Me and my Big Mouth

While waiting for a voiceover job just now, I read a newspaper story about an Australian girl who, realising she was going to miss her flight from Stanstead to Sydney, texted her mate asking her to alert the authorities that there was a bomb on board her flight, thereby delaying the flight and enabling her to catch it.

This made me exclaim loudly and read the story out to anyone nearby (something that only dull uncles are supposed to do). A short discussion followed as to how selfish this was and what kind of punishment the girl would receive. I voiced my opinion that she should get a custodial sentence, or better still, "...f*ck off back to Australia where they don't have terrorist attacks".

An unsympathetic standpoint, and one that I don't really endorse, but was proposing merely for effect. Only then did I realise that the lovely lady on the reception desk was of antipodean extraction herself.

I'm forever yelling half-held beliefs like this in front of exactly the wrong people. Does anyone else do this?