There’s been at least one awkward situation in your life where the urge to crawl into a hole and never come back out was almost overpowering. In some cases, you may even need to explain yourself and give the necessary “it’s not what it looks like” spiel to get yourself out of that jam.
We’ve all been there. Some moments turn out to be memories we would want to bury deep down, but others are worth looking back on with a bunch of laughs. The stories you’re about to read may fall under either category, depending on how you look at them.
These were responses from a Reddit thread from more than a decade ago, which remains relevant today. We’d also love to hear about your own anecdotes in the comments.
#41
Mine is not so much a "I can explain" so much as a "I should've explained better".
Ok, grade 4. Rough time. Playing on the playground with a bunch of friends, some variant of tiggy. Anyway, I'm it, and am up on the top of the playground, when I see that there is a girl down below me, unaware of my current location. I jump down to go to tag her, but she starts moving as I fall, and I end up landing on her with my knee.
Said girl bursts out in tears, and yells, "I can't believe you would *kick* me!" and starts to run away, presumably to tell on me. Now, I'm a sensitive kid, but I'm also afraid of authority, and I determine that I *need* to go and fix this. So, I run after her, calling out something along the lines of "Are you ok?" as I go. To this, she responds, "No! You kicked me!"
At this point I decide that I need to clear up some facts, so I yell out, "I *kneed* you!" This repeats a couple of times, her yelling and me responding with "I *kneed* you!" until it dawns on me what it sounds like I'm saying, because I see a group of confused-looking grade seveners looking on. Again, to clear up the details, I look at them and yell out, while making a knee-ing motion with my leg, "you know, Bang, Bang?"
Seconds later I realise what all this sounds like. That was about the most embarrassment a 9 year-old could take.
Ok, grade 4. Rough time. Playing on the playground with a bunch of friends, some variant of tiggy. Anyway, I'm it, and am up on the top of the playground, when I see that there is a girl down below me, unaware of my current location. I jump down to go to tag her, but she starts moving as I fall, and I end up landing on her with my knee.
Said girl bursts out in tears, and yells, "I can't believe you would *kick* me!" and starts to run away, presumably to tell on me. Now, I'm a sensitive kid, but I'm also afraid of authority, and I determine that I *need* to go and fix this. So, I run after her, calling out something along the lines of "Are you ok?" as I go. To this, she responds, "No! You kicked me!"
At this point I decide that I need to clear up some facts, so I yell out, "I *kneed* you!" This repeats a couple of times, her yelling and me responding with "I *kneed* you!" until it dawns on me what it sounds like I'm saying, because I see a group of confused-looking grade seveners looking on. Again, to clear up the details, I look at them and yell out, while making a knee-ing motion with my leg, "you know, Bang, Bang?"
Seconds later I realise what all this sounds like. That was about the most embarrassment a 9 year-old could take.
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#42
I once got in a lift at a university halls I was visiting with a kind of drunk looking guy who had a little smile on his face, but students being students, I thought nothing of it.
As soon as the doors close he goes right in to a party boy style routine, Velcro rip off trousers and sparkly jock strap, the works. It was very funny at first so I kind of played along and danced with him, but then he proceeds to rip open my shirt and drop to his knees in front of me just as the doors open to a packed lobby, full of people waiting to go up. The shock on the frozen faces of horror lasted until the doors closed. All I managed to blurt out was "I don't even know this guy."
Probably didn't look great.
As soon as the doors close he goes right in to a party boy style routine, Velcro rip off trousers and sparkly jock strap, the works. It was very funny at first so I kind of played along and danced with him, but then he proceeds to rip open my shirt and drop to his knees in front of me just as the doors open to a packed lobby, full of people waiting to go up. The shock on the frozen faces of horror lasted until the doors closed. All I managed to blurt out was "I don't even know this guy."
Probably didn't look great.
