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[adjunk]

I mean to say "out on a date at a restaurant" but instead "restroom" came out.

[mtnman]

I can relate. I let my Freudian slip show here.

I was talking with a lady one time and my mind was going pretty fast and simultaneously thought 'if I were in you're situation' and 'if i were in your shoes'.  What came out of my mouth was "If I were in your pants..."

Doh!

Oh, what father Freud would say....

[punchnpie]

I think this is my new favorite thread.
TZ, ever so proud of herself every time she types the L in "public"

My diss was full of 'pubic' instead of 'public.'  I wanna know what my committee was doing that they didn't catch them? The only reason I know now is that I go back to do an article/paper from the diss and catch them. Oh well.

[cc_alan]

I mean to say "out on a date at a restaurant" but instead "restroom" came out.

You should run for office!

Alan

[poliscigal]

Earlier this semester I was lecturing about how politicians tend to court women voters.  I started out by saying that the Republicans hadn't spent as much time doing this because Clinton was so "good with women."  Trying to save myself I corrected that "he just had positions that appealed to women."

Doh!  I just laughed with them.

[oldadjunct]

Not a slip of the tongue, more a slip of the hand.

I tend to walk the aisles and gesticulate.  A couple of years ago I lowered my opened right hand just as a female student turned, full body, to follow my walking and talking..........

Get the picture?

I fervently hope that is not the source of my one lone chili pepper on RMP.

[dr_alcott]

I think this is my new favorite thread.
TZ, ever so proud of herself every time she types the L in "public"

My diss was full of 'pubic' instead of 'public.'  I wanna know what my committee was doing that they didn't catch them? The only reason I know now is that I go back to do an article/paper from the diss and catch them. Oh well.

I've posted elsewhere that I made this mistake in a paper on public discourse. "Pubic discourse" in several places. My professor was so kind.

I made a terrible slip at a department meeting once. We were discussing a piece of student writing in which the student used a derogatory term. In trying to make an insightful comment about the student's work, I referred to the student by said derogatory term. It felt much worse than slipping in front of my students, but fortunately my colleagues laughed it off.

[krisanthe]

Does anyone stutter when you get flustered?  I've never had any stuttering issues until I was appointed to my current position.  I'm in charge of recruiting and it has been emphasized to me the importance of making our program look impressive, so sometimes when I'm trying to "sell our product" I get flustered and start to stutter.  It doesn't happen often, but when it does it's really frustrating.  Just today, I stuttered, and when I went to apologize, I stuttered on the word "apologize" ugh! 

I'm trying to speak more slowly which may help, but does anyone have tips on avoiding or dealing with this?