Insensitive things you have said or done

[Free Falling Foxes]

I was reminded today of something I said some years ago.

A chap at work was getting married and a collection and card came around for him. I stuffed a couple of fivers in the envelope and wrote something in the card wishing them a long and happy life together.

Their marriage, quite literally, didn't last the honeymoon.

Unsurprisingly, he didn't come back to work straight away but I saw him a couple of days after he did return. I didn't quite know what to say but mumbled something along the lines that I was sorry to hear what had happened. He looked pretty glum and just shrugged his shoulders.

There then followed a period of silence. 

Then, in a misguided attempt to lighten the mood, I asked if I could have my £10 back!

 

[Jattdogg]

20 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

I was reminded today of something I said some years ago.

A chap at work was getting married and a collection and card came around for him. I stuffed a couple of fivers in the envelope and wrote something in the card wishing them a long and happy life together.

Their marriage, quite literally, didn't last the honeymoon.

Unsurprisingly, he didn't come back to work straight away but I saw him a couple of days after he did return. I didn't quite know what to say but mumbled something along the lines that I was sorry to hear what had happened. He looked pretty glum and just shrugged his shoulders.

There then followed a period of silence. 

Then, in a misguided attempt to lighten the mood, I asked if I could have my £10 back!

 

Shut this thread down we have a winner. Lol

[Izzy]

Me and a mate once let the tyres down on Brian Clough's Rolls Royce.

 

Bit cvnty of us on reflection.

[UpTheLeagueFox]

16 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Me and a mate once let the tyres down on Brian Clough's Rolls Royce.

Good old socialist Cloughie driving a Roller, proper man of the people 

[The Quick Brown Fox]

Literally 5 minutes after my mother's husband had passed away at home, after a long battle with cancer, my Auntie came to the house and as she walked in doing a silent cry, mouth open and it looked like she was laughing so hard it was one that went silent, in an untimely attempt to lighten the mood (know your audience kids) I said "what's she laughing at" as she was sitting next to My mothers Husband. 

My brother laughed, everybody else and I mean everybody else just stared at me in disbelief! 

[jonthefox]

32 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Me and a mate once let the tyres down on Brian Clough's Rolls Royce.

 

Bit cvnty of us on reflection.

Excellent work sir 

[VLC86]

Most things I say fall into this category.

[Nick]

11 minutes ago, Costock_Fox said:

Most things I say fall into this category.

If I started writing I fear I’d never stop 😆 

[Stadt]

Once told a lad at school he stunk whilst most of the class were listening, he said something like "I use this shitty Wilkinson's sword deodorant, I'm gonna get a new one" and with subtlety of an elephant trying to change a light bulb I said "nah, its definitely not the deodorant that smells" and I saw him break a little bit inside. I was a c unt at school, on reflection.

[VLC86]

9 minutes ago, Swan Lesta said:

If I started writing I fear I’d never stop 😆 

There is one thing that springs to mind that is that bad I’m not going to write down but I really didn’t mean it the way it came out. I die inside whenever I think about it.

[HighPeakFox]

1 hour ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Good old socialist Cloughie driving a Roller, proper man of the people 

How DARE a socialist be successful.

 

For shame.

[oakman]

My girlfriend was very close to her aunt and would visit her regularly in Germany. On one of her trips she found out that her aunt was going to have to have her foot amputated due to complications from diabetes and she texted me from the hospital to fill me in. I don’t know why but I responded with a gif I’d seen that day of a dancing 3-legged cat.

[Trav Le Bleu]

[Blarmy]

1 hour ago, browniefox said:

Literally 5 minutes after my mother's husband had passed away at home, after a long battle with cancer, my Auntie came to the house and as she walked in doing a silent cry, mouth open and it looked like she was laughing so hard it was one that went silent, in an untimely attempt to lighten the mood (know your audience kids) I said "what's she laughing at" as she was sitting next to My mothers Husband. 

My brother laughed, everybody else and I mean everybody else just stared at me in disbelief! 

This had me crying with laughter. Don’t know what that says about me but thanks!

