the Thinker

A part of my mind always takes pleasure in analysing situational circumstances, which leads to certain emotional responses in human beings. In case any of you are wondering what am I talking about, refer to one of my earlier posts titled, ‘Boring!’ (Am suddenly having this weird feeling that I am a teacher referring to an earlier lesson or a doctor prescribing medicines).

So this time, I was thinking (well, you can also say ‘time passing,’ but since I am the Thinker, so…) about situations that generally seem embarrassing to us. I remember back in college, one day I entered my classroom around 10 minutes late and everyone in the class, including our professor gave me a peculiar look (as if I am a Martian) and their eyes followed me till my seat. As you all can guess, this was embarrassing.

So, here are a few occasions when one’s cheeks might grow red/pink/orange or colourless (varies from person to person) with embarrassment.

1. As I already mentioned, entering late in a classroom, examination hall, seminars or similar other places and events, when people suddenly stop minding their own businesses and cast a stupid look at you, knowing that it will not change the fact that you are late. At the most what it can do is to make you self-conscious (not applicable to shameless people) or in case of hypersensitive individuals, it can lead to ‘I wish I were not born’ kind of feeling.

2. Imagine yourself sitting amidst a very crucial office meeting, where the Managing Director of your company is addressing everyone. All of a sudden, a burp escapes your mouth or worse, an unending string of noisy hiccups. All the people chortle under their breath and the boss gives you an amused or a strict look. Pretty embarrassing!

3. You are partying with your friends and suddenly they pass into a discussion about a topic or a person, about which or whom you do not have any idea. Suddenly you blurt out a question, which you later wish you had not asked. For example, your friends are discussing Tom Cruise and you do not know who he is. You are hesitant but choose to prod out your curiosity through a question like, “Er…excuse me people, but who is Tom Cruise?”

Result-One of you pals (who considers himself/herself the smartest of the lot) screams in a tone that annoyingly loud, “YOU DON’T KNOW TOM CRUISE!!”

Aftermath of the episode- half the people around you know now that you don’t know Tom Cruise. It is a different issue that some of them might not know him themselves. Believe me folks, this is very embarrassing. It happened to me once long back and I did not know where to hide my face.

4. Well, if you are not the self-obsessed type, gloating with an irksome (to others) sense of superiority complex; then too much of appraisal and flattery too can be embarrassing. I remember this friend of mine in college, who was (and still is) very pretty and her face kept going red (yes, it was red in her case) whenever someone reminded it to her. Well, it is not only beauty that is embarrassing, at times being too much of a geek or being too successful at something also earns an amount of admiration and adulation, which can be quite embarrassing. But I repeat, if any of you are one of the kind who takes pride in what you are, i.e, on being appraised heavily, if you are likely to say, “I know that about myself, what’s new..,” then none of it will embarrass you.

5. There are a few habits that could lead to embarrassment. For example, making strange noises while sipping tea/coffee/any other drink. Suddenly, you look up and realise that everyone around is staring at you in a admonitory manner. Some of them also appear amused. There are other habits like nose digging or spitting while talking that lead some to amount of embarrassment. Besides that, hyperactive ones feel embarrassed with a single flake of dandruff in their hair or one small pimple on their face (not to mention, mostly teenage girls and rarely boys, comprise casualties list in this case)

6. Language problem can be an embarrassing problem at times. It hits one harder on one’s face when one is working in a prestigious organisation, has entered into a prominent beauty pageant and other such circumstances. If you not getting the picture then imagine a person giving a speech in front of an important and high nosed audience. I know of a person who pronounced ‘id’ as ‘ij’ and ‘was’ as ‘waj;’ and every time he did so, the audiences would smirk/ snigger.

Well, these are only some situations that could be embarrassing for people who suffer them and funny for people who witness them. Any more you guys can think of?

hey amrita, that was a fairly elaborate and very well done classification of embarassments!!! More than adding to it, I would rate clumsy behaviour and unnecessary praise as the most embarassing things! :)  

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hi anu, great to see u...hmm..clumsy behaviour is as i already said embarrasing and unnecessary praise, well, varies from person to person...but if i know u as a person...most of the comments u get should not make u embarrassed..u deserve them...good ones ofcourse!  

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Dear Amrita,
so you want situations that are likely to precipitate embarassment....

1. Talking to someone who listens to everything you have saidand then asks for your name...lol

2. Walking on a stage with torn shoes..(believe me I've done this..lol)

3. Upsetting coffee or any liquid on a table during a client meeting..(again I have done this twice..lol)

and the list will go on...

So suddenly all bloggers I know are updating their blogs at the same time...and I am busy hopping from one to the other commenting freely..

SARVAM SRIKRISHNAARPANAMASTHU!  

