100 Social Situations You've Screwed Up In

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60) I remember when I was in 4th grade, I thought I'd make a joke about my teacher's belly and make him laugh so I told him "You're pregnant" and he doesn't say a word so I say it again and he goes "what?" and I say it again and he just goes "Beth, that was rude." I was a little embarrassed because he didn't laugh and told me off instead. I never made that joke ever again.

61) I remember when I was six I had learned to say in class "I am sorry but I can't talk to you because I am working" when doing your school work. One day I was doing my school work and the aid in class calls everyone to her table and I told her "I am sorry I can't talk to you because I am working" and she goes "excuse me, what did you say?" and I said it again. She then told me you are not to say that to your teachers and I am to get to the table now. I learned that didn't apply to teachers and it only applied to other kids.

62. Once, in a particularly bad mood during one Friday's lunch break back in high school, I called a group of my brother's friends junkies and whores, half under my breath, because of how much I disliked the polar "drugs and sex" high school partying mindset. They heard me. I didn't really mean it, but it sounded enough like I meant it that I instantly felt terrible when several of them stopped and glared at me. I immediately left, wanting to crawl in a hole and die.

63. That same year of high school, I was in a bad mood again, and posted an angry rant blog post that included mention of a friend of mine and things I didn't really approve of him doing or respect him for. He came across it, and it heavily damaged our friendship. I apologized for it and explained why I wrote what I did (depression and social alienation, among other things), and we're still sort-of friends, but not to anywhere near the level we were before I published that post.

Lesson learned: Keep your negative opinions of people to yourself, no matter how strong they are. You'll only end up regretting it if you let them out.

63. When I was 10 these two boys who teased me a lot came up to me and asked who I "liked" and then clarified that by asking "what boy" I liked. I told them that I liked Joshua, when asked who Joshua was I answered (honestly) that he was my cousin. They started laughing uproariously and then started bringing over lots of other people and asking me the same questions in their presence. Clearly I did not know what they meant when they said "liked" and only after it was too late did I figure out why they were laughing at me

65. Since we're talking about childhood things, when I was in about 3rd grade, someone came up to me and asked if I was a virgin. Having only ever heard this word to describe the Virgin Mary and not being anything remotely like the holy mother of god, I said no. Everyone laughed at me and I had no idea why.