Boy howdy! I pulled a foe paw for sure! (page 2)

BrentR

At the clinic where I work we have the typical phone intercomm system but the rings are very similar. One day it was a bit slow and we were screwing around crank calling each other around the office. My phone rang at the precise moment the intercomm did so I just grabbed it and shouted "What the F*&$% do you want now"? It was a patient calling in and not the intercomm of one of the screwballs that I work with. She said "I think I got the wrong number" and then hung up. I felt a wee bit sheepish over that little manuever.

When it comes to gender confusion back when I worked as an EMT one of my partners was a very male looking gal. We had a call for a possible stroke at the YMCA in the shower room. It was a senior citizen day and we were in the shower room getting vitals and history from the patient. Then little old men started comming in and hopping in the shower oblivious of my partner who they must of assumed was a guy. They did not have thier glasses either which only compounded the situation. She went beet red within seconds and was rapidly losing her composure. I was doing everything to keep from busting my gut laughing. After we loaded the guy up and were on the way to the hosp. she came up to the front of the ambulance and informed me if I told anyone about this I would be nuetered.

I would bring back that hideous memory for her at strategic times for years after that.

watson

Brent,

I can't help but think of "The Office" on this one.

choosing life

Gregor,

I love trains. I am jealous you get to be a conductor, especially in such a beautiful area!

I am sure they are used to such comments and easily forget them.

anewme

I too think you should just forget it. They are over it for sure.

But its true, working with the public as you do you must be careful.

When we screw up unintentionally we should forgive ourselves easily just as we would forgive someone else.

BrentR

My wife and I had the worst time with our daughter at three going up to older women with a bit of abdominal protrusion and asking if they are pregnant. We had many awkward moments before we were able to get her to stop that.

She had a hispanic teacher in kindergarten who did a great job of teaching the students some basic spanish. But then my daughter would go up to anyone that had darker skin and say ola! and a few other spanish words. They would always have a very confused look on thier face and probably wonder why this little white girl was speaking spanish to them.

I guess even if we as adults don't often put our foot in our mouth our kids will more then make up for it.

dobbie

Gregor my hubby does that for a job too! Don't worry they are probably laughing about it now. Don't think he's done anything like that bit i do remember he came home once worried he would get in trouble. Apparently the train stopped at a station and he was collecting up the different newspapers to have a read before the next stop. This man tried to get off with the paper he wanted so hubby that its train property you can take it out the train, bloke refused and hubby grabbed the other end and they had a tug of war with it!

Also he was embarrassed last week (though not a faux pas pbviously) cos a woman came up to him and said Madeleine McCann was asleep on the train with a woman, also asleep and it was definately her cos this woman was a portrait artist and knew all about facial characteristics!So his control board advised him to get the transport police to board at the next station, they woke the woman up and she spent ages feverishly pulling out photos of her and her little girl and trying to prove who she was. Hubby was so embarrassed but i told him it was the only thing he could and should do as you never know.

He gets a lot of famous people on the train and took Jude Law and Sadie Frosts tickets once, they were on it with their kids, and he didn't even know who they were!Jude Law!!

eclipse

One of my first jobs, and I was about 19, and a person walked into the store, and I gave the standard greeting of

''Welcome, to _______, is there anything I can help you with today, sir?''

''It's ma'am, thank you''

I swear that she did not look anything like a woman. She looked like a short man

I turned about 5 shades of red, and apologized, making the excuse that the sun hit my eyes and I did not see her properly.

(big store front windows)

I think she bought something from me anyways.

lisavegas420

people always think my grandchildren are my children until one of them hollars..."Grandmother" yep...I taught them that...I liked it better than nana or mamaw. Grandmother sounds very dignified.

I hate it when you are asked to guess...as in "notice anything new about me?" what am I supposed to say..um, new outfit, got your hair cut, lost weight, gained weight...how the hell am I supposed to know?

lisa

primitivegenius

i had to screen people at the airport i worked at........... well occasionally you would have some truely strange people come through........... the ones that you CANT tell if they are male or female............... now it was a same sex screening........ guys screen guys and girls screen girls................. i had this one person............ i just couldnt tell........ so i was about to assume that cousin IT was a male and do the pat down............ then thankfully i got rotated to another postion........ and left the mystery person to whomever took my place lol.

best one tho i was looking at something i couldnt identify........ so i got rotated and so now it was my turn to search and i had to go into the persons bag.......... the.......... HOT SPANISH CHICK...........um....... uhhhh yeah................ looked inside and what i thought was a can of mace or some sort of spray........ was infact a personal vibrateing device.............. which i had in my hand.............

i swear i set new speed records in zipping that bastard up and telling this HOT young lady to have a nice flight and come again soon........... um.................. F&^%

MeneMene

I got a job working for attorneys when I was 19 - very naive and had not been around anything to do with the law. I was typing up something legal from a dictation tape and typed the words I heard - "Jewish Prudence". Boy was I embarrassed when I found out about "jurisprudence".

A very few years later in a different state and in my mid 20s I had another office job answering phones & stuff. One of the managers got a call one day. The caller said to have him call her. I recognized the voice and thought it was his wife. I told him his wife called and to call her back. Yes, he called his wife and asked what she wanted. Oops, it was not his wife, it was his girlfriend that had called!! I was still a witless then and did not understand the ways of the World.

Boy howdy! I pulled a foe paw for sure!

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