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ThatNiceMan asks: Have you ever been talking with people down the pub when somebody throws such a complete curveball (Sample WTF moment: "I wonder what it's like to get bummed") that all talk is stopped dead? Tell us!

(, Thu 12 May 2011, 12:53)
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First year at university.
Got back after the Christmas holidays ready for the second term and started catching up with the other people in the same halls of residence.

"Hi Mark, did you have a good Christmas?"

"Not really, my dad died."

"Oh…"
(, Thu 12 May 2011, 14:45, 3 replies)
pint?

(, Thu 12 May 2011, 14:56, closed)
That would probably have been a good thing to have said
I didn't think of it at the time as I was lost for words. One of the girls in the same hall came out with, "Apart from that how was Christmas?" which was possibly less appropriate.
(, Thu 12 May 2011, 15:30, closed)
Unless his dad died of an alcohol related disease.

(, Thu 12 May 2011, 18:35, closed)

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