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We are giving away 3 Awkward Turtles to the awkward moments that we (Wes, Phil and Ted) think are the awkwardest. If we like your story we might even shoot a reenactment!
Here’s what you do:
Tell us your most awkward moment! (make sure it’s something that actually happened to you because everything is funnier when it’s real)
More Instructions:
- Just reply to this post with your awkwardest moment and that’s it!
- Deadline to submit your entry is Dec 14th!
- Make sure you use a valid email address, because that’s how we’ll get in touch with you.
- All posts not part of the contest will be deleted.
Rules:
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Limit to one paragraph or less (keep it short, no life stories or essays please)
- One entry per person
- Open to everyone
“Are you awkward, more awkwarder, the awkwardester…? Err. Let’s hear your stories!”
December 2, 2009 at 7:56 pm
when i was in the school library in the morning with my crush.everyone is tired and not as loud in the morning.and i had to fart very very bad=.=but my crush is like right next to me.and i didnt know what to do that time.when i farted my crush was just sitting there and tryin not to laugh so hard but he kinda cant control it and it was so awkwardddd!and the ending of me and him is pretty sad.=”(
December 2, 2009 at 7:55 pm
So I went clubbing with a friend a week ago. Unfortunately, the music was pretty lame so I sat down, bored out of my mind. This random guy comes up to me and starts hitting on me. He goes, “Were you born here? Because you look really exotic…like Filipino or something.” I stare at him for a few seconds before flatly stating, “I AM Filipino.” He proceeds to grab my hand, kiss it, and exclaim. “I love Filipino women!”
Awkwarddddddddddd.
December 2, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Who do you like best in big bang?
tanning
who? whatever, i like tae yang!
that’s what i said
o.0… sorry, couldn’t understand you’re FOB accent
i’m born and raised here..
o.0… so.. shall we get back to english… i can’t believe you beat me!
December 2, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Okay, I’ve had my fair share of awkward. The first one that always comes to mind is this awkward moment from high school days. Junior Year, in algebra class, I just came from swimming class. So, it’s always a rush to get to class, shower/ change, many of you are familiar with the process. Well, this day, rushing to class, hair still wet, the teacher is calling us individually to get our corrected tests. My turn to go up, I stand & my fellow girl classmate who just got her test quietly says, “Wendy” & if I remember correctly, next she quietly motions with her fingers to me to pull something up. It took me a few seconds to get what she was saying. Fly W-A-S open. Darnnn! Now, the last time this happened, I was 5 or so, I was 17, things like that should not happen to a Girl this big! At least she saved me. Now, every time I think of awkward- that girl & this embarrassing situation comes to head again!
December 2, 2009 at 7:53 pm
A year ago, I was at camp. We had a co-ed cabin but we had two separate bathrooms. During the middle of the night, I woke up and went to use the bathroom cause nature was calling ::winkwink:: I pushed open the doors and walked in, only to see my crush taking a leak in the urinals. T___T It was then when I realized that I walked into the boys bathroom. I was half asleep when I went in, but by then, I was wide awake LOL. Talk about awkward turtle…
December 2, 2009 at 7:53 pm
This happened two years ago in my English class. The semester was about half over & I was positive that my teacher knew me well enough. We were about to discuss a story that was in Spanish & she randomly says, “Alanna, do you speak Spanish?” Everybody knows that I’m Asian, but since I’m Filipina I’m browner than most. I just looked at her & said no while the rest of the class bursted out laughing. She then said that she though Filipinos spoke Spanish. I later had to tell her that we speak Tagalog. o_o
December 2, 2009 at 7:56 pm
she thought*
December 2, 2009 at 7:53 pm
At my high school one day during passing i was just walking down the hall chatting with a friend about how hard a test was that we had just taken.
As he was explaining how to do the problem in question, some one grabbed my neck with two hands and started to throttle me back and forth whilst yelling “DAVID!!!!!!!!”
He continued doing this for what seemed like forever.
I managed to squirm a little and loosen his grip and try see who the heck was choking me.
It was this random black guy.
The minute he saw my face, he immediately became flustered and said “Oh sh*t, my bad dude”
and tried to laugh it off.
hallway-choke-ambush-awkward-turtle lol
December 2, 2009 at 7:52 pm
So this happened like 7 years ago or something,
i was at the playground of an elementary school called K.B.Woodward
i was with my friends ( 2 guys) and 1 of them spit a lot, so once, i spit on the floor and accidently got on my other friend’s shoes and he got pretty mad at my other friend because he thought my other friend spat it so then there was this awkward silence when he said he didnt spit there,
We were pretty young so we didnt know anything. luckily he forgot =P
December 2, 2009 at 7:52 pm
In English, we were just talking amongst ourselves (as usual) and eating (as usual). My seatmate was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and she saw me staring at it. She asked me “Is it okay if I eat this? Are you allergic or something? Jane* was my partner last year and she was like crazy allergic to peanuts so I could never eat any nuts!” I was like “Nah I’m fine, I’m allergic but not that much.”
