Not Second Hand Anymore.

So in my last post I talked about second hand embarrassment, well today I made a right idiot of myself. I had an interview t for a chance to spend a week at Cambridge university to help a researcher that went to go to my school. We were interviewed on skills we had and asked questions on some pages we had to read ( tables and data etc...) Me being me didn't finish all the pages so as I was explaining that "mostly men worked in the 1850's and women stayed at home." when the interviewer pulled out the book and said wait right here it says 42% of females were earring more than men and 45% were making straw hats as an occupation. This is where it gets bad and my speech didn't seem to progress through my brain. 

At this point I said well I wouldn't consider that work...with that the interviewer gave me a pure evil look and asked why, for which I answered it isn't important (which looking back probably want a good answer). The rest of the interview was about the same level of stupidity and failure, I'm pretty sure the place will go to another student that can actually look at data and say the right thing. 

I don't take geography but when I signed up they said just studying history would be fine. It was not fine. I didn't understand half the terminology he was using and basically all the questions where about population. Geography obviously was needed. I don't even have a gcse in geography. And to make it even worse my friend came out of the interview saying how great it went while I sat there subconsciously shooting myself in the head.

Second hand embarrassment

Lately I've been experiencing a lot, and I mean a lot, of second hand embarrassment. By this I mean I've been with or in close proximity to people who have done something embarrassing and that embarrassment has then transferred onto myself. My latest encounter of this was with my mum who ran from a pound land till so she could get the buy one get one free deal. This left me to stand with a line full of people starring at me with the 'omg what the hell is she doing' look. So from these encounters I thoughts I'd give some tips on who to deal with these situations. 1) stay calm if you make a fuss even more people will notice 2) keep at a safe distance 3) just smile and nod like you can't even tell what's going on and finally 4) remember you can't control someone, it's not your fault so just let it happen and move on and never look back.