@turnstyle said:ha ha… okay....
probably the most embarrassing moment of my life (well, the one that stands out most!) happened when i was about 14 or 15:
my grandmother was Norwegian and she had an old friend from there come over for a visit. my family took her and her friend to a (now long gone) water park type place like Sea World called Atlantis.
as everyone took their seats for the seal show, they had music playing over the PA system and my grandmother, who had no concept of embarrassment by the way, was at the front of the stand singing and dancing along to the music being played.
my dad and i distanced ourselves from the rest of the family and sat up the back of the stand; he was on a seat about 3 or 4 rows from the very back, and i was sitting on the limestone wall right at the very back, as far away from her as i could possibly be.
as the audience filled out, you could see a large portion of them talking to each other and having a bit of a laugh at the old chook at the front singing and dancing along with the music.
she had her camera with her, and during her very lively performance of "In the Navy" by the Village People, she started to wave to me yelling out "Jeeeeeeeeeffrey! Jeeeeeeeffrey!" in her thick Norwegian accent so she could take a photo of me!
EVERY SINGLE person in the audience - INCLUDING MY BLOODY DAD WHO COULD BARELY CONTAIN HIMSELF! - turned around and looked straight at me as my grandmother took a photo of me!!
ah man, i was young and SO embarrassed!!! i mean, there were cute girls around and everything!!!
so this was about 30 years ago now, and these days i tend to think of embarrassment as something only for people who care too much about what other people think and would probably have just run with it and taken it on the chin.
i gave a eulogy at her funeral, and not sure if i told this story or not, but one thing i did say was that whatever you thought of her, she certainly was a memorable character.
god bless nanny. hope you're singing and dancing in heaven to your heart's content. x
Hahahaha this is a classic! Parents and grandparents can be quite embarassing, luckily though i don't care about peoples opinions, i have too big an ego :laughing: