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milhous · Jul 26, 2005, 10:05 PM

here's one that i'm sure everyone's experienced at some point or another:

you say goodbye to someone becuase you think that you won't see them again for the rest of the day (i.e. going home from work) only to run into them again, have some smalltalk and once again say goodbye.

i'll try to think of some others later.

Randman · Jul 26, 2005, 10:11 PM

Worst ever: Calling the person you are in bed with by the wrong name during it.

ghporter · Jul 26, 2005, 10:11 PM

The couple you're visiting have an argument right in front of you...what a problem! How to handle that? I slink to the bathroom, myself!

Rev-O · Jul 26, 2005, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

The couple you're visiting have an argument right in front of you...what a problem! How to handle that? I slink to the bathroom, myself!

...the wife of the couple you are having lunch with begins to describe in detail sex she had with a former boyfriend while her husband is sitting next ot her (and he isn't thrilled with the discussion). It was deffinately a car wreck moment.

My wife and I felt freaking horrible for the husband. He just lowered his head and looked at his lunch for the next 15 minutes. Didn't eat. Didn't speak. Just stared at his food. While his wife prattled on, knowing exactly what she was doing to him. Horrifying.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jul 26, 2005, 10:40 PM

The end of a date before you have kissed for the first time. Horrid.

rozwado1 · Jul 26, 2005, 10:56 PM

Gay guys kiss? The popular media made me think that it was just sex, all the time.

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jul 26, 2005, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by rozwado1

Gay guys kiss? The popular media made me think that it was just sex, all the time.

You kiss them when they are leaving from having sex

cjrivera · Jul 26, 2005, 11:03 PM

Having a conversation with him/her all while having forgotten their name.

Worse is when they bust you on it and say, "You don't know my name, do you?"

rozwado1 · Jul 26, 2005, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

You kiss them when they are leaving from having sex

ha!

rozwado1 · Jul 26, 2005, 11:05 PM

How bout when you give somebody the finger or really piss them off while you're driving (honking, etc) -- then end up next to them at a stoplight not long after. That's kinda awkward.

stevesnj · Jul 26, 2005, 11:05 PM

When a parent hits a kid in front of you...

RAILhead · Jul 26, 2005, 11:08 PM

When you cut a horrific fart that stinks your office so bad that you want to get up and run out -- but you can't, because someone's on their way in to see you...

Maury
/I win

Demonhood · Jul 26, 2005, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by Randman

Worst ever: Calling the person you are in bed with by the wrong name during it.

that's why everyone in bed is "honey" or "baby"

budster101 · 11:40 PM

nm......

Salty · Jul 26, 2005, 11:13 PM

Worst one I had...

Go to Canadian Tire with dad, go through the check out, have the girl behind the counter say, "Hi David!" really excitedly, I look down see her name tag says Amanda, say hi, but I have no idea who she is.

Two weeks later
Sit down at a bus stop, look around,
Girl sits down beside me,
I say hi,
She says hi and looks really happy,
We start talking,
I say something in the conversation that makes it clear I don't know who she is,
"David!? Do you not know who I am!?"
"Oh crap... uhh, honestly I don't have a clue where I know you from..."
"It's me AMANDA!"
"D'oh," (I still don't know where the heck she is)

Turns out we went to college together for a year, and she hung out with three people I never hung out with, and I don't think we talked more than three times all year, none of which I remember. This is the problem with being one of the best known guys on campus.

rozwado1 · Jul 26, 2005, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by Salty

This is the problem with being one of the best known guys on campus.

Oh jeez.

budster101 · Jul 26, 2005, 11:28 PM

So, you are a manwhore?
Did she manwhore bitchslap you?

stevesnj · Jul 26, 2005, 11:39 PM

no he's a mimbo

ASIMO · Jul 26, 2005, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by Randman

Worst ever: Calling the person of the opposite sex you are in bed with by the wrong name of the same sex during it.

Fixed®, as the kids would say around here.

brapper · Jul 26, 2005, 11:40 PM

Originally Posted by Salty

This is the problem with being one of the best known guys on campus.

Quote. Of. The. Year.

ASIMO · Jul 26, 2005, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by rozwado1

Oh jeez.

A case of infinitesimal humility in an equally small bible college, perhaps?

Salty · Jul 26, 2005, 11:53 PM

It's a small campus, maybe 600 people or so. And Yah I was probably one of the best known one on campus.
To quote a conversation between Linda and I think it was Mark,
Mark, "Wait... I didn't know you knew David..."
Linda, "It's kind of hard not to..."
Mark, "Good point."

I was probably one of if not the best known person who was not involved in any formal position (IE Stuco prez, year book, worked somewhere in the school etc.)

It helped that I generally walked into class half way through, participated in class discussions (when I was there), and was a general loud mouth. Actually I was part of the triad of the three loudest people on campus...

OogaBooga · Jul 27, 2005, 12:02 AM

Hell, even I know David, and I don't know him!

