Ever said something that was a bit inappropriate even if you didn't mean to?

While trying to hunt down an elusive CD for a present for my Mum, I was wandering around the shop trying trying trying to find the right one and getting more and more frustrated with Mum's musical taste. The shop assistant asked if he could get me anything and I said "Yes, a new mother". He replied "be happy with what you have, you only get one. Mine passed away last week. "

Can you imagine just how small I felt?

I once said to a woman helping her husband who was staggering away from a social event at a licensed hall -'" I'll have a pint of what he has been drinking". She quietly replied that he was not drunk but was suffering from MS. I wish the ground could have opened up at that moment. I try now to think first and consider the situation before making comments.

This actually happened yesterday, in my new job (Yes working again Copago) I have to visit different places, I'd asked for some information and when I got it I asked for a "little bit of help to decipher it" - You guessed! the person who could give the information was physically very small! (I'll hasten to add he was the most informed person I spoke to on the site and I didn't have to ask for anyone else)

I once went to a stand up comedy night at a local pub and got chatting to one of the acts who used to be on a kids TV show I watched as a child. One of the other presenters was a tad over the top and very, very annoying and I asked this comedian guy if this other overbearing man was annoying in real life and if he and the other presenters ever just wanted to kill him? He responded "Actually that man was my best friend and died just last year!" That chat ended there.

I'm glad it's not just me who suffers from foot-in-mouth disease. I still blush horribly when I think of the following faux pas.

I worked with a guy who kept a picture of his wife on his desk. She was quite large and blonde. Years later, I met him and his current wife (a slim rehead) at a social function. Later on in the ladies' room, we were chatting. "Oh, you must be his second wife" I said. "No", she replied "his first and only wife". And before I could stop myself, I blurted out "You can't be. She was big and blonde". She laughed and said "Yes that was me". Needless to say, she had dyed her hair and lost heaps of weight. Fortunately, she regarded it as a compliment but I could have bitten my tongue.