The question
When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I am in a public profession, so take your pick. It’s all embarrassing.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2024 source ↗
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
Going to pieces while meeting John Squire, the lead guitarist of the Stone Roses, backstage after a gig. I completely lost the ability to speak. I told him I had the same guitars as he’d just used on stage, and when he asked me which ones, the words completely went out of my head and there was a huge pause, and then his wife tapped his shoulder and he wandered off.
Wearing 90s ripped-at-the-crotch jeans at Rada during an unarmed combat session and showing everyone more than they bargained for.
Giving a speech in high school at a pep rally that wasn’t going so well and the dean unplugged the mic. Apparently, I was rambling and the spirit of the cafeteria was being weighed down.
Your heart walking around outside your body.
Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.
Self-loathing that rises to the level of deploring.
Not very concise.
An understanding that kindness is the answer.
Anyone who speaks truth to power at the risk of their own safety.
Adele Parks, Billy Crudup, David Ajala, Michelle Visage, Giovanna Fletcher, Hugh Skinner
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