A short anecdote about me being unnecessarily stupid in public:
Last Friday, I attended a recruiting event for my company. We were giving a presentation to a group of business students for Univ of Iowa, followed by some mingling and Q&A.
So during the mingling/Q&A, I'm with a few of my colleagues talking with a handful of the undergrad students from Iowa. Very nice conversation and whatever whatever.
But as the conversation progresses, I realize that my yarmulke on my head is slowly sliding backwards. (Because I had just gotten a really short haircut, my yarmulke tends to slide more often.)
Now, normally, if my yarmulke starts to slide or fall off, I simply reach up and move it back up with my hand. But for some reason, I thought that reaching up and grabbing my yarmulke during this Q&A conversation would interrupt the flow of conversation among the group.
So instead of sliding the yarmulke back onto the top of my head, I simply started to tilt my head forward. The more it slid backward, the more I tilted forward. But pretty soon, I was staring at everyone's feet! And at the same time, I was still trying to carry on a totally normal conversation!
Ugh, this is a situation that only I would get into.
In the end, I realized that trying to talk with my chin on my chest was more awkward than simply reaching up and readjusting my yarmulke. So I did. And no one even blinked or noticed.
(But on the positive side, I'm pretty sure my socks matched each other that day.)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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