“ARE YOU SUREEEE?”
“YES I’M SURE. WHAT’RE YOU GONNA DO, MAKE OUT WITH ME?”
Now this would be all fine and dandy if one of those random silences hadn’t hushed the whole class in between her question and my (comparatively) loud reply. The whole class looked at me with eyes like dinner plates and I was left to explain myself to everyone.
Awkward turtle indeed.
*=Not her real name!
December 2, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I need to pee really badly one time at a casino in Vegas, and went in quickly to a stall to do what I had to do. When I got out, i noticed there were no stalls and wondered why this bathroom was strangely large. I walked out to a sink area and noticed a mother nursing a baby in the corner and all women washing their hands. They all looked at me in confusion as I was washing my hands and I proceeded to walk out. When I looked at the sign to tell which bathroom is which, the wall outside the door said in big letters “WOMENS.”
I will never forget all those awkward stares…
December 2, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Ahh, I meant I went quickly to a bathroom stall, and when I got out I noticed there were no urinals.
December 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm
When I went to Baylor University, I had to take a religion course and I didn’t know how the Bible worked, so when I asked my teacher how would I know the books, he said “Haha, you’re a funny kid.” and I looked at him and said “Wait, what? I’m agnostic.”
December 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm
so one year i went to a book fair with my mom and sister. i wandered off to get one of my books signed… i finally got it, got all excited and went to go find them. i went up to a girl and hip bumped her thinking it was my sister. only that it wasn’t. her mom and her gave the stink eye and i ran away. -_-
December 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm
I went to china for vacation for a couple of weeks. I don’t know the area too well, so I always would hold on to my aunt when we go to the crowded places. One day we went to this store (it was REALLY crowded) and I saw this really strange bread looking, smelling, feeling item. I was fascinated by its features so I reached out for my aunt’s arm and tugged on it. I was literary pulling on the arm for 5 minutes and speaking to her in English about the thingy until I realized it was a middle aged women staring at me like she was about to get robbed. Talk about awkward.
December 2, 2009 at 7:50 pm
It was a early morning and I was going to use the bathroom to wash my hair, when I came out of my room, the first words I said was “pooping power” for no apparent reason, my mother then looked at me funny and was like “What?” I didn’t respond and continued my way to the bathroom to start my day
December 2, 2009 at 7:50 pm
In my geography class my teacher rearranged the seating so now I’m sitting next to this guy who used to go to my elementary school. He’s slightly uninhibited for some reason, and doesn’t seem to recognize those unwritten “laws of society”. He farts during class, and it’s really awkward because I know it’s him but I don’t know what to do. It’s so disgusting (you can smell it even if you can’t hear it) and I’m the only one next to him. He’s also got this way of invading personal space and making you feel awkward. It’s unfortunate that I’m probably going to be sitting with this guy for the rest of the semester.
Awkward turtleee. X.X
December 2, 2009 at 7:49 pm
the turtle has no tail! now thats awkward…
story to come at a later post (maybe…)
December 2, 2009 at 7:49 pm
We went to Walmart to get my sister some flu medicine, and the only way to get her to come with me was to let her leave the house covered with a blanket. So we went to Walmart and she started to feel really hot, so she left the blanket in the cart. So we both continue shopping and wander off and do our own thing, and I was in charge of pushing the cart. A little bit later, we see cops swarming in the store and we over hear a lady screaming looking for her baby. She said it was last seen in a cart, covered with a purple plaided blanket. We felt really bad for her, but we continued shopping. The police officer asked us to let him check our cart, and we had nothing to hide, so of course we said yes. Sadly, I had mistakenly taken the wrong cart. MY cart had the baby, and I’m color deficient, so I mistaken my sisters blue plaid blanket for the lady’s. Everyone looked at me as if I did a crime, but I explained myself, and all they could do was just give me blank stares.
December 2, 2009 at 7:48 pm
So it was about four or five years ago when I was at Target with my mom. She wore one of the most embarassing striped bright red shirt with weird patterns on it, so it was easy to notice. Since she sews her own shirts, I thought there was only one of those tacky shirts out there. I walked away from my mom to look at cameras and guitars. As I walked back to her I noticed her looking at the pots and pans where she told me she should be and I wrapped my arm around her from behind and leaned on her shoulder. I then said, “Jenny (sister) also told us to get -inserts girl item her-.” As I looked up at my mom’s face I noticed it was a complete stranger and she gave me the weirdest stare. I stood there and turned around and my mom was right next to me.
Awwwwwkwardddd.
December 2, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Last friday, My family and I went to see 2012 around 10. Without thinking, I wore a “Real Vampires Don’t Sparkle” t-shirt I found on the internet. After about 100 looks of horror from the girls there for New Moon, several of their boyfriends all mock proposed to me. Their girlfriends gave me the stink eye.
