What's the dumbest thing you've ever said?

I used to not be able to tell the difference between the words weather and whether until a few years ago. I still am embarrassed about that.

Wow! That’s pretty brutal! The dumbest thing I’ve ever said happened at a family reunion. Apparently one of my cousins had become anorexic and I had no idea. When I saw this person I sad: “Oh wow! You’ve lost a lot of weight!” I didn’t know why everyone hated me for the rest of the day until the next day when her livid mother called me. Woops!

Calling my then-girlfriend by my ex-girlfriend’s name ranks up there….

In my early, early 20s during an internship while at uni, I asked a woman when she was due. Oops. In fact, she was just a person who carried a lot of lower abdominal weight. Yeah, and this place where I was interning? Wasn’t going to consider me for employment after I graduated. :/

Asking a woman when she was due when she wasn’t pregnant.

Introducing myself to an ex-girlfriend on a party where I was and obviously didn’t expect her to be.

When she said “hey… don’t you recognize me?” I said: “No… should I?”

(She and I lived together for two years.
To my defense: she dyed her hair and we broke up a whopping two months earlier. ;-)

@whitenoise Hilarious!!!! I don’t think Hollywood could top the awkwardness there! ;)

I’ve talked to someone on the phone while telling them how upset I was that I’d thought I lost my phone. Neither of us realized….
@pinkparaluies my 9 year old cousin used to mix up freezing and starving, it took a bit of thinking to figure out what she needed.

At work, a person called in for some service for their vehicle, and I said “ok ma’am, I can get you in to see so and so”. Well, I couldn’t see through the phone, and the name was Terry. I honestly thought she was a she, but he sounded like an old lady. My bad.

I was a telemarketer once and often got Carrol and Carol mixed up.

“Gimme one more for the road”...( many times)

@shego – the man who cuts my husband’s hair sounds like a squeaky voice woman. It happens.

I was on a departmental conference call and one of my co-workers had been promoted. The person who would be her main client in our company had real pain-in-the-ass tendencies. My boss would be getting rid of this client. As she finished congratulating my co-worker, I piped up with, “Oh Maria, you’re just glad to be getting rid of Don.” names changed to protect the innocent! Complete, utter, dead silence. My boss, gods love her, sang and danced a bit to cover for me. I was very grateful that she was taking the call from home because the wrath of Maria didn’t happen often, but when it did, it was mighty.

End of story, she came to the office about 2 hours later. I spent a solid 20 minutes apologizing and being lectured. Deservedly so. But even she admitted that this guy was a PITA.

I also had an incident, where a lady called to pay for the service her car just had, and I asked her for her name, so I could pull the file. Well, she said that her name was VaGina (vajeana) So while she is spelling out her name, the other girl with me, looks at the screen and says vagina? Are you serious? Then the lady got pissed off, wanted to talk to an advisor, but he said the same thing, so they started passing her around the building. So I guess everybody got some that day. I can’t imagine the torture she went through as a kid.

@pinkparaluies lame

I was in sixth grade or so and (this is so horrible I still cringe at it because I am NOT like this!) We were done with our projects early so the teacher asked if anyone had any ideas of what we could do for the last 10 minutes of class. I suggested we “connect the dots on Sheila’s face!” OMG. I said what I was thinking! Poor Sheila had the most horrible acne anyone could have imagined. And she was my friend! I wanted to die. Sheila was about to cry. The teacher said something to reprimand me, but at that moment I cannot remember what it was because I was mortified, red as a beet and apologizing all over the place. It didn’t matter. It was said. It was hurtful. And Shelia, I’m sure has never forgotten it either. UGH! (don’t hate me because of this please! I was young and stupid….)

I was in a halloween store last week and this man walked up next to me and gave me the obligatory nod and smiled, exposing teeth that were so bad that I assumed they were fake. So I asked him which aisle he got those teeth from…. followed by silence… I quickly exited the scene

@autumn43 Wow, that’s an unfortunate one! Don’t sweat it though. So many kids do stuff like that. I know I for one have (accidentally) been a jerk many a times in the past :/

I was sitting with my boyfriend, when a guy in a wheelchair came up and started a conversation with us. We had been chatting for awhile and were discussing something that I did for one of my classes when I said “well that’s just how I roll.” The guy looked over at my boyfriend and said “see how she is.” He of course sold me down the river by agreeing with the guy about how I am. I was so embarrassed!

