For some reason, I often end up in really weird, uncomfortable, awkward, and humorous situations. Maybe I just have bad luck. Maybe it's the fact that when i'm nervous or uncomfortable I try to make jokes (which usually don't go over well, and tend to make things worse.) Anyway, the other day, I was remembering two of these situations during a class I took in college.
In class, we had been learning how to perform CPR and the Heimlich manuver on infants, and babies. We were instructed to turn the baby onto his stomach, and hold him, then give three pats on the back to try and dislodge what was stuck in his mouth.
We were given dolls to practice on, and I was talking to my friend Todd and not totally paying attention to what I was doing. As I went to hit the back of the baby, Todd started laughing, and I realized the doll was facing the wrong way, and I'd hit it in the face.
A few days later we were reviewing for a test, and the teacher asked what to do if a baby was choking. I jokingly leaned over to Todd and said "you just hit in the face right?" As I looked up, I saw the teacher was staring directly at me. Not knowing the back story she assumed, I was humored by (and possibly participated in) slapping babies.
Lets just say, she was not amused.
I got a five minute lecture in class, and then had to stay after and got yelled at more. And was given a pamphlet about the dangers of child abuse. I'd tried to explain to her about what had happened, and that she'd just come in half way through an (understandably bad) inside joke. But she didn't buy it, so that made the rest of the semester quite awkward.
A few weeks later in one morning while I was walking to class, I was texting someone and had sent them a text right before class started asking them a question. About 10 minutes into class, I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket, assuming it was a reply to the last text I sent, I pulled my phone out and flipped it open. When I looked down at my phone, I realized that it was a phone call not a text, and I quickly hung up my phone.
When class was out, I looked at my phone and thought the number looked familiar and I thought it was my sister's new number, so I called them back.
Expecting to talk to my sister as soon as the phone was answered I said "Hey, you called me sorry i was in class and had to hang up on you." Instead of my sister's voice I was answered by an angry old woman. She told me "I did not call you! And if YOU had called me, I would have hung up on you!" Then, the line disconnected.
I couldn't help but laugh out loud, as I walked across campus.
