Apr 30, 2011

17 Sometimes You must Laugh At Yourself -Wrong Paste & The Panty Debacle

I woke up this morning and proceeded to the bathroom to take my shower. As per usual I cleansed my face, neck and decollate by the sink in front of the mirror deciding to forgo the once a week mircodermabrasion treatment until later because frankly I was just not up to it and kept it nice and simple, cleanse and moisturize. After the cleanse I reached for my toothbrush applied the toothpaste on it and started to brush my teeth and something happened. There was a funny taste in my mouth and in my mind I am thinking, ‘why does this toothpaste taste so weird’. I chucked it up to my sore mouth because the left side of my mouth was bitt irritated so I thought that the not so familiar taste was due to soreness and irritation. However I was not convinced and opt to try brushing my teeth again so I rinsed my mouth and toothbrush and reapplied the toothpaste. I started to brush and pow! my mouth was infused with the minty freshness of toothpaste and I thought 'well if its tooth pasty now, why not before?' I decided to investigate to put my mind at ease, it is then I noticed the timewise gentle cleanser lying to my left next to the toothpaste and it hit me. The first time I brushed my teeth it was not with the toothpaste but with my cleanser! I stood looking at myself in the mirror shaking my head and laughing thinking, ‘well I guess I am not as awake as I profess to be’.

The incident just too preposterously incredulous and ridiculous to keep to myself I had to share it with someone. I decided to knock on my daughter’s bedroom door and share what happened. Entering I stood a few feet away looking at her which prompted her to ask, “mommy are you alright?” I said disbelievingly, “I don’t know, you tell me” and I relayed the incident to her, first making her promise not to laugh out loud or for too long. Boy was that promise a bust the girl laughed so hard and for so long she was practically hyperventilating on her bed as she rolled from side to side trying to unsuccessfully smother her laughter…saying between bouts of laughter, “who does that!”. I stood there looking at her and said, “You promised you weren’t going to laugh out loud or for too long”, my declaration only started another bout of laughter. I just looked at her, shook my head laughingly indignant and said, “you lied!” and stormed out the room in fake indignation her ringing laughter following me out the door. When she regained her equilibrium she came to my room smiling broadly and asked, “Hey mom,” she says between giggles, “remember when we went on the picnic and you had on your dragon draws?” giggle, giggle, laugh.

THE PANTY DEBACLE:panty
We had gone on one of our impromptu picnics in the park down on the Esplanade in downtown Toronto. On our walk to the park we stopped by the deli store RABBA on 173 Front Street East at the intersection of Sherbourne and Front Street to pick up some meat slices (pastrami, roast beef, all beef salami, turkey, Cajun chicken) some creamy havarti cheese, Kaiser buns, mustard, orange juice and some disposable cups. During our walk there my underwear started slipping a little, so I pulled it up telling the girls softly, “ooh..my panty is falling.” My oldest whispered back, “mommy please tell me you didn’t put on one of those dragon draws grangie (their grandmother) bought you?” (They call them dragon draws because they were so big they would fall off so I used them solely for sleeping.) I said, “yes its a new one,” to which she replied, “but mommy you know those ones are too big and they fall down.” unable to deny the truthful reminder I used a poor defence by saying, “oh but this is a new one and it looked smaller than the others plus when I first put it on it felt ok.” With our with our yummy goodness packed we walked the short way to the park and made our sandwiches ate, drank, talked and laughed. On our return walk home my panty again began to slip and I was continually pulling it up. Then the girls and I were talking, laughing, singing and running along the side walk when suddenly I felt my steps hindered. I stopped my face in a mask of horror only my children recognized. Once they realized I was behind them the turned and came back towards me asking, “mommy what's wrong?” I called them closer and whispered, “my panty fell down to my ankles,” they both looked down and then up at me and shrieked, “mommy!” and we started laughing. Luckily for me I had on pants. I told the girls to stand in front of me while I strategically and casually as possible worked my feet out of the panty without bringing too much attention to myself. The task completed I balled it up quickly and shoved it in my bag. We then hurried home laughing all the way. It was a short walk so we were home in no time. Needless to say I never wore those panties out in public again. To this day my daughter reminisce with each other and laugh saying “remember mommy and the dragon draws?

Hearing her laughter just made me smile as I thought, ‘sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself’ and invite others into the laughter. I don’t know what that experience was about this morning but I did get the lesson or should I say lessons.

