Please Pass The BBQ Sauce So I Can Season That Foot In My Mouth
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
August 10, 2010 11:53pm CST
I hang out a lot over at Facebook as I'm very involved with animal rights issues and do a lot of crossposts of animals in shelters in need to be pulled out/rescued and perhaps fostered and/or adopted, especially those that in the high kill shelters.
I'm not exactly void of posting discussions here at MyLot about animal issues either, and have done quite a bit in the past, and yes I admit and know and can be very opinionated and loud-mouthed about issues dear to my heart and soul. I speak what's on my mind with a lot of candor and not afraid to say what's on my mind, though here at MyLot of course I have to "monitor" my thoughts. Over at Facebook, on the other hand, my, well language can get a LOT more "colorful"
Well every once in awhile my thoughts and opinions get the better of me over at FB...maybe I misread something, or maybe I didn't have all the facts, so the mouth shoots off (or should I say fingers?). One particular episode occurred last night and yes, I got heated up and told off the person exactly what I thought, not realizing I hadn't all the facts..well like duh, if I had known all the facts maybe I wouldn't have gone on a tangent like I did. The thing is I wound up hurting the person's feelings....I PM'd her and even did an open apology on my FB wall, but haven't heard from the person again.
Anyway, are you like me? Maybe something ticks you off, you go on a verbal rampage against the person when not knowing all the facts, then feel like a friggin idiot when you realize your error?
Oh--btw...I like Kraft's Bulls Eye Hickory Smoked flavor BBQ sauce--anyone have any so I can season that foot in my mouth?
What season do you like to put on your foot in your mouth?
Well every once in awhile my thoughts and opinions get the better of me over at FB...maybe I misread something, or maybe I didn't have all the facts, so the mouth shoots off (or should I say fingers?). One particular episode occurred last night and yes, I got heated up and told off the person exactly what I thought, not realizing I hadn't all the facts..well like duh, if I had known all the facts maybe I wouldn't have gone on a tangent like I did. The thing is I wound up hurting the person's feelings....I PM'd her and even did an open apology on my FB wall, but haven't heard from the person again.
Anyway, are you like me? Maybe something ticks you off, you go on a verbal rampage against the person when not knowing all the facts, then feel like a friggin idiot when you realize your error?
Oh--btw...I like Kraft's Bulls Eye Hickory Smoked flavor BBQ sauce--anyone have any so I can season that foot in my mouth?
What season do you like to put on your foot in your mouth?4 people like this
14 responses
@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
11 Aug 10
I can ramble... I try to read or research a lot before I do though. And I generally don't even speak up on a subject unless it is one I am VERY familiar with.
Have I ranted when I shouldn't have.. it's possible.. but I can't remember any off the top of my head so it must not have been too bad.
I prefer a Teriyaki sauce.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
11 Aug 10
To be honest, even after the person told me all the facts, I still made it a point to apologize to her...still a bit ticked off though. She was relating how her mother had bred dogs...uh, since we're both animal nutcases, I think you can only imagine how I felt about that issue
@wonttakelong (3555)
• United States
13 Aug 10
You did that really?
YOU??
I cant beleive YOU would do something like THAT!
I have done it a time or two but I go usually go to extremes and delete people before I have the chance to apologize and make things right
I also dont usually do it to the same person more than once
I prefer Jack Daniels BBQ sauce
I have done it a time or two but I go usually go to extremes and delete people before I have the chance to apologize and make things right
I also dont usually do it to the same person more than once
I prefer Jack Daniels BBQ sauce1 person likes this
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 Aug 10
BTW---you can relate that to your friends......you'll know what I mean--I tend to think of them as the "musketeers"
@wonttakelong (3555)
• United States
14 Aug 10
and see there you go again
whatever problem you have with those others...
you seem to take it out on me
I have told you repeatedly that I will NOT be caught in the middle
you shut me out because I dared to share my personal opinion about something you were doing
and when you realized that you had no logical reasoning to be angry with me directly you brought up what happened between you and them and stuck me right in the middle
you cant seem to let go of what happened
you cant seem to leave me out of the middle of that mess
If you want to be angry with me then fine at least have a logical reason to be
if you want to continue to be angry with them then thats fine too but leave me the hell out of it
All I was saying in my original post is that you have a history of shoving your foot in your mouth.
And NO I will not be relaying anything to anyone!!
