and need to use water – like when I’m camping, or when I go to the hairdresser. Now I’m someone who lets NO ONE see me without makeup, but I haven’t devised a method to keep it on at the hairdressers yet.
I have perfect make-up, and everyone thinks I look great, but when I wash it off, I have awful acne. One day I went in for a hair wash – dressed to kill and showing off as usual. They had a HEART trainee and she proceeded to wash my hair so messy, causing my face, my neck and everywhere else to be wet. At the end, I saw everybody staring and saw some smirks. I looked in the mirror and behold, everything had washed off and my awful face was there for the whole salon to see. -Nahdine
I was taught to be prim and proper and I was taught that good girls didn’t do things like belch and pass gas, especially near a man. Well, I met this Indian guy and he invited me to dinner that he was cooking. I went, and of course it was curry. Halfway through the meal I felt the urge to pass wind and held it in. The second one wasn’t so successful, and I did it right there, at the table. He looked so turned off, and got even angrier when I pretended that the sound had come from his dog. That was the end of that relationship. -Annieka
I was waitressing at this event at a local hotel and saw this waiter that I liked. I immediately thought that I could only get his attention by showing him how knowledegable I was about things in the hotel. The other girls seemed like they weren’t really classy and so, each time he came beside me, I would comment on the POTpurri in the room, emphasising the P-O-T. No one had told me that the ‘T’ is silent, and I went on and on about how I had the same scents in my house. At one point the guy got really annoyed and told me to get a dictionary and learn how to pronounce properly. I didn’t know what he was talking about until weeks later when someone else pronounced the word and I realised how foolish I must have sounded.
– Patsy
I took my boyfriend of four months home for dinner one Christmas, expecting that the only people he would meet were my mother, father and sisters. They’re quite normal and we prepared for a good time. But who could prepare me for uncle Pablo? My mother didn’t bother to tell me that he was visiting from the old people’s home he was living in, and when my boyfriend and I showed up, he immediately started laughing. Each time he would look at my boyfriend and just cackle away, and by the end of the day, we were all frustrated. When we were leaving, he pointed to my boyfriend again and squealed, “That boy, kill me dead, look just like Kermit the frog!”
-PE
Hey readers,
We love your responses so far, and are still taking lists of the men you love.
Keep sending us the Jamaican men in power who give you the shivers. Do you watch that certain someone on TV, wishing you could date him, bear his child, or just have him alone for an evening? Does a certain doctor/lawyer/journalist/sportsperson or other professional make you sit back and thank the heavens for the species called man? Send us your picks.
1. Who would you want to date?Send your answers to allwoman@jamaicaobserver.com
2. Who would you give anything to spend an evening with?
3. Whose child would you love to have?
4. Who would you love to go on a long vacation with?
