Share your awkwardness to make me feel better

[TonkinLenkicks]

It has come to my attention over the past few years, that I really socially awkward. I have a good life, people who love me, friends who celebrate my strangeness and a professional career. It doesn’t really affect me as I can usually laugh it off.

DF and I went to a showing of a film at our local village hall last night. We were having a chat outside before it started and laughing about how awkward we both are and me blaming him. A woman pulled up and got out of her car and said hello, and something along the lines of ‘ooh this is going to be fun!’ At this point my brain just stopped working and I yelled, actually yelled, GOOD MORNING! It was 7pm

So please share with me your stories. Just for a giggle so I can feel better about my inability to interact like a normal human being

I don't say anything particularly awkward but when I have to speak to, well, anyone other than my friends and family, I go bright red. I mean beetroot glowing red. I can feel the skin on my cheeks is burning and just gets hotter and hotter. I know it's blindingly obvious to anyone I'm in a meeting with and I'll often say "gosh it's hot in here" ... Whilst being painfully aware that no one else I'm looking at is glowing. It's awful! I have this morbid fascination after any meeting and go to the toilet and look in the mirror to see just how red I am and it's usually even worse than I thought.

It is SO embarrassing! I'm a grown woman in a professional job!

Lol this made me laugh! I am
Very awkward but seem to be able to maintain a professional career, everything outside of that just doesn’t work so well. People find me to awkward to talk too.

Something that happened me was when I was working as an events planner. it was my wedding anniversary the same day as I was working a wedding for a lovely couple who I’d spent three years working with to plan their wedding day. The bride said “ohh working your wedding anniversary, maybe you’ll get some nice flowers” I said “ohh don’t do that there’s no need honestly I don’t mind working my anniversary I do it most years”

I didn’t realise that she meant I might get flowers from my husband and not her as a thank you 🤦‍♀️ I realised straight away when I seen her face and everyone around her! I was mortified and swiftly moved the conversation on!

@makelovenotpetrol I used to go really red when I was younger too. It’s the worst because the more you try to calm yourself the redder you get!

@Mixitupalot this sounds like me. Sometimes I lie in bed at night recounting all the cringy things I e done or said, like wtf is wrong with me

[quote TonkinLenkicks]@makelovenotpetrol I used to go really red when I was younger too. It’s the worst because the more you try to calm yourself the redder you get!

@Mixitupalot this sounds like me. Sometimes I lie in bed at night recounting all the cringy things I e done or said, like wtf is wrong with me [/quote]
I don't even know why I go red. I can go into a meeting, with people I know well and get on with, and am absolutely confident about what I'm talking about ... So I have no actual issues. 3 seconds in and I'm glowing! And then like you say the second I feel it... I want it to stop and I just go redder!

Room service waiter in a very posh Berlin hotel: enjoy your meal!
Me: Thanks! You too 😳

Good Morning!! So funny. Sounds like something I would say.
I've done similar to pp. I hate attention and birthdays are painful for me. It's not unusual for me to say And You, on being wished Happy Birthday!

I worked as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant many years ago. When serving a table of 10 women on a Christmas night out they asked me about the deserts. I told them all about the logynon instead of the longan - Logynon is a fucking contraceptive pill

Glad to hear there’s a little army of us wide awake at 3am sweating profusely

Maybe I have issues with what time of day it is? I worked in a shop once and the ‘BIG’ boss was visiting. The phone rang and I got so muddled I picked up the phone and announced ‘AFTERNOON GOOD MORNING GOOD NIGHT!’ I didn’t last long there. My review said I needed to apply basic common sense to my role.

For the love of God.

I am completely awkward and say completely inappropriate things at times. It's only afterwards I realise.
My friend was telling me about how her DD couldn't drive due to very poor eyesight so would never be able to learn so I started droning on about how driving is most important and it should be taught in schools.
I realised later that day what I'd said and I died inside.

I met another friend ( Jehovah's Witness) in the park with our dc.
I start chatting about Christmas and listing the gifts I'm buying my DD.
I then make a huge fuss of friends child asking what they hope Santa brings for Christmas. Child just smiled which I took as her being shy (she isn't usually).
On leaving I recall shouting "Merry Christmas- hope Santa comes".
Later that night I realised what I'd done.

I am really awkward, added to this I have terrible hearing and with everyone wearing facemasks this has caused some awkward encounters. Thing is a lot of the time I don't even know what I've said wrong I can just tell by the strange looks that I have said something wrong.

