This
is a hard question. I don’t embarrass easily. I guess having a dad who liked to
point out to my teenage self very loudly that boys were looking at me, an
attention-whore ex who liked to pretend he had Tourettes, 6 crazy and very
outgoing kids, and a silly husband with no shame, I’ve become immune to
embarrassment. I don’t care if the old man in the car next to me sees me
rockin’ out to the radio. Admitting that I’m late to something because I got
lost is just part of life, anymore. I mean, don’t get me wrong. I have moments.
I’m pretty clumsy, and good at saying the wrong thing to the wrong person or
just at the wrong time, and yeah, those moments can be embarrassing, but
nothing sticks out to me as one of those “mortifying moments” we used to read
about in our teen magazines. Remember those? Wasn’t that the title of the
article, and it was in every edition. I can’t remember what magazine it was in,
but I remember that most of them sounded made up, and they were almost always
the same “I was wearing white shorts and got my period”, “My boyfriend tugged
on a loose string of my swimsuit, but it turned out to be my tampon”, “We got
walked in on, with his hand up my shirt”. Made up or not, those could be pretty
traumatizing to a teenager. But I don’t have any of those stories. Does that
make me boring?
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