Taboo
We had invited a relatively new senior employee and his wife round for dinner (with the boss if you will) but was told by my missus to avoid the topic of babies as she was aware that they had in the past had several miscarriages and a still birth so clearly it would be an understandably sensitive subject. Unfortunately my brain and my mouth must have had some sort of argument and weren't talking to each other which is how a couple of hours later I managed to crowbar the sentence "You don't want to go to [local] hospital if you can avoid it, most things that go in tend to come out dead!" into the post dessert repartee.

I couldn't even get my coat seeing as it was our house.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 3 Nov 2011, 23:10, 2 replies)

Boss round for dinner? Doing something daft to upset his wife?
Do you live in a 1970s sitcom‽ ㋡
(champagnerocker, Fri 4 Nov 2011, 22:45, closed)

Other way round (my wife is his boss) but I take your point.
See my other post(http://www.b3ta.com/questions/tactless/post1418787) for further sitcom style antics as I allude to in the comments bizarrely.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Sat 5 Nov 2011, 12:45, closed)