# Wow, That was close.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980 "2010-11-09T00:55:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/1 "2010-11-09T00:55:18Z")
I’m at work today and i brought in some new gum thats supposed to taste like Chocolate chip-mint ice cream… I gave a piece of it to a female co-worker because she said it’s her favorite flavor of ice cream, how bad could it be? After a few chews, I really didn’t like the flavor and she agreed with me. I almost said to her…" I won’t be offended if you spit it out." Close call averted. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/2 "2010-11-09T05:55:48Z")
Wow. That was very mild. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/3 "2010-11-09T05:58:42Z")
You think that was bad? The other night I had a few too many schnappes and I almost said, “Ann Landers is a boring old biddy!” The shame! ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/4 "2010-11-09T06:11:50Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > You think that was bad? The other night I had a few too many schnappes and I almost said, “Ann Landers is a boring old biddy!” The shame! It’s been 4,000 days since my last drink. It was my first – and last – blackberry schnapps. Joe ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/5 "2010-11-09T06:45:53Z")
I once, in a setting and context that made it perfectly reasonable from my perspective, asked a complete stranger (and a customer) “Do you have a woody?” Took me a minute to realize what he thought I was asking! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/6 "2010-11-10T18:05:59Z")
This reminds me of one time when I was with some friends and we wanted to play volleyball, but the ball was not inflated. So we found a bicycle pump, and I was holding the ball while this girl was using the pump. At some point she asked, “Is it getting hard?” I said (stealing a Monty Python line), “That’s a rather personal question, isn’t it?” She was quite amused. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/7 "2010-11-10T18:10:54Z")
I was in a professional training course over the last two days. At one point I got a major, MAJOR, case of the giggles when the teacher said that ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) didn’t allow rolled joints. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/8 "2010-11-10T18:11:47Z")
I came home from work one day long ago, and my tap water was cold. After checking a few things, I turned on a few burners on my stove. Nothing. I checked the oven. Nothing. I walked dwonstairs and knocked on my neighbor’s door. When she answered, I asked “Hi, do you have gas?” She gave me the oddest look before figuring out what I was really asking. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/9 "2010-11-10T18:58:39Z")
While having a difficult time trying to repair a jewelry box with a very small wood screw, my high school girlfriend asked her mother if she was any good at screwing. Her mom was in the other room and had no idea what prompted the question. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/10 "2010-11-10T19:09:42Z")
One day at work, my wife and a coworker were trying to remember the name of the company that they had seen at a trade show that made a line of soap products called “Dirty Girls”. So they started to Google “dirty girls” before one of them realized that, hey maybe that’s really not a good idea, especially at work. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/11 "2010-11-10T19:16:25Z")
Not by me but to me. Sitting in the college cafeteria in my young and naturally fit days. The girl next to me pokes me in the arm to get my attention, notices how solid the muscle is and exclaims loudly without thinking, “You’re so hard!” Same girl a few weeks later walks up behind me and attempts to goose me, landing exactly on top of a rib. Again loudly and without thought, “Is that your bone?” ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/12 "2010-11-10T19:22:02Z")
Group of friends having dinner, we’re all single. One girl is pouring wine for everyone, and the two or three people before me had held a finger on the glass indicating where they wanted the pour to stop. She got to me and as she started pouring asked “aren’t you going to finger me?” We were all too busy laughing to respond. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/13 "2010-11-10T19:48:21Z")
Not quite as accidental, but a woman e-mailed me a few days ago and ended it with “xx.” Then she asked to make sure that x meant kisses, and not that she was crossing me out. I replied that it did mean kisses, and that I would see her that night and give her a couple of X’s and a big O. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/14 "2010-11-10T19:58:00Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I was in a professional training course over the last two days. At one point I got a major, MAJOR, case of the giggles when the teacher said that ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) didn’t allow rolled joints. My husband’s a mechanical engineer too and brought home a story about someone in another department getting yelled at for a “sloppy caulk job”. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/15 "2010-11-10T20:20:52Z")
I too once did not make a remark that, if I had actually had made it, and the context had been quite different, might just possibly have been misconstrued as a _double entendre_. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/16 "2010-11-10T20:26:08Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > While having a difficult time trying to repair a jewelry box with a very small wood screw, my high school girlfriend asked her mother if she was any good at screwing. > > Her mom was in the other room and had no idea what prompted the question. I used to supervise a man whose first language was not English. He was a fine human being, but his grasp of English-language idiom was wanting, and the quality of his work was not as high as it could have been. My boss and I had called him in for a meeting to discuss an error he’d made (the latest in a series). As we sat down, he asked: “What did I screw?” Yes, we explained the importance of the missing directional preposition. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/17 "2010-11-10T20:29:18Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > I too once did not make a remark that, if I had actually had made it, and the context had been quite different, might just possibly have been misconstrued as a _double entendre_. Win. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/18 "2010-11-10T20:34:34Z")
I had fixed a computer problem for a co-worker. She was impressed with the speed and ease of the fix, which seemed miraculous, even magical, to her. She smiled and asked excitedly: “Are you a fairy?” I stared, mentally debating whether to say “Yes” or “There are other terms I prefer.” She noticed my puzzled expression and continued: “You know, like with a wand?” I thought to myself, “Don’t you be be asking about my wand at work,” smiled, and bade her good day. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/19 "2010-11-10T23:32:51Z")
My nephew was a little kid when the first Toy Story movie came out. That year, they were doing some Christmas shopping at a toy store, wheny he saw a large doll/action figure of the cowboy character frin the movie. This sent him running a around the store yelling “I WANT A GIANT WOODY! I WANT A GIANT WOODY!” ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980/20 "2010-11-11T05:12:23Z")
Many years ago, I was in an applied statistics class in college. We had a rookie professor and he assigned a homework that required simulation, manually. the task itself was easy, but very tedious and long. The next class, one of the gals complained that she was doing _hand stimulation_ for 4 hours last night. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-that-was-close/559980.md?page=2)