Work Buddies

so yesterday i was in the grocery store with some friends and i saw this guy that i had worked with all last year and over the summer at the bagel place.

he was at the register and i was walking by and he and i made eye contact, so i waved. however, right as i waved he looked away, so i was standing with my friends waving awkwardly to the back of someones head.

at this point normal people would probably just keep walking and pretend like it didnt happen, but being sad that he didnt see my wave i decided to express my sadness out loud by saying "aww, bummer..." at which point all the people around me noticed that i was now waving to no one.

maybe he was pretending not to know me...in which case, thats understandable.

Oh, hey

so today, i was walking with my family back to our car and i saw a girl i know hanging out with a guy on the way back. and i have not talked to this girl in approximately 7 years, and when i did talk to her, she didnt like me very much. i once called her and when i was like hey its me! and said my name, she didn't recognize my name even though we had gone to hebrew school and seen each other twice a week, plus hung out at random events for about 2 years together.

anyway, so i kind of stared her down to the point where we both were forced to acknowledge each other. but then we were that awkward distance where there was still a lot of space between our two groups of people, so we are forced to have an awkward interaction from a distance where we needed to have a lot to talk about to make it less weird.

but instead we have this:

her: "uh.. hey"
me: "hey"
loooong pause as we slowly start to walk past them.
me: "how are you?"
her: "good"
long pause as we walk all the way by.

we did not say bye. i dont think we really missed each other...

HS States

so at high school states for frisbee, i was staying at a friends parents house.

i had never met them before so we are all being introduced and shaking hands with everyone else and doing other normal meeting things.

so by the time i go to shake their hands, they are both standing the same distance away from me, so i dont know whose hand to reach for first.

so i just sort of stick my hand out to both of them at the same time.

and so they both grabbed my hand at the same time and i didnt really know what to do since i had never met either of these people before today and now i was awkwardly holding both their hands at the same time while still trying to introduce myself to them.

and then i got laughed at a lot.

Cold Hands

so i was at a gathering of friends, and i was holding a cup with ice in it.

and one of my friends went to introduce her sister to me, and i was going to shake her hand, as normal people tend to do, but as i went to extend my hand, i realized that it was really cold, and that would be rude to extend a cold hand. so i took it back. but then i had the other realization that it was rude to not shake someones hand when being introduced. so i re-extended my hand. however, at this point, she had been holding her hand out for quite a while and had already determined that i was not going to shake her hand.

i then awkwardly attempted to explain that i was very concerned about the temperature of my hand, and didnt want her to experience cold hands either.

first impressions are my forte, obviously.

Voicemail

so i had voicemail the other night. so i checked it. and it was, in a muffled tone and pretty quiet, someone talking to a pet or a dog or something saying something along the lines of "youre so cute!!! yes you are! look at you, dawww you are sooo pretty and fluffy" and such..

so naturally, i assume it is a butt dial from one of my friends who really likes pets, especially dogs.. so i called her back, and she didnt answer.

meanwhile, my other friend who is in the car with me is confused as to why i am laughing since she did not hear the voicemail, since it was on phone, and she did not listen on my phone.

so i start to tell the friend in the car why i was laughing and telling her what the voicemail said, as i call the home phone of the person who i think left me the message.

thus, as her home phone is ringing i am saying "youre so cute!! yes you are! soo pretty, soo cute look at you!" and then there is a momentary pause, where i realize the phone has stopped ringing a few seconds ago.

and this moment of silence is when i realize that her dad has answered and i have been calling him cute and pretty in a very weird voice.

the conversation was pretty short after that.

Holding the Door

so someone in front of me on the way into a building was holding the door for me, so i said thanks and went to hold it for the person behind me.

and right as they got within reaching distance of the door i tripped over the threshold into the building and stumbled halfway into the building.

coordination is one of my strong suits.

Regionals

so this weekend it was regionals, and we made it to nationals (huzzzzahhh!!) but anyway..

we played UVA on saturday, last game of the day. and afterwards, they came by to give me a pair of sunglasses for a good game.

and i was really happy about this, cause sunglasses are awesome. so i gave the two captains who had walked over hugs and waved to thier team, who waved back.

and being me im like I WANT TO GIVE EVERYONE HUGS!! so i gave a general air hug in that direction, and someone said "go give all of them hugs!!"

so i sort of start to walk that way, and im still thinking YAYY HUGS, but then as i turn to walk that way i realize that there are like 20 of them. and this would take a while. so im like "nah, i shouldnt.."

so i turn back again. and then im like no, but they gave me sunglasses, thats so nice! and then i second guessed it again (triple guessed it?) and sort of spun in another circle.

meanwhile their two captains are still sort of standing there, most likely regretting giving a pair of sunglasses to the most awkward person ever, while i spin around and have an internal conversation about hugs and sunglasses to myself.

so then the two captains walked away and i ended up waving weirdly at the rest of their team for a second time. which went splendidly.