What was your last faux pas?

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Post yours. The last goof of mine happened to me a couple of days ago. My mom got a phone call from her workmate, asking her if some person whose obituary she had seen was their other workmate's mother in law. My mother answered sincerely that she had no idea if the deceased woman was their friend's mother in law indeed and told her she'd ask our neighbor (who before she retired, was mom's supervisor at work) about this and would phone back, to which I answered that her curious friend could as well just phone this other woman as for whom she suspected that she just lost her mother in law to ask about this. My mother was angry that I could hit upon such a dumb idea, she told me I had no idea what is appropriate and what is not and it was which certainly wasn't appropriate at all.

...what do you mean by faux pas? D: Sorry, I just don't really understand that. >_<

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faux_pas

Oh... XD lol

There has been a one time I remember my mom getting mad at me for something I said before. She thought it was impolite but to me it didn't seem that way. It made feel a bit insecure too. It doesn't happen to me often though since unless I'm around close friends, people with autism, or my parents... then I'm actually mute. D:

Oh, yesterday.

Someone on Facebook wrote a status which said 'Got honked at six times on the way to the hairdressers -so glad to be getting rid of this blonde!'

I misunderstood this and wrote 'Were they honking because your hair looked silly?'

My flat mate saw what I had written and said "You can't write that!" . . . so I deleted it, but she might have read it before I deleted it.

I still don't see why having blonde hair would make people honk car horns at you, unless they meant that you looked silly.

I have just woken, but I'm sure my latest embarrassment is not far away.

That'd be the meeting I was at earlier today, then. I tried to make points instead of just sitting there and listening. It didn't work too well.

(It was a "this is your future in IT, sucker" type meeting. I left muttering "eat your heart out, Gary McKinnon.")

When I was last in an over talkative manic phase, telling everybody in sight everything going through my mind, at a rate of knots, regardless of whether they were interested, whether what I was saying was appropriate. Nobody wants to hear about my bowel movements, least of all in polysyllabic diatribes that last several paragraphs without a full stop.

I remember one awful moment when I was telling another singer in a fundraiser for the choir all about my bladder weaknesses, and I knew in my head that I should stop... but I just COULDN'T.

Ehh... I interrupted people about a dozen times today. Not very interesting, but my most common error. I simply forget to wait my turn.

I agree with the interpretation from j0sh. She was bragging and also fishing for compliments. Your initial response was funny though!

I agree, your response to the blonde thing was great.

My latest faux pas... well, I am only 110 pounds and my sister is about 135. I had a baby 3 months ago and I wore regular jeans during my pregnancy, just a bigger size. My sister was here visiting from out of state and I can't fit those jeans anymore - but they are my sisters size. So, I took them to my sister and said, "Hey, you want these jeans? I wore them during my pregnancy." Now, to me this sounded fine but apparently my brother-in-law (sisters husband - who was also in the room) got all offended by it. He started accusing me of calling her fat & saying my sister should smack me for what I said. I told him, "No, I was stating a fact. If I was calling her fat, I would have said, 'Hey, fatty! Want these fat pants, you fatty mcfatster?'"

Huge one. I thought a girl had been indicating some reciprocity in romantic interest, but apparently she thought she was shutting me down. But she has some Aspy traits, too, so it might've been mutual social ineptitude at work.