I can't believe I said this!

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Okay, so a few weeks ago I was discussing "The Catcher in The Rye" with my ICT teacher and for those of you that don't know here is a summary of what we were discussing:

The majority of the novel takes place in December 1949. The story commences with Holden Caulfield describing encounters he has had with students and faculty of Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. He criticizes them for being superficial, or, as he would say, "phony." After being expelled from the school for his poor academic performance, Holden packs up and leaves the school in the middle of the night after a physical altercation with his roommate. He takes a train to New York but does not want to return to his family and instead checks into the dilapidated Edmont Hotel. There, he spends an evening dancing with three tourist girls and has a clumsy encounter with a young prostitute named Sunny. His attitude toward the prostitute changes the minute she enters the room, because she seems to be about the same age as Holden. Holden becomes uncomfortable with the situation, and when he tells her that all he wants to do is talk, she becomes annoyed with him and leaves. However, he still pays her for her time. Sunny and Maurice, her pimp, later return to Holden's hotel room and demand more money than was originally agreed upon. Despite the fact that Sunny takes five dollars from Holden's wallet, Maurice punches Holden in the stomach.

We were talking about the "prostitute incident" and after that he said:
"You know, Holden reminds me of me when I was his age."

I replied:
"You didn't have an unfortunate event with a prostitute did you?"

He said:
"No...no I didn't."

I wasn't looking at his face as I said this, but his tone of voice seemed normal, and not too bothered. I purely meant my remark to be humourous; but when I recounted this story to some friends, they all looked at me in sheer horror.

I keep cringing every-time I think about the conversation now. I'm normally very polite; almost too polite, and things like this don't happen too often.

So, what inappropriate things have you said without knowing?

A lot and I don't even keep track of what they are because I don't know or don't remember when they are pointed out to me. One of them was me saying in high school in health class that I should look at my brothers and dad's underwear to see if there is sperm on it. I still don't see how that was inappropriate.

Another thing I said at age 17 was when I was trying to get a boyfriend I said to this guy in my culinary arts class "I am not looking for sex, I just want a boyfriend."

I am sure I embarrassed the boy and kids did laugh. Now I had spread the word that I am not the sort of girl to date because she will not have sex. Now everyone knew about me.

The one I will never forget was when I got married and I was opening my wedding presents with my husband. I got a gift from my aunt and uncle and cousin who didn't come and I was shocked they still got us a present. Maybe shocked isn't the right word, surprised I would say. Well I opened it and it was nice pot holders and spices and cookbooks and I said "They may be cheap but at least they weren't cheap enough to not get us a wedding present" and everyone laughed. I was totally clueless about why they laughed and I can see why now mom would tell me "And who taught you to say that Beth?" and I said "dad" and he denied he ever said it and then everyone was looking at him. I was totally clueless and I think the reason why my mother asked me that question was to show everyone why I said it and where I got that from. Now my dad had the blame. What was even worse was saying that in the thank you card to them. Now I am too afraid to say anything else about gifts that are given to me and all I can say is "thank you or the (item)" and that's it or I ask my husband what do I write in it.

I'm already weird at my work but I've been told people like me there. I've been told I am hard read, quiet and worse things than that. And used to not be able to talk as much as I do now.

I walk into the elevator at work two guys were there and they joke saying something about they are working in the elevator today because they didn't come out. So I tried to joke back and said, oh you're our escorts. And they started sayings things about that being weird to say and kind of joking about me meaning like a female escort service type of thing. Then I say, no, I didn't mean that. I mean you're servicing us today. Then that got even weirder because "servicing" can mean sex type of stuff. Then I can't really talk clear to figure out to explain myself. They left the elevator saying things like, "awkward" and other things.

Of course I didn't mean it like that at all I just could only see in my head them being elevator operators but didn't think of the right words to use.

My job is like my toutine so I became paranoid I was going to be fired and I am not sure I can work anywhere else because this job is different in that I can recuperate and stuff like that when I need to. I can laugh about this now but I felt about this. Each time I said something it came out in some other way than what I meant to say. There was other people in the elevator.

LOL...that's weird, I had exactly the same thought when I was thinking about Catcher in the Rye the other day. I think it's very likely that Salinger was an Aspie.

I could completely sit down and have a conversation with a prostitute