Generic Moderately Awkard Social Situations

[Alzar]

Please add to this list, my friends and I were considering making a comic out of stuff like this (we will give credit if we use the idea).

- When you pass by someone you know, but don't know extremley well, and make eye contact, and are getting closer to passing by but don't know whether or not you know each other well enjoy to actually say hi, and so you nod as they pass by and they don't nod back, or vice versa

- When a person whom you can't remember the name of says hi to you, by name

- When someone you barely know complains adamantly to you about something that isn't exactly complain-worthy and actually fully rational, and you have to make the choice of fake-agreeing or sounding self-righteous and explaining why the person you barely know is full of poo

- When you leave a message on someone's answering machine that just keeps going and going, and you know you need to cut it off, but you don't know if, at this point, you've actually said what you called to say, so you keep rambling then end with an akward pause and something like "so uh...yeah, that's about it. Bye."

- Anytime [That-Guy-You-Don't-Like] spots you in [Generic Waiting Situation] and beings speaking to you about [That-Thing-You-Don't-Care-About]

- Making an offensive joke in earshort of the minority it would offend

- Whenever a panhandler stops you, asking for money, when you do indeed have spare change

- Whenever someone stops you to ask to sign a petition, donate money to save children, vote in student elections, etc.

- When someone you are talking to, especially in a group, laughs too hard at either a joke/comment that wasn't really all that funny

- When you're the only one laughing at a part of the movie, especially if you realize you misunderstood the situation and it actually wasn't supposed to be funny

- When someone says something to you that you didn't quite hear, but you think is some kind of sarcastic comment/joke and don't want to say "what?" because people saying what is annoying so you just politely laugh, and it turns out the person actually said something like "What time is it?" And now you look like an ass

[TheHonorableRyu]

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When you say goodbye with satisified finality after having a nice, full conversation with someone you do like, only to pass by that person shortly thereafter and then have to force a goodbye that won't be as good or pretend you didn't see them.

[Translucid]

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GOD I'VE EXPERIENCED ALL OF THOSE.

Another one of mine:
- When you're walking outside, and you can see another person from like 100 feet away whom you may or may not know walking or running in your direction, and so as you slowly walk towards them you have to look everywhere BUT at them all the time, because if you're staring at them while they approach that's weird.

[Magus]

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- When you know you're surrounded by a crowd whose prime cultural pasttime is American Idol, The O.C. and the movie Napoleon Dynamite, which they can't/won't stop quoting. And you can't get out of that situation A.S.A.P.

- When you're with-- STUCK with someone so boring it's all up to you to hold up any possible conversation or look like a dick and just give up and listen to your headphones or play Game Boy. This is compounded by the fact that said boring person prefers the company of other cripplingly boring people. You know this because you've seen this boring person talk animatedly and even gleefully with the other boring people. So, where does the fault lie?! In YOU?!

- Elevators and everything about them. Especially when you're alone with an outgoing, professional-looking, surprisingly hot and clearly out-of-town woman who asks pleasingly "Why no one ever talks to each other here?" to which you give a flimsy, unwitty response. A stuttered, wet-fish response. Then you awkwardly and painfully walk out on the first floor together averting eye contact and knowing, under different circumstances, you would've totally scored. Situation is doubly awful when you're already spoken for.

- Being aggressive enough to make sure no dickhead orders before you at the corner deli because you've been waiting there first for five damn minutes. Yet you're just a pipsqueak in a world of manly deli men and being headstrong could lead to a permanent home in the East River.

- When someone in authority reprimands you and all you can think about is the perfect revenge fantasy. Guilt ensues.

[John Mora]

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When you have to drive a bunch of people you don't know very well to a field trip for a class.

[Alex]

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Being part of the minority in offense to a joke told, but nobody knows or cares.

Sex scenes in a movie while watching with friends.

-Or parents.

Going through an entire day in public with the zipper down.

Urinals.

Having someone teach you something that is totally wrong, but you can't tell them.

[IRC]

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-When you slide into first and you feel something burst.

Sorry couldn't resist.

I hate seeing people handing out flyers on campus. Because I don't want to make eye contact with them because then they'll try to give me one. But then I notice that they have seen me but not seen me see them so they have to decide if they want to give me one. Which if they don't makes me feel bad that they didn't deem me worthy of their precious flyer about some bull**** frat sponsered band at a bar on a freaking Wednesday night.

When I see a friend on campus and someone he knows but I don't walks up and they start to chat so I have to decide how long I'm going to stand there listening to them talk. So if you stay then you're just standing there, but if you leave you have to interupt their conversation and say good-bye.

Talking with friends ****buddies at parties because you know the only reason they're there is so your friend can get some later on. Sometimes I just want to yell at them that they're a whore.

[Translucid]

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- When you ask a salesperson about a product, and they start explaining it enthusiastically to you, but 3 seconds in you realize it's not what you wanted, but they're still explaining it to you.

- During some sort of presentation, the presenter answers questions in the audience. He/She points at somebody, and they either ask something irrelevant or something nobody knows about, or they ramble on for a really long time.

[Magus]

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When you see a girl who looks an awful lot like Paine from Final Fantasy X-2, everything from hairstyle to clothing is similar, and you walk up to her ask her "Hey, ever play Final Fantasy?" and she replies "No." and you continue, you idiot, you continue: "You look a lot like this one character....." then realize she hates you and you leave in shame.

[Kefka Jr.]

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When you want to ask a girl to prom, but she thinks it would be cute if you asked this other girl, so the next time all of you are together, she's like, "Do it," so you get pressured into asking out the other girl to prom, since you probably never had a chance with the first girl anyway. Then you don't talk to your new prom date for two months.

I hate this topic.

[Chrono]

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-When you open a door and hold it for someone. If that person is too far away but close enough to hold it for them. Do you wait, or shut the door right in front of them?

-When someone is walking in the same path as you, coming at you. That person makes a left, but you always mimic the person’s motions instead of going the opposite direction, inevitably almost running into each other.

-When you just washed your hands in a public restroom and then someone comes and opens the door to leave after taking a crap without washing his hands.

-Sitting in a stall and the person next to you rips a huge one and drops a load. Then he gives a sigh of relieve and starts to talk to himself.

-People that are generally too load and talk out load as if people were actually interested in what they are saying.

-Accidentally sneezing and knowing a huge chunk of snot came out, but you can’t find it.

[Magus]

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When, at your junior prom, you're dateless but so content with your well-being you're having the friggin' time of your life anyway, jumping and being crazy and cheerful as Daft Punk's "One More Time" blasts triumphantly. Maybe you go a little overboard with the careless insanity. Maybe you didn't notice those cameras flashing.

Weeks later, bizarre and hilarious pictures of you surface. Awkward? Pfft, nah.

Legendary?

Yes.

[TheHonorableRyu]

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I'm afraid you have "generic" and "specific" confused!


Whenever a complete stranger comments, "You look familiar...."

[Riotsword]

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Similar to Translucid's: When a telemarketer calls, and you answer the phone, and, against all of your common sense and experience with telemarketers, you play along, even though you're definitely not interested in what they're selling.

[Kefka Jr.]

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Ah, the phone.

How bout talking to one of your family's friends on the phone for several minutes without knowing who they are?