We’ve all had situations where, without thinking, we blurting out something completely inappropriate. But has there been a time when you said something without thinking that turned out to be the perfect thing to say?
For instance:
When I was in college, one of the women on the floor was complaining about some guy who was being a jerk. I blurted out, “Do you want me to thrash him for you?” purely as a joke – I’m not one to thrash anyone. She told me it was the nicest thing I could have said.
Not speaking, but after I graduated, my apartment mate (female) was involved with a married man and suddenly went on this long rant to me about the relationship and the problems she had. I had absolutely nothing to say – the idea was so alien to me that I couldn’t think of any advice. Later, she thanked me for my help.
Just the other day, my wife was concerned about going to the doctor, and was afraid she might have to go on a prescription and we’d have to pay all the money. I just blurted out, “Well, you’re worth it.” She loved that.
A person at work who my boss doesn’t like was talking to someone else across the room, and we were all overhearing (one reason my boss doesn’t like her is that she talks incessantly and loudly).
She said something like “I was at this party last weekend and I had a couple shots and then I just carried around a bottle of vodka the rest of the night.” She then immediately continued with, “I’m not a drinker but. . .”
At this point, I blurted out (not loud enough for her to hear, but loud enough for my boss and the several people sitting near me to hear), “No…I think you are.”
Would’ve been inappropriate if I’d said it to her, but my boss seemed to enjoy it.
In an endocrinology class I learned that men go bald because of the testosterone they produce. (By the way, drugs that “treat” baldness lower the levels of this hormone.)
When my fiance and I were dating, he told me that he was self-conscious about being bald so young. I told him what I learned about testosterone and then blurted out, “Just because you don’t have anything on top doesn’t mean you don’t have it going on!”
Going into a grocery store, I was approaching a young lady exiting the same store. Quite an attreactive gal with a very lovely pair of breasts that bounced and swayed nicely as she walked. She was showing quite a bit of cleavage and I must say that, for a few seconds, that was all I really noticed.
She was about ready to pass right by me and I thought to myself “Nice Pair!”
… only… I realized that perhaps the thought I just had was actually heard by my own ears. It was really a cartoon moment of “Oh My God!.. Did I just say that OUT LOUD?!”
