Unintended insults

grannyknot That was her fault, the way she said it was misleading. She should have said because I broke up .......

I put my foot in it today! Not quite an insult, but ...my dear old neighbour passed away on Monday after a long illness and I stopped in to commiserate with her daughter in law who has started packing up the house.

In conversation she said "MIL didn't like me at first, blamed me for the break up of her son's first marriage". I said something along the lines of "Oh dear, well you didn't ..." saw her face and finished lamely "... did you?" (the couple have adult children) and she replied "Yes I did, you can't help who you fall in love with, now can you". Oops.

I was at a works do with my hubby and we were talking to one of his workmates whom I had met before and engaged in conversation. He was with a woman I thought I had spoken to before and I was talking about her children, as they were there at the time of our first meeting.

I prattled on for a while and the woman put her hand up and said, "I'm sorry I am his wife and we don't have children, I think you believe me to be his b----y mistress". OUCH!

Ex husband and I were heading to a fancy dress party where everyone was dressed to attend a horse racing party of the 1940s. Another couple were also heading to the party and my husband asked the woman if she was going dressed as a jockey. She did look like she had jodhpurs on and was one of the few people who hadn't dressed up. I wished at that moment the footpath had opened up and swallowed him. He looked very embarrassed when he realised it was just the shape of her legs.

A work colleague (who was actually pretty ill with cancer) once said to me "You're lucky, when you feel rough you look rough"

It became a standing joke around the office.

Bless her, she's dead now.

I think I might have posted this before. I had some very serious surgery in 1971 and was left with what I still think of as fairly hideous scars like a London Underground map across my belly. Sometime a little later in one of those communal changing rooms in clothes shops we had in those days, a complete stranger looked at me and asked, aghast, "Are those scars real?"

I asked a teacher when her baby was due - she wasn't pregnant.

Jane

I'm glad you trained as a dentist not a therapist, I would guess you would have had a lot less clients.

Eloethan A lady once wanted me to crown her lower front teeth.
I told her it wasn't a good idea and she would be wasting her money.
Unfortunately I then added, 'Why don't you buy yourself some nice clothes instead?' [