Quite possibly my most blundering moment.

Jan 31, 2017 1:51 PM

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When we have bonfires at our ranch, I stand in the smoke a bit to get the smell stuck in my clothes :)

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I once asked a girl with one arm if she needed a hand

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Savage

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Once a lady was hacking and I told her I feel her pain because I have the seasonal cold too. She had lung cancer.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And you'll never forget that smell...I can still get mild flashbacks when i smell it.

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Worked fast food for a while and the ppl who came in smelling like campfire were usually homeless.

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But they didn't look as homeless as they apparently were.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh, they definitely looked homeless.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You can't win.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Well done"

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Your house burns down and you go to work?

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I mean, it wasn't my house nor their work.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Grew up always smelling like wood smoke. Can't stand the smell of it now. Enjoy campfires but as soon as I get home, wash eveeeerrrythinggg

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

If my house burned down, then I would probably tell everyone directly after "hi".

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My house burnt down when I was 16 and I hardly told anyone right away after hearing my family scream in terror and seeing my animals corpses

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Holy shit

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Doh!!

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We need a foot in mouth meme

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would call that a 100% successful roasting. Literally.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Plot twist : Your the arsonist that burn it down. You do meet a lot of firemen, so you got that going for you.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

you're*

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Which is nice.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

my the arsonist that burn it down what

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't think I believe this. Burning buildings do not smell anything like fireplace wood. I've been mega-clueless before though.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Exactly

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nice work, Sherlock meet up with Watson to the fire we got lots of investigation to do.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same thing happened to me when I was in high school. House burned down and the kids in my class made fun of me for "smoking". When I 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

started crying everyone felt like shit. Don't feel too bad about it. Simply an observation. 2/2

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I like the smell of matches, and the smell when you blow out birthday candles. It's a nice smell.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, at least you didn't ask him why he/she smelled like burned meat

9 years ago | Likes 326 Dislikes 2

Hey man, you smell like charred kitten. And smokey... what is that? Baby? Toddler? Yum. That a new cologne, or something?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

On god, I made a comment about BBQ because it smelled smokey around some people. They were coroners who had just come from a bad accident...

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

I asked a girl how she got that "horrible bruise on your arm". She said it was a birthmark. I felt... awful.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Where's the barby at.

9 years ago | Likes 99 Dislikes 1

WHEH'S DAS BAHBY AT

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OMG I thought you said where the baby at

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

This! This is why I don't speak to people! I come out with this shit all the time!

9 years ago | Likes 384 Dislikes 8

Makes a mom joke. Someone's mom in the group died...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Apologies for hours due to these Canadian tendencies

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Worst is asking a woman when she's due and she's just gained weight. It's basically a waiting for death moment

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I have been there for that conversation. My audible hysterics made it so much worse for them

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The only thing audible from me was a *gasp*

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You should always wait for the woman to talk about being pregnant. Even as a woman I know this lol

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm a woman as well so you would think I would know better but nuuuu. Felt awful :(.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Haha yeah, you should definitely have known better. But now you know and I bet you'll never do it again

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh yea learned that lesson the hard way. Lol, still cringe when I think about it

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Most griped about thing in retail :/

9 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 0

I once asked a customer if they were going to buy a game system for the grandkids. She said it was for her kids. I was so embarrassed.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And that's why I work from home and do all communication by email.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Work at a casino, the will power I show not open my mouth has to be a superpower....that and common sense.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wish I can do that...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I go one step further, I do all my communication my imgur comments!

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Good job!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Lol I know. One time when I lean on my friend i smell something funny from her so i naively asked "hey you smell like a plywood!" 1/3

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

"did you smelled like that because we just brought in some plywood from outside to the room?" *i was renovating rural school and she helped

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Everyone hold in their laughter because actually she rarely take a bath.. The acidic aroma that I smell is actually not from plywood...

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Ewwwwww lol

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Yeah my friends know I can be too 'honest' sometimes.. But I really didn't know that she rarely took a bath and we live in tropical country!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

All the imgurians who own newts proceed! Yes all 12 of you....

