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So I had just arrived at a children’s birthday and the child’s mum was greeting guests.
She was surrounded by other mums but I noticed she had a bit of a belly. Or her dress made it look like she a bigger belly.
Before my brain could engage I shouted ‘congratulations’ as I walked up to her.
‘Congratulations? What for?’ she replied.
In hindsight this is the moment I should have realised... 
Pointing at her belly...’your new addition’.
She went red, her friends all stared at me...
...the penny dropped! F@@k!
2 hours I spent at that party avoiding eye contact with anybody. I could feel the glares of everybody..her husband came over to talk to me before she had told him and he was laughing and joking with me, which made me feel even worse! 
What have you said to other people that you wish you hadn’t as soon as you said it?! |
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Did the same to someone getting off bus once hahah.
At a funeral and there was a load of poythene in the garden from some work or something they had been having done.
Asked if it was there to help "hide the body"
Noone laughed. |
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"Did the same to someone getting off bus once hahah.
At a funeral and there was a load of poythene in the garden from some work or something they had been having done.
Asked if it was there to help "hide the body"
Noone laughed."
I’m sure a few people laughed inside...maybe not close relatives though  |
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"Did the same to someone getting off bus once hahah.
At a funeral and there was a load of poythene in the garden from some work or something they had been having done.
Asked if it was there to help "hide the body"
Noone laughed.
I’m sure a few people laughed inside...maybe not close relatives though "
Was my uncles funeral. He would have thought it was stupidly funny tbf hahaha |
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"Did the same to someone getting off bus once hahah.
At a funeral and there was a load of poythene in the garden from some work or something they had been having done.
Asked if it was there to help "hide the body"
Noone laughed.
I’m sure a few people laughed inside...maybe not close relatives though
Was my uncles funeral. He would have thought it was stupidly funny tbf hahaha"
Superb!! |
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Same happened to me. Went to a party and chatting to someone i hadnt seen for ages. Said i didnt realize she was having another. Told me she wasnt pregnant but had been diagnosed with a gluton allergy.
However, last laugh was on me as five months later she popped a baby and never did realize she was pregnant  |
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Been involved in quite a few between us, sometimes you can style it out but often not!
Sat in on Interviews for a vacancy in the company a number of times and seen others do it, I actually try to help them if they are just nervous reactions but the worst was a guy who came in and bizarrely started ranting on about Irish people, the main interviewer informed him that he was Irish (didn’t have an accent) and the guy responded by saying “ah well, at least you’re not black”, which is bad enough by itself, but made worse when the interviewer told him that his wife was.
100% true story, but I did change the words used for black |
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"Been involved in quite a few between us, sometimes you can style it out but often not!
Sat in on Interviews for a vacancy in the company a number of times and seen others do it, I actually try to help them if they are just nervous reactions but the worst was a guy who came in and bizarrely started ranting on about Irish people, the main interviewer informed him that he was Irish (didn’t have an accent) and the guy responded by saying “ah well, at least you’re not black”, which is bad enough by itself, but made worse when the interviewer told him that his wife was.
100% true story, but I did change the words used for black"
Oh my thats made me giggle! |
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In my younger days I’d been trying to get a date with this girl at college for quite some time, and after a few attempts she finally relented, and date night was made.
It was amazing, we clicked really well and had a fantastic evening, we got a taxi back to her house and I insisted on walking her to the door.
As we approached the door we’d been telling each other corny jokes, and I cracked one about a prostitute with one eye.
Instantly she went Frosty on me, and I wondered if the joke I told went too far, but, most the jokes we’d told had been pretty close to the knuckle.
We arrived at the door and she realised she’d forgotten her key, so knocked the door, to which her mum answered.
As I introduced myself to her mum, and met her gaze, I noticed one of her eyes was clearly glass.
Needless to say, there was never a second date....
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"Same happened to me. Went to a party and chatting to someone i hadnt seen for ages. Said i didnt realize she was having another. Told me she wasnt pregnant but had been diagnosed with a gluton allergy.
However, last laugh was on me as five months later she popped a baby and never did realize she was pregnant "
Maybe you just knew...  |
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"Been involved in quite a few between us, sometimes you can style it out but often not!
Sat in on Interviews for a vacancy in the company a number of times and seen others do it, I actually try to help them if they are just nervous reactions but the worst was a guy who came in and bizarrely started ranting on about Irish people, the main interviewer informed him that he was Irish (didn’t have an accent) and the guy responded by saying “ah well, at least you’re not black”, which is bad enough by itself, but made worse when the interviewer told him that his wife was.
100% true story, but I did change the words used for black"
Just shows what can happen when the nerves kick in...you probably can’t stop your mouth! |
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"In my younger days I’d been trying to get a date with this girl at college for quite some time, and after a few attempts she finally relented, and date night was made.
It was amazing, we clicked really well and had a fantastic evening, we got a taxi back to her house and I insisted on walking her to the door.
As we approached the door we’d been telling each other corny jokes, and I cracked one about a prostitute with one eye.
Instantly she went Frosty on me, and I wondered if the joke I told went too far, but, most the jokes we’d told had been pretty close to the knuckle.
We arrived at the door and she realised she’d forgotten her key, so knocked the door, to which her mum answered.
As I introduced myself to her mum, and met her gaze, I noticed one of her eyes was clearly glass.
Needless to say, there was never a second date....
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Ah, what are the chances... |
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