This story at TIME.com is about one of my awkward moments involving bumper boats. The stories in AWKWARD turned out more autobiographical than expected and this is one I wanted to tell in the book, but I couldn’t quite get my head around it in time for the final copy. A few days later, the story decided to make sense in my head, but that’s the way writing goes. I’m glad I could tell it here and you can read about my bumper boat debacle here at Time.com.