Does your mouth ever get you into trouble?

When I was younger yes. I worked in film before and two workmates told me they were going to resign since they hate their job. I told our producer ( not the they hate their job part ) so we can find immediate replacement, for their positions are quite critical to the production. Turned out they were not serious and were just venting out! They hated me for opening my mouth.

Just last month, oh my. A woman came into our service department and started making a racket about not being notified her car was ready to be picked up, the bill was all wrong, our company doesn’t accept checks anymore, there is no more free bottled water, blah blah. She walked up to me and said she wanted some sort of hat or t-shirt for her disappoints to which I said I’d have to find a manager to approve that, my position didn’t allow me to give anything away as much as I wanted to. I really wanted to give her just about anything to go away.

The woman excused herself to use our restroom while I got one of my bosses to come help me. As my boss and I were discussing “The Crazy Lady”, she came out of the bathroom and rounded the corner just in time to overhear us. Lucky for me my boss step up to her, guided her to the parts department and asked her to pick out a hat or t-shirt of her choice. Whew.

No.

Yes, especially if I have taken my ambien and end up staying awake…

No…my actions do and my mouth finishes the job. ;)

About every day.

The most recent one was when there was an African American boy talking very disgusting to a few other women and I. It was basic, unnecessary sexual innuendo. I specifically told him “I wouldn’t be surprised if you went to jail for being creepy like that one day”, in a serious but playful way. He got so angry at me and said that I called him a “racial slur” and that I was a “racist bitch”. He proceeded to punch me in the face and throw things at us girls.

I have no idea how that was in any way racist. I was just sticking up for the women around me because he was gross. But I could have held my mouth. My face was bloodied up when he got finished with me.

Less so every year. One advantage of getting older.

Not anymore. It did in middle school and high school, but then I chose a career path where talking back is a virtue.

I feel like I should expand my answer.

No. In fact, @Blueroses is always quite pleased.

Eew. ;-)

I suffer from foot in mouth disease. I thought it was a lifetime affliction but I’ve found with the wisdom that comes with living life and time I can control my mouth much more than I could when I was younger.

I was raised in a family where the intelligent quip, or some may say skewer, was highly praised. I learned fast and well and at one time was the best. It wasn’t until I hit my 20s and had left a trail of offended and hurt people behind me that I began to understand that kindness in this crazy world is what is truly needed.

But still I sometimes lapse and let something fly that would have drawn guffaws from my family.

Unsurprisingly, I became quite good at apologizing.

All the time!

HAHA! Have you MET me? :P