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Mom Accidentally Flashes Daughter’s Class On Zoom

Author Melany Myers

This is one of the most relatable stories I’ve read since the pandemic started. I think parents can totally feel for this mom.

Ashley Foret Smith was going through her normal morning routine when something beyond embarrassing happened. She finished her morning shower, put a towel around her head to dry her hair, and stepped into her bedroom….naked. Usually this wouldn’t be cause for alarm, but on this particular day, Smith’s daughter was in her bedroom. The little girl was in her room on a Zoom call with her entire first grade class. AND they saw Smith naked.

I don’t have kids but just reading that line makes me feel so bad for Smith! The horror! I cannot imagine the embarrassment she must have felt. And I am sure her daughter was just mortified!

Smith says she didn’t know what to do since this sort of thing isn’t covered in parenting books. She reached out to two teacher friends for advice on how to handle the situation and they suggested she share the story with the world to show it’s possible to be humiliated and laugh about it.

So that’s exactly what Smith did.  She made a video recounting the event and posted it on her Facebook page. So far she’s gotten more than 1.7 million views. She’s hoping other people will realize that’s it’s ok to find humor in tough situations. Crazy things happen to all of us!Most people can relate to Smith’s video. Embarrassing things have happened to all of us and sharing it with others makes us all feel a little better. I constantly use humor in tough situations. Sometimes laughing is the only thing to help ya make it through a crisis.

Just watching this lady laugh makes me laugh! Mistakes happen! We just have to roll on!

I have contemplated sharing this as it is the most embarrassing thing that has EVER happened to me. But, I think we could all use this laugh. Today I became a cautionary tale. Woke up, got everyone logged on to school, hammered out some work and then was going to hop in the shower before I needed to run out of the house. I was winning the day! I should have known it was too good to be true. Hopped in the shower. Jumped out. Threw my hair up in a towel. Leisurely sauntered across the room to grab my clothes. THEN. IT. HAPPENED. I heard a small voice say “hang on one second” and then another one say “I think we need to hang up, we are going to get in trouble”. Ummmm, where in the heck are these voices coming from? I’ll tell you where they were coming from. The perfectly angled computer sitting atop a pillow on my bed. While I was showering, the youngest one set up her Zoom meeting on my bed. Her computer was on my pillow, camera facing the middle of the room, she was on her stomach tucked under the covers. Did I just walk neked into a zoom call? I DID! I am the person that watches the News or scrolls through FB at night and declares that all Zoom videos are staged. There is no way a news anchors mistress walked into the screen. Well, I was wrong. It’s totally possible. But, what do you do then? Send apology notes? Insist it wasn’t you? Immediately withdraw your children? Move to Canada? Own it? This wasn’t in the parenting handbook. Virtual schooling is hard. Balancing everything is hard. Not being able to exist in your own house without knowing where a zoom call might pop up is HARD. May my humiliation make you giggle tonight. I hate pictures, I hate videos, there is little proof of my existence beyond live interactions. But, for some reason I picked up my phone to document my embarrassment. *edit* it has been confirmed that no child saw anything. Thank goodness! WEAR YOUR CLOTHES! END VIRTUAL SCHOOL!

Posted by Ashley Smith on Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Melany Myers is a Gastonia native and has spent most of her life here in North Carolina. Mel has worked in radio for over 20 years, many of which she spent co-hosting morning shows in Charlotte, NC, and Columbia, SC. Mel loves 80’s music, going to concerts, cooking, and eating! She is always writing about random news stories that really make you wonder, “what in the world?!” She also writes about rock music and human-interest content.

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