Hello there,
It's been almost a month since my last post and I have
changed my blog name as well (hope it's for the last time). I've been so busy
with work, making decisions, putting plans for future projects in motion and it
was/is an overwhelming time for me. Times like this, you get reminded that you
should take one step at a time.
Anyway, I had to write about what happened to me on Friday
June 27th; it became what I dubbed 'Embarrassing Friday'. Now, I have had a lot
of embarrassing moments that when they happen I just cringe for one second - (ok
fine, one minute) then I smile, move on and maybe write about it. I however,
have never had a series of embarrassing moments happen to me, in a single day
(another Lemony Snicket book?). So sit back, relax and read on. Feel free to
have second-hand embarrassment on my behalf.
On that Friday morning, I received a notification that
someone had deposited money into my account. I did not know who, I was just
given the sender’s phone number as reference. I wasn’t really expecting money
that day so I shrugged it off, thinking maybe the couple I’m designing wedding
invitations for paid their deposit or that whoever it is will let me know that
they have sent me money.
I was right, it was the latter. I received a phone calls
that I did not answer then a frantic text from someone who said the money was his/hers
and that the sender accidentally deposited it into my account. Seriously, guys?
You’d think a person would double check the information before deciding to send
money (we have almost identical cellphone numbers so it was a mistake of a
swapped digit).
Naturally, I had to return the poor person’s money so during
my lunch break I left work to go to the bank. While passing the reception area,
I saw someone I knew sitting on one of the couches so I gave him a huge smile
and a cheery wave á la Bella. He
looked at me like:
…then he hesitantly lifted his hand a bit and waved back. At
this point I squinted my eyes to get a better look at him and…it didn’t know
that person! How awkward. To be quite honest, I need glasses. My glasses were
stolen last year and I haven’t had the chance to replace them, choosing instead
to fool myself into thinking my eyesight had miraculously recovered.
Now at the bank, I withdrew money and stood in line to
deposit it back. I could have done an internet transfer but I didn’t know these
people, so I opted for an incognito direct deposit. A nice lady who works there
came to me while I was in the queue and said, “Do you know that the top you’re wearing is a pyjama top right?” *cringe* I
smiled at her, laughed and said, “Yes, I know haha!” “I was just making sure”,
she said, “because I have the exact
same thing.” *sigh*
Look, when I bought that sweatshirt, I was aware that it was
a pyjama because it was the pyjama and underwear area of the store. It was a
sweatshirt, grey and had a print of an owl on it. It screamed, “Bella, you gotta buy me!” It was
basically 3 of my favorite stuff in one item. So, I bought it. I strongly
believed I could pass it as a normal sweatshirt. It looks almost identical to
this Topman sweatshirt:
How good looking?
So yeah, I go to work in a pyjama top that I pass as a
normal sweatshirt. It doesn’t even show that it’s pyjama top and I like it so
wear it in public I will. And another thing about me is that I do not really
care what people think (which more often than not puts me in the ‘weirdo’ category
because of the things I do, eh).
I tend to talk too much so I’m going to have to cut this
short but it was really an Embarrassing Friday. Now I can laugh it off and look
back upon it with fond memories. But to think all this was because of the person who inconvenienced me because he/she accidentally sent money into my account. Smh.
Thanks for reading! So long, until next week! …or maybe sooner than
that. ;)
P.S If you liked this post feel free to share it among your
friends and other people so they can giggle at my embarrassing moments.
