Anecdote Experience

     Embarrassment. It turns your face red. It makes your cheeks hot. It can make you want to crawl under a rock and die...sometimes. Say, if your pants fall down in a play, you get embarrassed. To you, it is the end of the world. To the audience watching, it is hilarious. I hardly ever get embarrassed; I'm just not shy, and I could care less what people thought of me. But, once in a blue moon, my cheeks turn red.

     It was a Friday; not an unusual Friday, just like the others. My friend (practically sister) Cassidy, invited me to her Teachers VS. Students game. Durant Road Middle School had a special "raffle night" and  everybody who came to the game got a chance at the coupon raffle.

   Bzzzz, the half time buzzer went off and the students were up by 15 points. Out came a tall man with a microphone.
     "Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for our raffle winner. Give me a drumroll please...."
     "Olivia TIT...ka?"

     The crowd looked around, rather confused. Who would have such an awkward last name like TITka? I was in a daze as if it was a dream. Cassidy tapped me on the shoulder to go to the court. As I scurried toward the stairs, I tripped down them and had already made a fool of myself.
     "Last chance, Olivia TITka, to claim your prize."

     Was being embarrassed really worth winning 5 Subway coupons? I made my way to the tall man and stood center court. Girls and boys laughed at me and I told the man it was pronounced TEEka and he managed the correction. I returned to my seat with my million dollar prize and with my embarrassment of course.

     You have to rememer that life would be boring without embarrassment. I would have nothing to tell stories about or laugh at if these things did not happen. Embarrassment only lasts a short while, but the laughter continues forever.