embarrassing moments ;)

i'll start....first off: yes i know it's not THAT bad, but in the moment it happened i felt kind of embarrassed

so we had this rather famous baseball player staying at our hotel for the last 3 weeks or so. he was with us for such a long time b/c he was being treated in the hospital and had to go back there every day. most people that go to that hospital do so because they hurt their knee or some other part of their legs. so when he checked out this morning i said to him "hope your knee will be better soon". he just stares at me and his friend starts laughing and my coworker whispered to me "jana, it's not his knee, it's his hip!". apparently everyone had known about it for the last three weeks and here i was wishing him all the best for his knee.

i felt kind of stupid

nah thats not too bad.

In terms of celebs, my most embarassing would be when I said hello to Jonothan Ross on Tottenham Court Road. Except I called him Ronothan, and almost said Ronothan Joss.

In another part of my life, I sold cellphones. Not very well, mind you, but I did sell them. The staff of which I was part (and indeed the entire industry) refers to cellphone services in a sort of ambiguous personal way (they, who, etc.).

So, I’m working one night and two (rather attractive, if I do say so myself) teenage girls come into the store and start looking at Sprint phones. I amble over, and as per my training, the first thing out of my mouth is a qualification about which provider they currently use.

I hope you can see where this is going.

Yup. I walk over, and start the conversation by asking “So, who are you with currently?”

There’s that moment of dawning comprehension between the time when you’ve finished a sentence and when you realize what you’ve committed to saying where this little, calm voice in your head states, very matter-of-factly “You idiot.”

They both looked at me like I was pondscum, and I managed to save face by laughing and saying “Yeah, that didn’t come out the way I wanted it to.” They left shortly thereafter. I wish I had a surveillance tape of the incident, because I think that for about 5 seconds, the looks on all 3 of our faces were probably priceless.

Adrian

when i was over in europe busking last year i spent 5 days in berlin before a huge 6 foot 5 german rasta dude "politely" pointed out that DAMEN hanging on the door of a toilet door does not = THE men but actually = DAME'N as in women / ladies / girls / "DAME "etc...

i spent the full week thinking, wow this place is very cosmo what with all the unisex toilets n stuff.

i'm surprised i didn't get jailed or beat up.

Jim, that is hilarious!!

hey, just curious, who was the player??