Humor and awkwardness go hand in hand. If you find yourself in an uncomfortable situation, laughing it off could be one of the best ways to respond.
You can also join an online community like the Awkward Relate Facebook page. Here, you can share experiences with people who often find themselves in the same cringe-worthy predicaments. With 3.7 million followers, it’s safe to say you will connect with at least one person.
We’ve collected the best ones that touch on forgettable wedding speeches, family revelations, and social media discoveries. Some of them, however, are just about relatably funny moments from daily life.
Scroll through and see if you can count the number of times you say, “Yup, I’ve been there.”
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Since we’re on the topic of awkwardness, let’s begin with conversations. We’ve all been through those uneasy discussions that involved a lot of silence, making you want to escape to the nearest exit.
However, you don’t always have to run and hide. Writer and mental health researcher Arlin Cuncic, MA, advises finding the humor in the situation, much like these memes and posts.
In an article for VeryWellMind, she wrote, “Keeping the mood light will help to break the ice and move the conversation forward.”
Here’s the situation: you’re in an elevator with a co-worker, and they begin some small talk. As someone who isn’t a fan of these chitchats, you start feeling like the walls are closing in. What do you do?
Cuncic advises having open-ended “go-to questions” you can pull out of your pocket when the need arises. One example could be, “What have you been up to?” It shifts the spotlight onto them.
Technically, hyenas are actually part of the felidae family, making it closer to getting a new kitten than a new puppy. A friend of mine told me this years ago, and I absolutely didn't believe it at first. But sure enough, it's the case.
Small talk with a stranger is an entirely different ballgame. You don’t have anything in common with the other person and know nothing about them, which leaves you with mundane, cliché topics like the weather.
In such cases, Cuncic offers two options: giving a genuine compliment or keeping quiet. You can try the former, but chances are the other person is likely not in the mood for small talk anyway. Feel out the situation and see what works best.
Awkward situations come in many forms. Sometimes, it happens during family gatherings with your in-laws. In this case, you should step aside. According to educator and etiquette expert Sara Jane Ho, you’re better off letting your partner handle things.
“If you want to piss off your in-laws, let your spouse do it, not you,” Ho told CNBC.
As I was told the other day: The national anthems at the Olympics are all the same genre - country music.
Haha, I see what you did there. 😂
Load More Replies...100% agree. My taste in music is so eclectic. I don't have a favorite artist, genre, or anything. I grew up with 70s 80s and 90s music being most popular in stores and public places but at home we listen to music from the 20s 30s 40s 50s and 60s, I listen to a ton of jazz and classical, soundtracks from musicals, international music, even today if I were to make a playlist, it would be incomprehensible to most and I'm so glad to hear there are other people out there like me :-)
Preach it! Of course, rap isn't music. (I'm joking! I'm joking!) (No I'm not.)
Have you listened to Kendrick Lamar or Eminem? Their wordplay and metaphors are mind-blowing. Rap is poetry set to a beat. You may not like rap or hip hop but that doesn't mean it isn't music. I personally don't like country music. I have tried to get myself to like it or at least tolerate it, by listening to multiple artists/songs, from different decades and I can confirm that it's just not for me. Country is most definitely still music, just not music, to my ears.
Load More Replies...Pop and Nerdcore for me! (Nerdcore is songs, usually rap, about "nerd" topics such as video games. The Stupendium is my favorite. They (They are non-binary and pansexual) are one of the best nerdcore makers out there! Check them out!)
I still love all of my old favorite songs, I add songs to that list and it grows. I don't stop listening to older favorite songs and replace them with new ones, they just join the ranks of what I love. When it comes to genres I am all over the place but Blues-Based Rock is my favorite.{Aerosmith, the Stones, etc.} I have a little bit of every genre of Rock and Roll from the '60s up to now, I love Funk, Ragge, and Nordic bands are killer like The Northern Kings and all their associated bands. A little country here and there like Mark Chesnutt, Blue Eyed Soul, and '60s/'70s Motown. I love The 69 Eyes and Greta Van Fleet. ᓚᘏᗢ
“Good music is good music no matter what kind it is” - Miles Davis
I like techno and pop and edm, but there's a select group of 20 rap and country songs I like
Absolutely true! Beethoven, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and the Seekers. ALL music.
I keep a huge playlist and I just keep adding to it. I've got two full albums on there, a variety of classical music, soundtracks from 5 or 6 movies, 2000s and 90s rock, 99 luftballoons in German and English, 4 different versions of Everybody Wants To Rule The World, a few older country songs, 60s pop, most of the soundtrack from the musical Six, and much more. I don't know how long it is, because my Spotify stopped giving me an accurate time at 28hrs and 56 mins.
