What is the dumbist social mistake you have ever made?

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Where, oh where to begin?

Tried to continue a conversation with no steam left.

Walked away from a conversation that unjustly picked on someone.

When someone was saying a friendly "bye" to me, I barely mouthed a "bye" in reply.

Not really one, but a close call: I was sitting at a table with friendly people, and they read about a death in the newspaper, which they realized was someone they knew. I found no humor in it, but I was close to laughing for some reason. When I was at the edge of laughing, I very quickly walked away from the table before anything could happen. But that situation could've turned out very, very badly.

And there's many more.

I have stalked a girl that I liked and then threatened her... The police got involved... long story...

That hasn't happened to me, well not to that extent. But I have had mad obsessions with people I know, usually friends and I go on and on about them to other people and I end up looking like some sort of stalker. I know this because in year 8 at school (age 12-13) when I had my "review day" where the teachers talk to parents, I saw two of my friends one I had an obsession with. My mum said "oh hi I've heard all about you *his name*", and he said to my other friend "how does she know my name?" so she said "everything she says is about you". And the look of his face was that of "WTF". I hate having people obsessions sometimes.

Taking things literally = Making stupid and dumb comments = Teacher takes the mickey and humiliates

wOw...thats sCary

Let's seee Grade 9, there was this girl i liked, and so, I buy her earrings! I then proceed to try to give them to her. I spent the whole lunch hour in the washroom and was almost late for class.

Grade 10, in gym we were playing touch football and another girl that I reaaallly like came running down the field with the ball and i was the last defender. I couldn't think of anything else to do so i wrapped her up into a freakin' bear hug! God worst remainder of year ever!

I went to my friend's house for the first time to work on a science project. While we were working, the phone rang, and it was for his younger brother. When my friend called his brother down to answer the phone, I said, "Ooh, is it a girl?!", not realizing I had not met him at this point. They both gave me some funny looks for that one.

probably when I don't talk to people at an event, like a fool......

I think I was 12 or 13, and we had some important people from my mom's work over for dinner. Just as we began eating, I blurted out "Man, I'm horny!"

I thought it just meant "hungry".

Another time I was in a nice restaurant with my parents, and I drank a Coke, which of course makes me burp. At some point after I'd finished the Coke, there somehow happened an instant in time where everyone in the restaurant stopped talking and it was totally silent.

You guessed it ... it was right at that instant that I let out a huge burp. Everyone in the restaurant turned to stare at me.

Oh god.... I have like thausands of dumb social moves...

examples>>

Once my teacher asked to me "What happened, Your dog ate your homework?" and i aswered something like "Oh, miss, don't be dumb, dogs don't eat paper! And even if they did, i don't have a dog, I have a turttle!" infront of everyone in the class... it was pretty akward...

other time a friend who was arguing with me screamed to me "Do you think I'm an idiot?" and I answered yes.... she's not my friend any more...

like 5 years ago i really liked a boy and he was teasing me by pulling my hair so i screamed at him "Why are you so mean to me? Can't you see I love you???" infront of a crowd... everyone started laughing..... but on the end he liked me back...

and a lot more.... but i can't write them all.........

When I was 5 (this I do not remember, my mom told me the story), I hadn't met an African-American person before, and upon seeing one, I asked if he was made of chocolate. Makes me laugh now, I was so cute and insulting at the same time. Luckily the guy didn't take offense to it.
Once I told my principal that my mom had her period. Another principal I remember saying that her name was just like a pokemon (more nerdy then a social mistake, but I still cringe). I'll update later with some more, I have plenty of them

to many to state here....its usually when i misinterpret what someone says, so i myself respond in a strange way xD

After class, a few of my geeky friends in high school used to help me out on the school newspaper. As a result, I often was on much friendlier terms with some teachers than most of the other kids were, had real person-to-person conversations with them (not just top-down teacher/student ones), etc.

One teacher I was particularily close to was my former English teacher who was in his mid-20's (where I grew up, Catholic school teachers tended to be younger than their public school counterparts).

We often had great conversations after school about literature, art, history, sociology, etc. and because I found his mind attractive and his thoughts interesting, I secretly started finding him visually attractive too (though I was very good at hiding it). Both my grandmother and his father were also dying of lung cancer, so that made for a further bond since it was a difficult time for us both.

