My foot in mouth experience is decidedly not as cute as this baby.
I rode the the elevator one morning while listening to my iPod. I kept fiddling with the buttons to look for my favorite tunes, so I was only half aware that a lady got on at the 10th floor. This same lady pushed the button for one floor up.
Right then, my iPod stopped working and I muttered “You’ve gotta be kidding me” (as I’m hitting forward and rewind). The aforementioned woman gave me a really dirty look as she stepped off the elevator.
I wanted to make amends and call out “No, I wasn’t talking about you…” But she briskly walked away and the doors closed.
Oops. Sorry.
The elevator’s only other passenger asked “Tough morning?”
I guess so.
Ever have moments like this? Where’s the re-do button?
Acknowledgements and Attributions
“Foot In Mouth” – image courtesy of Charlotte.Morrall via Flickr and used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).
The Tiger's Eye 
Problem belong ‘er 🙂
Hahah! I’m glad I’m not the only one.
I was just married in Tianjin, China. While my brothers and I were in my mother-in-laws bedroom killing time before the ceremony my youngest brother was looking for funny Chinese words and expressions on his iPhone. He found one – the Chinese word for “getting rubbed or patted down with a towel” (whatever that’s supposed to imply). He started laughing and showed me his phone – I read the Chinese word aloud JUST as one of the bridesmaids walked into the room. Timing couldn’t have been worse. She either thought I was requesting a “towel rub down” from either HER or my BROTHER (both bad). Utterly mortified. Hopefully my wife didn’t get word of this….
Great post – keep ’em coming:)
Congratulations on your marriage! Foot in mouth syndrome takes on more complications (and hilarity) when other cultures are involved. Thank you for posting this one. It made me laugh. 🙂
*gentle smiles* … ahh, it was a coinky-dink bad timing moment. If you see her on the elevator the next time … just make sure you are not having trouble with your iPod and say out loud .. “not again”
grins
That is good advice. Too bad I don’t remember what she looks like. 🙂 I’m very careful about what I say or mutter with my ear buds in now.
Ah, yes…!
And there ain’t a darned thing you can do, except smile and silently wish them the best…!
On a brighter note though, it’s only when we feel a little ‘guilty’ about what we’re doing (such as taking the elevator 1 floor) that someone else’s opinion matters.
So, I think the answer is – don’t ever feel guilty. If you’re going to do something, do it with all systems go…! 😉
Hahah! I like your attitude, Carolyn!
So many times I’ve thought someone was speaking to me and realized, when I looked up, that they were on their cell phone. In this day and age, this happens all the time. I wouldn’t worry about it too much. 🙂
Well that’s good advice, because who knows when I’m bound to mess it up and do it again. 🙂
You’re right, everyone is on a device these days. If someone says something around me I wait until I know it was definitely directed at me. I too have said, “huh” many times and the person has been on blue tooth or headphones.
Yes, that has happened to me, too. 🙂
LOL
Haha thanks for sharing. I have more than once experienced the same thing. More often than not, people looked at me while I’m singing along with the songs I’m playing in my ipod. The thing is, those songs are in Korean. 🙂
Haha. I bet you rock those songs. 🙂
Haha yeah! I was singing with emotions then they’ll stare at me like I spoken an alien language. Well, they may have a point 🙂