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#43
Heard this one story where professional wreslters pulled practical jokes on each other. I forgot who it was but there was this one story a pro wreslter was driving to San Francisco with another pro wrestler he was giving a ride to in the back of his car. When he was crossing the Golden Gate Bridge he saw in his rear view mirror a bunch of police cars following him with their lights flashing. So he pulls over to let them pass but the police stay behind him. So he turns around to see what's going on and there is his friend in the back seat, pretending his hands were tied behind his back and a sock jammed in his mouth and looking like he's screaming for help.
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#44
I went to a concert about a month back and one of my friends got really hammered. I had to stand next to him near the bar to hold him up so he wouldn't get kicked out. Only ten minutes into the show and he totally grabs this girls [behind] who stands in front of us.
She and her friends, including boyfriend, all turn around and I reacted quickly by explaining what happened. Only it was incredibly loud, with the band playing, and they figured it was just me.
The girl threw her entire drink, straight up tequila, right into my face. I spent the next ten minutes completely blind and I got kicked out.
She and her friends, including boyfriend, all turn around and I reacted quickly by explaining what happened. Only it was incredibly loud, with the band playing, and they figured it was just me.
The girl threw her entire drink, straight up tequila, right into my face. I spent the next ten minutes completely blind and I got kicked out.
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#45
Once we were filming a fake informercial for a fake product in english class, and we decided to add (fake) interviews with random funny background events, like a couple kissing _very_ passionately, a guy waving to the camera and getting hit by a telephone post, and a guy getting robbed and beated down... and on that one a police car just passed by and we had to explain it.
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#46
In the 90's I played this game called--I think--Fantasmagoria. I got stuck so I got permission from my parents to call one of those official hint lines. A month or two later my brother and I are getting grilled as to who ran up the phone bill calling "Virgin Entertainment". We were both punished and I didn't figure out what was going on till weeks later when I was looking at the game box and noticed that it was published by Virgin.
EDIT: I confronted her with my evidence way after the punishment. I basically just got a, "oh, thats nice." Pissed me off...
EDIT: I confronted her with my evidence way after the punishment. I basically just got a, "oh, thats nice." Pissed me off...
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#47
I was recently walking home, and saw a bunch of bird [dropping] on the sidewalk in front of me. I heard birds in the trees above, so I decided to walk around the drop zone, which put me in the street. As I stepped into the street, I noticed a mid-to-late twenties black gentleman walking the opposite way on the sidewalk.
I have never received a look of disgust that great at any other time in my life.
I have never received a look of disgust that great at any other time in my life.
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#48
Class mates were playing with a small ball in corridor, annoyed teacher shout several times at them, ask them to stop immediately. Those [jerks] aren't stopping at all and I don't want to be involved. I put my foot on that ball to stop it and BZOIIINNNG right in the teacher's classroom ... 4 hours of detention and a blame. Ten years later that story is still haunting me.
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#49
Wasn't really that crazy at all, but it's the only one I really have.
Stayed at a friend's place the other night because I'm a commuter and I couldn't hack going back and forth after a late night work assignment one night. He has the nicest condo I have ever seen, but also keeps it insanely dirty. He and his roommate work a lot, so they don't have time to clean it. When I woke up and ate breakfast I snapped and started cleaning his counter. I polished [it]. Granite countertops just deserve to shine, man. So when he came out of the shower with one seriously raised eyebrow looking at me scrubbing his stovetop, I was just like, "I can explain."
Unfortunately, my explanation was "I'm a neurotic freak who can't stand eating in a dirty kitchen."
If I had the time I would have cleaned his bathroom too.
Stayed at a friend's place the other night because I'm a commuter and I couldn't hack going back and forth after a late night work assignment one night. He has the nicest condo I have ever seen, but also keeps it insanely dirty. He and his roommate work a lot, so they don't have time to clean it. When I woke up and ate breakfast I snapped and started cleaning his counter. I polished [it]. Granite countertops just deserve to shine, man. So when he came out of the shower with one seriously raised eyebrow looking at me scrubbing his stovetop, I was just like, "I can explain."
Unfortunately, my explanation was "I'm a neurotic freak who can't stand eating in a dirty kitchen."
If I had the time I would have cleaned his bathroom too.
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