A bit red in the face...

Woken up again. Early. Not enough sleep. Cranky Robbie. May kill someone if it happens again. Approach slowly, cautiously and with food and you may live.  Preferably a muffin. You've been warned. Onto today's post!

We've all had some embarrassing moments: those moments that you can't help thinking about despite the fact that they make you turn an odd shade of red and grimace like you've fell naked into a pit of lego. I've actually had two of these this week, including my first professional faux pas which I'll get to shortly and one my mum told me about (but that's her story to tell, not mine).  For me though, I enjoy my embarrassing moments and often use them as an interesting story for the future (albeit after a period of time has passed).  Enjoy them and share them, as they help add some colour to this fleeting life of ours!

Now, I've certainly had my fair share of these, ranging from the comically timed to the outrageously absurd but nothing quite prepares you for that 1^st professional moment, where you suddenly realise you've said something horribly horribly wrong and you have to keep your face straight and just pray that nobody caught onto what you said. This was, and still is, cringe worthy (seeing as it only happened this week) and I'd like to share it. However, let's have a quick look at my top 4 embarrassing moments until today (in no particular order)!  I'm sure I've had other moments more embarrassing but I'm either not telling you or I've blanked them out. Either way, here are some!

1. In the process of shushing people due to exams being held in the Geography department, tripping and knocking over the 'quiet, exams in process' sign
   
2. On a seven hour flight, knocking a glass of red wine over myself as I repositioned my dinner tray
   
3. Being kissed by a drunk stranger in the streets of Ayr after trying to look cool in front of my then girlfriend.  I can assure you, I've not tried to act cool since then.
   
4. Being kissed by a drunk stranger in Tesco who had been pretending to be French (I seem to attract these people)
   
   

However, nothing is quite like that first professional moment which just horrifies you. Bit of background to where I work: we have a ping pong table in our students common room for the university students and the ping pong balls are kept in the admissions reception. Now, I was sitting one morning, happily minding my own business when a university student entered in the room and asked for a ping pong ball. As the kindly and caring person I am, I immediately gave him one. He then asked for a second one and that's when it happened. I couldn't stop it and immediately realised how stupid it was as soon as I said it. With a completely serious face and without realising how ridiculous it sounded until after, I said to him 'You must be pretty skilled to be playing with two balls'.

I've never fought the urge to panic or snigger more in my life. Take a second to think about what you're going to say people or it will end up as a story on a blog you're writing.  If you do say something stupid, own up to it!


Pick of the Week

Reddit – WHY HAS IT TOOK ME SO LONG TO INVESTIGATE THIS SITE? As the self-described 'front page of the internet', this is a site filled with a huge amount of news and information plus, as there are a variety of sub-fields, you can get information related to your interests. For example, I'm a member of the 'sub-reddit' for anime which means I can get a lot of news/information on upcoming anime shows. Now, I'm not going to lie...there are a lot of cat gifs and dog pictures as well as complete rubbish but if you have 15 minutes to kill, this is a great way to do so. You might even learn something.


Music of the Week

This weeks' song is the opening to Darker than Black and is written by the band Abingdon Boys School.  Enjoy!

Well, that's it for this week,  If you have any stories you'd like to share, feel free!  Until next week!