oops, stuff they don't let you live down

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Thank goodness I have never listened to those tags. I always went by how my mother did the laundry and did it the way I was taught. I was taught to separate the clothes into whites and colors or else the colors will bleed into the whites.

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Hehe. Wrong thread!

okay, here´s one that my Mom mentions every now and then, in a teasing sort of way.

Apparently, before my brother was born, my Mom explained to me a little bit about how babies were made, how the mommy gets pregnant, etc. She explained it in very vague terms of course, in the way you would explain it to a child.

Anyway, when I was a little girl- probably 5 or 6, awhile after my brother was born- on a couple of occasions, I asked my Mom if I could watch her and my Dad in the bedroom making love, because I was worried that when I grew up, I wouldn´t know what to do. My parents assured me that I WOULD know what to do, and that it would come naturally.

I only vaguely remember this. But I think it is quite telling, from an AS perspective: as a child, I remember feeling like I didn´t really know what was going on most of the time. Already, at the tender age of 6, I was worried that I wouldn´t know what to do when I got older, and wanted some lessons to prepare myself...

ok this is going to be very embarrassing.

one of my friends told me and another friend, in great secret, that she was pregnant. she told us not to tell this to anyone under any circumstances (she wanted to announce it herself as a big surprise and all). so one evening me, my friend (who knew) and another friend (who didn't know) were sitting in my kitchen doing a prep list for the wedding of friend no1 and were wondering where to put the pregnant friend at the wedding table. so the friend no2 (who didn't know) says "put her on our end so she can drink with us" to which I say "she's not going to drink though, she'll be breastfeeding by then".

what followed was an awkward silence before friend no1 shouted at me that I wasn't supposed to say that she's pregnant to which I said: "but I didn't"... LOL

I still get lashes for that whenever I meet any of the people involved.

I once tried to make the "loser" sign with my hand to my sister who did the same to me, and I did it backwards. I realize it and sat there forever trying to figure out which way to turn my hand. At one point my hand was kind of tilted and I thought my fingers kind of made a checkmark, so I said "hey, a check, cha ching" (the money noise). Wrong kind of check... My sister is always mimicking me when I did that to this day -shrug-

At my grandmother’s house when I was coming inside and she told me to close the door. She said “close the door”, not “close the door when you come in”. I supposedly thought she meant close the door and don’t come in. I sat in the lawn bawling. My mom refuses to let me live this down.
When we got locked in at Wal-Mart during a tornado warning and I had a panic attack and a meltdown. The time one of my brother's girlfriends had a deep suntan and I asked her "Are you a black person?" One time my brother and I went to pick up his new girlfriend. He asked his girlfriend and me if we were hungry and wanted to get something to eat. We just drove by a McDonald’s billboard. I sarcastically remarked, “Are we supposed to eat that billboard or something?” He rarely, if practicality never took us to fast food places so I thought he was trying to be funny. I earned the nickname “billboard eater”. Whenever my brother and I pass a billboard he will always remind me of my nickname.

I did something stupid when I was 18 and it's too embrassing to even write about it here. My mother still brings it up occasionally. I guess she won't even let it slide or let me forget about it. She will make sure I will remember it. Of course I won't ever forget, it was a lesson and I learned to not ever trust anyone when it comes to money, no matter how nice they are or how good of friend they are. But I don't let it upset me. I lost 100 dollars, big deal. I earned more money so why be upset about something I lost in 2003?

There are about two people online I trust. One of them and I have sent each other stuff through mail but never money. I had an online boyfriend and he sent me a couple Christmas presents and I sent him a check for his birthday.