I love listening to Andrea Bocelli and I also love listening to Disturbed - loudly.
My playlist is comprised of the following (my fav of each): -Classic bands (Arctic monkey Some LP when i was younger) -Random stuff i find on spottily (Faded by crypto) -Random soundtracks from games.(Bury the light my fav by far) -Random anime songs(Friren outro) -Sabaton. Just sabaton i am history geek and i like many of their songs(588 ,panzercampf ,white death and ghost division once i hear one i have to hear all). This is a non exhaustive list but it is clear. There is no discernible pattern in the music that i like.
You don't have to stick to a certain genre. My playlists range from heavy metal/power metal, classical, jazz, 40s to 60s, 70s to 00s, film scores, and a wide mix of recent artists. I could jump from Judas Priest to Mozart and Prokofiev, then to Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, then suddenly turn to Lizzo. Growing up, my dad exposed me to a lot of 50s to 70s artists like Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Andy Williams, The Everly Brothers, ABBA, Bee Gees, The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Neil Sedaka, Mahalia Jackson, and so many others.
only if you like that genre, I can't stand rap, but to each his own!
It's about the beat and vibe - "Pendulum" and "Rammstein" for example have kinda the same energy
Dunno, Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton have some catchy ones.
Load More Replies...There are times when someone’s name just slips our minds, and that could be another embarrassing moment. However, you wouldn’t want to come off as rude by doubling down and saying you forgot who they are.
Ho recommends a smoother approach. Say you’d like to keep in touch, then have them input their social media handle or personal number into your phone.
And if they're anything like me they'll still wake in the middle of the night, think of this and cringe again for the next twenty years.
Let’s switch the conversation to you. How do you handle awkward situations? Do you run from them, or do you face them head-on? Let yourself be heard in the comments!
Feet, carts, horses and at most cows on one, built into softer ground so the stones could move and the sand could take the impact of the weight - other side trucks, cars the weight of baby elephants, non-stop, and a surface that does allow for way faster travel while at the same time not quite as good at dealing with the heavy and fast impacts... do you wanna go back to walking twenty miles into town?
Due to a typo on a news page, I saw athletes trying to run 5000ml yesterday :)
"You're an adult, do it yourself!" wouldn't be the most responsible answer
In California the youngins say BRUH. That’s what we get for saying DUDE in the 90s.
My cousin LOVED chocolate chip cookies as a toddler. My mom taught her that they were called sh!t. Uncle & aunt & cousin at fancy restaurant for anniversary. Waiters and waitresses ohhing and aching over cousin (blond curly hair, bright blue eyes, adorable). Time for dessert. When asked what she wanted, cousin sweetly says "Sh!t, please." Aunt mortified, Uncle calls my mom long distance from a payphone. "Truce, truce!". He had taught my sister to say "Damnit!" when someone told her no, or she didn't get her way. I can only imagine what he would have taught me!
Or when you have water stuck in your ears and you feel it finally drain while lying down
There's no timestamps on the original texts. So do you think he quickly photoshopped this image after the girl guessed lion, or he just had a bunch of premade images with different animals standing by and just had to post the appropriate one?
Good luck! If my identity could get you money, don't you think I would have tried that by now?
Guest at restaurant: I'm gluten free, nut free, soy free, dairy free, sugar free and low carb/keto. What can I get? Every server ever: Dafuq out
The struggle is real. Especially if there is a sleeping cat on your chest
You don't have to worry about this if you are a responsible pet owner and spay/neuter your pets.
My dad once got mad at me because I answered the phone in .02 seconds, I don’t think my family understands that I am never busy.
I know it's just a joke, but I took the time to think about it and it's fairly simple. It would have been hard for our ancestors to miss the fact that new mothers produce milk. Observing the animals around them would've informed them that other mammals do that, too. You can even come up with a tragic story of a mother dying in childbirth, and her tribe going "Whaddowedo?" and catching a goat with a kid.
The exhaustion when you call on a holiday and they say, "Let me pass you around."
When people start removing user reviews it is simply because they don't want you to be able to chose what you want to watch. Same with the new search system of Youtube. It is the advertisers that matter most. If a person can pick the videos Then how in the hell can the ad agencies BE SURE the underage kids will watch Logan Paul promoting bitcoin gambling to them?
Me to a T....and when someone says something about it I yell "I'M ON VACATION!!!"
For variety I used to write all 20 lines one letter at a time. "I, I, I, I, I, ... W, W, W, W, W.... i, i, i, i, i...
I don't look good in pictures or real life, so I avoid them completely!
Figured out I'm getting older. Left a full shift at 830 pm, intending to drive 14 hrs to N Car. Got as far as S WV, needed a cat nap. Something about seeing the sun again without sleep does it every time.
