I find it interesting that one sentence can screw up a day. I mean, sure, there are plenty of earth-shattering sentences that can mess up your day – "your dog is dead." "you need a new transmission." "you’re fired." "you’re under arrest." "I just want to be friends." – but those aren’t the sentences I’m talking about. More like, you fumble through a sentence in front of a cute girl, or your boss’s boss’s boss, and you spend the rest of the day thinking about how stupid you sounded. You can’t help but reflect on the fact that instead of saying "the answer is 5" you said "Mein aingster fie." ((in which case, you also have to wonder where you learned German)). Or maybe you resort to caveman speak. "you have a knack at remember people’s names" becomes "you good name, me not."
I know we’ve all done stuff like that, but I wonder how long the average person spends reflecting on their recent appearance of stupidity.
so what cute girl did you fumble a sentence in front of?
I knew you’d assume that… it’s why I put it in there
you know what i hate? when you kind of don’t notice that you said something stupid until you’re almost asleep and then the realization smacks you upside the head. then you end up spending an hour and a half in the middle of the night going “well… crap.”
been there, done that…
spent an hour in my bosses office the next day discussing what was said, why it was said, who it was directed at, and what would happen (termination) if it happened again.
but I am guessing that what you said was not that bad.