There are many times that I need to apologize to someone, unfortunately, I suffer from a debilitating disease know as “foot in mouth” syndrome.  It is a terrible affliction where the words that come out of my mouth cause harm and pain when that was not their original intention.  If I like you, chances are I am going to tease you, in the course of teasing it has happened that the words that were meant to entertain actually made the person mad.  It is during these misunderstandings that the words “sorry” work very well.
 
I have perfected the art of the apology and usually do it rather well, I have had a lot of practice and as the old saying goes, practice does indeed make perfect.  In high school I used to keep a ready supply of apology cards on hand so I could write one out if need be.  I could offend someone in the morning, find out that I had done so by the middle of the day and have an “I’m sorry that I hurt your feelings” card in their hand before school was done.  I was an apology machine.
 
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