I am the one always making inappropriate comments

zsazsa-stl

I do it completely by accident/nerves/etc.  I do not intend to be mean, I promise.

So there is a woman I kind of know.  I've met her several times as we have mutual friends.  The last time I saw her she was telling me about how they discovered her son's peanut allergy.  He had been at a birthday party and was licked in the face by the birthday boy's dog.  A few mintues later he was being rushed to the emergency room and they were trying to figure out what could have caused it.  A few days later the owner of the dog mentioned to her that her dog had just eaten a peanut butter sandwhich before licking the kid...could he possible have a peanut allergy.  I said, "that is so funny!" meaning "That is so bizarre!  What dog eats peanut butter sandwiches?"  But she got a bad look on her face and said, "No, it's really not funny.  He could have died."  I stammered and tried to save myself but just changed the subject.

I saw her again yesterday.  I was shocked that she was still willing to speak to me.  I haven't seen her in months but heard through the mutual friends that they got a call about a month ago that their adoption came through and they were flying to pick up a new baby.  So yesterday when she came up to me with all smiles (and there were two babies being passed around the room, I assumed one was hers) I at least had the forethought to not ask which was her baby, but I said "I hear that you've had a busy summer!"  She got a bad look on her face again and sighed.  Then she started talking about random other stuff.  I talked to her for a long time and the adoption never came up.  I don't know if it fell through or what, but I have a feeling I said the absoulte wrong thing.

She has an older son who was at this party yesterday and a man accidentally slammed the kids fingers in a door (kid had been making a game of running in and out everytime an adult opened the door).  My only thought was "oh man, I can't believe that wasn't me."

And then you might recall me cheerfully asking a guy a few months ago where his wife was (thinking she was working late or on a trip) only to discover that she had just left him and filed for divorce.

le sigh

This is why I have to stick to you internet friends.

~~Busy.~~

I once told a woman that Florida is where people go to die.  She was upset becuase she was moving to Florida the following week. I spend the next 30 minutes trying to clean up that mess but she still hates me.

Cant_wait!

Everyone has moments like that Zsa, don't feel bad!

loveshine1

Florida is God's Waiting Room, Busy. I live here, and I think that's a perfectly acceptable comment.

But Zsa, don't stress about it. Everyone makes mistakes.

zsazsa-stl

I have to agree with Florida.  I don't know how those of you who live there do it.  If the old people don't get you, the giant snakes, gators and crazies will.

I know it happens to everyone, but I just feel like I am constantly saying the wrong thing.  I got it from my mother.  The other day she ran into the daughter of an old friend.  Old friend has 8 or 9 kids.  Older daugters of old friend each have 6+ kids.  Mom made a teasing comment about this daughter only having two kids and not keeping up with the rest of the family.  That's when she heard that this daughter's husband had been tragically killed in an accident several years ago cutting her baby making short.