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I was about eighteen years old. My parents were out of town, so I decided to throw a “small party”, which turned into anything but. After indulging in a few adult beverages, my then-boyfriend and I headed to my room for some “alone time”. Couldn’t have been more than a few minutes when I heard the dreaded knock on the door. I knew my friends wouldn’t bother, so it had to be only one person…
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“Who’s in there with my @*#%&! sister?”
Yea, totally got busted by my older brother. And older brothers are not too fond of punk little boys trying to get into the pants of their little sisters.
The guy made it out alive, but others are not so lucky. A college roommate of mine once told me about a night where she and her boyfriend were getting, er, a little close, when her parents full on busted through her bedroom door. If that weren’t embarrassing enough, her parents then decided to give her a lecture on safe sex and begged her to “wait until marriage.” Well, it was clearly too late for that, and the encounter left her scared and far too wary to ever get frisky in her parents’ house again. Probably a good idea anyway.
Somehow it’s a little less humiliating when it’s a roommate or a friend, but it’s always going to be awkward! A few of my friends once walked in our friend and her boyfriend, and they haven’t been able to look at him the same way since. Is there anyway to save face once you’ve been caught in the act?
I’ve found the best way to address it is to make a joke about it. Ignoring it completely just makes it really awkward for the other people involved. They’ll probably be too embarrassed to even mention it to you (in fact, in most cases I’m sure they shut the door damn fast and walk the other way), but you don’t want it to become the elephant in the room.
Unless, of course, you’re caught by your parents or a relative. In that case, bow your head in shame for a few days and pretend the horrific event never happened.
Have you ever been caught in a “compromising position”?
