Recovering from foot-in-mouth disease I borrowed a book entitled "Excuse Me, But I was Next..." from the library. It is a book about how to handle the top 100 manners dilemmas. One of the chapters about how to recover from foot-in-mouth disease made me laugh as I or my partner had similar kind of experience. The content is presented in Q & A format. Here is one of the situations: I recently asked the librarian at my daughter's school when her baby was due. To my horror, she responded, "I'm not pregnant." I could only manage to stutter, "Oh, I'm so sorry!" and disappear as soon as I could. I recalled that when i took a train several years ago, a young lady offered her seat to me. I thought she would think I was pregnant. After I came back home, i was more determined to do sit-up and exercises to reduce my belly fat !