Big Mouth...

I am not among the ones who are embarrassed easily. Until recently, whenever I was asked about any embarrassing moments of my life, I had to go for a long voyage in the past; only to return empty-handed. Needless to say; not anymore. Both of the below mentioned incidents happened after I started working.

I knew this 'Bindaas' attitude girl at work. For the sake of anonymity we will call her 'X'; and for obvious reasons as you will see. Now X & I used to be pretty close & our conversations used to quite thick. This happened when I was working for a consulting project. One of the consulting teams was an internal client; & it was from this team that I came to know this girl, lets call her 'Y'. Now 'Y' was a sweet girl & in the course of my work I had come to know her a little bit. We used to chat sometimes, beyond the related technical Topics.

Now one day while I was discussing something technical with 'Y' on messenger; I was pinged by 'X'. She was pretty excited & the message read something like this:-

X: You know what? I watched porn yesterday; for the first time in my life.

Before I could reply, I got a call. I did an Alt-Tab & got involved in the call. After 15 minutes, when I was done...

"Oh that sounds cool, so what kind of Porn did you watch?"
"What?"

I looked closely & I realized my mistake. To my horror, I had written it to 'Y'. Nothing in words can describe the feeling. I immediately called her up trying to explain things.

"Y, the message wasn't for you. I accidentally typed it in your window."
"Ah! It’s OK; I do understand."
"Y, I am really sorry."
"It would be really good if we drop this topic right now."
"Hmm...OK... But I do hope that you understand."
"Please..."
Uh... OK!"

I really don't know who among the two of us was more embarrassed at that time. I dreaded the time when I would have to meet 'Y' in person; fortunately that hasn't happened till now. I also thought that it was the last time I would be hearing from Y. Strangely enough; we became pretty good friends after that incident.

The Second incident happened a year back. I had returned back from Scotland when one day, I saw a familiar face. It was this guy whom I had met when I was in Edinburgh. We said 'Hi' & started catching on the different 'How's who'. If you have a South Indian Friend, you would know by now, that the flavor of English is a tad different when you strike a conversation with them. For the sake of argument & not declaring them guilty without examples, most of them they lay an extraordinary amount of emphasis on the word 'Dude'. Following is how the conversation went through: -

"So how is Craig?"
...
...

"Ah, That babe is smoking Hot!"
"Which one?"
"That one..." (Pointing out the subject of my interest)
"Dude that's my Fiancée"

I was tongue-tied for a second & was about to say something to cover up my foolishness when he said

"Dude, relax... I was just kidding. I just happen to know her from a earlier project"
"Hahaha... I knew you were, anyway I wasn't talking about that girl, I was talking about that one" I said not be outdone; pointing out a beauty in a red shirt.

"Dude, that's my sister"

I started laughing at his second attempt to pull my leg. How naive did he assume me to be to think that I would be caught in the same joke again. I was laughing my guts out, till I saw his face. I had always wondered about the origin of the phrase 'red & blue'; I learnt it that day, the hard way. He turned slowly & walked away without saying another word to me. I never heard from him again.

And this is how I realized what the Yankees mean when they say "Me & my big mouth".