The most socially awkward moment of your life?

Hotfail.com · 07-07-2014 08:50PM #1

Don't you just hate those moments where you know you've made a big social boo-boo and feel like a complete fool?

I've had quite a few... Worst one...

A few years ago on Christmas Eve me and my family were doing a bit of Christmas shopping in the local Supervalu. My Mam told me to bring the food out to the car in the trolley so I walked out towards the door and the owner, who's friends with my mother, stopped me and offered me a handshake and said "Happy Christmas!", and instead of just saying "Many happy returns!" or whatever stupid me decided to just say "No." really bluntly and ignore the handshake and go out to the car..:o Looking back on it I'd say he thought I was mad autistic or something....

This one isn't really a socially awkward moment and it's not about me but it's so cringey that I think it's worth telling... When I was in hospital when I was about 6 maybe, my grandmother said "Where's your arm love?" to a girl who she thought was only keeping their arm in their sleeve like some kids do... Turns out she was born without one

I would actually faint if I said something that bad :pac:

Have you any bad ones AH? Mine don't sound half as bad as they were when they're put in words

:rolleyes:

jubella · 07-07-2014 08:55PM

Not a big one, but happens far too often for me.

Me: Hi, how are you?
Person 1: Good thanks, how are you?
Me: I'm great, how are you?
Person 1: .......

07-07-2014 08:57PM

happy birthday

thanks, you too!

A Greedy Algorithm · 07-07-2014 09:01PM

I was out walking through the local fields one night. It was dark and i needed to urinate so i pulled down my trousers and out of nowhere a sheep decided to back into me placing its rear directly in line with my manhood.

The farmer came along to see what all the noise was and as you can imagine, it didn't look to good.

Lingua Franca · 07-07-2014 09:18PM

"Oh wow, you're getting big! When's it due?"

"...She's 6 weeks old now."

Mr. Incognito · 07-07-2014 09:19PM

Meeting a girls family for the first time, and her for the second time in her kitchen, with her five older brothers and her parents, four days after I learned she was five months pregnant with my now son.

Least they were sound about it

Edited for clarity.

Tokyo · 07-07-2014 09:20PM

Waking up in the house of the twentysomething year old barmaid the morning after we'd hooked up in the bar that she worked in. Got up to use the bathroom only to find out that she was 18 and still lived with her dad....

BrokenArrows · 07-07-2014 09:25PM

mike_ie wrote: »

Waking up in the house of the twentysomething year old barmaid the morning after we'd hooked up in the bar that she worked in. Got up to use the bathroom only to find out that she was 18 and still lived with her dad....

Awkward

BrokenArrows · 07-07-2014 09:25PM

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Meeting my sons family for the first time, in her kitchen, with her five older brothers and her parents, four days after I learned she was five months pregnant.

Least they were sound about it

I don't get it?

Hotfail.com · 07-07-2014 09:26PM

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Meeting my sons family for the first time, in her kitchen, with her five older brothers and her parents, four days after I learned she was five months pregnant.

Least they were sound about it

I'm confused.

"Your son's family"? "Her kitchen?"

SEPT 23 1989 · 07-07-2014 09:29PM

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Meeting my sons family for the first time, in her kitchen, with her five older brothers and her parents, four days after I learned she was five months pregnant.

Least they were sound about it

Your sons family??

Tokyo · 07-07-2014 09:29PM

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Awkward

That's an understatement. I was almost 30. She had graduated from high school a few months beforehand. And to top it off, her dad was president of the local gun club....

banie01 · 07-07-2014 09:30PM

Walking my girlfriend(later wife) home and when she opened her front door she turned to kiss me goodnight and there behind her...
In the kitchen doorway at the end of the hall was her Mam on her knees giving her Da a bit of a treat

Queue my closing my eyes and refusing a cuppa cos I suddenly remembered I had homework to finish!!!
I've never wanted to unsee anything more in my life!!!!

Hotfail.com · 07-07-2014 09:31PM

mike_ie wrote: »

That's an understatement. I was almost 30. She had graduated from high school a few months beforehand. And to top it off, her dad was president of the local gun club....

Was she good though? :cool:

Mimikyu · 07-07-2014 09:34PM

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bb1234567 · 07-07-2014 09:35PM

mike_ie wrote: »

Waking up in the house of the twentysomething year old barmaid the morning after we'd hooked up in the bar that she worked in. Got up to use the bathroom only to find out that she was 18 and still lived with her dad....