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hey AMrita, tats a good list of embarassment....
1. mobile ringing during meeting

2. F@RT........



Cheers!
:)  

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Amrita...

Thanx for ur good wishes!!!

Ya last yr it was heck we had gone thru....all around we had water but we dont have any water to drink...so strange!!

embarrasing depends totally on the perception of that person who is facing the situation u hv shared...i think so!!

By the way, if u wish somebody, means u r obsessed with that person...if yes, then I'm ...any problem...c'mon c'mon say....
madam, its a part of humanity to ask abt someone's health, heart.....samjhe janwab!!
Aapko convey karne me problem ho raha hain?! Ok, tell her she can talk with me directly(if she doesn't hv any problem)....

just read ur comments on my blog...superb..oh forget u r a journalist, but aap kamal ki likhti hain..

so hv a nice day[no, no dont conmvey it to her:)]

Roy  

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You say a joke and no one in the group even smiles for it.

You smile at an old friend and he does not remember you even remotely. Or you mistake someone for your friend and offer him a broaaad smile.

Find out that you have stained your shirt just as you enter your college.

Follow a girl for weeks and then you propose. Then she calls you to her home. Then introduces you to her husband and shows you a cute 1 year old kid they have.

You just went to chuchu and your zip won't close.

Go to school and hear the watchman say its a sunday.

You fall asleep in class and the madam wakes you up with the whole class staring.

You choke in a swimming pool (mostly full of kids) and some stranger saves you.

You send an invite in orkut to an old friend and she rejects it. To add to the pain, she writes in your scrapbook that she doesn't socialize with strangers. And to add to the pain 8 of your friends have seen that scrap and found it hilarious.

You try to make a U - turn on a busy road, and when you have half completed it, traffic starts to pour in and you stand there, dumb, with your bike perpendicular to the traffic and everrrryone horns at you and some even shout at you.

You look at this cute girl in the theatre parking. Trying to pull her attention, you do a wheely on your bike (the sudden start with the front wheel rising above ground). But unfortunately, your friend in the pillion falls down and starts to scold you in bad words. With the whole crowd (including the girl) look at you.

That and many more. (Yesh. We have infact, experienced everyone of the above.)  

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i remember a situation my friends,who were new to the college,city,who were staying in the hostel and that was the first time they were going home from the city.They boarded a bus coming into chennai from pondicherry and asked the conductor for a ticket to pondicherry.The other passangers couldnt control their laughter and this left my 4 friends in an embarassed situation.  

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uncontrollable laughter is another one...some times people start laughing and they can not stop long after everyone stops laughing.....  

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Amrita..

Heii, look for this blog

http://www.kiranksingh.blogspot.com/

great one & worth reading..
Roy  

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hi anand, protector, roy, manoj, sheks and girl interrupted,

that was an amazing list of situations that lead to embarrassment (i guess i am sounding like a teacher again, telling students how well they have performed in their class assignments..guess what? i...er..am feeling slightly...u know what? :)

all the situations that u ppl have mentioned happen so often in our daily lives...the moment when they happen, they embarrass us..but later when we sit and think on them, we tend to laugh at our own folly...no?

ok apart from the post,

anand,

yes, everyone's busy updating their blogs and the situation is same here..hopping and often skidding from one blog to another.

protector,

welcome to my blog...hope u liked the post.

hi roy,

how are u now? get well soon as do tk care of ur health...

hmm, no, no, if u are askignabout someone's health, it does not mean ur obssessed with that person...the fact that made me 'Think' was the way u wrote the word 'GIRL.' All caps, almost seemed u did not want me to miss this one ;) anyways, she is not getting her type here so she has gone right now to the land of Far Far Away to seek her ideal man.

as and when she's back, i will tell her about ur utmost concern for her health...i really hope she's pleased.

u too have a nice day! (don worry, i know which msg to convey.)

PS: i will surely visit that blog u mentioned, thanks for mentioning it.

hi manoj,

that was a great list..u underwent all that ?? if yes, quite experienced ur!

hi sheks, that was a good one.

girl interrupted,

very relevant one.  

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well i have been in situation #3 before and have a habit which puts me in situation #5 often!  

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here's another one that happened to rameez raja.during the india-pakistan world cup match in 2003,tendulkar had to slow down his blitzkrieg because of cramps.Rameez raja commented,then,"abdul razzaq has been very economical so far.he's bowled 3 over and conceded just (pause) 20 runs."  

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hi kaushik,

haha, i guess all of us have our share of embarrassments.

sheks,

i m not too good with cricket though i enjoy watching the game..but offlate i ve lost interest in that as well..but that was a good one.  

