sandar
January 19th, 2010, 12:37
How many of us have made a mess of trying to say something? Your brain knows what it wants you to say, but your mouth lets you down.
Reading Obio's story of bad mouthing his sister when they were kids reminded me of a few of my Faux pas (what's the plural?) Three stick in my mind.
The first occurred when I was an impressionable young teenager.
Shortly before Christmas I went into a shop to do some Christmas shopping. I had selected my purchases , but wanted some wrapping paper and couldn't find what I was looking for. I spotted a young girl who worked in the shop at weekends, so went over to ask where I might find the wrapping paper.
Except it didn't quite come out quite as I planned. The whole male population of the school had the hots for this particular girl, me included. I got tongue tied, instead of asking, " where is the Christmas Wrapping paper?" I asked, "where is the crapping paper?"
Red face, followed by rapid exit.
The second occurred when I was working in Germany. I had only been in the country a few weeks and hadn't learnt much of the language.
I had been invited by one of my new friends to go shooting at the village gun club. The range was in an old, disused stone quarry in the middle of a small forest.
The wife of the manager asked me where I was going, remember, my vocabulary was very limited. I did not know the words for "gun club", "quarry" or "shooting range". I did however know the right words for shooting, forest etc, but instead of saying "I am going shooting in the woods", I said, " I am going for a sh1t in the woods"
I never did live that one down
The last one was at a house warming party about 15 years ago at my sister in law's new house. They had two young children and another on the way. As is usual with these types of get together, people congregated in different rooms. I was in the living room talking to some people who included my parents in law. I explained that my sister in law intended to convert the huge kitchen into a kitchen/dining room and use the dining room as a play room for the kids and that living room would be a living room.
What I actually said and I blame the beer and wine, was, "They are going to use the dining room as a nursery and the living room as an adultery".
Stony silence followed, then laughter as they realised my mistake.
Any of you made similar goofs that you are prepared to admit to and share?
Reading Obio's story of bad mouthing his sister when they were kids reminded me of a few of my Faux pas (what's the plural?) Three stick in my mind.
The first occurred when I was an impressionable young teenager.
Shortly before Christmas I went into a shop to do some Christmas shopping. I had selected my purchases , but wanted some wrapping paper and couldn't find what I was looking for. I spotted a young girl who worked in the shop at weekends, so went over to ask where I might find the wrapping paper.
Except it didn't quite come out quite as I planned. The whole male population of the school had the hots for this particular girl, me included. I got tongue tied, instead of asking, " where is the Christmas Wrapping paper?" I asked, "where is the crapping paper?"
Red face, followed by rapid exit.
The second occurred when I was working in Germany. I had only been in the country a few weeks and hadn't learnt much of the language.
I had been invited by one of my new friends to go shooting at the village gun club. The range was in an old, disused stone quarry in the middle of a small forest.
The wife of the manager asked me where I was going, remember, my vocabulary was very limited. I did not know the words for "gun club", "quarry" or "shooting range". I did however know the right words for shooting, forest etc, but instead of saying "I am going shooting in the woods", I said, " I am going for a sh1t in the woods"
I never did live that one down
The last one was at a house warming party about 15 years ago at my sister in law's new house. They had two young children and another on the way. As is usual with these types of get together, people congregated in different rooms. I was in the living room talking to some people who included my parents in law. I explained that my sister in law intended to convert the huge kitchen into a kitchen/dining room and use the dining room as a play room for the kids and that living room would be a living room.
What I actually said and I blame the beer and wine, was, "They are going to use the dining room as a nursery and the living room as an adultery".
Stony silence followed, then laughter as they realised my mistake.
Any of you made similar goofs that you are prepared to admit to and share?