My name is Sara and this is my embarrassing story. My cousin and her husband had just bought a gigantic home in West Richland, on the top of what seemed like the highest hill! We were invited to her house warming party, and knowing my cousin she was going to invite a lot of people and it was going to be a well organized beautiful party to go along with that beautiful house of hers. My family drove over and it seemed like it took forever to get there, there was so many up hills and down hills it seemed like a maze, and what was worse is it was winter! Snow, icy roads and uphill drives is not a good mix let me tell ya!
So after our long careful drive up the hill, we finally got there! There were people I knew people I didn’t know and family members I hadn’t seen in a long time! Which makes this embarrassing story really embarrassing! Everyone knows you need people you don’t know and a lot of them I might add to make an embarrassing story an embarrassing story, which just my luck is what I had! If what I’m about to tell you happened only with close friends and family I probably would have just laughed it off…but I didn’t.
The appetizers were severed, the visiting had been started. It was such a beautiful home, filled with lots of beautiful furniture, among other things like candles. But I’ll get to that. Of course I was hungry, and of course I just had to accidently drop my appetizer all over the floor. This wasn’t the embarrassing part, or it was for about a minute until the real embarrassment began. I spilled the food on tile floor which made me feel bad…but it was tile! No stains, no carpet, no one slipped on the food I was in the clear! For now…
Feeling bad about the food that had been spilled on the floor I see napkins on a table that a couple of women whom I didn’t know were sitting at. It was pretty crowded at that table, but those were the only napkins I could find. I approach the table, apologize for my interruption and reach over the table for the napkins to clean up my mess. Remember those candles I mentioned earlier? Yeah they were all over this table. Being concerned about the mess on the floor and someone slipping on it, the candles were the farthest from my mind. Having long hair like I do you can only guess what happened next….Yes that’s right my hair caught on fire! I didn’t even notice until I smelled something immediately and someone was screaming! I quickly patted my hair like I had never patted my hair before! When I saw the fire was gone I quickly ran to the bathroom, to hear people all around asking each other “What’s that smell?” Hair smells so bad when it catches on fire, no clue why but it does…I know from experience! It being a new home, there shouldn’t be that kind of smell in the air…I felt terrible not only for my burnt hair and my embarrassment of the people who saw it happen at that table, but for my cousin having to be embarrassed about the new smell that was in her house!
Someone found me in the bathroom crying I was 14 years old I was filled with embarrassment! The stench was in my hair so bad too all I could do was spray perfume on it and hope it would get better. It didn’t! And neither did the house! When I finally got the guts to walk out of the bathroom I just felt everyone’s eyes were on me knowing I was the stupid girl that caught her hair on fire at a house warming party! It was pretty bad…My names Sara and no matter how bad the mess is on the floor, it will never be as bad as the stench in your hair, always pay attention to your surroundings aka candles! Come to think of it I never cleaned up that mess on the floor. Oh well! I’d say I hope someone slipped on it to get the attention off of the fire smelly hair girl…but that’s not good karma. Haha
Reading McClouds comic provided much insight and thought to the question “What is dangerous about amplification through simplification.” McCloud explains that we let ourselves at an early age “travel in a another realm, we don’t just observe the cartoon we become it!”(7). I think what he was getting at is that when we let ourselves be entertained by something so simple as a cartoon we can sometimes miss the full picture.
McCloud, Scott. The Vocabulary of Comics. Print.
Oh, man--glad you mentioned your were 14 cause that really helps us understand how embarrassed you must have been and it is cool how you set the house up as new and clean--only to be come sullied by the smell of burnt hair!
ReplyDelete"I think what he was getting at is that when we let ourselves be entertained by something so simple as a cartoon we can sometimes miss the full picture. "
Smart way to put it but can ya say more?