Embarrassing Moments, including "Egg on Face" and "The Felonious Pooper"

Plus the time my mom got shushed for defending "Waterworld"

Honestly these days I don’t experience much embarrassment, just deep, self-destructive shame. So sometimes it’s fun to think back and remember the good old days when you could walk around with your fly down and then feel like an idiot.

And of course there’s this beautiful television moment.

The first story below is from me—it’s not really my most embarrassing moment, but it’s an embarrassing moment from when I was 22. It’s called “EGG ON FACE.”

Pay to subscribe and read the whole thing, as well as “THE FELONIOUS POOPER” and my absolute favorite “DEFENDING ‘WATERWORLD.’”

Do you recall an embarrassing thing that you did or an embarrassing thing that happened to you? Okay. Email me your memories at itsottessab@gmail.com. Let’s share them with the world. Or at least with Substack. I will always change the names to protect the embarrassed people…

EGG ON FACE

This one time I was traveling in the southwest of China with Troy, we went to a very charming town called Lijiang. It was totally different from Wuhan. Very quaint and simple and pretty. There were a lot of health specialists there because many medicinal plants and herbs grew on the mountains by the village--they were very rare, and could only grow in this specific soil. The place was a bit of a tourist spot but only for the backpacker crowd. It was rustic, very cold and incredibly beautiful.