Faux pas - putting your worst foot forward

[Alenda]

I've got many embarassing moments (as Belen will gladly attest), but a funny one was a couple weeks ago. Belen and I were out at a restaurant eating dinner and discussing what we planned to do that evening when we got home: read, watch TV, etc...

Well, I suddenly remembered something we needed to do. I had been absent from the last D&D session, and Belen (the DM) had told me that my character was kidnapped. We needed to do a short session to discuss how I planned to escape from my captors and rejoin the rest of the party.

So, remembering this, I blurt out loudly "I know! We can roleplay tonight!" The minute it was out of my mouth I realized how it must have sounded--especially to the couple in the next booth who started giving us odd looks.

Needless to say I turned bright red while Belen snorted up half the soda he'd been drinking.

 

[Timothy]

I probably had loads, but this happened to me last saturday.

I work with a lot of students and just a 3 guys who aren't (our bosses). Saturday is always a good day, because there's just a few of us and the work is slow. Our boss was reaaly in a good mood. Because work was slow (I work at a callcenter) we started talking a lot, also a bit about that boss, nothing bad, though. At that point, he comes out of his cubicle and jokingly says: You know, I just installed microfones at all your desks so I can hear whatever you say. Then he turns back to his desk. I pretend to be talking in "the microphone" and say: Let's see if the a--hole can hear this. Turns out he could...

Everybody went dead silent, he walks back and looks me straight in the eyes.
"Pack your things and leave, now" he says.

I just sit there, mortified.

after the longest thirty seconds In my life he starts laughing out loud.

Phew.....

 

[DarkSoldier]

Everybody went dead silent, he walks back and looks me straight in the eyes.
"Pack your things and leave, now" he says.

If that had happened to me, I wouldn't have hung around long enough to see him laugh. I would've been gone, assumed my career was over, and started looking for a new employer.

 

[Warrior Poet]

It's too bad more people aren't as witty as Oscar Wilde and Bernard Shaw as portrayed by the Monty Python gang.

Or even as witty as Wilde and Shaw were in real life.

Warrior Poet