@Avishai – Oh, shit, son! I’d’ve been out of there like I was Don Draper running from the Military Police, too!

My mom picks me up from school and she told me to stand on the east side of the street and I said doesn’t the direction change based on what direction you’re driving? not the dumbest but pretty damn dumb

“Yes” to my second husband.

@gailcalled LOL

@gailcalled – Oh, to be able to give you more than one lurve for that!

I don’t think before I say things.. so most of what I say is pretty dumb.

@rangerr I feel your pain!

I am known for saying really stupid things by everyone that knows me. A few include:

I used to work in retail and every few weeks we would have promotional signs showing the new sale and a girl modeling our new collection. Ok so my manager was looking over the signs with a few of my associates and they started busting out laughing and saying something about her feet. So I come over to see what they are talking about. I look for a few minutes and I tell them I don’t notice anything wrong. My manager tells me to look at her feet. So I look then I scream out “Oh my god she has 5 toes and start laughing uncontrollably. When I finally looked up everyone was staring at me looking puzzled and my manager asked me “How many toes do you have?” My laughing came to a halt and I hung my head in shame.

Another one is that I have always thought up until 2 years ago that you pronounce Crayon like Crown. I can’t get out of the habbit of saying it so I avoid that word like the plague.

@sjmc1989 omg!! I say “crown” for crayon too! Glad to know I’m not the only one lol

@shockrocks Thank god! My brother says it too and my sister pronounces it like “cran” but both of my parents says it the proper way. I don’t know what happened to us!

At my great-grandmother’s funeral, when I was 10, trying to break the uncomfortable silence that had befallen our gathering, I commented that “there sure aren’t a lot of people here yet.”
Sorry. :(

@sjmc1989… “cran” isn’t the proper way? What is? Is it actually supposed to have two syllables? Kray-ahn?

I do….

I do.

Oh my, there are so many dumb things that I blurt out and immediately regret. The most recent one was me sitting with partner, having admitted to being in love and caring about them deeply over a serious health issue: “I have tried to look away and not care but now I’m fucked, I do care. A lot.” That was very unromantic and a harsh way for me to squirm around just saying, “I’ve avoided speaking my mind because then you’d know how much I’ve cared this whole time and you’d also know I’ve been falling in love with you.” What was so scary about me just saying what I really had been feeling? Who knows but I hate what I actually said, at least he appeared to have understood my true intent. He puts up with a lot of my crudeness.

Wow, baby your almost as pretty as the girl over there.

My roommate’s grandmother passed away this weekend. Last night she told me she was going back home for a week, for the funeral and to help out her mother. This morning before I left for work, I came awfully close to telling her “Have a good week!”. Oy.

A cop pulled me over. Upon him arriving at my window I immediately shouted back off man or Ill use this.

I wish i could name just one dumb thing as “the dumbest thing i’ve ever said” but that tittle gets awarded pretty much every day.. so it’s hard to pin it down. I continue to say dumb shit that thankfully goes unnoticed for the most part. (sometimes i’ll even get a GA out of it).

I don’t think dumbest even come close to describe what I said to my first Mother-In-Law when I was 20 years old. It was 46 years ago, but I still feel the shame. We had received a notice in the mail to contribute money for a memorial Redwood tree in the name of a deceased loved one. I said “I would pay for my parents, because I think they are more important than your [deceased] daughter.”

She hated me from that day forward.

@MrItty Apparently it is pronounced like crey-on I think its a pretty stupid words and crown sounds so much better!

One time asked a sad horse “Why the long face?”

Love the answers…can’t think of something specific, for myself…I’m sure I’ve said plenty of terribly inappropriate things…

A really annoying girl from high school walked up to me when I was in college. I said wow did you transfer here. She said yes i got some scholarship. I said, “really? How?” Oh, well. She never was that brilliant either.