awkward situations

[endlessmike]

[Tiffany]

MY twin sister and I were 7 or 8 hanging out with our babysitter in Great America, which is the Six Flags of Northern California. Great America has costumed people walking around pretending to be Nickelodeon characters and Star Trek characters. This always bugged my twin sister because she hates to be approached and hassled. On this day the Klegnons were pestering my sister more than usual, resulting in her walking away and them following her around. Our babysitter took us to the bathroom to get away from all the Star Trek impersonators.

My sister used the stall, and was washing her hands when it looked like a Trekkie needed a potty break and was waiting in the bathroom line. My sister huffed over to the Trekkie and said as rude as she could,

"You think you're sooo cool!," Imagine an eight year old shouting that. "Well I think you're ugly!"

The girl's eyes shot out of her head and she looked profoundly hurt. My sister stormed out of the bathroom. The babysitter was in a stall but jumped out when my sister left the bathroom and chased her and grabbed her arm. She pulled my sister to her knees and asked her why she said that to the poor girl.

Kelly protested that she hated the Star Trek people. The babysitter explained that the girl in the bathroom wasn't a Trekkie, she was a burn victim.

And made my sister go and apologize.
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Boiskov: He cries when he gets on an elevator and the button for his destination floor has already been pushed, because he would have liked to have been the one to push the button.

[Kyle]

I audibly gasped when I got to this part:

[dlomyhero]

oh shit oh shit oh shit thats horrible
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Asked yesterday whether it would eventually release a revised edition of "Opal Mehta," a little brown spokesman declined to comment.

[Adam]

Seconded.
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[Blind Jack]

Madre de Dios!

But awkward is kind of watching Boondocks right now with my room mate, who is black, and his girlfriend, who is Chinese. So there's always a little extra sensitivity going on, in as much as I never comment that she smells like Chinese food. But when the old man said that all white men love cheese, and the young boy commented that white people pronounce every part of the word, I laughed my ass off and Mark just kind of giggled nervously.

He thought it might offend me; I thought it was funny as fuck, because it is absolutely true.
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Nothing stops Eddie Guerrero.
Nothing stops him. He is fire.

[DGMacphee]

My born-again Christian housemate once asked me if I was gay or had HIV.

And one time, she also didn't know what a boner was and asked me to explain the definition.

born-again Christians + me = awkward moments
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A suitable ending, I think!

[Kyle]

[ctoner]

If someone asks you what a boner is, you pull it out an slap em with it.

[Wes]

That would be quite awkward.

[B]

[meursault]

suga mama
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the whole world is waiting to see when you fall.
sound the fucking alarm.

[Bismark]

Tiffany wins, yeah, but

[Dollo]

Just read Tiffany's. Yeah, I think we can lock this one up and declare her the winner. My God was that ever awful.
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No one Ever Really Dies.

[runaround]

I feel awkward just reading that...
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[ctoner]

I, sadly, bequeath my throne to Tiffany.

A years ago (in college) I was so poor, I was selecting my newspaper assignments based on whatever one fed me and whatever one fed me the best. NIU banquets fed particularly well, serving up steaming pork roasts, broiled chicken and displayds of vegetables.
This assignment was a NIU banquet celebrating a federal grant to train Sri Lankan women into leadership roles.
It was the first time any of these women had been to the United States, so, they didn?t speak very good English and since I don?t speak Sri Lankan, I had a very hard time reporting.
But, I was doing my best to stuff myself with cuisine and simutaneously fill up my notepad with doodads about the grant and quotes from the Sri Lankans. I asked about their country, what the grant meant to them, what they hoped to accomplish in their leadership roles and they responded with smiles and mostly broken English.

I don't remember how it happened, but I exchanged this folllowing bit of conversation with one:

Me: What part of India are you from?
Sri Lankan: Sri Lanka isn?t part of India.

Basically, I thought Sri Lanka was the capital of India and that these Sri Lankans were, at heart, Indians. Simple mistake, really. But to them I probably just came off as just another ignorant American that?s one step away from understanding their entire hemisphere as Islam-a-bomb.

[DJ Jazzy Jeff]

I can't tell if this is awkward or funny, but I think it's both. My friend Eliza, from high school, has been blind since the age of three. She just wrote on my wall on the facebook, "Love the picture. Your hotness is blinding." Granted, I was alone in my room, but I still tugged my collar and went Then laughed and now I'm going to call her and tell her what a card she is.

Similar story...
Eliza's sister: My sister's blind.
Eliza's sister's friend: Does she know sign language?
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[Bismark]

That reminds me of some awkward situations that I put some of the people I talk to at work in.

One of my co-workers is deaf. She works in data entry, and processes a lot of the insurance paperwork (with absurd speed) that our customers send in. Many people are told to fax info directly to her. The rest of us on the phones have to deal with the customers by telling them what insurance information we still need from them, otherwise they get charged, so we get a lot of people lying to us.

My favorite is when they tell us that they've spoken to Mandy (that's her) and she told them that what they sent was fine. I usually let them dig themselves pretty deep by asking them when they spoke to her and what she said. It's amazing how detailed they get. Then I tell them outright: "Well, Mandy is deaf, so you couldn't possibly have spoken to her." Then I stay dead silent. It's hilarious watching people try to recover from that.
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[Justin]

This is a situation that could've been awkward if I hadn't found it to be so fucking hilarious.

I was at a party a few years back when this girl I'd gone to school with, but hadn't seen since comes up to me. Without saying anything else, she goes "you're the reason I dropped out of school you know," and without hesitation I erupted into a fit of hysteria.
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[quote="Bismark"]Didn't you know? Having uncontrollable shits is wicked scene.[/quote]

[Bismark]

Jesus Christ, I have no idea why, but I'm positive that I would have done the exact same thing.
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