How are you today?

[SolemnBoy]

You had every right to be confident. It's a great joke! But one of the things I'm beginning to learn as I get older is that not everyone has the same sense of humor as I do (or maybe it's about time and place and appropriateness and all that bullshit, I don't know). That seems like it should be obvious, but it was quite a realization for me.

One of my more embarrassing moments occurred a few years ago at a job as I was working at. One of the employees was an attractive young woman who was one day talking about herself in some way and said something like "yeah, people really appreciate all my niceties." And without giving it a moments hesitation, I blurted out "yeah, and your nice titties."

I have no idea where it came from, and I felt absolutely horrible (no one knew I was gay either, and from that comment, who would guess?). She just looked at me, completely stone faced and said "wow."

I apologized profusely for days and I think I even wrote an apology email to her. She was very cool about it, but obviously, and understandably not amused.

Unfortunately, unlike your incident, my comment was neither funny nor clever. Sometimes those things just happen.

Haha, oh well. Whether jokes like that are successful or not is probably based on how well you know each other. I guess you if anyone can relate to how the lines between acceptable/unacceptable jokes become blurrier and blurrier as any friendship progresses. I like reaching the point when you can make absolutely horrible jokes about each other but still laugh and enjoy it.

Didn't all the apologizing make it more awkward though? D:
Sounds like it would.

I didn't apologize although I did clarify that it was a joke. Some people should know better though! I mean if they've actually seen 'The Room' they SHOULD understand the "how's your sex life?" reference without freaking out.