Top 5 Most Embarrassing Moments of My Life

So far.

I don’t get embarrassed easily. These are some notable exceptions.

1. I sent this considerably tone deaf condolence text to my friend Anna when her grandfather passed away. Note the frowny face to clarify that this was a sad text, the hearts to show her that I cared about her, and the “I hope you’ve been having a blast abroad” to emphasize the fact that I was hoping that she was having a blast abroad. Feeling a bit weird about the message, I then asked my friends if it was a normal sympathy text to send to a friend, to which they emphatically said no.

   

2. After leaving home to start college, my high school relationship ended. Then, unfortunately, my high school ex girlfriend’s grandfather passed away. Wanting to pay our respects, my family and I planned on going to the shiva at my ex’s house. It’s worthy to note, by the way, that the new boy that my ex girlfriend was seeing was also going to be in attendance at this event, so my plan was to go, pay my respects, try to lay as low as humanly possible, and then leave. Wanting to grab flowers or something before the event, my family took a separate car and left the house while I was in the shower. I only include this detail because I did not get to see what outfits they were wearing. I’m not exactly sure why I thought this, but I figured that it was normal to wear very formal clothing to a shiva, so I put on my finest suit and tie and drove myself to her home. Keep in mind, all I wanted to do was blend in and stay under the radar. Sure enough, almost every single person at the shiva was in jeans or some other form of casual garb, with a few people dressed slightly nicer. No one, though, was dressed even remotely as formal as I was, which caused me to stand out like a sore thumb. Multiple people even came up to me during the event and told me that I didn’t have to dress that fancy for a shiva. I’ve never wanted to feel invisible more than I did at that moment.