Awkward Silence

[Ezzay]

So I replied to another thread with this, and it gave me an idea for this thread you see before you now.

I am calling on you all to post here, a moment of your life where you have had the worst Awkward Silence ever. Job Interviews, meeting people for the first time, waking up to something strange, these are a few examples.

Allow me to start.

Now my friends and I decided to meet at someones house and pull an all nighter, gaming, drinking, the lot, great night for the parts I can remember. But here is where the bad part comes in, I awoke the next morning and lay in bed for a second, before turning over and seeing my friends sister, lying in bed next to me. What made this ever worse is the fact she woke up at the same time I did.

Now there was a good 30 seconds of staring at each other in silence, before I worked up the courage to say good morning.

And yes, we snuggled for a little while after that

Well that's mine, give me your best shot, see who can beat me.

 

[Froobyx]

It was my dads birthday yesterday and the first time I properly met his girlfriend, we went down to the pub for lunch and while dad went and ordered food me and her were talking about stuff, then just stopped talking and started looking somewhere else.

 

[XJ-0461]

Any waiting room. Anywhere. Anytime. There is nothing as awkward as a waiting room.

 

[Vrex360]

Well I attended an Alchoholics Anonymous meeting to support a family member with a drinking problem. Someone there mistook me for a drinker and asked me how I got started drinking beer, to which I said:

"I don't drink beer, I hate beer. It tastes like the vaginal discharge of a venerial disease carrying whore."

Yeah..... the place was quiet after that.

 

[Rascarin]

The worst for me was probably the silence following the phrase "No... who is this?" after prank calling my friend (and saying something awful). Turns out it was my friends mother that answered.

I hung up.

 

[About To Crash]

When I was hanging around with my friends and we all thought dead baby jokes were still funny, there were a few new people there who I didn't know, so I decided to try to break the ice with a stillborn child joke. Turns out they were girl and boyfriend who had been pregnant and had a stillborn child less than a month ago.

Gotta say, I'm glad I no longer find those jokes funny.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

When I was hanging around with my friends and we all thought dead baby jokes were still funny, there were a few new people there who I didn't know, so I decided to try to break the ice with a stillborn child joke. Turns out they were girl and boyfriend who had been pregnant and had a stillborn child less than a month ago.

Gotta say, I'm glad I no longer find those jokes funny.

i feel for you i really do, while dead baby jokes are a dick move to begin with, this is just....my god i can't even begin to imagine how bad you felt

 

[Pimppeter2]

I dunno, I woke up on my friends bed with his sister next to me. We didn't do it, but my hands were in her pants. I would still drink that shit, mostly because I love redbull

 

[Anachronism]

Don't know what the worse one was, but any time I meet new people there are awkward silences. I'm not exactly a "people person", and I'm not very good at meeting new people unless I already know at least one of them. If that's the case, I'm fine, because I can join in conversations they're involved in, and I don't feel nearly so self-conscious. If, however, it's just me and a group of people I've never met before, I usually end up trying to break the tension by doing this.

It rarely goes well.

"I don't drink beer, I hate beer. It tastes like the vaginal discharge of a venerial disease carrying whore."

I have to say, you definitely win the prize for the best spontaneous response. Very few people could claim to have said something like that without rehearsing it beforehand. Bravo.

 

[Beefcakes]

This is what I was going to post, hehe
Solves most situations...

But yeah, is it wrong to sometimes have awkward silences with family members?
Sometimes it happens to me :S
Eh, I'm usually good with randoms and friends though, so all good...

 

[eatenbyagrue]

"I don't drink beer, I hate beer. It tastes like the vaginal discharge of a venerial disease carrying whore."

I have to say, you definitely win the prize for the best spontaneous response. Very few people could claim to have said something like that without rehearsing it beforehand. Bravo.

Which brings up the question of "What does the vaginal discharge of a venereal disease carrying whore taste like?" and "How do we go about testing that?" (aside from the obvious)


I was being a nice guy and driving a classmate home (it was getting late, parts of the school were flooded due to rain, and I'm a sucker like that), I decide to strike a conversation when my iPod (connected to the car radio) started playing that Marvin Gaye song that plays whenever people are about to have sex ("Let's Get It On"). I mash the "next" button, only to be hit by James Brown's (god bless his soul) "Sex Machine", and then after mashing next, Sir Mixalot's "Baby Got Back" (better known as the song where he espouses his love for large posteriors).