[SystonFox]

In college the workshop there was a radio hanging from an chain in the middle so everyone could hear the tunes blasting. It once fell utterly silent in the room and i shouted out “WHO TURNED THE RADIO OFF I WAS ENJOYING THAT” as my mate then whispered “it’s a minutes silence shut up”. I genuinely forgot I wasn’t doing it to be a cnut

 

 

wow wow did I feel a complete bell end 

[Dan]

Last year at Cardiff when there were two flags going around before the game relating to Vichai, with them heading towards each other at the time, I quite loudly said "they're gonna crash" completely unaware for about five seconds what I'd just said.

 

(Apologies if this is a bit distasteful in itself for this place in particular)

[Guest SO1]

35 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

Last year at Cardiff when there were two flags going around before the game relating to Vichai, with them heading towards each other at the time, I quite loudly said "they're gonna crash" completely unaware for about five seconds what I'd just said.

 

(Apologies if this is a bit distasteful in itself for this place in particular)

If only the look on your face had been recorded at the moment you realized what you had done. Priceless.

[Footballwipe]

I'd been in the queue to get my Brugge away tickets meaning I was late for work. I strolled into my office of three other people, which was weirdly deathly silent, not a hello or anything.

 

I walked to my desk and in full hubris mode proclaimed in a jokey voice "whose died?" in my puzzlement at the silence, mocking my colleagues for being so unenthused about my arrival.

 

I was shot a look by one, as it turned out our line manager, in an interconnecting office next door, was on the phone being told about a friend who had died in a car accident the previous evening.

[Jimothy]

3 minutes ago, Footballwipe said:

I'd been in the queue to get my Brugge away tickets meaning I was late for work. I strolled into my office of three other people, which was weirdly deathly silent, not a hello or anything.

 

I walked to my desk and in full hubris mode proclaimed in a jokey voice "whose died?" in my puzzlement at the silence, mocking my colleagues for being so unenthused about my arrival.

 

I was shot a look by one, as it turned out our line manager, in an interconnecting office next door, was on the phone being told about a friend who had died in a car accident the previous evening.

See in that situation, whilst 'whose died?" could have been replaced by, "Everyone ok? It's a bit glum in here." or something like that, why is your colleague giving you a look? How the **** are you meant to know? Are they giving you a look because you haven't perfected mind reading yet?

[BKLFox]

New to the team I once asked a colleague what music he was listening too, he replied, i'm not listening to music i've got Parkinsons......i thanked the rest of the team for the heads up

[Stadt]

43 minutes ago, BKLFox said:

New to the team I once asked a colleague what music he was listening too, he replied, i'm not listening to music i've got Parkinsons......i thanked the rest of the team for the heads up

Shakin’ Stevens?

[Parafox]

When I first started my career many years ago, everyone joined at the most basic level of patient transport services, taking non-emergency people to hospital appointments and clinics for various things including rehab and physio.

One day we went to pick up a diabetic guy who had recently had his foot amputated. He was learning to use crutches and was able, with a struggle, to get to the ambulance which had 5 other people on board already. As he got to the step I said "ok sir, hop on".

 

Genuinely silent stares as I looked for the ground to open for me.

[Parafox]

Recently something I thought but thankfully my filter between brain and mouth kicked in...

 

I was despatched alone to a patient who was having breathing difficulties. She also had terminal cancer of the liver. As I walked into her front room escorted by her daughter, there sat a lovely lady whose skin was a very subtle shade of yellow. My immediate thought was, "my god, I have that colour on my wall at home".

 

Having thoroughly checked her over and deciding that, due to her fairly recent diagnosis, she was in a bit of a panic which had caused her to hyperventilate a little and didn't need any treatment at A&E, I signed of with "bye, then. I hope everything goes well for you".

 

My job has endless opportunities for foot in the mouth moments.

[Finnegan]

Never have, it's not in my nature. 

[Kopic]

I have one that has always stayed with me, and I don't think its particularly bad. In primary school we sat down on the floor for assembly, I was sat next to an acquaintance, and he started reading out loud something written on the board at the front, incredibly slowly. It was 10 words. When he finished, I turned to him and exclaimed jokingly "well done, you can read!". I was quite sarcastic as a child, and still am now. Anyway he grassed me up and the head put my name in the "bully book".