Hi, I'm Andrea Allen

make it more awkward

My friend Miller wrote about some minor awkward moments he’s experienced.

I used to feel and do the same things he describes in his post —

Aaron and I aren’t the kind of friends that would see each other from a distance and start acting silly, and we were both waiting by ourselves, so we both pretended to have no idea the other was waiting to cross the street and distracted ourselves in any way possible. I almost took out my phone to call or text someone but if i did that i might as well have just made a big banner in all capital letters that said, “AARON, I’M VERY AWARE THAT YOU’RE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET AND I’M GOING TO DO MY BEST TO PRETEND NOT TO SEE YOU UNTIL WE’RE CROSSING PATHS”.

But now I am going out of my way to make situations like that even more awkward.

This weekend at a bar, the dude I was sitting with was talking about a crazy guy on the other side of the bar. He foolishly pointed instead of using the “pretend-we’re-on-a-giant-clock-and-you’re-facing-the-twelve” method. Well some biker people mistakingly thought dude was pointing at them and so pointed back at us and stared for a while.

I immediately went into make it more awkward mode and started a series of grand gestures to indicate that the person dude was pointing to was BEHIND THEM and dude was pointing OVER YOUR HEADS. And ISN’T THAT JUST HILARIOUS?

The pointer guy decided to get up after that and go talk to someone else for a while.