Time and a child have definitely changed me

When I was a teenager and young adult, I was unbelievably shy, as in I would blush when talking to my family at the dinner table kind of shy. I still tend to be a wallflower and thought I was easily embarrassed until today. After today I can say without a doubt that it is much harder to embarrass me, well I was embarrassed, but am not so easily deterred or affected by my embarrassment.

It started with realizing Lane's pants were on backwards while we were at a car lot. Not an unusual occurrence actually, but bears mentioning for the remainder of the story. I told him I would change them around when we got to Old Navy, my favorite clothing store. As we are walking into Old Navy, it somehow does not register that he is carrying a large cup of milk from the coffee stand. We walk through the doors and within 30  seconds he drops the entire cup all over the floor. My brain processes this in slow motion as the white fluid proceeds to splatter across the shiny concrete floor, and I stand there with my mouth gaping open. Jason promptly takes Lane out of the store, while I help the poor guy working there clean up the mess with 100 small paper towels, presumably from the bathroom, making excuses and joking that this would have been far less embarrassing at Walmart. The part that shocked me most was that I proceeded to shop for 30 minutes, visited with a friend, and tried clothes on, instead of leaving immediately. The old me would have left and never, ever gone back. The "new" me shopped and fully intends to go back in April to use my $10 off coupon.

But the story gets better. When I leave I go to meet Jason and Lane at another store,  where I finally realize Lane is still wearing his pants backwards. So we go to the bathroom to change him and we both proceed to walk in on a woman doing her business in the bathroom stall. Granted it was more her fault for not locking the door, but it was just the icing on the cake from everything else. Again though, I was amazed at my fortitude as I made my apologies, proceeded to change Lane's pants around and go through an unusually quiet checkout line with a very rambunctious, loud child. After that though, we decided it was not worth taking another chance out in public and went home.

Thankfully there are no pics to accommodate this post.