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

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rinks wrote: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:

I nearly did something similar with a colleague going through chemo but realised before making any dodgy comments! I did spend most of a meeting glancing at their hair and thinking "something has changed here..."

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

I was at a party once and everyone was pretty drunk. A friend of mine that I didn't really know that well made a lighthearted crack about my mother bring proud of me after I drank vodka put of a teapot or something like that.

"JOKE'S ON YOU, MY MUM'S DEAD!"

The room was silent until she ran upstairs crying.

In a management training course last week, the lecturer was talking about what causes people to act differently in the workplace. He asked "how do you get kids?(in the workplace)

I dont think anyone was expecting me to say "sweets"

In the canteen and talking about marriage and kids. Someone asked if I wanted kids and I replied “yes but not until I’m married, after all who wants a bastard child!” Only to look around and see three people including my boss who all had kids outside of marriage. Tense atmosphere.

strawberry float sake Rinks :lol:

Once when an ex (busty, but little else going on) was getting ready, I held a bit of A4 paper over her chest and said

"60% less attractive"

She didn't find it funny.

rinks wrote: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.

Little over two months left. Ending the '10s on a high note, ey Rinks? Bravo. Bravo indeed.

Well, I gatecrashed a funeral a few weeks back.

Well, not a funeral, a wake, and in the back room of a local pub which, in fairness, often shows sports.

I had just assumed it was a sombre Iceland style buffet that the pub had put on to celebrate Stoke Vs Wigan or whatever, and really had a go at the quality of the sausage rolls, sweaty cheese and the silver skin onions. People were laughing along with it as well, until I noticed other people were wearing black ties and crying.

I stopped loading up my plate at roughly that point. How did I know the deceased, I was asked? Oh, just around, I said.

But honestly, it was a rotten buffet so I'm not even that ashamed.

Also, accidentally sent a text to the sister of a friend of mine.

Nothing fruity, it was just a long text about absolutely nothing, sent at about 4 am when I'd only met her once, about 5 years ago.

But she has responded with a similarly long text, and now I actually don't know if I've put my foot in it or not.

Oh, also. I made a porn joke in front of an ex's parents.

I think it was mild, just using the word 'milf' in a game of Scrabble, but it made her dad crease up laughing and caused a mild family rupture

I started young with this.

When I was very small, about 3, my Nana (my Mum's mum) died.

My mum told me years later that when they went round to her house to clear it out, apparently I ran from room to room saying 'Where's Nana?'

Way to rub it in, young Lime..

Some crackers in here :lol:

I've made some abolsute howlers over the years. I'll have a think about the worst ones and post them later.

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...

Also, cant the person freeze their sperm prior to the Op? Dont' mention THAT at the dinner table though!

Lime wrote:I started young with this.

When I was very small, about 3, my Nana (my Mum's mum) died.

My mum told me years later that when they went round to her house to clear it out, apparently I ran from room to room saying 'Where's Nana?'

Way to rub it in, young Lime..

We walked past my nan's old flat a few days after her wake. 5 year old me: "Mummy, are we going to have any more parties now that Nanny's dead?"

rinks wrote: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.

Archive request :lol:

I've been taken off all work and put on a specific urgent work set, meaning I have to tell everyone who asks that I can't work on anything of theirs for the foreseeable future.

I was relaying this to a manager, and mocking the response one person sent me when I told them this, complete with silly voice and hand gestures.

Only after finishing what in was saying did the manager remind me it was him that had said it.

:dread:

Oh strawberry float

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