Embarrassing Moment

There are 2 pianists in my Branch and one of them is me. The other is a member of the Branch Presidency, so the months that he is conducting I get to play in Sacrament meeting. That just so happens to be this month. The songs that were chosen were songs that I had never heard before, much less played before. So, I was a bit nervous(that is not an excuse, just the facts). Did I mention that the other pianist is an accomplished player? Yeah, he is amazing! Anyway, I played the required prelude music and then the meeting began. When the time came for me to play I was trying to act confident, but it didn't work so well.

***NO-I didn't wet my pants, so just get that out of your heads.***

So, the song starts and I realize that the volume on the keyboard(oh yeah, we don't have a real piano or organ-just a keyboard) was still set for prelude. Thinking I was cool enough to pull this off(why I thought this, I will never know?) I try to turn the volume up while playing a brand new song and instead I press the demo button. For those of you not familiar with keyboards, this is the button that plays the songs previously recorded on the keyboard. OK, so I am playing with a quiet keyboard and a totally different song is playing on top of that. Yeah, so the chorister turns around to look at me and everyone stops singing to stare(which is probably what I would have done). I frantically try to stop the sound, apologizing the entire time(most definitely bright red). I look around and most of the congregation is laughing(me included--the only graceful way to make a huge mistake like that right?) Once I got everything back to normal I explain what happened and say,"Well, we all need to do this song again anyway, right?" Giggling, we start again. I was mortified. The brother conducting the meeting stands to continue the meeting after the song and says,"Thank you Sister Holloway for making sure we are all awake. I have found that when you are sitting at the piano, organ, or in this case, a keyboard, there is nowhere to hide. You handled that much better than I would have." The meeting proceeds as normal from there. So, now it is your turn to share an embarrassing moment. Leave me a comment sharing something that you can always look back on and remember how embarrassed you felt.