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So were you with this person on a bus? Or did you just smell them kilometres away..?

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I was at work. Retail, small talk, rural area.

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Oh coolio.

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I was at work. Retail, small talk, rural area.

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Oh coolio.

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Wood smoke and a house burning down smoke are pretty different. I do like the wood smoke smell.

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I like the house burning down smell in the morning

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fair enough, but it's been a while since I had been around it.

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Ya house fire would be alot more garbage fire-ey

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Exactly what I was thinking... but I guess you only know it if you've been around it

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've been that clueless but it does lower the likelihood of this post being true.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Most houses have plastics, synthetic fibers, etc. that smell god awful when burnt. I seriously doubt this post unless OP is ULTRA-clueless.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Was having an excellent, and was hardly paying too much attention. Prolly should have actually taken a good look before I opened my mouth.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

gawd. that's like the secretary at work making faces and she touches her stomach. I asked if her ovaries hurt (i'm a woman too), she says...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have no ovaries anymore... SEAL FACE ALL THE WAY! -_-

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not nearly as bad as "how far along are you?"

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Ya got me there.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or: Is that a roll of quarters in your pocket?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I dunno, I'll take "you're fat" over "I like the smell of your misery."

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Meh how would you know? It was a legit question. I like the smell too.

9 years ago | Likes 1922 Dislikes 1

I like trains.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A house fire does NOT smell like a camp fire

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If I lost my house in a fire & the next morning someone commented on the nice woodsmoke smell, I honestly think I'd laugh.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

at that point, its all you can do

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I smell like smoke for days after smoking ribs, my family walk into ny room and it hits them like a truck

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I'm reading this and realizing I smell something burning. Look out of door. Wood stove is blazing as hot as it possibly can and I am 1/2

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

now going to shut off imgur and make sure my pizza isn't burning.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

"my mom is dead" is your sense of humor dead too?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

dude, wtf, my house burned down

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Plot twist: OP burned down his house.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I think it's that type of smell you don't like, but want to keep smelling

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Bullshit, I love that smell. Now, the hot smoke in the eyes and sinuses is less appealing, especially after a few hours.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Smoke signals.

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Hahaaaaa. That's a good one

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I can't tell if you are being sarcastic . But I can relate to you guy.

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Yeah it really was a good one

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The smell of wood smoke is my favorite. Vanilla and cinnamon come next.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Wood smoke, pine needles, cedar, and that smell after it rains.

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Oh, that would be really nice. I fucking love rain so that makes it even better.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Make a combination

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Vanilla, cinnamon and wood smoke sounds like it would smell really good. Welp, time to burn my house down and drink vanilla and cinnamon.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm working on making this into a candle. Message me.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don't know how to make candles so I'm not sure why you need me

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I'll gladly buy the candles tho

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's like the smell on your clothes after camping! Also in your hair, and your car, and your bedding, and whole house somehow

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Are you sure you aren't having a stroke?

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It always hits me in the shower for a few days after camping, I think it might be a long hair thing?

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

I always thought it was a beard thing. For days, after camping, when I wash my face I get a whiff of smokey goodness.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have a super thick and curly beard, doesn't matter how thoroughly I wash it, smoke smell won't leave it

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I used to have really thick hair (that I didn't really wash well) and I used to have smoke smell for like 3 days after a fire

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Must have been camping in their back yard...

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My car is an old VW Vanagon. Every time I go camping, I have to drive to work with that smell for weeks lol

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I have a fire pit in my back yard, sometimes I purposely sit in the smoke so I smell like it for weeks.

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Random comment - my room suddenly smell like burning wood but only at night :(

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You have a ghost visiting you while you sleep!

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Aw man but can't they wear some perfume or something... Haunt me but don't erase the scent that I'm familiar with

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Lol nigga you bout to be possessed. Is it around 3am?

