my most embarassing moment originally posted Aug 9 2004 on Ol Blue:
Once upon a time, a little over a year and half ago, I was walking through the halls at the University...my first day at college.
I look up, and lo and behold, who should be walking a bit ahead of me, but my great friend Steve, who was in every one of my A day classes senior year of high school! I was thrilled, because I had a huge crush on Steve, and hadn't seen him in ages.
I hurried to catch up to him...and was about five feet away when I yelled out his nickname.
"Spacepants!" I cried, anxious for him to turn around and wait up for me.
He turns.
It's not Steve.
I go bright red.
He (I have no idea who "he" is) looks at me with a "you must be retarded, i'm thinking of running away" look, and says haltingly,
"Are you talking to me?"
I floundered for the right words
"Uh, well...I was but...actually. No, I'm not. Nevermind. Have a nice day!"
And I took off running.
With my luck, of course, I see him every day on the way to class...but he doesn't recognize me. Not fully. This is a good thing. He just gives me that look. You know, the one that says "I swear I've seen you before...something...I know your face, but I don't know what to say."
It goes on for about a month and a half, until one day, I watch him coming toward me on the sidewalk in the place where we usually pass, and I'm gripped with fear as I see the look of dawning comprehension spread across his features. He passes me without saying a word, and gets about three feet before he turns and grabs my arm.
"Spacepants! You're the 'spacepants' girl!"
I blush and nod, guilt written all over my face. Within that week, I had told him the meaning behind the nickname, and why I yelled it at him...and within a month, he and I were dating.
Incedentally, Steve's nickname "Spacepants" came from a rather bored day in band...when he, and I, and our good friend Charlie(Chuck), who sat next to us, decided to have a worst pick up line ever contest. Steve won with his rendition of "Are those spacepants you're wearing? Because your butt is out of this world." And spacepants became our inside joke.
Now the world knows my story.