Silence is the most deafening kind of sound. All of us, in some way or another, have experienced this kind of sound. It’s the moments you go back to and question, “What the hell was I thinking?” so many times that you remind yourself how aloof the entire thing was. The bitter bug of nostalgia bites you every time your mind wanders back to it.
Some of us can come back from innocent misinterpretations, while others, I’m not so sure ever want to show their faces again. The next 35 exchanges are so awkward that you might want to look away. We encourage you to keep reading though! It’s good to realize that we’ve all had our moments wearing our symbolic dunce hat and can at least laugh about it looking back…again, at least SOME of us can.
1) Separation Anxiety
Few things are as pleasant as taking your date to a romantic dinner. Except for this time, it wasn’t to get any closer but to get further away. This could’ve only ended up in an embarrassing car ride home.
I broke up with my girlfriend at a restaurant and she started crying, everyone thought i had proposed so they started clapping…
Religious privacy is a real thing. People don’t just announce it at face-value all willy nilly. Whatever this person was thinking, they might need to pray for some answers.
my lab partner said “hi i’m christian” and i said “hi i’m muslim”
Whoever smelt it first, dealt it. In this case, this surgeon needed to have some peace of mind to know he wasn’t’ in danger of any bowel trouble. While the med student may be feeling a little blushed from his confession, at the very least honesty wins the day.
This is what happens when deep appetite is so severe that it starts affecting your vision. This girl apparently mistook a hamster for a muffin and could not contain herself. We’d suggest avoiding the entire cliff altogether and just getting yourself a new pair of vision glasses.
I saw a girl carrying a hamster so I asked if I could pet it but it was actually a muffin so I'm on my way to jump of a cliff now
Listen, we all want what’s best for each other, am I right? This lady decided to spread a little love to an unsuspecting man and instead got shot down hard. Yea there was a weird moment of confusion, but maybe try being a little warmer next time?
6) Switcheroo Sub
It gets more embarrassing as the list keeps going. We’ll give the benefit of this mental slip to the person’s hunger. Although we can’t fault him for walking out, it was probably better to stop that hunger before it gets any worse.
7) Hold Me Baby
On the latest verbal Wordsearch slip up, this candidate knows what he wants when he wants it. A nice, big hug is a nice gesture that should spread more often according to this social media user. At least this person should be thankful that it was Monday, which means his week can only go up from here.
Meant to say “hold on for a second” and “give me a minute” to a customer and it came out as “hold me for a second” what a monday
Okay, we get it. Freudian slips happen, but this? We won’t knock the good intention to warn the person, but you might want to be sure you let someone know the next time their soup is blazing hot. We’ll let this person off with some points for being aware and at least trying to be helpful.
9) Woof You Help Me?
Imagine being this lady who had to drive all the way to the vet only to realize her dog was left behind? Yea, the people at the front desk sure didn’t have much to say either. We hope her pet is doing alright because it looks like she isn’t!
10) Mind Your Business
The old adage proves true even in this scenario. We get this person just wanted to help, but man what a sticky situation to get brought into. Somethings are just best left to others and their own ways of solving problems.
11) Emoji-less
Networking can definitely be a struggle especially if some of those people just can’t communicate with you. This person took sent out a friendly smiley face emoji and it did not digest well with his co-worker. Well, at least now he knows what grounds he can tread and how he should talk to this person with less visual cues.
Why focus on one potential candidate when you can go for 2o and raise your chances? This person is immediately called out on his apparent ploy to try and scam the 20 people involved in the chatroom. Not sure what this person thought they were doing, but nobody is clearly falling for such a childish trick.
13) Accidental Message
Whoops, I did it again! Somehow another hamster lands itself at the butt of another joke when this girl messages her crush through her hamster’s account. Hopefully, it was just a silly message and nothing too important that will cause a rift.
Accidentally just replied to a boy I fancy off my HAMSTERS Instagram account goodnight
This shopper may have thought the cashier was a part of a special bundle with one of her purchases. Luckily, it hasn’t been easy getting over the embarrassing moment, but at least the shopper is realizing the context of his words. This is what happens when social programming fails at its job.
15) Rest In Awkward Peace
Nobody likes to mention anything about the deceased, especially to a family who just experienced a loss. This awkward moment is brought to you by a nice girl who simply wanted to show she cared. It really wasn’t her fault, though, since the family should’ve brought it to her attention at the time of announcing the occasion.
16) Rewarding You For Listening
This girl was asked by a store clerk for her number to register her in a rewards program. She somehow mistook it as a pickup line and rejected him unabashedly. It’s time for a reality check missy: the world doesn’t revolve around you.
17) Grill Me Of Embarrassment
Always make sure you cry wolf when there is one. This person had no idea his mom wasn’t home when he just kept persistently requesting a grilled cheese sandwich. If it didn’t work for 10 minutes, then why even continue it for another 10?
