Tag: awkward
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No Explanations Given
Those couple hours in the morning before anyone else shows up are nice and quiet and productive. And I get to drive to work at a time when there’s no bad traffic. (Unfortunately, at this time of year, it is apparently also a time that robins are swooping across the highway.)
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That’s A Nice Chair
Total strangers were taking chairs for a spin in the office space they were going to be in after the office move. Unfortunately for them, people are attached to their specific nice chairs, and those chairs will not be inherited with the room. Also, no points for subtlety.
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Invisible Girl Scouts
They’re just kids! The girl scouts do receive specific guidance to try to prevent their being a nuisance like to not ask people on their way into the store and not to hound people who don’t want to buy. So if you just say “no, thank you” you should be able to escape unscathed.
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Dangerously Grumpy
Later, when my son heard of this exchange, he told his sister: “That is very rude.” She responded immediately, with zero remorse, “She’s dangerously grumpy.” Like, “Yeah, so? I said what I said.”
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Family Gathering Guess Who
Pretty sure something similar has happened to me with other parents assuming our kids knew each other but actually we had no reason to be talking.
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Scheduling Divisions
I am sure that the company would prefer if you could avoid filling out your annual job satisfaction survey right after a really bad on-call loop.
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Parental Leave
Yeah, that’s right: I’m taking a day off for each time I went through labor. Every year. Forever.
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Party Crashers
Maybe it seems weird to imagine attending a stranger’s birthday party and nobody realizing it, but especially for those younger kid parties: you might not have ever met any of the parents or the other kids. Fun fact: little kids can be hilariously bad at identifying people! Trust but verify.
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Stalk Photo
So imagine you’re at work while your spouse is keeping track of your children when an unknown number texts you a photo of one of your children without a clear location-identifying background or other people in it and no context.
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Know Your Audience
On the plus side, my kids’ hearing has been fine so far. Which means they have been tuning me out with a mental rather than physical filter.