December 2, 2009 at 7:47 pm
This happened to my mom and my aunt on the MRT in Taipei:
The two of them were taking the MRT home after a long day of shopping and it was pretty crowded – there were no seats available so they had to stand. There was a black guy sitting down in the seat next to where they were standing who they assumed wouldn’t be able to understand them so they started talking loudly in Mandarin about how rude black people are and how they smell and wondering what the heck he was doing in Taiwan to begin with. A couple stops later, he got up to get off the train and he turns around and says, in perfect Chinese, “it’s not nice to talk bad about people when you’re standing next to them,” leaving them standing awkwardly with their mouths agape.
December 2, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I was walking down the street. A really hot stranger behind me says “Hey beautiful, you dropped your cellphone!” Since that voice sounded really close behind me, I turned around and said “Oh thanks” and looked for my cellphone on the ground. But at the same time, there’s another girl (who was in front of me) said “thanks” at the same time I said it. Turns out the hot stranger was referring to the girl in front of me. *blush* Awkward!!
December 2, 2009 at 7:45 pm
My friend told me there was a “Penis Shooter” and “Dirty Orgasm” drink at Jamba Juice from the secret menu and so I went to the Jamba Juice with a group of friends to ask about it. All of us were giggling when we went in. I went up to an employee by myself asking if I could see if they had a drink there. I was giggling insanely already but I told him to get closer until he was right next to me. It took me a good 5 minutes trying to ask cause of the giggling… but I finally asked “DO YOU HAVE A PENIS SHOOTER?” He didn’t know so he told me to ask the manager… everything repeated and he was my friend’s brother who I knew. He didn’t know what it was as well so my friends burst out laughing and I ran out embarrassed.
December 2, 2009 at 7:45 pm
so just before thanksgiving break, i saw this freshmen (I DIDN’T KNOW) and i thought he was my friend, so I went up to him and hugged him from behind. He was like “WHAT THE HELL???” and i look at his face and i realize it’s not my friend. soo awkward ><
*awkward turtle*
December 2, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I swing my arms a lot when I walk, and there was this time where I just walked up the stairs swinging my arms and I walked a girl in the face when she was walking up right behind me. I said sorry. She kind of glared at me. Awkward turtle!
(btw your turtle is so adorable!)
December 2, 2009 at 7:43 pm
After a band concert my mom came to pick me up. I got in the passenger seat of a big white suv with an asian lady reading a chinese book. It was not my mom, She just stared at me, and i sat there for 5 seconds, then i left.
December 2, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Black Friday I was at a guitar store with my friend. I picked up a Danelectro guitar, hideous in design and told my friend “Hey they were really big in the 60′s”. He responded “So was racism” as everyone in the store stopped and looked at us.
December 2, 2009 at 7:42 pm
I’m a senior this year, and one of my classes is AP English 4. We were reading a book called “How to Read Literature Like a Professor.” The title is pretty self explanatory. As it turns out, authors and literature professors have got some pretty sick minds. One of the chapters was literally titled “Everything Is About Sex.” After reading the chapter about how many everyday things written into a novel may in fact mean something else, the teacher gave us a short story called “The Rocking Horse.” My teacher loves reading stuff aloud, and he’s actually a great story reader. Everything seems pretty normal right? Well, the reason we were reading this story was because the night before, when we had read the aforementioned chapter, it had mentioned this short story and whenever the boy rocked on his rocking horse, it was basically a symbol of…erm…self love. So as the teacher was reading, at one point, I couldn’t hold it in any longer, and let out a little snicker. The whole class was quiet, and several people glanced at me for what seemed like several minutes.
Awkward…
Haha, but the whole class burst into the laughter afterwards, even the teacher.
December 2, 2009 at 7:40 pm
One day after school, I was waiting for a ride from my cousin, who said he’d be there soon. So of course, when I see his car, I open the door, and get in. I say “hey” without looking at him for some reason and start putting on my seat belt. When I finally do look at the driver, I realize IT’S NOT HIM. It’s some ordinary Chinese man, just staring at me, confused as hell. I yell, “Oh my gosh, I’m SO sorry. Oh my gosh!” and literally jump out of the car before he can say anything. Not only did I get into the wrong car, but I had to wait outside of school again with ten other people who saw my most awkward moment ever. The entire time, the car was still there. I couldn’t see the man behind the tinted windows, although I’m sure he was just as creeped out as I was. BUT in my defense, the car was blue, and it had tinted windows, just like my cousin’s!
December 2, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Last Saturday, I went shopping with my girlfriend and her friend at BestBuy. I needed to purchase a GPS to aid me in my long drive around new areas of the northern east coast. As usual, I told my girlfriend something lame, “I can spot you a mile away!” After my lame saying to her, I walked away and checked the GPS by myself. When I got frustrated on deciding which GPS to purchase, I went looking for my girlfriend. I spotted someone’s hair sticking out above the aisle’s shelf, so I crouched and ninja-ed my way towards that person. As I turned the corner, I planned to jump on her and scream to make her panic. However, this plan went downhill fast when I saw it was some old lady. I instantly switched to plan ‘b’ and continued to crouch and ninja away, and ignored the fact that startled her. In the end, I found out that my girlfriend was a few feet from where I planned my attack, and that she saw EVERYTHING.
