I tend to speak before I think.
A LOT.
That's why I usually don't talk in public. My mouth gets me in trouble.
Well, I also don't speak in public because of the crippling shyness...but I digress.
I made a terrible, awful faux pas at work today, which is going to involve me having to apologize to my boss.
(Hopefully I will not lose my job. I'm trying to stay positive.)
Dwayne has been warning me for years to watch myself at work, and now he's very manfully NOT saying I told you so.
He is, however, being his usual comedic self.
I asked him for advice on my big apology:
Dwayne: Blah blah blah "sorry" blah blah blah.
Me: Oh.
Dwayne: I know 'sorry' isn't in your vocabulary but I assure you it's a word - I've played it in Words With Friends. Let's practice, "I'm sorry," see, it doesn't hurt.
Me: Haha.
Dwayne: I'm serious you need to say it over and over to make it believable.
Me: OMG.
(pause)
Me: Okay. I'll practice.
It's true. To those who really know me, I'm insufferable. I HAVE to be always right. I HAVE to have the last word. I'm completely obnoxious. I very rarely admit I'm wrong.
I'm a bad, bad person. I'm in for a long night of practicing my apology. Years of never saying 'sorry' have caught up to me.
Dwayne told me to practice on Chelsea, then he told Chelsea that Mommy has something to say to her.
I guess I will start with her.
Well, wait a minute, let me start right now.
I am sorry.
My son said he was sorry yesterday and I needed CPR.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's about how I feel when Chelsea apologizes to me. Obviously, I taught her well. :)
Deletehaha practicing that could take all night. Those three words can be hard to say with a straight face. Especially when you're not
ReplyDeleteI knoooow... That's the hard work, I'm really going to have to work on convincing myself tonight that I was wrong wrong wrong. :)
DeleteI've had to make so many apologies that I have mastered this quite well. It is now a weapon in my arsenal of social skills. It works nicely as a means of disarming my opponent. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI so wish you could go in and apologize for me, LOL!
DeleteSometimes the severity of the offense is amplified by repeated rehearsal of the apology. I like to try for something just a notch above "excuse me" then possess myself in alert silence. A sincere, not overly emotional, admission of culpability usually suffices. Best of luck to you.
ReplyDeleteThat's good, too. Thank you, Geo.
DeleteKerry's comment rocks!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I know! It was awesome!
DeleteSometimes we just have to suck it up and apologize for the greater good :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. I apologized today and was filled with remorse, but still stubbornly wanted to argue. I am so dumb. Hopefully I will learn one day.
DeleteI didn't get fired. Yay. Had a talk with me, then talked with his boss about what to do with me, then talked to me again and formally wrote me up. I was probably the most grateful person to be written up he'd ever seen.
Students say sorry all the time. It's their Get Out of Jail Free card. But every once in a while, one will say it with complete sincerity and it's disarming.
ReplyDeleteGlad you didn't get fired.
Me too.
DeleteI'm much too old to be getting in trouble like this. Seriously. When you're 21-year old daughter is giving you advice on what to do in your job, you have a real problem.
Ew. I used you're instead of your.
DeleteToday has really shaken me up. I'm taking my pill and going to bed.
There's a pill for your/you're? Now, that's progress.
Delete;-)
Haha, wouldn't that be convenient?!
Deletehahaha
ReplyDeleteGreat post.
(I often have foot-n-mouth disease, too. :P)
I'm glad I'm not the only one, lol.
DeleteI'm seriously sitting here still thinking about the whole thing, and vowing to never say anything, at all, ever again.
:)
Hope everything works out, I think it will, you are a good person, Michelle. Good people come out on top.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!
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