Whenever I see this happen, if possible I make eye contact/nod/show interest so they can finish their story to me. It's the whole 'treat others how you'd like to be treated' thing

And this goes well only for a little while, because of course, every damn time a third person appears at some point and you have to interduce them, admitting that you don't know their name.

The last one lol. I often have to ask my dad to repeat himself because he is a mumbler, but he gets annoyed if you ask him to repeat more than once.

Or asthma/copd ^-^ i get dirty looks from ppl when i cough (I'm wearing a mask, it's not covid!)

This isn't awkward. It's just rude and at some point I'd tell them to stop it.

My husband does this to me, always when I don't have my purse/$

Oh, geez. You stand there and smile, until you remember a good excuse to excuse yourself.

Wave again, look past them, pause, nod, walk away....

Been there, done that.

:( Why is this so relatable

That's me every single time. I can literally be in the middle and I'll somehow get pushed out...

The third wheel....

Why is this always me

In such situations, I go before them. This way I look like a leader of a gang, not an outsider.

Also when you're walking on the sidewalk and your friend won't move over from the middle so you have to walk behind them when there is plenty of room for the both of you. Ugh

Four more better than three

Or when there is three people at a sleepover and someone needs to have the floor...

We always make room. One if us hops onto the road(very near the side walk). Or one of us speeds up to move forward while talking over our shoulder. Specially for the one whose been quiet for a while

So many of these things I find relatable and find myself commenting 'OMG me too!' This is yet another one of them.

I never fit...😞

i don't care much about that tbh

It will be the smallest drop that triggers a coughing fit.

When we were doing treks in the jungle, at base camp they had some super expensive eco toilet that does everything a sewage works does in one unit. My wife got really ill and singlehandedly destroyed the thing. Because she's such a shy introvert when she told me I went straight in there, waited around half an hour, came out and declared to the camp 'I've busted the shitter!'

This! I find it really super, super awkward having happy birthday or something else sung to me and I always tell this very openly. However, people (especially my choir, as you can imagine) INSIST on doing so nonetheless - because, hey, it is my birthday and that is the custom. Yes, it is my birthday - shouldn't you, maybe, do something nice for me? Not something I really dislike very very much? What is the point in this, do people enjoy it so much making the birthday girl feel uncomfortable?

This doesn't get easier either. I'm 50 and watching Bridgerton and worse, GOT, with my mother was brutal.

Yes! Why DO we all do this?

Really gets me...

With the second one, that's when I start making fun of myself to alleviate the humiliation.

Just wait till you get older and peeing while coughing or sneezing becomes a thing. That is worse

I always say "or not" and then ignore them

Absolutely.. i hate these ppl..

I would say something like "come on, stomach, don't embarrass me like that" and hope they will laugh

Natural reaction, nothing to see here

This is why I love paying with card.

It's more than just awkward when you're going for a walk in the woods and you're a guy walking behind a slightly slower female. Scary for her, uncomfortable for me. I usually jog past her to get it over with as quickly as possible and say something friendly when I pass her. Still. Uncomfortable. 😬

This should be higher !!!!

I just wait till I get home

I'm guilty of doing this on purpose and even continuing part of the discussion until I can't follow anymore (get into specifics) but I do it quietly so I don't get heard... Silly I know, but it is what it is...

Three rather deaf old ladies walking down the street. "Windy isn't it", said the first. "No, it's Thursday", said the second. "So am I, let's all go and have a cup of tea", said the third. :D

That weird flat smile is an artform unto itself! It takes moments to learn but years to master! 😁

Oh yeah-or leaving a cubicle that was filthy before you got there and someone is about to go in behind you...

When this happens, I just turn and run as fast as I can

I listen out to hear if there's a pattern. If you've never met them before, it's possible their mispronunciation is the result of a speech impediment, so I try to reserve judgement until I know whether they genuinely don't know the word, or they cannot wrap their mouth around S and X separately.

I heard people confess that sometimes I make jokes that make them pondering and take them a couple of days to understand and then finally laugh out of nowhere.

The punchline isn't fun because nobody listened to the rest, and the rest isn't fun because everyone already knows the punchline.

I guess the other way around would be even more awkward (with the father yelling and the mother walking in...)

Only to be the only one who doesn't get to see it, too 😂

One thing I've learned is that there are good times and bad times for small talk with patients. This is defiantly a bad time.

The big dramatic pause while it decides if it accepts or declines feels like forever, regardless of my balance

Turn on the tap and there's a f*****g spoon in the sink.