The end.
December 2, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Parents make lots of things awkward. Once I was going on a trip with my friend and his family. My friend forgot the print the directions, so the whole car ride, his mom was criticizing him. She started off talking about how forgetful he was and ended up talking about how he could be a better person and better son. What do you do in that situation? You can’t really do anything when you’re stuck in the car. Awkward car ride… =(
December 2, 2009 at 7:34 pm
At the beginning of this school year I was standing in line at my school’s bookstore when a boy comes in and looks around the bookstore. He went up to the girl in front of me and asked where he could find textbooks and she politely told him to go downstairs. After the boy thanked her and left, she smiled, turned to me and said:
“Aren’t freshman so cute?”
I laughed awkwardly and said “hahah I am a freshman”
AWWKWARDD TURTLEE
December 2, 2009 at 7:34 pm
This happened today actually.
My math class is on the 9th floor of a building that’s occupied by businesses so workers, students, and whoever use the elevators all day. I usually happen to catch ride with other people and there’s almost always one person who gets on only to ride up to the 2nd floor. Today, I was able to have the elevator to myself, a first, and I danced in celebration around as the doors closed. On the 4th floor, the doors started to open and I stopped. The mail lady with a cart rolled it, looked at me suspiciously then headed for the buttons to press a floor. The hesitated as her finger hovered over the bottom floor buttons and said, “Oh… this… isn’t going down,” as she saw the “9″ button lit. She stepped out. I I was alone in the elevator the rest of the ride up.
Dancing was awkward for me, getting on the wrong elevator was awkward for her. Double helping of awkward
December 2, 2009 at 7:32 pm
ok so here is my awkward moment…
i was walking to class and saw one of my classmates which i thought didn’t know me.
he suddenly waves and then i look at him all weird mouthing “who me?”
and he nods yes and waves again…
so just to make sure i pointed at myself again mouthing “me?”
and again he nods.
so i start walking towards his direction and he starts walking towards my direction.
then when we’re about 3 feet apart each other i stop and he kept walking toward a friend of his… O_O
awkward part is i asked “what’s up?” and the guy just looked at me with a “do-i-know-you? look on his face, then walks past me, and worse part is that some people saw. >.<
dang. awkward AND embarrassing. LOL
awkward turtle!!!
-shiela dayot
December 2, 2009 at 7:32 pm
hahah so during some down time at a dance performance, my dance team and i were talking about food. Everyone was talking about which places they loved to eat at until my friend said: “you know what you guys have to try?! PIZOOKIES!!!!!! OMG IT’S LIKE HEAVEN ON A PLATE!!!!!!!” and everyone was agreeing with him until i said “OH MY GOSH I LOVE BJ’S!!!!!” at that moment, everyone was silent staring at me. I had no idea what i said until 10 seconds after the fact when i was trying to explain my self by saying “OH OH WAIT NO I DIDN’T MEAN IT LIKE THAT!!! i meant that i loved the restaurant BJ’s!!!” Talk about your awkward turtle moment!! -headdesk!!- XD
December 2, 2009 at 7:31 pm
the worst is when you’re trash talking someone while they are within earshot but you don’t know it.
Once I was at my friend’s place and he started describing his awkward room mate to me and all the strange things he does. He started going on about how he was antisocial like how he kept cereal and his own bowls/utensils in his own room and only came out to wordlessly pour milk into a bowl and in a ninja-like fashion disappeared back into his own room and as he was finishing recounting that story we heard the refrigerator door open. We both turned towards it with our eyes wide open and saw him grab the milk. I tried to save us by lamely adding, “yeah, (insert another name here) sure is weird…” Then he turned to look at me with a “who do you think you’re kidding?” look and wordlessly slunk into his room closing the door silently behind him. We both exchanged looks and he motioned that we should probably relocate to another place. yikes.
December 2, 2009 at 7:28 pm
This seems to happen to people a lot, but:
So I had been at this CSA event all night talking to a couple people. We started to leave and walked out the door, saying goodbye to each other and hugging and saying “yeah we’ll definitely have to hang out sometime, give me a call!” Then we both started walking…in the same direction across the street. We smile at each other and both say “heh…heh…i’m heading that way” and point in the same direction at the parking lot across the road. Then I take the left route and they move towards the right route, so we awkwardly say goodbye to each other again; except we continue moving parallel to each other down the parking lot, so we both can still see each other, every now and then glancing to see if the other is still there and awkwardly half-smiling. Finally I get to the other side of the parking lot and cross over to my car…which is parked directly next to their car, facing them. Of course they get there at the same time too, so we just smile VERY AWKWARDLY at each other and I shrug and say “heh…what are the odds?” and say goodbye for a third time, get in my car, and start driving. IT’S NOT OVER YET. We both drive up to the exit and go right…turns out we are heading up the same road which has a ton of stoplights. For the next THREE LIGHTS I pull up directly next to them and grin stupidly. I finally couldn’t stand it anymore and just turned into a random parking lot and waited ten minutes before I dared to come out again, taking the longest possible way home to avoid running into them AGAIN.