  1. Do not take yourself too seriously, sometimes it’s good to laugh at yourself.
  2. Pay attention to what you doing at all times even to the mundane tasks.

17 comments:

  1. Oh take care of you! You`re right, it is good sometimes to laugh about ourselves. I also knoe such moments where I had to laughed about myself. It is human. And it is funny. Your two lessons are so true!!Have a nice weekend, my friend, and smile a lot.Karin xx

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  2. hehee funny !! ~x~

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  3. Well, i got to tell you mine this time, i think its two week ago, when my daughter came round with her dad for dinner on a Tuesday night, she was looking something in the kitchen unit and saw a big mug of cooking oil on the work top which I used it for frying some oyster other day, she thought it was the chinese tea i make for her earlier, she had a big mouthful… and run off to the bathroom… she didn’t tell anyone for a few mins, but when we been told hubby just couldn’t stop laughing, I didn’t tell her what’s been cooking in that oil, don’t want her sick again… she hate oyster! I did tell her a week later, she blame me putting oil in a mug! :-( Thank you for your visit and words, have a lovely day. Mei

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  4. Ewww! The last time I tasted Time Wise it didn’t taste good at all, but that was from an accidental touch on my lip. I shudder to think what a dab on the toothbrush would taste like – lol! Oh well at least you enjoyed the laugh!

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  5. I had tasted organic skin cares, yummie! I haven’t tasted chemical skin cares, taste should be bitter. Good to share and tell other about what silly thing you have done and you surely know they’ll laugh at you… but why care? Good to see people smile, a purity smile :)

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  6. Goodness, it wasn’t something else. Do pay close attention to what you do, and thanks for sharing some laughs today :) Stay safe, and have a gr8 week ahead.

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  7. LOL!! I have never done that with the toothpaste but I have endured the too big panties.
    Have a wonderful weekend!

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  8. Hahahaha.... very funny. I sort of wish you were wearing a skirt... lol.

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  9. I am thankful for laughter, except when tea comes out of my nose. Bwahahaha! Just know, that I am not laughing at you, I am laughing with you... along with all your readers. You are quite the woman!!!!

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  10. The sunday morning I had slept this morning only I have an orange juice here I try to visiting my blog family there you made me a BIG smile in my face loved very much.
    Tooth paste: I have had by mistake just like you that I used my face cleanser but I did notice quickly because bubble coming up all of my mouth lol!
    It is easiry doing that because the tube were very simlar to the tooth paste one's.

    The panty is falling: You were very lucky to had on your pant:-)
    It was nice to be a good laugh thought sometime we needed in ourlife thank you Pub.

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  11. haha! I have to get that skill- removing undies from trousers hehe. Yeah, it's funny and embarrassing moments like these that we remember and laugh :D

    Adiya

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  12. Funny though it happens to all.You hv the knack of giving a hilarious touch to the common incidents that occur in our lives and make your posts likeable

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  13. So, those genuinely unpleasant situations aside, it is important to be able to laugh at yourself. It shows you don’t take yourself too seriously, that you aren’t afraid to make mistakes. Everyone messes up now and then... if you can take it in your stride and see the funny side, you’ll be a much happier person, especially if you can learn from it!
    Kudos to you for sharing your silly moments with us.

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  14. Oh what a laugh it's good to have agood old laugh and to be able to laugh at one's self in life is even better. Glad you all had a great time laughing how many times have I said that..Thanks for sharing Sheila .Enjoy your week ahead.

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  15. *laughing so hard*...esp at the grandma panties!

    yeah, it's good to laugh at oneself sometimes so that one won't get easily offended when others tease or mock...infact, that is my secret.


    You see, i had always being on the big side and laughed at right from childhood, making me withdraw into my shell, but my mum, would always comfort me. so one day i decided to poke my self & i didn't feel bad, since then, i laugh at my own mistakes and stupidity & even join others when they mock me, since then, i roll with any insults, sarcasim, dished to me!

    It's theuraptic :))

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  16. Dragon Draws!!! Too funny...I can't even imagine what I'd do! OMG! I laugh at myself often, because I too make little mistakes. Great post!

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  17. Woohoo! We all made mistake in ourlife just how many timeslol! Mines was when I had a bad cold and in the middle of night wake up to take the cough mixture, what happnts was I made mistaken by took gargle for a throat BUT it worked all right I went sleep until next morning:-)Why I found out it ? The bottle of gargle on the bench not in the cabinet.the results was very happy end, and I have had a good day too.Have a nice day,Michiko

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