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When were you accidently an A$$
Do you guys have any good foot in mouth stories?
I am a master at saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and totally not meaning any offense by it.
Usually I only make things awkward ? like yesterday when my neighbor?s dog got unrestrained (he has a corkscrew like thing that goes in the ground) I was going to go put it back in the ground on their side of the lot when they came outside; I didn?t want them to think I had pulled the rope out (why I thought they would think that, I don?t know) so I turned to the dog and said ?where does this go, you got lose again silly dog.? The neighbor asked me if he had gotten lose and I turned around and acted like I had not seen her there and said ?Oh, hello? and finding nothing else to say handed her the corkscrew part and walked away. Smooth.
Anyways, the time that sticks out to me as a real accidental A$$ moment is from at least 10 years ago?.we were taking a field trip with our confirmation group and we stopped by my confirmation leader?s house. She had a son we wanted to meet. Her son was autistic, but we did not really know what that meant. She tried to explain to us that he couldn?t handle being around other people and we said something along the lines of ?but we are such awesome people, who wouldn?t want to talk to us.? That part was joking and not the a$$ part, the a$$ part is when I said (an I am pretty sure meant it at the time) ?let us go talk to him, we can FIX him.?
I am not sure why she let us go see him. She opened the door, he saw people he didn?t know, started yelling and got up to slam the door. My friends and I very clearly found him scary and moved away as fast as possible.
I didn?t think about it again until I started working in a group home. Now something triggers that memory at least 6 times a year and I feel totally embarrassed. I didnt know enough at the time to know that was really rude thing of me to say, then do, but I do know.
Re: When were you accidently an A$$
A few years ago we were having a family Christmas celebration (not actually at Christmas - for some reason I couldn't go home at Christmas that year). My uncle started talking about some book he liked and how the writing reminded him of the truly great classics, like Dickens. This prompted me to go on and on about how much I absolutely hate Dickens and I think he's so overrated and how it takes him pages upon pages to get to the point. I think I even mentioned how the first chapter of Oliver Twist is like 5 pages and all it says is "the baby was born.' and the second paragraph equally as long and all it said was "the baby breathed."
Then I opened up my gift from him and it was The Complete works of Charles Dickens.
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this is priceless.