Do you have a favorite embarrassing moment? I sure do. This happened not too long ago.

My husband & inlaws love strawberry/rhurbarb pie. Recently, while trying to impress them, I prepared them a homemade pie. I don't really care for it, so I didn't serve myself any. They ate the pie, but didn't make the m-m-m-m good noises they usually make. I asked DH how the pie was and he said "It's not quite a sweet as usual, dear." I tasted it and it was awful. I had completely forgotten to put in the SUGAR!!!! Now everytime I serve pie, they ask if I remembered the sugar. LOL.

Wishing you enough.

-- Dianne in Mass (dianne.bone@usa.net), June 18, 2001

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Yep, got one I'm afraid.

I was painting some fence ahile back, and unknowingly leaned accross some allready painted fence, getting it rubbed onto the TWO HIGH PARTS of my shirt. When I was waling home from the pasture corral (fence), the neighbor boys and men waved friendly enough but gave me odd looks. Got home, went inside, then discoverd that my ample chest had two bright white spots over my breasts. The shirt?? It was black. ((sigh)) Still too embarrassed to talk to them neighbors.

-- Marty (Mrs.Puck@Excite.com), June 18, 2001.

Thanks for the laughs I am sure there will be more to come .I trying to figure out which {of the many} one to add for myself.

-- Patty {NY State} (fodfarms@slic.com), June 18, 2001.

CR and WR are my countryside friends who only lurk on this site: Recently C called me to tell me that they were in desperate need of a new doeling for their beautiful daughter. Seems C had sent W out to butcher the 2 bucklings that had recently been born, and instead he butchered a buckling and the daughters new doeling! :) Love that! And yes they left here with two pretty doelings. Vicki

-- Vicki McGaugh TX (vickilonesomedoe@hotmail.com), June 18, 2001.

Boy, there is too many, to know which one is the most embarrassing but we were talking about this one a few weeks ago!

When we got married (28+ years ago)I wasn't much at gardening. I loved it but didn't know anything about it --just willing to learn. So I asked my husband to get the garden spot ready and he did. I planted all my little rows--tallest to shortest crop(just like I had read) and waited.

Everything came up --I was determined not to have any weeds in the garden and made a point to hoe and pull weeds every morning and every evening. So one night at dinner, my father in law said --"your garden sure looks good" I started to beam. He was a "old farmer" had been farming all his life and he was good at it. And I loved him, so I was delighted that HE thought my garden looked good! Then he added " I have never seen a better crop of "Johnson Grass" in all my life." "I don't have grass in my garden", I replied. I had hoed out all the corn and left the darn Johnson grass! Well, It looks kinda like corn!!!:).

-- Debbie T in N.C. (rdtyner@mindspring.com), June 18, 2001.

There are so many I lost count .Once I was helping a friend with his sows and she charged me and went between my legs and carried to the creek and dumped me in head first or maybe the time the turky flew on the telephone lines and I was throwing rocks at it to get it to come down and as the cars went past I was getting very strange looks or the time I fell off the barn roof the list gos on. Indiana Country Friend Jack Bunyard

-- Jack bunyard (bunyard@cnz.com), June 18, 2001.

Yes!

Just last week. I was in the turning lane behind a semi waiting to turn left into the farm store parking lot. Traffic was heavy and we sat there a LONG time. It was hot,no AC in the old pick-up and I just sat there, one arm out the window, sweating and day dreaming waiting for this truck to make the turn. Then all of a sudden a cloud covered the sun and I became aware that he didn't just have his left turn signal on, he had his 4 way flashers on! The driver wasn't even in the truck! I casually pulled around it and into the parking lot hoping that no one had noticed me sitting there for 5 minutes!

