During a graduating ceremony, wearing cap and gown, I was handed my diploma which I promptly fumbled and dropped. On it's way downward it hit the toe of my shoe and it appeared as if I had kicked it, where it landed under the 2nd row of spectator seats.
I scrambled on my hands and knees to fish it out between the chairs and then headed, red faced, for the nearest exit.
I had missed the rehearsal for the graduation and didn't know that I was supposed to exit down the center aisle where the proud parents and other attendees could get a first look at their graduate. I didn't follow that route, I went out the nearest exit. Since my name was early in the alphabet I was the first to receive my diploma. All of the other graduates followed me out the same exit. We were all out there wondering where to go next. I just wanted to go home and hide my face in my pillow.
Seems rather funny now but makes for a good story.
