Embarrassing Moments Contest

When my husband and I first got engaged, we thought it would be a good idea to plan a dinner so our parents and families could meet and get to know each other. All was going so well, until my loving parents decided to regale my mother-in-law to be with their cherished memories of my greatest humiliations.

When I was a teenager, my parents blessed me with tickets to see the off Broadway touring show, Beauty and the Beast at the Orpheum theater in Minneapolis. It was the highlight of my year, especially when a cute usher caught my eye and flirted with me. For days after the show, I gushed to my best friend about the show, and about the cute usher. A week later, my parents received another set of tickets for the same show and offered to let me bring my friend along to see the show. When my friend and I arrived at the theater, we bumped into the usher I'd been going on about. He remember me and I introduced him to my friend, trying my hardest to look much older and more sophisticated than my 15 years. Our seats were in one of the very top rows of the huge theater.

At intermission, I scooted out of my seat to head down the stairs, but my heel caught on a snag in the carpet and, from the very top step, I tumbled. Head over heels. Flailing. Not gracefully. I fell all the way past about 50 rows of seats through the center of the theater and landed on my back with my skirt bunched up and my blouse gaping open. Right at the feet of cute usher boy.

At this point in the retelling of the story, my future mother-in-law turned to me with her mouth gaping open and exclaimed, "That was you?"

She and my husband's two sisters had been at the same theater, the same night, for the same show. And several years later, they still remembered the poor girl that had tumbled ungracefully through the theater at intermission. They had even gone home and told the rest of the family the whole story. Little did they know, that clumsy girl would someday join their family.

Do you have an embarrassing moment you're brave enough to share? Post in the comments. I'll send a special chocolate gift package to the person that posts the most cringe worthy story by midnight on Monday, October 12, 2015.