6 Degrees Of Me

When I was stationed in North Carolina during my IT consulting stint I, along with the folks I worked with, would go out to eat every single night. That may seem strange to some folks but that was part of the gig. We were given a daily stipend to for our food and expenses. We would fly down each week and stay in hotels all paid for by whichever client we were working for at the time.

On one occasion 3 coworkers (Mike/Amanda/Mike D) and I went out to our favorite locale to grab some dinner. As I sat calmly enjoying the-best-grouper-in-NC, my pal Mike 1 posed a question to the 3 of us: What’s the most embarrassing thing that you’ve ever done. Naturally none of the 3 of us was too quick to offer up a response. Mike 1 waited in the deafening silence for about 30 seconds and when it became too unbearable he offered HIS embarrassing moment captured below:

“Dude, I went out a couple of weekends ago. My buddies and I got blasted. I’m not really sure how I got home but somehow I did. I passed out in bed with all of my clothes on. When I woke up the next afternoon I realized that I wet my bed”

The one thing I realized that night is that most good consultants have great poker faces. Neither Mike nor Amanda even batted an eye at his story. I for one had more questions:

q. did that ever happen to you before?
a. sure it happened a bunch back in college

q. so you mean you didn’t wake up when you had to go?
a. dude, i was too drunk to wake up. sometimes you do wake up but are to banged up to get out of bed and end up just going

I shall make the son of
the Gooch kneel
before me

After the quick q + a session the most remarkable thing happened. What was remarkable was that Stotler asked us to share our most embarrassing story AND he expected that we would. My response: “I hear the shakes at the Loop are great — I’ll be right back”.

Lessons Learned:

1. When playing the game “I’ll show you mine and you show me yours”, make sure the you in the game shows first
2. When revealing your most embarrassing moment make sure you reveal it to someone who won’t post it on the net
3. Leave retelling embarrassing moments for times when everyone in the room is too wasted to remember. If they do, deny, deny, deny.

4. Mike 1 never watched the episode of Diff’rent strokes where Sam (the ultimate red headed stepchild) learns to overcome his bed-wetting ways.

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