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Embarrassing
moments seem to strike at the oddest times. I guess that’s what makes them
embarrassing. I seem to collect these like a child collects rocks.
Most
recently, I was at a department head meeting, sitting at a table surrounded by
fifteen fellow co-workers. As I was listening to the guest speaker, my cell
phone buzzed, I let the call go to voicemail.
A few
minutes later, I played the message. The alarm company was calling to say there
was a problem at my job location. I hurriedly pushed my chair back and stood to
go into the hall. My foot didn’t cooperate with my energy flow.
As I backed
away from the table, my open backed shoe slipped off my foot with a thud that
seemed to echo through the room. A couple of people looked up, but I felt like
all eyes were on me. I just smiled at the colleague next to me and said, “I
might need that,” referring to my shoe.
I slipped my
shoe back onto my foot and exited the room to make a phone call. When I
returned, I walked with my head held high as though nothing happened and slid
back into my seat.
How do you handle
an embarrassing moment? Here are three things to try.
1. Laugh at yourself – when you laugh,
others will laugh with you and not at you.
2. Admit you were embarrassed – accept that
you were embarrassed, this is a way of starting a friendly conversation with
the person next to you.
3. Minimize the incident – this is along
the same vein as, laugh at yourself. You can minimize the incident by saying something
like, “it happens to the best of us.”
Have you
experienced an embarrassing moment lately?
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