Oh my gosh I’ve done this before… Super embarrassing, and it was with a total random stranger.

I totally agree, i'm glad to live in the smartphone era for this one.

"Speed up, tardigrade, I'm not gonna do this forever!" - in 11th grade, I think, I held open a door for a girl in my class. Pretty early in the year, we barely knew each other, so she proceeded through the door and then took a surprising trajectory, that pretty much just defeats walking through the door. She didn't want to turn down the favor, but had a different destination than I thought, because she and her friend were just ending a small hallway conversation. Friend disappeared into a door right before the one I held open, into a room, and she seemed to feel kinda stuck. We had a good laugh, nothing else happened. Not even one single person clapped, although at least 2 or so saw it.

Or singing.

Just nod in agreement

I don't mind! Happens to me all of the time. I'm kind of 'the approuchable woman' Ik think. "I hate all those people here! Dont't hate you. I like you!" "Well, thanks! I don't hate you either! Good day for both of us don't you think?" "Think so..." And of he went. "You look just like my daughter, are you my daughter?" "Don't think so. I know my family." Man was Chinese and 1,50 meters. I'm Kaukasian, 1,72.

I do this with everyone. Young and old.

I can hear, I just have trouble understanding. I avoid talking on the phone because of this. I'm embarrassed asking the person to repeat what they've said.

... especially if they're speaking with a heavy accent that doesn't match your own. Around here, we're pretty lucky, as the german the natives speak around here is considered the most correct one ... the one closest matching written german, both in grammar and wording, so we have a bit of an advantage over, say, a Bavarian who's trying to understand a toothless saxon. Have'em both drunk, and they could live on opposite places on earth. Now, they're seperated by only a few hundred km, and the border is open since 35 years, but still - in both directions, this may result in very limited understanding. If they're also old ... just ... nod in agreement, as troufaki13 already said. Works out most times, you won't likely end up with unexpected obligations, and if you don't understand a single word, and never will see them again - just leave. "Have to feed the cat, sorry man, can't stay!".

Or worse, when don't have their hearing aid in, and you're literally yelling at them.

Or a child

Some day that will be u

Just another agist post on BP.

Or maybe if stores didn't unload work that they used to do onto their customers this wouldn't be an issue. I feel no guilt for this.

I close my eyes. Tell him beforehand that I want him to tell me what exact he's doing, as that calms me. Also - Valium. It's great to fall asleep when they're removing a tooth's root, you know... Way better than awake!

pick one and commit

🤣🤣🤣

Showering at a friends house and u can’t figure out the shower

And you do that weird scrunched up face with the mouth stretching but still closed and eyes bugging out the head... Yeah, that's one that happens all too often

100x intentionally did this to make the speaker fell better

I don't like that. I just say thanks and move onto something else.

My wife and MIL each say "yeah, alright, okay, bye, okay" one after another. Goes on forever... Just say bye then *click* 😩

I think supermarkets should give us a 10% discount for using these, seeing as we're doing the fecking work ourselves...

I don't get this one AT ALL.

*w@nking off

When YOU get someone's name wrong.

pro at this one

When you say goodbye to someone and then go to the same direction

*accidentally* 🤭

As a waitress myself I also find this extremely awkward..or if I'm handing out food and they don't stop the conversation to tell me who ordered what it's extremely annoying and embarrassing

Or waking up last and feels like everyone stares at you and you panic thinking you've been talking in sleep.

When I forget my glasses and need to find someone in the crowd but I’m actually blind

Oh this too relateable

OMG I thought something was wrong with me cause this happens to me all the time and it’s so embarrassing! Today I learnt I’m not alone in this! The most annoying part about this is that this so called burp sound comes out so loud and also you don’t feel it building up so you don’t have time to suppress it.

And they have the strongest coffee breath but their cool so you say screw it

Or having to lie back on that weird paper covered table at the doctor, especially in a smock.

so just continue the conversation with an imaginary person as though the other person doesn't exist