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I worked for the railways, in commuter trains. My job was to harass innocent passengers by walking back and forth and enabling them to buy a ticket should they need one. And at certain routes also check the tickets of every new passenger.
It was nice using a dialect from eastern Finland, the Savo dialect for that. It has a tendency to change plain vowels for diphtongs. It adds a kind of a "wee-wow" twang to the language. For example the word for "closet" is "kaappi" in standard Finnish, "kuappi" in the dialect spoken in Savo. The "aa" is just a long "a", sound. Pretty much the same as the "a" in the English word "car". And "ua" is pretty much like "oi" in "choir". Imagine pronouncing the word "car" with the "a" replaced with the "oi" sound of "choir" and you might get an idea of how that crazy dialect likes to mangle every damn word. And the "ar" in "garlic" would be pronounced with the same change as well. Etc.
And maybe at this point it's worth mentioning that I still had a fully male gender expression at that point.
So, we have just left the station of Haarajoki. In the Savo dialect that would be "Huaarajokj".
I enter the part of the wagon through its end door. I start shouting "Haarajoki passengers, tickets please!", but. But.
As it happens, "huaara" is how they would pronounce also the word "huora" over in Savo. And that happens to mean "whore". Luckily I noticed. So, I managed to stop myself from uttering anything further. Unfortunately, I only managed to stop after having already said the first half of that word, "huaarajokj": Yes, "huaara".
In other words, I entered the passenger wagon through the end door in the railway worker's uniform, immediately bellowing "WHORE!", and then shutting up.
Definitely an "oh shit" moment!
After that:
Me: "Hm. This station is not terribly compatible with the Savo dialect, apparently."
A female passenger: "You should have continued to the end, would have gone much less badly".
Me: "Yup!"