Life’s embarrassing moments pop up now and then to kick us in the pants, humble – and even humiliate us – when least expected.
For example, Sunday afternoon a pretty young lady in the DGA Atrium strolled up and started to strike up a conversation with me, when she suddenly noticed something odd.
“You have a white spot on the end of your nose,” she giggled.
OMG!
“People at the film festival are going to be whispering that I’ve been snorting cocaine,” I exclaimed.
“That’s okay,” she quipped back. “This is Los Angeles, after all.”
I tried brushing the “blemish” off, but to no avail.
“Here, let me do it,” she half-whispered as she took a poke at the offending nostril.
A bit flustered, I proceeded to explain that I had just been in the mens room blowing my nose.
“It was probably a piece of toilet paper,” I conjectured.
But, boy, I wanted to crawl under the carpet and hide.
How long had the white spot been there?
Had anyone noticed it earlier during a “Happy Endings” panel discussion with the cast of the popular TV Sitcom on ABC TV?
When I laughed about it later to a young filmmaker (who was showing her film in a short program at the DGA) she was quick to react.
“The other day when I left the podium in front of the audience a tampon fell out of my pocket,” she blurted out before turning beet red.
I tried to console her by tattling about young heartthrob Zac Efron.
“Just recently he was on the red carpet when a condom fell out of his pocket!”
The tabloid rags had a field day poking fun of the jazzy brand (and studly he-man size).
In a nutshell?
It levels us all a tad.
We’re all human – and make mistakes – after all.
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