Underwear...

Texting and emailing really allows you to write stuff you wouldn't necessarily want to say to someone's face...this can also mean you end up saying something you may regret and once it is down on paper or phone then it is there forever!

Not a bad thing I guess as it means you can share instant emotions, thoughts, feelings...but sometimes this ease of access removes the time you require for clarity amongst other things. I have said plenty of things, that once I have reread a couple of days later have made me cringe!

Fortunately, today's incident only involved underwear...

What do you do when your partner's mum wants to know what to buy their daughter for their birthday? I know that said person would like a hoody, some music, a book or two, but what is the only thing I can think of at the time to text back...UNDERWEAR!

I mean, I wasn't really thinking too much about my reply until I realised I had started to explain the type and style of the underwear...'thong type with thick waist band' is what I think I put in the text...SEND...and then I realised what I was doing...to make it worse, she replied to say 'OK no idea what that means but thanks'.

I quickly responded with 'me neither, but I will find out'...and so, a classic example of instant communication causing an embarrassing situation. It is like speaking without thinking, something which I seem to do all the time - never seem to learn my lesson there, until afterwards of course. Perhaps some of us are just born without the 'think before you speak, text, email' gene?!?