I sit writing this entry today eating my lunch wondering why I selected a packet of Hula Hoops to compliment my ham and cheese sandwich. The circular construction of said snack makes it rather unsuitable as an extra sandwich filling and breaking them up goes against my nature for some unknown reason, small things like this make me wonder if I am totally sane, anyway on to the post.

On someone’s blog recently, I can't remember who's sorry, I commented on an embarrassing incident when I got into someone else’s car identical to ours and gave the poor woman sitting in the passenger seat quite a shock. Now this led me to think of other incidents of extreme embarrassment recounted by friends and colleagues of mine.

One which I found particularly cringe worthy was a time when a friend was sitting in his car in a traffic jam, oblivious to his surroundings trying to remove debris from his nasal passages or 'having a good rake' as he put it. He suddenly became aware of two young children in the car next to him, faces contorted up the window mimicking his actions and finding the whole spectacle very amusing. Only kids could possibly get away with so blatantly taking the micky of course, although now when I see someone performing the same act in a car I have the urge to act in a similar manner to the aforementioned youngsters.

My favorite story of all time however was almost legendary in the factory where I used to work. The tale went that a certain chap who spoke in a broad Black Country accent came dashing down the gangway heading to the toilets frantically loosening his overalls as he went, red faced and sweating profusely. He disappeared in a flash in to trap one and the sound of wet farty raspberries and a deep sigh of relief echoed round the tiled walls of the gents. All fell silent for a few seconds then someone at the urinals piped up "I bet yo feel better for that doe you Joe? (name changed)"... " Ar I do" came the reply  " But it would have been better if I'd made it to the pan" . Classic.

A more recent incident happened the other day. I decided that it would be a good idea in a MSN Messenger conversation with the wife, to forward to her a picture of me 'mooning', I was actually quite proud of the fact that I had figured out the self timer function on the digital camera without delving for the user manual and was demonstrating the newly acquired knowledge. 'Nice ass' she replied and then promptly set the image as her display picture. That'll teach me to be more careful what I send over the internet. I did consider using that photo as the header for this blog but in the interests of decency I decided against it, plus of course enough embarrassment was caused by it at the time...