The most awkward moment you can remember

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Jonluw

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Hiya escapists.

So I was recently reminded of something that happened a couple of years ago:
I had just started upper secondary school, and met a lot of new people. On account of almost none of the people in class knowing eachother from earlier years, the first few days were spent fooling around and playing games to get to know eachother.
Stuff like sitting in a circle and telling people what your interests are and such.
For some reason, a while later, perhaps one month into the semester, all the students in my class were teamed up in pairs and asked to walk over to the next door classroom to introduce ourselves to similarly arranged pairs.

The idea was that we would take turns introducing the person we'd been paired up with to the other pair.

I'd been paired up with a girl from my class, we went and sat down next to a couple of girls from the class next door, and they each gave a short introduction of the other.
So did my partner.
"Hi, this is [Jonluw]. He moved here from a small town when he was a kid and on his spare time he plays the trombone." plus some other miscellaneous information, I'm sure.

Ah okay, whatever, my turn.
"Hi, this is... uh... Yeeaahhh... What's your name again?"


I'm not really sure how I got out of that one without being slapped, but the moment I realized I didn't know her name was maybe the most painfully awkward moment I've ever had to endure.

So: What's the most awkward experience of yours that you can remember?
 

Erja_Perttu

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Similar to you, in my innocent days at school, I had a rather awkward incident involving the word queer, in that someone asked me if I was and at the time, the only meaning I knew of that word was 'weird' - so I told that person, yes, I suppose I am.

That went down rather well, as I'm sure you can imagine. However, I was lucky enough to have that particular misinterpretation forgotten about a year later when a boy claimed to have done some very strange things to a dog, and rather eclipsed me, but that year was very, very awkward.
 

The Last Gaijin

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After second thoughts, I'm removing this because it's too awkward! Have fun guessing what it is, future people.
 

Phasmal

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My life is a string of awkward events.

Though, the most recent one I can remember wasn't really mine or anybody else's fault it just sort of happened in an awkward way.

I have a severe allergy to my boyfriend's parents pet bird (cockatiel, cockatoo? One of those), and it took the doctors a long time to figure it out.
So one day I'm really sick and my face has gone red and swelled up, so I go to the doctors. Nobody can see me straight away so they give me an ice pack to put on my face. My boyfriend has been in town and knows I'm at the doctors (5mins from the house), so he decides to come there and meet me before we go home.

So this is how it came to be that I was sitting, eyes streaming, face red and swollen with an icepack on my face and my boyfriend came up behind me and clapped me on the shoulder, making me jump. I could feel everyone in the waiting room look at me, look at my boyfriend and then glare at him like he was some kind of monster.
 

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All my " "awkward" " moments can be classified as either ones I don't wish to remember for emotional scarring reasons or involve 'compromising positions'... which brings a rather perverse irony with it...
 

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If you think you had it bad try not knowing everyone names in English class in High School and one day the teacher made me hand out everyone exercise books. After that the teacher no longer gave me that task.

Well that wasn't the most awkward moment as it was this one-
In history class the teacher was showing photo's of her trip which one of them was going to Universal Studio. One of the photo was her with E.T. Now back then (well still now abit), I'm the quiet one in the class and I thought at least a moment in my life I can try to be funny guy like Chandler from Friends. When I saw that photo I saw an oppertunity for a one liner which I said "I thought he went home" (well I thought it sound funny in my head).
Sure most of my classmate dismiss what I had said except for the friends (ex) who laught their arse off. So yeah they me to no end with that gag I made (it's so good that they no logner in my life).
 

Dags90

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One time someone asked my cousin, who was about five at the time, what he wanted to be when he grew up. He promptly and loudly responded that when he grew up, he wanted to be a mommy. Everyone went dead silent for a bit and nobody knew how to follow that up. He's not actually trans as an adult, just effeminately gay.

There have probably been other things close to that though.
 

Jonluw

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Scarim Coral said:
If you think you had it bad try not knowing everyone names in English class in High School and one day the teacher made me hand out everyone exercise books. After that the teacher no longer gave me that task.
How about this one, then:

I have a bit of a tendency to think out loud. Muttering to myself when I solve math problems for example.
There isn't much of a filter between my brain and my mouth so to speak.

So I'm walking down the hallway with two or three classmates. We'd been in the same class for maybe 6 months at this point, and I overhear one of the girls I'm walking with adress a classmate she was talking to on the phone as "[Lisa]".
At which point I spontaneously go "What? Aren't you Lisa?"

