re: So that was awkward

I had recently watched a Patton Oswalt special where he had used the phrase "smells like a baby's coffin."

I was on the phone with a friend and she mentioned something smelling bad. Without even thinking I asked her if it "smelled like a baby's coffin" and as soon as it had finished falling out of my mouth I remembered that she had had a very late term miscarriage with her first pregnancy about 3 months prior. I've never felt like a shittier human being.