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Please share some embarrasing moments of your life with your fellow SYMers, and let us all gloat and scorn you for being so pathetic.

I'll start out with a prime example of my great social skill and tact:

Halfway through my education, there was a 4 month period of clinical practise. I was lucky enough to get the only place at Sweden's most prominent university hospital. After a few weeks, I got invited to a research meeting with all the leading Swedish scientists in my field. The meeting was not for students, but my supervisor promised he would bring me as a personal guest. I was so excited! My first real contact with the world of science! And an opportunity to meet all those people I'd only heard and read about!

The meeting started with an informal lunch. A kind of typical Swedish long, narrow sandwich was served on an oval plate. Most of the sandwich consisted of the infamous Swedish dish bethroot-sallad. It's made of cubed bethroots and mayonaisse, very red and very fatty. I don't like the stuff, so I put it away in one end of my plate.

The lunch presentation was held by the professor who was chairman for meeting, and it was extremely interesting, and I was totally absorbed. Indeed, I was so absorbed I didn't notice my plate had slided out to the very edge of the table. When I pushed my knife to cut through the thick sandwich, that part of the plate was hanging in the air, and somehow, I managed to make a ballista out of it. The bethroot sallad flew away in a nice ballistic curve, landing with a splash at the table inches from the professor. Of course he had a white shirt. The room went totally silent. I wanted to vaporise, but there was no escape, my plate had fallen to the floor so it was obvious who was the assaulter. I made some lame excuses. The chairman looked at the heap of bethroot sallad with a peculiar expression, then at me. Then he said: "well, after this little attack, I'd like to continue with..."

Well, the good thing was that everybody recognised me after this!

@C.E, LMAO!!!
Er.....don't you think that presenting a paper is perhaps a safer way to gain recognition in one's field.........?

I'll add one of my own experiences tomorrow, I'm getting too tired to see straight.

Another highlight where CE is showing off her social refinement:

I was at an art exhibition, hanging in the bar, when I got my eyes upon this incredibly handsome man on the other side of the bar. He looked back at me, with an enigmatic smile. The place was crowded, but I set aim on him, and we started chatting about the art. He took up a cigarette, and wanting to be attentive, I reached in my bag for a lighter. I only smoked sometimes at parties, so I hadn't used this lighter for a while, which would prove fatal. I am short and the guy was quite tall, so he leaned forward towards me to get his cigarette lit. His hair hanged forward a bit and swosh! ? my lighter shot out a 1 foot flame that set his hair on fire. Even his eyelashed were burnt away.

Embarrased is an understatement.

Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>Embarrased is an understatement. </STRONG>

That's easy for you to say! You still got to walk away with your hair! Imagine how he felt

Classic moments CE!

I'll have to search the deep deep recesses of my cranial lobes to see if I can find any embarasing moments worth mentioning.

First day of high school is probably one of the most embarrasing to date.....

I had been growing my hair all summer and had a very large amount, so night before the first day of high school i decided to cut it myself, all was going fine, that is until i realised i was cutting the same bit over and over again.... needless to say i had what looked like "a bullet shot into my hair, that got half way through and couldn't go any further" (thanks my bro ) so my mother decided she should do it, and my hair turned into one length on one side and another length on the opposite side - fair do's to my mum, she did the best she could.

I then tried to cover it up with a cap, but they made me take it off

@Mr Sleep: LOL You don't have photo of the stylish haircut to post?

One of my most embarressing moments occurred during my last year of high school. My mother was of Dutch/German extraction,and although she learned to speak English very well, she was not altogether familiar with some of the slang or the differences between U.K and North American English.

Well, one day we were shopping for school supplies in the drugstore and I got bored so I drifted over to the magazines. All of a sudden I heard my mother's rather penetrating voice across three aisles enquiring whether or not "I needed any rubbers (condomes in N.A, erasers in the U.K))." This would have been bad enough in and of itself, but to my great misfortune a couple of guys I knew were in the store at the time.......Needless to say, I never really was able to live that one down.

[ 07-02-2001: Message edited by: dragon wench ]

This one is sick. So, if you have a weak stomach, don't read this.


I went on a medical run to a accident. Where a car went underneith a truck trailer. The person lost his head, I was the one to get the body out. My supervisor was on the run with me, I was getting evaluated. As I cut the door open, the torso fell on me. The fluids drained out all over me. And I had to ride back with the supervisor. I passed, because I didn't throw up.

LOL@DW

Hmmm, I can think of something but I'm not sure it's suitable to share

@DP that's gross

[ 07-02-2001: Message edited by: Georgi ]

DW LOL

DP: You don't need to invite Poe for dinner, you're stories outshine his by far

I have more, I think I'll write a book.

Erm. DP, you can go back on vacation now

Note to others: if I am every horribly mutilated, be so kind as to keep DP far away from me.

Okay, I'll leave.

See you all.

Originally posted by Darkpoet:
<STRONG>I have more, I think I'll write a book. </STRONG>

I'd be your co author, and add some morbid mental stuff from the ward for psychosis patients where I used to work. Together, we can make American Psycho and Ellroy look like childrens' stories

(Serious note: I greatly admire people who do the kind of work you have done.)

EDIT: Waverly, what do you mean by *if*?

[ 07-02-2001: Message edited by: C Elegans ]

Originally posted by Darkpoet:
<STRONG>Okay, I'll leave.
See you all.</STRONG>

That particular game has gotten old Welcome back, DP.

@CE, Well, Minerva did threaten me with her Japanese 'cooking' knives

Oh Waverly, I'm getting tranferred to Upstate New York. I could get confused and put the IV in the wrong place.

Thanks CE, it would be an honor, to cowrite a book with you.

[ 07-02-2001: Message edited by: Darkpoet ]

Originally by Gerogi,

Hmmm, I can think of something but I'm not sure it's suitable to share

Awwww......
Please, please, pretty please.

I was watering the garden, and for a j/k my dad kinked the hose so no water came out knowing me you can guess what happened i looked in to it and sqwert out comes water! true

Originally posted by dragon wench:
<STRONG>
Awwww......
Please, please, pretty please. </STRONG>

Ummm... no. It involved being very drunk and a roomful of other people trying to sleep
I think other people remember it more lucidly that I do...

[ 07-02-2001: Message edited by: Georgi ]

Originally posted by Georgi:
<STRONG>Ummm... no. It involved being very drunk and a roomful of the Welsh rugby team</STRONG>

If you don't provide us with the story after that teaser (which you volunteered)... we will have to make one up. Out with it, or expect a topic in your honor