Showing posts with label Facepalm Moments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facepalm Moments. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Facepalm Moments #3

This particular moment took place during my years living in Jersey, so it was somewhere in between 2006 and 2007. I was taking a literature of comedy course (one of my favorite classes of all time and the one that made me jump into humor writing) and the professor (whom I would really thank if I remembered his name) was assigning a presentation for us to do.

The concept of the presentation was to take a book written by a comedian or humorist, and then analyze it. Or something like that, I kinda forgot along the way. That was also the day where I would unexpectedly realize that it is indeed true what they say about blondes. However, I do note that not all of them are like this, but it's times like these where the stereotype is dead on.

Blonde in front of me raises her hand to ask a question. "What program do we use to make a Power Point presentation?" she asked.

There was a moment of silence, followed by a loud thud. That thud was my face slamming against the deck as what can be described as the single most painful reaction I have ever had to something. You probably would have heard of the facepalm before (if you haven't, then let me welcome you to the interwebs), but this was a facedesk (feel like a hipster since I did it before it became a gag). It was either slamming my face into the desk or blatantly laugh and fall backwards.

Either way, the end result was going to be painful. But by not laughing at her, I managed to remain a gentleman and hold on to my composure. But to be fair, I did silently laugh like a maniac once my face was on the desk.


Monday, April 23, 2012

Facepalm Moments #2

As my quest to make some new friends continued, I decided to head out to the neighboring store today and say hi to everyone there before I went home. As I entered, I noticed they were going through some scenes from X-Men on one of their screens.

Me: I like the scene where they go recruit everyone, and suddenly Wolverine just tells them to "f*ck off."
Worker 1: Yeah
Worker 2: Who is Wolverine?
Me: Come on! Everyone knows Wolverine!
Worker 2: Well, I'm a girl. You can't expect me to know this.
Me: I know a lot of girls who know way more about the X-Men than me, so that's not a good excuse. Try again.
Worker 1: (laughs)
Me: I should go.

I left the store, mostly just to hide my face upon the uninformed worker as to Wolverine's identity. I give her a pass, but I don't think we could be buddies upon this discovery. Oh well, and here I thought that all the people working at audio equipment stores would be geeks (but they are still cool people). Go figure.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Facepalm Moments #1

Ever have those moments where you hear or see something that just makes you want to cover your face in embarrassment from what just transpired? Ever find yourself trying to, but can't due to the situation? Well, it's about time that I start writing some of them down.

First facepalm moment comes courtesy of a confused customer at my new job.

Customer: Excuse me, is this a store for homies?
Me: What do you mean?
Customer: You know, (changed his tone to a more subtle one) homies.
Me: This is just a big and tall store, you know, for everyone.
Customer: Oh. Alright.