I just got tagged so I guess I have to think up 5 of my most embarrassing childhood moments....here goes:

The first two are separate parts of a single incident-

1) I won't say how old I was at the time but I was still technically a child.  I can't remember why I was upset or mad but whatever it was prompted me to take off on my bike with my sister chasing behind.  We lived on a dangerous, winding country road with deceptively hilly spots.  I happened to head down one particular windy, decline that had a 90 degree turn at the end.  My sister was yelling "brake! brake!" at the same time I was discovering that my brakes weren't working.  I took the outside of the corner at full speed and thought I was going to make it....I was wrong.  Luckily there were no cars coming.  Unfortunately there was gravel, mud, rocks and cement that I got to know intimately.

2nd part) My sister quickly concluded that I had concussed myself because when she approached me I was laying in the mud laughing hysterically.  I had just gotten braces and had a strong fear of hitting my mouth so I flew off my bike with my chin held high.  I pictured this in my head once I landed and that is why I was laughing.  Also, the pain hadn't set in yet.  So my dad picked us up, warned me I was going to start hurting like crazy (boy was he right!) and my mom than proceeded to swab me down with peroxide (ouch!!) and insisted I go to the emergency room and make sure nothing was broken.  Here comes the part that embarrassed me...my sister called a couple of our guy friends who lived near the hospital we were going to.  One of the guy's dad was a surgeon there so when they wheeled me toward x-ray in my lovely open back hospital gown, bleeding from elbows to shins, there stood my two guy friends with get-well cards.  I was touched, shocked and mortified all at once!

3) I went "rafting" down a river with friends and family except I ended up with a tube instead of a raft.  Well, the river turned out to have lots of branches and rocks that all seemed to reach up and bite me in the butt.  At the end of the ride I noticed that my bottom felt colder than the rest of me.  As I sat in my tube in front of half my family I realized a big chunk of the butt of my suit had been ripped.  My uncle and cousins had a long laugh taunting me about coming in and not bringing me a towel.  I finally convinced someone to get me the towel so I could escape the river.

4)  Going much further back in my past, in kindergarten when I first started riding the bus, I really liked a boy on the bus and always wanted to sit with him.  He quickly found out he didn't want to sit anywhere near me.  The first time we sat in the same seat and I threw up right in his lap.  The next time he sat in the seat ahead of me and I threw up on his head.  After that I had to sit in the very front seat with the driver's garbage can.

5)  In middle school my high school cousin gave me a book to give to her friend's younger sister.  I was always a nice kid so I obliged.  When I didn't see the girl on the playground I decided to take a look at the book.  To my surprise, and the delight of all the guys who quickly swarmed around, it was a pornographic book with plenty of full color pictures.  As soon as the playground monitor saw the crowd, she swooped in, saw the book, grabbed my arm and dragged me straight to the principal's office.  I was a good kid so he merely confiscated the book, told me it was normal to be curious about such things and warned me never to bring anything else like that to school.  I was soooo embarrassed.  I did get a good chuckle leaving the school that day though.  I glanced into the principal's office and there he was, kicked back in his chair, feet up on the desk, enjoying the hell out of that book!

Okay, who to tag?

I guess I will tag Jennybean, Dr. Guy, and Texas Wahine since they all seem to stop by my blog.