Most Embarrassing?
General
Well Dave two moments come to mind. The first was when a car spun in front of me and I hit him AFTER he had come to a complete stop. My crew chief Mike assumed that I had just not seen him because of traffic and when I admitted that I had seen him spin he said without cracking a smile " You should not have told me that." He still reminds me of that night from time to time and says " I can't believe you hit that guy." It is embarrassing to tell the story now.
The next takes a longer to tell. We ran Limited Sportsman and usually raced right after the Late Models. There were 3 more divisions that ran after us and after loading the car I would change out of my uniform and join the group of 10 to 15 people that usually came to watch me race, mostly family and church friends, in the grandstands. They loved picking on me and never missed a chance to have a laugh at my expense. Well this night we had broken into the the top five, 4th I think, and the PA announcer would interview the top 5 as we waited to go across the scales. As usual I changed my clothes standing in the open door of the pickup, yall know how dark the infield of a short track can be, and thought nothing of it. Now my "fans" had to make sure that I did not get the big head and made sure everyone in the stands around them watched as I changed. When I got into the stands people started to stand, clap, cheer and hand me dollar bills and saying "Good Job, Great Show". Dazed and confused at what was happening I looked up and saw my "fans" laughing themselves to tears. They had put them up to giving me the money and then accused me of thinking they were rewarding me for the display of my driving ability. My wife finally had held it as long as she could and said "They watched you change clothes you dummy". Red faced I gave all the money back.
