Like when my friends and I share the same area as two other groups, and although some of my friends know some of these people, I only know them through them. And I never use my mobile, so I get a LOT of studying done when my friends aren't around.
Having owned a penis for the past few years (found one in a cracker jack box), I can tell you that bathrooms are the social hub of penis creatures from time to time. There is a weariness of distance, and if the proximity of another penis-bearing animal crosses that threshold, then the conversation must resume another time. This is especially true for the urinal trough... As for elevators, I like to see them as song and dance time for funsies, as you'll never know if it will crash at the bottom.
If you have a wedgy, it is not socially acceptable to pick it in public, you have to quickly duck into an empty bathrrom stall, or leave it till you are able to duck into the bathroom. Also it is not socially acceptable to spell words the way they sound. You can not spell enough like enuf unless over text. The english language is confuzing
The "buffer rule" in the Men's room only applies if there are no partitions between the urinals. Even then, if there is an open one far away, you should use that before taking one next to someone. It the same with seats on the subway. Don't sit next to someone if you don't have to.
However, no one is allowed to use the shorter "kiddie" urinal.
On average, a guy spends a total of 45-60 seconds in the bathroom, from entering to leaving. Any conversation will cause considerable slow down.
@zughiaq Please tell me that 45-60 secondsalso involves washing your hands, because, as a girl, I can think of nothing more gross than using the bathroom and not washing your hands.
@SarcasticSploosh Ignoring for a moment the old adage "you don't need to wash your hands if you don't pee on them" (guys rarely touch anything in there besides their own zipper).
But yes, that time range does include washing your hands. The quick turnaround time is the main reason why the fact that girls take so long in the bathroom is one of life's biggest mysteries to us.
@zughiaq 1. The fact that that is an adage is disturbing.
2. It's almost a mystery to women as well, a lot of the time and lines is truly due to the fact that the adage "If you sprinkle while you tinkle, be sure to pick it up." is not always followed, which means one woman will find the last person in the stall didn't check the seat and she doesn't want to clean, she'll wait for a new stall to open, meanwhile another woman may walk in see what tha woman isn't going touse the stall, cont
@SarcasticSploosh cont. so she won't use it, this will continue as more women enter the bathroom, thus the extremely long lines. This is not to mention of course the time taken for the women that find it important to redo their makeup, hair, clothing (yes there are women that will change in public restrooms), and conversing ect.
When people in class try to duck under the projector in front of the class on their way to the door, attempting to avoid any excess awkwardness as adolescence already inflicts so much upon them on a daily basis, but in doing this weird little ducking/crouching tiger position they end up looking like Quasimodo on his hurried way to the bell tower
I hate when you've been sitting for a really long time, so long that your foot and or leg has fallen completely asleep, but you don't notice. So you go to stand up and walk and suddenly you've developed a limp. Alone it's fine. Crossing in front the television screen during a superbowl party? Awkward.
I worked in a national park over the summer, and with my job came cleaning the mens flushable washrooms. I think the overalls automatically made me a not-girl and also not a male figure, because I was stuck in a stall with my cleaning supplies as a guy (who couldn't wait) used the urinal. There was a thin wall between us, and to up the awkward, he tried to startup a conversation about how I'd gotten into working at a park... non-gender powered coveralls or not, there is a TIME and a PLACE.
I had a *ahem* dream about Lindsey last night. Except it never really got the *ahem* part, instead we talked about it for a half-hour and discussed the intricate ways sex colors our society. And it was still incredibly sexy. (I hope this doesn't weird you out too much, Lindsey)
I just moved back to England after living a few years in Mexico; in Mexico it's custom to kiss people on the cheek every time you say hello or goodbye, you do it automatically. When I accidentally do it in England (it's a hard habit to drop) people think you're about to rape them :/
When I trip and drop whatever I'm carrying right in front of someone I dont know, or I run into someone, I always find it really awkward. I'm a girl, and if I drop something in front of a guy I don't know it seems like I'm trying to pull a damsel-in-distress move when really I'm just clumsy X)
Shortly before moving to Vegas I lived in a small town and was always at the library. And being a small-ish town it was acceptable to talk about the books you were reading or work you were doing there.But in Vegas you get the sideways look and that person is careful to remain on the other side of the room from you at all times, some things are just not the same from city to city.
