03/21/09
Contest: Something, Maybe
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Isn’t that pretty! Ten beautiful hardback copies of Something, Maybe by Elizabeth Scott! And there all for you! Yes, that’s right, I’m giving them all away to you, my wonderful readers! A special thanks to Simon and Schuster for providing the books.
In the story Hannah has to deal with her embarrassing parents, so I want to know: What have your parents done to embarrass you?
The best story will win! The rest will be chosen by random number generator.
- This contest is only open to residents of the U.S.
- Contest ends April 10, 2009, midnight eastern time.
- Email me at thestorysiren(at)hotmail(dot)com subject: Something, Maybe with your entry. Or leave a comment on this post.
- Don’t forget to leave your contact information if you don’t have a blogger/google/aim/wordpress/etc. id.
Thanks and Good Luck!!
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58 Comments
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I’ve been dying to read this one! But sadly, I am not a US resident.
Good question. God knows parents are born to humiliate us.
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Tiqa, I feel your pain. That’s an incredible contest you have there and good luck to all you US people.
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Sorry guys!! i just can’t afford all the postage! i do have an international contest for 10 ARCs so be sure to sign up for that.
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Ten copies of one book coming to one (dear) house is a landslide of good fortune for your readers. You know how to make things happen.
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Oh wow. Embarassing parent story… I hope this one counts. My mom, sister and I went bra shopping because I was starting to get breasts. My sister would hold up lacy bras and say really loud, Bridget this would look good on you. I looked at mom and of course she was laughing but I was ready to die!
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Wow, how’d you get so book-blessed? We’re so lucky that you like to share – although I don’t want to see the size of your piggy bank currently! Bookmooch, Paperback Swap, giveaways… Yikes!
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Parents, by nature, are embarrassing
I would say I get mortified when we go out to eat at a restaurant as a family and my parents still treat us like we’re 5 and need help to decide what to get. And then when we order what we want, they interrupt and second-guess us. But nothing embarrasses/upsets me more is when they choose to speak in Vietnamese right in front of the waitress when she is taking their order.
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Thanks, Kristi!
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oooh I want!!!!
preeeeeeeetttttttty book!!!
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Woah S&S is so generous aren't they? And they sent you hardcovers too!
Good luck to whoever enters the contest ^^
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I would love love love to enter!
Wow…my parents are pretty embarassing all the time, but i have this one memory that really sticks out. Since movie theater popcorn costs so much my mom decided to pop two bags and sneak them in. No she didn’t put it in her purse or pretend she was preggers. instead she put them in her shirt like she had warped boobs.
Good times….
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Okay, so this is sort of gross but hilarious at the same time. So here goes:
I was probably around 13 when this happened. We had just gone out to eat at a Mexican restaurant we’d eaten at a few times before, and then we went to WalMart. We lived out in the country at the time (about 15 minutes from the town we lived in and 30 from a WalMart). Anyway, on the ride home the Mexican food caught up with my dad. We were still a good 15 minutes from home. He was dying. So he stopped on the side of the road…and went! I guess there weren’t any woods or bushs near where we were at the time because I just remember him going back behind he car to do it. I can’t remember if anyone drove by during that time but it was still pretty embarrassing!
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Okay, I really want to read this book!
Here goes my embrassing story:
Okay so I really dread when my dad goes to parent/teacher conferences. And well, he decides that his not happy with my report card, I guess. (even though I am a straight A student) So he decides he wants to talk to all my teachers, and my teachers didn’t know what to tell him since I don’t really have any problems. And it was just embrassing..
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Oh i would love a copy.
Want a good story…years ago I had to take my younger brother with me to the movies with my best friend. When we got there, my friend and I noticed that my secret “crush” was in the lobby with his friends. My friend and I began our usual “ohh he is soo cute” talk oblivious to my little brother standing nearby. So, as we make our way to into the movie we had to pass by my crush and as we do my brother chimes in….”mehhhh, I don’t understand why you girls think he is sooo cute” and proceeds to stroll into the movie leaving my friend and I frozen in disbelief and horror as my crush turned beet red and his friends laughed. If only the earth could have swallowed my up right there and then…
embarrasing indeed!!
