The 18 Most Awkward Moments of Any Given Day
Awkward moments are inevitable. Embrace them.
1. Making eye contact with someone as they’re crying.
Crying is a very intimate moment that
should often be done in solitude but occasionally the urge to weep just
takes over in public. You never assume someone’s crying so once you
notice it’s happening you have to keep staring until you can identify
that they are in fact sobbing. And once you start watching, you can’t
stop. You should, but you can’t.
“Don’t look at me!”
2. Witnessing a car accident.
The driver two cars ahead stops short. The
car directly in front of you rear-ends them. You’re able to brake before
you join their collision. What do you do next? You have two options.
You could either get out of your car and see if everyone involved in the
accident is okay. Or you could awkwardly drive around the incident like
you didn’t see a thing. Often choose the latter.
“Oh shit!”
3. Walking in on someone while they use the bathroom.
When you have to pee, there’s no time to
knock on doors. You just bust right in like the bathroom is supposed to
be empty, however it almost never is. You immediately make the most
awkward eye contact with the person using the bathroom for a solid 3
seconds before you slowly leave in shame.
That sucks…
4. Accidentally texting the wrong person.
In a world where everyone has a cell phone,
texting has become the major form of communication. Most people have
conversations with multiple friends at a time which is very manageable
but occasionally accidents occur. You’re typing something sexual to your
boyfriend but accidentally opened a text your dad just sent you and you
end up sending the sexy message to him.
#1 Dad.
5. Getting caught talking/singing to yourself.
Everyone talks to themselves to an extent.
When you’re driving and your favorite song comes on, what can you do but
sing along? Until you approach a red light and the car next to you just
watches as you embarrass yourself. Sometimes you just need to talk to
yourself for a moment, just you know, make sure no ones around. If you
talk to yourself all of the time, seek guidance.
6. Wearing the same outfit as someone else.
Originality is pretty cool thing to have
and something that most people claim to have. Picking out a unique
outfit in the morning is our first chance to be original every day.
Walking to the subway and seeing someone wearing the same exact dress as
you is awkward enough to make you go back home and change.
Oops..
7. Airballing a shot in basketball/striking out in baseball/ dropping a pass in football.
There’s a correct way to play sports and a
wrong way. When you play sports with your friends or even competitively,
you should never be the worst one of the court/field. Airballing a wide
open shot in basketball is even to make you never want to play again.
If you strike out in baseball just keep your head down because your
teammates pretending to encourage you afterwords only makes it worse. As
a man, catching a football is the minimum requirement of being a male
homosapien.
The rule is if air bud can do it, you better be able to do it as well.
8. Unexpectedly running into your ex.
Seeing an ex when you had no intentions on
seeing them can get very awkward very quickly. All you should do is be
polite and keep it moving. Do not bring up anything from your past. the
Starbucks line is not the time for nostalgia. I personally prefer the
method of pretending like I can’t see them standing next to me works,
always.
Remain calm..
9. Accidentally liking a photo on Facebook/Instagram.
Many times I’ve tried scrolling down my
newsfeed/timeline and inadvertently double clicked a photo. All you can
do is quickly just unlike the photo but it’s too late. The person
already received a notification that you just liked a picture of their
kitten wearing a little cowboy hat. You just took a loss. From now on,
all of your likes lose their credibility. Delete everything.
Just delete this shit (after you like Deadseriousness on Facebook).
10. Attempting to walk around someone on the sidewalk.
You move to the left, they move to the
left. You move to the right, they move to the right. After a good 25
seconds of this nonsense, eventually one of you choose a direction and
just truck through with an awkward smile on your face.
Head down, keep it moving.
11.Getting caught staring at a woman’s chest.
Eye contact is imperative to any engaging
conversation. The moment your eyes drift, it’s noticeable. If you think
she didn’t observe you looking at her chest, she did. Everyone did. All
you can do when you get caught is just keep your eyes there. No point in
going back to making eye contact. Lock-on to your target and remain
until she walks away. Then stare at her ass as she leaves.
World’s best babysitter.
12. Laughing out loud at a joke that no one around you finds funny.
Everyone pretty much has their own specific
sense of humor so every once in awhile you’re caught laughing at
something that isn’t even close to funny. You’ve lost your remote
control and you’re stuck watching Two and a Half Men. The second you
laugh at anything Ashton Kutcher says, you’ve isolated yourself. Just go
sit in the corner and think about what you just did.
“Affordable Health Care? Hahahaha!”
13. Asking an overweight woman if she’s pregnant.
If you’re ever unsure of whether or not a woman’s pregnant, don’t ask. Never ask.
Wow, Kim Kardashian got fat.
14. Looking around and realizing everyone else has finished eating and they’re all waiting for you.
When you go out to eat, you’re on a time
clock. You don’t want to be the first one done eating just sitting there
watching everyone else eat. But you certainly do not want to be the
last one that everyone is anxiously waiting to finish. No you feel
rushed and can’t enjoy your meal. Ideally you want to be the second
person finished thus removing all pressure from and placing onto the
shoulders of the person who just refilled their sprite.
It’s all fun and games until everyone around you has finished their dinners and you’re still snacking on appetizers.
15. Working with someone that smells.
How do you tell someone you see and
interact with everyday that they smell? You don’t. You keep that to
yourself forever. Maybe spray some febreeze or start lighting some
scented candles but don’t you dare ruin that poor smelly person’s day.
Deal with it.
Or just do this all day long.
16. Picking up a very personal prescription at a pharmacy.
You don’t want anyone to know about your
UTI, except your pharmacist. And every single person at Duane Reade when
you go to pick up your antibiotics. The facts the doctors just
prescribe medicine but then force you to go elsewhere to pick them up is
foolish. If I have gonorrhea, I want my medicine asap. I don’t want to
awkwardly beg a pharmacist for pills to make the itching go away.
“It’s just for a bad cold. I swear.”
17. Stepping into gum/feces.
The sun is shinning. The wind is blowing.
Everyone’s smiling. And then all of a sudden, you shoe gets heavy and
stuck to the sidewalk. The most awkward of moments. The only moment more
awkward than realizing that you’ve just stepped in gum is seconds after
when you’re scrapping gum off of your shoe in the middle of the
sidewalk. If you have to step into feces, throw that shoe away. There is
no way of identifying whether it was from and animal or a sick,
depraved human. Just throw the shoe away and head home. Your day ended
early.
It was all going so well…
18. Saying “I love you” and not having it returned.
Easily the most awkward moment that can
happen to anyone randomly. Whether its at the beginning of a new
relationship or the sad depressing end of a terrible relationship,
saying I love you and not having it returned just personifies awkward.
The only person who is allowed to ignore an “I love you” is Han Solo.
Don’t pull a George Constanza.
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