Once when I was 16 years old and working in the lingerie section of a department store, I left to grab a bite to eat and use the washroom. On the way back from my break, a total stranger, a woman who could have been my mother, tapped me on the shoulder,
"Excuse me, Sweetheart. I hate to tell you this, but if it were me I'd want to know: Your skirt is stuck in your underwear." Apparently I had pulled up my skirt along with my oh-so-grown-up panty hose while in the john.
This is one of those mistakes that women make only once because it's so freaking painful when it happens. And it's not unlike the feeling I had yesterday when meeting with my BlogHer cohorts, Lisa and Elisa. For weeks now, I've had a glitch in my html and have had my entire blog hyperlinking to the BlogHer blog. PC users didn't see it; they only saw my front. It was the Mac users who had the view of my ass.
Needless to say, I'm mortified. I should have followed up when dear Jill Fallon had alerted me to my hyperlink mishaps during the Fourth of July weekend, when TypePad decided to integrate a number of changes and temporarily made everyone's blogs flow in single columns. I did what the TypePad folks said to do and republished my site, but this didn't solve the problem. What's that line from Benny Hill? Never ASSUME!
So, in effect, I've had a 5,000-word ad for BlogHer placed on my blog for three weeks. It's a good cause but, sheesh! Do you think I'm a whore? What do I need to get the Mac Users to come back, more rants against Dell?
Jory,
It looks great now. So much easier to read for us Mac addicts. Thanks.
Posted by: Jill | July 22, 2005 at 06:36 AM
You're so right about the skirt in the pantyhose embarassment. I once walked through Harvard Square like that until some kind soul took pity on me.
One humiliation like that and you never do it again.
Posted by: Jill | July 22, 2005 at 06:38 AM