Pauline NC

-- Pauline (tworoosters_farm@altavista.com), June 18, 2001.

oh boy, I do remember this one. Way back when I was a newly wed, the in-laws came to dinner. I prepared spaghetti and a salad with dessert, and I put the spaghetti in my brand new tupperware bowl to stay warm until they arrive. they were a little late and the spaghetti had cooled, so I placed the bowl (tupperware, remember?) on the electric stove to warm up. While visiting with the folks, I remember the spaghetti, and upon arriving in the kitchen, I lifted the bowl off the burner, only to have the plastic string up with the spaghetti stringing out of the bowl!! of course the plastic cooled immediately, living the bowl suspended in the air above the burner, with spaghetti stringing out of it....sigh, we went out to dinner, amidst lots of laughter and humility!

-- sissy sylvester-barth (jerreleene@hotmail.com), June 19, 2001.

Thank you all so much for the chuckles, laughs, gafaws, etc. I'm still laughing. Now I KNOW I'm in the right place because I feel right at home.

Wishing you enough.

-- Dianne in Mass (dianne.bone@usa.net), June 19, 2001.

Everyone knows I can't cook. I think I was making 2 cake mixes at the same time. Both chocolate. I remember I ran out of eggs, and I ran down to the barn to get some more, came back and finished the cake mixes.(I thought) That night when they cut them a piece of chocolate cake and put it on the plate, it had a huge yellow circle right in the middle of the slice. Everyone was looking real close at it and didn't know what it was. It was gross. We finially figured out it was a cooked egg yolk. I did not mix up that cake after all, mixed the other one twice I quess!

-- Cindy in KY (solid_rock_ranch@yahoo.com), June 19, 2001.

I was newly married (40 next week) and was making chicken and rice soup. I made the stock with carrots, celery all the usual stuff. It was a big pot, about a gallon worth of soup. Anyway, I threw in a hand full of rice, stirred it decided, not enough rice, put in another handful. Did that a couple of times. By the time the soup was done it was celery and rice. No broth what so ever. We still talk about that.

One of the dumbest things I ever did. I was making beef boullion. Spent a couple of days reducing it so I would have my own cubes. Let it set and cubed it. OK so far. I dehydrate a lot of everything and was not thinking that I could just store my cubes in the refrig. I put them in the dehydrator to dry even further. What I got was a mess. They all melted. I was angry at myself for being so stupid but it gave my family a laugh.

-- Cordy (ckaylegian@aol.com), June 19, 2001.

Maybe some of you can relate to this one . . .

Last year, I finally had my old Suburban painted. When I left the paint shop with the vehicle, I neglected to check to see if the hood was securely latched. Yep, you guessed it, the hood flipped up on me when I was driving down the highway doing approximately 50 mph. When the hood flipped up on me, I instinctively tried to put my head out the window to see where I was going. Only problem was I had the a/c system on and the window was closed. DOINK! OW! Sounded like a watermelon hitting the pavement . . . Major case of dumb a** J. R.!

And what about the 'safety latch'? Turned out the painter had taken it off because I had installed a new hood at the same time the paint job was done and he forgot to install it.

-- j.r. guerra (jrguerra@boultinghousesimpson.com), June 19, 2001.

I think I can win the prize on this one.It was time to tatoo the baby goats this year.I knew that this years tatoo letter was"M".We caught the babies and put the herd tatoo in the right ear of all of them. Just before putting the year and number in the left ear,I caught the new buck kid we had recently purchased.His ear had "P"as this years letter.Stopped all tatooing and went and checked.Sure enough the correct letter was "P".Back to the goat pen,double checked to make sure "P"was right.It was.Tatooed all kids with "M" and their number. When I screw up I like to do a good job of it and leave a permanent record for everyone to see for years to come.To make matters worse,a few of these babies will be shown in local shows,4-H etc.I can hardly wait for the smart a__ comments thats going to cause.

-- JT (gone2seed@hotmail.com), June 19, 2001.

Same thing happened to me with a pumpkin pie. I had made it to take to a friends house. It was awlful!! I was so imbarressed!!

-- michelle (tsjheath@nci2.net), June 20, 2001.