There’s No Business Like D’oh Business
embarrassing September 19th, 2010
In my entire blogging career, I’ve never seen another blogger with a whole category for embarrassing posts. Of my 449 posts, 52 are labeled that way. Is it any wonder?
I drove to the grocery store today and parked. Before heading inside, I swapped my sunglasses for regular, grabbed my list, ATM card and coupons. And then my stomach growled. They always say you should never go grocery shopping on an empty stomach. I was going to have to be strong.
Anyway.
I got out of my car, locked it, and then in what I can only characterize as Ethel Merman-esque, sang aloud to myself I’m huuuungry!
Well, to myself and that lady who was sitting with her window down in the Jeep next to me about six inches from my face who I hadn’t noticed until after I opened my stupid mouth.
She stared straight ahead. Didn’t flinch. That means she either played deaf, didn’t appreciate my singing talent or was embarrassed for me.
Yeah. Like there’s any question which.
Stumble it!
September 19th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
I am voting that she is deaf.
September 19th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Oh, some people are not very nice. I would probably have finished the song for you, and sung “You’ve come to the right place to satisfy” or something similar. Then we would have both laughed. There would have been no embarrassment. Then again, I have been told I’m a tad crazy 😉
Babs – beetle´s last blog post ..Shopping for Cheese
September 19th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
maybe she was just jealous that she isn’t able to sing out loud like you did.
ann´s last blog post ..Thought for the day
September 19th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
You had a dream. A dream about food, baby. It wasn’t for her, baby.
If you’re a fan of La Merman, you should check out a singer named Klea Blackhearst. Her voice is a dead ringer, and she’s funny as hell, too.
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September 19th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
We have a “stupid things” category on our blog, that’s close! I make up silly songs all the time, but not usually with other people around.
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September 19th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Better that you were singing and not having a debate with the voices in your head. At least singing in public is semi-acceptable.
September 19th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I sing in the grocery store all the time. Now I wear my Shuffle, so people know I’m singing along and not just nuts.
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September 19th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I must have been parked next to you and I was secretly EXPLODING with laughter but knew if I didn’t look straight ahead I would have been guffawing as loud as you were singing. Ok, I’m kidding but I’m cracking myself up because that’s what I would have been doing.
Do you ever watch kids and notice how they never care about who hears them when they’re singing or talking? When’s the last time you sang your brains out while you were on the potty?
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September 19th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
I’ve done similar things. I think out loud a lot at home or when I’m alone in the car, and sometimes that habit has me doing the same in the grocery aisles. Though I’ve yet to burst into song.
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September 19th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
We are kindred spirits. I have a category on my blog called “Klutzing.”
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September 19th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
I think we’ve all been lost in thought and spoken aloud, not realizing we’re not as alone as we thought we were. If it had been me singing the lady probably would have suffocated while stifling laughter seeing as I can’t carry a tune in a bucket.
September 19th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
You were both following the rule of “Sing like no one is listening.” You were, and she wasn’t. Q.E.D. All is as it should be. Me, I write like no one is reading. Blahblahblabbityblahblah!
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September 19th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Why is that embarrassing? The woman should have smiled. And you should have continued singing “I am hungry, Oh so hungry. I am hungry, I’m famished, I’m faint. ” And maybe danced into the store…That’s what I would have done. Oh, wait…I have. Maybe not that particular song but I have boogied amongst the butterbeans.
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September 19th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
You just need to be in the theatre…where randomly bursting into song or quoting lines from obscure shows and paraphrasing them is considered the norm.
…Or so they tell me when I do it.
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September 20th, 2010 at 5:19 am
Sheila — Had to be. She was an absolute statue about it. How can you not at least roll your eyes at a woman singing in the parking lot?
Babs Beetle — You and me could go on the road. No one would understand us through all our laughing, but it’d be a hoot!
ann — It’s my goal to show people you can be a total loon and still be OK. Relatively speaking.
Thomas — Ooo, you’re right! I just Googled her and see that she does a Merman tribute. Those ladies know how to belt it out, don’t they?