Hasn't made me much friends on the school run thats for sure.

I was walking up the steps on the bus the other day and my shoe fell off then to make matters worse I couldn't articulate to the man behind me that I needed to go back down a step to get it back on my foot, I just said "um um sorry but my shoe fell off" and he handed it to me

I'm also a blusher. I go bright crimson on my face, chest and neck whenever anyone speaks to me. It's so obvious and everyone comments how red I am. I still haven't learned to control it.

I'm also a very awkward person in general. A few weeks ago I was walking up my street when I saw my neighbour walking towards me. I knew I had to greet her so I started rehearsing what to say in advance. When we were close enough to speak my mouth tried to say 'morning' while my brain was still stuck on 'hiya' and 'hello', so I ended up sort of miaowing at her.

@mangomelba 🤣🤣🤣...meowing!!
Your post reminded me of when you see someone you know in a supermarket and have a quick chat. Then you see them in every other aisle thereafter. It makes me feel so awkward. I end up smiling at them like someone deranged. Sometimes I even ask more questions ( I don't care about the answers!). Mostly, I just want to abandon my shopping and go home.

Glad it's not just me. Phone calls are the worst! Tbh I often feel more at ease with people who come across a little awkward than with super confident people as I hope that the awkward ones won't judge me for my awkwardness so much 😅

@mangomelba that make me howl! That’s brilliant.

Once I was passing my boss after printing some documents out. I passed her and went to walk into the toilet. She said ‘you’re not taking them into the toilet with you?!’ And I replied ‘yes I’m going to read them while I do a poo’

She scared the crap out of me. So maybe if she was nicer and not so much of a dragon I wouldn’t have been so nervous that I told her I read my reports while taking a dump. I’m totally blameless, honest m’lord.

@Helocariad I’m starting to think we’re all awkward! Which is great!

@makelovenotpetrol

I don't say anything particularly awkward but when I have to speak to, well, anyone other than my friends and family, I go bright red. I mean beetroot glowing red. I can feel the skin on my cheeks is burning and just gets hotter and hotter. I know it's blindingly obvious to anyone I'm in a meeting with and I'll often say "gosh it's hot in here" ... Whilst being painfully aware that no one else I'm looking at is glowing. It's awful! I have this morbid fascination after any meeting and go to the toilet and look in the mirror to see just how red I am and it's usually even worse than I thought.

It is SO embarrassing! I'm a grown woman in a professional job!

This happens to me too. Even more awkward when someone comments on it which makes me go even redder

If I have a specific role to play I can act very confident and sensible- so I'm OK professionally and when I am speaking to people for a specific reason, but crap at general social interaction. Because of the former, many people assume I am generally confident and capable. Which makes it seem even stranger when my true awkward self is revealed.

Some of my 'best bits' have been:

• I went alone to a friend's birthday party where I didn't know any of the other guests. Knowing that it's not good form to stick with the host, I found another awkward looking single person to speak to. For some inexplicable reason I immediately asked her if she had DC. I have known enough people who struggled with fertility to know that this is not something to ask a stranger. I realised what I had done as soon as the words left my mouth, so when she said no I somehow thought it would make things better to launch in to a monologue about how amazing a child free life can be.
• I used to work in an office with a really two faced woman. I'd seen her befriend other colleagues then talk about them/make fun of information they told her in confidence etc. I turned 30 just before I went on maternity leave and for some reason she was being very friendly to me- which made me extra nervous. She bought me a very large chocolate cake, clearly aimed at being shared with the team. I felt awkward about announcing my birthday to everyone and for some reason awkward about sharing the cake (should I cut it up, how big should the pieces be, should I let people cut their own, what if no-one wanted any, what if everyone wanted some and it ran out, where should I put the cake, what should I say to people when they came to get cake etc etc). So I sort of put it to one side and hoped someone would take over or the whole thing would go away. When it was still unopened at the end of the day, I worried that it would look ungrateful if I left it behind in the office so I took it home. The whole thing made me feel so awkward that I didn't even want to eat any. When I left for my maternity leave, the cake buyer presented me with a present from the team and 'quipped' that she would have bought us all cake but I'd just take it all home and I was big enough already!

This threads hilarious , I have a friend who's socially awkward . We all love her to pieces now but wren we first met her we would dread it . She just goes silent .