I am a boy, at my high school, it works like this: the bathroom serves two separate functions that never intersect. One: to use for the disposal of excrement. While this occurs, the bathroom serves NO OTHER FUNCTION WHATSOEVER.
Two: to be used as a convenient social gathering place, where we can hide away from class and shoot the shit or make an important private call without teachers interfering/catching us.
One of the most awkward social codes, especially this time of year, is the moment when someone gives you a present, all happy like, before Christmas. You instinctively have to go, "Oh, thanks so much! I'm still working on yours, but I know you'll love it!" And its someone you know as being like a friend's friend's friend, but they're the kind of person who gets gifts for everyone. So, then you have no idea what to get them, and now they expect your gift.
When I get to know someone well and we are not gonna see each other again for a while, and I'm not sure if a hug is appropriate for our level of friendship. The answer is almost always yes, hugs are ok, but it's awkward in the moment of decision and leave taking.
When I did theatre in high school, we did this thing called "Bathroom Tours" before dress for the musical every year, where the whole cast and crew would crowd into a girls bathroom and then a guys bathroom, and junior and senior representatives would explain all the social and physiological rituals we have.
One thing I learned is that the older a guy is, the more reckless he is with his schlong. I bet every guy here has accidentally seen a teacher's dingdong. I saw Mr. Cutts, the librarian.
@LindseytheNerdiest I haven't seen him for at least ten years! Which is extremely depressing! I remember being really traumatized for a while, but then I started learning that a LOT of kids had accidentally seen it and it was sort of a rite of passage. I mean it wasn't creepy or a pervert kind of thing, he was just honestly that reckless with his schlong... The men's restroom is a great and terrible place...
@INTPTT *Usually,* you would have to make a conscious effort to see another guy's genitals at a urinal. If it seems like it might be an exception to this rule, I generally use a stall. Also, basic human shame tells us that seriously nobody wants to see that. When you stand at a urinal, you either glue your eyes to the tiles in front of you or you concentrate on your aim, because seeing another guy's junk is as bad as someone seeing yours. But urinals are faster, easier, and quieter.
On a crowded bus where you have no other choice but sit by strangers, if you ask to sit down, they look at you weirdly, like "Duh, of course you can. Why do you need to ask?" But if you sit down without asking, they look at you like, "I don't know you, why are you sitting here, at least ask." -_-
Oh another thing about restrooms, when you are waiting in line for a free box and there is one box with the door open that every other girl in front of you, you won't go check why there is probably one unused toilet, because most of the times you wouldn't wanna know. You just suppose that there is a good reason like pee everywhere, no toilet paper or worse things.
That thing about meeting people on the sidewalk that you barely know, totally true! I go to a small college, there are a LOT of people I meet on the sidewalk or in the halls that I only sort of know. And even though it's a nice small townish like place, they're often more likely to pretend they don't see me when I wave to them. *sigh*
I apparently use the restroom like a dude. My own gender is an enigma to me, why would anyone want to talk when you're doing your business in a generally gross room?
I think they're funny and dumb, all of these unspoken social rules.
I used to strive to follow each and every one of them. Then, when I realized that I had developed an acute case of social anxiety, I got some medicine, a counselor, and started breaking as many of them as I could without being deemed rude or crazy.
The best rule to break is the eye contact/smile one. If you make eye contact and smile, while still walking with intense purpose, you don't get weird looks. Just startled half-smiles.
