Things That Are Strangely Embarrassing

[grapevine]

I've had many very embarrassing moments over the years, but the title of the thread "Do you collect anything and why?" prompted this particular memory:

For some reason I have a collection of chickens, not live ones, but started off with one of those chickens that stores eggs and then friends bought me chicken ornaments when they visited, one being a very large wooden rooster with movable legs, which sits on top of the boiler in the kitchen.

Imagine my embarrassement when a friend, a new guy from work came round for dinner and as I introduced him to my then young childen, my son (aged 9 and old enough to know better) suddenly said, "Have you seen my mum's cock?" and my friend, a gay man, said "Ooh I say, no, but I'd like to . . .". After a long hard stare at the culprit I managed to laugh it off and we had a great evening. It certainly broke the ice, but what a litte sod, and he hasn't really changed . . .

[kudzy]

Many years ago I was at a comedy club with a bunch of friends. It was a stage hypnosis performance. My friends and I were sitting at a table in the front. The hypnotist called up a bunch of people from the audience and proceeded to hypnotize the ones that were easily suggestible. At one point in the performance, the hypnotist implanted the suggestion that all the men in the audience had really small penises. Upon being awakened from the trance, the hypnotized man pointed directly at my crotch and started to laugh hysterically. I was of course extremely embarrassed, but it was all in good fun and we all had a good laugh. How’s that for strangely embarrassing?