18) Wrong Signal For Turn
Imagine trying to backseat drive while offering terrible advice on which route to best take. It’s almost as if there’s no telling where this person was mentally when they yelled it and could just have easily stayed silent. Let’s hope for their sake the driver stayed composed and didn’t flip out.
19) Mommy Mistake
Texting the wrong person has become in some ways one of America’s most underrated past times. However, this time a little too much was disclosed on one text and it can’t be unsaid.
20) After-life Check
Now, this is really awkward. There’s really no bag dark enough that could hide how pale this person’s face turned after making such a dismissive comment. No words really need to be shared after that one. Just some deep, inner reflection and a pause button the next time she has something to say at a bank.
21) Carrying Kayaks
Would I like a bag for these kayaks? Sure, but before that can I get a bag for your head to spare you the embarrassment? Honestly, it’s okay these small habits bite us almost every time we’re at a service job. It’s only human to make mistakes, and this was one that was just innocent enough to make us laugh and cause no foul.
22) Dental Dunce
This person knows how to show appreciation to those who need it. Her dentist definitely needed a hug after the procedure, but it looks like that wasn’t what he was going for on her way out. Maybe she’ll learn from this and realize to you should never reveal your hand too soon before playing it.
23) Food-truck Faithful
Food truck fail of the decade. The “usual” here was dismissed as a non-familiar face real quick. Hopefully service was still given and the man got his fill even though he wasn’t viewed as a food-truck fan.
24) Fee Fi Fo Dumb
Symptoms of having a small bladder I guess. There have been worse atrocities committed to those who couldn’t hold it on time. On the bright side, we’re sure the librarian got a laugh out of the random word spasm.
25) Speech! Speech! Speech!
Most of us can tell when a fist bump is coming for the dap. However, the force was weak with this one and totally misread the sign. We get slapping a bump by mistake, but a hello to a make-believe microphone? Yikes.
26) Gaseous Revenge
This person literally blew it. We don’t know what registered correctly in the mind when these words were vomited out, but nothing seemed to gain good traction. In all honesty, an actual fart may have been more appropriate than what this person actually strung together as a statement.
27) Dress To Impress
At least it wasn’t the most terrible thing this could’ve said. Hopefully, they played it off to make the dressing-up part seem like a hassle so it fits the bill as the problem. However, odds are, they just ended up blushing in total embarrassment.
28) Your Face And Registration Please
Normally a physical driver’s license is sufficient when providing proof of identification. This person thought it would be more credible to use their actual face. Well, we are sure TSA had their jobs made after they saw the entire thing unfold. It really sucks to end up in the witness protection program after such an easy bullet to dodge.
29) A Saint Or A Sinner
Why would anyone even have this as a challenge question? The fact that this is a conversation that was had with Mom is even more alarming. There’s a lot to be said about this post and this person’s idea of a security check, but we’ll skip the details and laugh it off.
30) Hard To Miss
If there was a remote control to skip a moment in time, this moment would definitely be on my list. This is the stuff of nightmares that will haunt you for a lifetime. We hope this person dodged a bullet and skipped the card instead of mindlessly blabbing out the answer…one could hope.
31) Buy You A Drank
T-pain wouldn’t have written it better. It was a fair question, and also a fair response. Often times it’s not what you say, but how you say it.
32) I Challenge You To A Game Of ‘Horse’
Divorce is not something that’s pretty. And neither is being a therapist and mishearing a vital part of the story. At least the client took it in jest and let blatantly let him know how foolish he looked.
33) The Blind Lead The Blind
The language barrier wouldn’t be an issue if his whole point was to be a jester. It could be that perhaps he was trying to impress his crush, but in the process disappointed the Canadian waitress with this soft insult. This was when the group realized that maybe wine wouldn’t be a good idea for this stud.
34) Blame It On The Alphabet
It’s gotta be 5:00pm somewhere right? Why not have your friendly neighborhood Starbucks settle that fix for you. Oh wait, they don’t sell alcohol, do they? A suggestion would be less alcohol and more coffee for this person’s recreational activities.
35) Clocking In Overtime
Oh the struggle of the modern worker. The 9-5 grind is a different kind of animal that most of us have become amicable with. We certainly can’t seem to tame it at times, and like this case, tend to want to bounce it off to someone else for them to deal with. However, as much as we all sympathize with the person trying to give up the shift, sometimes it’s just not your time.
35 Of human history’s most painful socially awkward exchanges
Jonathan Arrastia
11.27.20
Silence is the most deafening kind of sound. All of us, in some way or another, have experienced this kind of sound. It’s the moments you go back to and question, “What the hell was I thinking?” so many times that you remind yourself how aloof the entire thing was. The bitter bug of nostalgia bites you every time your mind wanders back to it.
Some of us can come back from innocent misinterpretations, while others, I’m not so sure ever want to show their faces again. The next 35 exchanges are so awkward that you might want to look away. We encourage you to keep reading though! It’s good to realize that we’ve all had our moments wearing our symbolic dunce hat and can at least laugh about it looking back…again, at least SOME of us can.