‘What’s the funniest faux pas you’ve ever committed?’ – 21 people who embarrassed themselves beyond belief

12.

‘When I was driving buses, I had to help a fella in a wheelchair off the bus. He said thanks, I said ‘It’s no bother, it’s nice to get out and stretch your legs isn’t it?’ He was a double leg amputee. He did laugh though.’
–Grillenium-Falcon

13.

‘Second year secondary school, said ‘orgasm’ rather than organism, when asked a question.’
–Emergency-Aardvark-6

14.

‘Telling a double amputee that I went out over the weekend and got legless. Oof.’
–OptimusPrime365

15.

‘My mum had a miserable post lady for years then they got another one. Mum asked him where she was, man said she retired. Mother said good, she was so bloody miserable. The man replied ‘She’s my partner’.’
–TheNinjaPixie

16.

‘Uni. I was dressed as Velma from Scooby Doo at a Halloween party, drunk, shouting ‘JINKIES!” at the top of my voice.

Long story short, members of Chinese Soc were there and I ended up having to frantically explain Scooby Doo and Velma’s catchphrase to them after they kicked off with my mates and accused me of hurling racist abuse at them. Mortifying but also hilarious.’
–ImpressiveRest2423

17.

‘I’ve done the basic “When’s the baby due?”, just to be told the woman was not pregnant. Doh!’
–AidyGaGa25

18.

‘I’d gone on a house call to put a dog to sleep. The ex-wife turned up while I was there to say goodbye to the dog, drunk as a skunk. She had a much younger bloke with her that was mainly handling her. Anyway, everyone was on relatively good terms, dog passed peacefully, much crying etc. then we go to get the body loaded in my car. I turn to the younger guy to ask if ‘him and his dad’ are alright carrying it out. Room goes completely silent.

Yes, that was in fact the ex-wife’s new boyfriend. Fortunately ‘dad’ found this mix up quite funny and ex-wife was too drunk to have noticed so I just about got away with it.’
–AnonymousOkapi

19.

‘My wife once told a blind artist, with all sincerity, that he a good eye.’
–amusedfridaygoat

20.

‘Worked in a pub in a part of town with a load of other bars, was quite a tight knit community. A woman my age came in while I was working and asked my boss if we had any jobs going. I chipped in saying “You should try [the other pub round the corner], I heard they just sacked an absolute nutter of a barmaid that none of them could stand.”

Of course her response was “Yeah, that was me.”’
–sleepyvimto

21.

”Not me, but my sister in law once texted all embarrassed that she’d made a PARFAIT… I do not allow her to live this down.’
–Evening-Manner9709

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