I take the bus a lot, and it's so funny all of the different unspoken rules on that thing. You don't look at anyone unless someone you know strikes up a conversation, at which point you act like nobody else on the bus exists so that you don't feel awkward about being the only people having a conversation. Also, when you get off the bus you can just get off silently, but if one person says "Thank you" or something to the driver, everybody behind them has to as well. I'm usually that person. XD
An awkward moment for me in the bathroom is when I'm peeing and someone walks in and I know they can obviously here the sound of my piss. Even though it's completely natural and happens to everyone, it feels awkward XD.
BTW great video, I thought the guy's bathroom "rules" was hilarious :)
When someone is obviously in need of help and you have to wait for someone else to do something before you can offer to help. My teachers are a perfect example. Everyone in my class talks and all they do is shush them unsuccessfully. So I always end up yelling "SHUT UP" because I like learning new things. Then people tell me I'm rude even though I know other people in there are thinking the exact same things I am.
Before this 8th grade dance that I went to a long time ago, we ate at this Italian restaurant. All of the girls attempted to get me to go into the bathroom. I had no idea about what girls do in the bathroom before this story, so I just said no. They kept on asking me until I finally went into the bathroom, and they were taking pictures in the bathroom....
I always start walking somewhere and then a while later realise I have gone the wrong way/forgotten something and need to turn around. However I think it will look completely crazy if after walking with such purpose in one direction I suddenly walk off in the opposite one. So I act like I have just remembered an important appointment or something and am now dismaying at my lack of memory skills as I slowly turn around. Ahhh, the things we do to avoid social awkwardness.
@indiefairytale I do that all the time! Except half the i just turn around quickly and take the stares... for all they know I'm long-distance pacing :)
Oh and another thing when you're having those reading lips conversations with your friend from across the room and the person in the middle of you thinks you're talking to them and then they go on to tell their friends how stupid you look..
What I hate is bus rides. When you get on a bus and you have nothing to do but look out the window, but you can't help it that your eyes drift off to what other people are doing and when they catch you looking they give you the death stare *shiver*.
I always seem to be lost when you get into the situation of walking along and coming across someone walking toward you in the opposite direction. Usually both of you stop, you both awkwardly move to move around eachother (never making eye contact) stepping around eachother eventually and walking on. EVERYTIME I encounter this situation, I must miss some important cue, because I always succeed in slamming into the person after the stepping around eachother step....
When you're sitting on the floor and you move your leg and your shoe makes a farting noise, and you have to quickly make the awkward "it was my shoe!" comment before repeating the motion to prove your point, occasionally made worse when your shoe doesn't make the noise the second time round
Things are a little different in the South...the codes are relaxed a bit...it is perfectly OK to smile and even say "Hi" to a stranger on the street...we don't worry about the buffer rule so much...and elevator conversations are a lot more common. Guys still don't have much in the way of conversation in the restroom, though. If someone violates the buffer rule without all the other urinals being taken, you get worried.
you know that thing where people ask you how your are just as a formality? It happens a lot with people in the service industry(think cashiers), but also with acquaintances. I always say "fantastic". It makes them smile. I kinda want to know what that smile is about.
I actually did a social deviance experiment on the walking and smiling at people thing. I walked from one side of the campus to the other and said, "hello", smiled, or just general greetings. You would have thought I was trying to make them link arms and skip across campus with me the way people would speed off after a polite hello or wave.
Oh, well. It was funny seeing people's reactions.
A lot of them whipped their phones out to avoid me speaking to them any further.
I was the kid who always had allergies. It always seemed that the worst allergy attacks that direly needed tissue happened during exams or silent reading time. And I forgot to bring tissue. So there's 4 choices. 1. make a horrible slurping noise sucking up the snot back up into your nose. 2. let the boogers drip. 3. surreptitiously use your sleeve (and then you have telling snail tracks on your sleeve all day). 4. make the walk to shame to the teacher's desk for tissue and then blow. sigh
One thing I always thought was funny was people who worked in jobs where they usually dealt with angry or irritated people. They almost always sound harsh when you first start talking to them and then you get upset. I found that the second you compliment them though, they start doing you favors and helping you get things done faster. Or saying someone's name to get their attention even though you just read it off their nametags. People are funny about who they're nice to. I like it though.
