Bloopers & Blunders: Join the Squad
With all the strife we are encountering in the world and in our country, I’m in need for a little comic relief. Bloopers and blunders. We all have them. The “I Love Lucy” episodes in our life that couldn’t have been more awkward or comedic if we’d tried to write the script. Here’s one of mine… and yes, there are many…
We had just returned to Los Angeles from competing in Arizona. I received a lovely e-mail from a gymnastics fan named Jordan. The following is our e-mail exchange:
Jordan: Congratulations on a great meet Miss Val. I’m a huge UCLA Gymnastics fan. I love your choreography… (Jordan went on to give an extremely knowledgable and impressive critique of our team’s floor ex routines.)
Me: Wow! You sure know your stuff. Thank you for the kind note.
Jordan: I have a question, you and your coaching staff always seem so fit. What do you do to stay in such great shape? I’ve always struggled with my weight and keep looking for the spark and inspiration to get in better shape. My weight has triggered depression and insecurities in me for years.
Me: Jordan, you don’t have to lose one pound to feel great about yourself. You get up tomorrow morning and put on a hot pair of kicky heels, your favorite dress, some sassy jewelry, and strut your stuff knowing that you are awesome just the way you are!
Jordan: Wow, this is rather awkward Miss Val. You think I’m a girl don’t you? I’m not, I’m a guy.
Jordan and I have since become friends and laugh about this every time we meet in Arizona.
OK, I’ve shared ONE of my blunders. In the spirit of Lucille Ball… please share one of your all-time funniest blunders with the Miss Val Geek Squad.
Ok, one more. My sister is in the Air Force & deployed for 7 months so I move up to Folsom to help my brother in law with the kids since he had to travel a lot for work. This was about 4 years ago. Micheal was 5 and had started wetting his pants which was to be expected. So one week while his dad was in China I started putting him on a potty schedule where every hour he would go the bathroom even if he didn’t feel he needed to go. The potty schedual was working wonderfully and… Read more »
I had just moved back to Edinburgh, and been invited round to Sunday dinner with a family from the church I’d started going to and they showed me the latest Rob Bell ‘Nooma’ DVD. It was called Store, and was all about using anger in a positive way. The scenario throughout the video was about a poor guy’s unfortunate grocery shopping trip – you know…the parking space close to the store with the trolley (cart?) in it so he couldn’t park his car there, the trolley with the wonky wheel, the kids that careered into him as he turned down… Read more »
I have had several blunders including traipsing through Lawry’s Prime Rib while 8 months pregnant with not only my dress but also toilet paper tucked up in the waist of my maternity pantyhose. Not a pretty sight. My worst (or best) blunder is when my husband, who almost always wears a baseball cap, and I went to the market. We went our separate ways in the store and met back up in the check-out line. I came up behind him and reached around and put my hands in his front pockets and gave him a little squeeze! He turned around… Read more »
Abbe, your blunders take first place! I just had such a good laugh ?
Once I was biking home after a night of partying and clubbing with some friends. We didn’t have far to go but our route took us over an abandoned railroad track. Many of the Americans I knew had a story about falling off their bikes while crossing that exact piece of track, which you really couldn’t avoid if you went out in a certain part of town, and that night I joined them :). It was a huge, spectacular splat, and I let out a giant shriek of surprise. Another time I had a pertty dramatic fall off my bike… Read more »