Embarrassing Moments...

Everyone has their embarrassing moments.
Moments full of shame..
Some are tame
Others...
absolutely mortifying.

It’s a funny thing
This thing
Called shame

Because it comes and (sometimes) fades
In all sorts of shades
Of red...
Of dread...
Makes no distinction..
Between fact and fiction

Whether you’re caught with you hand in the cookie jar..
Or whether you’ve left the bathroom door ajar...
That feeling..
That burning feeling..leaves you reeling
Whether you deserve it or not

Not everyone can look back..and point to their most mortifying, embarrassing moment.
But alas..
I can

This shabbos...many many years ago
I was a Chosson...staying at my future in laws...late Friday night..when we thought everyone was asleep..and my Kallah and I...well..let’s just say..we weren’t saying Tehillim...when suddenly a movement caught my eye..
And there in the doorway was her very chassidishe grandfather..yes..the one that intimidated me from the first meet..and I saw my life flash before me...
and I was absolutely Mortified
Stupefied
Thinking...Cyanide

But luckily...it seems...and so I’ve heard..
A long..long time ago..he was a chosson too...



I’d love to hear some really embarrassing moments from you guys too....