Its awkward when you're in the iffy in between state, when you walk in a door and can't tell if you should hold the door open for the next person or not by their distance away. I don't want to be rude by not holding it, but also dont want to make them do the rush run forward. I could just be making a normal situation more awkward then it needs to be though
i hate when somebody is saying grance and something really funny happenes and your trying not to laugh and you end up makeing that weird trying not to laugh but can't contain myself nosie and then you have to wait for grace to be over so that you can explain to everyone what happened so that they dont think you were just being disrespectful but its always the one day that grace goes longer and you cant help but think back to whatever happened and you end up laughing again. Its just tirible
Whenever someone says hello to me and I'm not prepared for it, I always reflexively say the same thing back in the same tone of voice. Then I feel awkward and make my escape as soon as possible.
I also noticed that it's okay for girls to ask another girl to accompany them to the bathroom for no reason but it's not okay for guys to do it... It's also really awkward when you do accompany someone there and have to talk to them over the sound of their splashy urine.
How about after taking the final nobody wants to break the ice and be the first one to turn in their exam, so you sit in your seat pretending to check your answers until someone finally gets up- then there's this stream of people that follow and half the class disappears at once.
It's true that women are much more liberal with communication in the washroom - however what I find awkward in girls high school washrooms is trying to push past the crowd of make-up doers and hair straighteners just to wash my hands in the morning! Does no one get ready at home for heavens sake?
@xleezybee I wasn't, actually. Hahahaha. That point was clearer before I had to edit the story down. We just kept talking when we got off of the elevator because neither of us was in a hurry, and the conversation wasn't over.
Sitting for 2 hours in the rows of students waiting to graduate from University and having to go to the washroom. Everyone waits for the first person to get up and run for the door so that they can follow. Of course, it was me. I met 5 others headed for the washroom on my way back to my seat.
It's awkward when you're in a conversation with a group of people and it's going well and everyone's chatting. But then as soon as you start talking you realize no one's really listening to you and you just fade off and pretend you weren't even talking at all.
Yeah, I had a conversation about the guys bathroom with a couple of guys once. It is more socially exceptible to pee on the wall. That is, unless there are barriers between the urinals. That's ok but it's still preferable to get a urinal at least one space away from the next person.
I think the worst is when you begin speaking at an inappropriate volume (whisper or shout) and then are obligated to break off what you were saying (either out of embarassment over being too loud, or because you weren't heard at all) and proceed to mumble awkwardly for a few words and then try again a minute later.
When you have those raging sniffles and you have to get up to get a tissue every five seconds and if you're in a classroom it's just the worst and when you try to suppress the the wiping urge you just end up snotting yourself and you just have to keep standing up and getting another tissue.
Apparently there's a social code against singing to yourself in public..... I do it without realizing it, and then I'll look up and see someone staring at me like I've just heinously offended them. *sigh*
How about finding a place to sit while eating. If you know someone it's okay, sit with them. If you dont know annyone, sit alone or ask if you can sit with someone and make some new friends, but if you only halfway know someone, it could be wierd to sit down next to them, sitting alone could make them think of you as anisocial or rude and aking if you can sit is the absolute worst because it makes you seem incedebly self conscious seeing as you kind of know them.
How about when you go to the salon and your are forced to break the awkward silence of a stranger caressing your hair by telling your whole life story. Haha
This isn't really a social code, but i absolutely hate getting stuck behind people who are walking slowly. I'm tall and have a long stride, which makes me walk rather quickly. Nothing bugs me more than having to shorten my stride and awkwardly figure out how to get around a slowpoke in a narrow school hallway.
