Being asked, "What's up?" and responding, "Good, you?"
Or the other way around.
"How's it going?" ... "Not much, you?"
My favourite, or least favourite as I'm not even sure how to categorize this one, is when you're telling a somewhat offensive joke to someone and halfway through you realize that this person is actually definitely going to be offended. So, you stop halfway through. "Uh, I forget the punchline actually. Forget it. I'll just screw it up."
(Awkward / nice save)
Sure, inside, I feel like my bones want to crawl out of my skin, run away and hide - but on the exterior I manage to remain pretty composed. I chalk it up to being pro. I don't know if it's something that deserves bragging rights, but I guess I have enough experience at being awkward that I'm now pro at masking it.
Go Dana!
But yesterday. Oh, yesterday.
There isn't a big enough " :| " in the world..
I was standing in line at the bank and decided to rummage through my purse for my cell phone and check my e-mails as I waited, you know? Nothing out of the norm. But, because I have clumsy fingers, as I grabbed my phone I managed to press on the YouTube icon as well as "Play" and, at high volume, this happened:
Just to explain, it's a clip from a demented TV show, Wonder Showzen, that my fella and I had been watching and giggling at the day before.
Talk about having egg on your face.
I'm pretty sure that took the proverbial cake as far as awkward moments go :|
Edit:
Low and behold, I have something to add here. Something awkward happened today on my lunch break (thumbs up!)
As I was exiting the grocery store I threw my garbage in what I suspected was a garbage bin only to discover, as I got closer to it, that it was actually a donations bin. I noticed when my hand was literally in mid air to pitch my garbage, so instead of doing some awkward mid-air catch that would have inevitably turned into a bad dance move, I went with it in hopes that no one was watching. Unfortunately, I could feel the glares crawling up my back. I actually started whistling as I headed out towards the parking lot in an effort to seem casual, which just furthered the awkward because...ready? I can't whistle!
Oh well. Maybe my junk can be someone else's treasure? Hahanervouslaughhahaha.
Oh, dude, I was thinking the same thing the other day. I actually fell down at the grocery store the other day - proper FELL, potatoes flying, hurt my ankle, wanted to cry, fell. Old men were helping me up. They thought I was going to sue them, so they brought me water and asked me to sign some sort of incident report. Later, at work, a gay guy I work with mistook a dress for a skirt, and I said "I expected more from you"...I MEANT he had great fashion sense but everyone held their breath because obviously, it sounded like a gay joke. It wasn't, but I've never brought it up with him...for fear that apologising makes it sound like it WAS a gay joke. I do at least one embarassing thing per week.
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