Well, I am the mother who dances to “muzak” in the store…so my dd has a long life of embarassment in front of her. At 4 yrs old, she thinks it’s cool that I dance down the aisle (I love World Market stores for the SALSA music:) ), but I know it’s already coming to an end. If one of her little friends is with us, she puts her hands up over her eyes and then grabs my hand, yanking me down to her level and whispers, “MOOOOOOOOOOM. STOP!”
On the other hand…she has been known to embarass mommy too. Like when she was potty training and didn’t want to go when we were at a certain bookstore. I told her in my best mommy voice that she most certainly was going to to (she was making the poopy face!) and dragged her to the restroom. When we got there and got locked into the stall, she proceeded to start yelling, “OW! I don’t want to! You’re hurting me! Stop it! You’re not my mommy! I don’t know you! Let me go back to my real mommy!”:oops: She was 2 at the time…
And then of course…there was my mom. The woman who yelled at me in the 8th grade in the middle of the mall food court because I was 5 minutes late meeting her. I was with my friends and I will never forget how embarassed I was that a.) my mom was a psycho and b.) my mother made me HOLD HER HAND while she walked me through the mall.
I have lots more stories…but most of them only seemed embarassing at the time because I was a teenager. And really, parents can’t do anything that WON’T embarass you at that age.
Ha! I just thought of one my mom and I accidently did to my brother.
We had been swimming in the pool and for whatever reason I can’t remember now we came through the garage and took our suits off in the laundry room. We then proceeded to walk through the laundry room, the living room and to our bedrooms to get dressed stark naked. No big deal, it was just my mom and I or so I thought. As I passed the family room my brother and his girlfriend were sitting there in shock having seen my naked mother walk by and then me. I found my mom and about yanked her arm off and asked her why she didn’t tell me that Pauline (I can’t believe I remember her name 30 years later!) and my brother were in the family room, she had no idea either and about died right there of embarrassment. My mom and I hid until they left which was soon afterward. :roflhard: The girl never came back and to this day my brother still thinks we did it on purpose to get rid of her.
When i was about 4 years old, i went with my dad to the store, it was hot and he wanted to get a beer. It was still USSR then, so there was a line, of course. And then I, in front of everyone, announced: “Now Daddy is going to drink beer and get drunk again!”. And my dad is really NOT the drinking type. He was really embarrassed :teehee:
When we were little (3, 4, 5 ish) my brothers got bored and rummaged through my mom’s bathroom to find things to play with. Soon enough they were running through the house playing “war” using maxi pads stuck all over their shirts as “shields” and popping tampons out at each other as “guns.”
A couple of my aunts were over, I’m sure, and knowing them now…I’m sure they were all too busy laughing their butts off to be embarrassed. :teehee:
I can’t think of anything I’ve done to embarass my kids :yet:, but they’re only 3 and 5…
ME, on the other hand… the worst I can think of right now is when my dad took me shopping for a formal dress when I was in 8th grade (a girl at the school had a FORMAL end of school party at a hotel!!!) anyway, I told the sales girl what I was looking for, and she said there was this really nice black dress with buttons down the front that she thought would look great on me, but that she couldn’t wear it because she was too flat chested. My dad looked her UP and DOWN and said, “I wouldn’t say that!” I just wanted to drop through the floor right then and there…
My mom told me something I did to her when I was a baby… She was shopping with her sister, and in one store she sat me on the counter while she was paying, and she didn’t notice there were candies near me. She puts me back in the stroller and goes back to shopping. A while later she checks on me and notices my face is COMPLETELY red. She starts freaking out, and has no idea what’s going on. My aunt says “her face is all sticky!” Sure enough, suddenlly they see what’s in my little hand, a big red lollipop. :teehee: My mom went back to the store to pay for it, but the owner of the store thought it was so cute he said not to bother. :teehee: My mom said she was really embarassed! And I guess that makes me a criminal! :shock:
I remember one time when my mum took me and my sister to the movies I was about 9 ish, I’m 42 now,she made me wear my pink T shirt that had a picture of a cat face on it, like just eyes nose mouth whiskers and a big smiley face. Well I needed to go to the toilet so my mum let me go by myself and when I came back into the movie theatre the whole cinema erupted into laughter I then realized that the cat face glowed in the dark and all everyone coulds see was the face and everyone was laughing at me.
I was so embarrassed I hated the tshirt after that
Another time when I was small or so the story has been told to me many times over especially to my girls as they started to grow up, apparently I was a bugger of a kid, mum was out shopping with my aunty and I was in the stroller so I was about 2, mum and aunty stopped to look at something and I just climbed out of the stroller and went into a different shop, mum and aunty started to look for me calling my name i started to wave back at them through the front display window I was trying to climb the shelves that were loaded with crystal. I think my mum died a thousand deaths that day. Luckily nothing was broken much to everyones dismay.
One about my middle daughter at the time was 3, who is 20 now.
we were at the local general store and I was just buying the bread milk etc. We left the store and were half way home , I looked in the revision mirror to see her eating a chocolate bertie beetle. So I turned around and went back to the shop and made my daughter explain to the owner what she had done and to top it off the owners husband was the local police officer. I made him give her a talk about how bad it was to steal. I was soooo embarressed.
I was about 8 when my dad fell at work (he was a butcher) and ground up his right index finger to the first knuckle in a meat grinder.That was gross! But what was worse… everytime I had friends over for years after he would stick that finger either to his ear or at his nose and make funny faces. I wanted to DIE of embarassment every time . After I had kids they always wanted to know how far his finger went into his ear,etc. Thats kids for ya. Sharon
I remembered another thing my mom did that really, really embarrassed me when I was younger.
We lived in a tiny town (one stoplight) and went to school in an even tinier town (no stop lights). So, everyone knew each other. One day, on the way to drop my sister off at school, we passed some boys who were walking to school – two brothers – mean as heck. One of them shot us a bird. Well, my mom saw him do it, and she makes a U-turn immediately and pulls up to them and rolls down her window. She proceeds to chew them up and down, inside out. It was brutal…with them denying they did it. She then makes another U-turn and drops off my sister at school. Fortunately, I was in a different “campus” (k-5 in one building, 6-12 in another one a block away). My poor sister was in the same grade as the younger brother (one class per grade…very small school, you know).
I wound up being best friends with the older brother, even marrying his cousin (who was not from there, by the way). They swear, to this day, that they did not do that. It makes for a great story at family gatherings, though. It should be known, though, that these brothers (there was a much younger third, but the first two were 13 months apart) were notorious for being very bad…
