Amazing Awkward Situations

This is just a list of awkward situations.  Some have happened to me.  Some haven't.  But the coolest thing about awkward situations is that they're great to laugh at, even if they did happen to you.  So the next time you find yourself in ones of these situations, or something even more awkward that only you could have managed- laugh.  Well, you might want to wait until you leave the situation or else you could compound the awkwardness, but anyway...do it.  Laughing at awkwardisities is great.  And rarely (though sometimes) awkward.

When you can’t figure out why your friend won’t get back to you about meeting out for dinner, I mean, you sent her a text about it at least 4 hours ago, right?  Oh wait, that text is still sitting in your outbox…it apparently never sent…whoops…

When you set your alarm for 7am in the morning- ‘cause you’ve got to get to that meeting before class starts, but when 8:30 rolls around and you get out of bed, you realize you totally missed your alarm, and your meeting.  And then you realize your alarm was set on silent…

When you pretend like you heard what someone said, but you really didn’t at all, and then halfway through the conversation you have to fess up. “Um, so sorry, but, uh, what exactly are we talking about again?...”

When you’re with a group of people and someone starts passing around a sign-up list for something you’re not really interested in.  And everyone else there is signing up.  So you grab the pen and the paper and start to maybe write your name and email address, but then just scribble it out and awkwardly pass it along hoping that everyone is still paying attention to the speaker addressing the group, and not your rejection of involvement in this group activity…

When you’re supposed to be meeting someone at a public place, like a café, and you get there about 5 minutes early.  And then they get there about 15 minutes late.  Leaving you to look like a Lonely McLoner for a good 20 minutes, looooong after your iced coffee has been consumed…

When you’re eating out with a friend and you both order the same thing.  They eat half of it…and you finish it…

When you can’t understand someone speaking English with a strong accent, and you ask them to repeat themselves at least 4 or 5 times, before you get so embarrassed that you forget about trying to get the free muffin with your hot chocolate…

When you don’t know where you are, or where you’re going, but don’t want to admit it and so head aggressively in the wrong direction until your feet feel like potatoes and/or your arms feel like noodles.  And when you finally ask someone it turns out you were just making a giant circle around where you were trying to go…

When you forget your keys and remember a second after the door closes behind you.  Then you have to knock on the door obnoxiously until your roommate wakes up and begrudgingly lets you in, hope that someone will be home later when you get back, or, climb in a window…

When you’re in public with your headphones in, rocking out to some of your favorite, slightly embarrassing, guilty pleasure music…and then you realize everyone around you can also hear your music.  Hopefully they understand that “Hakuna Matata” is a classic…

When someone friend-requests you on some form of social networking site and you don’t respond for months, and every time you run into them in public all you can think of is that you won’t publicly claim them as your internet acquaintance, and you’ve even accepted that random kid you always run into while grabbing coffee.  But I mean, no big deal, they probably don’t even remember they requested you…right?...

When there’s a long, frustrated, line behind you as get up to the counter to order, so you forget that question you were going to ask about the seasonal drink and just get your regular instead.  And then when you get your change back you just toss it in your bag instead of trying to organize it and risk the wrath of un-caffeinated people.  So you look like a fool and sound like a maraca…

When a motivational speaker/teacher/waiter asks the group a question, which you answer with great enthusiasm…and alone.  What?  You really did want to see a dessert menu…

When you take out a pack of gum to grab a piece and suddenly everyone asks if they can also indulge in your precious gum.  And then you lie straight to their faces and say it was the last piece.  And then you sink down into your chair as your face turns the same color as your definitely-not-last piece of cinnamon gum…

When you’re walking down the street, feeling like you own the place, and then you trip over a brick.  And do a quick check around to discover only 2 moms with strollers, 5 students, 3 couples, and 1 giant tour group saw you in your moment of preteen klutziness.  You try and justify the trip internally as you blame it on the masonry: what idiot back in 1706 thought that placing a brick like the sinking Titanic was conducive to walking?...

still awkward years later...