ugh....
I have has so many embarrassing moments that I have blocked from memory, but here are two that I can remember:

Let's set the way-back-machine to the late 80's when I was a little bit shorter, and unsurprisingly, a lot younger, say 9 years old.

I had been dragged out into the town centre with my mum and sister this particular Saturday, and the two of them had decided it was quite essential to trawl around every damn clothes shop in the high street.

So we all head into the next shop, by which time I'm as bored as a bored thing watching boring things. I decide to be a bit nonchalant, and lean up against the side of a large glass display cabinet that currently holds a mannequin. I put my arm out, shift my weight to one leg, and lean.

This doesn't work so well when what you think is a solid glass case, doesn't actually have sides. It must have looked not too dissimilar from that classic scene from Only Fols and Horses where DelBoy fell through the bar, only with more style - I went completely over, into the mannequin, which fell forward into the glass (thank the good lord that it didn't smash) and I was left lying on the floor.

Yes, nearly everyone saw it. Yes everyone laughed, and no, no one bothered to help me up.

Time for one more: this was only a few weeks ago, so I'm a little bit taller, and a lot older. This occured in a very popular DVD/Music/entertainments store in Oxford Street.

I pop upstairs to grab a DVD, I'm not sure where the TV section is off the top of my head, so I'll have to look around; I walk around from the escalator, only to become aware that four guys are following me.

They were all dressed in suits and bowler hats, all doing the Monty Python Ministry of silly walks routine, and I was their hapless victim. Yes, they followed me around the entire store, and yes, they kept asking me if they could use my walk for their ministry. Yes, people watched.

They only fucked off when I conceeded defeat and asked what the hell they were advertising (I had worked it out, obviously, but it was the only way to get them to give up, without resorting to killing all 4 of them)

I won't make a joke about length - it's too embarrassing...
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 8:59, Reply)