PHS students suffer through embarrassing moments

by Carley Bruner

In life, there are good times and bad times; there are even the times that we do embarrassing things. The definition of an embarrassing moment is a particular time when we feel self-conscious or ill at ease due to the cause of an incident. All of us may dread to talk about them or some feel like, “I hope no one remembers me by this!” There are a variety of times when embarrassing moments can take place. But for most of us they are at school or they are out somewhere in public.

The kids here at PHS have a variety of embarrassing moments, most of them relating to something happening to us at school. It makes it worse when it happens to us in front of our friends or right there in front of our secret crush. Then comes the red face that really shows how embarrassing it was.

“I got depantsed after school twice in one day my freshman year,” states sophomore Morgan McFaul. It must be so embarrassing for someone to see you in your underwear, especially if you are an older kid and you’re wearing something like Spongebob, Dora, or Care Bears underwear, and you don’t really want anyone to know that you are wearing them and some rude kid thinking he’s all cool comes right up to you and yanks your pants down. “Last year I got depantsed in front of a bunch of girls,” laughingly said junior Zac Broughman.

There are also a lot of embarrassing moments that happen to relate to sports that some people should really be embarrassed about and most likely are. “The Climax game freshman year,” confessed really embarrassed said junior Garet Lee. Those that were there know what he’s talking about. “Last year when my shoe sole blew out in basketball,” said 8th grader Connor Johns. Sports sound all exciting and you think that when you are playing that is your time to shine and go out there and prove to everyone how good you really are at that certain thing. “Plunko (a doll) shot a better score then Zac Broughman, Garet, and I,” said senior Zach Vanlerberg. Whatever it may be, for some reason there are a lot of embarrassing things that happen to people in extra-curricular activities.

Others happened right inside of the classroom or out in the digging pit for Mr. Lovell’s class. “The day I fell into the turtle shell while digging in the pit for Mr. Lovell’s class and everyone laughed at me” shyly said junior Desirae Swope. “In Mr. Burger’s class last year the saying ‘Houston, we have a problem.’ I did not know who Houston was so I asked Mr. Burger and he said it was a city and I thought it was a person,” stated sophomore Jade Smith. There are also those times when we have to read something in class and we get to this word we don’t know and struggle with it. “Today in history class I did not know how to say this one word and my face got really red and Mr. Lovell was making fun of me,” said sophomore Allyssa LoPresto.

All of us love our summer vacation but then it comes time to go back to school for the first day this year and really don’t want to go face that day. “The first day of school this year I walked into Mr. Bulgrien’s second hour class and I was walking with my backpack over my shoulder. I started to walk really fast and my backpack hooked onto the over-head projector and it flipped off the stand and everyone saw it. Luckily someone caught it, but everyone thought it was hilarious and they still remind me of it to this day,” said junior Brooke Maxson.

School is not the only place for an embarrassing moment, however. “I was about 10 years old and my family and I had gone out for a trip and we came back and I saw really huge crates in the driveway. It turns out that my grandpa had delivered them to my house because my dad wanted to make something out of them,” laughed English teacher Mr. Bulgrien.

In school or out, we’ve all got embarrassing skeletons in our closet. Hopefully when your next one comes, nobody will be there to eternally laugh at you about it!