(Apperently Awkward is a very common word to write wrong, it's written Awkward, but people write it akward alot. I looked it up.)
One of the moments that I usually sumble over when it comes to awkward silence is when you're walking with your friend somewhere, and you're about to go seperate ways, you think, so you say good bye, and the other one thinks that you're going somewhere else too, since you said good bye, so he says good bye to, and then you both keep walking next to each other, there nothing more to say, since you both said good bye, and that's the way our mind thinks too, when you've said good bye, that's it, no more talk.
Other moments are when a bunch of friends are just talking about things, not anything that have happened or something like that, just simple things you like to do, you know like "After I wake up I like to drink a glass of Coca-Cola" just something like that, and one of your friends says something like this "After I've taken a bath I enjoy to take a s**t." At that moment everybody shuts up, and it's not hard to read the bath-shiting guy's feelings at that moment, just look at his eyes and you can read "I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT! HOLY ********!" And everybody else don't know what to say, either because that was to much information to take or they actually want to top what your friend just said, but it ain't that easy.
Then there's a pretty well known one; When you're late and you see an old friends so you say "hello" And you're friend says "hello" and stops. Then you've have to stop too, you can't keep on walking, that's just rude, so you stop and your friend asks "How's it going?" and you answer "Okey", but you can't think of anything else than you're late, and you can tell that your friend is waiting for the same question as you got, you know "What's up?" but you can't say that, because you're in a hurry, so nobody says anything... Untill somebody says "Well, I've got to go"
When I come up in situations like these, I really feel awkward, and I sometimes just try my best and then walk away, but sometimes you can't walk away from it, like when you're on a bus and you're sitting next to a somebody you know and that awkward silence comes, that's when you need an excuse for not talking, you know. I always go with the "I'm so sleepy, so my eyes are closing" I fake going to sleep and then wake up again, it seems to work too, other excuses maybe "My throat hurts so I can't talk that much", but it doesn't work unless you're sick, if you can't do any of these things there are always other things to do.
There are always the "Avoid awkward silence" talks, either if you know that there will be an awkward silence moment or there is an awkward silence moment, there are certain talks that are universal for almost everybody, and they are all started by simple questions or a start line, and everybody has heard some of them, but not all of those I've heard;
- Nice weather today?
Nice weather yesterday?
Did you know that they ate dogs in China?
So, herpes gotta suck, huh?
I was playing around with my fake dogshit the other day...
You know, when you're in the shower at school and somebody drops the soap...
Do you know what I found in my dog's s**t the other day?
Do you know where the pshycics get their crystalballs from?
I was doing my Elvis impression when this bird crapped in my hair and...
Do you answer the phone while you're on the toilet?
There's always a way out of the awkward silence.
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