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Hm, this still happens but my parents don’t really have good English so when we go shopping together, it’s so embarrassing just to listen to them talk to the cashiers. We spend like an hour just trying to ask them a question (exaggerating it) but it takes them so long when the cashiers can’t understand a word they’re saying. But it’s funny and it gives me a good laugh.
behapppppppy(at)homtail(dot)com
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I’d love to read this book. Thank you for the chance!
My dad had hundreds of ways to embarrass me, but the worst would be when we were driving around town and he would see some teenagers — he’d yell something out at them, like: GO HOME AND HELP YOUR MOTHER! I don’t know what that was all about, but I wanted to die!geebee.reads AT gmail DOT com
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I would love to read this book! Thanks for the chance to win it! Okay so it is hard to think of just one thing that my parents have done to embarrass me but I guess I will pick the most embarrassing.
My dad, mom, and I all went to dinner at Chili’s one night and I mentioned to my mom that I thought the waiter was really cute. Well, my dad overheard and decided he should ask the waiter for his number for me. I was mortified. I just kind of sat there and stared into the corner every time he came to our table for the rest of the night. I couldn’t believe my dad had actually done that.
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i want this book so bad, so I’m going to tel my horribly embarrassing story.
My friends came over one time(including a guy I’d been crushing on) and my mother showed them pictures of me, as a baby, going commando. It was horrible.
My dad does weird things all the time too. He’ll start singing a hippy song in the middle of the store and I’m just like, I don’t know you. haha
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My parents are extra nosy. They will, and have, in fact drag me across the street just to spy on my neighbors for gossip. Ugh. There’s this other thing where they will converse will the people at the grocery store to know if the produce is “fresh” and try to bargain with them, for like a decrease of 10 cents!
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I am dying to read this one–it looks amazing, so thanks for the contest! (: Hmm….embarrassing parent story….
- My parents can be kind of art dorky so we go to a museum and they’re all like “Oh, wow, look at those beautiful blends…I can just smell the aroma of that tree” while my sister and I just sorta stand there….
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Ooh what pretty books
While I was learning to drive both of my parents were in the car with me and were both giving me conflicting directions at the same time. Unfortunately, they agreed that there was a left turn lane across from the mall and I ended up in it. And then cars started coming straight at me! To this day I have never driven with both of my parents in the car again.
pepsivanilla14(at)hotmail(dot)com
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Um, my parents don’t really embarrass me as much as I’m sure I embarrass them! But my dad does like the pretend that he’s a good dancer and will try to hip-hop dance, which can look really goofy! He also talks to everyone everywhere-we’ll be standing in line at a store and he’ll just start talking to people!
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My mom hasn’t ever embarrassed me that I remember. My dad on the other hand… where to start maybe a story from when he was a teacher at my school, when he meets my friends, when we go out to eat. Oh okay here’s a good one. There was this guy my friend though I should date, I wasn’t interested. I guess my dad overheard my on the phone or talking to my friends about him and assumed he was my boyfriend or something because when that guy and his bro and their friends were over at my house one day my dad said something like, “So Amelia what’s the deal with that boy you’re dating?” and I’m like what are you talking about and he said, “You know *enter the guy’s name here*.” Yeah… I was mortified. For a second there the guy and his friends and every body though I told my dad I was dating him. Kinda awkward after that. But they already thought my dad was loopy so I played it off well.
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Ah! Sometimes I wish I did not live in Canada! But I shall join anyway and have it shipped over to my uncle’s in Cali once more. (I feel bad, I kept having my books that could not be sent outside of America to him! I don’t even know when I’ll pick them up. I just hope no one in the family rummaged through them…)
My mom has a thing for ranting. She rants at everything to anyone really. And her favourite topic? Me. Jezus, whenever family friends come over and they talk about how brilliant their kid is, she goes on how I’m a terrible daughter. .__. Sometimes she does it in front of me and I just want to be swooped away to another country at that point.
