041 Turkey Day Embarrassment

Appalachian State University students share surprising and embarrassing moments from their recent Fall Break.

 

Dave Blanks: Hey folks, what's up? My name's Dave Blanks from University Communications and I'm back again with a Dave By The Bell. On this edition of Dave By The Bell, the students are smack dab in the middle of final examinations. They're walking around being stressed out, potentially. Maybe they're super prepared, possibly they are not super prepared. They're in final exams now, but they also just came from the holiday break, Thanksgiving. Many of them celebrated, so that means that they were in close proximity to their family and sometimes when you hang out with your family, maybe something embarrassing could occur, something surprising might occur. So we're looking for surprises or potentially embarrassing things that happened, because those are fun stories.

Katie Hines: I'm Katie Hines, so my brother is a really big stickler on everything and he saw my grandma pour a glass of wine and he said, "How many is that?"

Dave Blanks: Oh my gosh.

Katie Hines: He's only nine.

Dave Blanks: What?

Katie Hines: He's a major rule follower.

Dave Blanks: Yeah, a real rule follower. What do you think he's going to do when he grows up?

Katie Hines: He wants to be a lawyer, it makes a lot of sense.

Dave Blanks: What's his name? Can you say his name?

Katie Hines: His name is Henry.

Dave Blanks: Okay, how long has Henry been such a rule follower?

Katie Hines: Always. He's always been like that. We're used to it, but we can break the smallest rule and it will not get by him.

Dave Blanks: He's going to be like a hall monitor.

Katie Hines: Oh yeah, he is at his school.

Dave Blanks: Wow.

Katie Hines: Yeah, he's on the safety patrol.

Dave Blanks: I kind of respect that. He knows what he wants and he's doing it.

Katie Hines: He does know what he wants. He's very set on everything.

Dave Blanks: How did your grandma handle it?

Katie Hines: We just laugh because we're used to it by now, it's like-

Dave Blanks: Oh, Henry.

Katie Hines: It's, whatever at this point.

Avery Pope: I'm Avery Pope. Yeah, my cousin was kind of being weird and rude to everyone.

Dave Blanks: Okay, rude cousin?

Avery Pope: So we cut it short.

Dave Blanks: So that was unexpected.

Avery Pope: Yes, that was unexpected.

Dave Blanks: All right, maybe he was having an off day.

Avery Pope: Yeah, he just got a dog, the dog is really cute.

Dave Blanks: Well then the dog should improve his mood.

Avery Pope: Yeah, it didn't.

Dave Blanks: It's a big responsibility too. Maybe it's keeping him up at night. Is it a puppy?

Avery Pope: It is.

Dave Blanks: Yeah, maybe that's it, he's cracking under the pressure. Puppy pressure.

Avery Pope: Oh yeah.

Dave Blanks: Thanks Avery.

Avery Pope: Of course.

Alex Lipovan: I'm Alex Lipovan. I choked.

Dave Blanks: What?

Alex Lipovan: I choked on my food.

Dave Blanks: You did?

Alex Lipovan: Yeah.

Dave Blanks: What was it you were eating?

Alex Lipovan: It was mashed potatoes.

Dave Blanks: How did you do that?

Alex Lipovan: I know, I think I was talking and then eating at the same time and just-

Dave Blanks: How bad was it?

Alex Lipovan: I was tearing up.

Dave Blanks: Oh man, that's pretty bad.

Alex Lipovan: Yeah.

Dave Blanks: Did anybody try to help you?

Alex Lipovan: No.

Dave Blanks: What did they do?

Alex Lipovan: They just kind of sat there and watched.

Dave Blanks: At least they didn't laugh.

Alex Lipovan: I got lucky it was mashed potatoes.

Dave Blanks: Yeah, for real. I've never choked on mashed potatoes.

Alex Lipovan: Yeah, I don't know