Humiliating Myself: My Top 3 Embarrassing Moments

We've all done something to embarrass ourselves. You turn a little red, feel your face heat up... but, what about those embarrassing moments that are so bad you want the ground beneath you to open up and swallow you whole? Here, in no particular order, are my top 3. I'm still trying to get over them.

1. The Rooster.

My mom, brother, his friend and I took a trip to Myrtle Beach. My brother and his friend were about fifteen at the time and I was twenty. We got to the hotel, unloaded the car and after the eight hour trip, my mom was tired and wanted to rest. To give her some peace, I took the boys to the grocery store to get food to stock the small kitchen in our hotel room. We drove to Kroger's on Kings Highway.

I should have known that something would happen because as soon as I parked, I looked up to see a live rooster walking around in front of my car. "That's odd," I said to the boys but, instead of taking it as an omen, I got out of the car and into the store we strolled.

The first thing I noticed was that there were no shopping carts inside the store. A quick glance told us they were all outside. My brother's friend, being the nice kid he was, offered to go get me one. A minute later he came through the automatic doors with one, a loud one. He turned his hat around, I thought. They boys always wore their ball caps backwards, but now his was straight. I threw my purse into the child seat and proceeded to take the shopping cart from him.

Problem was, he wasn't giving me the cart. "I'll push it," I said, a little irritated. As I was nudging him with my hip, I noticed my bother repeating my name over and over under his breath. Still holding onto the cart, I turned to him. "What'?" I said. He nodded toward the automatic door. I followed his eyes and their he was... My brother's friend. Pushing a cart, his hat on backwards, through the door.