I was working at a guide dog for the blind center with my young apprentice,sitting in the large canteen full of sighted and un-sighted people about 8 per table I noticed my apprentice oggling a pretty young girl and I said to him if you dont stop that Chris it will make you go blind. If the ground had opend up and swallowed me it would have been a godsend.
@badradger
God, don’t know what you’d call what I did, had a Freudian slip I think. A friend, the mother of my son’s classmate, asked me over for a meal. Another mum, who previously lived in China, was helping her to cook the meal and we were joined by the host’s mother and her best friend. I was sat next to the best friend, a lovely chatty woman. I was a bit anxious about accidentally coming out with something that wasn’t PC as the best friend was black and I had never spent time socialising with a black person. Anyway, the evening went well up until a box of chocolates were handed around. I took one and passed the box to my new acquaintance, smiling as I said ...”I love black chocolates.... ..”.
I could have died.
This was in the 70’s. I visited an old school friend who had moved to a city from our small village. We drank a fair bit of alcohol then met up with her friends at a local pub. She felt a need to explain that 2 of her male friends were gay. They were chatty men and I enjoyed their company so when the opportunity arose I thought I’d clarify my understanding of gay relationships? “So which of you is the female and which is the male?”
They were either too polite or too shocked to comment and at that point my friend told me off and secretly wished she’d kept her mouth shut.
