Have you ever said anything that you really, really regret later?
Yeah, I did that this past weekend. I’m still too mortified to talk about it. What did you say, and how did you get over it?
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Lunchtime Poll: Insert Foot in Mouth
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All the freaking time!
Every. Damn. Day.
Story of my life.
I say stuff I wish I could immediately take back almost on a daily basis. It’s the type of thing that leads to horrible embarrassment flashbacks years down the road.
I hear that. There are stupid things I said decades ago that still make me cringe.
Oh yes, I do this shit all the time. If I tried to list them all I’d be here til the cows come home. I seem to have a faulty wire between the think and speak function of my brain – or type and post, in some cases. It also doesn’t help that I’m incredibly dense some times, and miss nuances that might tip me off on what is and isn’t appropriate to say.
All I ever know to do is apologize, then stfu and put a lot of salt on the crow. I’ll never get used to eating crow, but I have learned how to not choke on the feathers.
The most recent I can remember is replying to a message about a friend getting her baby: “Is that seriously her name?”
I awkwardly talked myself out of it with some bad joking. I think. But oh lords, I still taste the toes on my inside cheek.
Off-topic: Shakesville keyed me on to this…
Go look at Mitt Romney’s facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mittromney
Hit refresh.
Amusement follows.
I’ve been laughing at this for a couple of days now :-D
Ok now the comment boxes are just fucking with me
One of the first comments on one of his pictures is an ad. I love it.
Nothing catastrophic so far, thankfully. That one time though, when I was talking to a friend about another friend’s horrible taste in men and willingness to put up with abusive tools, I did wonder out loud if her disastrous relationships could have something to do with her never having witnessed one that works when growing up… And then it occurred to me that the friend I was telling this to is also an only child of a single mother, and her father’s also always been absent from her life, and she’s been single after a string of shitty relationships. Oops.
I said something really terrible to an employee at a campus library when I was in college, out of exhaustion and just being a self-centered 18-year-old. It sat with me for several years before I sent a card apologizing to the same library. I didn’t know the dude’s name so I described him. I really hope it actually got to the dude.