Help me feel better about my embarrassing morning

[graciousgrace5]

Have spent the whole day feeling mortified about this morning's events and if it didn't happen to me I wouldn't believe it even happened...

I'm a teacher and this morning was awards assembly, where parents are allowed to come and see their child/children receive various awards, e.g. pupil of the week.

I marched my class into assembly and had my stern teacher voice on, telling them off for being too chatty, when I thought I saw a familiar face. After doing a double take, I realise it's my ex from a few years ago, who was last seen dripping in water that I had thrown over him after finding out he had cheated on me. There he was, sitting with another parent, who must have been his current girlfriend. I scurried off to the other side of the hall with my class and quickly sat them down, and spent the entire assembly hiding behind my teacher friend (don't know what the point of this was as he had already seen me!) hoping he wasn't looking my way.

When assembly was finally over, as I was walking my class to the door, I mimed to my other colleague "omg, my ex is here!" and gestured to where he was. She then made it really obvious we had just mentioned him as she looked in his direction and started laughing! I must have looked like a deer caught in headlights!

I took my class back to the classroom for what was a very uneventful rest of the day, but couldn't stop thinking about this all day!

Did anybody else have any embarrassing moments today?

I made my building manager go through the cctv footage to find a delivery driver who said he’d delivered but I didn’t have the goods. The card, that I was holding in my hand, clearly stated what flat it had been delivered to.

OP I wouldn't worry, it's quite good that she laughed at him (rather than for example look shocked) although quite unprofessional

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