HEY GUYS

So today, a friend and I went over some of the things we do that make social exchange between us and other people, completely awkward. If you can relate, that makes me feel much better! Otherwise, you can just glorify the fact that you have people skills 

1.       Not understanding social cues.
Today, in the elevator, a guy in my course asked me and my friend for our names. It is something you’d ask to initiate a conversation. We did was respond, but did not ask anything in response, and did not say anything even though he had sort of prompted us to. SO for the remaining 14 floors, the tension in the lift was sliceable. It was only when we exited the building that we realised we could have said something.

2.       The whole smile and nod thing
ok so I admit it, and if you know me, you’d probably know that I tend to black out a lot in the middle of a conversation, and I tend to drift off while you would be talking about something. If something catches my attention, I’d ask you to backtrack a little. When around people I do not know very well, I still go blank during conversations, but I would smile and nod when my attention is called on. that tends to get awkward when the person realises they had been talking for nothing really…

3.       Having no good sarcastic comebacks or cool witty insults
I think this one is fairly self-explanatory. Sorry, but I ain’t no Chandler Bing. (

4.       When you say something that goes unheard
you: “OMG HI!!”
person: **keeps walking**
you: (turn to other people) haha ok then

5.       Test marks
when we get marks for tests back, and there is this rush to find out what everybody got, and then you loudly complain about your mark, only to find that you did better than somebody else, making you feel extremely ungrateful and rude.

There are way, way more scenarios that make me wish the ground would swallow me, but it’s 10:30pm and I am beat.

SIGNING OUT,

Your chica Zahraa