Things you've learnt not to say? :o)

ska_lover

moneypuddle wrote: »

"Did you have a good weekend?" to a colleague of mine. I will get the absolute boring ins and outs of every hour of her weekend, down to what she watched on TV, what she ate for her lunch and what she did with her cats in intense details

LOL seriously same here - even down to the detail about what she did with her cats here too!!

Dull dull dull. Last week she told me how much washing she had got done etc. UGHHHH

ska_lover

Also agree with saying 'Hi, how are you?' to work colleagues.

One of them will just make some kind of ''Bleurghhhhhhhhhh'' noise - this is every morning - every day since I started work there 5 years ago.
Whilst another colleague will tell you an entire list of ailments.Neither of them have any intention of asking how I am - I recently stopped asking, cs its a real negative start to each day - Bleurghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh im feeling so ill!! Hahahaha SADDOS

daisy_darling

It's taken me 40 years to learn but when someone says " Can you do me a favour ? " I don't automatically say " Yes " anymore.

ska_lover

daisy_darling wrote: »

It's taken me 40 years to learn but when someone says " Can you do me a favour ? " I don't automatically say " Yes " anymore.

good one, id agree there

Desperado99

pukkamum wrote: »

Never, ever say to your new employer
"when is your baby due?"
Not unless you are sure she is pregnant!

The look of disgust on her face when she replied she wasn't was all i needed to realise i would never get ahead at that company!

LOL I never ask that, unless I've been told that they're preggers..... mainly because I've been on the receiving end of that question. To which I replied "no, I'm just fat" :rotfl:

One lady did say to me "not long now then!" when I was pushing the month old baby in the pram in front of me :rotfl:

Four_leaf_clover_2

If I invite my kids friends home for tea I dont ask the mums what the kids wont eat any more. There is usually a list as long as your arm. I just say 'any allergies' and leave it at that. If the [STRIKE]fussy eaters[/STRIKE] little darlings turn their noses up and wont eat what I serve then they can eat again at home. I dont want my two thinking they can pick and choose and get awkward around meal times. Oh lord, I sound just like my mother.

scooby088

I have learned not to put my life up on a public forum for people to view.

euronorris

I've learnt to say 'Yeah, I'm good thanks.', rather than 'Yeah, I'm alright.'. The latter always seems to invite people to ask more, and that wasn't the intention. I just didn't want to make out everything is perfect, when it isn't, but I also don't want to bare my soul to someone I barely know. I thought 'alright' was a good compromise. It wasn't. Back to 'Yeah, I'm good thanks. How about you?'.

meeps

I think there is a guy in my hometown who will have stopped saying 'cheer up love, it might never happen' since he said it to my sister, hours after her husband's funeral, and got a full melt down.

delain

meeps wrote: »

I think there is a guy in my hometown who will have stopped saying 'cheer up love, it might never happen' since he said it to my sister, hours after her husband's funeral, and got a full melt down.

That'll teach him.

I got on a bus at the hospital on crutches, was going home on usual route so knew the driver. He saw the crutches and said

'what have you done now?' (probably thinking i would say sprained ankle or something like that)

I then said 'can't walk properly they think I've got MS'

His face :rotfl: