by Erin MacNair | Oct 22, 2012 | Truly Embarrassing Tales, Welcome
We all make mistakes, some of which get caught on film. This means you, unicorn man-friend. This photo may come back to haunt you, mysteriously appearing in Excel spreadsheets at work, much to the snickering of your fellow colleagues. Your best mate might put it on...
by Erin MacNair | Sep 25, 2012 | Truly Embarrassing Tales, Welcome
The package was sitting on the doorstep, a neat, perfunctory rectangle with no real identifying insignia. “Mom, what did you get?” The kids ask. They usually get presents in packages, so anything in a box must be really good. I look at it. It has my name on it, but...
by Erin MacNair | Sep 16, 2012 | Truly Embarrassing Tales, Welcome
It was a moment I hadn’t had in a while, and the simple joy of it took me by surprise. I was speeding home in the mini-van (it is NOT a mini-van, my husband says, if he is driving it) on the causeway, annoyed after a nasty visit to the Dentist. I’d been...
by Erin MacNair | Jul 24, 2012 | Truly Embarrassing Tales, Welcome
All was quiet, right before a large projectile hit the back of my head. It was a glorious spring day, and my daughter and I were taking a stroll on Grandville Island. “AuuuuoooooooWTHEE!” I yelled, a mixture of ow and whathe? Someone had thrown a rock at me! Only it...
by Erin MacNair | Jul 16, 2012 | Truly Embarrassing Tales
“I really need to get Tom Cruise out of my life,” I recently complained to a friend. “He turns up in just about every conversation! I need to do a Tom Cruise cleanse, like a colonic irrigation. A flush. Completely get rid of him.” But… how?? I could tell people...
by Erin MacNair | Jun 3, 2012 | Truly Embarrassing Tales, Welcome
Schadenfreude (German: ) is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. Leave it to the Germans to come up with such an exacting word, one I should have known in my teenage years. As much as I tried to convey the opposite, back then, I did actually care what...
