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" METHOD ACTING &amp;quot; I had a singing scene in which I wanted to act as if I couldn&amp;#039;t sing, but then the director told me to sing normally. I did and he said, &amp;#039;No, I want you to sing it well.&amp;#039; That was so embarrassing -- everyone else knew I was trying my best, and I still sounded like crap!&amp;quot;Katherine Heigl  TOUCH-TONE FUMBLE I was home alone one night, having a few drinks, and decided to call a guy I&amp;#039;d been dating. He picked up the phone, and I, in a very sexy voice, tried to lure him over to my house by describing what I was wearing and how cute I looked. There was a moment of silence, and the voice on the other end of the line asked if I knew who I was speaking with. I had glanced at my phone without my glasses, hit the wrong speed-dial button, and placed a sultry call to my ex-boss!Tina Malloy Galveston, TX  McGRIDLOCK My friend and I pulled into a McDonald&amp;#039;s drive-through for a soft drink. We were gossiping away, so we didn&amp;#039;t mind the long wait. After a few minutes, a car behind us beeped and pulled out of line -- I assumed they didn&amp;#039;t want to wait. After a second and third car did the same thing, I realized we&amp;#039;d stopped behind an empty parked car -- the drive-through was in the next lane over! Everyone in the actual line next to us had a good laugh at our cluelessness.Clare Durante Orlando, FL  PRINCE CHARMIN My friends and I were hanging out at a bar. I went to the restroom with a girlfriend, and on our way back a guy kept trying to hit on me. After ignoring several of his attempts to get my attention, I finally told him to get lost -- so he turned to my pal and said, &amp;quot;Could you please tell your friend that she has toilet paper hanging from her pants?&amp;quot; Sure enough, three feet of TP were flapping in my wake! I was humiliated -- and I haven&amp;#039;t ignored a guy since.Brooke Monroe Sterling Heights, MI  NAME THAT TUNE My husband and I had enjoyed some leisurely weekend lovin&amp;#039;, and afterward in the shower, I started humming. From the kitchen, my husband called out asking what I said. I told him that I was singing, and he asked which song. I then realized the lyrics I&amp;#039;d been murmuring: &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t get no satisfaction....&amp;quot; I was mortified -- our morning had been the opposite!Rosemary Tegen Jacksonville, FL NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH I&amp;#039;d been dying to get frisky with my husband in our pool. One night, when our boys had gone to bed early, we raced upstairs to get out of our clothes, grabbed a few towels, and headed outside. Just as we were getting started, our 4-year-old son appeared at the pool gate: &amp;quot;Hey, Mom,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;Natalie and her parents are here.&amp;quot; Sure enough, there was one of my day-care girls and her family -- she&amp;#039;d forgotten her special blankie and my son had let her come in to pick it up. When I asked Natalie&amp;#039;s parents to please go ahead and get the blanket themselves, they realized what we&amp;#039;d been doing and made a beeline inside with the kids. Needless to say, we never tried that again!Denise Shaw Citrus Heights, CA  LOVE AT FIRST BITE The first time I met my husband-to-be&amp;#039;s parents, I was so nervous that I hardly spoke. On the way to our second meeting at a restaurant, my guy leaned down, bit my ear playfully, and told me to be myself and just talk. When we were all seated, my future father-in-law said kindly, &amp;quot;You can talk -- I promise we don&amp;#039;t bite!&amp;quot; Before I could stop myself, I blurted out, &amp;quot;Your son does!&amp;quot; I&amp;#039;ll never forget the looks on their faces.Julie Schindehette Douglasville, GA  FONDLE FAREWELL I was giving my niece Shannon a hug good-bye at a family birthday party when she reached up and grabbed my breasts, innocently blurting out, &amp;quot;Big!&amp;quot; Everyone roared with laughter, and my face turned beet red!Julie Jackowiak Midlothian, IL  RSVP FOR DISASTER I used my sister&amp;#039;s wedding list when planning her baby shower. Rather than having everyone respond to the invitation, I chose to do &amp;quot;regrets only.&amp;quot; We had a great turnout -- with the exception of Aunt Theresa, who was supposed to sit with my sisters-in-law. At the end of the shower, my sister&amp;#039;s mother-in-law approached me and said, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want to upset you, but Aunt Theresa died six months ago, so that&amp;#039;s why she never replied.&amp;quot; I could have died myself; her family had to stare at her place card and empty seat the whole time! They were able to laugh about it, but our family will definitely be using RSVP from now on!Kara Pellecchia Haddon Township, NJ  Has something really embarrassing happened to you? Email us at redbook@hearst.com (put &amp;quot;Red in the Face&amp;quot; in the subject line) and your story could end up in the next issue of REDBOOK!  Those aren&amp;#039;t the only embarrassing stories:Jennifer Love Hewitt and moreGabrielle Union and moreFelicity Huffman and more "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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