An epic fail
I thought I'd posted this tale before, but it seems I hadn't.

I was chums with some art students, a long time ago. I got invited to their degree show - lots of great stuff, and free wine. Lots of free white wine.

On the train home I got chatting to the older sister of one of the students. We were getting on really well - so much in common that this was as near a done deal as I will probably ever get in my life.

We'd just exchanged phone numbers and I was about to say "Let's go and see 'Orpheus in the Underworld' at the ENO."

Instead, I turned to her and said: "Let's go and see HHHHUUUUUEEECCCCHHHHHHH....."

Poor girl. Head-to-toe coverage in white wine and part-digested cod and chips.

According to my chum, my next words were "I suppose this means you're not going to ring me?" I don't remember that, but I do remember the pitying looks from the bloke opposite me who witnessed the whole sorry story.

Twenty-plus years on I still feel the shame.
(uncle whippity, Fri 11 Dec 2009, 17:14, Reply)