Weird, awkward and embarrassing moments happen to all of us, yet it takes us a while to reveal them. Usually, when we do decide to reveal them, we only reveal them to people we're closest with. Our awkward moments certainly don’t define us, but how we deal with them definitely does. There's a reason why many of us will pay good money to watch a comedian perform. Comedians have a way of taking the embarrassing and turning it into the funny and the interesting. Here are a few embarrassing stories that have, with time, become funny.

Those little details you sometimes just miss.

I once spent an entire day experimenting with cooking things in the kitchen when I was a teenager. It must have taken me a good few hours to prepare this delicious lasagna dish. The only problem with it was that I grated soap on it instead of cheese. I didn’t realize it and no one in my in my family did either until we started to eat it.

When I was younger, I used to have this friend who lived down the street from me. We had that kind of friendship where we could just go into each other's houses without knocking. I went away to college for a few months and then came back for the first time. I walked into her house like usual when I would visit. Only problem was, she moved away without me knowing. Needless to say this older couple was a little freaked out and was wondering why I was in their house.

Perfect timing.

I played the clarinet as a kid and I one time got so frustrated at it, I threw it against a wall and it broke in half. Luckily, super glue worked at putting it back together. It stayed together and played like normal for almost three years. When we were rehearsing for winter concert in 8th grade band, our teacher was getting frustrated because there were so many students complaining about something being wrong with their instrument. She finally said, “I don’t want to hear about any more broken instruments.” Nearly a minute later when we were in the middle of playing another song, the glue stopped working and I held my clarinet, which was again broken in half, in the air. Everyone stopped playing and just started laughing like crazy including our band teacher.

One time, when my sister and I were at our grandparents house, we were playing outside and my sister ended up slipping and landing on dog poop. She had it on her hand and it was smeared all over the side of her pants. She started freaking out about the stuff on her hand and I started to laugh so hard, I peed my pants. We had no extra clothes with us so for the rest of the day my sisters and I had to pants that belonged to our grandmother with a belt around it.

Those simple things can happen to us all.

I one time I slipped on some ice and fell. Someone was really nice and tried to help me up and they ended up falling too. We were both laughing like crazy for a few minutes after that.

I once walked home from the bowling alley still wearing the bowling shoes I rented.

One time in fifth grade, I went to school wearing two completely different shoes and I didn’t even realize it until one of my friends pointed it out to me half way through the day.

One of my friends and I were walking into a movie theater one time and were talking. She was not really paying attention to where she was walking and was knocked out by a cardboard standee of Thor holding his hammer. She hit right into the hammer and was pretty much knocked out.

Car troubles.

I used to run track when I was in high school and during spring break we'd have afternoon practices. Since I didn’t eat breakfast, I decided go through the drive thru to get some Taco Bell to eat before practice. My first car, since it was given to me by my dad, was a really large truck with a loud diesel engine. Since the engine was so loud, I'd usually have to turn my car off in order to order food at drive-thrus. At that time, the starter in my car blew out. My car was stuck in the drive-thru. There were no guys around to help any of us out, so me and a bunch of Taco Bell employees (all small-bodied females), had to push my truck out of the drive thru when it was in neutral. During that time, some of the track team, who were going on a road run that day ran passed the Taco Bell and found out why I wasn’t at practice.

I once dropped my car off at a Jiffy Lube in order to get it inspected. When they were finished working on my car, the people who worked on it left it in the parking lot with the keys in the ignition. During that time, a lady drove off with my car and Jiffy Lube ended up calling the police. I thought about yelling at the lady, but I couldn't because a few minutes later she came back, her face covered in tears. She thought the car was her daughter's.

Those awkward encounters.

For my first summer job, I worked at a ferry as the ticket person. Long story short, I ended up getting fired from that job. Eventually, I ended up getting a new job. Unfortunately, in order to get to my new job, I had to end up taking that ferry there every day.

One time I got into trouble in elementary school for accidentally looking up porn in the computer lab. The conversation both my teacher and parents had to have with me was kind of funny.

The naïvety of children.

I work as a camp counselor for my summer job and I was really into painting with watercolors when I was a kid, so I'm pretty good at it. I painted a picture of a forest when we were in the art room one day and when one kid looked at it he said really loudly, loud enough for the entire room to hear, “That picture is really really sexy!” All the other counselors in the room got up to get a look at my painting, wondering what on earth I painted. A bunch of us just started laughing because the kid was only six years old. When I asked him where he heard that word, he said heard it from his dad who told him it was just another word for pretty.

A while back when my kids were much younger, they were really into playing with Barbie dolls. One day when I was on my way out the door to drop all my kids off at school and go to work, I realized my keys were nowhere to be found. I must have torn up the entire house looking for them and eventually I just gave up and called in sick from work. Later that night my kids took them out of the car they had for their Barbie dolls. Apparently, Barbie needs keys too.

When I was a little kid, I thought the word commando was a cool military term, but I actually didn’t know what it really meant. When my older cousin came back from Iraq and we had dinner with him I asked him how the military was. I ended my question with, “Going commando lately?” Everyone at the dinner table died of laughter and I didn’t know why until my older sister explained it to me later.

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