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I’d love to win this book!
Blah, my parents used to do lots of things that I considered embarrassing when I was younger. The one that really sticks out was I was going to jr high to pick up my schedule for 7th grade before classes started. My dad was filming everything that I was doing and narrating. Well, some stupid boys from my elementary school came up and started teasing me about my dad when my dad was like 5 feet away. I ended up crying and being really mad at my dad. Of course, now I know that it wasn’t completely his fault (just a little).
caprubia(at)gmail(dot)com
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I’m going to ponder this for a really good one ( I WANT THIS BOOK! ) but I’m not sure I can top the popcorn-as-boobs story. That’s hilarious. (To the rest of us. I can understand it wouldn’t have been so hilarious to the daughter.)
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I would LOVE a copy – I am DYING to get my hands on one.
Really, how can you top the popcorn boobs story? I don’t think you can.
My dad had jaw surgery a few years ago and he’s never regained sensation under his bottom lip (about the size of a dime) and so he constantly has food stuck there that he can’t feel. Ick.
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Okay, so my mom is really embarassing. She has no filter in her brain of what should bes said and what should be kept alone – so embarrasing things for her are not unusual , but here is one of the worst.
So I was around eight and me and my mom were walking around our neighborhood – I was learning how to ride my bike and everything was good.
A guy I knew from school lived in my neighborhood, so what does my mom decide to do? She decides to go up to him and talk to him.
About how apparently I liked him.
So she goes up to him and tells him that I think he’s a “cutie pie” and I immediately run away and ride my bike home.
I have never fully forgiven her for that lol. The next day at school I was picked on for apparently liking this guy and having a creepy mom.
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Oh, gosh. I get totally embarrassed when my parents tell my friends or my brother’s girlfriend stories about when I was younger. Like how I used to say I wanted to be a dog when I grow up…weird child, I was. haha It’s terrible! I could like, die from mortification!
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Wow I have tons of embarrassing things that my parents do, especially my mom. I’ll share them just because I REALLY want to read Something, Maybe.
Okay, so my mom is BEYOND overprotective. I’m already in high school, but whenever I go the mall with her, she makes me hold her hand or link arms with her. Even worse is that when I’m with her, she INSISTS and forces me to hold her hand when I am crossing a street because she thinks I’ll be stupid enough to cross the street without looking both ways. (Remember, I’m in high school!)
Plus, if I am with my friends at the mall, she drops me off, but she never actually leaves the mall. At times, she has somewhat followed me around the mall by shopping at the stores nearby the ones I am at, to see what my friends and I are doing..michelle.kuool(at)yahoo(dot)com
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I always find it embarassing when my parents (and everyone else) sing Happy Birthday to me at my birthday. I don’t really know why, I just do.
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I don’t think I can top the popcorn boobs either, but here’s mine…
So, my mom says that it’s her job to embarrass me. One time we were in a store (I think it was Old Navy) and they started playing a song that she liked. SO she started to sing really loudly. Now, this might not have been a problem except for the fact that she’s borderline tone deaf. It was terrible. Everyone started to stare at us, and I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.
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My mom was always the parent who would forget to come pick me up after soccer practice or play rehearsal and since it was before cell phones I was always sitting outside the school just waiting for her to remember. that got embarrassing after too many years of it.
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My most embarassing parent moment…
Well mostly, just whenever my dad thinks it would be funny to try and make a rap or sing songs from when i was little(think barney or pokemon). Unfortunately theres almost always an audience. >_<
Thank you for the giveaway! I really wanted this book!
email me at: furrymochi@bellsouth.net
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My parents were really cool except for walking downstairs at an um “inopportune” time with me and an old boyfriend. Quite embarassing.
msboatgal at aol.com
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Ahh omg I’m so jealous of everyone who can enter. xD
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Great giveaway! This one looks so good!