December 2, 2009 at 7:28 pm
One of my most recent awkward moments is that I was sitting toward the back of the bus on the way to school and saw a girl who kept smiling at me. I didn’t really know how to respond so I’d look away, look back, and she’d STILL be smiling at me. It got to a point where she moved closer and even waved and I started to look around because I thought she might have been directing that towards someone else. But then she came up to me and went, “Heeeey! How did you find the reading quiz yesterday?” and after staring at her for ten seconds, realized she was in my class. I felt so awkward since I ignored her the entire time!
December 2, 2009 at 7:27 pm
So I had this boyfriend in the summer. We broke up but ended up dating again afterwards, but not in an official relationship. He and his best friend, who I was friends with as well, had gone home for break and were coming back on the same day. His best friend needed help moving into his new dorm, so I offered to. So I helped him out. Later that day, we were with another dormmate of his and another girl was with him. It was my ex’s ex. I dont think she knew I went out with him, but I knew all this stuff about her. On our way back from eating, I saw this dude who looked like a previous crush of mine but as we got closer, I found that it was actually a friend of my friend. Later in the day, I did see my previous crush – wearing a senior tshirt from my high school. So as my friend/ex’s best friend was signing in, we talked about how awk. the situation was – meeting my ex’s ex and running into my ex-crush. At that moment, I looked to my left, and there my ex crush was, a foot away from me. A few minutes later, we went up the same elevator and avoided eye contact.
December 2, 2009 at 7:27 pm
(Sorry if my first post was too long, I shortened it.)
I was so happy with the new shirt I bought on Black Friday that I wore it to class yesterday (Tuesday). However, there was a reason that shirt was on sale…the threads holding the buttons to the blouse were loose. In the middle of my last class the button smack in the middle shielding my cleavage pops off and my chest greeted the class. It rolled to the side of the desk where I had to reach over, so I look pleadingly at the guy closer to it and mentally begged him to hand me my button. He ended up just staring at the shirt I was holding closed. I ended up reaching over and praying that he wasn’t getting a great view of my goods…
December 2, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I was talking to my church friend, Mike*, when his roommate, Sam*, came over to say hello. Not long after, our friend Brian* came by. Sam and Brian were introduced to each other, and the following conversation took place in our little conversation circle:
Brian: “So, Sam, are you Chinese?”
Sam: “No, man. I’m Korean.”
Brian: “Korean, Chinese, you’re all the same. Small eyes.”
Sam: “….Uh..yeah, man.”
*Not their real names!
December 2, 2009 at 7:24 pm
i was at the park & it started to rain. i was in those grandma slippers that were currently in trend for a short period of time. i was running up from the train station with my friend billy & the train was there so i hurried & ran inside the train. next thing you know my body meets the floor of the train while part of my feet was dangling inbetween the gap of the train & the station & i got up and the train door closed. i look down a slipper was missing -_- it fell inbetween the gap of the train stop & down to the streets… my friend got off my stop with me & it was so FREAKING awkward i could only laugh it off, & i bump into my other friend who gave me a bag for my foot -.-;; cus it was still raining, so my friend walked home with me one foot with a bag over it the other still with the grandma slippers. -.- after he walked me home, we were both still confused with what just happened. it was awkward -.- reallly awkward & embarrassing -.- but i think it was more awkward for him cus everyone was looking at him with a face like “why is he with a crazy girl with a bag over her foot” T.T true story. no lie. sorry for the long paragraph T.T
December 2, 2009 at 7:23 pm
I remember back in high school, me and a bunch of my friends went play pool at a hall. We were all having fun and then one of my friend’s boyfriends came to join us. My friend was off to the side and when her boyfriend walked in he say me from behind and thought I was her. So he comes up behind me and hugs and kisses me on the cheek. I freak out and smack him and everyone, including his girlfriend, looks at us in shock for like a minute. After we all realized what happened, everyone was cracking up laughing, maybe not so much with his girlfriend, but she got over it. Let’s just say it was quite awkward for sometime after that episode.
Ah, the old days…
December 2, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I was so happy with the new shirt I bought on Black Friday that I wore it to class yesterday (Tuesday). However, there was a reason that shirt was on sale…the threads holding the buttons to the blouse were loose. I was calmly taking notes in my Chem discussion class when the button smack in the middle shielding my cleavage pops off and my chest greeted the class.