(excuse me for my english, I'm from Argentina) I like you. so, because I like you, I'll tell you something: a) you don't stare exactly to the camera, so you should practice that a little because sometimes you can get a little bit scary. b) you are a pretty lady, but you would be way prettier if you carried you hair loose, over the shoulders with some nice haircut... c) that's it, you're awsome, love your videos!
I take public transport to uni - bus and train. Weird and awkward as hell when you feel like your knees MUST NOT TOUCH those of the person sitting opposite, whatever happens. It's also interesting how the single seats in the bus are always taken first.
@Daphnegirl93 So true. It's the worst when you hit a bump or a turn, then you have to fight with every muscle you have not to lean in to the person next to you.
@LoVeLoGaNaNdVeRoNiCa (forgive my bad english) haha when this happens to me and there just a bit of food left I go in to copetitive mood. "I will eat the last potato chip!" There is usally somebody how will try to allso eat the last potato-chip., It okey until the food is gone then were just embarrass, it even worce if the other people notice.
Best thing i ever saw on a bathroom stall: "For the greater good... Hallows over Horcruxes" followed by the deathly hallows symbol. took a picture of that on my phone and had it as my background for like months lol.
I hate those awkward encounters! Sometimes I flip around my backpack and shuffle through it until the other person passes. One behavior that I don't understand is why people always look at the ground when they walk. There is a huge range of vision that we just ignore.
When a man violates the bathroom silence code, normally the person/s being spoken to has to laugh lightly and respond and then the conversation must be carried until one of them is done and leaves. Normally the whole bathroom experience is rushed when this happens and the flushing/washing part sometimes is skipped to minimize awkward. And you NEVER make a note of departure.
Oh god. What about the bodily-sounds rule during test-taking in a classroom? The horror of feeling that tickle in your throat...the compulsive swallowing to keep down that begging-to-be-free cough. Or knowing you didn't eat breakfast that morning and feeling the churning in your stomach, and the tension and mental pleading for it not to growl. And how you gotta wait for someone to break first and cough/sneeze, so that you're not the one that disturbs the dead quiet. But then everyone's coughing.
@rememberxjuly This is maybe my favorite comment thus far, and that's saying something. I HATE being that kid. Especially if it's the sniffles. Nobody likes the kid with the sniffles.
The social code that, in movie theatres when two guys get together and go see a movie they put a chair betweeen them but when two guys go with some girls to see a movie it's no problem that they sit together.
The social code of being in a coffee shop and wanting to sit on a couch or comfy chair, but one person is there, thus deeming the entire group of chairs/couch taken.
@sarahmaeis Until that coffee shop is extremely full and someone else has sat there. If one person has already broken the comfy chair rule, then it is okay to be the third stranger in a group.
one time I was in this very tight crowd of girls all trying to get an autograph from this band, and I had a nice conversation with a random person next to me. Then the person behind me bumped into me a lot in a way that made me practically hump the person in front of me. It was awkward.
That awkward moment when you physically run into someone you don't know, and you aren't sure if you should apologize or hope that they didn't notice...or if you're the one someone ran into, what are you supposed to say? There should really be a rule book for this type of thing.
@HaploidCell Hahahahaha. I'm actually the world's most awkward person, so I don't have any problems with just outright asking guys what it's like in there.
at first i thought you said "the black guys that come with not sleeping" because i was studying while listening to you and not watching the video and didn't see you gesture to your eyes and i was like "WHAT???" but then i rewound and was like "oh okay" ...i thought you were getting kinky and was very scared
Park Benches. This might only be applicable to England, but even if you've been on your feet all day and you need a rest, you don't sit on a bench with someone already on it.
Also on Buses, unless theres no room at all no one ever sits next to anyone else.
I'm a college age person who isn't in college. Every time I meet someone or see an aquaintance or friend of my parent's who doesn't know this yet, I have a horribly awkward time. Because instead of just asking the "how are you, what are you doing?" kinds of questions they always ask "so where are you at school" to which I must answer "I'm not" then rush through a summary of everything I'm doing and why it's not shameful that I'm not at college. Then they don't know how to respond.
