One of My Most Embarrassing Moments

I thought this would be fun. It’s always nice to get to know people a little more, isn’t it?

So I was in Argentina as a foreign exchange student. I went there when I was 18 to study abroad for a year with the American Field Service (AFS). It was a very fun, wild, and interesting time.

The food was delicious. I also was hungry a lot of the time, because my host family was tiny and thin, and I’m a 5′ 9 3/4″ person. So after meals, I would load up on cookies to fill in the gaps. I gained some weight- not a lot, but maybe 20 pounds over the course of a year.

I hold my weight on my belly. It’s just kind of what happens.

Towards the end of my year, I thought about enrolling in a community college course. When I went there to inquire about it, I wore a blue skirt with a smocked waist.

The lady I spoke with was very nice. In the course of conversation, she asked me if I would be having my baby before or after returning to the US.

😳 .

I told her I wasn’t pregnant.

I’m not sure which one of us was more embarrassed. All I knew is that I could barely hold it together as I left, I wanted to simultaneously burst out laughing, scream, spontaneously combust, and all of the above.

That’s all I remember. And I’m not sure if I ever wore that skirt again.

😂 . .

Can anyone relate? Has anyone else been mistaken for pregnant when they weren’t?