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24 Awkward Moments Illustrated By Synchronised Swimmers

"Enjoy your meal!" "You too– OH NO."

1. When someone you hate is hanging out with your BFF and you gotta play it cool.

2. When someone says hi and you reply, "Good thanks!"

3. Or when the waiter says "enjoy your meal" and you say "YOU TOO!"

4. When you think someone is waving at you, but they're waving at someone behind you.

5. When you make a damn good joke in the group chat and everyone ignores it.

6. When you're saying goodbye as a group and you all go to shake hands at once.

7. When you're lurking and you accidentally like a photo on Instagram.

8. And when you reveal you know too much about someone's life because you've been stalking their social media for weeks.

9. When you walk into a glass door and have to pretend you're okay.

10. When you're introducing someone you don't know super well and fuck up their name.

11. When you arrive first to a restaurant you've never been to before and awkwardly wait out the front for a friend to show up rather than navigate a new space alone.

12. When you end a call with a random person by saying "OK, love you".

13. When you're talking to someone and they accidentally spit on you a little and you don't know if you should react or not.

14. When you bump into some furniture...and apologise to it.

15. When you say "Nice to meet you," and someone replies, "Great to see you again".

16. When you say goodbye to someone, but then you both start walking in the same direction.

17. When you only know one person at a party, and they're about to leave you alone to talk to their other friends.

18. When you make a joke around people you don't know very well and NO ONE LAUGHS.

19. When you kinda like someone, so you tell a few white lies to impress them and now you gotta learn six years of French and how to rock climb.

20. When you're staring off into the distance, then realise you've been making eye contact with a stranger for several minutes.

21. When you write a bitchy text and send it to the person you were bitching about.

22. Or when you hit "reply all" instead of "reply".

23. When you read something funny on public transport and laugh WAY TOO LOUDLY.

24. And when you see your ex in public.

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