So I think I had the biggest moment of deserved humiliation of my entire life today. I'll set the scene.
Were all in the computer lab waiting to meet our new computer science tutor, the guy walks in and it seems like he's in a shitty mood, he tells people to take their hats off and take their drinks off the table, fair enough but some guys (myself included) didn't care for his tone, anyway as the lesson goes on he warms up and becomes a lot more likeable.
I swear I'll never forget this for the rest of my life, he's talking about old tech he's had in the past, he talks about commodore 64's, Sinclairs and finally old phones.....He says "feel lucky to have these cool phones you have now, in 1988 I had one of those ridiculous large mobile phones" to which I thought it was a great idea to respond with "Didn't those things give people cancer" now he said something next but I didn't hear him and only found out later, all i heard was yeah to which I responded "are you worried about that at all" in a jovial manner, to which he responded "I was two years ago when I had neck cancer....." the room died, what he said before was "yes they gave me it" and no one heard that part because too many people were speaking.
I couldn't have apologised enough for having brought it up and still feel shitty about it, he seemed cool about it and didn't seem angry with me.