"Oh no I di'int!"

Here's one that will go down in Shannon history: Was out to dinner with some girlfriends on Friday night, celebrating the end of the school year. We were at this place in town called Triumph Brewing Company and were seated upstairs. The bar was down below. Well, dinner was good and conversation supreme. We were wrapping up our meal and I was talking about the "SNL Through the 90s" show that I had seen on TV the other night. I mentioned loving Molly Shannon and her funny characters like Mary Katherine Gallager, and the joyologist/"luv it" lady. I was getting revved up in my story-telling and shared about how I often used to do impersonations of these characters. I started doing the classic "luv it" lady move where she crosses and kicks up her leg a lot while she says "I luv it, I luv it, I luv it!" My friends were laughing. "Oh, funny Shannon!", they were probably thinking. They hadn't seen me do this before. Well, all of the sudden, the little navy blue ballet flat I'm wearing comes off my foot as I'm kicking up my leg. It flies high into the air (high ceiling building) and then begins its descent all the way down to the first floor, in the bar. Oops!!!! Double oops when we discover it has hit a lady sitting down there. A manager brings my shoe up to me and I gratefully accept it and apologize. One catch though, there is this other guy with him who is bristling and says that there is going to be a big problem because the shoe hit his wife. He is really angry and looks like he's ready to punch someone's lights out. I apologize, call him sir, explain that it was an accident. He realizes he can't beat me up. He realizes I'm a woman, sitting at a table of women. If I had been a man, I think he would've hit me. But, thankfully the manager was right next to him and explained that he saw what happened and that it was an accident. The man leaves and storms back downstairs. OMG--it was crazy! It went from being incredibly embarassing to nightmarish in a matter of seconds. Thankfully everything ended fine. I was mortified, but my friends were still laughing. They thought the impersonation was even better with the shoe flying off. And apparently the look on my face was something! I just can't believe I did something so stupid (on accident of course!). Yikes! I don't think my friends will let me live this one down anytime soon.