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MANY years ago when I was young & foolish & full of "**** & vinegar," I heard a couple of co-workers joking around, having fun, etc. One told the other in a light-hearted manner to "Go Buck A Fuzzard." I thought that was just THE cleverest thing ever! Well, a little later on, I thought I'd be cute & funny & try it on my supervisor.....YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. I was extremely lucky that he was so good-natured about it and did not lose my job. Yes, I learned a lesson that day.
We've all put our foot in our mouth before. Sometimes it's truly accidental, and sometimes I think we have a subconscious reason for saying something we say to someone. Tell us something you said and why - and how you and the other person handled it.
It wasn't something that I said, it was something that I did; my reaction. I was in high school, standing on the front steps before school started for the day. A friend of mine was upset and told me that her aunt had just died.
I do not know why, and it was out before I even knew it was coming out: I started laughing.
No, I did not think it was funny, but I started laughing all the same.
You can guess how ticked off she was with me, and nothing I said could make it better. To this day, I still don't know why I started laughing, I don't find humor in other people's loss like that.
Going to a community college a long long time ago I was aquainted with a girl in one of my classes.
She had just recently married...The next time I saw her I asked how she and her husband were doing..
She burst into tears and said she had just buried him the Saturday before.(Vietnam War)..I said how
sorry I was but I wished I hadn't opened my mouth at all..
It wasn't something that I said, it was something that I did; my reaction. I was in high school, standing on the front steps before school started for the day. A friend of mine was upset and told me that her aunt had just died.
I do not know why, and it was out before I even knew it was coming out: I started laughing.
No, I did not think it was funny, but I started laughing all the same.
You can guess how ticked off she was with me, and nothing I said could make it better. To this day, I still don't know why I started laughing, I don't find humor in other people's loss like that.
It's how some people respond to like ridiculous or extreme news or grief even. Apparently when John Lennon heard his mother had died he burst out laughing - but he loved her dearly, and grieved in a more conventional manner later on (even though he was raised by his aunt for the most part). So no, someone laughing at bad news doesn't mean they are making light of it or anything.
Many years ago, I told an incredibly racist, nasty joke to a black coworker. Don't know why it came out of my mouth but it did. Or what the hell possessed me to tell it because I never tell jokes...don't have the knack for it. The look of hurt and dismay on his face embarrasses me 30 years later.
Yeah I remember when we were told not to say the phrase 'easy peasy Japanesy', not sure if you're familiar with that phrase. Instead it became, 'easy peasy lemon squeazy' lmao. Or the end of eenie meenie miney mo, 'catch a n****r by the toe' was replaced by 'tiger'.
OMG my childhood will never be the same again, we used to sing that with the tiger term. :|
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I recently asked a gal if she was pregnant ......... (she said no) ........ I was so mortified that I had asked such a taboo question 