Then I spent the next couple of minutes trying to persuade her into talking to me again.
 

Agent Larkin

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Phew boy this is gonna be fun.

Turning up to school in a full weather proof Chemical Warfare camo set so I wouldn't get wet or cold on a hill-walking expedition.

Moving from previous school to a second school and being introduced to the school bully. Awkward in that everyone else was scared of this guy when the people I had had to deal with would have eaten him alive.

Performing Edmund of Gloucester's opening soliloquies in King Lear from memory in front of my English class when asked.

Being chosen to play the Devil's advocate in the case of Hitler V The World, my history class was a bit weird.

Having the "Chasing Amy" revelation about a Girl I liked.

And last of all, being in West Cork pointing to a statue of a well known Irish Historical figure and proclaiming loudly "Who's that?"
 

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i could tell the whole story on what happen but short and sweet i laughed during a random funeral that i went to
 

DigitalSushi

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a transcript of what happened between me and an ex

ex: "SUSH, what the hell?"
Sush: "Ann Marie? wait what?, why the hell are you in this place"
ex: "I FUCKING LIVE HERE, WITH MY FAMILY"
Sush: "ohhhhh... ok... ermmm...if it means anything you have good genes, your mother looks young for her age, and so will you"

....

Sush: "Ouch"
 

hazabaza1

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Probably asking out the girlfriend.
5 minutes of me stumbling around my words and then walking home as fast as I could.
 

Kolby Jack

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*sigh* My mom caught me masturbating. Jeeeeeeeezus. I cringe even remembering it, and it was 7 years ago.
 

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Playing strip poker with some guy friends of mine while watching Girls Gone Wild on HBO in a hotel, then going camping the next day and having nobody say a single word. At all. Fun times eh?
 

Jonluw

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Ledbetter said:
Playing strip poker with some guy friends of mine while watching Girls Gone Wild on HBO in a hotel, then going camping the next day and having nobody say a single word. At all. Fun times eh?
Why would you...
Why would you play strip poker while watching porn if none of you were gay?
 

Rawne1980

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Not awkward for me as such but I did feel for the lad it happened to.

There used to be a pub in town that had topless barmaids. Me and a couple of the lads went in for a pint one night and there was a lass working behind the bar must have been around early to mid 40's (not bad looking either) when from a short distance away we heard a "mum, what the fuck" and a lad looking white as a ghost....

I don't know what could possibly be worse. Knowing blokes had been staring at the poor buggers mum semi naked all night or the fact he will never be able to unsee what he saw right at that moment.

I do know that was incredibly awkward for him and me and the lads nearly passing out from laughing probably didn't help.
 

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Its always awkward... when im at a shop buying something and someone turns to my mum and goes.. what a nice husband/bf you have... and its like JEEZ its my mum! who btw is 52 and im only 26.. so its like NO! just no
 

The Funslinger

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Jonluw said:
In terms of name forgetting, I can top that in every imaginable way. I was at a friend's 18th, where I first properly met my most recent ex girlfriend. We started making out, and when we pull apart, I introduce her to my friend and (I should point out, she was fairly sober, but I was steaming drunk) I said "this is Lauren."

Her name was Maddie. I have no idea how, but not only did I talk my way out of it, we carried on making out.

OT: Erm... when I was really little, at Primary School, I was in assembly, and the head mistress was giving a speech and I really needed to piss. I was putting my hand up and calling out and she kept snubbing me.

Eventually, one of the older kids went "miss, I think he needs to go to the toilet". She let me go, and I got up just as I couldn't hold it in anymore and pissed all over my perfect attendance certificate. The only one I ever earned, mind you.
 

anthony87

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Went to bed one night wearing a pair of tracksuit bottoms that I use for sleeping in and a t-shirt, along with my bedroom door closed. Got into bed, covered myself with the blankets and fell asleep.

Woke up the next morning with the blankets thrown on the floor, me lying there stark naked and with my hand around a nice big boner. Also my bedroom door was now open....

To this day I wonder who walked in and saw me like that.
 

anthony87

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Powereaver said:
Its always awkward... when im at a shop buying something and someone turns to my mum and goes.. what a nice husband/bf you have... and its like JEEZ its my mum! who btw is 52 and im only 26.. so its like NO! just no
That's happened to me a few times. It's not uncommon for my sister and I to be mistaken as a couple.