Idaho hiccups are embarrassing

Ross and I met through my cousin and his buddy from his mission to Brazil. They were dating and because I was always with Michelle and Ross was roommates with Brian, Ross and I got thrown together a lot just after we met. Neither of us claim love at first sight, but we were definitely curious about each other. And wouldn't you know it? During all that "get to know you" stuff we ended up embarrassing ourselves at least a few times.

One night we went to a midnight movie at Varsity Theatre on the BYU campus. I don't think we were very early for it because when we got there there weren't enough seats for all of us together. Somehow I ended up sitting on a row on the side of the theater next to Ross. There were only four seats there and the other two were taken by Brian's friend Gary (whom Michelle ended up marrying, but that's another story!) and Gary's brother. Michelle and Brian kept walking up towards the front and when Michelle realized I hadn't gone with her she was shocked. (I guess she knew I wasn't normally very forward!) And then the small talk started...

We talked about this and that, but to this day we still laugh about what Ross said. First he asked where I was from and I told him Montana. The conversation progressed to what I was majoring in. I didn't hesitate in telling him English because that had always been my plan. I then explained that I wasn't in school right then, that I was working for Novell, what I did there, blah, blah, blah. He then said, "So...if you were in school, what would you be majoring in?" Yep. I just looked at him and said, "Um, English." Poor guy felt kinda stupid. Right up until he asked me, "What part of Idaho are you from again?" Poor guy kinda felt stupider. ;o)

One of my embarrassing moments was a night we went to a playground with Michelle and Brian. We weren't doing anything special, just talking and playing around. All of a sudden I got the LOUDEST hiccups! I couldn't seem to keep them quiet or control how quickly they came. I guess I should be glad that's the worst my body was doing? But still, embarrassing at the time and now whenever I get the hiccups like that we refer to them as "playground hiccups". Silly, but true.

Thankfully I know I am not the only one who's had these experiences. My sister-in-law Celina was in a group for a class with my brother Jeff and she was elected by everyone else to be the one who told Jeff his zipper was down! Embarrassing for both of them, I think. She also called him Jay for a while before he had to finally correct her.

I also know a girl, who shall remain nameless ;o), but can reveal herself in the comments if she really wants to, who went four wheeling (I think?) with a cute boy and then ended up puking into the safety helmet she was borrowing. Poor girl!

I was going to put a clip on here to represent this kind of a moment, but I could only find it in Hungarian (of all the random languages)! It was from a very short lived musical TV series from 1990 called Hull High. I'm not even sure why this sticks out in my memory. There's a scene where a guy named Mark meets new girl Camilla and is taken with her. As they talk she says she's moved from Philadelphia, to which he blurts out, "Liberty Bell!" She looks at him weird and moves on. As she walks away it shows him banging his head on the locker, grumbling, "Liberty Bell..." haha

Did you humiliate yourself in front of your future spouse, former boyfriend, a crush you had, or even just a cute guy you didn't know? Raise your hand out there in cyberspace!

Also, in honor of that English major Ross had to ask me about twice, here's one of my favorite love poems by Carol Lynn Pearson:

My Context
You love me
Out of context.
You love me as a noun
Lifted from sentence,
Paragraph, page.

But seeing me
Surrounded by
All my other nouns,
My verbs, adverbs, adjectives,
And now and again
An expletive--
Would you love me then?

Or could you love me,
Maybe, even more?

When you have found
How complex compound
My structure is,
When you have seen
My meaning multiply
And multiply,
When you know
Not only where
I am written
But how I function--

Would you,
Could you care to join me
In some marvelous
Conjunction?