Ask Aspen: What's Your Most Embarrassing Experience?

At the Aspen Idea Festival, I ask big questions to people who join the airplane everyday. Today: What is your most embarrassing experience?

"We were live on a morning program on CBS and I sprinkled coffee on the knee of Maria Shriver, she cried, I said," I am God! "Governor will kill me I thought that this can be traced back to the 70's.

"This is the only time when I was fired.I was 17 years old and I just started at Brooklyn's Kleinfeld Bridal Shop.I was supposed to be a girl who picked up all the clothes after the bride tried. I keep grasping all my wedding dresses and veils so I dream of my wedding ceremony by trying all my wedding dresses Bridal Shop I cried and came home and worried Do not do it, I will get another job. "

Elizabeth Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Design and Creation Leader (Project includes Manhattan High Line Park and Lincoln Center)

"We were dismissed and we were working at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen around 2000. We were absorbed in doing a good job.We are interested in inventing, manufacturing, and designing Since I am immersed, I will never get rid of it.

"I started to be a reporter, I was appointed to the Massachusetts city council Peabody, If you want to know what politics is, please go to Peabody, Massachusetts." So I I participated. At the first meeting of the city council, the council voted for the birthday party of one of the members John 'Silver Fox' Tierney, so the next day I wrote an article about the corruption of the city council in the newspaper. I found out that he died of cancer. "

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