Post by peterh on Sept 4, 2008 11:51:41 GMT
Inspired by a recent Msn conversation and cleg's "wife hitting" I'm launching a funny and embarrasing stories thread. I figure it'll be a good laugh so feel free to share some embarrasing, quirky or fun stories. The only limitation is no drunken stories as we already have a thread on that. I'll start off with a story of my own. It was damn embarrasing at the time but funny in hindsight - so feel free to laugh at the foolish peterh ;D
During my high school years I had some periods where I was extremely tired and had problems staying awake. I contribute this to being a teen and the body developing but it still posed a problem during classes. That's why I started to ride my bike to school every morning figuring a good 8 km bike ride would help me stay awake.
It usually worked but not on this day. During the very first class I actually fell half asleep and was woken up by the teacher. I took the consequense in the second class and went to the bathroom to splash some water in my face. Then, I figured it might be a good idea to sit down a bit and actually dozed off shortly while sitting in the bathroom! You can probably imagine how it must've looked when I returned to class fifteen minutes after leaving!
This isn't the worst part, though, because while I barely made it through the day I still had to ride the bike home. I started pedalling but couldn't keep my eyes open so when I turned a corner I actually fell asleep on the bike and hit a tree in low speed! And that's when the treacherous timing hits. RIGHT at that very moment the bus carrying my classmates crosses the very same corner giving everyone a free view of Peter crashing with a tree!
The next day people ask me what happened and being young and naive I tell people that I fell asleep on the bike. I could've told them a dramatic story about my bag getting caught in the wheel to save face but no! As you can imagine there was a fair amount of laughter! Luckily nothing was hurt but I still took the bus the next day ;D
During my high school years I had some periods where I was extremely tired and had problems staying awake. I contribute this to being a teen and the body developing but it still posed a problem during classes. That's why I started to ride my bike to school every morning figuring a good 8 km bike ride would help me stay awake.
It usually worked but not on this day. During the very first class I actually fell half asleep and was woken up by the teacher. I took the consequense in the second class and went to the bathroom to splash some water in my face. Then, I figured it might be a good idea to sit down a bit and actually dozed off shortly while sitting in the bathroom! You can probably imagine how it must've looked when I returned to class fifteen minutes after leaving!
This isn't the worst part, though, because while I barely made it through the day I still had to ride the bike home. I started pedalling but couldn't keep my eyes open so when I turned a corner I actually fell asleep on the bike and hit a tree in low speed! And that's when the treacherous timing hits. RIGHT at that very moment the bus carrying my classmates crosses the very same corner giving everyone a free view of Peter crashing with a tree!
The next day people ask me what happened and being young and naive I tell people that I fell asleep on the bike. I could've told them a dramatic story about my bag getting caught in the wheel to save face but no! As you can imagine there was a fair amount of laughter! Luckily nothing was hurt but I still took the bus the next day ;D
