What's the most unintentionally offensive thing you've ever said to someone? I'll start.

So this morning I stopped by wal-mart on the way to work to pick up something, and I was running a bit late. I'm white, and as I was leaving the store I was walking quickly and went around a black woman taking her cart out.

She says to me jokingly, "why are white people always in such a hurry?"

Now, what I MEANT to say was, "because I'm running late to work". What flew out of my mouth was, "because I have a job".

I did NOT mean anything by it, it just came out totally wrong. She was not happy and let me know it in a very colorful way. I didn't even try to explain (I was late!) and just boogied out of there.

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Holy crap, front page?

And I didn't mean anything by "colorful" dammit!