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It's 01:38, not the satan hour yet. Aw yisss

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I'm calling bullshit as a survivor of a house fire, it's a very distinct smell, not like wood. Everything burns, not just the wood

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've been seeing comments like this one a bit. And while you are right that everything burns. I've never had the absolute unluckiness 1/?

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for this to happen to me, friends or even be near one. It was what I smelled and immediately asked about. After wards they made a quick 2/?

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getaway from me why fighting back emotions. 3/3

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Uh.. who comes into work when their house burns down?

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The one who lit it.

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...Americans? In at-will states, you can be fired for anything. Simply anything.

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Ghost hunters?

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The friend of a liar?

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To be fair it's not like you can stay at home lmao

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9 years ago (deleted Feb 23, 2018 3:04 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Understood, but if someone came in and management found out that they're house burned down, they'd be sent home-possibly forced.

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Sent where?

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Wherever they needed to go. Here at GM, there's a fund for such emergencies.

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I was just poking fun because in your first comment you said you'd send them home, which isn't really possible

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Someone in a story that didn't happen.

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Where else are they going to go?

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The Baudelaire children.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

They didn't, technically. Nice try, though.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Uh, yeah they did.

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But not WORK work. Like, voluntary and paid.

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What's he gonna do, stay home?

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Oh dam. +1

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Someone who doesn't have a choice. My husband had to go to work three hours after our daughter was born. Electric bill won't pay itself.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Sorry? Go get a better job. Honestly that's ratshit

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Yeah, ain't so easy for everyone. He would've lost insurance and all other benefits. Luckily, that was 11 years ago. Much better life now.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

it didn't say anything about being co-workers, firstly, and secondly why is it hard for you to believe they'd be at work anyway?

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.... someone without a house

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Technically... correct.

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The best kind of correct.

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 1

Kevin

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Where did it say anything about it being a co-worker or anything about work?

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Wow.. I had to go back and re-read it.. I also had assumed it had taken place at work.

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That was exactly my impression too but now, reading it again, I have no idea why.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Great point... the way this meme was written it felt implied.

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Customer?

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I am guilty of this assumption

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I also made that assumption. Had to scroll back up to re-read it.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Same here. Strange lol

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I actually made that assumption too. Maybe because we're in the middle of the workweek?

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Ooh, great point!

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lol How? Which words gave that impression?

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

The smelling of random person and the random person telling them about their house burning down. That's not stranger talk.. hence my thought

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

that totally is stranger chit chat. "you have a bonfire? i can smell the smoke still" "no, actually...etc" *stop walk turns green*

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Now you got me wondering where this all did take place

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

As a manager, I'd tell that person to go home and take care of things...all paid.

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Go ho... go to where your home use to be

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You're one of the good ones.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Thanks. Been a manager for 15 years. People come first.

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So, mocking them? What an ass.

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I didn't mean it that way. LOL. It was more - do what you need to do.

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Sounds like someone needs sensitivity training.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

"Go home and take a shower, you smell like smoke."

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Even better, if they needed a place to stay, I'd offer my place, or I'd have the company pay for a hotel. Seriously.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I'm not joking.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Became homeless once, manager at work offered to pay for a hotel for a few weeks.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Great person. Good company

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Where do you work and whats the insurance like...?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I work for a leading IT services, software, and cloud company based in NY. We have great benefits...and good people.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh shoot. Closest I could get is bioinformatics, I think. Just learning python now :(

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Feb 23, 2018 3:04 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Ay lmao

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

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I didn't mean it that way. LOL!

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Yes you did, and i bet you're laughing at Them while they walk out the door

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

lol, no.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same. No way should they have to work.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Yup.

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There's not nearly enough managers it there like you. Way to be a decent human being.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Thanks. Been a manager for 15 years. People come first.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Totally! Years ago when we were still servers, my boyfriend's nephew died tragically (and young) in a sledding accident, our manager >

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

> wouldn't let him off to go to the funeral out of state because it wasn't his "immediate family." We quit shortly after.

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