Do you ever try to avoid certain situations because they're AWKWARD only to see other people in those situations, and look completely unfazed? THIS is for you.
Someone conducted a poll online, where they asked about nine common situations and asked if people found them awkward or not. Here are the results:
1. When a stranger asks you for directions. Only 32% say it's awkward.
2. Making eye contact with someone you don't know. 54% say it's awkward.
3. When you're playing with your phone and random kids watch over your shoulder. 76% say it's awkward. (I guess it also depends who these "random kids" are. Maybe at a family gathering or a sporting event?)
4. When you have to think of your order on the spot in front of the cashier in a restaurant. 76% say it's awkward.
5. Trying to make conversation with the cab- or ride-share driver. 80% say it's awkward.
6. Having to put your change in your wallet while people wait in line behind you. 80% find it awkward.
7. When you're taking a test and the teacher looks at your paper, and watches you work. 87% say it's awkward.
8. Standing at the grocery store counter after your shopping partner leaves because they forgot something. 88% say it's awkward.
9. When you've been coughing a lot in public so you have to hold it in. 91% say it's awkward.
(Buzzfeed)