It was like he was looking around to see if anyone had seen his faux pas before he got himself un-stuck

Years ago I read an article about glassy water landings in seaplanes. The author opened the article with a very humorous description of witnessing a duck attempting one. The point was that if a duck can screw up a glassy water landing, so can a human.

He needs recurrent training from an Instructor Bird...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SAz1L8DlvBM

In my younger days, I woke up in roughly the same position more than once.

Oh crap...where am I? What did I do? Who saw it?