Randman · Jul 27, 2005, 12:04 AM

Being with your current squeeze/partner and running into someone you had been with before. "You slept with her?!" Doesn't matter if the other person is better looking or a step below. Yikes.

OogaBooga · Jul 27, 2005, 12:13 AM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

You kiss them when they are leaving from having sex

isao bered · Jul 27, 2005, 12:15 AM

hmmmmm. i find it extremely awkward when refusing invitations to social functions when there are no conflicting events on schedule. i guess it's a host's expectation that those invited should most certainly participate.

it gets even more awkward when there is an insistence of a *reason* for the refusal. so i say something along the lines of "i don't like you well enough now to want to get to know you or your family better". and the person laughs thinking i jest when i am actually serious. awkward.

i suppose i should work on being truthful in a more delicate manner.

be well.

laeth

budster101 · Jul 27, 2005, 12:18 AM

I'm not sure what to say to your post... I feel awkward....

TubaMuffins · Jul 27, 2005, 12:29 AM

Originally Posted by milhous

here's one that i'm sure everyone's experienced at some point or another:

you say goodbye to someone becuase you think that you won't see them again for the rest of the day (i.e. going home from work) only to run into them again, have some smalltalk and once again say goodbye.

i'll try to think of some others later.

I just like to say "Wow, this is kind of awkward" it always gets a laugh.

Originally Posted by ghporter

The couple you're visiting have an argument right in front of you...what a problem! How to handle that? I slink to the bathroom, myself!

depending on the situation, I'll start singing the "Odd Couple" theme song

and as for my awkward situation:
sitting in the living room watching tv with the roommates, knock on the door, "come in" we yell. Some guy comes in, starts to take his shoes off. My roommates and i are all looking at each other expecting someone to introduce their friend. The guy finally asks for someone and we have to tell him he's in the wrong house. worst part is he spends the next couple of minutes putting his shoes back on, which were big boots that needed to be laced up.

Salty · Jul 27, 2005, 12:50 AM

I should mention by the end of the year, I would walk to supper from the dorms and have at least five people each time say, "Hey Dave" as they walked by... I tended to only know the names of 3 at max...

Rev-O · Jul 27, 2005, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by isao bered

hmmmmm. i find it extremely awkward when refusing invitations to social functions when there are no conflicting events on schedule. i guess it's a host's expectation that those invited should most certainly participate.

it gets even more awkward when there is an insistence of a *reason* for the refusal. so i say something along the lines of "i don't like you well enough now to want to get to know you or your family better". and the person laughs thinking i jest when i am actually serious. awkward.

i suppose i should work on being truthful in a more delicate manner.

be well.

laeth

Had a co worker invite my wife and I to a cabin on a lake for drinking and Jet skiing. I had no interest, so I said "No thanks." He pressed me for a reason. I kinda ignored him but he ws insistent. So I looked him in the eye and said "I spend 8 ****ing hours a day with you. That's enough. Like I want to ****ing spend my ****ing weekends with you too. I don't ****ing think so."

It was kind of a conversation killer, but it was honest and to the point. Also kept me from ever being invited out to anything with the person again, which was a nice side effect. I actually felt bad for being a d!ck about it, but for God's Sake, No means No.

Salty · Jul 27, 2005, 01:00 AM

haha... I'm a bit of a pusher... I like to guilt people into doing things that I think they'll enjoy... mainly because a lot of my friends or people I hang around with are the types that don't organize things themselves and so rely on other people to bring excitement into their lives... that said most of them are entirely comfortable enough with me to tell me to buzz off

xenu · Jul 27, 2005, 02:35 AM

No wonder salty is into abstainence. Having sex with someone else would have to be a great let down for him.

Forgetting names is my worst fear, because it happens at exactly the wrong time - when I have to introduce them to someone else.

Salty · Jul 27, 2005, 02:39 AM

Originally Posted by xenu

No wonder salty is into abstainence. Having sex with someone else would have to be a great let down for him.

RIght, yah of course... wait... what? I don't get it...

xenu · Jul 27, 2005, 02:47 AM

Originally Posted by Salty

RIght, yah of course... wait... what? I don't get it...

Um ... isn't that the point?

Warung · 03:02 AM

Walking towards someone in a long corridor or on the street. Your eyes have met, but you can't really talk, because you are too far apart...It's usually a VERY long and awkward moment.

TheIceMan · Jul 27, 2005, 02:50 AM

Originally Posted by RAILhead

When you cut a horrific fart that stinks your office so bad that you want to get up and run out -- but you can't, because someone's on their way in to see you...

This is EXACTLY what happened to me a few years ago. I was in a small room making copies and since no one was around, I let one rip (I farted). But almost as soon as that happened, my female coworker walked in and stood RIGHT NEXT to me!! I just wanted to dig a big hole in the ground and crawl into it. My face was sooo RED. I'm pretty sure she knew I farted. I mean how could she not, it stank so bad. Even looking back, I still turn red.