The button rolled to the side of the desk where I had to reach over the arm of the desk, so I look pleadingly at the guy closer to it and mentally begged him to hand me my button. He didn’t notice the button, but he did notice what the button had left behind. I ended up gripping my shirt closed, reaching over, and praying that he wasn’t getting a great view of my goods…
Thank God I had a scarf with me that just covered the exposed area D:
December 2, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Ok.. So I went back to China for vacation one year. We went to this weird Malaysian restaurant. Apparently the lighting were very dim at the place, and I wasn’t able to see very clearly. So after my family dinner was done, I headed to the bathroom. The bathroom lights were worse than the ones in the dining hall. I went in and done my business and came out to look for the sink to wash my hands, but I wasn’t able to find it. So I just pull out hand foam wash from my bag and washed my hands by the time i came out of the bathroom, three guys were staring at my direction and gave out a LOL. I didn’t know if they were laughing at me or someone behind me, so I turned around and realized that I just went to the man’s bathroom instead of the woman’s one.
December 2, 2009 at 7:20 pm
actually, dont even count my entry. i still feel like too much of a douche.
December 2, 2009 at 7:19 pm
So back in Freshman year, I was in this computer science competition (ACSL – American Computer Science League) and on the way back home we stopped by King’s Dominion to celebrate. And we were just finished with the day of fun roller coasters and waiting for people at the front of the park, when my other classmate’s mom started taking photos. I thought that she only wanted her daughter in a photo so I leaned my head to the left to avoid the picture. When I got the copy of the photo later, the mom actually wanted her daughter and I in the photo. However, what I didn’t know when I was leaning my head was that my other classmate, a guy, was looking down. So, it looked like my head was on his lap and he was looking down. AWKWARD PHOTO.
Here’s the photo:
http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v249/123/112/541061467/n541061467_950956_3475.jpg
December 2, 2009 at 7:18 pm
One time I went to support a friend at a vigil for the murder of her mother a couple months prior. When we were playing video games later the same night to take her mind off of it, she started trash talking. I replied carelessly with “Your Mo……….” and I trailed off realizing the sheer horridness of my error. She gracefully let it slip like it never happened. I still cringe and slap my head every time I think of it.
That’s not an awkward turtle moment… it’s an friggn awkward lochness sea monster moment.
December 2, 2009 at 7:15 pm
So I was walking through a long hallway in school, and I notice that my friend is right in front of me. I go to do the tap-the-opposite-shoulder thing where you just move to the other side and frame someone else. Once the girl turns around, I realize it’s not my friend. We both pause in the middle of the hallway. I try to act like it wasn’t me and that the stranger-girl is just going crazy. Then continuing walking, I realize we’re headed in the same direction for a very, very longgggg time. I believe I ended up facepalming a few times, thus causing MORE awkwardness.
December 2, 2009 at 7:15 pm
ok, so this isn’t totally my awkward moment, but I was apart of it:
so Its asian culture apreciation day for my school (best day ever) and I offered to help by creating a playlist of chinese, japanese and korean music to play in the main lobby area. One of my non-asian friends kept insisting that he loves jay chou and I kept telling him that he didn’t know jay chou. so then during the middle of lunch he comes up to me and says:
when are you going to put on a jay chou song?
i reply:
This IS a jay chou song……
AWKWARD TURTLE. :]
December 2, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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December 2, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Last week I was working at the Animal Hospital and I was really bored. So I started doing lunges with my hands up (for optimum muscle toning) while lunging in circles when my co-worker walks in. We literally stare at each other for a good five seconds while I’m still in my awkward lunge position and then he just laughs and walks away. SO EMBARRASSING!
December 2, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Three of my friends and I were eating at a sushi restaurant in Davis. It was late, so there were only two occupied tables: ours and another group of five students. As we’re eating, my friend next to me says, “Hey, I think that’s Josh!” Josh’s seat is turned away from us, so we all turn and stare at the table for a good minute while his friends stare back at us suspiciously. Next thing I know, my friend calls out, “Hey, Josh!” in an extremely loud voice. The guy turns around and looks at us like we’re insane. It’s obviously not Josh. They quickly finished their meal, paid, and left.
*Note: Josh is not his real name.
December 2, 2009 at 7:46 pm
It was the first day of the term for me and I am sitting in class, a little bit early. From behind, someone slaps my shoulder and says “Hey, long time no see, I thought you graduated”. I have seen this person in my classes but I don’t remember ever actually meeting but I just payed along. We had a full fledged conversation about courses, future plans after graduation and etc. it wasn’t until a mutual friend came and sat down and asked the “stranger”, “Hey, how do you know Nelson?”. The stranger then proceeded to become very confused to say the least.
We’re friends now but man, that lecture was very awkward. He just kept looking at me in disbelief. I truly think he thought I was this other person, doesn’t help the stereotype that all Asians look alike.
December 2, 2009 at 7:48 pm
So the summer of my sophmore year I went to Europe with the People to People student ambassador program. We went to a beach in Europe to help pick up trash, and I really needed to go to the bathroom. The problem was that there were no bathrooms there. My current long distance friend Amber, who i met on the trip, told me to just go pee on the side of the beach. There were little hills so no one would be able to hit me. Well for a girl…it is kinda hard to do that…so when i tried…i kinda uh missed. I peed on part of my pants and it went to a whole new level of peeing in your pants type deal. I was sooo embaressed >.< my friend started laughing at me and i turned bright red from it all. I was lucky i brought a hoody, i was able to tie it around my waist so no one else from the group could see. I was so paranoid though that someone would be able to look.