I don’t really have an embarrassing story that sticks out, but my mom had been known for pulling out baby albums and naked kid pictures when I had boyfriends over.
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My dad is a journalist, and he has a sometimes-embarrassing habit of “interviewing” everyone he meets. Waitresses, Best Buy salesmen, random people sitting next to us in the park. Every once in a while it’s VERY clear that the person does not want to chat, and dad gets persistent. I very clearly remember one time when I was a kid that somebody in an airport very pointedly put his headphones on and opened a book, and dad still didn’t stop talking. It always made me want to hide under a chair or something.
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My grandma is always trying to set me up with guys (embarrassing enough in itself). But it gets worse. Whenever I visit her she always has some delivery guy/sales guy there. I swear she puts off inviting them over until I’m around. And she’s very oblivious about it.
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No, my parents haven’t embarrassed me before.
Please enter me
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I’d love to win a copy of this book!!!!
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My dad is more embarrsing one, he will say out loud things Nick is the guy you like right, he sure is cute. One day like week he woke me up and opened my curtain and was dancing around with just his underwear on. And has even opened our front door with just his underwear on, and didn’t really care, he did once to my boyfriend.
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Once, my mom and I were locked in my sister’s car in a Wal-Mart parking lot, while she went it to quickly buy something. My mom tried to get out by unlocking the door, which caused the siren to ring.
towerofbooks(at)gmail.com
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My mom pretty much embarrasses me all the time, haha. I can’t think of a particular instance off the top of my head right now, but..
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My mom will brag to random people about my academic accomplishments. I hate it.
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My mom tends to run a hour late. So, we have to tell her to be here earlier, then she should be. She also talks about my medical probelms with strangers, in front of me.
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Well…my parents aren’t that bad compared to the other comments I’ve read…But I would love an arc none the less!
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I would love to win this!
My parents aren’t that awful. I think the worst would be when my dad decides to start speaking like different cartoons (Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, etc.) to my dates and friends…particularly when it’s the first time he’s met them. I’m in my twenties. Thanks Dad.
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My mom isn’t so bad when it comes to embarrasing me. My dad *shakes head*, on the other hand, is reprehensible. One event particularly stands out, even though months have passed. My family went over to visit a friend, and when we got there another family was there. I’ve known the Andersons ever since I can remember. This includes Robert, their son. We spent the entire night laughing and talking with each other. When the night ended and everyone was heading home my dad, with his impeccable timing, told Robert that he’d put him on his list. Robert, a little confused asked what list that would be. Then my dad, with a smile as big as a cheshire cat’s said, “Why the list to MARRY MY DAUGHTER, of course!” I could have seriously died. It was one of those moments that you want a humongous hole to appear and swallow you up!
My email is melmarie1@yahoo.com
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I really can’t think of very many times that my mom and dad have embarrassed me, however, I do have a good one about my Grandpa, I hope that counts!
My Grandpa is a good guy. He knows how to have fun to. Maybe a little to much at times! Well, one day when my brother and I were at my Grandma and Grandpas house in the cities, we decided to go run some errands with him, one of the stops was Cub foods. Now, take care to note that he is 100% able and loves to dance around. Well, he decided to be goofy that day and he took one of the handicapped in store cub foods chairs, and drove it all around the store, pretending that he was disabled! That’s not all though! Some of the nice people in the store were helping him by putting grocery’s into the cart, and when we were ready to leave the store, he hopped right out of the cart and went on his way like normal – not a limp in his step (except for maybe a few fakes)!! At least there were quite a few of the motorized wheel chairs there!
Thanks for the wonderful contest, I am really looking forward to reading this book!
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This is a pretty early memory of mine.
When I was little, I would pour water from the bottle to the cap, and sip it to drink water. I would say that it was wine for fun. So when all of her friends came over once, I drank some water using the method, and my mom starts blabbing about how I’m pretending to drink wine. ALL of her friends start laughing at me. Every single one of them. Then, they start talking with me about if the wine was good, if I was dizzy yet, or if I wanted more.
