For all of those of you who've asked...I shall now reveal my most embarrassing moment.
Be excited.
My freshman year at BYU, I took a child development class with Lynn Scoresby.
Apparently to understand child development, you first have to see a woman giving birth while screaming bloody murder...all on a screen the size of Mongolia.
On the day of the birthing video showing, I put on my cutest little knee-length jumper dress (hey, it was BYU, ok? Jumpers are totally in style there). And, I specifically remember my purple, cotton Hanes panties went underneath.
I sat in the class of 300, right in the middle of the row, next to my friend, Jill.
When they started to prep the lady in the video for the epidural, I told Jill I wasn't feeling well.
She told me I'd be fine.
I fainted.
Clean off my chair.
And apparently, as I was sliding off my chair, my sweet jumper was sliding it's way all the way up to my waist.
I was out cold when the professor had to flip the lights on, retrieve me, and carry me out of the class in front of everyone - with my dress still jacked up and my purple panties hanging out for everyone to see.
I woke up behind a curtain with Jill and the professor leaning over me, Jill giggling, the professor looking solemn wanting to know why I hadn't told someone I was a fainter.
I'm not a fainter! It's not my fault the lady in the video was squealing like a stuck pig! And that things, like a baby, were going to explode out of her uterus!
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Found your blog from Sonja Z's. Love it! Don't know if you remember me or not--Liisa Mecham, lived in your ward for a year and moved back to NC. Congrats on the upcoming arrival. Keep writing!
Oh my heck! I'm laughing so hard while trying not to laugh at my desk. I think I made a couple of snorting sounds. I also took that same class, same teacher, same LARGE screen movie. But we must not have been in the same section because I DEFINITELY would have remembered that. If you ask nicely I'll tell you my most embarrassing moment, which also occurred at BYU.
I had the same class, same teacher, same GIANT screen!! I didn't faint but that's because I was sitting on the floor in the back of the room with my head between my knees, chanting, "Make it stop!" That epidural needle was longer than my arm on a screen that size. No needle should be that large! We live in the same stake now and I am so glad EmJeter showed me your blog. You say things I think ALL the time.
~Emily Tree, The Other Emily
That is why I never took that class. I just didn't want to know unless I was directly involved in actually having a kid. I wonder if he uses you as an example now before showing the flick?
He does. I took the class the next semester and he put a big warning out there for all the "fainters." But in all fairness, how does he not expect us future mothers to get a little concerned at watching what we are supposed to go through? As I was reading, I was trying to remember my experience, and I think I have mentally blocked it out. (And because you are facing that decision in the near future, go for it. Just don't look at the needle.)
Holy Cow, Erin! You make me laugh! And you have such a way of taking a regular embarrassing situation and telling it in such a way that I am rolling on the floor, having a hard time breathing because of laughter. I just love you!
I laughed SO HARD!! That's GOOD!! =D
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