Embarrassing Moments

Post Date

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 00:40

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Fred Klein

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Complimenting the wife of an important client on being pregnant........

Liz Saldana

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I'm a dancer; we never fall. (JOKE!) However, I won't be getting up as quickly in the future. I will look around first in case Hugh Jackman is running over to help me.

Mitch Tobol

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Wearing two different shoes in a foreign country. It was the only two I brought

Becky Blackler

Mitch, I'll take your shoe story and raise you one. Wearing two left shoes on my first and only tour of the Pentagon. We left so early in the morning that a black shoe and navy shoe looked the same to me. I had to hold onto the railings in the hallway to keep myself from tripping at all times!

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I planted myself face first on the floor after giving a reading at a wedding. I was wearing new shoes and I hadn't scuffed them up so that they would "grip". As I was falling down, I remember thinking "You can slink back to your pew - or you can stand up and walk back like you are Miss America." I chose the later and it's been the butt of a lot of stories and jokes. Paula Suita

Vincent Serro

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How about having the zipper on your pants breaking (and being stuck in the wide open position) 1 hour before a client meeting. I ran to a local dress store and stood in the dressing room while a woman sewed a new zipper into my pants. When I wear that suit it still has that little zipper like you'd find on the back of a woman's dress.

Corey Bearak

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What, no one heard of the "coverup"?

Rona Gura

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On my first day ay a new firm noticing that my assigned mentor had a limp. I questioned whether she had recently injured herself and her response was a terse "No." I found out later she had an artificial leg. Life lesson I learned from that experience-never ask personal questions to anyone I don't know very very well.

Susan Zinder

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Better to fall up than down! ;)

Lucas Meyer

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My most embarrassing moment wasn't a physical thing; rather it was a mistranslation.

I was a speaker at the Central Bank of Venezuela, and during the question and answer period, someone asked me a question for which I had no answer. So I began saying that I was "embarrassed" not to have one. The problem is that in Spanish (which is what we were speaking, it being Venezuela) "embarrassed" means to be pregnant! Now, I know better, but I guess I was a little nervous speaking in front of a large group of people, and I immediately caught myself (they said I also turned beet red) and said, "Y ahora yo realmente tengo verguenza". The English word embarrassed is translated as "tengo verguenza", which literally means "I have shame." You cannot imagine how many years later people still came up to me and said they remembered my gaffe...

Liz Saldana

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Try being in Mexico and using the verb "cojer". In most Spanish speaking countries it means "take" or "get", as in "get a cab" or "take it easy". This is NOT the case in Mexico, where I don't know who ended up turning more red, me or the concierge at the hotel I was asking about getting a cab to the airport. I don't even speak Spanish in Mexico any more.

Riva Schwartz

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when I was in the marine electronics industry, I climbed aboard a vessel in a (skirt)suit and (of course) the skirt split all the way up to the waist - me and 100's of men! From then on, I only wore pantsuits!