This is a description of my most embarrassing moment to date. I call it my ‘lasagna story’.
Back when I was in first year uni, at the age of 18, I met a great group of friends through the music degree I was doing. We had smaller classes together, rehearsed together, we were taught by the same instrumental teachers, and we played in concerts together. Most of us were string players, and there was 1 particular string player who caught my attention from the moment I met him! His name was Phil and he played the violin. I used to say I never really noticed boys until I was 18…I remember coming home from a uni open day in Year 12 and saying to mum, “There’s boys at uni!!!” I’d been at a girls school for 4 years and was kept pretty busy studying, and doing heaps of extra curricular activities.
Anyway, I liked Phil, but always from a distance. I was shy, and I also had my faith, and would only have ever dated someone who was a Christian. I thought it was fine to like him, but it never occurred to me that he may actually like me back!
So it’s around 6pm on a week night, and I had a late night uni class. Phil lived on campus, and came strolling into the uni campus centre where I was in the communal café area, about to have my dinner before class started. I just thought he was on his way somewhere. But we began to talk he comes out with the line, “I really like you.” Well, I just about chocked! I was surprised, and flattered, and totally unsure of what to do or say next! So I just said the first thing that came to my mind…in a flurry I said, “I’ve gotta heat up my lasagna”!!! With that, he was a bit taken aback, could tell that I was embarrassed, and walked off! Needless to say, I completely lost my appetite for the lasagna, rung my sister straight away, said to her “I think Phil just asked me out”, and of course, the first thing she asked me was, “What did you say?”, to which I sheepishly answered, “I’ve gotta heat up my lasagna”! Anyway, he called me later that night, we talked briefly, and in a muddled kind of way, I explained that I liked him but I couldn’t go out with him because of my faith. We never talked about it again, either between ourselves or in our group, I studied with him for years, and it was only recently that a friend of his mentioned to me on facebook that he had a thing for me back in uni!
Ah well, I’m sure we all have a similar story, of an embarrassing moment involving the opposite sex! At least, I hope I’m not the only one! And the moral of the story is, don’t compromise on those values that are most important to you!
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