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Fun topic, the awkward moment when...

Laura

Laura

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OK guys, I always have these moments when I totally space out and my friends are talking to me, yesterday my friend was talking to me and my other buddy actually had to prod me and go 'oi, Caz is talking to you!' before I even heard her! Awkwaarrrd! Share your awkward and funny experiences here :) And smile, it's FRIDAY! :D
 
That awkward moment when the filter between your brain and mouth disengages and you've just insulted someone and have no idea that you have done so until someone tells you to apologize.
 
One fine day back in Feb, a certain Aspie spent a day at her husband's clinic handling the phone, computer, paperwork etc. A female client came in & mentioned how she was beginning her career as a 'pop singer'. This woman was clearly on the wrong side of 35, with too much Botox & big fake zeppelin boobs She insisted that we check out her 'latest single' & video on You Tube. Well...we took a minute to watch. She excitedly asked, "What do you think?" "WOW! DID THAT EVER SUCK!" Blurted an Aspie who shall remain nameless. I was NOT having a tactful day.

Note to self: do not tell people that their video sucks even if it does. Find something positive to say about it (NOT 'at least it's OVER!').
 
When someone introduces themselves to you, and you say "My name is... um... uh... " really couldn't remember.
 
Those times when I laugh at something in a film or in real life, then I look around and everybody in the rooms staring at me like "that wasn't funny... that was sad..." :/
 
Soup said:
One fine day back in Feb, a certain Aspie spent a day at her husband's clinic handling the phone, computer, paperwork etc. A female client came in & mentioned how she was beginning her career as a 'pop singer'. This woman was clearly on the wrong side of 35, with too much Botox & big fake zeppelin boobs She insisted that we check out her 'latest single' & video on You Tube. Well...we took a minute to watch. She excitedly asked, "What do you think?" "WOW! DID THAT EVER SUCK!" Blurted an Aspie who shall remain nameless. I was NOT having a tactful day.

Note to self: do not tell people that their video sucks even if it does. Find something positive to say about it (NOT 'at least it's OVER!').
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Yup. Been there, done that.

That awkward moment when you're talking to someone you've just met, and you start complaining about those certain kinds of people you don't get along with, and then realize that the other person is exactly the type you are describing. [That's when it's time to order another round.]
 
Laura said:
Those times when I laugh at something in a film or in real life, then I look around and everybody in the rooms staring at me like "that wasn't funny... that was sad..." :/
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Yeah my brother and I were watching John Q with his wife and we were laughing through it, and his wife got real mad. Then people will be like oh John Q was so sad, and i am like ...umm... To me it was just so badly done, the only way to get through it was to find the humor in the lack of quality.
 
I hate it when, in a crowded situation, someone will just look at you and say, "hey!", to get your attention, even if they know your name. Then I look at them confusedly, and they say, "yes, you," and I still have no idea who they're talking to, because one of the people around me could have also looked confused, and they could have been talking to them, not me. I always seem to get it wrong - I either keep staring at them awkwardly without saying anything, or I respond when they weren't trying to get my attention at all!

Ah yes, and it's also awkward when I suddenly meet eyes with a stranger - when I've thought to myself "oh, look, a person," and they've hopefully thought that too, not "oh look, a weirdo," (there's so many ways to be considered a weirdo, "normal" is a very exclusive, specific group for most people) and I either mumble a "hello" because I forget to project my voice beyond a whisper, or I attempt a smile, and creep them out.
 
That awkward moment in a conversation when I realize I've officially said too much and/or wandered completely off-topic to NerdLand. :unsure:
 
* Copied my post from another thread. It really was an awkward moment!*

Years ago I used to teach in a pre-school. One of the moms had been the mistress of a married guy with 2 kids. He ditched wife 1 & ran off with her (pregnant mistress 1). They shacked up & his business grew. The kid turned 2 & one day dad showed up to get him early in the afternoon, ostensibly to go out for a special dinner (I'd assumed with mistress 1, the child's mom). The next day, the boy showed up at the door with mom. "How was your special day yesterday?" I innocently asked the boy,

"THAT WASN'T JUST A SPECIAL DAY, SILLY: IT WAS DADDY'S WEDDING!!! I'M GONNA BE A BIG BROTHER!"

