UPDATE!-One of Life's Most Embarassing Moments!

[crazymomof4]

I just got back from my kid's field day at the school. While there I saw a little girl with a trach (tube in her throat). She was escorted by a nurse. Since I was also a home health nurse I approached and introduced myself. The nurse and I were having a pleasant conversation when a woman came and silently stood by us. Even though she didn't introduce herself, I gathered that she was part of this family. Since she appeared to be about 60 years old and the little girl was 4, I said, "And you must be Grandmom?" BIG MISTAKE! She replied, "No, I'm her mom, and I think you just insulted me!" I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me right then and there! I apologized and continued to pursue a friendly conversation with her. I guess I turned it around because before I left them I shook her hand and said that it was good to meet her and she said, "If you ever have any free time, we would like to have you come and help us out with [the little girl]" (I used to work for the agency that handles the case and provides 24 hr nursing care for them.) Even though it ended well, I'm mortified when I think of what I said!
Please share your most embarassing moments so that I know I'm not the only one with foot-in-mouth disease.

 

[kejoda]

I think you did a good job in turning it around. And I wouldn't worry about it. happens all the time to many many people.

I'm sure I made some mistakes like that but I've must of blocked them out because I can't think of them.

 

[CamColt]

OMG, Im sorry but I am cracking up! Oh the horror you must have felt.

DH had a moment like that once, it was very sad though. He worked for a company where he talked to people in other offices on the phone a lot. One woman he knew was pregnant. Then he left the company to go to another. About 6 months later the first company called him with an offer he couldnt refuse so he went back. After being back a few months he was talking to that same woman. Making small talk he asked how old the baby was now(thinking he had missed the birth announcement while he was gone). She had to tell him that she lost the baby at the very end of her pregnancy. He felt horrible!

 

[binny]

well Im sure you havent been the only one to say that if she is that much older or even looks it.


Good job turning it around!

 

[honeywolf7]

Before Roger and I were living together, he told me about his brother who's in the Air Force. I asked him how old his brother was and then he told me that he was 34 and asked if I'd like to meet him......Well, I thought he was jealous because I'd asked about another guy and was kind of testing me. I said "No....I don't need to." He gave me this look and said "Well, if you don't want to meet my family you don't have to."
(I have since met his brother.)

 

[Kissimmee JP]

When my 6 y.o. was 2, he saw a rather "large" man at the grocery store and asked me very LOUDLY if that guy had a baby in his tummy like mommy does.

Needless to say, we didn't stick around and shop....

 

[Jingle]

This happened when my daughter was 4. We were by the check out lanes in a K-Mart, when this man wearing a turbin came walking up. Well, she looked at him and said (very loudly), Look Mom, A Fortune Teller!

 

[lisajl]

I went to the pharmacy for some medication and had my then 3 year old DD with me.

We walked up an aisle to go out of the store. I stopped when I saw a friend. As soon as I was done talking my DD pointed to some condoms. I guess I stopped on the wrong aisle....

She saw the photo on the box of a couple smiling as said, "Look mommy, those make you happy!"

Needless to say, I turned red and left the store as quickly as possible.

Lisajl

 

[RUDisney]

The lady shouldn't have been so sensitive. My parents had my youngest sister when Mom was 46 and Dad was 48. He especially was always told how well behaved his granddaughter was. Especially when I was with him and her because I am 24 years older than my sister. If they ever commented back to the person, it was always lighthearted and they always tried to not make them feel stupid.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

Mine all seem to be child related! One day waiting at the pharmacy a state trooper came in , dressed in uniform, and DS said "look mom, a cowboy!" The guy laughed and laughed. On the other hand, at church a few weeks ago we got in small groups for prayer time and after a few nice prayers (people thankful daughter wasn't in tornadoes in Tenn., etc. ) DD#1 said "I want to pray for my cat, Micky, because she has a sore on her butt."
Robin M.

 

[Jenn Lynn]

I told a woman that her son was so cute. "He" was a "she." Now I always say "Your baby is so cute" And ask the name.

When I was very young my Mom had me in the mall. I dropprd my teddy bear and a lady picked it up and handed it too me. And I said "She is fat!" My Mom wanted to crawl in a hole!

 

[jwsqrdplus2]

We were shopping one day, and DD4 announced she needed to go to the bathroom. So she and I head for the family bathroom nearby rather than truck all the way to the other end of the store to the ladies room. When we got to the family bathroom, someone was in there, but I heard the sink running so we decided to wait. As a lady is leaving, DD runs towards the bathroom, stops short, then turns around to me and says rather loudly, "Eeewwww, Mommy it stinks in here!" Of course, the woman was still in earshot when DD said that. And guess what, DD was right; it was pretty stinky!

 

[crazymomof4]

OMG these are so funny! Not only do I feel better but I nearly choked on my sandwich laughing so hard reading them!

