Do you ask questions?

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Every time I do manage to ask a question, it always results in making me very embarrassed. Like for example, the other day I was talking to one of my colleagues about her dog, what had to have an operation. She said it was a ''snip''. I usually know these sorts of things, but it somehow didn't register what she was on about, so I plucked up the courage to ask a question to make it looked like I was interested (which I was anyway). So I asked, ''so what is this operation for then?'' And the lady said, ''you know, to stop him from having puppies.'' I felt stupid then, because it looked like I didn't understand the word ''snip'' being another word for ''operation for not wanting puppies''. But I did understand what that meant, but it just didn't register, and I was concentrating so much on asking a question that I wasn't concentrating on the rest of he conversation. So, to make me feel and look less stupid, I said, ''oh, of course!''

I still felt embarrassed.

You have to have some social awareness and be diplomatic about it.

"Why are you so fat?" For example...

I finally found a euphemism for "when are you going home?" - it's "How long can you stay?" It still amazes me that people don't immediately realise it's the same question, only in Diplomese. Or if they do, they somehow don't feel the same rejection.