Society & Culture Awkward Situations

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Sunday Red said:
It's also awkward when you say something completely normal, but out of context.

ie. You get out of a taxi at the airport and the cabbie says "Have a nice flight", to which you instinctively reply "You too."

This has happened to me on many occasions!
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i always do that. they wish you good luck for a test, and you're like, you too, or when they thank you for something, and you're like, that's ok, you too, because you weren't 100% switched on. hate doing that.
 
when you're in a public place, and there's someone who has an obvious feature about them which marks them as either unique, or not stockstandard (dressed inappropriately, talking to themselves, etc), and you KNOW you shouldn't look, everyone else is trying to, but your eyes keep wandering back to that person, then you mentally hit yourself and think, no, stop, don't! it's rude! how would you like it? but within a few minutes, i can't help it.
 
Johnson#26 said:
when you're in a public place, and there's someone who has an obvious feature about them which marks them as either unique, or not stockstandard (dressed inappropriately, talking to themselves, etc), and you KNOW you shouldn't look, everyone else is trying to, but your eyes keep wandering back to that person, then you mentally hit yourself and think, no, stop, don't! it's rude! how would you like it? but within a few minutes, i can't help it.
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i'm like that with cleavage.
 
when you go to a brothel and your in the waiting room and you run into your father in law........ never hapened to me but i reckon would be up there in terms of awkwardness :eek:
 
Some great stories in here... Can totally relate to the Pizza delivery and whether to hand back the 10c in change. I think it used to be even worse when they would say to keep the change, and they would look like they had saved me from a burning car crash rather then just handed me enough money for a lollipop...


My one from a couple weeks ago. Anyone who reads to poker board would know I play a lot at Burswood casino in Perth. On our tables one day, the conversation randomly turned to which of the female dealers were the hottest. Sme names got mentioned, including Sally (name changed to protect the innocent) I hadnt seen Sally before, someone told me she was new and dealing on the table over there. So using the excuse I was going to get some chips, I headed over to here table not to play but to watch a hand or two. Turns out she was a girl that I went to High School with from a small country town that I hadnt seen in maybe 5 years. I walk past and make a subtle comment to a friend who was on that table about how people from "xxxx" school really pissed me off, and she looked up and I gave her a wink.

Anyway, I head back to my table and about an hour later, one of the dealers tells me that Sally (named changed to protect the innocent) remembered who I was. I jokingly ask if she added the fact that she had had a crush on me for all those years in high school, and that now she knew I was in Perth she would surely start going out with me. The only reason he bought her up was because she was coming to deal our table, and was standing right behind me when I made those comments. Her reply of "not very likely ash" made me almost fall out of my chair, and was met by great laughter of the table.

She dealt for our table for what was about 40 minutes but felt like 8 hours. Getting felted (losing all my chips) in front of her as well was pretty embarrassing as well...

Other then that, sleeping through work, when work starts at 3:30pm, was a highlight...
 
This is fairly one off but nonetheless awkward.

Me and a mate were out and about on the town about a year ago. We engaged in a coversation with a group of girls and they were responding well to our wit and humour. One of the girls mentioned that something bad had happened to her today, something mild like a failed exam or similar and my mate responded 'Well at least you wern't in a toilet cubile with 3 broncos'.

This was about 2 weeks after the alleged rape or sexual assaalt with a few brisbane broncos players. Anyway these girls were laughing at everything but this joke they were all silent. One of the girls pulled my mate aside and said, 'That girl is my sister'.

Very, very awkward!!
 
If I walk into the ref at uni and can't see any one I know, I don't just walk out - no, it has to be accompanied by a check of the mobile phone and a shake of the head as if I am meeting someone somewhere else. :D
 

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Johnson#26 said:
so, so true.

when i was little i'd think to myself, 'help me, what if that guy is a recruiting officer at an afl club?!?!?! he'll NEVER pick me!'
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I automatically think anyone watching me do anything sporting releated is a scout of some description, and hence I MUST perform!!. Which normally has the oppsosite result...
 
When somebody calls you with an unknown number, and you call them back and ask them "hi, who is this"

Also, i have a nasty habit, when ordering a pizza on hthe phone "Hi, can i order a pizza"
 
SBI said:
If I walk into the ref at uni and can't see any one I know, I don't just walk out - no, it has to be accompanied by a check of the mobile phone and a shake of the head as if I am meeting someone somewhere else. :D
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Back when I was at Uni, you were allowed in there by yourself.
 
just remembered a bit of an awkward moment from 2008.

was at the geelong-footscray prelim at the G with two other mates, and were sitting on level four for the first three quarters before deciding to try our luck in some space on level one. but as we left, we all decided we needed to go to the toilet. my mate walked ahead, and turned right, and without thinking, myself and my other mate did likewise, and went into the toilets. immediately, it looked different, as in, wow, there's a lot of cubicles in this toilet, never seen this before. and then you hear the three doors slam. then one of my mates yells out. wtf?! hang on?! and we all come out and are like wtf we're in the women's toilets! so we scooted to the exit and hustled away from level four as quickly as possible. :p proves you've always got to stay switched on and not stay on auto-pilot. :p
 
anti_ said:
here's more of a funny situation that made me lol...

i was taking the train to work one morning at about 7, its always packed as of course.

i get in and stand there as the train takes off. a large girl probably about 20 years old is sitting in the two priority seats, dressed in a miss mauds-like attire.

after a little while, shes eating stuff and then she grabs a 1.25L bottle of pepsi...takes a swig and about 5 seconds later she throws is back up all over herself.

i completely lost my shit, i couldnt stop laughing. when i'd try and stop i'd burst out again. i felt so bad for her, she was trying to clean it up but she was just rubbing it in. i think thats what made me keep laughing, her trying to pretend like nothing happened.

all the businessmen stood silently, staring at me and her. but inside they were laughing...surely?

worst part was we still had like 3 more stops til perth station. was pretty arkward, i felt like a dick afterwards. it was still a good start to the day.

i salute you, priority seat(s) spew girl.
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Having people in my office looking at me wierd for LOL for no paarticular reason (becuase i was reading this story)!

magpie_man said:
i'm like that with cleavage.
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Its like looking into the sun, we all want to, but stare to long and you get (caught) burnt!
 
Sometimes I can be daydreaming and thinking about something funny that happened that day, or a joke I heard, and crack up laughing, whilst everyone gives me funny looks and ask me what I'm laughing at. It happens to often for me.
 
juddsentant517 said:
When somebody calls you with an unknown number, and you call them back and ask them "hi, who is this"

Also, i have a nasty habit, when ordering a pizza on hthe phone "Hi, can i order a pizza"
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Pretty much every customer who rings up my work does this.

"Hello, can I order some fish and chips?"
"Um, yeah, isn't that why you rang?"

Same with the daydreaming laughing thing, I always try and be quiet cos I'll look like a tool laughing when no one has said anything.

As far as going into the wrong toilets, I always seem to come close to this at Flinders station, I have no idea why but I naturally gravitate the wrong way.
 
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