The Dreaded N Word

I had a little incident at Ryan and Stacy's New Year's Eve party. You see, I may have been a little intoxicated and let something slip out of my mouth. I was talking to Adam, and I was in the happy "you're my best friend" stage of drunkeness. I tried to tell him that he was my buddy, but it just didn't come out like that. Instead of saying, "You're my buddy," suddenly I hear myself blurt out, "You're my [insert n word here]." I think I was as stunned as he was, and I realized as soon as I said it that I said it in the wrong company. I asked, "That wasn't appropriate was it?" He said, "No, it wasn't." I felt like an idiot. What makes it even worse is that I think I used the "er" instead of the "a". Somehow the "a" doesn't seem as bad as the "er". It's the sharp "er" that made an already awkward situation even worse.