After that, I can’t bring myself to do it anymore…ttt1612 AT yahoo DOT com
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My dad is a constant source of embarrassment for me. He recently got a new cell phone number and he called all my friends parents to give it to them. The weird part? My parents are divorced and I live with my mom. I only ever even go to my dads house every other weekend. Then the other day we ran into a friend of mine and her mom at Olive Garden and he sat down at their table in the middle of their meal and talked to them and ATE THEIR BREADSTICKS for like fifteen minutes while the rest of my family sat down across the room and got our own food. My friend was like “uh, does your dad have a crush on my mom or something?” Her mom is engaged and my dad already has a girlfriend so it was just weird and awkward even for me even though I was over at my own table. When he finally came over to us I asked what he thought he was doing and he honestly didn’t think he was being weird or creepy. He really was just trying to be friendly. I was still so embarrassed I could’ve just died.
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Sadly I am not a US resident, although I hope more contests will be open to us UK readers throughout the year.
I was once chatting up boys when I was about 12 or 13 on the beach when my dad suddenly appeared on the bank tops, shouting ‘Get Home Now’ – cringe! -
My Mom taught at my school. She yelled at a teacher for yelling at me. I was mortified…even though I had done nothing wrong in the first palce!
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My parents never embarrassed me in a big way just the usual “my dad is wearing black socks with his shorts” kind of way. This isn’t humorous at all but the summer after my senior year in high school my boyfriend had parents who had major issues with alcohol. Everyone thought they were cool and fun because they liked to party but it went far beyond that. At one party, they attended too and had way too much to drink. His mother ended up “going out” (yeah, that kind of going out) with one of our classmates. It was mortifying and awful. We never discussed it, ever. To top it off, after college they became my in-laws. Fortunately, they stopped drinking, divorced and have cleaned up their acts. How’s that for embarrassing? If you ever see my hubby, don’t tell him I told you! (Sorry but I had to go for a little comic relief after such an awful incident.)
Thanks for another great contest. I won’t reveal any more deep, dark secrets!
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Okay so my last entry was AWFUL. Hopefully this time it won’t as much. It was a couple of weeks when my mom wanted my dad and I to go shopping. It’s a sale so of course my mom was like GO! GO! GO! We [my dad and I] decide to stop by the store after we finished shopping for grocery. But of course it wasn’t that easy. We took 3 wrong turns, about 2 illegal U-turns, went through 1 alleyway, and 1 complete circle around a KFC. After hour an hour of “we’re so close!” we made it to the store. I asked me dad if we needed a shopping cart and he was like just grab this one. Being the prefect daughter *cough* I did. I made it through 2 steps when a lady came up behind me screeching and babbling at me. It turns out I stole her cart. I stood there for 5 minutes apologizing. She on the other hand, snatched the cart away and bitched about me to her friend. I was mortified! Ashamed! Demoralized! I did a complete 180 with my head held high, started yelling at my dad. He laughed, and laughed, and laughed. Grrr
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Well, I think the worst was when I visited Penn on a college tour with both of my parents. At football games, people throw toast onto the field during “a toast for…” and the tour guide was explaining this to us because of the machine that goes onto the field to suck up the toast in order to clear the field. Somehow, my mom heard toads instead of toast and rather than keeping this to herself, began to discuss the details with the other families in our group. Despite recognizing that this didn’t sound very plausible (or at least I think she could tell as much), she started questioning the logistics of the machine and toads: Where did it bring the toads back to? How did it manage not to harm them? Why toads instead of frogs? and so on while the tour guide gave our family questioning looks and surrounding people said things such as “if she’s anything like her mother, there’s no way she has the smarts to end up here.”
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My mom like to brag about my grades, so she keeps my report card in her purse to show everyone. It’s so embarrassing!
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