Share your awkward moments

Just list some of your awkward moments so we can all cringe and chuckle at our combined awkwardness. I'll start.

So one time when I was sitting on the train heading to school, a homeless guy was walking down the aisle asking each person if they had any spare cash. For some reason, he didn't ask me, instead sitting down in the seat opposite me staying silent. After about 5 minutes, he tapped me on the knee and held out his hand with his palm facing upwards. My anxiety kicks in and the first thing I do is offer a retarded smile and give him a handshake. I didn't know what to say so I kept looking through the window beside me only to realise seconds later that he held out his hand because he was asking for money...... mg:h:

and I gave him a handshake?! :kickingmyself::kickingmyself: ughuuguhuguhguh!!!!

Then he just looked at me disapprovingly for a while and then got up and left. I must've seemed like such an asshat right there and then.

I'm sorry homeless man, I didn't mean it!!!

I was at a sign in for a local cross country race, and I was feeling particularly anxious. I had to fill out an entry form in front of everyone. I was wearing my sunnies, I took them off to fill out the form, I dropped them an broke them, and basically panicked, my hand shaking with half a dozen people looking on.

When I first started bodybuilding years ago, I was in the gym and was talking to a friend as I loaded up one side of the weights on the bench press. I got involved in what we were saying and forgot to add the rest of the other plates to the other side of the barbell...
I pshyc'd myself up for the big lift to come.. And went to lift.

It was so unbalanced the weights on the heavy end slipped off and crashed to the floor then the lighter side slipped off onto the other side... My god what a crash lol. Needless to say I was so embarrassed I never EVER forgot to check both sides of the weights before a lift again

Pretty much every day of my life.

When I was getting my stuff out of my dad's wife's mother's van.(Okay, that actually sounded confusing as hell. I could have just said my dad's mother-in-law's van :S)

I let my dad know prior to this moment that I like, HATE his wife, innumerable times. But it was his only option for reasons I do not feel like typing all here.

This was so awkward also because there was like zero dialogue between me and her. So I was relieved that my father had came along, even in his unfortunate condition.

I was working at Subway last summer. It was lunch rush the whole restaurant was full. The next guy in line came up to order his sub, I said hello and asked what he would like. He started pointing to his ears and mouthing off things signalling that he was deaf. Without thinking I stopped what I was doing and yelled to my colleges "We got a deaf guy" as soon as I said it I realized what I did. I felt so stupid and embarrassed and my boss gave me a death stare, but I didn't get in trouble and the guy still got his sub so it worked out.

dannyboy65 said:

I was working at Subway last summer. It was lunch rush the whole restaurant was full. The next guy in line came up to order his sub, I said hello and asked what he would like. He started pointing to his ears and mouthing off things signalling that he was deaf. Without thinking I stopped what I was doing and yelled to my colleges "We got a deaf guy" as soon as I said it I realized what I did. I felt so stupid and embarrassed and my boss gave me a death stare, but I didn't get in trouble and the guy still got his sub so it worked out.

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L M A O :applause:

Thank you for making me laugh. Seriously, I needed that! Hahaha

I have showed up to two different classes this quarter at the WRONG TIME.

One was on the first day, kind of a normal mistake. Thought the class started at a 3, not 12.

The second time it happened, I forgot all about the class I was supposed to be in entirely (they do rotational shifts and it throws me off). Well, I went straight to my core room (the room where the people in my major are in for the majority of the time. I spend a lot of time in there with the same people)... It's like I went there on auto-pilot and it was all the usual people from my major so it didn't even occur to me that I was there at the wrong time until the professor mentioned it to me. Embarrassing! She probably thought I was on drugs... no, I just have debilitating anxiety that keeps me from functioning like a normal human being.

share your awkward moments.


too many to list.

dannyboy65 said:

I was working at Subway last summer. It was lunch rush the whole restaurant was full. The next guy in line came up to order his sub, I said hello and asked what he would like. He started pointing to his ears and mouthing off things signalling that he was deaf. Without thinking I stopped what I was doing and yelled to my colleges "We got a deaf guy" as soon as I said it I realized what I did. I felt so stupid and embarrassed and my boss gave me a death stare, but I didn't get in trouble and the guy still got his sub so it worked out.