....what age are you...

Rocket19 · 07-07-2014 09:36PM

banie01 wrote: »

Walking my girlfriend(later wife) home and when she opened her front door she turned to kiss me goodnight and there behind her...
In the kitchen doorway at the end of the hall was her Mam on her knees giving her Da a bit of a treat
Queue my closing my eyes and refusing a cuppa cos I suddenly remembered I had homework to finish!!!
I've never wanted to unsee anything more in my life!!!!

Actually lolled at this...hilarious!

Riddle101 · 07-07-2014 09:36PM

Anytime i'm with a group of friends or people, and begin to talk but somebody cuts me off in mid speech. Then everybody starts talking about something else, and i'm just left sitting there lost for words, wondering if I should continue even though everybody else seems to have forgotten me. The longer I wait, the more harder it gets, and just end up saying "Forget it, it doesn't matter anymore".

Tokyo · 07-07-2014 09:36PM

bb1234567 wrote: »

....what age are you...

At the time just shy of 30.

07-07-2014 09:37PM

mike_ie wrote: »

That's an understatement. I was almost 30. She had graduated from high school a few months beforehand. And to top it off, her dad was president of the local gun club....

You have some seriously funny stories

The Peanut · 07-07-2014 09:37PM

Many years ago, I linked up with a Dublin girl near the end of a lad's holiday in Turkey. I was rooming with 2 lads so we went back to her apt.

She mentioned she was rooming with her aunt but the aunt was on an overnight tour. Grand. Got to sleep about 7 and got up to leave about 1. Having coffee and her aunt returned.

Her young aunt; only 9 years older that I had scored with during my first week and then avoided for the remainder of the holiday. Time stopped. Priceless now that I think about it.

Tokyo · 07-07-2014 09:40PM

bluewolf wrote: »

You have some seriously funny stories

The plaid uniform still hanging at the back of the door should have triggered a red alert....

07-07-2014 09:42PM

mike_ie wrote: »

The plaid uniform still hanging at the back of the door should have triggered a red alert....

Ohhhhh so many jokes

House of Blaze · 07-07-2014 09:44PM

The worst one I remember comes from when I was about 16 years old and had just started hanging around with a big group of people.

We were all hanging around the estate waiting for people to get ready for a party we were all heading to, when the girls all came out in a big group, all dolled up to the nines as you do.

I was looking over all the girls all dolled up and looking well, and this one girl , who I actually got on pretty well with, I noticed wasn't quite as made up as the others.

She was wearing the glad rags and all that and was always pretty heavy on the make up but her hair was just same as it ever was.

Short enough and tied into a bit of a ponytail at the back. The rest of the girls had all put it up or done whatever with it but hers was just the usual.

So It occurred to me that I'd never seen her with anything down to hair so I asked her "Hey, xxxx, how come you never do anything with your hair?"

Everyone present immediately froze in place. A noticeable intake of breath from the group.

She stared at me with her eyes starting to water and her lower lip trembling for a few seconds before turning and running full speed away back to her house in a flood of tears.

I of course was totally dumfounded until one of the lads turned around and informed me that the girl in question actually had alopecia, and that her hair was in fact a wig.

I was f**king mortified.

Dave0301 · 07-07-2014 09:44PM

Got called back for a 2nd interview for quite a decent job. In reception I was met by the person who I had previously interviewed with a few weeks prior.

They greeted me with " Hi Dave, good to see you again."

My response "Hello, it is great to meet you." I said this despite knowing it was the same person!!

No wonder I didn't get the job.

Hotfail.com · 07-07-2014 09:46PM

House of Blaze wrote: »

The worst one I remember comes from when I was about 16 years old and had just started hanging around with a big group of people.

We were all hanging around the estate waiting for people to get ready for a party we were all heading to, when the girls all came out in a big group, all dolled up to the nines as you do.

I was looking over all the girls all dolled up and looking well, and this one girl , who I actually got on pretty well with, I noticed wasn't quite as made up as the others.

She was wearing the glad rags and all that and was always pretty heavy on the make up but her hair was just same as it ever was.

Short enough and tied into a bit of a ponytail at the back. The rest of the girls had all put it up or done whatever with it but hers was just the usual.

