My Mouth is Going to Get Me in Trouble One of These Days

I really have to think before I speak sometimes... One of my many faults I guess. I was at work on Friday, pretty much everyone was gone from the ground floor (I'm sure the fact it was a long weekend had nothing to do with that). Some random guy wanders up to me and introduces himself as the general manager for Canada (or some high ranking position). I am polite and jovial as I was taught. He asks where everyone else is and I tell him they are all gone, not sure where. I then say something (in a joking voice) about how I'm just waiting a few minutes more before I sneak out. "We don't work that way here," he says. So here I am backpedalling and trying to make it known I was making a stupid joke (which I was (mostly)) without sounding like a complete ass.

Then he's on his way out and passed by OtherProgrammer's desk and asks "so where's OtherProgrammer?" "In jail probably," I said, which is to be honest, the truth (OtherProgrammer had a minor altercation with the DMV that he had to go to a hearing to see if he gets a couple of days jail time). "What?! Are you serious?"

So I guess BigImportantManager hadn't heard this yet, eh?

I (once again) backpedaled desparately, and said that of course I wasn't, and that OtherProgrammer had something with the DMV to deal with today, and wasn't in.

*phew*

So the lesson of the day was "think before speaking, think before speaking, think before speaking."