Salty · Jul 27, 2005, 02:55 AM

I farted when doing the leg press at the gym today... I hate that... it's always the same thing, legs come down, and of course this is right when you're getting the pull, and then one's out before you notice... fortunately most people at the gym wear headphones

DeathMan · Jul 27, 2005, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by Warung

Walking towards someone in a long corridor or on the the street. Your eyes have met, but you can't really talk, because you are too far apart...It's usually a VERY long and awkward moment.

Very true. You have to really get loud and ask them something dumb, but you have to really commit, or it won't work.

"Hey! When I get closer to you I have a question for you!!"

Even then that probably wouldn't work.

When I'm lying in bed and the people in the apartment above us get rowdy, and I know my wife can hear it too. That ends up just being more funny than anything though. Not really awkward. But I could see how it might be for some people.

analogika · Jul 27, 2005, 03:56 AM

Originally Posted by Salty

haha... I'm a bit of a pusher... I like to guilt people into doing things that I think they'll enjoy...

Evangelist, eh?

torsoboy · Jul 27, 2005, 04:00 AM

Having someone call (wife, mother in law, father, etc), and then them not having anything in particular to say... so it is just silence after the first 20 seconds. like i am supposed to be the conversation mover even though they called me. it usually ends with me say, "so.... you need anything else?". that's a little awkward to me.

Doofy · Jul 27, 2005, 04:03 AM

Standing at the back of the club/pub, minding my own business. Chick 20 feet away is sitting there staring at me with those loved-up puppy eyes. Then her hubby/boyfriend comes back into the room, notices her staring and they both start wailing on each other like there's no tomorrow.

I hate it when that happens.

torsoboy · Jul 27, 2005, 04:03 AM

Originally Posted by Salty

I should mention by the end of the year, I would walk to supper from the dorms and have at least five people each time say, "Hey Dave" as they walked by... I tended to only know the names of 3 at max...

just 18 posts and already going to my ignore list. that's a record for me... fastest poster to make it onto my ignore list.

analogika · Jul 27, 2005, 04:10 AM

Originally Posted by torsoboy

just 18 posts and already going to my ignore list. that's a record for me... fastest poster to make it onto my ignore list.

He's Superchic[k]...

besson3c · Jul 27, 2005, 04:15 AM

Pooping your pants. Pretty embarrassing.

besson3c · Jul 27, 2005, 04:23 AM

Originally Posted by Salty

haha... I'm a bit of a pusher... I like to guilt people into doing things that I think they'll enjoy... mainly because a lot of my friends or people I hang around with are the types that don't organize things themselves and so rely on other people to bring excitement into their lives... that said most of them are entirely comfortable enough with me to tell me to buzz off

I don't mean to sound like a complete dick, but I have a suggestion for you... (I'm writing this publicly not to embarrass you, but so others can chime in in case this is just some weird quirk of mine which would nullify my suggestion).

You overuse the expression "that said". Many of your posts are laced with "that said" so much so that I can identify you even before reading your nick.

"That said" is just connective-tissue language to connect one thought to another, here are some alternatives:

- moreover
- in addition
- furthermore
- in light of that
- to that end
- also

there are many more...

Sorry, your overuse of "that said" just drives me crazy for some reason

Just offering some friendly advice from one friend to another...

besson3c · Jul 27, 2005, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by torsoboy

just 18 posts and already going to my ignore list. that's a record for me... fastest poster to make it onto my ignore list.

Let him be... he's chatty, but he's a good guy and has a big heart!

isao bered · Jul 27, 2005, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Sorry, your overuse of "that said" just drives me crazy for some reason

it seems i'm noticing that same use/overuse a lot lately. i find it annoying as well, especially when someone is speaking at length. while i agree that there are perhaps better situational-dependant transitions, what annoys me most is that it is often *completely unnecessary* - no transition is required and it actually may confuse what the antecedant is (when speaking).

joy.

laeth

budster101 · Jul 27, 2005, 09:19 AM

I enjoy using the phrase "That said" or I used to until it made me ill....

It's a nice tool to use during conversation so that you can agree with the person you may disagree with in order to apease them initially and then get your oppinion in after without insult.... so they actually feel that you are not totally against them. If one takes the opposite viewpoint, one may alienate someone that one disagrees with on one or two occasions. Why do this? We can usually find common ground, but one has to take the initiative and using the phrase "That said" is an elegant segway into one's own point of view safely.

euphras · Jul 27, 2005, 10:04 AM

Originally posted by SChick:
It helped that I generally walked into class half way through, participated in class discussions (when I was there), and was a general loud mouth. Actually I was part of the triad of the three loudest people on campus....

And you´re actually proud of that??

ghporter · Jul 27, 2005, 10:39 AM

Funny thing...I go to class every day.

I do find it "awkward" when someone not only comes in late, but has to tell the prof right then why he or she was late. Just shut up and sit down!