Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time

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Reading this thread is like looking through my or mates past history of foot in mouth.
I was there when a mate announced to all of our partners that he had caught the fashion programme where the presenter said that black was a very slimming colour, everyone of the lasses was wearing black or dark blue.... cue tumbleweed.
The same lad also did the haway, when are you gonna break the good news to everyone speech. She was with pie, not baby :eek:.
Why is it the first thing out of your mouth after bad news "your joking".
 


ARs biscuit said:
Reading this thread is like looking through my or mates past history of foot in mouth.
I was there when a mate announced to all of our partners that he had caught the fashion programme where the presenter said that black was a very slimming colour, everyone of the lasses was wearing black or dark blue.... cue tumbleweed.
The same lad also did the haway, when are you gonna break the good news to everyone speech. She was with pie, not baby :eek:.
Why is it the first thing out of your mouth after bad news "your joking".
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An undertaker once said that to me when I informed him of a second death in less than 24 hours :lol:
 
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When I was working customer facing I once asked a customer when her baby was due given that she seemed to be wearing a maternity dress over what I incorrectly took to be a baby bump :oops:
After that I never asked anyone again unless they literally looked like they were about to give birth there and then lol
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Same. If they're not wearing one of these I'm taking the fifth

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KeefBeer said:
Went to funeral yesterday for a patient who died last week, at the funeral I spoke to his father and called him by his sons name, twice!!
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Once did an early delivery I was only 17 and the woman said she was going back to bed, so I said “wish I was coming with you” meaning I was tired. The woman said “I bet you do ya dirty little get!!!” My mate (the driver) and the woman thought it was hilarious listening to me explaining what I meant all red faced digging a bigger hole.
 
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A mate told me his dad had dementia. Thinking he was joking, My immediate response was, “well he always was a bit barking”.
 
A mate of mine was already in the pub when I got there.
He'd earlier been at the hospital for hours with his wife in labour and ready to give birth.
I ignorantly assumed that because he was sitting in the pub with a pint in his hand, that all had gone smoothly with the birth, and offered my congratulations on him becoming a Dad.
I wished the floor could have opened up and swallowed me whole, when he told me his wife had miscarried :cry:
I really couldn't offer enough apologies for my ignorance.
Something I won't forget or repeat again. :(

His wife lost the baby due to a stillbirth.
 
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Horley Chorley said:
A mate of mine was already in the pub when I got there.
He'd earlier been at the hospital for hours with his wife in labour and ready to give birth.
I ignorantly assumed that because he was sitting in the pub with a pint in his hand, that all had gone smoothly with the birth, and offered my congratulations on him becoming a Dad.
I wished the floor could have opened up and swallowed me whole, when he told me his wife had miscarried :cry:
I really couldn't offer enough apologies for my ignorance.
Something I won't forget or repeat again. :(

His wife lost the baby due to a stillbirth.
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Similar... My niece passed away at 5 months old (this was 15 years ago).

I got a call at work and rushed out leaving everything unlocked etc. It was almost 5pm so nobody really noticed too much.

Had the final two days of the week off work and went back in on the Monday.

Only person who knew what had happened was my manager and couple of people who had got wind.

Went for bait in the canteen and we were talking about something when one of the lads said “you can talk, you pulled a sickie just in time for the weekend”.

I didn’t say anything in front of everyone, that wouldn’t have been nice. I left the bait room just slightly before everyone else and someone told him.

He came and apologised straight away, didn’t need an apology, it’s the sort of thing anyone would have said, he was just the unfortunate one. He felt absolutely shite though...
 
Goat Eyes said:
Similar... My niece passed away at 5 months old (this was 15 years ago).

I got a call at work and rushed out leaving everything unlocked etc. It was almost 5pm so nobody really noticed too much.

Had the final two days of the week off work and went back in on the Monday.

Only person who knew what had happened was my manager and couple of people who had got wind.

Went for bait in the canteen and we were talking about something when one of the lads said “you can talk, you pulled a sickie just in time for the weekend”.

I didn’t say anything in front of everyone, that wouldn’t have been nice. I left the bait room just slightly before everyone else and someone told him.

He came and apologised straight away, didn’t need an apology, it’s the sort of thing anyone would have said, he was just the unfortunate one. He felt absolutely shite though...
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Just an unfortunate mistake/misunderstanding.
We all make them, but the thing is to learn from them and hopefully not repeat them.
Mine, like others, was down to ignorance and assumption.
 
In the pub after work many years ago when I worked at London Electric with a few colleagues and a couple of others who were friends of colleagues but I'd never met them before. I started slagging off some lass we worked with and that I couldn't f***ing stand her. One of these others pipes up that it's her sister.
 
Once called me mate a big fat liar joking on, without even thinking he was canny big and fat until the words had left my mouth and gone back in my own ears. I could see it registered with him mind, in the way his eyes widened a bit. I just left it there, didn't want to dig any more :lol:.
 
Goat Eyes said:
Similar... My niece passed away at 5 months old (this was 15 years ago).

I got a call at work and rushed out leaving everything unlocked etc. It was almost 5pm so nobody really noticed too much.

Had the final two days of the week off work and went back in on the Monday.

Only person who knew what had happened was my manager and couple of people who had got wind.

Went for bait in the canteen and we were talking about something when one of the lads said “you can talk, you pulled a sickie just in time for the weekend”.

I didn’t say anything in front of everyone, that wouldn’t have been nice. I left the bait room just slightly before everyone else and someone told him.

He came and apologised straight away, didn’t need an apology, it’s the sort of thing anyone would have said, he was just the unfortunate one. He felt absolutely shite though...
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A lass I work with did something similar. A colleague was leaving work early due to a death, I knew but the lass who I share a room with didn't and she said something along the lines of "What are you doing leaving at this hour? Skiving?". It wasn't even me that said it but I wanted the ground to swallow me up.

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Once called me mate a big fat liar joking on, without even thinking he was canny big and fat until the words had left my mouth and gone back in my own ears. I could see it registered with him mind, in the way his eyes widened a bit. I just left it there, didn't want to dig any more :lol:.
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Done this more than a fair few times when people order a lot of bait/eat something unhealthy. I just try to laugh it off to make them realise it's definitely a joke and I'm not having a go.
 
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Was at @foolzy ’s wedding, asked his sisters which one was due first. One was with child, other wasn’t. The husband of the one that wasn’t found it hilarious.

Then there was an incident whilst on my work placement from university where I wished the ground would open up and swallow me, thankfully @TheWanderer took it quite well!
 
Once asked a large lass who I knew had been pregnant and pushing a buggy ( clue) when the bairn was due :oops:
 
Former colleague now retired hadn't been in head office for some time whereas I used to see him fairly regularly when I was down there. Asked him if he had been skiving, he told me his wife had only a few months to live and he had been avoiding travelling. Probably the most awkward I've ever felt in my life.
 
A bloke I worked with (would have been in his 50s) had grown his hair quite long so I made a weedy comment along the lines of 'get your hair cut, hippy'. He just made a bit of a face, which was probably no more than the comment deserved. Couple of months later we were told he was having a sex change and had attempted suicide twice.
 
Have said a few times out loud 'it's Chinese whispers' in our Hong Kong office and then thought, fuck
 
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