Okay. Haha.
I was just starting off in a new high school after two years in private. Knowing that this was my chance to reinvent myself (I was quite the loner in my old one), I came in with the instilled mindset that I was badass, head held high. I knew this would be my opportunity to come out of my shell and I didn’t wasn’t gonna blow it.
I went to my first class, – Algebra. I walked in smoothly and sat down with such smugness; everyone was chattering about “the new guy”, and it made me proud that I was the talk of the town.
“I’ll show them what being cool is really about,” I told myself.
The teacher informed the class that there was a pop quiz. In the midst of the moaning and groaning, and I raised my hand, asking if I had to take it (in the most confident tone I could muster with my slightly-pubescent voice). She said no, don’t worry about it.
“Alright, put your head down and act aloof – sleeping in class MUST be the one way ticket to awesome-town,” the voices in my head told me. I did so, but did not expect to actually fall asleep. However, the quiet of the room coupled with the rhythmic sound of 30 kids scratching their pencils across the paper was too much to handle. I knocked out.
Silence. I was away in a dream, bent over my desk… at peace with the whirring of A/C units and the faint buzzing of the fluorescent lights over head. And then it happened.
A terrible noise; an unnatural sound. The sound of thunder. I farted.
I was awoken abruptly by my ass vibrations, confused and befuddled as to what exactly happened. I looked around, eyes trying to focus and realized people were equally confused. I quickly understood what horrible evil I had just unleashed, just as everyone else did. A roar of laughter.
Grasping at straws, I noticed the girl behind me was also sleeping (how I didn’t scare her awake is beyond me). I put on the look of disgust and pointed to her, and put my head down, my face never to be seen again that class.
“Yo, that shit was like a bomb!” I heard a student cry.
“Damn, what the fuck”?!” another added.
The bell rang and I hurried off to the next class, face red and self-esteem in the dumpster. A kid asked me if it was me that farted. I replied with a stern, “FUCK NO.”
To this day, this very moment, I have always sworn that it was Karina that farted in math class.
My most embarrassing moment was also my most humbling.
such length for something so stupid, haha!