AN EMBARRASING MOMENT

My most embarrassing moment happened when I was in form one, and am still embarrassed about it…so am not likely to put it down any time soon. However, I do have others, though not so major. Here is one of them:

It’s one of those boring afternoon lectures. The unit: MFS- Mathematics for Sciences. It’s one lecture that I always doze. I enter the class and scan the room. We are a small class, about 35. today, am not feeling nerdy, so I decide I will not sit at my usual place near the front and by some luck I see an empty seat near him.

Let’s for this time call him Wilberforce. (It’s the shadiest name I can think of, to disguise his identity for security purposes. No offense if u are reading this and u are Wilberforce.). oh, he is by no means shady, and I..um..kinda like him (ok, forget kinda, really like him). So I gingerly make my way over and sit at the locker next to him.

From this position, I can hardly read the board and will have to peek at Willie’s book.. not a bad prospect. Must I add that he writes quite neatly. On the other side of him is another guy who looks quite serious but acts conversely. Let’s call him.. K (just a random letter). So K asks for my fone and I pass it to him. Am not from the city by the lakeside otherwise I would have said that my fone has radio and internet among many other features.

People are settling down since the lesson is about to start. I ask K for my fone. He holds it out and when I reach for it, he snatches it back. Guy is behaving juvenile. He finally hands it to Willie. Am getting irritated. He begins the same hold and snatch game so I tell him:

“Gimme back my fone or…” I threaten with some serious expression on my face.

“Or what?” He drawls out

“Or I’ll rough you up…..” I retort. At this point, some people have turned their attention towards us and are listening keenly.

“With pleasure.” He answers, implication in his tone.

The lecturer enters at this point and thankfully, attention shifts back to him. He is one of those ‘oh-so-concerned-lecturers’ so he looks around, says good afternoon jovially and I prepare for another dozing session. He looks at my usual place and notices my absence. Am I a celeb or what? (actually, am a celeb in class. My absence is always noticed. Could be something to do with the fact that I always answer questions in class. Maybe to impress or to share knowledge, but I suspect the former.)

“Where is our class rep?” ( Oh, did I forget to mention am THE class representative? My bad.)

Everyone now turns to look at me. Forever nosy, he asks:

“And why are u seated there today?”

It’s like everyone knows the real reason why. It’s quiet and I have no answer. So K is heard when he LOUDLY whispers:

“ Weeeweee, Willie………”

And the whole room erupts into laughter amid a knowing smile on the lecturer’s face. No doubt he thinks it’s one of those boy-girl situations.

This is the point where I wish the ground would open up and swallow me or I could turn back time..or…if I possessed some magic power I’d wipe people’s memories. If I was white, I’d be redder than a cherry..(rem modo’s story about Marto and his aunt?) My cheeks were practically radiating heat.

I spent the rest of the lecture staying strong, but I can assure you that I have never sat anywhere else deliberately. I still stick to the front.