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Hey everyone! I know we've probably discussed most embarrasing moments before but it's been awhile and we may have an updated one to share. I know I do!


So, this past Thursday night at my SECOND Latasia party ever it happened. I was mingling with the guests after I had everything set up. A couple ladies had brought their little girls and they were FASCINATED with the pretty jewelry of course. Well, I saw them over there by my display and saw some mommies over there too so I didn't think much about it. Well, I started the demo after a game and the first thing I demo'd is our Dare 2 Dazzle strands. I had these set up on an easel neckline with another necklace and earrings. When I picked them up they were in a knot. (these are 3 strands of small beads) So, I have to stand there and untangle them and try to be funny cuz everyone was staring at me. I finally get them untangled and start showing them with our Twisted Ring. I took the 3 strands and put one end of them in the twisted ring and then brought the other end around and put them in to show how you can make a 6 strand look or twist and put them in the ring for a choker look. Well, I got them in, closed the ring and went to pull them tight to get them all even and let them see how pretty it is. When I pulled them tight one of the strands broke and hundreds of tiny beads went everywhere! Well, I thought I had pulled them too hard and broke it. So I told them what I had done and made a joke about them being guaranteed for life so these babies are getting replaced! Well, I go on about my business but inside I am FREAKING!! I have never, ever had a product break or mess up on me during a demo and I'm thinking, no one is going to believe that I pulled em too hard, they are all gonna think these things are crap! I was so embarrased and questioning myself.


But, there's good news. The sales are up to over $400 right now, several of the very strands that I broke are being ordered and I found out what really happened. One of the hostesses is a teacher at the school my MIL works at. I asked her the next day if she heard any of them talking about me breaking the strand. She said that the hostess had told her that I didn't break it. That a little girl had played with them and tangled them up really tightly and was jerking on them and stuff before they got them away from her. When I untangled them the strand was already almost broke and when I put them in the ring and pulled them taut it finished breaking. Which makes sense, these things were knotted TIGHT. So, I feel better, obviously, everyone knew what had happened and just didn't want to embarrass the little girls mother or were scared I'd make her pay for them. Which I wouldn't do unless it was one of our most expensive items and then I'd only have them pay my cost for it. Anyway, I don't think I could even do that. BUT, I know I won't be mingling very far away from my display anymore if someone has to bring a child!


So, there's my most embarrasing moment EVER in party plan but it ended up turning out ok.


Please share y'alls most embarrasing moments, it'll make me feel better, LOL. Take care :-)

Oh Krystal! Atleast it didn't ruin the party, and since most knew what happened, they didn't worry that the integrity of the items were bad. :) WTG on getting those orders!!!

Oh my gosh! I would be about in tears!


It sounds like you did awesome and that it worked out in the end. You may want to think about having certain Jewelry up and away from children.


Way to save the party! Can you think of any fun things to do with the beads, like to decorate a hostess reward poster?


Debbie

Debbie, that would have been adorable for a poster had the floor not been hard wood and the beads scattered to no end. They are really tiny beads so I picked up the ones I could find but threw them away before I thought about doing something creative with 'em. LOL I was so scatterbrained afterwards.


Ok, where are y'alls most embarrasing moments? I'm feeling a little silly here being the only one that's had a weird moment at a party, don't be shy!!! :-)

Mine had to be trying to fold the Mainstreet Playhouse tent with 10 sets of prying eyes wanting to see that it was easy to fold! Yeah right!


Or the time I gave the guys in the booth next to mea brainteaser to solve and they couldn't do it, and then either could I!


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Debbie

I have one for you. I was doinga party last spring and in the middle we all heard a very loud crack like glass breaking. Well, I couldn't see anything broken, so I went on. Then as I picked up one of the lanterns I realized that it had a HUGE crack down the side of it, which eveyone else saw as well. Needless to say no one bought one. But I did figure out what happened...the glass is cylindar shaped and it has a ring that goes over the top (for decorative purposes). Well, When I put the glass in I put it in upside down. I thought it was the same size on both ends. I noticed the ring went on hard, but didn't think much of it but apparently it was too tight and when the glass got hot and expanded from the candles it cracked. I did explain it to the host later on, but too little too late. smileys/smiley9.gif


The other more stupid thing I've done once is forgetting to put order forms in my lap boards. I had to write everyone's order on pieces of paper and then mail them their receipts.