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HAHA:applause:
omg so funny lol

I knocked a bottle of red wine from a table at a party. Among a lot of people I don't really know.

Cashier: "That'll be $8.99. Would you like a bag for that?"
Me: "Yeese!" (i was trying to say yes please)

At work I have used the phrase "x dropped the bomb on us" on occasion when a program froze while running overnight and I needed the output file the following day, or when a team from another site couldn't complete a project in time so it was sent up to us. Once I used that expression in front of my boss, an air force veteran who used to drop bombs. Cringe-worthy.

The secretary once called me a "handsome man" (I'm a woman), once it came out of her mouth, 5 minutes of profuse apologizing ensued while I stood there awkwardly replying "it's okay"

My sister would often ask me to buy a same drink and I would buy at the same store. And there was a time when the store man knows I'm going to buy a same thing because I'm always carrying a same bag when I buy it, he went derictly what he thinks I'm going to buy, and he tells me "I know what you're going to buy even if you don't tell me", so I didn't say anything at that time, it's awkward because I suppose to react on it, maybe I just smiled but it's still awkward. Heh

I called one of my new coworkers the wrong name... I'm so used to having a guy who looks exactly like him around, but he left recently. I don't interact with them much so I don't know them on a personal level, but still. I've been pretty embarrassed about that.

Once, we were having some yearly meeting at my job. The guest speaker was late and we were all standing around and getting a little fidgety. Everyone had been making little jokes about having to wait so I thought I'd join in. I said rather loudly to my co-worker that I sure hoped whoever this guest speaker was, he wasn't going to give a speech on promptness. As I said that, someone was walking past us. You guessed it. It was the guest speaker. FML.

Another time I was working part time at a family owned furniture store. Every year they had this big sale and it was a pretty big deal to the owner. This was my first year working there and I was a little surprised by what a big deal it was. Well, something went wrong and the newspaper apparently didn't run the ad. All the preparation and all the extra employees on hand was a waste as there wasn't a surge in customers that day as expected. Me and another employee took a bathroom break. The sales bonanza that wasn't a sales bonanza was the talk of the store so naturally me and him talked about it as we went to the bathroom. I made some half amused comment about how the owner had double checked everything in preparation except the newspaper ad which was the most important thing. So, who comes out from one of the stalls just after I made my comment? You guessed it. The owner of the store and he did NOT look like he shared my amusement. Nothing was said (or done) but his grim expression was enough. Worse bathroom break of my life.

Oh god, plenty of these obviously.

In class yesterday I turned really red for no other reason than that I was feeling anxious in general and I raised my hand to answer a question; as the professor answered my question he continued to look right at me and I found my anxiety getting worse and then it was all over. I don't think any of my classmates saw because I was at the front of the room but I'm certain my professor saw. He didn't react in any noticeable way, but I'm really pale and my face was REALLY warm so I'm certain he must have seen :sad: Really awful feeling but I'll get over it, I just don't understand it. Such a simple and silly reason to get so worked up. It's not even like I gave a wrong answer, I simply answered a question!

Happened to me the other day too. I can usually answer questions in my English class well enough, but if I have a lot of time before I know it's my turn to speak and I am anticipating speaking, I get really nervous. We had to read a poem and by the time it was my turn I was so anxious and I tried my best to remain calm but uuuuugggghhhh. I wanted to read confidently and with character, too :/

My professor was talking directly to me, face to face the other day and he said the word "tits" by mistake... LOL second-hand awkward moment.

dottie said:

My professor was talking directly to me, face to face the other day and he said the word "tits" by mistake... LOL second-hand awkward moment.

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I get those second-hand awkward moments as well. As if my own awkward moments weren't enough..When I'm in a store by myself for example and some random person starts talking to me because they believe I'm the person that they're there with. Then when they look up and realise I'm not I end up feeling awkward as well.

And just now I sent a quirky text to the wrong person, someone random, and got a "wtf who?" in reply. That might be nothing to most people but I ended up feeling super awkward even though I never met this person...and of course there are sooo many other awkward moments as well even though I desperately try to avoid them.

The worst thing is that I never really get over this awkward moments either because if I start thinking about something awkward that happened years ago I will feel embarrassed all over again.

I wore my shirt inside at work the whole morning. I hadn't noticed until someone pointed it out to me.