I Take It Back

Things that are out of place to say...but sometimes slip out

1. "Break a leg" to a doctor just before he/she performs hip surgery

2. "It's hot as hell in here" during church

3. "Be careful, he's got crabs" to a girl whose contemplating dating your friend, a marine biologist, with a nice collection of aquatic pets at home

4. "We may have some weed from France in our bags" to a customs officer who doesn't know about the night you had to spend in a farm in Avignon when you screwed up the hostel booking

5. "What are those old fogies doing here?" to a person who's hosting a party at their parents' home when their parents happen to walk through the room

6. "Get ready to swim with the fishes" at the starting line of a triathlon

7. "So, do you work out?" to a girl at a gym.

8. "We'd get there a lot faster if there weren't so many cabs clogging the streets" to an NYC cabbie while riding in a taxi cab

9. "Anybody got any bug spray?" in the insect house at the zoo

10. "With computers these days, any idiot could drive this ship huh?" to a cruise ship captain

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