So It occurred to me that I'd never seen her with anything down to hair so I asked her "Hey, xxxx, how come you never do anything with your hair?"

Everyone present immediately froze in place. A noticeable intake of breath from the group.

She stared at me with her eyes starting to water and her lower lip trembling for a few seconds before turning and running full speed away back to her house in a flood of tears.

I of course was totally dumfounded until one of the lads turned around and informed me that the girl in question actually had alopecia, and that her hair was in fact a wig.

I was f**king mortified.

Ah Christ I was cringing at the end of that :pac:

strobe · 07-07-2014 09:46PM

Worked in a big frozen food warehouse for a while, tough job but awesome 'cause it made me feel like I was some 19th century Arctic explorer. And I was asked to help out in another section, where they wrapped the pallets of stuff we got from the freezer in cling film and loaded it onto the waiting trucks. Anyway, was there about 30 mins or so, cling filming pallets with a big roll of the stuff, when one of the oul lads that worked there walked towards me and said "here" and stuck his hand out. So naturally I figured he was shaking hands with the new guy and grabbed a hold and started shaking, he just looks at me and says "no, give me the roll" so I just for some unknown reason kept smiling and shaking his hand. He had to wrest his hand from mine and say "the cling film, can I have it?", so I says "yeah, sure" but don't hand it to him, just stand there staring at him. So he gives me this look for a second and turns and walks away. So I call after him "cling film..." (I meant to say, "Why yes, of course you can have the roll of cling film, here you go"). He kept looking back at me like, I think, he presumed (understandably so) that I was a bit simple.

Think the cold temperatures did something weird to my brain in that place, that wasn't the only incident.

MarkR · 07-07-2014 09:49PM

Picture the scene. Crappy sub-like school bus on the way in one cold winter morning. This was before the whole "maximum occupancy" thing, so it was wedged. 3 on every seat, and the aisles packed. I'm somewhere in the middle of the aisle. And me, with a cold. I felt a sneeze building. No biggie, you've trained for this. Cover my face with my hands (a gentleman, even then!). Loud sneeze, and a lower my hand. Which is still connected to my nose. By a snot.

http://www.puff.com/forums/vb/attachments/general-cigar-discussion/21186d1222192128-smoking-stogies-sinuses-snotty.gif

Did the only thing I could do. Wiped it off my bag. Those nearby were not amused.

Tokyo · 07-07-2014 09:50PM

bluewolf wrote: »

Ohhhhh so many jokes

I know, right...? I was standing in the hallway in my jocks when I met her old man. It was like the scene at the end of "The Usual Suspects" when the oh-so-many clues fall into place and they figure out that Kevin Spacey is, in fact, Keyser Soze...

House of Blaze · 07-07-2014 09:51PM

strobe wrote: »

Worked in a big frozen food warehouse for a while, tough job but awesome 'cause it made me feel like I was some 19th century Arctic explorer. And I was asked to help out in another section, where they wrapped the pallets of stuff we got from the freezer in cling film and loaded it onto the waiting trucks. Anyway, was there about 30 mins or so, cling filming pallets with a big roll of the stuff, when one of the oul lads that worked there walked towards me and said "here" and stuck his hand out. So naturally I figured he was shaking hands with the new guy and grabbed a hold and started shaking, he just looks at me and says "no, give me the roll" so I just for some unknown reason kept smiling and shaking his hand. He had to wrest his hand from mine and say "the cling film, can I have it?", so I says "yeah, sure" but don't hand it to him, just stand there staring at him. So he gives me this look for a second and turns and walks away. So I call after him "cling film..." (I meant to say, "Why yes, of course you can have the roll of cling film, here you go"). He kept looking back at me like, I think, he presumed (understandably so) that I was a bit simple.

Think the cold temperatures did something weird to my brain in that place, that wasn't the only incident.

That's brilliant!

Pat Mustard · 07-07-2014 09:58PM

Was on a school exchange thing when I was a kid. I was staying in Germany with this German kid and his parents.

One day the German lad walks into my room with a big triumphant grin on his face. He was holding a porno mag that he had found hidden in the bathroom. He asked if it was mine. Nope, it wasn't. Cue the sudden mutual realisation that it belonged to his old man. It was pretty awkward at first, but it was pretty funny when he had to backtrack sheepishly out of that one.

We didn't speak about that again.

The most socially awkward moment of your life?

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