Thinking before speaking can eliminate embarrassment

I attended Entrepreneurial Management class last night. We discussed the company Idea Village and how they market products.

We started off by asking everyone to participate in discussing the success of this product:
We discussed the appeal to women because not only was it gentle on the face but women didn’t want to be seen using a man’s razor on their face.

Then we moved on to everyone discussing this product:
Turned out that one guy in the class not only owned the product but loved the product and would have sold one to all male classmates if he could. He highlighted the ease of using the product on nose and ear hair.

Since we only had to read about those two products prior to class, I assumed we were done. Much to my dismay, this lovely image then appeared on the powerpoint screen:
My horror grew when the professor #1 said, “Now, this is a product that we need to get a female’s point of view. Melinda, where would you use this product?”

My eyes grew wide and I choked, “Where, you want to where I would use this product?”

Professor #1, “Yep, where, as a female, would you use this product?”

Me, with bright red face and hearing chatter and laughter from the class, “Well, um…”

Professor #2, “OK, OK, I think want the professors to keep their jobs.”

Professor #1, “Oh, yeah, I meant, where as in the beach, vacation, home…”

At that point there was so much laughter and chaos in the classroom that I never really did get to respond.