Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago#90,400
TIFU by saying the worst possible thing in a restaurant
This happened a few hours ago in a busy buffet restaurant in a hotel in Austria.
Being a buffet restaurant, people were pretty much always wandering from table to food and back again, so there was a constant steam of mainly Austrian and German people passing our table. We’ve been here a few days, you start to recognise people and my two young sons have made a few friends.
I was joking with the kids that I’d left their Nintendo Switch at home, they suspected I was joking but went along with it anyway. So when I told them I had brought it they wanted to check.
“I brought it,” I said
“Our Switch?”
“Yes, Our Switch”
“What?!! OUR Switch?!”
“Yes!! OUR Switch!!”
They got louder and we started just repeating it, laughing. I noticed my wife frowning at me, or past me, it didn’t really register.
“OUR SWITCH?”
“OUR SWITCH! Ha!”
Then my wife really started signalling to me to shut up - I was like “it’s ok... it’s a buffet”
“OUR SWITCH! Ha!”
“OUR SWITCH!”
Then my wife leaned in and urgently whispered “it sounds like you are all shouting Auschwitz”
My whole body went cold with the realisation.
Needless to say I immediately stopped, placed my hand on my eldest son’s knee and he - seeing the look on my face- stopped straight away - the 3 year old did one final shout before I could stop him...
I have avoided eye contact with all other hotel guests since.
TLDR: Shouted “Auschwitz” loudly, happily, repeatedly, in a restaurant full of Germans and Austrians. I’m really sorry.