SEC-s11w1 : The Most Embarrassing Moment of my life as a kid or Parent

Hello friends!!

It's almost weekend and I can't miss this topic of encouragement challenge in this community. So here I am to put in my entry.

Have you ever been Embarrassed? Tell us the Scenario and how you felt

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Hmm yes I have been Embarrassed before.

As a growing child in secondary, my parents were very protective of me including my brothers. I come from a very religious home where so many things was not accepted.

Back then, I wasn't allowed to have male friends or even talk to any guy that wasn't related to me by blood. I was very brainy in school which made everyone wants to associate with me both male and female and this has been like that from my primary school days.

I was always afraid of making Friends or bringing them home as other kids usually do because I felt my Dad would interrogate them to know if I should continue with the friendship or not.

Even though I was Daddy's pet, he was very strict man. He can flog the hell out of you when he feels you have gone out of line, he does it without asking for your opinion.

The embarrassing moment happened one Friday afternoon on my way back from school. I met this particular guy. We both were in the same class back then in primary school. Although he was the oldest guy then in my class.

When he saw me along my street, he was so happy to see my after a long time. I had moved to secondly school while for him he couldn't go to secondary school because he felt he didn't have the brian and so he decided to learn the skill of car repair, which we call mechanics.

So that particular day, he was on his usual mechanic uniform looking all dirty but he didn't mind hugging him. He held my hands and we worked on the street together while he was asking me about secondary school life.

Guess what? I looked straight and I saw my Dad working towards us. I saw how furious his face already was. Mind you this was a busy street and I was so popular on that street as a kid because I was loved by most people, I was respectful, intelligent and very social so it made me popular.

I immediately told this guy to leave me hands that my Dad was coming and I know we won't like it. He left my hands and I told him to walk pass me.

My Dad finally got to me and before I opened my mouth to greet him, he gave me a heavy hot slap on my face. The glasses I wore flew out and fell down. Every one around screamed at the sound of the slap. That moment was so embarrassing. I didn't understand why my Dad slapped me.

No explanation from my Dad, just an embarrassing slap. Tears flowed down my cheek. I felt like entering the ground or disappearing. I walked home in tears.

I was so embarrassed that for a long time I didn't go through that street again because I know I was the talk of town. The story spread that I was slapped by my Dad. I didn't eat for days. I was so upset with my Dad that I didn't speak with him, I felt like leaving the house.

My glasses even broke and that was the last time I wore glasses 😅. My mum kept apologizing on my Dad's behalf but will he go and apologize to everyone who witnessed the incidence? This experience almost gave me a low self esteem among my peers.

Do you think you deserve the embarrassment or it should have been someone else?

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No no! I don't think I deserve that embarrassment. I felt my Dad went to far. He should know that am not that type of child who goes about with guys.

I feel he should have given me the benefit of doubt by at least asking me who the guy was. Or even if he wants to beat me up, he should do it at home and not on the street where there are many eyes watching.

I was 13 years old at that time so I was not really a that small not to know good from bad. I totally do not deserve the embarrassment. I don't even think it should happen to someone else.

What have you done to avoid such scene or from recovering?

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Well even though after my mum apologized to me on my Dad's behalf I made up my mind to break out from my parents and siblings over protective nature by going very far from home to school in my university days.

When I graduated from secondly school and was time to apply for admission into the university. I decided to apply to a school in east while my parents live in the north. My parents refused. But I insisted on my choice and they finally agreed.

After my graduation, I never went back home to live with them again. This was actually my way of breaking out. Hahaha

I would like my friends to share their own experience on this topic @sahmie @mile16 @chant @lhorgic @bossj23