A coworker stopped by a woman’s desk and asked if she had a second, then her playful reply came out so badly she is still panicking over it

TikTok user @lindsaygabs has drawn more than 10,000 views with a storytime about a slip of the tongue at work that she says is eating her alive, as reported by Daily Dot. The creator tells the story while getting dressed for the office, and the video is captioned “Let’s get dressed for the office.”

She pulls together a simple outfit during the video, which includes a new cashmere triangle scarf, a white button-down, and wide-leg jeans. The creator tells the story as each piece goes on, starting with a coworker who stopped by her desk and asked whether she had a moment, as she tried to be playful in her reply.

According to the creator, she said she had all the time for the coworker, then finished the sentence with a word that did not come out the way she intended. She says she laughed and told the coworker that was not what she meant to say. However, the word she names is a vulgar one, so the exact wording is not repeated here, and the coworker has not been identified.

Plenty of viewers are sharing their own office blunders

The creator says she has been left with two possibilities. The coworker may not have heard her in the open office, or the coworker may have heard and felt too uncomfortable to answer, which she calls the scary option. She says she expects to replay the moment for years, as the story has been eating at her since it happened.

The creator asked viewers to share the most embarrassing thing they have accidentally said, and the comments filled up with stories from workplaces, schools, and churches. One commenter said they once ended a meeting by telling everyone, “okay bye, I love you.” Another admitted that moments like this haunt them too, and a third said they were also obsessed with the belt.

Other commenters shared slips of their own. One said they accidentally emailed their boss a personal note meant for their husband, while another told a boss that a woman from “HPV” was on the phone when they meant HPD. A third, studying cosmetology, answered an instructor with a word that sounded nothing like “spiral perm” and now laughs about it.

Not every comment was about blunders. A number of viewers asked where the shirt and jeans came from, and a side debate broke out over whether a shirt like hers is called a button up or a button down. One commenter argued that button ups are for men and button downs are for women, while another noted that button downs have collar tips that fasten to the shirt.

Slips of the tongue are not limited to the office hallway, as Kimmel nearly called an aide Melania on his show before turning the moment into a joke. Here, the slip happened in front of a single coworker, and the creator does not know whether it was heard. However, the open office gives her a way out, as the coworker may simply have missed it.

The creator has not said whether the coworker ever brought up the moment, so the outcome of the desk exchange is still unknown. The video is likely to keep collecting reactions as viewers trade blunders, and the replies are still arriving.

Attack of the Fanboy was unable to independently verify the coworker’s side of the story, as this account originates solely from @lindsaygabs’s TikTok video.