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dotti34 · 06-06-2021, 11:31

A few years ago I was with my husband in a local supermarket when we saw a lady we knew who was being attended to by staff members as she had had a ‘funny turn’. We stopped to see if there was anything we could do and she said that although she was feeling better she didn’t think she could drive her car home but she didn’t want to leave it in the car park.

I asked her if we could contact Hank (her husband) for her and she said ‘No, Hank’s gone’. I was shocked to think he had left her and trying to show her some empathy I said how sorry I was and that I couldn’t understand why men did this sort of thing when they had a good marriage, that I hadn’t thought he was that sort of a bloke, and blah, blah, blah, all in similar vein, without pausing for a breath. I then I asked had she any idea why he had left her. She said ‘he died’.

I felt so embarrassed but we (sort of) made up for my clumsiness by my husband driving her home in her car and I followed in ours.

06-06-2021, 11:31	#7
dotti34 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,182 Blog Entries: 80 Liked: 1471 times Rep Power: 634154	Re: Embarrassing Moments A few years ago I was with my husband in a local supermarket when we saw a lady we knew who was being attended to by staff members as she had had a ‘funny turn’. We stopped to see if there was anything we could do and she said that although she was feeling better she didn’t think she could drive her car home but she didn’t want to leave it in the car park. I asked her if we could contact Hank (her husband) for her and she said ‘No, Hank’s gone’. I was shocked to think he had left her and trying to show her some empathy I said how sorry I was and that I couldn’t understand why men did this sort of thing when they had a good marriage, that I hadn’t thought he was that sort of a bloke, and blah, blah, blah, all in similar vein, without pausing for a breath. I then I asked had she any idea why he had left her. She said ‘he died’. I felt so embarrassed but we (sort of) made up for my clumsiness by my husband driving her home in her car and I followed in ours.