In the context of talking about his college age daughter staying out to the wee hours of the morning or not coming home until the next day.
“I think we may have raised a slut.”
you should have countered with an invitation to your evangelical fellowship
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Well we’re both atheists, so he already knows about the meetings. This guy is actually a pretty good friend, but nonetheless a coworker. So not really outside the bounds of our friendship, but nonetheless, a pretty crazy thing to say.
In a board meeting where the CEO was a female Qatari and there were multiple female Muslims on the board an guy said “what we need is a huge c&ck”, when what we actually think he meant to say was a “huge trench”
He knew he’d said it but ploughed on as if nothing happened so fair play to him but it was the beginning of the end of his career in the country
In grad school, one of the other students came back from a wedding where he was the best man very bummed out. It was the friend’s second marriage. During the toast, he said the first wife’s name rather than the bride’s. He knew he had said it the second it came out of his mouth, but like your situation, he just had to plough on through the toast as if he hadn’t.
Having spent a few decades in the pointy end of emergency medicine, I’ve heard a few things most people probably don’t hear in the office.
“Is that your blood or his?”
“I think you’re on fire. Holy shit yeah you’re on fire”
“(Dispatcher) Patient is having chest pain again. Also he asked if you can stop and pick up some fried chicken for him.”
…off the top of my head.
There was a comedy duo in Oz who went by “The 2 Lens”. They parodied the laconic, laid back drawl of country Australians, as in:
Len 1: “Hey Len”
Len 2: “Yeah Len”
Len 1: “Your leg’s on fire, Len”
Len 2: “C’mon Len… I’m a very busy man…Which one?”
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Another doctor in the ER once asked me if I would renew his testosterone prescription. “Uh, no not comfortable doing that” Coupled with the fact he had a volatile temper. Eventually he was asked to leave the schedule and a year later had a suicide attempt.
I have a colleague who routinely shares way too much information out of nowhere…
Recently he’s been telling people that he just discovered that he had a daughter as a teenager and he had no idea. She’s now 47.
“Who’s the dude?” Repeatedly.
My manager, Bill, went on vacation to Vegas with his wife. When he came back he was showing around a picture. He was in the middle, on his left was an obvious showgirl with a big feathered headpiece, on his right was a blonde with long hair in a dress.
Ed saw the picture as Bill was showing the picture to Cynthia and Cindy. The whole group just chatting. Ed says, “who’s the dude?”. No one answers. I can hear this from my cube a few feet away. Ed repeats 2 or three times, “Who’s the dude?”. Finally he gets very impatient and loudly says, “guys, who’s the dude?”
Cindy simply says. “that’s Bill’s wife.”
Ed spent the next 10 minutes in my cube saying over and over, “I just ruined my career, I just ruined my career, …”
And now, I am going to ping Ed and remind him of this. He did not in fact ruin his career as that was more than 15 years ago.
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The correct recovery would have been,
“Not Bill’s wife, the guy in drag dressed as a showgirl”
It was a summer cruise on a lake and the CEO of the company was half in the tank. I overheard his conversation with his 2nd in command. “We taught her to be open minded but not THAT open minded…”
The CEO and his daughter are white and she’s a sophomore in college dating a black guy.
This wasn’t said but done — my boss years ago was a high flier who played away a lot. Anyway one of his former employees/conquests came in one afternoon and went apenuts on him, screaming and scratching. He had a stripe of nail gouges down his cheek. I had to pretend to be sympathetic but it was spectacular.
That is glorious.
My wife came on part time with our ICU group back in 2021, working maybe 5-6 shifts per month on average. One of the part time Respiratory Therapists, who’s been here for years, knows both of us but had no idea we’re married. A few weeks ago he saw me in the cafeteria and stopped me to tell me a story he was obviously dying to share.
He said a few days ago he was working on a patient with her, and their conversation turned personal, and she mentioned that we were planning a couples vacation. He said she was talking openly about it with him and in front of several nurses, and the whole time he was hiding his bewilderment and wondering if she knew I was married and if so why she was so brazen in talking about it openly. He carried on the conversation and didn’t let on what he was thinking. He found out later in the day that we’re married, to each other.
He said the whole time she was talking he was thinking, he’s my guy, I can’t drop a dime on him but this poor woman has no idea he’s married and living a double life, WTF?!
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That doesn’t seem too bad given your relationship with him and the private setting (I’m assuming) he said that in.
I dated a girl who’s mom was a doctor at a sexual health clinic. That family was preposterously open about sexual discussion and sex positivity. Nothing was off the table. The parents encouraged their daughter to be as sexually open and explorative as possible so long as she was being safe. On the flip side, I was raised by European Catholics. We did not discuss sex at all. I’m not sure either parental tact is particularly healthy but it sure was an eye opening experience spending time in their household.
Her room was downstairs, in a finished basement, and you had to pass through the room to reach the mechanical room of the house. One morning after sleeping over, and not getting much sleep for obvious reasons, we were lying there naked under the sheets, and her dad just saunters in, whistling cheerfully, heading to the mechanical room. He doesn’t even flinch at the sight of us, casually asks us if pancakes are good for breakfast on his way back out with something from the deep freezer. The girl didn’t react at all aside from a cheerful “'morning, dad!” as if this was a totally normal occurrence. I was 19, she was 18 at the time. I was absolutely frozen in terror, wondering if he would come back in to the room with an axe or something.
My parents never once mentioned sex when I was growing up. No birds and bees talk, no safe sex, no nothing. And I was dating a girl from the time I was 15/16. You’d think there would have at least been a “don’t do anything stupid and get her pregnant.” They just never acknowledged that sex was even a possiblity. It wasn’t like they were prudes or anything either, so strange.
My wife grew up in a more open house, although nothing like you’re describing.
I don’t like talking about it, but we’ve let our kids navigate it how they felt was appropriate with guidance. My daughter’s boyfriend has been sleeping over since she was probably 16 or so.
That being said I recently learned that wife knows about my son’s college exploits, and my first thought was “why do you know anything about this?”
Yes, it just seems to me to be a crazy thing for any parent to say about their daughter.
That is abnormal