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[Axl Rose]

No doubt what my most embarrassing thing is.

Once, I really needed to take a dump. Usually if I really need to go, I'll take a quick toilet break - no problem. But this time I was in the middle of something.

I let a fart out. It was a silent one. Silent but violent! It was the smelliest fart of all time. It was only a little one, but it was highly concentrated and the kids were almost poisoned to death. It wasn't obvious that it was me who did it - coulda been anyone right? Even so, the stench from my butt embarrassed me a lot.

Your embarrassing tales please.

[poet13]

opened my mouth to speak, and the grandaddy of burps roared out of me. the girls were shocked, the boys thought it was the best thing in the world and spent several days trying to imitate me.

[riley]

recently let out a fart in class that was also quiet and stinky, didn't mean to, just happened. The problem was that it was little too close to two students and they were shocked by it. Both of them tried to cover up their noses and everything.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

I was wondering why one class was so giggly until one girl finally pointed and said 'teachuh, zippa!'.

No noticeable flatulence yet, thankfully.

[Lizara]

Sometimes when I'm teaching, especially if I'm really tired, I'll get in this sort of autopilot mode where I'm asking questions and hearing answers without really processing anything more than pronunciation and grammar. So one day, I was going through the book... "Who can read number one a? Kenny?" "Very good, one star." "Number one b? Eric?" "Very good." "Number one c?" Dead silence, no upraised hands. I asked again. They all stared at me. At this point I woke up and looked at my book again and realized I was asking for answers to an imaginary question...

Another time this happened while we were studying "how does _____ (smell, taste, sound, look, feel). I was making up questions, how does a rabbit's fur feel, how does a drum sound, etc., and then without thinking asked, "How does music smell?" Silence, followed by everyone including me laughing.

[Paji eh Wong]

Be careful of how you use the term "magic time".

[jacl]

To explain the word "tight" I tightened my belt as tight as I could and the buckle ripped off.

[kermo]

I've got one.

I was talking to my students about alarm clocks. We had these dreadful 80 minute classes with elementary kids (no breaks) so I tried to add interesting stories to stretch out the material a bit in and keep them entertained.

I was describing two enormous black cats I used to have at home, who would caterwaul pitifully outside my bedroom door at night (they weren't allowed in because they would pester me for petting, gnaw my scalp, stand on my chest (20 lbs!), etc.) If their mournful wails didn't get my attention, they would start knocking their thick skulls against the bedroom door, which rattled to great effect.

Of course, not all my students had great listening skills, so I was dramatizing this by imitating the "Wrraaawwwwraaaaawwwww" noise and banging my own head against the window in the door when I suddenly looked up saw a very surprised-looking man on the other side of the glass: it was the venerable Mr. Kim, owner of the school, non-speaker of English. No explanation was possible, so none was given. I just tried to bow real low when I saw him in the halls.

[Aussiekimchi]

Unfortunately I once pulled a kid's fake leg off not knowing that he had a fake leg but merely a slight limp. Poor lil' Nigerian kid. The other kids screaming in horror probably didn't help the situation a lot. I am still in therapy over that one.

[MixtecaMike]

Not me, but last Friday was parent's day and one of our teachers, while walking around giving friendly encouragement to the young beginners class kicked the chair out from under a kid.

His mom wasn't there luckily, but another mom sprang to help him off the floor and aparently didn't look too impressed at the after-class discussion with teacher.

[doublejeopardy]

[mindmetoo]

Gave a girl the name "Jill". Boys not even in my class would come up to me and ask "Teacher do you know Jill? Do you like Jill?" Something was up with that name. I asked a Korean teacher if Jill sounded like anything in Korea. "Yes, it's the Korean word for v agina."

"Teacher do you know v agina? Do you like v agina?"

Kids, I've banged more Jill in a month than...

[Mr. BlackCat]

[ilovebdt]

[crazylemongirl]

So we're practicing answering questions about what we should give people for their birthdays and I ask them what they should get CLG.

Sex was the answer. And the more I tried to keep a striaght face the redder I got.