HOLY $#!T: this guy had gotten his 20 yr old secretary pregnant (mistress 2) & had married her behind the back of mistress 1 whom he'd run off initially with! Needless to say, that was the most awkward Aspie/emotionally overwrought Neurotypical moment in my entire life. What the hell do you say to a mistress who's bawling because the guy she helped cheat & be deceptive has now done the same to her? "YOU ASKED FOR IT, SKANK!" came to mind...Hallmark does NOT make a convenient card for this kind of happenstance.

As things stand today, the 2 yr old is now tall, handsome & about 20 & dad is now divorced from #2, ran off with #3 (had another kid there) & is now with #4. There are more morals & lessons in here than Aesop himself could ever devise. (Fortunately, he can afford the child support!!!) Mistress #1 contacted me out of nowhere not long ago. I almost had a stroke!!!! She is now an out of shape unhappy overly made-up peroxide headed mess. I made it clear that I wanted nothing to do with her & that NO I was NOT going to get together with her for coffee. She even implied that somehow I'd been one of the unfortunate fools who got mixed up with her ex (!!!!!) I've never felt more insulted.
 
Soup, God what a mess! And what a revolting man! You handled it well though. My mum has also avoided one of those heart-to-heart coffee outings that just didn't feel right, and compromised too many of her principles. I also don't feel sorry for any of his mistresses - if #1 feels so sorry for herself, how does she think the wife feels? And what DID she expect?
 
Thanks, ChristianT. It really was one of those moments when I wished the floor would just open up & swallow me whole (or better yet, swallow the crazy mistress). In reading this thread, I understand just how old I am: (thank goodness I haven't aged on the outside!) I've got at least 50 of these stories but that one remains the one where I felt most 'put on the spot'. What the heck would've made her think I wanted her rotting gross ex-husband?!?

One fateful day back in 1995, a certain Aspie was diagnosed with Fibromialgia & was sent by the Dr. to participate in a Fibro programme at a local hospital. the sessions were bi-weekly & went for 90 mins each (seemed like 90 hours!!!). There was another newly diagnosed woman there my age who was also a mom. After classes, the people would mill about blabbering but I'd be out the door like the wind. She stopped me one day & really insisted she wanted to 'get to know' me over coffee. we went to the hospital cafe. I noticed how she kept staring at one particular town house across from the window but I said nothing.

This after class coffee thing became kind of regular with e sipping coffee & her chatting non-stop. She began telling me about her 'man' & what a wonderful guy he was. They were 'meant to be together' she said. Assuming she meant her son's father, I said something neutral about how nice that was for her son. Welll....no. Her 'true love' was NOT her boy's dad. She pointed out the window to the town house. Out shambled a family: a flabby bald middle aged businessman looking guy with his wife & 4 kids. She said, "See that?" Soup the Aspie looked wide eyed. What was there to see? Some guy & his wife & kids?!? Then, she said, "That's him! That's my man!!!"

With typical Aspie tact, I thought she was joking & said, "THAT OLD BALD FART WITH THE PASSEL OF KIDS?!? YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!" MANOMANOMAN!!!! She was serious! She was having some kind of torrid steaming affair with the geriatric Casanova. I felt like scrunching down in the chair in case the wife spotted me with this 'other woman' & thought I was in on the deal as well. Needless to say, this was the last time I ever met up with this woman for coffee & the remaining few classes were awkward indeed!
 
That awkward moment when you get your ballot, and move to the empty voting booth and then get tapped on the shoulder and cussed out for cutting in line.

"There is a line?" i ask.

So instead of standing in the stupid line, i sit on the floor and fill out my ballot.

Booths? We don't need no stinkin booths!
 
poey said:
That awkward moment when you get your ballot, and move to the empty voting booth and then get tapped on the shoulder and cussed out for cutting in line.

"There is a line?" i ask.

So instead of standing in the stupid line, i sit on the floor and fill out my ballot.

Booths? We don't need no stinkin booths!
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Ah yes, the classic line-cutting! When I went down to Dragon*Con last year (stupid decision, by the way), I failed to realize there even was a line. A line that went around three blocks. Awkward.
 
Pity there's no box on the ballot marked "Vote them all so far out that the Hubble space telescope won't be able to find them" .
 
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