"RED"

I don't often turn red when I am embarrassed but there have been a few red-faced moments in my life and in the lives of people I know.
On our wedding day John and I were seated in two old chairs beside the altar in the church whilst the priest did the sermon. These chairs had wooden arms and cushioned seats.
The problem was that the chairs had been placed about sixty centimetres apart which we felt was too far. We were behind the priest so we decided to shuffle the chairs closer together while he was delivering the sermon. The red-faced moment occurred when the arm of the chair broke during the shuffle! How embarrassing!

A colleague of mine took her class for their swimming lesson in the days when teachers had to actually teach the skills themselves. This poor lady couldn't believe her luck when the children in her group all appeared to be concentrating very hard..for once!! But, imagine how 'red' she must have felt when she realised that her bikini top was down around her waist!! How embarrassing!

I attended a teacher's conference quite a few years ago where the keynote speaker was a guru in the world of childhood behaviour issues and the author of some well-known books. My colleagues and I were seated in the front row only about 2 metres from this poor lady. She must have thought all her wisdom on behaviour had disappeared as her audience was NOT behaving very well!! We were rudely trying very hard to suppress our laughter as she had toilet paper coming out of the bottom of her trousers!! How embarrassing!