I've also shattered a candle that was in glass all over a hosts floor just as guests were beginning to arrive (I shouldn't be trusted with breakablessmileys/smiley36.gif)


I spilled RED wax on a WHITE doily that was on a hosts coffee table. I apologized profusely and offered to clean or replace it,but the host had no problems what so ever and she's become a great customer.


For me the list goes on and on...the best way to deal with it is just as you did with humor. If you get flustered, it'll fluster everyone else. I think that's why the lantern issue was so noticable. I didn't know what to do when that happened. When you're as big a clutz as me humor really is the only answer


Then there was the time I fell in front of 600+ people...but that's a story for another daysmileys/smiley9.gif

LOL Lisa. Bless your heart! I'm a notorious klutz as well. I know one time there it seemed like I was tearing holes in the knees of all my jeans for about a month. Every time I turned around I was falling. The funny thing is, I always landed on the same dadgum knee!! It's a joke around here that I christen new places we go by falling. And it's bound to happen everytime! I went to Nashville last August for our Petra conference and me and my hubby were walking from our hotel to my dad's hotel. He had driven down from Illinois to meet us. Well, I had my pretty conference clothes on and here we go crossing a street that had construction going on and at the corner on the otherside was this beautiful courtyard where people were out taking smoke breaks and visiting and such. There were probably 100 or more people out there. Well, there was loose gravel right before the sidewalk started and about the time my hubby said, "Krystal, watch out for that gravel" WHAM, I hit the ground!! I landed on the same knee I always do. Believe it or not, my slacks stayed in tact, got a little dusty but stayed in tact but my knee did not. I had the UGLIEST big ole round bloody knarled ripped wound on that knee. I had to go find HUGE bandaids when we got back to cover it up with because I was winning awards that night at the fancy banquet and was walking across the stage in front of hundreds of women with a knee length skirt on! LOL, at least I got my falling out of the way in front of 100 strangers instead of in front of several hundred Petra women and me with a skirt on!!


So, share that falling story with us Lisa!!! Thanks for replying, you and Debbie have made me giggle tonight. It was nice!!!

I was at a ladies retreat with some of the ladies from our church. At the end, they were having us find silly things in our purses. I was way in the back. They asked about a quarter of some kind and wouldn't you know I dumped one right into my handsmileys/smiley32.gif. So being the ultra-competitive person that I am, I took off and ran...with shoes on (no sneakers). Well I slowed up as I got toward the front because no one else was coming, but then some lady about 2 rows ahead of where I had gotten to, gets up and starts toward the front, so I picked up speed. Now, you have to know that generally when I fall, no one can see what I fell on. Usually it's just my size 11 feet. Which is what happened about 10 feet from the front. I'm in the center aisle of the aud. and I tripped and went headfirst, slid on my stomach for about the whole 10 feet and stopped just short of the stage. The other lady beat me, but the man who was giving out the prizes (chocolate of coursesmileys/smiley2.gif) said I ran harder so I got it! My friends had no idea what happened. They said "you were there and then you were gone and then you were there again!" I should have stood up like a gymnast - arms raised, but never thought of it right then. smileys/smiley36.gif The people at church know me though. I once fell off our 3 foot high platform at a choir rehearsal. I tried to adjust a speaker that was on a stand, tripped and when off the platform and onto the speaker...which 7 years later still shows the results. The choir never lets me forget.

Falling stories. LOL I have one!





I did a show wearing a skirt. First of all bad idea I think. I pull a tool box on wheels and have a shoulder bag. Well, the bag was quite heavy and I was sort of off balance. I was leaving and was pulling my tool box with my bag over my opposite shoulder. I went to toss something away in her trash and fell right over backwards on my butt! This was a couples party and I had on a skirt. smileys/smiley9.gif When I looked down at my feet to get up, My skirt was to my waist!smileys/smiley9.gif





I could have died. But nobody laughed LOL They just stared. So I made one heck of a first impression huh? LOL

Wow Jody, I think I'd have felt better if they laughed!

