Okay well maybe you don't have those moments, but lately, I've been having them frequently. Maybe it's all the Disney movies I secretly watch (Camp Rock 2 was terrible by the way) or all of the teen books I read. Who knows. At any rate, I keep stumbling into these awkward moments where I look like a complete idiot.
Here is today's example:
I was sitting in my adorable little desk, waiting impatiently the ten minutes it was going to take before class would start when one of the guys in my class walks in. He sits in the row behind me, and one over (the same place he always sits). I have never really talked to him before nor do I really know his name, but there's sun out today and I can't really sit still.
I'm sitting sideways, my feet propped up on the desk next to me. Around my neck is my brand new (and gorgeous I might add) clock necklace. I have a strange fascination with clocks as jewelry. Anyway, I was playing with it in my hand and this guy (we shall name him NBBM - nameless boy behind me) asks me, "Does your clock actually work?"
I got excited, because yes, yes it does work! It's pretty and functional, heck yes it is freaking awesome. We start talking about jewelry and I tell him about my strange fascination with clocks as jewelry. Why not.
Then he tells me, you also like keys don't you? And I say yes! I love old fashioned keys!
About the time he's telling me about this random collection of old fashion keys his family has, it dawns on me, how the heck does this random guy I've never really talked to know I like old fashioned keys? This is creepy. Who is this guy? How could he possibly know this? Unless that was the most amazing random guess that has ever occurred, there is something shifty going on here.
Class starts, and our conversation ends, we move on. Or do we???
Okay he probably does, but I don't! I spend the rest of the class not paying attention but instead focusing on the fact that he may in fact be an axe murderer who has been stalking me the entire semester and even gone so far as to take a class with me so he could plot how he would murder me! I glanced back at him periodically throughout class, giving him a suspicious glare. I even made sure he left the classroom before me so he couldn't follow me! I was on to him....
It was not until almost 2 hours later while at work that this happened -
I was showing my wonderful new necklace to one of the ladies I work with because anytime I get something new, I always have show and tell at work! She was oohing and aahing over my necklace and then commented how it matched my key earrings so well because both are made out of a coppery, distressed, antique looking gold. We talk about jewelry and where I got my necklace and earrings and then I go back to my desk to work.
As I am typing something all the sudden I realize - KEY EARRINGS! Holy marshmallow on a stick! I have been wearing my key earrings all day long.
NBBM was in fact not creepy, a stalker, or a murderer. No, he was just observant. I on the other hand am apparently deranged. And I am pretty sure he would agree with me.
Now I feel like an idiot. Good job me.
Lesson for today: Don't forget what earrings you have on. It could save you two hours of your life.
