Friday, February 01, 2008

Foot in mouth. Thats my thing!

It is not always that you get a chance to meet long lost friends and that too get invited over for dinner. And when they do, how many of us actually come out totally embarrassed??? Well, I do.

I had to travel for work a lot lately. On one such travel, I was invited for dinner by an old friend to her apartment. It was an all girls apartment. After exchanging the routine pleasantries we all got talking, catching up on a lot of stuff which I had not got an opportunity to do for quite some time.

I do not remember how exactly, but the topic of discussion moved towards driving. Yours truly, absolutely regardless of the fact that I am in a girl’s apartment blurted out my opinion on women drivers. Without mincing any words, I said, “Women are horrible drivers!”

Quite a few eyebrows were raised and there was a bit of silence for a moment. I thought the male chauvinist in me had hurt the sentiments of the women of today. I had no intention what so ever to do that. It was actually a hangover of car ride with a friend that morning which had resulted in a small accident with a car driven by a woman. Helplessly my friend had yelled, “WHY DO PEOPLE ALLOW WOMEN TO DRIVE???”
One of the hosts then broke the silence and said, “o…is it??? Then we drop the plan to drop you home tonight”

I didn’t know that one of them actually owns a car, drives and they all have a plan to drop me home. I also wasn’t aware that the city had commutation problems once it gets late. You may actually grant me the benefit of doubt for this statement but certainly not for what I did after that.

These girls were greats hosts and in spite of my thoughtless remark came to drop me home as it was late.

As we sat in the car, the girl who owned the car said, “Horrible driving is it??? Now you will get to see some of it!!!”

I could have just laughed it off.
But how could I???
Foot in mouth has been my thing!

I opened my mouth to utter what was nothing short of an icing on the cake. I said, “No no…you guys are ok on such empty roads.”
For the moment everyone laughed and I realized what I had just said.

I have not met that girl after that and I do not know what I will say if I do end up bumping into her again somewhere. I should probably just keep quite.

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