I Am Lame
I have an amazing talent. It's called "making a total idiot out of myself." You have no idea how gifted I am in this regard, but then again maybe you do, if you read my "News Flash" blog (previous). Basically I wrote about the potential awkwardness of working with my ex-boyfriend should he end up employed at the Apple Store along with me. To my surprise, who should comment on my blog but--my ex-boyfriend! He was a little taken aback, as you may imagine, but not nearly as much as I was at reading his comment. So do I feel stupid now? Well, duh.
Then again, I shouldn't feel like I am in any sort of unfamiliar territory when it comes to embarrassing situations. I am the same girl who, years ago in college with a different boyfriend, was caught kinda-sorta flirting with another guy over email. How did this come to light? Oh, well, it wasn't too difficult--I sent the "cheating" email to my boyfriend by mistake. Now THAT was awkward.
Or what about the time that I was at a church event one evening, and my sister called me over to introduce me to this guy, and she asked me, "Hey have you ever seen that cartoon 'Life With Louie'?" Well, I had, and I thought it was stupid and badly drawn, and I voiced my opinions in a very decided fashion, all the while not seeing my sister's increasingly warning look, until finally she interrupted my flow and said, "Yes, well So-And-So here is one of the animators on that cartoon." I don't remember how I backpedaled out of that one, but I don't think I was very successful anyway. (My sister says she doesn't remember this, but it is oh-so-indelibly seared on MY memory.)
So I am no stranger at all to moments of unbearable uncomfortableness. On the contrary, I create them almost effortlessly. It's a gift, like I said.
But I would just like to make a few things very clear before I put an end to this baring-of-soul: 1) I don't hate my ex. 2) I think flirting with someone while you are dating someone else is wrong, by email or otherwise, and I'm not proud of the fact that I did it. 3) "Life With Louie" was, in fact, a pretty lame cartoon.
Then again, I shouldn't feel like I am in any sort of unfamiliar territory when it comes to embarrassing situations. I am the same girl who, years ago in college with a different boyfriend, was caught kinda-sorta flirting with another guy over email. How did this come to light? Oh, well, it wasn't too difficult--I sent the "cheating" email to my boyfriend by mistake. Now THAT was awkward.
Or what about the time that I was at a church event one evening, and my sister called me over to introduce me to this guy, and she asked me, "Hey have you ever seen that cartoon 'Life With Louie'?" Well, I had, and I thought it was stupid and badly drawn, and I voiced my opinions in a very decided fashion, all the while not seeing my sister's increasingly warning look, until finally she interrupted my flow and said, "Yes, well So-And-So here is one of the animators on that cartoon." I don't remember how I backpedaled out of that one, but I don't think I was very successful anyway. (My sister says she doesn't remember this, but it is oh-so-indelibly seared on MY memory.)
So I am no stranger at all to moments of unbearable uncomfortableness. On the contrary, I create them almost effortlessly. It's a gift, like I said.
But I would just like to make a few things very clear before I put an end to this baring-of-soul: 1) I don't hate my ex. 2) I think flirting with someone while you are dating someone else is wrong, by email or otherwise, and I'm not proud of the fact that I did it. 3) "Life With Louie" was, in fact, a pretty lame cartoon.
posted by grackyfrogg @ 9:45 PM
1 Comments:
At 12:45 AM ,
Fitting said...
Join the club, Grace. It's a fun place. I went to a wedding once, sat at a table of 4, next to another table of 4, at which my ex-boyfriend was seated (with his fiance). Somehow he managed to say hi to the other three people at my table and completely bypass the other passenger of this awkward train crash. I know I'm vertically challenged, but come on, I was sitting RIGHT THERE.
Try living in the dorm next to your ex-boyfriend, eating at the same dining common and avoiding him. Yeah, call me a fool for trying.
Or having your ex-boyfriend ride up on his motorcycle to visit you in college, getting a parking ticket, then asking you to take care of it for him (but you're too lazy to walk across campus to the stinking little building that requests payment and so just never really do anything about it and offer some lame excuse as to why you didn't get your butt over there) and then running into him years later in a music store (when all you really wanted was two minutes of the storekeeper's time to figure out how much new tuning pegs would cost).
Mind you, these are all different ex-boyfriends. So you see, I've had my share of fun times on the ride of "how-lame-am-I" roller coaster. Just when I think I've gone and grown up, I do something stupid like give a very nice boy the cold shoulder as soon as I realize there are some non-mutual feelings existing in my petri dish. Of course, I could argue that this was a few years ago and oh how I've changed...but let's be real...tomorrow is a new day.
PS-if you were a student of mine, you’d get points for creativity. Why? Because I’ve never seen myself quoted in text in any applicable way other than “if I can figure out a way to quote my teacher, I’ll get a good grade.”
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