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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2393606" data-attributes="member: 30035">I still can't think of any embarrassing stories of my own - not that I never did anything embarrassing when I was under 21 (unless you count eloping with a guy 6 yrs. my senior whom I barely knew), but they're just not amusing embarrassing stories. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I like this story, though, although it's actually embarrassing for someone else. When I was in 7th grade I was in "accelerated" English class, the class for the "smart" kids. Our teacher, Ms. Brown, was a crotchety old lady. I grew up in a small town in west Texas. In a neighboring small city a shopping mall had recently opened, which was a big deal for the people in my home town. Some of the wealthier farm families would take their kids out of school on a weekday to drive up to the mall. Ms. Brown hated it when they did that.  My father passed away that year. I was a bit of a tomboy and didn't own a dress my mother considered appropriate for funeral wear, so she took me and my sister out of school on a Friday to shop for funeral attire. On Monday I went back to school and Ms. Brown wanted to know where I'd been on Friday. I walked up to her desk and told her truthfully that I'd been out of school to shop for a dress. She demanded to know what occasion was so important I had to miss school to buy clothes for it. I calmly replied, "My father's funeral."  It was so gratifying to watch Ms. Brown sort of shrink down in her chair. I went back to my seat, all the other kids in the class staring at me in amazement, wondering what I could possibly have said to put a cork in the old lady. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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