Photo Fiasco

So I was going to update my earlier post to say that my little F1 adventure came to a good ending - the folks at the booking hotline got back to me and I finally managed to finish my transaction. The seats weren't in the block I really wanted (which had unfortunately sold out) but the ones I got were pretty good so I thought that was the happy end to this matter.

Then there was that little fiasco of me appearing on the front page of the papers today, dressed in my company windbreaker, no less.

I got the shock of my life when a couple of friends gleefully messaged me early in the morning to let me know that they'd seen my silly face in the morning's papers. Yikes. And when I saw the pic, I was even more horrified - not only was I clearly not in the office but in queue, but I had to be caught wearing the very obvious (and rather ugly) company windbreaker. Sobs. I knew that even if my boss had not originally seen and recognised my face she was SO going to take a closer look because of that painfully obvious windbreaker. Argh!

Well, my boss definitely didn't miss the photo, much as I'd hoped it would be the case, but thankfully she was a good sport about it all and merely gently chided me for my somewhat inappropriate dress code. Luckily for me, she had remembered seeing me in the office in the morning so she knew it wasn't as if I was in line the whole day. We had a good laugh about it together with my colleagues who had no end of fun chuckling and ribbing me about my unfortunate circustances. Sigh.

And when DD finally got to see the photo, he just could not stop laughing. I guess my expression kinda made the headline. And since I'd settled down sufficiently to look at it, it is actually, a rather funny photo. I'm going to pop a copy into my file just for keeps.

But anyway, after all that trauma, the race had better be worth it! And I think I'm still adhere to not spending any money this week!