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So SU tangentially provided me with the singularly most embarrassing moment of my life about 9 years ago. So we are showing our office to a design company a fe
by simonbarker87 8y ago
So SU tangentially provided me with the singularly most embarrassing moment of my life about 9 years ago.
So we are showing our office to a design company a few buildings over and just chatting about the business and the stuff we make (we were all starting out and in our early 20s), there were lots of prototype bits around and adhesives and stuff, basically the office had a slight chemical smell to it.
One of the guys from the design agency says “That smell, reminds me of inaudible half mumble, in my spare time I like to surf”. My dumb dumb brain decides he means he likes to surf the web and so I reply with “oh, you should check out Stumble Upon, it’s a pretty cool service for finding new stuff on the web”.
Everyone looks at me like I’m a total idiot but I just carried on as normal because my brain is still thinking: surfing the web and not the much more obvious surfing with wet suits that smell like our office does. I’m guessing the bit I didn’t hear was the word wetsuits.
Anyway, as soon as we show them out it dawns on me what a socially awkward penguin I just managed to be, I still die a little inside every time I remember the bemused look on his face after my comment. Funnily enough we never did do any work with those guys.
Anyway, thanks Stumble Upon!
- overkalix 8y agoThis is the most embarrassing moment of your life? You amateur.
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- openfuture 8y agoYou should drop what you are doing and go find a way to embarrass yourself properly. I mean no offense but it's just so sad that you've managed to avoid embarrassment to this extent when there is so much to learn from it.
- simonbarker87 8y agoNo offence taken, I'll take mine over some of the other stories out there. I've got plenty of time to drum something else up, I'll try not to specifically plan anything though.
- godzillabrennus 8y agoMy brother... that is not even remotely embarrassing... IMHO you should go do some dumb stuff and live a little.
- rndgermandude 8y agoMy most embarrassing moment in my life so far included underage me, alcohol, a fjord, nudity, and a group of Norwegian strangers... What would I give to swap that for "I recommended SU to a literal surfer" :D
- simonbarker87 8y agoYou win :)
- haggy 8y agoMy most embarrassing moment included myself, an extreme amount of alcohol, and me running backwards up a one way street with my pants down resulting in me mooning a cop driving up the street toward me.... so yea like others said, you gotta get out more.
- overcast 8y agoOh the innocence! Get outside, do something dumb.
- dirtybird04 8y agoThat's hilarious. I can totally relate. And don't pay any attention to these alcoholic fratbros. You be you, man!
- retsibsi 8y agoI was also shocked by the tameness of his most embarassing moment, but not because my own stories are cooler -- just much stupider and more awkward!