I don't know if it is because I just put the way embarrassing stuff out of my mind, or if I just don't embarrass easily. I am going to go with the latter. I can remember a few things from youth that do stick out. One involves my brother; the other one involved pizza.
I was thirteen when this happened and I lived in a very small town. the town had a stoplight, but it had quit working years earlier. I had just gotten my first period. I went to the grocery store with my mom and my brother, who is two and half years younger than me. A boy that I liked worked there (what child labor laws....). So I am very quietly discussing with my mom what kind of stuff to get. My brother bored with the whole conversation, announces very loudly "Cristy, just get the curved pads." I immediately just grabbed something and hightailed it out of that aisle. But, who did I run into on the very next aisle, of course the boy I liked. He had heard the whole conversation. Yikes!
Second story: I was fifteen and living in a college town. My dad had remarried and him and my stepmom had my little sister. She was three at the time of this story. My family ordered in pizza a lot, like six out of seven days a lot (I hate pizza...). On this one particular day I was playing with my little sister. She wanted to play makeup. So I let her put her fake eyeshadow, blush and lipstick on me; like she had done a thousand times before. She was applying the fake powder to me when the doorbell rang. I looked out the window and the pizza guy was hot. He was a young college kid and very good looking. So I yelled that I would get the pizza. I grabbed the check and yanked open the door. I smiled and talked to him and got our pizzas. He kind of had a weird look on his face, but I didn't think anything of it. I shut the door and my dad and stepmom bust out laughing. I ran to the mirror. Turns out they had gotten my sister this semi play makeup and I had lovely blue streaks kind of on my eyes, some pretty hot pink all over my cheeks, and the prettiest orange lips. And, to top it all off, white splotches from the powder. It was soo embarrassing to know another person, besides my family, saw me like that. Even twenty years later, I still wont let my sister put makeup on me.
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The pizza one is a hilarious story..well looking back now for you, but at the time I too would have been super embarrassed.
ReplyDeleteIt was pretty embarrassing at the time. My sister still laughs at this story when it gets told again...and again...and again...
DeleteI wish they had curved pads now! I can remember around that time being embarrassed that my mom told my father. How silly is that.
ReplyDeleteChristine @ Mama Papa Barn
I think my dad is still in denial that I get a period. My poor daughter was with my husband when she started. He took her on a father daughter date at great wolf lodge. When he got home, he just said " your daughter needs to talk to you." Lucky for him though, we had already talked and she was prepared, so he didn't have to stop and get pads.
DeleteOh, I can so relate to the period story! When I first had mine, at age 8 no less, my brother was the first to notice it {soaked through}. He ran screaming down the halls that I was bleeding. Soooo....the entire family came rushing to my side: mom, dad, sister, brother, even grandfather. I could have died of humiliation. You've made me laugh today-thanks for sharing! :-)
ReplyDeleteThat is definitely embarrassing. Especially with your grandfather there and everything. I think most of us have period horror stories especially as teens. Glad I could make you smile. I laugh at the these too.
DeleteI have a friend who was driving to the grocery store and felt like her lips were chapped so she fished into her purse without taking her eyes off the road and smeared the chap stick all around her lips. She shopped, loaded her groceries, and started to back the car out when she caught sight of herself in the mirror. Yep, she had smeared bright red lipstick all around her mouth. She is still embarrassed when she tells the story. She said she even stopped and talked to people she knew in the store and not one person said a word to her. Freaking hilarious!!
ReplyDeletelol...that is too funny!! I always try to check a mirror before I face people now! I bet your friend does too!!
DeleteI swear all of use ladies have a least one embarrassing period story. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteIt's a right of passage.
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