I haven't worn a skirt since! LOL

LOL Jody! Bless your heart. I would have felt better if they'd a laughed too. That's how I was at that party the other night that the necklace broke at. They were all just dead silent and you could have heard a pin drop. I wish they would have laughed instead of hearing one huge collective gasp and then nothing.


LOL, I wonder how many women got on to their husbands for staring when you left? Did anyone even offer to help you up?


Lisa, that's an awesome falling story, or two, LOL. I love seeing how normal we all are! I had a horrible day Sunday that is hilarious now and I have been giggling at myself since. It was a LONG day, let me tell ya! It had nothing to do with a party. Let's just say we are about to have to go spend $300 or $400 for a new door now though :-)

Ah yes Krystal...the expense of being a clutz!smileys/smiley36.gif

LOL Lisa, yeah tell me about it. The expense of being a really determined clutz!! Basically I locked myself and my 2 year old son out of the house trying to go get some rice to cook for supper. It's the LaChoy Chinese Fried Rice in a can and the only grocery store that has it is 30 minutes away and it was closing an hour from when I was leaving the house. Plenty of time right? WRONG!! I couldn't find an unlocked window, had to go put my son in his car seat and lock him in so I could break into the house. My front and side doors have glass in them so the only option was my back door which is also a door into my office. I did find an unlocked window in the back which was my son's room but the window was about 10 feet off the ground. I got a lawn chair and climbed up in it and got it open but couldn't get to the window sill so I got a second chair and put it on top of the other one and climbed up in it. The bottom of my neck now reached the sill so next I climbed up on the back of the bottom chair and my boobs reached. The chairs were unstable so I couldn't get a big enough push off the back of the chair to boost myself in. After about 30 minutes struggling with that and hanging from the windowsill by my forearms I quit. So, I proceeded to spend the next 15 minutes kicking in my back door backwards because it is up steps that I couldn't get a good enough leg swing in frontwards on. I had locked my house and van keys inside so I had no way of just going and getting the key from my hubby, my cell phone keys were locked and I didn't know the passcode to unlock them then the battery went dead so there was no calling anyone. I live in the middle of nowhere so neighbors were out. But, I got in, got my keys, hopped in the van with 20 minutes to get to the grocery store. I got there just in time and got my rice and let me tell you, I PIGGED out on my LaChoy Fried Rice!!!! I think I deserved some of those bad carbs after that!!!


So, there's my Sunday story, lovely huh? LOL

Oh gosh...this is fun....


Here's mine...


I was at a vendor event and this lady was looking at our products and was really acting excited! So I say to her... "oh...how old are your grandchildren...this would be perfect".....


Her response..."I don't *have* grandchildren, I am looking for my 2-year old daughter!"


OUCH....


Ironically, she is at *every* craft fair in town and I've watched her avoid my booth.


........that's my tip for what *not* to say to a potential customer. Duh!smileys/smiley5.gif

Hey ladies!

It has been awhile, but my very first party with my very first party
plan, Pampered Chef--was for my sister. She actually didn't
arrive with the ingredients to the recipes until after the start timesmileys/smiley13.gif
and the whipped topping was frozen when I put it in my decorator.
Actually I thawed it some, but not enough. I was squeezing the
"Easy" Accent Decorator with everything I had to no avail--then
suddenly it all came out it one big blob--so impressive.

Another PC party and I forgot to wash the Food Chopper between chopping
onions for the main course and chopping nuts for the dessert--I ended
up with onions on my dessert!smileys/smiley11.gif

During my starter party with PartyLite, I started my hair on fire when leaning over to light a votive. I didn't realize it. The guests kept screaming you are really on fire! I thought they meant I had a lot of candles burning until someone threw water at me. I almost died!


It was a big funny ha ha the whole 6 years I was with PartyLite!

OH my Vicki!! I've NEVER done that!! That is too funny!!

I cut my hair shorter and it never happened again. My upline couldn't do my starter party so I was very nervous. My hands shook the whole night too and one of my best friends decided to be a heckler. Setting my hair on fire was the icing on the cake! But I survived and booked lots of parties that night.