I have a big case of foot-in-mouth disease.
I was riding up in the elevator this morning with Eoin, my 6'8" coworker (you'll remember him from my bbq pictures). I told him that when I was in London I saw a suit of armour made for a "giant", who stood 6'9".
"Do you know what that means?" I asked him. He said no, kind of bashfully. "You are one inch shy of being a GIANT!"
He turned red and all he could say was, "I didn't realize there were classifications."
I didn't realize I had embarassed him, so I blundered on. "Oh yeah. It makes perfect sense. Because they sort out midgets and dwarfs, so of course they would sort out the top end too."
I had just called Eoin a freak.
He laughed rather pitifully and rushed to his desk. THIS, of course, is the moment that I realize what I've done.
Oh boy. How do I recover from this? I am quite obviously suffering from lack of socialization. The one person I've talked to in two days and I call him a freak of nature! What is wrong with me?!
But, for the record, I work with a near-giant. How cool is that? ......oh god, I am awful.
I was riding up in the elevator this morning with Eoin, my 6'8" coworker (you'll remember him from my bbq pictures). I told him that when I was in London I saw a suit of armour made for a "giant", who stood 6'9".
"Do you know what that means?" I asked him. He said no, kind of bashfully. "You are one inch shy of being a GIANT!"
He turned red and all he could say was, "I didn't realize there were classifications."
I didn't realize I had embarassed him, so I blundered on. "Oh yeah. It makes perfect sense. Because they sort out midgets and dwarfs, so of course they would sort out the top end too."
I had just called Eoin a freak.
He laughed rather pitifully and rushed to his desk. THIS, of course, is the moment that I realize what I've done.
Oh boy. How do I recover from this? I am quite obviously suffering from lack of socialization. The one person I've talked to in two days and I call him a freak of nature! What is wrong with me?!
But, for the record, I work with a near-giant. How cool is that? ......oh god, I am awful.
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