I'm from the midwest and there we strongly believe in "personal space" and I went to Louisianna to got to teen camp. I walk in the door to the cafeteria sit down and I see some guy massaging some guys shoulders(in the straightest way possible) and I was panicing for the next 10 minutes looking over my shoulder to make sure it didn't happen to me
I always wonder why we say "Bless you" to someone who sneezes but when someone's coughing and hacking their lungs out we say nothing. I know the tradition of saying "Bless you" comes from the time of the Black Plague - they thought someone who sneezed probably had it (or something like that), but I think it's funny that the "blessing" is only reserved for sneezing. Also, it bugs me that everyone (including myself) asks, "How are you" after a hello even though we usually don't care.
@ImInAPickleJar That's a good point. Though sometimes I accidentally bless people when they cough. Then, when they look at me funny, I just say "I just felt like you needed to be blessed." Also, awkward.
@ImInAPickleJar I've thought both of those things too! Actually, I've created a system to fix these. When someone coughs (like, a lot) I tell them "don't die" and when someone asks me how I am, I think for a moment and launch into a philisophical speech about "how AM I, really?". It throws people off guard, that's for sure.
@Thisismyusername1010 That is a good system! Yeah, when I answer the "how are you?" with a legitimate response, instead of just saying "fine," usually the person I'm talking with opens up quite a bit in return. Although, at the end of it we part ways a little bewildered because we didn't expect a conversation. :)
I just found out I"m going to Have out of town company for mardi gras in New Orleans. Why do I automatically feel the need to pretend that these insane things are part of my everyday existence because company is coming in town. I'm a Lit. nerd who spends lots of time reading by myself. Bourbon street with a million(literally) other drunk people would not have been on the agenda. I guess I just don't want them to be disappointed in their trip to New Oreans
At night when you're walking down the street and there's someone in front of you, what do you do? If you speed up they'll think they're about to get mugged, if you try and keep quiet at some point they'll hear you and then they'll think you're going to assault them! And taking a longer way home feels either dangerous depending on your neighbourhood, or like being forced off the streets, which isn't fair because you're not going to start mugging them; you're just scared they'll think you are.
I usually try to avoid those awkward moments by wearing a pair of headphones, and not just ear buds, the big bulky ones that are nearly impossible to miss. Unfortunately, there are those few people who just don’t get the message and start carrying on a conversation while I'm listening to music. This in turn leads to another awkward moment when I have to take off the headphones and ask them what they have been talking about for the past several minutes.
I was in a public washroom the other day washing my hands when a man accidentally walked in. I don't think I've ever seen someone run in such terror before. I smiled and said hi and he took off as if he'd just seen the devil reincarnated as me.
I have also been wondering... what does your hair look like? You always have it pulled back but it looks like it would be so amazingly super curly, Would love to see it!!
@Duessa2000 My hair is a giant, insanely curly mess. I mean, it looks okay when it's tame. but it takes way too much time and mousse to even consider doing it most days. I think the only time I've worn it down in the last five years was for my senior pictures. I can't promise that I'll wear my hair down, but maybe I'll include a picture of it or something.
My Linguistics professor said that feeling of awkwardness when you're standing by someone but not talking is because humans are just naturally inclined towards communicating when there are two or more of them sharing a space.
I like how in the ladies' room, you can ask anyone (strangers, even) for just about anything (small), and if she has it, she will give it to you. I have been on the giving/receiving/observing end of makeup, hair ties, tampons, money, band aids...
I usually avoid lifts, not because I'm claustrophobic or afraid of them falling, but because I have this massive urge to laugh in awkward situations. And there is ALWAYS an awkward silence in lifts.
Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has the momentary panic upon entering a public bathroom.
