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Having confessed this comical but true story to Jon earlier today I’m going to open myself to more ridicule. At work we have a temporary new member of, voluntary, staff to help out with some of the Childrens & after schools clubs as well as the Church’s playscheme.

Sadly, Jon couldn’t make her induction so it was left to, primarily, my boss, Steve, but I’d been asked to help make her feel at home. It, however was a normal work day so I set about about doing the day to day tasks that I have to do. And that’s when it happened, I had a mental block over a word and foolishly said:

I’m having a blonde moment, how do you spell examining?

Now unfortunately, for me, the new member of staff is naturally very blonde and doesn’t speak English as her first language. I went very red. D’Oh! This was added too by Steve suggesting that I might like to explain what I’d said. More redness, and gneral embarassment as I realised I couldn’t leaving him to explain.

I have learnt a lesson. I looked it up on Wiktionary.

blonde moment (plural blonde moments)

A momentary lapse in concentration, resulting in an embarrassing situation.

So, you could say that my blonde moment resulted in a blonde moment. Still, I won’t forget the spelling of examining for a while.