Most unbelievable goof ups you've said to someone

[Immortal Wombat]

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry, I thought you were a woman!"

"I am."

[aaglo]

IW -

that is embarassing....

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry, I thought you were a woman!"

"I am."

Ladies and Gentlemen ... we have a winner!

[Adam Smith]

Three I remember in particular.

1. First date with a girl I really like. Just to make conversation I ask here what is the first thing she remembers in her life. I remember writing on the walls with crayon. She remembers her sister. Who died at age 5.

2. First day on a new job, working for a VP in the organization. There's all this strange looking modern art on the walls. Chatting with the VP and his secretary, the topic of the art on the walls comes up. I asked where we get all this "art". It looks like something out of a New Yorker cartoon. Utter silence. Turns out the VP paints this stuff in his spare time. Took me years to recover from that one.

3. Proof that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Travelling in Germany, I tried to practice my German as much as possible. There is a beautiful fraulein working the desk of the gasthaus I am about to check into.

AS: Haben sie ein zimmer?
BF: Ya, wir haben ein zimmer.
AS: Was kostet das zimmer?
BF: 60 dm
AS: Gut. Ich wuchte sie fur drei nacht bitte.
BF: (Blushing deeply): I speak English.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Adam Smith
AS: Haben sie ein zimmer?
BF: Ya, wir haben ein zimmer.
AS: Was kostet das zimmer?
BF: 60 dm
AS: Gut. Ich wuchte sie fur drei nacht bitte.
BF: (Blushing deeply): I speak English.

[Bereta_Eder]

Not really goof up but somewhat funny.

Me at an airport in Frankfurt on a transit flight to Athens.

Went to an airport store to buy some boxes of cigarettes cheap.

I get some boxes and go to pay for them at the cash office(?)

The lady there absolutely refuses to accept them and keeps pointing to one of the boxes.

I tried speaking english, she didnt understand
french the same... she just kept speaking german (which i dont undertand)

I say again and again what is she talking about? these are my boxes of cigs i want to pay for them and be on my way.

nope absolute break down of communication.

She was stuborn
I was stuborn

I get pissed off and say in the air "gamo to diavolo mou gamo" (fack my devil fack - popular greek curse)


She relpies (in greek) : oh you're greek




you only have a right to buy two untaxed boxes of cigs in transit flights

[FemmeAdonis]

I noticed this, of course, but true to form (I'm sorta the guy that can take anything someone says and say something much, much worse) I responded with an even worse racial joke, naturally about Hispanics.

those guys shoulda have kicked your A$$.















I'm not kidding.

[FemmeAdonis]

I get pissed off and say in the air "gamo to diavolo mou gamo" (fack my devil fack - popular greek curse)

back when I used to work at Celebration Station (a family fun center) there were a LOT of hispanics that would come in (and couldnt speak english)..I guess i managed to tick off a few every once in a while (not on purpose, only because they wanted to have their cake and eat it too it..and they wanted us to bake it, ya know?)

anyway.....there were few times when they'd mumble in spanish something nasty about me, or to me...and grin cuz they thought I didnt understand (this white girl camoflauge rawks ballz) and I'd come back to them and say "te entiendo perfectamente" (I understand you perfectly). and just to see their jaws drops, or their eyes bug, made anything they said go away.

[Adam Smith]

Similar story about a high school classmate of mine. She is jewish, pretty good looking, and studied Japanese in college. She was the only woman on a business trip to Japan. They were there for a week. The male Japanese manager types were making all kinds of off color comments about her, in Japanese of course. She said nothing. Last night there, they have a going away dinner, and all the Americans gave speeches in English thanking their hosts. She thanked her hosts, politely, in perfect Japanese.

edit: typos

[FemmeAdonis]

^^ ooOOooo..I bet THEy felt cruncccchhyyyy (stupid)

[Inverse Icarus]

crunchy?

[FemmeAdonis]

I puot in parentheses (stupid)

crunchy-the feeling you get when you have put your foot in your mouth, feeling stupid, silly...DOHH!!!

the feeling of wanting to crawl under a large rock, or crawling into a big dark hole where noone will ever see you..

DOH

[Garth Vader]

Ich wuchte sie fur drei nacht bitte.


Little help?

I something something for 3 nights please?

[Rasbelin]

Okay, I know that Pande might kill me for this, but it's my problem then.

Pandemoniak was out to for drinks with some people and a professor of the university his studing at was there too. In a rather somber mood after drinking a bottle bourbon, he had said "Hang the capitalist!" regarding this professor.

[Adam Smith]

Originally posted by Garth Vader
Ich wuchte sie fur drei nacht bitte.


Little help?

I something something for 3 nights please?

I would like "you" (the clerk) for three nights, instead of "it" (the room) for three nights.