19 Warning Signs for Common Awkward Moments
#19.
Your chair makes a fart noise. You're not among friends.
#18.
When the meal you're ordering has an embarrassingly awful name.
#17.
You're lost in thought, and when you come out of it, you realize
you've been staring blankly at a stranger the whole time.
#16.
Telling a story you remember as your own, only it turns out it
actually happened to the person you're telling it to.
#15.
You order "the usual," the server has no idea what you're talking about.
#14.
Saying goodbye and then walking in the same direction.
#13.
You go for a hug, he goes for a handshake.
#12.
Cheering wildly because you don't realize it's the instant replay of a play you just saw.
#11.
You pretended you were listening and now you realize a response is required.
#10.
Being asked to repeat a witticism because no one heard what you said.
OH can I try one, too, to alleviate some of my awkward itch?
ReplyHow about... Thanking someone for a gift and finding out it was not, in fact, that person who gave you the gift.
Or being the one thanked for a gift and not, in fact, being the person who gave the gift.
I fell upon both of these quandaries fairly recently, in a new-to-me, sometimes-we-give-group-cards-but-apparently-the-gifts-we-give-are-really-only-from-one-person (usually the boss) workplace environment.
How about when someone gets your name wrong? I hate that. "Hi, Sarah!" "Um, you seem really glad to see Sarah, but I'm not Sarah. So... sorry for not being Sarah?? I guess..." "Oh. Right. Um..."
Reply#13 Even when the other person goes for the hug it's awkward because I never know where to put my arms. The worst time was when I accidentally said "awkward" out loud while hugging someone. I immediately felt bad because the person probably thought I was calling them awkward, even though I was really saying it to myself...
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ReplyI called customer support for my internet and I didn't think that they actually listened to what you were doing when they put you on hold so I started singing 'My Bonnie' to pass the time and when the customer service guy picked up he was laughing his ass off :(
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesOh s**t, they listen to that? I try to be polite to the customer support people, but I spend the breaks cursing like a sailor...
oh s**t son i didn't know they listened either XD wow i must have hurt more then a few feelings while on hold 0_o
That may have been coincidence? 'cause generally they can't hear you if you're on *hold*, like if there's hold music. If it's just silence, 'cause they've put you on mute, that's different.
Fuckbunkies.
ReplyYou again?
I had #5 happen to me all the time, because the rows were so close together. Except the teacher was a dude. An awkward dude who taught French. A day in the life of a high school student.
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ReplySocially Awkward Penguin-isms.
ReplyHow about when a girl catches you staring at her tits, and then she backs up and whips her dick out and starts chasing you with it. Man, talk about akward.
ReplyFortunately, that is something most girls are incapable of doing. We hope.
I think that maybe you just might be hanging out in the wrong area...
g*******t FREAKING ALL OF THESE are the story of my life(except for the cast, luckily I've never broken a (major) bone in my body). ESPECIALLY six and seven. f**k
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Does anybody ever do this one? You start a conversation with someone you haven't seen in a while but don't really know, "Hey, how are you?" "Good, how are you?" "Good. How about you?"
ReplyI find myself doing this quite a bit.... and it is awkward.
Haha, I do that over txt.
#5 it allows f*****g happens 2 me
ReplyI find that, while a lot of thsese things happen to me with uncomfortable frequency, they often do when I'm around certain types of people. You know those acquaintances that are super-freaking friendly and charismatic and enthusiastic? Yeah, I hate those people. It's like, they want to make you feel at ease, so they just talk and do stuff in a way they feel is making you participate more in the conversation/social gathering/eldritch ritual that's happening, when all they're doing is making you nervous and giving you queues and opportunities to royally f**k up. I suspect that, deep inside, these types are just really insecure and want to assert themselves by exposing the socially awkward so it makes them look better. holy smokes, i really didn't want this comment to be a rant but there you have it! haha.. ok, um, heh.
ReplyNo, we don't want you expose you for being awkward. Its just an attempt to get you out of your head (which is over analyzing every moment of social interaction) and just relax. I suppose it's a misguided attempt at getting the shy kid to speak up because we really do want to hear what they have to say. Not trying to put you on the spot, just trying to get to know you. I suppose we do this too forcibly sometimes NOW GET UP THERE AND DANCE FOR US DAMNIT!
I think Cracked had an article with something about this, and one of its points was: Sometimes, quiet people are just quiet. Not necessarily shy or awkward, or freaking out because they're in a room full of strangers... they're just not the talkative type.
I lost it at "A Fuckton of Pancakes". I would order that s**t every time.
ReplyAgreed. And I freaking HATE pancakes!
Also, imagine ordering that in front of your mother.
#8 and #7 are just awful and I find myself in those situations too many times.
ReplyThough with the handwave you have to include, someone starting a phone conversation, or responding to someone else.
Lol at #6! I got on a flight recently, and when I finished showing my passport to the tsa agent to get through security, she said, "Enjoy your flight" and I mechanically and automatically said, "you too." Felt like an idiot but I don't think she even noticed.
ReplyAt first I thought this was a Photoplasty, and I was like "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? They used to have titles for these? Why don't they do that anymore?"
ReplyI do #7 CONSTANTLY
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