Faux pas - putting your worst foot forward

[The Shaman]

Faux pas: An embarrassing blunder, especially a social blunder.

Yes, I really put my foot in it this morning: I walked in on my sister-in-law while she was taking a shower.

If my sister-in-law visits on the weekend, she showers and gets dressed in the master bedroom - we close the bedroom door while she's in there so she can have privacy. I heard the shower and saw that the bedroom door was open, so I thought it was my wife getting ready.

It wasn't. My wife forgot to close the door.

Care to share one of your own missteps while I wait for the blushing to stop?

 

[DarkSoldier]

Due to my crippling fear of rejection, I rarely enter any situation where I could commit a faux pas; nearly everytime I have, I did.

 

[JamesDJarvis]

Sleeping over a girlfriends grandparents house I once got up in the middle of the night, couldn't find the bathroom light and being fearful of waking anyone I felt about in the dark, located the toilet and unknowingly urinated on the toilet lid.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I once asked a fat lady when the baby was due.

I try to avoid a situation where I can make a food of myself.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I try to avoid a situation where I can make a food of myself.

Not all that well though, eh?

Sorry, it was too tempting.

 

[Rel]

I'd say that I make an ass of myself on a fairly regular basis. It's becoming less frequent as I grow older but I also feel that the sorts of people who take the most offense at my occasional off-color remarks are not people that I want to be friends with anyway.

But my real question for The Shaman is did you get a good look and did you like what you saw?

(For the record, this is a pretty good example of the sorts of off-color remarks that I tend to make.)

 

[Scotley]

I once asked a fat lady when the baby was due.

I try to avoid a situation where I can make a food of myself.

Are you suggesting that fat people might be cannibles? That could be a faux pas...

 

[Rel]

I once asked a fat lady when the baby was due.

My personal rule on this is that I never EVER speculate on whether a woman might be pregnant unless I see an actual baby coming out of her at that very moment!

I will also say however that you're generally safe from bodily harm (or consumption) as it isn't hard to outrun a woman fat enough to look pregnant. Just start leading off while you're making the comment to be on the safe side.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Since I actually left the military I have gotten better -

1) I was a non-Morse collector (Intelligence) who had to take a stupid Morse code proficiency test in order to get my job access back - during the testing the Sergeant First Class in charge noticed the hard time I was having and said "Come on kid this easy, don't you know how to copy code?" I replied, "Sure, you hit play and record and give it to some hog(sort for 98H or Mosre code collector) who no other purpose in life." The SFC looked me dead in the eye and said, "I'm a hog."
Yoinks!
2) At an assembly to explian the new gov't travel card system that was being funded by American Express it was stated that we would be ultimately financially responsible for the bill ever 30 days. I made the comment to the presenting officer, "Sir, you mean to tell me that if we don't pay the bill every 30 days, we are responsible?" "Yes, Specialist" "Ok, sir, so if finance doesn't pay me I still have to fork over my paycheck?" "Well, yes, but DFAS will have that money in your account right on time." "Excusing me for saying sir, but I really don't have a lot of confidence in this system, I mean it's not like finance has never screwed up before!" (That last was said with extreme sarcasim" *From behind me I hear * *Ermm koff*
I turn around and the full bird Colonel behind me is wearing the officer isignia of a finance officer..
I'm really glad I got out of the military - bullets I can handle, my mouth however...

 

[Belen]

But my real question for The Shaman is did you get a good look and did you like what you saw?

Yep. This was my first thought too.