And now for the award to World’s Biggest Foot In Mouth:
Oct
03
I am not feeling well at all today. It’s been coming for a few days and I am certainly ill. I have three clients to be seen today whose births are impending. My lovely and capable apprentice is on the scene to conduct the visits while I sit outside at my kitchen table writing up charts and eavesdropping on the doppler sounds. In between clients I was updating her on what I’d learned over the weekend on newborn transition. Then we were just chatting.
“I got to see a dead body yesterday!”
OH MY GOD is what I immediately I thought and said. My sweet, dear friend’s brother recently died in a motorcycle accident. Could I have said anything more offensive? Oh my God. I immediately apologized and burst into tears. Oh my gosh. The we both giggled with misty eyes and was so forgiving of my mistake.
What an idiot I am!
January 25th, 2007 at 1:02
Oh, yikes. So sad for your apprentice. The housing-office-guy at our military base told my husband we could look at a house on base to see if we wanted to move in. My poor husband responded, “We’ll probably take it unless there’s a dead body inside.”… housing-office-guy’s mom had just died the week before. I’m surprised it was my husband and not me because I have serious foot-in-mouth disease.