How did discovering you were wrong make you feel? Did you do anything about it?
2006-09-20 09:57:09 · 7 answers · asked by melon_rose 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
This happens to everybody. I think it is a mark of being a good person that when this happens you step forward and admit it and apologize rather than trying to save face and pretend you did nothing wrong. I can't say that is what i always do but its what i try to do.
2006-09-20 10:01:12 · answer #1 · answered by Bebe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course. Anyone who says no is not being honest.
I felt like *crap*. I went off on this girl who worked at something like a Target or something. I kept asking her a question and she just looked blankly at me and mumbled what I thought was an answer.
I later saw a group of "employees" dressed like her walking through the store with a store manager. They were obviously from a group home. I had assumed she was just an unhelpful person (she showed no physical signs of being mentally handicapped) who was just rude and had no desire to actually assist me.
When I figured it out, I was mortified. I lost track of the group, so I had a cashier call a manager for me. I told him I wanted to personally apologize to the young lady and he told me they had gone to lunch. I asked him to please take her to the side and tell her that the lady who had been really mean to her was terribly terribly sorry.
There's something about admitting to another person the horrid thing you just did that is incredibly powerful. To tell someone "I just yelled at a mentally handicapped person..." it really taught me a lesson and I don't think I've flown off the handle quite as quickly since. I try to breathe and think of a reason things might be going the way they are.
Good question.
2006-09-20 17:09:09 · answer #2 · answered by tagi_65 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think everyone has done this at some point. Like most of the other answerer's have said, it's always the right thing to do to admit you were wrong and apologize.
2006-09-21 01:06:59 · answer #3 · answered by Julie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES! I appologized, people have to understand that we all make mistakes. they understood. I felt really bad, I speak before I think and most of the time I am wrong. I feel bad sometimes, other I just don't care for the people which is kind of mean but what they don't know wont hurt them. Ya know.
2006-09-20 17:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by Cassie T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah happened to me few times :)
made me feel like a clown, I was drank at a party and had a fight with my g/f cuz i got pissed for some reason, but the next day i couldn't remember anything
I stoped drinking too much when i drink
p.s. we broke up cuz of that
2006-09-20 16:59:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only way to salvage your dignity is to admit you were wrong, and try to find some humor in the situation.
2006-09-20 16:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by Nefertiti 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Welcome to the human race. If you can now admit that you were wrong, that shows your true character. May the world have more people like you. It will be abetter place
2006-09-20 17:06:32 · answer #7 · answered by mindtelepathy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