Oh lord. Insult of insults today :rofl: [View all]

[Heddi]

I was kvetching with a co-worker today about just...work and life and..stuff. I was looking at a facebook link about the Korean KFC Double-Down, where it's a cheeseburger in between two fried chicken patties. I said "Oh, your husband's Korean, right? Tell him to bring me one of these next time he goes."

She reminds me that no, her husband is Taiwanese.

At that point, I remembered that I had made that mistake before, so I apologized. I really was sincerely sorry because 1) she's my friend and I should pay attention to these things and 2) I didn't want to come off as a "oh they're all the same anyways" which isn't my view or whatever, but I know she gets that alot.

So I said "oh gosh! I'm really sorry about that. I know I've made that mistake before and I'm sorry. It's kind of rude of me to have made that mistake again. I'm sure it gets annoying for you and your husband to get the "oh what's the difference?" nonsense from people, and I'm sorry if I contributed to that."

She said "Oh Heddi, it's really no big deal. But you know, I appreciate your sincerity in apologizing for it, which you didn't have to do by the way. No one ever does, though, when they make that mistake and you're right, we do get a lot of "oh Korea and Taiwan and China...they're all the same country, right?", so it means a lot that you cared enough to realize that, I don't know, other people are jerks."

Then....here's the part where I died inside.

"you know what? That's one of the reasons I really like you. You admit when you're wrong and really don't want to hurt people's feelings. YOU ARE SO SELF AWARE, and that's what I like about you."

Gaaahhh!!! At least she didn't tell me that she liked my desire to be more mediocre