Karen — “Stupid things” is close enough. Except why are my things stupider? I don’t usually sing out loud either, in account of I’m usually paying some measure of attention around me. Not yesterday, sister.
Tarheel Rambler — I take a break from that on Sundays. The voices need a rest one day a week.
sparkling74 — I don’t know if I’d have been more embarrassed if she’d acknowledged my singing. I’m glad I’ll never know. I love when kids don’t care who hears them. It’s a lost art the older we get. Well, until we’re senile, then we go back to not caring again, eh?
Shieldmaiden1196 — I guess that also means you can’t hear the overhead announcer telling all the other shoppers “There’s a crazy lady in aisle 5.”
Surfie — I never used to think out loud, much less sing out loud. It’s uncontrollable. Is that good or bad?
feefifoto — Awesome. I’ll have to check out your klutz posts. See if I can give you a run for your money.
Linda — The funny thing is I never let anyone hear me singing, not even my husband in the car with the radio on. But I was all show tuney yesterday. I’m surprised I didn’t end with jazz hands.
Marvin — Ha! And I wrote this post like no one was reading, and figured no one was anymore because I haven’t posted in a week. Thanks for showing up!
Grace — I would have smiled at a crazy lady singing in a parking lot! I’m glad you just don’t care who hears or sees you. We should all live like that, eh?
Laura — Hee. You’re right. The proper venue makes all the difference.
September 20th, 2010 at 5:42 am
I would have sung along with you!
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September 20th, 2010 at 5:55 am
See, the people who read you, get you. I would have been all chatty with you and we would have had fun. I went yard sailing this weekend and I met a woman who I clicked with. We talked and talked and I am thinking of going back and saying, hey, I think we could be friends.
What this world NEEDS is more people singing. Singing is a GOOD thing, silly.
September 20th, 2010 at 7:51 am
I love people who feel free to always be themselves! My Dad, brother-in-law, nephews, sisters, lots of my friends and myself are people just like that!
Rock on, dude!
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September 20th, 2010 at 8:16 am
LOL!
Yes, Kathy, you are unique!
You are very spacial. 😉
September 20th, 2010 at 10:04 am
I was talking to the tomatoes at the supermarket when a woman said, “excuse me”? I sort of hated to explain that I was actually not speaking to her but to the tomatoes. I sing all the time and my neighbor things I’m nuts. (I sing to my dogs, loud and not well. I make up songs for them.) But that lady should have laughed or at least smiled. But frankly, Kathy, you might have scared the shit out of her.
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September 20th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Maybe she was just jealous of your freedom.
Freedom from caring what anyone thought.
Freedom from embarrassment…but wait a minute…..
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September 20th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
I would have died laughing if I was the woman in the car next to you!
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September 20th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
This falls under that whole “talking to strangers” thing. Try to talk to a stranger and they will think you’re crazy. Try to belt out anything with a twist of Ethel Merman and people will steer completely away from you. She probably felt totally trapped in her car, not able to escape, and you no doubt scared her to death. Nice going.
Oh! And I love your title.
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September 20th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
I wish that was the most embarrassing thing I do in a day.
This weekend my son and I were in the store. He’s almost 12, in 6th grade, and I have just become uncool.
When he took off I dragged my foot going “Cathey, Cathy, doan leaf meeee!”
REALLY LOUD too. I don’t think Casey or the 5 other people witnessing that appreciated my humor.
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September 20th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Daisy the Curly Cat — How is is that I’m already picturing you in a fabulous sequined gown, holding a microphone? Oh, yeah. Cuz you’d totally rock that look!
sue — You’re right! And what better way to strike up a friendship by starting with the crazy right off the bat!
Barb — Only when I think no one’s looking! But I’m first in line to smile at the nutballs out there. I don’t know what was wrong with that lady. I guess I just hope she doesn’t have a blog.
Ferd — Do you mean “special” in that straight jacket kind of way?