Needless to say, I spent the rest of the ride incredibly quiet.

Seriously folks, I kind of thought this thing only happens in either cartoons or sitcoms.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Getting a wee bit inepriated and waking up to find me lying next to my ex after a party. She seemed to think we were back together again, and when I'd realized what had happened, I just got dressed, and left for work, not saying anything, not looking at her, making no motions of the sort. She tried texting me a few times that day, but that whole day was like a day full of akward silences, to have not talked to her since. That was so akward it hurt...

 

[Bernzz]

Conversations with yours truly involved always have awkward silences, even if nothing awkward was said...

...yeah......

...see what I mean?

 

[The_Healer]

This is what I was going to post, hehe
Solves most situations...

But yeah, is it wrong to sometimes have awkward silences with family members?
Sometimes it happens to me :S
Eh, I'm usually good with randoms and friends though, so all good...

The worst ones are with some of the radio ads here (Australia) for medication that stops premature ejaculation. When it comes on in the car with your parents.... oh dear.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Talking to a friend's family or a family member of my own i don't know well. Normally goes.
Me: Morning/afternoon how are you?
Him/Her: Good how are you?
Me: good thanks
Both:

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

Walking in on my friend's mum while she was naked and dripping wet from the shower.
I was staying the whole night.
So I had to deal with the awkward silence all night. Including from my friend.

Also.

I have a habit of having a restless leg that bounces when I'm bored.
I also have a habit of dozing a little in class.
I had my hand at somewhere near groin level, held loosely, resting on my leg.
The lesson was boring, so my leg was doing its usual bounce. And my head had lolled a little from the boredom.
When the next question was directed at me I realised a silence had taken the class.
This was because, when they looked over at me, my head was back, eyes shut and mouth slightly open, hand bouncing around at groin level in a sort of gripping shape because it was relaxed at an angle. And the whole class had turned to see this scene at once.

Yeah..
I create awkward moments like a professional.

 

[Beefcakes]

The worst ones are with some of the radio ads here (Australia) for medication that stops premature ejaculation. When it comes on in the car with your parents.... oh dear.

I know how you feel
It also happens on bus trips with schools...
Mmm, all the kids laugh, but the teachers aren't so amused...
I guess thats not an awkward silence then, hey
Well, damn

 

[Skeleon]

Silence can be awkward?

 

[Disaster Button]

It depends with me, I think usually when meeting new people, although I haven't had an awkward moment in awhile, probly because I'm not as insecure as I used to be. That and I used to think all silences were awkward back then, which I've now learned differently. But sometimes when meeting new people it can be really awkward for me.

Like one time when I sat next to this girl in science class (a couple years ago) it was quiet for about 5 minutes so I asked her what music she was into, the rest of the hour was silent. It was pretty awkward. I've probly had worse but that springs to mine at the minute.

Thankfully I'm better at this now but I still suffer times of awkwardness, but that's life. Besides if things get too awkward I'll just say something random which usually gets things going. Usually

 

[Verp]

There was this one time when the silence wouldn't have been awkward if a certain someone hadn't been so fixated on having a conversation.

When I was in senior secondary, it was common to not have every slot in the study programme filled, so you'd have an occasional hour or two with nothing to do. So students would usually just loiter around the hall and the library. I was having one of these hours. Usually I drew, read, or took a nap. But this time, among the loitering students doing their own business there was a Canadian exchange student. I kind of sort of knew her but didn't, but because she recognised me from biology classes, she decided to talk with me. I would've rather done my own thing, but I didn't want to be impolite so I went with it.

It didn't go well. We didn't have anything in common to talk about, so it was just shallow small talk. The conversation kept dying and every time silence fell to the hall and I thought we were finally through, she decided to necro it. Everyone in the hall heard us and judging from the occasional glance shot our way, they could tell that the situation was very forced. So it was an extremely uncomfortable hour with small spurts of conversation and lots of silence between them.

Um, it's not bad to just be quiet if you don't have anything to say, really.