![]() 'I remember the time when.' How bad can it be? No one died or if they did, then you are clinically insane and mistaking embarrassment for murder. ![]() Your little fuck-up is lost in the annals of time. If anyone even noticed, they have forgotten. Take yourself in hand and give yourself a firm talking-to. So, next time you find yourself dealing with the horrors, try one of three things: In the end, minding too much is as shaming as nibbling too much. The hostess has neither forgotten nor forgiven, and nor has she addressed a word to me since.' Her problem, bottle-green boy. I had started to eat a very expensive truffle. Amongst it, I noticed, were some dried fig-like things. 'I walked back from the garden through the vast and open picture window to see waiters putting food down on a table. One cheerful gent remembers a house party where his bottle-green suit and kipper tie (this was some time ago) gleaned much pompous sniffing from the assembled toffs and then, later, 'it was growing dark. She was buoyant at the time and couldn't have cared less. The loo-paper girl also managed to walk the full length of Claridge's lobby with her skirt tucked into her pants. She tried to blank it out, but the shadow was there.īecause, when you are fully confident and sunny, social shame wields far less power when you are broken-hearted and cast low, you are more vulnerable to everything. She could not think about this for a full 15 years. Then there was the girl who walked - full sashay - around a party, parading in front of her much-missed and lamented ex-boyfriend, only to discover that she had a long tail of loo paper dragging behind her, attached to her knickers. Because shame cannot survive being spoken about. ![]() He will not have forgotten, we reckon, but she says that the shame was diffused in the telling of the tale. A brave woman recently admitted to this writer that she had once farted full in the face of a man who was. How to put this tastefully? OK, so there is no way to put this tastefully. ![]()
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