Most Embarrassing Moment

When people ask for my most embarrassing moment, I usually can not think of one.  I get embarrassed at the drop of a hat.  My face, neck and chest all turn red, I laugh and then can’t look people in the eye.  It’s gotten better as I’ve gotten older, but I still have my moments.

But tonight.  Tonight I was embarrassed.  And maybe it was my most embarrassing moment to date.

Heather and the girls and I stopped at Harris Teeter on the way home from Mom’s to pick up a few things.  Lexi had a dirty diaper but we were just getting a few things and I had no wipes and no diapers.  She wasn’t bothered about it so neither was I. 

So we get to the check-out and it’s a young man checking us out.  I’m pretty sure he was around 17 or 18 or so.  The girls are back at the cart playing around the racecar cart we got and I’m standing at the card reader.  The guy looks up at me with his hand at his nose and says, "Ma’am, I don’t mean to be rude, but something REALLY stinks."  The look of shock registers on my face and he says, "I’m sorry, I just thought you might not know and you’d want to know."   The whole time he has his hand covering his nose.

Oh my gosh.

"Yes, yes, I know.  She went right before we got here…" 

I turned beet red.  Heather is looking at me from behind the cart mouthing, "What is going on?"

I literally can not look the guy in the face.  He hurriedly says, "Today you’ve saved .49.  Thanks have a great night."

I hightail it out of there.  I don’t wait on Heather, I don’t even put my bags in a buggy.  I just pick it all up and go.

There goes my Mommy of the Year award.  Again.