Most insensitive thing you've done lately?

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

C'mon, everyone has moments where they make frosty the snow man shiver in a flurry of insensitively cold snow flakes.

Whats the most insensitive thing you've done recently?

[tehcow]

I bumped into someone I knew yesterday and said hello briefly. He said he had to go since he was going away somewhere that night. I said "Oh really? How come?" in a happy, enthusiastic manner, thinking that it was pretty cool that he was going to that city in the middle of the week and that there must be a good reason for it. Well it turned out that the good reason was that his grandfather had died and he was going for the funeral. That conversation didn't last much longer.

[ParryRiposte]

I was sitting in class one day making fun of druggies. My friend, sitting next to me, proceeded to tell me that her sister had almost died on ecstasy last week and had gone into rehab that morning.

[mrbiggs]

You guys totally win over any story I have.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

I was talking to this emo girl last night who was like "I used to cut myself"

My reply?

"Well why the hell did you stop?!"

[RebelFencer]

It happened a couple months ago, but this was the most recent.

This girl I had been dating for two months told me she loved me. My response was to look at her strangely and say, "awwww." Like she had just shown me a picture of a kitten cuddling with a bunny. We broke up soon after.

[fencerbill]

When asked how breastplates should be decorated, I suggested Tassles.

[Beloit Fencer of Old]

Sometimes Bob dated women past the point where they annoyed him. One day, Bob's girlfriend said "Aw, come on, you love me!" To which Bob replied, "OK, but you love me more!"

[MessiahFencing]

I called a fat foilist the worst god damned fencer ever and that a rhino could beat him. he quit later that day. ( hey! his record was like 1-40 )

[Pauli]

Originally Posted by MessiahFencing

I called a fat foilist the worst god damned fencer ever and that a rhino could beat him. he quit later that day. ( hey! his record was like 1-40 )

and now he sits in front of the tv every day and feeds himself with fatning potatoe chips until he drops dead.

I mean, I sure would have chuckled had I heard you say this. I might actually have laughed out loud......because depending on the situation, it may have been really funny.

On the other hand think about how much you might have scratched his selfconfidence and eventually have killed his courage to move at all.

[Pauli]

A person from my office (not my current job) who was my boss' assistant and worked in an office just around the corner always tried to be nice to me. I couldn't stand her, just not my type, too whiny.
Her efforts to get along with me were huge. I kept on blocking them, possibly with rather sarcastic short remarks. I don't really know, as I didn't think I behaved any different. Well maybe a bit. She might have felt that she annoyed the heck out of me.
One day I might have gone too far.
In the afternoon she entered my office, tears in her eyes.
Explaining her whole life story and at the end the question, why I didn't like her.

After having listened to her story without saying a word, I told her to please go and cry in her boss's office. That I wasn't her shrink and that I had work to do.

That wasn't a good answer at all. She cried even more when she stepped out of my office.

I had reached my goal. She didn't talk to me anymore, only said good morning or hi or good bye.

Sometimes I still wonder what her problem was. You can't expect to be loved by everybody. That's life.

This is possibly not the most insensitive thing I've said or done......it's the one that just popped up my mind.

[Fencergrl]

Irreverent or insensitive… you decide...

My husband and I were staying at a newly opened Inn. The owner was interested in getting feed-back from my husband on the handicap suite (my husband is a paraplegic).

She was most concerned with the bathroom facilities. There was no bench in the shower, so upon request she provided us with a plastic patio chair and wanted to know if that worked okay (and what would be a more suitable solution).

My husband and her discussed it for a while, and as we turned to leave, she said "I'm so glad it worked out okay I was worried about you slipping in the shower". I turned and said "You were worried about him?? Shhheeez... you should have been more worried about me! He only has sensation in half of his body, I have full sensation and would feel everything!"

[Fencergrl]

In the same vein…

We’re in the airport and I get on the escalator, my husband follows (he does it backwards while popping a wheelie). Security starts shouting “Sir, please don’t do that, there’s an elevator right here!”. My husband just tells them not to worry that he’s just fine.

