>Embarrassing Moment #5427
>Last night, Hubs and I went to pick up my 15-year-old stepdaughter and three of her friends from an outdoor movie at the city park. After driving around for a few minutes, we spotted the girls standing on a dark lawn about 100 feet from our car on the street. Hubs called 15 on her cell phone.
“15, we’re right beside you on the street. See our car?”
On the other end of the line, 15 paused. “No.”
“We’re right in front of you,” Hubs said impatiently. He tapped the horn. “Hear the horn honking?”
“No.”
“15!” Hubs said, exasperated. “Turn around! I’m staring right at you.”
“I don’t see you, Dad.”
He honked the horn more insistently. A few people trickling out of the park turned to stare. Hubs rolled down the window.
“I’m RIGHT HERE!” he shouted. “LOOK AT ME!” A few of the girls turned around, but the group didn’t move. Sadly, this wasn’t unheard-of behavior from 15 and her friends.
Never one to mince words, Hubs screamed, “WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU! GET OVER HERE!”
The girls actually moved farther away from us.
“COME OVER HERE TO THE CAR!” Hubs yelled. “RIGHT NOW! I MEAN IT!” Quite an audience had gathered on the sidewalk by now to watch.
“I told you I don’t see you Dad!” 15 said on the phone. “Gosh!“
“LOOK RIGHT HERE!” he shouted again at the girls. “I AM RIGHT HERE!” Hubs turned to me. “Can you believe this?”
“Maybe,” I said tentatively, “Maybe it’s not them.”
“What?” Hubs paused. “But it looks like them.”
“It’s pretty dark,” I said.
Perplexed, Hubs pulled out onto the road and drove about half a block down the street.
Standing on the corner was… You guessed it. My stepdaughter and her friends.
“Gosh, Dad,” 15 said, getting into the car. “I told you I couldn’t see you. That was really weird.”
“You thought it was weird?” I asked her. “Imagine what the girls he was yelling at thought!”
>Read your Nashville thingie post re: myspace…I think I love you! I am now posted there as “Yer Mom” so thanks for the idea! BusyMom sent me… 🙂 catch me at http://www.kathimoore.blogspot.com
>LMFAO! omg.. i think i just peed a little!
>ps- your freaking myspace pics are GORGEOUS! gorgeous! do you hear me?!?!?! good lord woman, i love you!
>OK, THAT was hilarious!
>Ooops! I wonder if anyone reported y’all to the police for attempted kidnapping.
>hahahahahaha…. god that’s great.
>think of the story those girls are going to tell about the creepy lech who tried to accost them! priceless. it’s always fun to be the one to have to gently suggest that maybe, just maybe, hubs is…um…wrong.
>If there’s a God in Heaven, then one of the bystanders will have blogged this as well. That’s why people do crazy things like shouting at strangers, right? To give us something to blog?
>I’m not a teenager and I cringed from embarassment.I think that’s bad.But what a story you have to hold over him now!
>Ha! Another one that made me chuckle out loud. At least it was your hubs doing it and not you! You could at least slink down in your seat and hope that no one saw you.
>hilarious. no other word to describe it.
>This isnt really the greatest blog ive read but it probably isnt aimed at my particular age category. Still of somewhat an interesting read just seems to be full of boring day to day stories that I cant relate to.Cheers!
>Wow, that is funny and a bitscary at the same time! LOLCongrat’s on the Nashville Scene!I am a TN’n too.
>Hilarious! Those poor girls. Still, I’m laughing.
>When my daughter was about 13(now 30) I remember dropppping her off at the local skating rink and looking at the little girls in line and realizing that they all looked alike!
>Oh, that is rich, Lucinda. How will hubby explain his way out of this one?
>Hysterical!
>ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!Now snorting….. Now tears streaming down face…. Dog is staring at me – thinks I’m completely off my rocker … Gee tanks!! <|:))
>Poor Hubs. One of many more embarassing moments to come …
>Oh dear god I think I just saw my future.
>ROFL!! That’s something Mr. Bug would do!!! LBC
>I HAVE to go tell hubby this one!!
>Oh my. i can totally see myself doing this in 13 years.
>that. is. HILARIOUS.
>Hysterical. I was waiting for him to get out of the car and march up to them.”Can you see me NOW?””Can you see me NOW?!”
>Oh my god I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read this. See, the poor teenagers are right… parents really can be way over the top and embarrassing!
>Okay. I read Jennster’s comments and then I haaaad to look you up on MySpace. You’re a NUT. Do you wear that bandana out on the town??? This story was a sad, sad glimpse into my future. Sigh. Not matter what I do I’m afraid I’m gonna embarrass myself in front of my daughter and her friends…
>Aiight. Just read the Nashville Post and understand the Myspace thing, yo.That wuz dah BOMB. You should cut a deal with MySpace to have that pic as a “pop-up” when your teens do something fashizzle on mah-spizzle. (my space)
>HA HA! And imagine the story those girls had for their parents when they got home!
>Yep. That ranks up there with the “World’s Most Embarrassing Parentel Unit Moments”. LOL But it’s still funny. Poor girls. Can you imagine the stories they told their friends? LOLOL
>OMG I just misspelled “parental”. Shoot me.
>Ah yes…been there. At least your stepdaughter wasn’t close enough to the action to be totally mortified (such an easy think for teens to become)…you might never have heard the end of that one.Just the other day my 22-year old stepson chastized for letting him out too close to the Starbucks – he feared the implication of being seen with stepdad.
>Seriously, how glad were you that is wasn’t YOU that made this scene??? LOL!Loved it! (and if he would have done what Karl said I think I would have pissed my pants!)
>Ooooo. That’s embarassing. Sometimes it really pays to listen to our kids, eh?
>OMG! That is so funny! I laughed so hard that I have tears rolling down my cheeks! Those poor teenage girls are probably traumatized for life…
>This could absolutely be my life. Just give us a few years. Heck, he’s already perfectly willing to yell at strangers.
>I feel bad laughing at him… but just a little. Do you read Poop and Boogies? He’s always posting about his stupid missteps, and they are hilarious.
>Oh, no, that’s hysterical! Plus, I can soooo see myself there, a decade from now. At least you’ve got a good sense of humor about it!