Reflections on the puddle of life

Can't believe I'm actually doing this.

My Most Embarrassing Moment

Well, Lily asked us to, and it's Sunday, and I'm bored. This is the most embarassing moment I can remember; there may be others, and maybe I've blocked them from my memory.

When I was 18 years old I went out on a day trip with my then boyfriend, now husband, and his brother. We went to a lovely place in the Peak District called Castleton (my spiritual home). It had been snowing, the roads were icy. On our way home we passed a place called The Chestnut Centre and my then boyfriend, now husband, and I were looking at it, wondering what it was. Next thing you know the car's spinning out of control, slips off the edge of the road and falls on it's roof in a field. Just like that (as Tommy Cooper would have said).

We dragged ourselves out of the car, someone called the emergency services, and a little while later we were in hospital.

Now because I am a girl it was deemed necessary to send me for X-rays, even though I had been walking about, even though my then boyfriend now husband had been unconscious, even though my then boyfriend now husband's brother had unclipped himself from his seat belt not remembering that he was upside down, and landed on his head. No, just I needed X-rays. So, I had to get undressed (obviously in case I needed emergency surgery), put on a hospital gown, then they popped me on a stretcher, covered me with a blanket, and sent me down to X-ray.

There was a queue in X-ray, and it was pretty full. I was waiting there a long time. I was bored, so being bored I kept shifting around on my stretcher. After a while a man came over and started talking to me. He was, perhaps, in his early 40's and seemed to be a really nice bloke. He asked me why I was there, and was telling me all about the guy who was currently in X-ray, a guy who had been hang gliding and had been smashed into the side of a mountain. This was what was taking so long. Anyway, he must have been chatting to me for roughly 20 minutes when he said:

"Well, it's been nice chatting with you. Just one word of advice love, you might want to put your knees down, though I have to say, the view is very nice."

Then he walked away.



Even now it still makes me cringe.

Thanks Lily, for letting me share my most embarrassing moment.