What Are Your Most Embarrassing Moments?
Tonight as I was driving home from the last night of my church's Music Conference my mind drifted back to my JCM days in the late 70's and 1980.
The National Music Ministry Conference was a huge social and ministry event for many folks. In particular if you were a student or faculty member at JCM.
We got the days of music conference off but of course worked as volunteers to pull this big National Conference off.
If memory serves me correct music conference was usually in February. I believe it was the National Music Mnistry Conference of February 1980 that I had a very embarrassing thing happen.
I had a nice almost new car and I had volunteered to pick up people from the airport that were registered for the conference or guests and flying in. Once they were in their hotels the College van would make rounds to pick them up for classes, services, etc.
On one airport trip I picked up two sweet older (in my young mind anyway - probably about my age now - 50ish) ladies. They were typical motherly UPC ladies with grey hair, etc.
After I had loaded the luggage in the trunk and we were on our way to the hotel one of the ladies (they were sitting in the back seat) reached down and suddenly held up something. She said "I found these on your flloor! Are they yours???".
I looked in the rearview mirror and was aghast to see that she was holding up a pair of ladies panties!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My face must have turned two or three shades of red before settling on crimson. I was stuttering and stammering that I had no idea how they got there.
Then I rememberd that my car had been on several trips recently out of town with girls and guys traveling and that during one of those trips one of the girls pair of panties must have fallen out and under my seat. I started trying to explain that but it sounded really lame and these two ladies were laughing their heads off at my predicament.
I remember feeling so terrible thinking that those ladies must think I was a really wild guy.
I haven't thought about this before but just now typing this I have to wonder if one of my firends planted them there as a joke when they heard I was going to be shulttling people back and forth!
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