Happy Valentine's Day! It's not even 8 in the morning and I have already experienced my most embarrassing moment ever today. No, not my most embarrassing today moment; the most embarrassing moment I've had in my entire life. I thought about waiting and posting it for Flashback Friday today, but 24 hours isn't exactly much of a flashback no matter how much I want to put this memory in the past.
I went to spinning this morning. It seemed particularly hot and humid in there today and as a result, I ended up looking even more deranged than usual. Plus it didn't help that I never got around to washing my hair yesterday. It was a snow day so we were all in our pjs for a long time. I did hop in the shower briefly, but it seemed like too much work to wash and dry my hair when all of our activities had been canceled anyway.
Part way through spinning class the instructor had us pretend to sprint through our town. We all began pedaling away when suddenly I breathed in the most foul smelling air and began coughing and sputtering. Someone had let out a truly raunchy fart. I remember thinking that if I were that guy, I would just be absolutely mortified.
The class ended a little later than usual and I ran up to the locker room. I had a brief conversation with this woman I know named Lindsey about the fact we were both in a big hurry. I stripped off my clothes, threw them in the locker and grabbed my towel. Then I reached for my lock. I thought it was a little weird than I had hung it on the inside of my locker door when I normally throw it up on the top shelf of the locker. I slammed the locker door shut, locked it...and then realized that the lock was purple. I froze on that spot. My lock is black.
Trying not to panic, I realized that I would just simply need to go to the front desk and ask for lock cutters. There was just one teeny tiny little problem: I didn't have any clothes! Even my sweaty ones were locked inside my locker. There was no way I could walk through the Y in just my towel with absolutely nothing underneath it. I briefly contemplated sprinting through the Y and driving home. I could get dressed and then come back to calmly deal with the locker. There was two problems with this, the first being that my keys were in the locker and second that I would be driving in just my towel! Can you imagine if I were pulled over? I wouldn't even have my license or any ID with me because oh yeah that was in my locker too. I can't even imagine the police blotter for that!
Lindsey had already disappeared, but fortunately I found her in the bathroom. Also fortunately she was still wearing her workout clothes. Feeling incredibly embarrassed, I asked her if she could to the front desk and ask for the lock cutters. I felt particularly bad because I knew she was running late.
I tried not to die of embarrassment during the ten minutes, alright really minute and a half, that she was gone. She came back with these giant lock cutters that took two people to use. Seriously, they were about the same size of my 4 year old. I'm gross, disgusting, in just a towel and it took both her and I together to break the lock. Also, do you know how hard it is to break a lock much less break a lock while trying to hold onto a towel? In the snap of the fingers I realized that in the event that I couldn't do both, I would rather cut the lock naked with Lindsey than be stuck in just my towel at the Y any longer. Can I just say again how mortified I was?
As a nice touch to this embarrassing morning, after I showered and put on my nice scented lotion that I somehow remembered to pack last night, I realized that I had still forgotten to put my brush back in my bag from when I had taken it out the other day. I had to leave looking like a deranged person. Lindsey was laughing at me. I'm sure she will be sharing the story in the teachers' lounge today where she works. I would have rather been the guy who farted in class today.
OMG! How lucky you are that Lindsey was there. Oh, I imagine this is a Valentine's Day you won't ever forget! Does it make me a bad person that while I am mortified for you, I am also chuckling a tiny bit? I can SOOOO see that happening to me too!
Seriously, that is one of my worst fears, although I usually don't change at the gym - I just wear my workout clothes there and shower at home. (It would be even more awkward to change there, as my gym does not have a locker room, but that's another story.) Anyway, I almost obsessively check the back of my lock - where I put a PowerPuff Girl sticker - to be sure that it is really mine before I snap it shut. (The sticker was initially placed there because I kept leaving my lock behind. When claiming a lock from the lost and found, you must try the combination on every lock to find yours. A sticker is much faster.)
Oh no! That is too funny. Thank goodness for Lindsey! Although, if you had gotten pulled over in your towel, there is a good chance you would have gotten out of that ticket. Or been tested for alcohol.
Hilarious! I'm not sure that would rank in my top ten most embarassing moments, though, since you didn't actually have to walk to the front desk nekkid.
LOL! What a story. At least Lindsay was there to get the lock cutter for you. I always have that nervous I'm-going-to-lock-the-key-in-with-my-clothes feeling at the gym.
I think of you every time I put my lock on at the Y. Yesterday my locker got stuck shut for a second and I was afraid it was not going to open. I ended up pushing and it opened, but I thought about having to go out in my bathing suit for help and thought about you. Thanks for sharing your moment!
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OMG! How lucky you are that Lindsey was there. Oh, I imagine this is a Valentine's Day you won't ever forget! Does it make me a bad person that while I am mortified for you, I am also chuckling a tiny bit? I can SOOOO see that happening to me too!
WTG on the training - You rock!