Your Worst "Putting Your Foot In It" Moments: Share Your Pain!

I've had a couple of classic embarrassing and cringeworthy moments the last few days where I have properly said the wrong thing at the wrong time.

We had friends over for dinner the other day and I was in charge of dishing out the food to people. We were having a roast so there were lots of lovely things on offer, although our kids can be a bit fussy on a few things so I sometimes come up with nicknames for the food to make it sound more interesting to them - "sproutlets" for sprouts, "mini trees" for broccoli etc. (hey, I never claimed they were good names! :slol:

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The friends we had over are both around 40 and had been in previous relationships before meeting one another and settling down, the guy had kids with a previous partner and subsequently had a vasectomy as they didn't want any more kids. However his new wife had always been desperate for kids and had been getting very emotional telling us how upset she was that she couldn't have them with the love of her life because of this previous relationship - lots of tears and tissues ensued and it was all very tense. After some calm words and discussion we had mostly got things back on track, although I could tell that she was still "on the edge" as it were. :dread:

So it probably wasn't the best time for me to be passing out extra food and when trying to get my kids to eat some parsnips saying "I know that not everyone is a fan of the 'snips'" ... :fp:

A proper "I wish the floor would open up and swallow me" moment! :lol:

The other recent example was just yesterday evening at the end of work. I had been out of our project room to go to a quick meeting - when I left the room had been full but by the time I got back everyone except one of my colleagues had gone for the day. So I jokingly say to the one remaining person: "Ha, everyone's gone and left you all alone have they!? Can't say I blame them!" winkface, just a bit of banter, PMSL etc.

At which point I notice what he has on his screen in front of him - a government website with the prominent title saying: "STATUS OF YOUR DIVORCE" :dread:

I had no bloody clue this guy was going through a divorce otherwise I might have chosen my words a bit more carefully! :fp:

So - anyone else have any embarrassing moments of putting your foot in it or saying absolutely the wrong thing at the wrong time they you would like to tell? Share with the group and we can all ~~laugh at you~~ learn to be better people

Can’t you undo vasectomies?

I’m basing this on Michael Scott shouting at Jan “You have no idea the physical toll that three vasectomies have on a person!”...which was funnily enough in the Dinner Party episode of the Office...

Tomous wrote:Can’t you undo vasectomies?

I’m basing this on Michael Scott shouting at Jan “You have no idea the physical toll that three vasectomies have on a person!”...which was funnily enough in the Dinner Party episode of the Office...

I believe you can, but I think there were added complications in their situation which were preventing that option.

Either way I didn't really want to wade into it any deeper as who knows what else I would have said to make it worse! :lol:

nothing comes to mind right now but wanted to thank you for sharing yours Jenuall because theyre both amazing :lol:

A friend of mine was dropped at ours by his mum as his grandad had literally just died and she had to go and do all the medical/legal stuff and didn't want to bring him along.

I thought showing him my new game might cheer him up. It was Discworld 2 and it opened with this:

I only realised halfway through

Tafdolphin wrote:A friend of mine was dropped at ours by his mum as his grandad had literally just died and she had to go and do all the medical/legal stuff and didn't want to bring him along.

I thought showing him my new game might cheer him up. It was Discworld 2 and it opened with this:

I only realised halfway through

Eek! Hope they weren't too upset by it!

<]:^D wrote:nothing comes to mind right now but wanted to thank you for sharing yours Jenuall because theyre both amazing

Happy to share!

Not going to lie part of creating this thread was that I thought at least if I can give someone else a smile out of these moments then maybe it would have served some positive purpose and I wouldn't feel quite so bad about it! :slol:

I once told Taf that Night Call looked like Neo Cab

OrangeRKN wrote:I once told Taf that Night Call looked like Neo Cab

I think it was actually "I don't think Night Call looks as good as Neo Cab"

There’s a guy at work who comes in every day dressed up in cycling gear. It’s been a joke for a while that he looks like a Deliveroo employee and so this morning I said “Just finished your Deliveroo run have you!”.

He was not impressed.

Moggy wrote:There’s a guy at work who comes in every day dressed up in cycling gear. It’s been a joke for a while that he looks like a Deliveroo employee and so this morning I said “Just finished your Deliveroo run have you!”.

He was not impressed.

Particularly as he was just handing you your Wagamamas.

Rex Kramer wrote:
Moggy wrote:There’s a guy at work who comes in every day dressed up in cycling gear. It’s been a joke for a while that he looks like a Deliveroo employee and so this morning I said “Just finished your Deliveroo run have you!”.

He was not impressed.

Particularly as he was just handing you your Wagamamas.

Nah, he was eating crisps at the time.

Met up with a friend once, and as we were chatting i said "...the place (a cafe) was awful, it's such a depressing dump i'm surprised their regular customers don't end up calling the samaritans"

My friend had actually called them just a few days previous.

:fp:

Making a "your ma" joke only for the person to turn around and say their ma was dead.

I also once offered to carry a suit case for a girl at a train station, upon picking it up it was pretty heavy and I cracked something like "What you got in there, a dead relative?" which she thought was pretty funny. I then told my team at work the story only to find out one of my colleague's grandparents had passed away that morning.

My dad very rarely phones me (we get on fine, he’s just not somebody that likes the phone!) and so I should realise when he calls that something serious has happened. But twice I have done the same thing.

He called me early in the morning 5 or 6 years ago. I answered with a jokey “How dare you call me so early, this better be good!” only to be told that my grandad (his dad) had died.

A year or two after that my dad called me in the early evening. “What the hell do you want, must be bloody serious if you are calling me!” I laughingly said. Only to be told that my grandmother (his mum) and step-grandad had been in a serious car accident, my grandmother was severely injured in hospital and my step-grandfather was dead.

I just don’t answer the phone to him anymore. :dread:

At a party, was introduced to a friend of a friend and her boyfriend, thought I recognised the girl from an event a few weeks before where she’d been getting stick from her mates for getting thrown out of a bar for being...over enthusiastic in her affection with a guy in the smoking area”

“Aren’t you the two that got thrown out of X for making out in the smoking area?”. Think I made air quotations too.

Right girl, wrong guy.

Moggy wrote:My dad very rarely phones me (we get on fine, he’s just not somebody that likes the phone!) and so I should realise when he calls that something serious has happened. But twice I have done the same thing.

He called me early in the morning 5 or 6 years ago. I answered with a jokey “How dare you call me so early, this better be good!” only to be told that my grandad (his dad) had died.

A year or two after that my dad called me in the early evening. “What the hell do you want, must be bloody serious if you are calling me!” I laughingly said. Only to be told that my grandmother (his mum) and step-grandad had been in a serious car accident, my grandmother was severely injured in hospital and my step-grandfather was dead.

I just don’t answer the phone to him anymore.

It will be fitting if you say the same thing to whoever phones you to tell you that your dad is dead.

Not going into detail, but take my advice: don’t compliment your colleague’s new hairstyle. Apparently I was the only one in the office who didn’t know she was having chemotherapy.

Jesus Christ :lol:

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