I am NOT involved in whatever that is
@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
11 Aug 10
Good morning, dear pye! Usually I put a different flavour on each foot...as when I open my mouth again...it's to change feet..LOL! Gotta admit, in real life, oft I can be curt and caustic---when piqued with idiocracy, but rein in and mind my "p's" and "q's" here!
Haven't been here much lately, my 2 year old computer "bought the dust" the same time my property taxes were due. More important a place to live...so accessing now thru Library. Back in action..soon, in the meantime -- Take care & Cheers!
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
11 Aug 10
Oh my...I have put my foot in my mouth before; I would imagine we all have at one time or another. Too bad the person you upset has not got back to you; let’s hope she just needs some time...You may ‘shoot your mouth off’ as you put it but at least you are willing to admit when you’re wrong and apologise...There are so many who are too arrogant to admit when they’ve made a mistake! I only have soy sauce or tomato sauce, sorry!!
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@babyEj (1522)
• Philippines
11 Aug 10
Wrong conclusions to things happen because we can't have all the information store in our brain.Yet it is inspiring because you can learn.... Anyhow, i usually watch my mouth in expressing my thoughts especially if I don't know the person. Example: chatting, commenting some blogs or posts or peeking on someone's thought.
However, we are only human and we commit mistakes. Perfection is so far from us. We'll about your story , I don't know how much you cause pain to her but it's good to know that you both do private and public apology. I think upon reading your post you learn from that experience... 
Be careful next time.
Be careful next time.1 person likes this
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
11 Aug 10
Of course maybe if the person told all the facts in the first place I wouldn't have argued with her, so I could only go by what she first initially posted, it was only later she told all the facts about the situation.
@dukekansal (73)
• India
11 Aug 10
yaa i very like to put on your foot in your mouth...
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@BarBaraPrz (45579)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Aug 10
I'm not fond of foot, and definitely wouldn't put BBQ sauce on... never use the stuff.
But you go ahead and enjoy...
But you go ahead and enjoy...
@irishmist (3814)
• United States
11 Aug 10
I know what you are saying. I am on facebook as well, and I ran into a simalar situation with my sons girlfriends uncle. He started mouthing off and I just had to tell him like it is. And I ment every word I said to him. We had quite the heated argument on her page.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
11 Aug 10
Yes, but it wasn't because I didn't have all the facts. It was what people call a FaceBook war with my family and as things got ugly, though I didn't put it on the wall, I more or less chewed my sister out. I also blocked all involved and all who could have gotten involved. (my sister has 8 kids and out of 8, half had also attacked me, so I also deleted the other kids too.)
It isn't hard to shoot your mouth or in this case you fingers off at someone. I am sure something my sister said wasn't meant to sound uppity, but it did like she was putting me down..That is what they say one of the problems with communicating online is about..
But you did what was right and if she doesn't reply back, then that is her loss, because you are a good friend to the helpless animals that need a voice..
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
11 Aug 10
hi pyewacket I have been there and done that too. You feel very stupid
for venting at the person as you did not know all the factors, but
heck we are all humans and human beans as my son when little used to say are not perfect. we human beans often make errors. sorry but my
Krafts Bulls Eye Hickory smoked bbq sauce is in storage. I think I would use some Bertolli's basil and garlic spaghetti sauce on my foot in the mouth situation. Hope all goes well now. hugs from hatley.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
18 Aug 10
I'm a wus and I avoid confrontation like the plague, so when I do put my foot in my mouth it's more due to a ill thought out sarcastic remark, than due to a verbal rampage.
I kind of like onion dip in lieu of mayo myself...
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
11 Aug 10
Hey pye, I don't think that you should be so hard on yourself.
We all make those kinds of mistakes from time to time. And
being that you apologized with the explanation that you had
made a mistake that should have been enough to smooth the
ruffled feathers of the person who got the bad end of the rant
in the first place! And if they really did know you then they
would understand that it isn't like you to "go off" like that
unless it was something you were extremely passionate about and
obviously you may have taken whatever they said either out of
context or as you explained, just read it wrong! Mistakes happen,
we apologize, take it or leave it and move on to the next and
if that isn't good enough then I don't know what else to say!
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
11 Aug 10
I don't usually express my opinion because I am not sure I know enough about the subject. If I do, I am usually comfortable that I know all the facts. I might think or say something in private though.
I like chocolate sauce, but I don't know how that would taste on foot.
