I brought two different shoes<\/a>. Luckily, I had one for each foot, but they were each from a different pair of black shoes.<\/p>\nSince we were in New Jersey, I had no chance to rectify the mistake and spent the whole day hoping no one noticed. I made it through unscathed, mainly because our weddings are so fun, no one really cares what shoes people are wearing.<\/p>\n
With this ceremony in Baltimore, I figured I had a home-field advantage. We would get dressed at the house before heading down to spend the night so I had nothing to worry about. Or did I?<\/p>\n
All week I kept making a mental note to try on my suit. I had last worn it earlier in the spring when I performed at the Hanover Little Theatre, but I just wanted to make sure everything fit well.<\/p>\n
But like most of the mental notes I give myself, it disappeared into thin air somewhere between the thought on my ride home and my actual arrival in Hanover.<\/p>\n
Still, I figured I had no worries when I opened my closet that Saturday morning to get ready for the big day. I should know by now to never figure that everything will go according to plan.<\/p>\n
The jacket fit fine. The pants? That\u2019s a hard question to answer because I could not find the pants.<\/p>\n
At first, I thought that they had fallen off the hanger or were mistakenly put in a different closet or something. After checking every possible place about eight times, I came to the conclusion that I somehow lost the pants to the one suit I could possibly wear to the wedding.<\/p>\n
I know I should have a second suit, but, since I wear the one I have so infrequently, I just haven\u2019t pulled the trigger on another one. I don\u2019t need a suit for work and don\u2019t attend that many funerals, weddings or fancy parties.<\/p>\n
So I had to scramble with about 30 minutes before we had to leave. After banging my head on the wall \u2013 literally, I really needed to punish myself a little \u2013 I remembered that people had, in the past, commented on how a pair of pants perfectly matched a suit coat I had.<\/p>\n
Luckily, they all fit, and I made it through the entire day without any problem. Despite the hurricane outside, we celebrated another wonderful event. When I got home, I tried to track down my suit pants and made a note to plan better when my niece gets married next year.<\/p>\n
As if I needed a reminder, the button of the pants I wore to the wedding popped off as I unpacked my luggage when we returned Sunday. Good thing I didn\u2019t dance too much at the reception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I knew we would have fun.\u00a0 As we prepared to go to my nephew\u2019s wedding in Baltimore, that notion existed without any doubt in my mind. I just wondered if I would go through the entire day without a problem….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-family","category-making-an-idiot-out-of-myself","wpcat-3-id","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-23-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regularguycolumn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}