Foot in Mouth SyndromeWhat's the worst social gaffe you've ever made? When you know you've said the wrong thing to the wrong person and wish the ground would swallow you up. In other words you've just contracted a bad case of foot in mouth syndrome. Tell us your stories and we'll share your pain.
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rob, Tue 20 Apr 2004, 22:27)
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Just a few weeks ago, actually...Before the professor had arrived to class one afternoon, a friend and I were chatting with a few of the other students. I forget exactly what the conversation was about, but at one point we were teasing someone else for a previous incident in which they'd been particularly shocked at something or the other - “We thought you were going to have a seizure!” as one of us cleverly put it.
“Yeah, we thought we were going to have to put a spoon in your mouth to keep you from biting off your tongue!” I added, thinking I was being, if possible, Even More Clever.
“It's actually very hard to pry apart someone's jaws to do that, you know,” said my friend. And continued, completely nonchalantly: “I've had to before – for my mother ...” [who has multiple sclerosis... a fact which I had *known* before, but somehow had managed to completely slip my mind...]
I haven't stopped cringing since.
(, Fri 23 Apr 2004, 1:33, Reply)
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