The kid related ones brought to mind several of my own:

*For ultasound of 4th baby they took me in first. While DH waited w/ other kids in lounge area a man with a black eye patch came in and signed in. My 3yo DS jumped into father's lap and said loudly, "I'm afraid of that pirate!" The man did not hear but the rest of the people waiting burst into laughter. When my DH told me after the ultrasound I almost pee'd my pants bc. my bladder was still somewhat full from the test.
*In a stall in a public bathroom W/ 3yo DS. He hears the woman in the next stall and says loudly, "Listen, Mom, that lady had to pee too!" We stayed in the stall until she left!
*Just last week in a store w/ 2yo DD and she says, "That lady has a big hiney!" I was SO glad the woman did not hear!

RUDisney- I agree that she should not have made me feel bad with what she said. I did not mean it maliciously. She really did look 60! Like others have posted, I'm sure she gets it a lot.
When all 3 of my boys were babies I always got, "What a cut little girl". So as not to make them feel bad I always said, "I know, he's cute enough to be a girl baby." She, too, could have handled it better, but I wrote off her sensitivity (and aged appearance) to what she no doubt has been through having a child with many physical problems.

Someone should start a "Kids say the darndest things" thread. I really enjoyed these stories.

 

[dclwdwlover]

When I was in my late teens my then longtime boyfriend was quite a flirter & I was always quite jealous. There was a girl who I was not very nice to very often because she always 'egged on' my jealousy by flirting back with him all the more whenever I was around. Needless to say we didn't really care for each other.
When I was in my early 20's I ran into her in the post office & I figured my was of 'letting bygones be bygones' was to say hello & give her a nice compliment - especially since I saw she was very pregnant & happy.
So, I said, as friendly as I could, "Hi there, Ellen. How are you? When is your baby due?"
She got this extremely mad look on her face, raised her voice and seethed, "I HAD IT TWO WEEKS AGO!!!!!"

 

[phyllis1966]

Hmmm...why do so many of these embarrassing moments have to do with kids... anyway, here's mine: My DD (then 3 years old) were shopping in a lingerie store and I was pushing her in her stroller. We walked past a woman with very short hair ( and a bit masculine-looking, if I may say so without offending anyone) and my DD asked me, quite loudly, "Mommy, is that a boy or a girl?" We were so close to this woman that she must have heard, so I just ignored the question and kept walking - fast! I didn't know what else to do at the moment, but I explained "different strokes for different folks" to her at a later time!

 

[bambii]

my youngest and I were in walmart waiting in the produce section for my husband and my other son.

that is were we meet.

We are waiting and my son is sitting in the cart saying Hi and bye to everyone, like always.. So during one hello he said Hi daddy and it wasnt his daddy looked nothing like his dad (I was looking for a hole to climb into.) the guy responded hi son. I think he was embarresed too.

 

[Gette88]

I bumped into a friend from high school whom I had lost touch with. We hugged and with a big smile I said "Hi Missy, your pregnant"! She shook her head with an uncomfortable look on her face & said "no I'm not". I almost died. I said very quickly "oh I heard through the grapevine you were expecting." Then I asked if she has kids and when she said yes 2 I said that must of been it. It was probably her 2nd child I had heard about. She let me off the hook and said that must have been it. She really looked very pregnant at the time. Oh well, I never ask if someone is pregnant anymore.

 

[JESW]

Oh yes, never EVER ask a woman if she is pregnant! I've made that mistake before...

One day when DD was 3 we were in the bathroom in the movies. I was on the toilet and she was dancing around. She backed into the door and it opened - to all the ladies waiting after a movie. There is no graceful way to get up off a toilet to shut the stall door.

The other day (she's 4 now) we were in Wal-mart when a biker-looking guy walked in and she said - "Mom, look at the pirate!" And he heard her..

She was looking through a hand-held magnifying glass and when she looked at me she said - "Mom, this makes your butt look even bigger!"

My little one is the queen of embarassing comments...

Jill

 

[crazymomof4]

In response to all of the "oh, your pregnant!" stories. I have to admit that I reversed this once. I always wanted to do this and with my last pregnancy I finally did. When I was just begining to show, an aquaintance, who I knew could take a joke, asked, "Are you expecting?" I patted my belly and said, "No, I just really need to do some sit-ups!" After observing the look on her face for a second or two I told her that, yes, I was, and we both got a laugh out of it.

 

[4greatboys]

I used to work in an imaging facility where we did x-rays, mri's, ct's, etc. Well one of the Houston Rockets came in for a MRI and it was related to an injury he had while playing. He had had several injuries at different times. But for the insurance claim we must list the date of injury. So the MRI tech put him on the phone and I asked which date of injury this one is related to to. And he told so then apparently I felt the need to say that he had so many I just wanted to make sure I had the right one. Talk about inserting foot into mouth.