Today’s NOT is about awkward social/conversational faux pas moments.
I’ll start (two of these are mine):
- At a recent BBQ, an acquaintance pointed out to everyone that the host’s daughter looked like a dead ringer for the host’s ex-wife who violently decoupled (aided by an army of mean lawyers) with the host. I glanced around to see everyone else’s reaction because I was looking at the acquaintance “Dude, WTF?!?” I wasn’t the only one. Fortunately, there were no other social inepticons taking the bait (I might not be the swiftest swiffer in the box, but even I picked that one up on contact.)
- A couple of years back I was asked about my opinion about a particular supervisor. I gave a pretty blunt assessment which was pretty standard (he was an average supervisor), but I made it quite clear that I was unhappy with his habit of making nitpicking comments about the state/quality of work. Well, guess who was rounding the corner in the hallway? Awkward silence as he tried not to look at me. My coworker was trying not to laugh at both of us.
- Long ago in university I bumped into someone I was sort of close to in first year. We were catching up and in the midst of that I asked if he had moved on from his (quoting his words) “horrible terrible rotten” ex. He looked at me quite funny and said “She just moved in with me.” Awkward. Strangely, I was not invited to the wedding and not surprisingly they divorced a while back (not the Host, BTW.)
Or if you have a moment you want to be judged or critiqued by all means please share…
Also Open Threat/Thread!
I may have told this story here before. I once single handedly ruined a New Year’s Eve party when I was introduced to a guy’s wife. I proceeded to tell her I’d met her before. She insisted we hadn’t and I reminded her of the time and place. After which she began screaming at her husband because it was apparently his side piece. Guy definitely had a type because they looked remarkably similar. It turned into a huge fight and people started leaving. Several of them were angry at me but how was I supposed to know he was cheating? Anyway the party was over by 10pm, lol. I felt bad for inadvertently telling her something that hurt her. But I don’t really think it was my fault the party went bust.
Oy. That’s one for the books. I hope you were invited back (or like me shunned forever.)
Otherwise the party would have been mostly passive aggressive mutterings and knowing smiles. At least you made it memorable.
I stayed friends with most of the group for years. I never saw the guy, his wife, or girlfriend ever again, lol. He was a friend of friends and didn’t come around much before that.
That’s good though.
I’ve been shunned/kicked out of social groups for less… /sigh/
I’m pretty smooth in social situations. I just keep my goddamn mouth shut.
Or, as they say in the BBC police procedurals that I like to watch, I keep myself to myself.
Do you leave early too? I try really hard to never be in the last few hangers on and, to have gotten clear well before the host starts washing dishes and taking out the trash.
I used to try and be the last annoying guest till I met someone more desperate/FOMO than I and realized how annoying I was.
Now I’m in the middle of the pack. I leave when most people leave.
Smarter person than I.
who the fuck are you?
farscy to family any given year
im bad at faces and names and say fuck a lot
british side of the fam thinks it funny….dutch side not so much
At least you get invited to family reunions still?
been a while tbh
Probably told this story but spending Xmas with German girlfriend & her extended family of Germans. They all moved to Hawaii from Germany but spent the whole evening complaining how much better it was in Germany. Finally I had enough & said “why the fuck are you all here then? Why don’t you go the fuck back?” Needless to say, that didn’t go so well & I showed myself out.
That’s pretty good.
I get that some things aren’t quite the way they’re used to, but they’re living in Hawaii!
was that relevant to anything… no…. did i want to share it,,,yes
you know……ive never heard that one before
you’ve just popped my cake cherry
anyways….. im totally not memorizing the bass line
nope not doing it
pretty sure i could play it tho….. fuck thats sweet
Nice horn too.
Guy has a serious Aaron Paul vibe.
Cake puts on a great live show! Saw them back in my 20s.
Wait, WHAAAAAT?!?!?!???
FARSCY!!!! You don’t know Cake?!?
🤯🤯🤯
HOW?
Just, HOW?😲😳🤯
You NEED Fashion Nugget in your life!!!
That album practically *IS* you, in my headcannon, my friend–GREAT swingy music, EXCELLENT beats, AND ALL THE CAR SONGS!!!
Stick Shifts and Safety Belts, the aforementioned Going the Distance, and Race Car Ya-Yas!!!
And the BEST not-Willie version of Sad Songs & Waltzes *EVER*!!!
Cake is AWESOME!😉😁🤗💞
lol…probably one of them europe things
some things dont make it big here
also possible they made it big here in my party years….in which case i just missed them in the drug fueled haze
Back like 15 years ago I was at a friend’s wedding. Location was a lovely house on a lake that the owner rented out as event space.
Right at the reception, the point where the announcer says “and now announcing Mr and Mrs….” — the fucking drunk ass home owner (in his 80s) interrupted the announcer to take the microphone and talk about how fancy his house was. He was especially proud to brag about the toilet that was used by 17th century British monarchs.
That’s funny.
The one my friends used to tell was a wedding they attended when the priest asked if anyone had any objections to this holy union to speak now and forever hold their peace, the horse they used for the wedding carriage whinnied and snorted very loud at that moment to the dismay and fury of the bride (and laughter of everyone else.)
I went to an former coworker’s wedding. She was pretty liberal, her husband was pretty conservative, and the families and friends went both ways.
The idiot priest didn’t read the crowd and delivered a reading aimed solely at his side. At one point he made a snide Alito-esque comment about all of the lousy Toms, Dicks and Hillarys out there.
One side of the aisle laughed politely, one side was stone cold silent. The priest beamed, no doubt happy he had made so many people unhappy. AT A WEDDING.