Tonight Mrs. Grumpy had me stop at Local Deli to pick up dinner.
The glass doors in front are heavily darkened. You can see if there's someone on the other side (so you don't whack them) but they're too dark to make out any details about them.
As I'm leaving with my Bag-O-Dinner, I was starting to push the door open. At the same time a child suddenly appeared on the other side of the door, starting to come in. He jumped back as I pushed the door open, and I almost hit him with it.
I stuck my head out and said, "Oh, sorry, kiddo, I..." and stopped.
It was a midget.
Totally understandable!
ReplyDeleteThat's one of the burdens of being a (not sure of the preferred term) short person....
It's not like you meant to be an ass.
:D
Gert- Mrs. Grumpy begs to differ.
ReplyDeleteShe says I am always one, whether I mean to be or not!
And she's put up with me for over 15 years!
Niiiiiiiiice!!!! (Sounds like something I would do....)
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel any better, it's probably not the first time this has happened to him/her.
ReplyDeleteOoh, I've done that once. I almost hit a person in wheelchair then said "oops! So sorry, didn't see you there" without thinking. All the people surrounding me looked at me horrified. Oh boy, I really made an ass of myself.
ReplyDeleteIf only he'd replied "Hey, I'm not happy!" Then you could have said "well, which one are you?"
ReplyDelete(Old joke, but someone's gotta use it...)
At least you didn't kick him for distance...
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO!!! And he said in response??? LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteOnly you...that would *only* happen to you! lol! :-D
ReplyDeletethese things happen. u just gotta move on.
ReplyDeleteCan win for losing, eh? Maybe you should just adopt the generic "dude" for all pronouns. Or El Dudarino if you are not into brevity.
ReplyDeleteoops ... but a an understandable mistake
ReplyDelete... as for being an "ass" and why Mrs Grumpy has put up with you for 15 years - well let's not go there :)
Kiddo? How old are you? My grandparents used that term.
ReplyDeleteDr. Grumpy,
ReplyDeleteRemember that ad for morphine with that lady with the tray of daiquiris? Well I ran into a guy at a bar tonight who is in charge or marketing at a big pharma company for insulin and I was enlightening him about this blunderous ad big pharma had put out and his response was "Well maybe their virgins!" I almost fell off my bar stool. Anyways we both got a good laugh out of it. Just thought you should know.
-The Pre-Med'er
Oh, noooo.
ReplyDeleteThis is something I'd have done.
Once, thinking I was being helpful, I stopped a man and pointed out that he was entering the women's washroom.
(S)he said, "But I AM a woman."
Sometimes there's just no way to dig yourself out of the hole.
slick move G
ReplyDeleteMidget or Achondroplastic Dwarf? Lets make sure you were not generalising.
ReplyDeleteERP- at that point I really didn't want to ask, or look.
ReplyDeleteYou do have the luck, don't you?
ReplyDeleteReminds me of a bumper sticker I saw once..."Three things in life I can't stand:Bigotry, Hatred,.....Midgets"
ReplyDeleteoy.
ReplyDeleteThis afternoon, I was standing in the vestibule at our hospital, waiting for my husband to pick me up. A blind man had passed through the revolving door, and was standing just outside, but still enclosed in the quarter of the door. He was chatting on his cell phone, white cane over his arm. It was a pretty quiet entrance, and I figured he was just staying out of the wind, so I held back. Just then, a toddler came barreling past me, hurtling toward the revolving door. "Nooo...!"
ReplyDeleteMom caught him in the nick of time.
lmfao....today I had a meeting with some disability activists. I was trying to be all smooth by walking around tables to give people in wheelchairs handshakes..and other ways to kiss up. Being shown out by another person in a wheelchair...I turned around one last time to say goodbye, and nearly feel over a box in the hallway.
ReplyDeleteI guess you had to be there...but it was embarrassing be the only person without a major physical disability tripping in front of everyone.
HAHAHA midget. So glad you're not concerned about being PC.
ReplyDeleteIs there a proper PC term? I didn't know. I may be out of the loop.
ReplyDeleteI believe the terms are little person or dwarf
ReplyDelete>:)
The proper pc term is little person. They hate it when people call them dwarves.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor is a little person and I can tell you it IS "Little person" that they prefer to be referred to as- and take offense to the other antiquated terms...
ReplyDeleteI honestly didn't know. I will apologize, if I ever see him again.
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