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One of the funniest incidents I remember involved a van, my wife and her parents. This is back in the early 80s. We had an Econoline van and we'd plan a drive to, I don't even remember where, and we were to pick up her parents. Since we had just used the van to move some stuff around, I had to put the back seat back into the van.
After we picked them up, we dropped by a 7-11 to pick up some snacks. As we were leaving, someone started backing out of their parking spot a bit too soon and I had to step on it a bit to get out of their way. I suddenly heard, "WhhooOOOoooooOOO", *thud* I glanced up in the rear view mirror and all I could see was a pair of pumps and a pair of penny loafers sticking straight up in the air. Apparently, when I put the seat in the van, I got distracted and didn't bolt it down so ...over they went.
At first, I was mortified but, when they started laughing, none of could stop.
I was the only female in a 6 person cubicle. One day we are discussing classic childhood candy. Things like lemon heads, bottle caps, runts...and I mention gobstoppers. One of them legit had no idea what they were, so I try to describe them.
"You know, they're these hard little balls that change color and flavor as you go down on them."
*They are all looking at me*
*Change like 16 shades of red*
"I did NOT just say that!!!"
On the plus side I had a box of gobstoppers waiting for me on my desk the next day. Yum!
I was in my church Christmas Choir and was supposed to begin one of the songs accapella and solo for the first line. It was z Christmas Sunday and the congregation was full. At the conductors cue, I began "Hark, the herald angels sing ..." suddenly I realized I was off key, and stopped.
"I'm sorry, could I get that note again?" I asked the pianist, who obliged. I started singing that first line and again realized I was off-key! I stopped, flustered and embarrassed, a whole congregation staring uncomfortably anywhere but at me.
After several moments of painfully awkward silence, the choir member to my right leaned in and whispered "Angels we have heard on high!"
I'd been singing the wrong song!!!
In a split second part me realized I could either feel humiliated and never show my face here again, or I could do the other thing.
I laughed out loud and addressed the rather large congregation, "I am so sorry, I've been singing the wrong song!" To the choir conductor, "can I try that one more time?"
This time I got out the right line of the right song in the right key. As soon as the rest of my first solo line was done, the rest of the choir came in. And I couldn't sing any of the rest of the song, I was laughing so hard.
I'm pretty sure reacting with humor to this was a survival instinct, because otherwise I really would've died from the embarrassment.