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Yeah... I know what you mean...
During brainstorming sessions (blamestorming at times) it is usually a free for all. Where the language is French. And everything else is as per the jungle rule.
To add diversity a large group of people are usually collected in a room with a good supply of Beer and grub...
Well, in one such session, I had just returned from a client meeting where the MD of a company made some useless observations on the communication strategy.

To ease the situation I went on with the description of our client meeting.
I imitated the client.
I made fun of him.
Said he wouldn’t know communication if it bit him in the bum.
And a lot more in the colorful language of Punjab. Where most of the swear words are pan Indian...

Surprisingly there as opposed to previous experiences, there was no laughter at my mono performance. And I saw this really really cute girl sitting at the far end of the room near the OHP.

She was the aforesaid clients daughter (still very cute).
And started as an intern in our office. From that very day... In my team.

She's a good girl. We still have the client.
And you have a very nice blogsite.

Cheers

ps- Are you sure besides the late entry into the classroom there aren't other incidents in your post that can be attributed to you?
I'm sure a few of them were beyond observations....they sounded like insights :-P  

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hi harjee,

welcome to my blog...that was a very interesting bit u narrated...hope such 'cute' incidents keep happening in all our lives..

now, whether there were other incidents attributed to me or not...could be, could be not...thanks for that compliment..(i will take it as one), ve a nice day!  

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interesting list..add this:

a 'burp' in a post lunch meeting...  

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Heh .. nice list there in the post and even in the comments ..
I tripped off my stiletto heels right in the middle of a hall full of ppl - that was so embarrassing.  

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well.. this mite sound lil absurd bt this was definitely d most embarassing situation i hav come thru.. so once i was travelling in train wid friends.. we all were takling n having fun arnd except 1 gal who was reading a buk since morning.. i was jst beside her (she was at window seat).. all of sudden she poked me n asked wat does this wrd means.. i saw it n nodded negatively (tat i dnt know) so i passed d buk to another friend n ask if he knew.. he dint knew either.. n it went on till a friend shouted in amaze "what? you dont know SOB?" actually whole expression was written continuously without spaces so she couldnt recognise it.. anyway tat was really d most laughing wrd i yet hav wid thsoe pals cuz and still it puts smile on our face.. [hee hee]  

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still.. slangs in front of gals (who dont know it) are definitely most embarrassing situations for gals atleast...  

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hi ashok, guess i already listed burbing in my list, not in a post-lunch session though...but even amidst a crucial official meeting, its embarrassing.

hi aria,

sorry about that..thanks for visiting my blog.

hi shaurabh,

welcome to my blog...thats was a good one...hopefully u have not faced other such situations involving ladies.  

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another one:There was a guy called Ravi Teja in my college.Once when he was walking towards us,I called out 'Hey R.T',in the process,attracting the attention of a girl passing by.she kept staring at me as she walked.Only later did i discover tht her name was Aarthi.  

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good topic!! its funny!

...but point kya hai? ain?

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MUHUHUHAHAHA

such pep talks, question & laugh combo are embarrassing too :p  

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Amrita...

thank god u really come to conclusion which's called obssesion...so how r u nowadays...anything to b excited!!
nice to know she is not here anumore thinking now whever I'll land here ask only abt you & you & you..sayed aapko abhi koi complain nahi rahega..

thanx to land my mentioned blog..thanx!!
take care..
Roy  

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hi sheks,

that was a funny one..thanks for sharing it..i can imagine :)

hi crush,

good to know this time u had no problem understanding my 'blog.' no, no, i am not snubbing u, my apologies if u got that thought...infact it was precisely ur previous on the post before this one, which made me think that perhaps i should write something everyone can comment on and 'understand'..'pep talk' brings embarrassment u feel? well, it also makes us laugh now, does it not? so just chill out and dont put too much pressure on ur 'caput.'

hi roy, good to see u back..hows ur health..i am as usual in good health and spirits, and as always thinking something or the other..all about obsession (yours of course) resolved? great! i dont think that the 'GIRL' will bother too much if she has lost one (though valuable) admirer like u...u know her types, never bothers; simply keeps counting how many bow down before her...oh! and ur free to ask my health ..as much as ur free to ask anyone else's and ofcourse vice versa...dont thank me for everything. ve a nice day and tk care u too. :)  

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updates???????????  

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Dear Amrita,
waiting for updates...more storytelling a la your previous posts please..

SARVAM SRIKRISHNAARPANAMASTHU!  

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ahem.. didn't mean 'pep talk' in the sense of 'pep talk'! typo!! :(
anyways.. chai peeyo mast jiyo!  

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hi harjee,

welcome back..

hi anand,

hmm...my mind is working in various directions right now, and as soon it decides where to go, i will start off again, i assure u. ve a nice day.

hi crush...thanks for clarifying and same to u (have tea and live fine, translated).  

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