How about the social code that girls have to practically apologize for eating anything that isn't celery? Like how a girl who's eating something that actually has some calories in it is supposed to say "Oh I really shouldn't eat this, I'll have to go to the gym later, I'm just going to eat half of it, blah blah blah", or go on and on about diets. It bugs the crap out of me. People have the right to eat what they want. They don't have to apologize.
Like when my friends and I share the same area as two other groups, and although some of my friends know some of these people, I only know them through them. And I never use my mobile, so I get a LOT of studying done when my friends aren't around.
thegreengeckoxD 2 days ago
Haha! Funny!
TikiXxXRocker 1 month ago
Having owned a penis for the past few years (found one in a cracker jack box), I can tell you that bathrooms are the social hub of penis creatures from time to time. There is a weariness of distance, and if the proximity of another penis-bearing animal crosses that threshold, then the conversation must resume another time. This is especially true for the urinal trough... As for elevators, I like to see them as song and dance time for funsies, as you'll never know if it will crash at the bottom.
OptimusSkiver 1 month ago in playlist Uploaded videos
If you have a wedgy, it is not socially acceptable to pick it in public, you have to quickly duck into an empty bathrrom stall, or leave it till you are able to duck into the bathroom. Also it is not socially acceptable to spell words the way they sound. You can not spell enough like enuf unless over text. The english language is confuzing
mizzyLizy 1 month ago
The "buffer rule" in the Men's room only applies if there are no partitions between the urinals. Even then, if there is an open one far away, you should use that before taking one next to someone. It the same with seats on the subway. Don't sit next to someone if you don't have to.
However, no one is allowed to use the shorter "kiddie" urinal.
On average, a guy spends a total of 45-60 seconds in the bathroom, from entering to leaving. Any conversation will cause considerable slow down.
zughiaq 1 month ago
@zughiaq Please tell me that 45-60 secondsalso involves washing your hands, because, as a girl, I can think of nothing more gross than using the bathroom and not washing your hands.
SarcasticSploosh 1 month ago
@SarcasticSploosh Ignoring for a moment the old adage "you don't need to wash your hands if you don't pee on them" (guys rarely touch anything in there besides their own zipper).
But yes, that time range does include washing your hands. The quick turnaround time is the main reason why the fact that girls take so long in the bathroom is one of life's biggest mysteries to us.
zughiaq 1 month ago
@zughiaq 1. The fact that that is an adage is disturbing.
2. It's almost a mystery to women as well, a lot of the time and lines is truly due to the fact that the adage "If you sprinkle while you tinkle, be sure to pick it up." is not always followed, which means one woman will find the last person in the stall didn't check the seat and she doesn't want to clean, she'll wait for a new stall to open, meanwhile another woman may walk in see what tha woman isn't going touse the stall, cont
SarcasticSploosh 1 month ago
@SarcasticSploosh cont. so she won't use it, this will continue as more women enter the bathroom, thus the extremely long lines. This is not to mention of course the time taken for the women that find it important to redo their makeup, hair, clothing (yes there are women that will change in public restrooms), and conversing ect.
SarcasticSploosh 1 month ago
When people in class try to duck under the projector in front of the class on their way to the door, attempting to avoid any excess awkwardness as adolescence already inflicts so much upon them on a daily basis, but in doing this weird little ducking/crouching tiger position they end up looking like Quasimodo on his hurried way to the bell tower
narutosramenbuddy 1 month ago 4
@narutosramenbuddy And then they usually STILL manage to cast their Quasimodo shadows over the screen.
LindseytheNerdiest 1 month ago
I hate when you've been sitting for a really long time, so long that your foot and or leg has fallen completely asleep, but you don't notice. So you go to stand up and walk and suddenly you've developed a limp. Alone it's fine. Crossing in front the television screen during a superbowl party? Awkward.
PreferablyNerdy 1 month ago in playlist More videos from LindseytheNerdiest
Those times where you have a new friend, and you don't know if a hug is acceptable yet, So you just do the arm pat thing....
