22 Awkward Moments: How You Should React Vs. How You Want To React

    Because it's not socially acceptable to just run away.

    1. Making small talk while getting a haircut.

    2. Being the first one to get to a restaurant and waiting around awkwardly.

    3. Awkwardly standing with a stranger in an elevator.

    4. Dancing with the appropriate amount of enthusiasm.

    5. Greeting someone and fumbling the handshake.

    6. Entering a party on your own and standing around with no-one to talk to.

    7. Saying goodbye to someone, and then realising they're going the same direction as you.

    8. Not being able to deal with a possible cheek kiss when meeting someone.

    9. Being left alone with a friend of a friend that you don't really know.

    10. Leaving a party when you're not sure where the people you know are.

    11. Joining a group of people and desperately trying to find something to say so you can participate in the conversation.

    12. Realizing you're walking near someone you know.

    13. Realizing you're walking the wrong way down the street.

    14. Realizing a story isn't as funny as you thought it was halfway through.

    15. When someone calls instead of texts.

    16. Telling someone an amazing story and then realizing that they'd told you it originally.

    17. Forgetting someone's name when introducing them.

    18. Seeing a colleague on the way to work.

    19. Waving back to someone you don't know.

    20. Running into someone at a supermarket, and then continuing to meet them in every single aisle.

    21. Accidentally touching hands with a stranger on public transport.

    22. Messing up the system in a coffee shop and causing chaos for everyone.