What do you do?

[LadyDarkFire]

What do you do if you're caught in an embarassing situation? For instance, you're at a dinner table with your SO's parents, you want to impress them, and a topic that is important to them comes up, and you have no clue about it. Another example would be if you are with a group of friends, and one of them asks a question that has a very embarassing answer in your case.

Do you have a nervous tick? What is it?
How does your body language change?
Your Speech patterns?
What's a sure sign that you're going to not like answering a question?

Mine is that I curl my spine slightly, and I get giggly, and if I'm thinking about how to get out of it, I often reach up and tug on my right ear out of nerves.

 

[superlittlegirl]

My body floods with adrenaline, my mouth goes dry, and my heart pounds. But I don't show it on the outside. Outwardly, I stay cool and collected. I just wait for someone else to say something, or I divert the conversation. "Umm, I think you have something on your face. No, a little to the left. No, up higher. Here, let me get that for you." Once I lick my thumb and rub the imaginary schmutz off, they've usually forgotten the embarassing topic.

 

[Linedrive]

I try not to talk...the studdering and pointless thoughts give it away every time

 

[freescorfr]

I'm rarely embarrassed these days, but when I was 15 I remember being in the finals of a Glasgow Schools' debating competition against one of the posh Glasgow Girls schools.

As I rose to speak, I realised my flies were open -Two buttons had popped, in those days of buttons, for some inexplicable reason. I imaginge I was wearing black tie.

It wasn't so much the school kids, but the hall was full of parents and the press. So I didn't budge from behing the desk I'd been sitting at, holding a paper in front of my fly.

In the end it was less humiliation and embarrassment that got me but the total injustice. The Jury decided that, although impressed with my speech and delivery, the insult I had heaped upon our hosts by refusuing to use the fine lectern they had provided was a fatal breach of ettiquette.

From then on it was the kilt!

 

[Sillyman]

Best to go with kilts anyway I always say.


Normally, if something embarassing happens, I just pretend it didn't happen. If asked a question about something I find embarassing, I lie, although it's rare that I'm ever embarassed about anything. Only if it was particularly intimate information would I be embarrassed, and I don't consider much too terribly intimate. You can ask Red Rose on that one.

In a situation where I know little about the topic, I confess ignorance rather boldly, and then sit back and watch my conversing companion either drop the subject or continue to gas on about it, both of which are fine options for me. I'm always willing to learn.