Good thing was that everyone decided to go in the ocean with thier clothes on…so i jumped in the ocean too so no one would notice =D
December 2, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Today I walked out of my English class after taking a quiz. I was discussing with my friend about the quiz, and while doing that I was looking through the textbook and walking to my history class. I was too busy talking and reading my text book that I accidentally walked into the wrong class. My friend pulled me away and said “dude that was the wrong class!” and my boyfriend couldn’t stop making fun of me all day. It was so awkward. xD
December 2, 2009 at 7:51 pm
As a college student, I procrastinate on everything, even laundry. When my laundry hamper became too much of a mountain I decided to take a visit to the laundry room, despite knowing the fact I knew it would be full. Sure enough every washing machine was taken. In the corner of the room I saw two machines blinking 0 meaning that the load was done. I went over and opened the machine and carefully started transferring a stranger’s clothes into a dryer. I noticed his clothes smelt really good, so I decided to take a whiff. Just as a held the piece of clothing up to my nose the boy walks in. He stares at me horrified because to my unfortunate luck was holding up his boxers.
I quickly explained my situation, and ran out of the laundry room only to hear him mutter, “AWKWARD.”
December 2, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Haha, this isn’t really that awkward, but I think it’s funny =]
My dad, sister, and I went back to China last summer. One day we went out to a restaurant…it should be mentioned that my sister, although Chinese, is a complete fail at using chopsticks (she often uses the “stab” method). Of course, the only utensils we get are chopsticks…so my dad shouts across the room that he wants a spoon/fork for our table. Being the younger sister, everyone in the room turns towards us and stares at me. So I half-frantically point to my sister and say “it’s her, not me” in english and proceed to facepalm. Aaawkward silence ^^;
December 2, 2009 at 7:53 pm
well, ok
there was this day I was in my french class and I was placed next to the girl I like, right? And suddenly I had to fart really bad. Thinking it was a silent one I ripped the biggest fart ever when the teacher is talking!! and everyone just stares at me. <,<
December 2, 2009 at 7:56 pm
So, a few weeks ago, I had a French exchange student staying with me.
The two weeks he was here, we crammed in so much stuff to do with him. We took him to the mall numerous times, six flags, restaurants, and even to a bowling alley/laser tag place.
It hadn’t occurred to me that I hadn’t used the Awkward Turtle throughout his entire stay! When my friend and I took both our exchange students to a typical American restaurant – Old Country Buffet – we discussed some of our own funny moments, and the exchange students shared theirs.
One of them made a comment on how his 10 year old sister already holds conversations with her brother about… that thing adults watch… alone…
Of course, my immediate reaction was to do the Awkward Turtle. This resulted in various puzzled looks by the French students, and one eventually asked what I was doing?
I told him it was the awkward turtle, and one uses it in an awkward situation.
This was followed with another question: “What’s ‘awkward’?”
I sat at the table thinking about it. How DOES one explain “awkward”?
My friend immediately gets up, sits on my exchange student’s lap, and beings to stroke his face.
“That,” he said, “is ‘awkward.’”
I believe the French kids learned something valuable that day.
December 2, 2009 at 8:00 pm
So, I work at Starbucks, and we had this one shift supervisor a while back. He was always a little sketch, but no one paid much mind to him or the sketchiness for that matter. I’d gotten to know him just from working with him and naturally making conversation. He was pretty nice, and seemed cool. One day, a customer comes in with an angry look on his face, and he bursts into the store like he’s looking for something. At this, he jets to the back of the store. The man looks around hurriedly and focuses his attention on me.
‘Hello sir, what can I do for you?’
‘You can stay the fuck away from him.’
‘.. Excuse me?’
‘You heard me, bitch. He’s mine, and I never want to see you around him, or hear him say a goddamn thing about you AGAIN. If I do, you’re fucking dead.’
The man rushed out of the store, knocking things down on his way out. Apparently, it was my coworker’s gay boyfriend that thought he was cheating on him with me. Not only am I straight, but the whole store got quiet and watched the entire scene. What’s worse is that he didn’t even yell at the right coworker.
Awkward? Yes. It was.
December 2, 2009 at 8:03 pm
The setting was Wong Fu Arcadia.
The key club who set up the event had planned some games that volunteers from the audience could play with Phil, Wes, and Ted.
When they were looking for volunteers to do an improvised skit with Wes my friends began to shout “pick the white kid,” and point at me.
Eventually I was chosen to participate.
The prompt was “an Asian family that barely speaks English in an American super market.”
Perhaps being the whitest guy there, I had to pretend I was the Asian son of Wes.
Definite awkward turtle.
