I have two examples.

One night a few years back I came home to find the message “Call me back right away” from my sister on the machine. She never calls me, so when I called back I said, “So who died?” She said, “Uncle Ivan.” I said, “Oh.” There was a pause, and then we both cracked up laughing.

Another time I was having lunch with a friend who was having terrible problems with her marriage — she’d found out her husband was seeing someone, but they were trying to work things out. I noticed she wasn’t wearing her rings and I asked her if this had any significance. She said no, she never wore them because they were too small for her now, but that she and her husband worked things out she planned to have them resized. I blurted out, “And if doesn’t work out you can have them made into a really sexy ankle bracelet.” I immediately thought, “Oh maaannnnnn,” but my friend got a fit of the giggles and didn’t seem to mind at all. (And since she is now getting a divorce, who knows but that she might use the idea.)

I often do the first part, but never the second.

All the time, I'm pretty much known for it. I won't put an example here because the one I can think of isn't very nice and is a bit of an inside joke. Anyways, yes, I do do that.

Yeah, I'm with dg. Less of the laughing, more of the withering glares and not-returning-phone-calls-anymore.

Who, me? Tactless?

One lunch time, I was at this yuppie market deli counter, which often has a plate of samples.

Well I see a plate of something or other, and I am really really hungry, so I reach out and take some food off it.

Turns out it was a plate of something that someone had just bought. . .gosh was I embarrassed.

I was at a fancy dinner in Austria when someone in a deeply accented voice asked me:

In English I don't understand the difference between the word "ceiling" and "roof." How are those words different?

An I answered "the jews are hiding between them."

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