One day after school, my friends and I are in an empty classroom working on the newspaper layout (cut and paste) and they started to talk about boys they had a crush on and what they found attractive in men lookswise. There was a lot of teasing going back and forth and at the *very moment when my former English teacher comes in for a second in to grab some papers* one of them blurts out to me, "Don't you find Mr. (insert my former English teacher's last name here) attractive?"

For some bizarre reason, I instantly found myself blurting with gusto, "Ewwww!"

(I still have no idea what the best/least wounding answer would have been in the situation.)

He made a quick excuse and left the room, and ended up avoiding after school conversations with me for weeks. I was mortified that I had inadvertantly hurt someone I had respected and had been so emotionally immature and cruel.

Since I admired him as a person, I steeled myself to sincerely apologize to him for my awkwardness and unintentional rudeness when I finally bumped into him after school. Luckily, things normalized and our friendship resumed after that, but still...

Once, when I was about 8 or something like that, I was playing an imaginary game with my friend. In this, she came up with the idea that we came across the corpse of a girl who was raped and then killed. (I still find it disturbing that she thought about this at that age.) It was the first time I'd come across the word "rape". I've always been fascinated by words, and back then, every time I found a new one, I had an uncontrollable urge to use it. Later, my mum briefly mentioned a person who, when he was alive, killed a lot of people. Because I had the word on my mind, and had originally heard it in this context, instead of acting upset, I asked her if he raped them first. Now, I feel really horrible saying that, but it was just the general fascination at learning a new word. I don't think I properly understood the meaning of it...

Ha, I've had a lot of trouble due to my fascination with words. I can still remember after I read Alice in Wonderland, my dad had to explain to me that using the word "queer" in its old sense might offend some people...

Well, once I was chewing my ruler in class, and a little while after I stopped, my crush asked to borrow it. I handed it to her and told her it had my saliva on.

When I was in years 3-4 I was friends with a boy who was two years older than me. My classmates for some reason seemed to be fascinated by our friendship. They started asking me silly questions like "Is he your boyfriend? Do you love him?" ... and I answered "yes" because I didn't understand the implications of their questions. I simply interpreted their questions as asking me whether he was a friend of mine who happened to be male and whether I liked being his friend. That caused a lot of teasing and ridicule and for a long time I couldn't understand why.

When I was in year 7 during one breaktime my friends and I found a bench to sit on. The place where I was sitting was fairly, although not perilously, close to a dried bird dropping. One of my friends pointed it out to me, and what I meant to say was something to the effect of "I am aware that there is a bird dropping nearby and I am perfectly capable of noticing it and avoiding it without your help, thank you very much", but somehow it came out as "That's my business!" The worst thing I could possibly have said.

When I was in year 8 or 9 during a history lesson the person sitting next to me started saying negative things about cats after I told her that they were my favourite animals. Then she said something nasty about my cat and I involuntarily reacted by punching her on the arm. Luckily I realised what I was doing and stopped the punch before she received the full impact, so I only hit her lightly. She and her friends started laughing at me for lashing out in class but as it turned out this worked to my advantage because rather than suspecting I had done something wrong the teacher saw that I was the only person in the group who wasn't laughing and asked if I was alright. I simply told her I was to avoid any further complications and that was the end of that.

On several occasions this year when we were doing practice GCSE exams during lessons, I didn't notice the teacher telling us to start. So for about the first 10 minutes I just sat in silence watching the teacher and wondering when they would let us start, until eventually I raised my hand and asked, prompting the entire rest of the class plus the teacher to burst out laughing, despite the fact that they were supposed to be working in silence.

A couple of months ago I was in an interview for work experience. The people interviewing me were very nice but at some point they apparently picked up that I didn't enjoy school and asked if I had any friends. Instead of just saying "yes" I gave them a bit too much information and said "There are several people in my class who I talk to occasionally but none of them are particularly close friends." I didn't see anything wrong with what I had said at the time and fortunately I still got the placement, but straight after the interview my mother, who had been present at the interview, told me that I shouldn't have said that because the interviewers would interpret it as meaning that I had no friends and people who don't have friends are generally considered strange and untrustworthy. So I spent the whole work experience week feeling very stupid.

And the list goes on...