[Rhodes22-list] Fw: From the Geankoplis Book: Another BusinessDilemma, or How to Embarrass Yourself Without Even Speaking

[Michael D. Weisner]

Elle,

Good story.  By the time I was finishing grad school, Ray Stevens was on the
radio with "The Streak."  In those days, some folks were well recognized by
their face or their "moon."  I wonder where the coat would have been placed.
"Don't look, Ethel ..."

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

From: "elle" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 5:33 PM
> Chris,
>
> I think I would have made the same  choice;^)
>
> That reminds me of a similar event back when I was a
> freshman in college. Several of us went home for a
> winter  weekend with another gal who was from the
> wilds of West By God Virginny.
>
> It was late...it was cold...it was very dark (no
> lights in the mtns around there 'cept for a trailer or
> two 'way up in the dark.....)
>
> The WVA gal suddently had a 'need' still aways  from
> home & couldn't wait...So we pulled to the side, left
> the headlights on,&  she went off to do her thing....
>    Just at that moment the only other car on that
> side of WVA came roaring up the mtn from the other
> direction...we heard this godawful shriek & caught a
> glimpse of bright white buttocks reflecting the other
> car's lights, pants around her ankles, fleeing into
> the woods , her head covered by her coat.
>
> When she returned & caught her breath...and the rest
> of us had recovered from nearly dying of laughter...we
> asked why she'd put her coat over her head instead of
> over her other end....
>
> Her response was that she'd recognized the sound of
> the car & realized when she saw it that it was people
> (guys, I think)  from her town...couldn't move fast
> enough to hide...so she covered her face 'cause they'd
> recognize her face but not her butt...;^)
>
> Those were the days...
>
> elle
>
>
> --- Chris Geankoplis <napoli68 at charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Since my little sister is a great sailor and ran her
>> own charter business and marine salvage in Grenada
>> along with working for a wave energy company in
>> Portland I figure this qualify's as sailing related.
>>   Something about what happens if you have spent too
>> much time out on a boat by your self and return to
>> civilization:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>
>> To:Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:18 PM
>> Subject: From the Geankoplis Book: Another Business
>> Dilemma, or How to Embarrass Yourself Without Even
>> Speaking
>>
>>
>> At a business lunch, wearing my best business
>> outfit:
>>
>> PART 1:  I went to a Vietnamese restuarant.  I had
>> soup for lunch and splashed it on my pants.
>> Everyone says you can't see it, so I'm not going to
>> worry.
>>
>> PART 2:  Next, a freak accident when, having no
>> pockets, I slipped the end of my wallet into the
>> back of my pants to carry three glasses of water to
>> the table...I set the glasses down, grabbed the
>> black wallet (which was caught on the back of my
>> thong underwear) and gave myself a ig wedgie in in
>> front of the restaurant.  I couldn't get the wallet
>> zipper unstuck from the panties, prolonging the
>> whole embarrassing event.
>>
>> THE DILEMMA:  I had the option of either spinning
>> around, keeping my back to my lunch partners in
>> order to fumble around with my panties in plain view
>> of them, or continue to face my lunch partners, my
>> back to the restaurant, and make a complete fool of
>> myself with the entire restaurant clientele.
>>
>>
>> What would YOU do?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I chose to make a complete fool of myself with
>> perfect strangers.  Kevin and Bob didn't see a thing
>> other than my (now) purple face and my elbows
>> wiggling around with my hands behind my back.  sigh.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Greta G.
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