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And I still feel bad, over 20 years later:
I was at an after-work party at the pizza joint I worked in during college. The store (it was a Godfather's Pizza) was in a strip mall and was going out of business in three months. THe manager would invite other employees from other stores over, and we'd lock the doors, tap a keg, cook some food, have a good time. There was this one kid who worked at another store who was a really jovial guy, alweays laughing at what other people said. Real good dude, fairly quiet, just laughed at everything.
Well, I made a stupid joke, and no one laughed except this guy. SO me, being the monumnetal dumbass that I am, say
"Dude, you'd probably laugh at your Mom's funeral".
Yeah, you guessed it. He had just come back from burying his mom less than a week before. Honestly, I didn't know. I hadn't been working in over two weeks (finals) and it never came up. Well, everyone got real quiet, he started getting all teary eyed, and I'm looking around and going "what the hell?"
Man, I still feel terrible over that. Far and away the worst, most embarrassing thing I've ever said to someone.
Leinenkigel's Sunset Wheat, please.
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