Your worst faux pas

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Reading a coronation menu just reminded me of this, it was 20 years ago and I still cringe 😬

I was in my first proper job, first posh Christmas party and the food had servers but you had to go up to the table, get a plate and go along the line.

The starter had a few options, ham, melon, compote stuff, a few other things.

I moved along the line and stopped and held mh plate out at each server, thinking this doesn't ago, this is a bit odd, got an odd look but thought nothing of it at the time, 🙈 you weren't supposed to take a portion of everything, you were supposed to choose melon OR the other thing, not all of it 🥴

I doubt anyone but the servers noticed but I still cringe a bit now.

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@MyDarlingWhatIfYouFly 😂that has got to be the funniest thing I’ve read on MN

@Ozgirl75 I’ve done similar.
DH (then just BF) uncle died. We travelled up north for the funeral.
At the cemetery he introduced me to these two old dears and I’m shaking their hand with a big friendly grin on my face saying “pleased to meet you” and they are both looking at me in horror. It was their brothers funeral.
Over 20 years ago and DH still brings it up.

When my DC was a newborn, my (very proactive) health visitor was unconvinced when I told her that there was no gas leak, it was the furniture polish.

In my haste, I found myself spraying a wooden Giraffe mantlepiece ornament, buffing it to a quick shine and handing it to her to sniff. 😂

Someone else's faux pas, but...

At my DHs DGFs wake, a woman approached my DH and said "oooh, I haven't seen you for years, wow, look how you've grown up!!" etc etc. Then turns to 14 yr old DSS and says the same kind of thing "and you were just a baby when I last saw you!" Then see's me "I've never met you before, have I?' She turns to DH
"is this your daughter?"

A whole range of emotions show on my DHs face, all at once, in the space of about 3 seconds. Then flatly replies "No, she's my wife"

She assumed I was a daughter she'd never met, but she'd met 14 yr old DSS, so thought I was younger than 14 yrs. But I was a grown woman of 33 years with my own DC.

DH finishes with "and my wife is older than me, actually" ...which is true, I am. Then points to the 2 yr old playing with DGMs dog "and that's the son we have together"

DH was NOT impressed, had obviously taken it badly, and the poor woman, clearly horrified at her mistake, struggled painfully to backtrack "oh take it as a compliment, your wife looks great for her age" I felt sorry for her, tried to joke it away and make light of it, but DH was just silent. So she made her quick excuses and basically runs off to a far corner.

"...take it as a fucking compliment?!" he grumbled "take it as a compliment that I look like some incestuous paedophile!!....how does anyone take that as a compliment?!....is that what we look like to people?"

It wasn't long before the poor woman left.

I put it down to grief and the overall atmosphere of the wake. The funeral had been emotional and pretty draining. People often aren't themselves in situations like that. But I still tense up for that poor woman now. I reckon she still feels mortified whenever she thinks about it.

This happened a few months ago, but I'm sure I'll be paying for it for years!

We have been househunting for a while, and went to see this gorgeous little newly renovated cottage which was very unhappily situated smack-dap in the middle of town. Open the door and there's the high street kind of thing.

Anyway, I went for lunch with a friend and was saying how it was a nice house but wasn't suitable, you opened the back door and all you were immediately hit by the smell of the Indians, that sort of thing.

Turns out it was very, very important that I use the word TAKEAWAYS in that sentence. Smell of Indian TAKEAWAYS.

The conversation paused for no less than 15 minutes because we were crying so much - him with laughter and me with pure embarrassment. He has proceeded to tell this story to his entire acquantance

Also, I have the complexion of a snowman and he is very, very black. So there's that.

I feel sorry for the xgf at the funeral! I'm not always great at guessing people's ages. It can take a while, I need a few clues. it could have been something as inoccuous as her having been told that ''his wife is a red head'' and you had brown hair so she didn't compute and wondered who you were. I once thought two colleagues were mother and daughter. I was mortified. The only way to fix it slightly was to say, loooooook, my eyes scanned over you briefly and I have took it in.

Oh, another one! I was a few months into a new job, so still very green. Was emailing a customer and our software showing that the main contact was this guy called "James".

So I was trying to do the whole customer service thing and emailed "Hi James, here's your email"

Got a reply a few ours later from "Erin", "Thanks for the email. Btw James died two years ago from brain cancer". Turns out it was a family business and Erin was the WIFE!

I obviously apologized profusely and updated our system so no one else would make the same mistake, but oh boy. I have lost sleep over that one.

I was about 16 weeks pregnant and went to my local for a drink with OH. Opened to door to see a lovely buffet on the pool table. Shouted loudly "woohoo a buffet, I'm starving!!" (Said pub often had food or snacky bits laid out). Nope, was only a bleeding funeral!!! It did make the guests (If that's the right name) smile and a few said it would have amused the poor bloke who's wake it was, no end!!! Haven't lived it down with my other half though. I was mortified!!!

Could have blamed the bump. "The baby was hungry!"

Overheard a lady on a plane say that her suitcase was overweight. Several minutes later my brain processed this and I asked if if they charged her extra for being overweight.

She stared at me speechless as I mumbled that I meant her suitcase.