Annoyingly Boring?

There are a few things in life I am really good at.  Perhaps at the top of the list is embarrassing myself.  Rarely do I need help doing it, but sometimes I get help anyway.

Flashback to the early ’90s…

I was just a kid, a teenager still.  I was courting my wife, then girlfriend.  And by courting I mean that I was eating dinner at my parents and then going over my future in-laws each night for a second meal.  After stuffing my face in round two we would go up for Friendly’s then come back and veg on the couch or something equally exciting.

One night I was filling out a product registration card for some computer game I had bought.  No doubt it came on twelve hundred 3.5″ floppy disks.  I am a sucker for product registration.  I always do it.  Who cares if all they want is to use my data to bombard me with future product offerings.

Anyway, I was filling out a registration card an a section asked what types of games I would like to see from the company.  I wanted to let them know that a tennis game would be a solid offering.  I don’t play tennis, but tennis on the computer seemed like a good idea.

Only problem is I can’t spell worth a damn.  I asked the hot ticket sitting all cozy next to me, ‘do you spell tennis with one n or two?’.  She looked at me, and as loud as you would want (actually MUCH louder than I wanted) just to make sure her parents could hear…. she said to me “well if it was was one n it would be tenis”.  ed. note… I just realized this story is better served with an oral retelling.  But hell, you are sharp and you see that tenis rhymes with penis. Plus, I am too far in to turn back now.

Needless to say I was just a wee bit embarrassed. I believe the photo to the left was taken several weeks after the tennis/tenis incident.  I had dropped from full blush mode, things continued to improve over the weeks, months, years.

In fact, I think sometime just this past Tuesday I finally returned to normal color.

My future in-laws?  Well, bless them - never have they teased me about the incident, never even mentioned it in passing.

Yup, just PG being PG.