I'm in the habit of making jokes out of things I probably shouldn't and being almost completely socially retarded, I'm not always good at identifying things that might bother other people. So I'm not infrequently in a position where I have just said something I thought was amusing and inspired horror in my audience.
A co-worker of mine put in for a week off next month because she was due for a tonsillectomy. She's only about eighteen and has never undergone a surgical procedure before so she's quite nervous about it and isn't entirely sure what the ordeal will entail. I had mine removed when I was five years old so I tried to reassure her that it was a minor procedure and had very little downtime during recovery.
This seemed to settle her fears a bit, at which point I made the following ill-advised remark:
"Of course, that was twenty years ago and medical technology was a bit less advanced then. They were still rendering patients unconscious with rocks back in those days."
Apparently a comment like this will inspire panic and anxiety.
Oops.
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