I worked with toddlers and pre schoolers for three years. Sometimes I accidentally slip and tell a friend to say bye to an inanimate object (“say bye bus!”) & occasionally they unthinkingly just do it.
I’m glad there’s a teacher version of “accidentally called teacher ‘mom’”
when I worked at Medieval Times occasionally I would slip in real life and call people “my lord”
One time during family prayer, dad began: “our father who art in heaven, American Airlines, how can I help you?”
One time my dad went to the White Castle drive-thru and the lady (who was supposed to say ‘Welcome to White Castle, what’s your crave?’) asked, “Welcome to White Castle, what’s your problem?”
She apologized profusely while my dad proceeded to lose his shit laughing.
Yesterday I went to Wendy’s and the girl said “Welcome to McDonalds” and then just sighed
A lady at the craft store I used to work at had previously worked for one of our rivals and one night during closing, she made the closing announcement and said “Thank you for shopping at Rival Store Name.”
She was mortified but our manager found it hilarious.
Most of our customers were women so I took to calling everyone ma’am on accident for a while. My ex would have to tell his customers “see you tomorrow” to get them to subliminally want to come back. (Yeah, that’s not creepy at all.) He took to doing it to strangers while we were out shopping.
The Paradox Machine 