December 2, 2009 at 8:05 pm
One day while hanging out my Robotics team, we had an awkward turtle moment. Of course, someone ( we’ll call him friend A) had to make the hand gesture of one hand on top of the other, palms up, and thumbs rotating. Confused, friend B said that it wasn’t awkward, and that a turtle swimming backwards is awkward, with such he did the gesture of one hand on top of the other palms down and thumbs rotating backwards. Friend C then noticed that friend A’s awkward turtle looked like it was helpless instead of awkward. Being the teenagers that we are, we insisted that if there was a helpless turtle, there must be a rapist turtle. For the next five minutes, we made turtles gestures of the rapist turtle attacking the helpless turtle while the awkward turtle swam around. Needless to say, someone walked in on us to see us laughing and attacking each other with our hands instead of doing work. When we noticed the person watching, we all looked at the person and individually made our “awkward turtle” gestures to fill the silence and staring.
December 2, 2009 at 8:06 pm
It was my freshman year in high school, and a few of my guy friends got really close. Like they all developed crushes on me all at the same time. There must have been like eight of them. So I was at my locker one morning with my head in my locker trying to find the right books I needed because I’m a little nerd, and when I stand back up from my locker they were ALL THERE! All of them surrounding my locker… I was trapped. I did not know what to do! I don’t think they knew that the others had the same feelings so they were all standing there awkwardly saying nothing and just starring at me. It was so bad, I freaked out and ran into my homeroom.
December 2, 2009 at 8:11 pm
This happened on thanksgiving day this year. My cousin had just come back from college, and he brought a couple of friends to our family dinner. I was excited to see him so i ran over and started hugging and patting him on the back, and i also started poking him, just for fun. Just then he yells “stop touching me!” while his friends had just walked in, and i stopped moving and stared at his friends. They looked at where my finger was, which had stopped right next where my cousin’s right nipple was >.< My cousin's friends kind of just stared and looked at me all weird. pretty awkward for them and for me…….
December 2, 2009 at 8:13 pm
At a magazine I used to work at a girl came in to get her photos taken in the back. The photographer came out to take a break and told me “hey you’d look really cute in that P.T. Cruiser out front”. I made a face of digust and shouted “EW! I’d never be caught dead in that thing! It looks like a hearse! A car to carry dead people!” He yelled back “Dont’ say such things! that’s so mean!” Minutes later the girl from the back came out and I asked her how her photoshoot went. She replied “Don’t try and be nice, I heard you talk sh*t about my car.” Taken aback, I laughed and said “hahaha you’re so funny! That’s not your car!” As she left the office, I looked out the room to see what car she was getting into…Lo and behold, she opened the door to HER P.T. Cruiser……
AWKWARD TURTLE!!!
December 2, 2009 at 8:16 pm
haha just to let you guys know, i’ve been called an awkward turtle before and i think Awkward Turtle looks really cool. heres my story:
i’m a senior in high school, and during lunch i was standing with a circle of guy friends in a grassy field just talking about life in general. A random underclassmen girl (probably a freshman) walks into our circle and asks, “can i have a hug?”. she was standing right across from me, so i guessed the question was directed toward me. just to be sure, i pointed to myself and asked, “me?”. she just nodded her head. so i said, “ok, sure” because she might have been feeling down, and being a nice guy and all, i couldn’t refuse. i lifted my left arm (i still had my backpack on and a book in my right arm) and stood there to let her come to me. there was like a 30 second pause (the longest 30 seconds of my life) before she came to me and i hugged her with one arm. as i hugged her, i saw her friends giggling in the background. after the hug, she said a fast “thanks”, then ran back to her friends. my circle of friends, witnessing this the whole time, asked me who she was, but i had thought it was one of their friends. my friends just laughed and congratulated me on attracting a random girl. in the end, no one knew ever figured out who the girl was, and i haven’t seen her since that day in september.
December 2, 2009 at 8:18 pm
So it was the first at school and i was walking to my 3rd period class, and i saw one of my ‘friends’ in front of me. So i run behind her and give her a REALLLYYY big hugg, and we started laughing. Right when she turned around I didn’t have a clue who she was, so we stood there for like a minute until I said sorry and ran off.
What made it even more akward was that she ended up being my algebra class
December 2, 2009 at 8:25 pm
back in freshmen year, my friend really liked this girl, and he wanted to ask her out, but he was scared. of all people, he came to me for advice. personally,i didn’t know much on what to do, but as a friend, i was there to support him. i tried the best i could to calm his fears by interpreting what i know and applying it to this situation. the conversation itself was awkward. but it’s something we both could look back and laugh about.
me: “dood, you have to get over this fear you have. it’s not that much of a bid deal.”
friend: “i can’t! i’m… afraid. why can’t i be brave like you?”
me: “i’m not that brave. i use to be afraid of a lot of things: girls, thunder and mail boxes.”
friend: “you were afraid of mailboxes?”
me: “i had a dream that when i went to get my mail, the mail box would close up by itself, tearing off my hands. so i conquered my fears and ripped the lid off every mailbox in the neighborhood”
friend: “THAT WAS YOU?!”
the story has a good ending, he ended up with the girl by using my story as a conversation starter.
it’s not easy being cupid! <3