  I was mucking around on the internet, and ran into these personals on the homepage for some newspaper. Every week, or day, whatever their rotation is, a few people who have signed up on their personals, who are sufficiently witty and attractive, earn the right to be one of their "featured" personals.
Among other things these people write about themselves, they're obligated to share their "most embarrassing moment". Now one woman wrote, "anytime I have puked in public". I have to agree, yes, puking in public is definitely embarrassing. Another woman writes "Puking into my lap while onboard a tiny propeller plan in Botswana. " I'm assuming she was in fact on a plane of some sort, and not standing on the plans for some African propeller. Now this could no doubt be equally as embarrassing as simply "puking in public", but I doubt it was this woman's most embarrassing moment. If something is going to be looked back on as your most embarrassing moment, the most intense feeling you get from it, the only feeling I really get from mine, is downright embarrassment. It isn't ameliorated by any positive feelings, other than the fact that it is over. This woman, I got the feeling, was proud of the fact that she wound up on any plane in Botswana, let alone a propeller plane.
The fact that she puked was incidental, because now she gets to talk about how adventurous and well traveled she is, under the guise of laughing at herself. And it doesn't sound like the really embarrassing sort of "I drank too much" puking in public. More like the "there are serious extenuating circumstances such as food poisoning or horrible turbulence that would make James Bond himself keel over" puking in public.
Which is not nearly as embarrassing, at least for me. My most embarrassing moment, is of course, when I puked in public. I can only say that I'm glad it's over. If, one day in the future, I write up my own personal ad, it's certainly not going to say "walking out of a bathroom after vomiting, to discover my boss just down the hall, while I was working in Korea". Of course, if anyone who ever worked in Korea read that, it would certainly be a lot more understandable.
And how on Earth do these people manage to get up the nerve to post their photos and personals on the internet like that, and never bother to check their spelling? It seems like the equivalent of letting a stranger into your house when your dirty clothes are lying all over the floor. 