Linda Medrano — LMAO. I’m sure I’ve read that tomatoes taste better when you talk to them. Or something. Yes, I think I did scare her senseless. I mean, she. did. not. move. at. all. I was almost insulted.
Pricilla — She probably called her husband or whoever she was waiting for. “Mental lady entering north side of store. Sings to herself. Steer clear.”
meleah rebeccah — I’ve no doubt because YOU know fun when you see it!
Nanny Goats — LMAO. Yes, she was scared stiff, I’m telling you. She must have been thinking “Keep moving lady. That’s right, you just keep walkin’.” And thanks. I liked the title, too. Glad you caught that.
SewDucky! — Ah, but I would have laughed my head off! You crazy, lady!
September 20th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
My stomach has always been really loud and is even worse in the dead silence of an office where the only other noise is the clacking of keyboards. I have a drawer devoted to muffins and other treats to bribe it into silence. My best friend in school used to randomly burst into song. He was a jazz/drama major, so I guess that gives him an excuse. I recently learned he has been working on opera. He certainly has the lungs and voice for it, but I’m not sure how people would take him randomly bursting into song at that volume.
September 21st, 2010 at 7:12 am
Next time you need to seize the moment, look her straight in the eye and yell, “C’MON Grandma..you know the words..sing along!”
I like to make my own fun.
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September 21st, 2010 at 8:27 am
Yes, no question. But remember, your life is probably more fun and full than hers.
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September 21st, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Too hilarious!!! BTW…this is KFJ!! You may or not remember my blog a few years back…Kristen Freaking Jane….anyway, I’m back after a long hiatus due to life’s little ups and downs!!! So glad I found you once again!!! you always make me laugh!!!
September 21st, 2010 at 1:01 pm
oooops….wrong website!
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September 21st, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Oh, girlfriend was smiling inside because she’s probably guilty of belting out a song or two of her own. 🙂
Good for you. My motto is “When in doubt, sing loud”. It works, I tell ya.
Reminds me of the mall parking lot a few weeks ago. Emma, her friend, Caroline, and I were all getting out of the car when I heard some mom talking really loudly to her baby.
“Who’s naked?” She’s sing-songing half annoyingly. “Who’s Naked? Who’s NAKED?!” she keeps saying over and over again. I finally answered “NOT ME!”, smiled at her and kept walking. The girls nearly died of embarrassment, but gees, how could I resist??
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September 21st, 2010 at 4:23 pm
LOL! That’s not THAT bad! hahah imagine looking into someone’s tinted car windows as a mirror and then poking around to make sure you had nothing on your teeth. Then putting on lipstick all while not noticing an entire family in the backseat watching you. Yeah, now THAT’s embarrassing.
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September 22nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm
449th post is already big in my opinion
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September 22nd, 2010 at 2:33 pm
A whole category eh? That’s something.
And I’ll go with answer number three. At least you did not recognize her as your boss’s wife or something!
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September 22nd, 2010 at 7:58 pm
I make up songs and sing to my dog while driving. If anyone looks, they probably think I’m talking on my hands free cell phone. Hope so, anyway… Great story.
September 25th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Oh, I have two such categories on my blog. I guess at some point I was labeling them one way and then the other. They’re the “self embarrassment” and “dumb moments” posts. When I was posting more regularly, I even started a “Dumb Brunette Moment of the Week” deal on Fridays or Saturdays, chronically the dumbest thing I did that week. I actually brought it back this week because I had a rather dumb one. Luckily, my moment was only witnessed by two dogs, not the woman in the car next to me.
So you’re not alone. Some of us are just meant to go through life embarrassing ourselves. At least now we get to blog about it.
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October 1st, 2010 at 4:37 am
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October 6th, 2010 at 12:57 am
These are such embarrassing yet funny incidents that all of us go through one day or the other. It is best to ignore what you have done and have a good laugh. To take this a bit further just wave your hand at the neighboring lady and move on.
November 9th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
LOL… I’ve done stuff like this myself. It happens. Sometimes I just look at the people and decide to smile, as if I wanted to entertain them. 🙂