Things you have said you wished you could put back in your mouth

[NoEffingWay]

The time I told a colleague her hair reminded me of my parents dog spring to mind. To be fair the dog had glossy, auburn hair that I was jealous of. She looked horrified and a bit angry and my explanation did not go down well.

It was years ago and I still feel hot when I remember her looking at me in a combination of !

I got roped into becoming a swimming official via the DCs swimming club. At competitions every 20mins or so someone goes round with a tray of drinks so we don't keel over in the heat.

During a long 800m race the lady with the drinks commented about how amazing it was that the swimmers keep count of what length they're on. I need to aswell so I know when to stop the stopwatch and what turn we're on for disqualification forms. So I said 'yeah I really need to concentrate or I'll fuck up' she then looked really hurt and walked off.
I meant its hard to keep track, not fuck off you're distracting me. She avoided me for the rest of the night so I couldn't explain.

@NoEffingWay

The time I told a colleague her hair reminded me of my parents dog spring to mind. To be fair the dog had glossy, auburn hair that I was jealous of. She looked horrified and a bit angry and my explanation did not go down well.

It was years ago and I still feel hot when I remember her looking at me in a combination of !

She was daft to be insulted by that. Years ago my dad told me my hair was the colour of an Irish setter and I was thrilled with that. They have gorgeous hair. In fact i quite fancy trying to match the colour of ginger cats coat these days!

Far too many examples than I can write here. Many many hurtful things, usually said in anger.

Repeated a rather risque comment I'd read in a very adult book that I shouldn't have been reading aged about 14, to a friend and her mother. As soon as I said it and saw the mum's expression, I wanted the ground to swallow me up. Still cringe now thinking about to be honest, nearly 20 years later.

Things said in anger have usually been far more sailor-like linguistically than my usual vernacular style. I do enjoy a swear but my mother would be horrified to know I had called my ex-h a cunt in the street he was being a cunt though but I only feel awkward that my neighbours might have heard me!

I am more embarrassed by the social faux pas's made whilst involved in general conversation. Far too frequently in my experience

A lady from a mixed race marriage was talking to me about senior schools. She said she was concerned about her chosen school not being diverse enough, and that she did not want her daughter to be the only black girl in the school. I told her not to be so silly, colour is only skin deep etc. How much of a twat did I feel when I actually thought about what I had said, especially this summer when black people were talking about their experiences and (some) white people were very dismissive. I have always regretted that.

Ohh, so many! And each still makes me .

The worst was when discussing hair with a lady at playgroup- I mentioned that I'm glad DD didn't inherit my ginger hair. Then remembered her daughter has ginger hair. 🤦

I remember coming back from a gig with DPs friend and his wife, I only met them recently and was generally trying to make friends. We decided to go to a pub for drinks and I was quite hungry by that point but we weren't really planning to eat, I spotted the specials board as we were walking in and went "ooooh it's steak night" and gave the wife a bit of a nudge nudge as in "shall we eat after all" and I got a bit of a blank stare/no reaction which I found a bit odd but brushed it off.

It only hit me that night as I laid in bed that they're strictly VEGAN and there I was trying to coerce her with steak