Did you ever open your mouth, and a split second later wish you hadn't?

Its happened to me, more times then I could count. And it happened today.

I'm at a funeral home to visit some friends of mine whose father just passed. I am standing talking to one of my friends when a lady walks up to express her condolences. The lady has a cast on her arm and my friend says "I hope that's not your pitching arm" and she says, no but it is the arm my daughter pitches with. My friend says, oh do you you take it off and give it to her... ha ha...

So she laughs and then says, but seriously my dd is an excellent pitcher, at this point I am just listening. Out of no where she says "My dd's pitch was once measured at (I'm thinking to myself her it comes) 92 MPH. I actually chuckled and said you must mean 62 MPH. As soon as I started talking I started thinking shut up shut up shut up. But no I completed the sentence, to which she says, oh no it might even have been 95.

Do I shut up, no with nothing to gain I say, well the fastest pitch ever by a woman was in the Mid 70s. Again my inner dialogue is saying shut up shut up... And she says, no no she threw it in the 90s...

At this point I gained control of myself and said "Well you must be very proud"

I can't let that kind of thing pass either. My mouth gets a mind of its own. I think I'll tell my dd to aspire to 92 mph.

to answer the thread topic question....daily...

I see you live in Michigan...since that is basically Canada maybe she was using KMPH? 95 should be right should 60 give or take.

Maybe she is a baseball player and can throw a baseball 92mph!

92 MPH...and it jumped at least 12" upwards. Yep. Totally believable.

I don't know what is so unbelievable about this. When my dd was 12, she was throwing upper 60s and then she got older and bigger. I'd say she must be throwing 102 by now. She ten years older!

Every day of my life. It is a true struggle to bite my tongue and I can only keep it bottled for so long, then my pathological need to "fix the dumb" takes over...

I should have kept my mouth shut on my previous post!

My DW says that I only open my mouth to change feet.

As Bill Engvall says..."You can't fix stupid." I, myself. have trouble daily keeping my mouth shut when it comes down to the idiots/coaches promoting 'hands to the ball swings.' It drives me insane.