I pipe up… “Easy for him to say, I’m the one that ends up with a 200 pound plus man in a wheelchair landing on top of me if he lets go!” at which point I try to look scared rather than ready to burst out into laughter….

[SSMSabreMN]

Uhm it hasn't happened recently but it was pretty insensitive... My best friend's mom died when she was about 5 and is still quite touchy about it (who wouldn't be?) So our group of friends is having a hard time holding back the "Your mom" jokes around her. We dont even realize it until she gives us a look, she understands for the most part but we all end up feeling horrible about it. I think her boyfriend even said it once not thinking.

[brutus]

lol at everyones posts.

I used to work at pizza hut, someone came in to ask for an employment form thing, I asked "why are you considering working here?", she said "Oh I used to care for my grandmother full time but she died recently", replied "So no references then?!".

Also I was working my self up at the gym 'cso soome stuff was being used execcively by one group, so i jumped in quickly to use it inbetween their sets, then then asked me to get off (very politly and nicely) I promptly snapped back "F**k off and die" - I felt very bad!!

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

Originally Posted by brutus

lol at everyones posts.

I used to work at pizza hut, someone came in to ask for an employment form thing, I asked "why are you considering working here?", she said "Oh I used to care for my grandmother full time but she died recently", replied "So no references then?!".

Also I was working my self up at the gym 'cso soome stuff was being used execcively by one group, so i jumped in quickly to use it inbetween their sets, then then asked me to get off (very politly and nicely) I promptly snapped back "F**k off and die" - I felt very bad!!

Dude, thats only appropriate if they're doing curls in the squat rack.

You won't believe it, but the other day I saw somebody doing DUMBELL curls in the squat rack. It was like, ridiculous x2.

[brutus]

Originally Posted by D+F+P=Hadouken!

Dude, thats only appropriate if they're doing curls in the squat rack.

You won't believe it, but the other day I saw somebody doing DUMBELL curls in the squat rack. It was like, ridiculous x2.

lol, thats just stupid, whatreason did he have to be anywhere near the rack with a pair of 'bells? did you educate him??

[tehcow]

Originally Posted by SSMSabreMN

Uhm it hasn't happened recently but it was pretty insensitive... My best friend's mom died when she was about 5 and is still quite touchy about it (who wouldn't be?) So our group of friends is having a hard time holding back the "Your mom" jokes around her. We dont even realize it until she gives us a look, she understands for the most part but we all end up feeling horrible about it. I think her boyfriend even said it once not thinking.

I can also vouch for this one. I think it was more awkward when we realised the context and went really quiet. If we hadn't made anything out of it it probably wouldn't have been bad.

[SSMSabreMN]

Yeah we're usually able to pull our selves out of an awkward situation like that by adding Step-mom in, shes not too fond of hers so she'll actually laugh about it.

But it was really odd when we had this new kid with us, he had no idea and we all just gave him these horrible looks and she said "kid... dont go there if you value your balls at all."

[Fencergrl]

I have a bad habit (particularly when younger) to say whatever was on my mind. Some find my humour charming while others less so….

I had a boss I didn’t have a lot of respect a number of years ago. I tried to be respectful, but sometimes my mouth got moving before my brain stopped it. This was one of those times…

As he was getting ready to leave for an appointment, he let me know that he was on his way by saying “I’m off to do some work”. Without thinking I responded with “That’s nice that you’re finally going to give that a try”. He stood stunned for a moment… flustered and turning beet red, I responded with “Errrh… ummm… that sounded like a funnier comment in my head than out loud”.

Co-worker in the same office…. Commented that her mother always said that the best helping hand is on the end of your arm… again without thinking….I responded with “I think listening to your mother might be the reason you’re still single”…. Fortunately after a moment of shock she burst out into laughter and told me she has never met anyone who was so quick witted…