European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 thestarsand5tripes saturday september 6. 19sq embarrassing moments happen to us a sometimes when we Jel to feeling cocky and nothing bad has happened in the Lasi five min utes in icbms appropriate to Ponder our Mast embarrassing has had Ihm. Everybody re member1, them in excruciating a civil. Whether they of Curry i five minutes ago or 50 years ago. Everybody winces at inc memory. Most embarrassing moments Szmil no bar Rier of class race Creed a or National seem however 10 strike most cruelly at hot shots Loudmouth and phonies in other words people like me. Once when i was % Yean old i forgot my entire piece in a piano recital. Confident i was a super duper Prodigy spiffy in my Patent leather pumps and Stretchy socks i settled my self at the Steinway and watched my mind Koblank. I look As dignified a Bow As possible and need off the stage. My parents were kind. They look me out for an ice Cream Cone the old Folk cure and let me Stop taking lessons. That childhood failure horribly vivid even Paw. Juried j Long string of most Embarrass ing moments continuing even into the present. There was inc time in the Church elevator when 1 tried 10 kiss a Young fellow and the Pencil in my ear poked him right in the Eye. There was inc time i Scal a Hank you note to the wrong person. And worst of All there was the time in Chi ii Are cd up in fancy clothes and High heels in apply for a Job ripped on a step and crashed to the floor in front of an office full of people. To litre was Rio Lii g to do nut get up it. Dust myself off make some feeble joke and have always writhed and agonised Over people s moslem Irr Assing moments. When Gerald Ford stumbled bumped his head on helicopters and whacked folks with Golf balls i knew just How he fell. 1 shudder when somebody cracks an Eskimo joke in a room filled with eskimos. Once i was watching Dick Cavett walk out on the stage when he stumbled and went Spuul in front of millions of viewer. He raped to his feet tried 10 act As if nothing had happened and went shakily into his monologue i have loved him Ever since with a Motherly embarrassing mom cols come to the famous the infamous and just Plain folks. There Are politicians like Carter who get All Langley Upland Call Twig the prime i suffered for years right along with awkward old de Sullivan As he tried to spit out two Correct words in a Row. Comedians who bomb make me want to crawl under the sofa and Bury my head under a Pillow. Torture for Roe n watching a candidate in the miss America pageant give a students whose Knees Shook left wobbled and voices fluttered when they made a speech to the class could a Mikil always get a sympathetic c out of me there ire Alt kinds of most embarrassing moments. Actors Bow their lines. Stomachs growl. Pompous businessmen Call on very important people Oil Day Long never once realizing their flies arc open. Relatives get Anunson port r Esli by there is holl�l-ioprtfl4 out he Cut a adv do you he a a troll Able urge to Giggle at aunt Ida Maes funeral. Youngsters arc caught making faces ind delivering soliloquies before mirrors. Academics get he wrong writer in the wrong Cen Tury usually at big sell Nara where the chair Man is present. The most important Button on a woman s Blouse comes undone and nobody tells you be Ever made a fool of yourself very publicly you la know the feeling of a most embarrassing moment. Even among the circumspect and cautious such moments Are to come like Bulku singing out of the Wood when you least Eccl them you will yell with pain. You May ask of the belch you be been stifling All evening finally makes its presence known Why me what have i done 10 de serve this w Liat you have done is be human. We arc perfect targets for being humiliated especially when we gel too big for our britches. And sometimes like Job we Haven t done anything wrong at All except blurt out utterly without malice he one remark that would Hurt somebody s feeling. The danger when Fate puts another fool in your Mouth or banana Peel in your path is thai of retreating to some cozy padded cell where you can never get zonked again you must resist. If you kept so still that you never bombed burped bleeped Bloop ered or bul stored you d be dead. And even being dead in t a sure fire Way to avoid Yel another most embarrassing moment. A pallbearer might Jusi might. Mumble and there you1 be in thai Pine bos red faced and flustered again father in Good shape after birth of his baby Macclesfield England a a Man was progressing Well in a hos Spita following the birth of his new staff at West Park Hospital did the father fainted As he watched his wife in labor fell off his chair and cracked his was rather embarrassing for him but i suppose it could have been much worse a Hospital spokesman said. The couple As Ednol to be named. The Mother and baby Are doing across i chums 5 mexican House Sunn us ii fart of . 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Form Lupu Ioanid Cantor u Puni Rhandle 4t comedian berth to Derek film today crossword Onn tenders dear Ann i m writing this in Pencil because i Don t know Whit i did with my pen. Does this make me any Les of a person certainly not. Bui in i a very Good illustration of Whit i m writing abet you be said time and time again that people who Don t Mitt thank you nolo for gift Are slobs. Don t you realize thai being organized is a latent the tame u being Able to draw or sing some Folk have in others Don t i Don t. This does t mean i m less appreciative than inc one who quickly pens a warm witty note. The lord gave me a Loving heart to make up for my inability to b 1 organized i wish people would see thai. You could help t lot by softening up and being lest hard on me and my kind. The world needs More compassion. Come Over to oar loved your gift. Sor by goitre miffed dear lord yen rattled the wrong Cage Honey. I m fresh rot of Good conduct medals for Pec i who Ean i get tic or it to Gether Tad blame their gear. Ii � a Knob cd Uke the Lime and trouble net to mention maty to sent p gift Tow red text should be Able a find b few Rah urtes to let bit person know it we Recd red Urf no i Cusp is Good enough dwt Ann recently you published a idler from 16-year old girl who excelled in sports and could beat All the boys. She complained because the Boyt would t Dale her. You aug gated thai maybe she was t Gracom Winner. I impede it s Mere Inin that. U it possible that the boys weren t gracious losers perhaps their egos could t Lake being beaten by a girl so they Retali ated by refusing to Date her. Giru should be gracious win ners but they should never feet they must do less than their beat in order to pamper the male ego. These Boyi should grow up and realize that being beaten by a Girt does t make them any Ian masculine disappointed in Brantford dear Brunt of course some boys ire poor Bur but a waa it Girt who wrote. I tatti Fromuth lose of scr letter hat Ibe took up total act edit in Croud her oppo Ohl. Till t poor approach no matter who. Glria to to cd in sports havea rare Opportunity to tee to Iehl in with the Guys. I Traby curled them who i Wai i Tco Teri to blow Utah id Tantie try by Raj t gloating Winner b dumb. Dear Ann regarding Sitter who Carei her brother sucks Iii thumb is age i your answer hell grow out of it in t necessarily True. My , 28, Hill sucks his thumb. When we were first married he tried to hide it. Now he walks around the House with in in Hia Mouth constantly. I be gotten used to ii but our Chil Dren tee Ihu. When i Tell them to Slop they Tay daddy does any suggestions hopeless in Holland dear Hod Aud Yea. 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