What social faux pas did you do today?

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I didn't really make any today, but I realized while reading this thread that if I don't understand what someone says when they first see me, I shouldn't automatically say, "Good, how are you?" I just realized how random that would sound if they were saying something else, even something like, "Good morning."

I stayed home today to reload after spending yesterday on a group project at university, which was extremely frustrating, to the extent of me pulling the entire circuit out of the breadboard after having spent ages making sure it was assembled correctly, telling the rest I'd just go on to soldering everything together in a heap and see if it works, since they apparently weren't interested in testing it first. Of course it didn't work, and I'm going back tomorrow, and I'll be working alone this time and let them write the report. So at least I had a "social mistake" yesterday, namely social interaction in itself.

I did, however, interact with a bag of candy today. Extensively. That was a mistake, too

I had a dentist appointment today. Before the dentist came in, his assistant put a cotton swab with a numbing gel on my gum. The numbing gel causes me to drool. A lot. When he came in, the exchange went a little like this:

Dentist: Hey; how are you doing today?
Me: Hi; can you get this stuff out of my mouth now?

Something tells me I probably should have indulged in the small talk first.

I was giving a guitar lesson to a fifth grader at a private Christian school (she's in my dad's class). I started rambling about this thing that happened in my Japanese class a while back, and then without thinking I mentioned how I called this girl a b****. Then I realized what I said, froze, said, "Um...j-just kidding," and proceeded to tell her to play "Heart Of Worship."

I didn't respond to a text from a roommate, because the text didn't explicitly feel like a question. When she got home I got reprimanded for "being disrespectful" then I tried to explain that I didn't feel like it was a question and her response was "I guess your brain is mush that you need things handed to you". But this response took about 3-4 hours because she wouldn't even explain what it was that I had done incorrectly for quite a while, this of course caused my anxiety level to skyrocket, the rest of the day was a disaster due to one mistake that I wasn't even aware I was making. And the whole thing was about going to the laundry.

We had some displays set up at my school yesterday and I went to check one out. I ended up stopping in front of it and trying to say "Hey, what's going on here guys?", which came out completely incomprehensible with a look of shock on my face. After the failure I asked to have a cookie and just left saying "I need to get some sleep".

That's the first time I've ever just completely been unable to form a coherent sentence when I was in a calm, relaxed "Normal" mood.

Also apparently have many small faux pas that I don't notice occur, but others do. I have a feeling this is true for others on the board as well.

Yesterday, I had just gotten to work where I share an office with my supervisor. Well, she loves to talk (probably thinks I'm a good listener since I don't talk that much)...and she tells me all of the gory details about her life...daily. Well, yesterday when she was spilling it all again she was describing a few events that were going to take place in her life and she was making some hand gestures to illustrate how she thought it was going to affect her. Well, she come to this downward handmotion and had a loss for words and looked at me for help and I piped in, "A spirally depression?" Oops...she meant something positive. But fortunately, she is kind of used to me, and both laughed and jokingly flipped me off.

This one was apparently a doozy...I lied. Quick background, I live with my ex from many years ago (strictly Platonic) I watch her 4o daughter pretty much 24/7 and I get to sleep on a very uncomfortable couch bed in the liviv room, and fed (what she feels should be purchased anything else I have to buy out of my very meager unemployment). I did aree to this though. Well anyway she's at work and her long-distance bf is here for the night...she called demanding I wake him up including beating on her bedroom door, shouting his name, and then the kicker told me to go in her room and turn on the light, I did the first two but the last made me feel VERY uncomfortable so I lied and told her I did. The reason she wanted me to is because she couldn't get him to wake up because he was supposed to go see her on her break, well apparently he had already left and she was on her way home and they saw each other...the reason I lies is because I knew she would demand I did it even if I felt uncomfortable (which she totally confirmed). Of course she wont even acknowledge that I might have a crippling disability, just says I need to grow up. My question is was I wrong to A) be uncomfortable with the entire process (the light was just too far) B) lie because I knew she would force me anyway?

I found a REALLY BIG knife while walking my dog, and there were kids around, so I just picked it up and kept it for myself. I think it's legal...

Apparently I was the only one in my Japanese class who momentarily believed my professor when he was joking about living in the Empire State Building as a grammatical example of the lesson we were learning. I'm just way too gullible