Speech...

This weekend I had to give a speech at the Carolina's Psychology Conference (CPC).
I was the last person in my group to speak.
When I started I was super nervous.
I decided to start by telling them a story that tied directly into my study.
It went like this:

"Imagine that you are going to your favorite grocery store,
you need peanut butter and bread.
You walk down the peanut butter aisle and you see a middle-aged, average looking man looking at the jams and jellies beside the peanut butter.
As you get closer to him you smell this horrible smell coming straight from him.
So you hold your breath and run past him trying to get past the smell as quick as you can without being rude.
You go down the next aisle, the bread aisle.
You see another middle-aged, average looking man down this aisle.
But this time,
as you get close to him,
you smell a pleasant smell.
It smells like a good cologne,
like a spicy cologne.
So you are able to pick out your bread without having to run past him or hold your breath."

At this point the entire group laughed.
I went on with my study and the audience was smiling most of the time.
This was strange because they were stone-faced initially.
I got to the end and I said,

"Odors may be easier to identify with males because men typically have jobs that smell bad. Such as garbage men...............and.................sewer men!" 

I legit thought that was an actual job,
but by the way the entire audience busted out laughing I realized it was not in fact a job.
Then we had question and answer time.
A lady asked what exactly does red fox pee smell like?
I answered:

"Well, it smells like meat and.......an old person's home!" 

As soon as that left my mouth I realized how horrible it was for me to say that.
At first there was an awkward chuckle,
but then a wave of laughter came from the crowd.
I made the mistake of making eye contact with the only old man in the crowd.
He looked less than amused.

So I said "I am so sorry! I didn't mean that in a derogatory sense, although that is what it smells like!"

Needless to say,
they will probably remember my speech.
Maybe not my data,
but my speech mix ups for sure.