A wise man once said that words are never accidental, and every slip of the tongue reveals more than we intend. That man was Sigmund Freud. He believed our unconscious mind sometimes hijacks our speech, spilling out thoughts we’d rather keep buried.
Most of the time, these verbal mistakes are harmless, a stumble, a mix-up, something to talk about later on. But sometimes, they hit hard: an unfiltered confession, or a brutally honest blunder that leaves no way back, putting yourself in an awkward situation.
In those moments, we can’t just brush it off, we feel exposed completely, thinking how to fix it. Here are some crazy Freudian slips, the kind that make people wish the floor would swallow them whole.
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One of my teachers was complaining that we were all so tired and said we should be more like “the Durex bunny.” She meant to say the “Duracell bunny.”
2
I work in a hospital. The other day I was waiting for the elevator going down. Some transport guy wheeled a patient up on a gurney and stood next to me. The patient had Down syndrome. The elevator arrived, I hopped on and held the door. I leaned out and s
3
Waiting in line at a barbershop, I had to take a number. I was number 66. A stylist was going down the line asking whose number it was because someone had been called but no one came forward. They got to me and I said, “No, I’m still waiting for s*xy-six,
4
Many years ago, when I was interviewing for my first job after graduating from college, I had intended to use the phrase "on a pedestal," but somehow I misspoke and said the words "as a p*dophile." The embarrassing part was that I didn’t catch my mistake
5
I was at Taco Bell. When giving my order, I wanted to say Mexican Pizza. I said Mexican P*nis. I didn’t even realize it until I noticed her just looking at me with a blank stare.
6
I was in a bar, and a woman with very bad teeth smiled at me and complimented me on my boots. I replied, “Thank you, I love them. They keep my teeth dry.”
7
I called an extremely fat person the name of another extremely fat person she knew. Tried to gloss over it, but she knew.
8
I was competing in a quiz bowl tournament, and the moderator was pretty cute. He asked what boulders deposited by glaciers were called. I buzzed in and said, “Ero*ic boulders,” instead of erratic boulders. I still got the point!
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I [24m] was playing Xbox with my roommate [25m] and I hadn’t showered since the day before because it was the weekend and I didn’t have to go to work. I thought to myself, “Man, I should shower,” and at the same time I was about to ask my roommate if he w
10
In 7th grade biology class, I answered a question about the building blocks of DNA. I stood up and answered, “Amino as*holes.”
11
While working at Best Buy, this dude (Black) came in with his girlfriend (white) asking about how to hook up their iPad to some radio. I was explaining the whole thing and I said something along the lines of, “You just take this cable and hook it up to th
12
I ended a voicemail to my crush with, “Okay, if you get a call, give me a chance.” Whoops.
13
Trying to say “reach out” and “look around” at the same time, it came out as “reach around” to a high-value client on the phone.
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The woman in charge of my sister's school-sponsored trip to Mexico very sternly emphasized the importance of acting like mature adults and said she wouldn't allow any student to board the bus without showing her a passport or their birth control. She mean
15
I said “a*ses and basids” while reading our 6th grade science textbook out loud to the class. Oops.
16
In 7th grade, while doing a project with the cutest girl in my class, I asked her how to spell Vagin* instead of Virginia.
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I posted this a while ago. Once, I was at a Chinese restaurant and I wanted to thank the waiter when he gave me my food. Somewhere in my head, the words “cheers” and “thanks” got muddled together, and I ended up looking the waiter directly in the eye and
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I was in a high school production of Guys and Dolls. My character was a mobster named Big Jule. In one scene he stands up to confess in a church meeting about how he is so good at crime that he has had “33 arrests and no convictions.” I stood nervously on
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My Italian teacher loved to talk about an incident that happened in my older sister’s class. The kid meant to say, “Peter and John go to the fish market.” He accidentally said, “Peter and John go pi*s.”
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I did the classic “you’re the breast” instead of “best.” She thought I was just being funny.
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