Why Zach can't learn...

When I was in high school, I was involved in a particularly embarrasing situation where someone told me something about someone (I think she didn't like someone - the details are fuzzy), didn't tell me it was in confidence, and I mentioned it to the person she didn't like.
It kind of blew up in my face. The person who originally said it denied everything when confronted by the second person, I was accused of having exaggerated it to make a good story, etc. It was mortifying.
And I think I did something similar again. The specific reference edited out below was done at request. I've also taken the liberty of excising the comments about the specific reference. And I'm utterly mortified that it happened in the first place. Please consider this my formal apology to all involved. ^.^' I'd hate to think that everyone needs to preface a statement to me with a disclaimer when they want it to remain in confidence, you'd think that a moment's thought would have made it obvious. Yeah, you'd think that, wouldn't you?
Every now and then, I think that an episode of Scrubs had a really fantastic idea when an opera singer followed one of the characters around and warned him every time he was about to do something stupid by singing "Mis-tAAAAAAAAAAAKE!" at the top of his voice. I could have used that guy last night.