What's the dumbest remark you've heard yourself make...

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Well these is pretty dumb IMO. When I'm not at work and people call me, I'm always answering it like I'm at work, "Patrick, PRS how can I help you?"
(PRS=professional residential services)

My one friend calls me Mr. PRS now because I do it so often.

I worked LTC and one of my clients was an adorable little cuban lady. Well she thought I was the bee's knees, and used to smother me in compliments. One she was fond of was "oye, que mono" - it means oh how cute, but literally translated it means oh, what a monkey.

Fast forward eight months, I'm stumbling through a rusty conversation with a lady from Madrid (been a while since high school spanish) and she shows me a picture of her grand daughter. Turns out calling someone a monkey is only a compliment in cuba!

I was working with a Spanish speaking patient before I got our translation services set up and he says, "I don't understand english" and continues speaking to me in spanish. O told him, "Senor, I don't understand english" I realized what I said as soon as I said it, but so did the other english speaking patients in the four beded room.

One of my male co-workers came in on his day off. I saw someone walk in through the ambulance entrance, I did a double take. I knew I knew him, but it wouldn't register. Finally, as he approached I said, "Hi Jerry, I didn't recognize you with your clothes on."

I didn't even realize what I said until HE started to blush and people where laughing.

OOPS!! Open mouth, insert foot!

"How do you spell 'of'?"

... I was really tired.

This is a funny one that is still said around our nursing unit. When it has been a really hectic day and there is no time to tape report for the next shift, nurses would say "I think I am just going to give oral". Everyone just looks at that nurse and says, "umm". Always seems to get fixed by the nurse that said "oral" report.....now says "verbal" report.

I was at work the other day, and we had an agitated patient that was trying to get out of bed. She had fallen in the past. Anyway, her nurse noticed she was trying to get out of bed so she called me in to help reposition her. As I got out of the room the secretary asked me "Did she have her legs out of bed" and I said " she had two legs out!"

Sometimes, when i am trying to assess pt's mental status, i ask them the day date year etc.There are times when i dont even know myself!!!LolThen i reply, wait yea, today is tues the 9th...Luckily they forget, i can never remember that info.....

Well....... this happened today. A fellow peer of mine in A&P was asked a question about the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) in the neck and she was having trouble with it, then she just blurted out all happily, thinking she finally remembered the answer, and said, "IT'S SNM!"
We all heard S&M and at that point the Doc let us go for the rest of the day cause we couldn't stop laughing after that. It's Friday and we were all deliriously tired after having muscles drilled into our brains all day.