Embarrassed Much?

I embarrass easily. When something happens that embarrasses me or someone else, I instantly want to disappear until the smoke has cleared. I’ve experienced many embarrassing things, and it’s my desire to be vulnerable with some of my moments, so others don’t feel they have to go into hiding because of their own. Brace yourself. Some of these are too funny…

I once asked a guy if he’d rather live in San Diego or California. He looked at me like I was an idiot and replied, “San Diego is in California.”

One summer when I was working at a camp, I skipped a step when coming off the bus and fell face and palms first onto the concrete. Bystanders got real quiet, with a few gasping and some saying, “Oh my gosh, are you okay?” My hands and wrists were scrapped and bloodied, and I walked around the rest of the day covered in band-aids.

When I guy I’d went out on a date with texted me a poem, I thought the poem was for me, since he knew I was a writer. The poem was actually for another girl he was pursuing. He just wanted me to proofread it for him.

My senior year of high school, I got gutsy enough to ask my crush out on a date. Not only did I ask him out, but I told him I liked him. Let’s just say the feeling wasn’t mutual.

Once, I was talking about someone in a text message, and accidentally sent the text to the person I was talking about.

So, my dear readers, getting embarrassed happens. But you’ll survive it. I have.

The Day I Became A Kidney Donor

About a year ago, I had a dream my dad wanted to talk to our family about something serious. I wasn’t sure what he wanted to discuss, but I knew it was something I needed to prepare myself for. Around the time after I had this dream, I remember stopping by my parents place and sensing something was going on that they weren’t telling me. I tried to dismiss what I’d been feeling, but I couldn’t shake it. Something serious was happening. As I returned to my home after visiting them one day, I was in my kitchen washing dishes when a heaviness hit my heart like nothing I’d ever felt before. Something’s wrong with dad. That’s what that dream was about. God, what’s going on? As I continued washing dishes, I started crying and praying. Then in mid-spring, my dad held an unexpected family meeting that would change all our lives forever. He hesitated at first, and as his voice started cracking and he started crying, he said, “Well, I wanted to talk to ya’ll to tell you that I have kidney disea...

I’m Glad I’m Not Married

When I was about five years old, I was sitting in the backseat of my dad’s car when me, him, my older cousin (my aunt’s son), and my aunt (my dad’s sister) caught my aunt’s fiancé with another woman. My dad had been driving my aunt out to run some errands since she didn’t have a driver’s license or a car. When she spotted her man with another woman, she told my dad to pull the car over, got out of the car, and immediately addressed him. She wanted the keys back to her apartment and was done with him. The other woman she caught her fiancé with slapped him when she realized what was happening, and that was that. When my aunt returned to the car, she was clearly and understandably upset, and the ride back to her place was quiet. Although I was too young to fully grasp what was happening at the time, I knew it wasn’t good. And now, at 34 years old, I can’t imagine how much pain she was in. Her wedding had been planned and paid for – and she never made it down the aisle. My aunt was a beaut...

Black Male Athletes And Their Dating Preferences

In the 2017 horror film Get Out , there’s an unforgettable scene when one of the film’s villainous characters, Rose, a young white woman, is seen eating Fruit Loops and drinking a bottle of milk through a straw as she searches the internet for “Top NCAA prospects.” This moment in the film is frightening because the purpose of Rose’s search is to ultimately lure young and unsuspecting Black men to a deadly fate after she begins dating them. If you’ve seen the film, you know how everything ultimately turns out, but if you haven’t, you’ll have a better understanding of the bigger picture. Recently, college football superstar and future NFL prospect, Travis Hunter, became a source of media scrutiny and controversy regarding his relationship with his fiancée, Leanna Lenee. Much of the criticism was around his fiancée and comments she shared about how she wasn’t initially interested in Travis before they started dating. Additionally, she received backlash regarding the couple’s interact...

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