Horoscope Horror

Oh gah. Oh gah. Just had one of the top ten most mortifying moments of my entire life. 

So, I am sitting in my class room, waiting for the class to start and reading the Red & Black. This is an independent student run newspaper in Athens. You might have heard of the "Red & Dead" stink a few weeks ago, when the entire editorial staff walked out and they gained national recognition, but maybe not. 

Anyways, I think the horoscope sections are just ridiculously funny so I flipped back there and was scanning through them. The relatively cute guy next to me sort of laughs at me. I look up, smile (probably awkwardly, because let's face it, I'm anything but smooth), and shrug. :)

So he asks, "What's your sign?"

"I'm a Cancer," I say, and I'm thinking "Hey, he's chitchatting with me. Heehee. Continue conversation Dixie. You got this." So then I add, "Not to be confused with the phrase 'I have cancer' which has happened before," roll my eyes and laugh.


Semi-Cute Guy chuckles lightly and simply says "Same!" 


So I'm like thinking "Aw, he's a July baby too". So I say, "No way! That's cool!" 


This time he out and out laughs. Like really enjoying his own little private joke. I don't know what to do, so I chuckle a little nervously, right? Right. Then he adds on "Not same in the you mean." 

What??

Then he continues: "I actually did have cancer." 


Oh God. Please just let the ground swallow me up. RIGHT NOW!  

What the Sam heck do you say to that? To a person you hardly know sitting next to you in class?!

So I stumbled through something akin to "Oh gah. I'm sorry. I have a bad case of foot in mouth disease." Yes. I actually said that. 


Semi-Cute Guy laughs again and is like "No worries. It was a few years ago, had a couple surgeries and it's gone now." and then he goes on to talk about how there's this really funny video of him right after one of the surgeries when he was on pain drugs, etc.

Needless to say my ears were BRIGHT red. They're still burning just thinking about it. SO incredibly mortified. 

Moral of this story? I'm not exactly sure...except maybe I shouldn't try to be witty, because it's obviously not working for me. 

Bright side of this story? Well, besides my bright red face, perhaps it was the fact that the guy was cool about it. And it made for a really good story.

:)