ParadoxAndPlaid 2 months ago
You speak the truth! I love it!!! :D
WolfManDon93 2 months ago
I am so glad that all of these things happen to other people. I DON'T FEEL ALONE IN MY AWKWARDNESS <3
RikMayallAddict 2 months ago
I worked in a national park over the summer, and with my job came cleaning the mens flushable washrooms. I think the overalls automatically made me a not-girl and also not a male figure, because I was stuck in a stall with my cleaning supplies as a guy (who couldn't wait) used the urinal. There was a thin wall between us, and to up the awkward, he tried to startup a conversation about how I'd gotten into working at a park... non-gender powered coveralls or not, there is a TIME and a PLACE.
Doodled93 2 months ago in playlist More videos from LindseytheNerdiest
I had a *ahem* dream about Lindsey last night. Except it never really got the *ahem* part, instead we talked about it for a half-hour and discussed the intricate ways sex colors our society. And it was still incredibly sexy. (I hope this doesn't weird you out too much, Lindsey)
TPRJones 2 months ago
@TPRJones Me thinks..some dreams are best kept to themself... XD
Pyroblazer 2 months ago
I just moved back to England after living a few years in Mexico; in Mexico it's custom to kiss people on the cheek every time you say hello or goodbye, you do it automatically. When I accidentally do it in England (it's a hard habit to drop) people think you're about to rape them :/
greysfanhp 2 months ago
When I trip and drop whatever I'm carrying right in front of someone I dont know, or I run into someone, I always find it really awkward. I'm a girl, and if I drop something in front of a guy I don't know it seems like I'm trying to pull a damsel-in-distress move when really I'm just clumsy X)
anmlsrcute 2 months ago
Shortly before moving to Vegas I lived in a small town and was always at the library. And being a small-ish town it was acceptable to talk about the books you were reading or work you were doing there.But in Vegas you get the sideways look and that person is careful to remain on the other side of the room from you at all times, some things are just not the same from city to city.
gamesgirl455 2 months ago
AMEN! :D
ErikusRaumo92 2 months ago
LinseytheNerdiest is actually pretty cute.
Ifoughtabearonce1701 2 months ago
I am a boy, at my high school, it works like this: the bathroom serves two separate functions that never intersect. One: to use for the disposal of excrement. While this occurs, the bathroom serves NO OTHER FUNCTION WHATSOEVER.
Two: to be used as a convenient social gathering place, where we can hide away from class and shoot the shit or make an important private call without teachers interfering/catching us.
chronicnostalgia 2 months ago
One of the most awkward social codes, especially this time of year, is the moment when someone gives you a present, all happy like, before Christmas. You instinctively have to go, "Oh, thanks so much! I'm still working on yours, but I know you'll love it!" And its someone you know as being like a friend's friend's friend, but they're the kind of person who gets gifts for everyone. So, then you have no idea what to get them, and now they expect your gift.
Sooooo annoying.
Evergreenf 2 months ago
When I get to know someone well and we are not gonna see each other again for a while, and I'm not sure if a hug is appropriate for our level of friendship. The answer is almost always yes, hugs are ok, but it's awkward in the moment of decision and leave taking.
MeansDarling 2 months ago
When I did theatre in high school, we did this thing called "Bathroom Tours" before dress for the musical every year, where the whole cast and crew would crowd into a girls bathroom and then a guys bathroom, and junior and senior representatives would explain all the social and physiological rituals we have.
One thing I learned is that the older a guy is, the more reckless he is with his schlong. I bet every guy here has accidentally seen a teacher's dingdong. I saw Mr. Cutts, the librarian.
steelvenom2003 2 months ago 4
@steelvenom2003 Are you still able to make eye contact with him? I would probably have trouble.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
@LindseytheNerdiest I haven't seen him for at least ten years! Which is extremely depressing! I remember being really traumatized for a while, but then I started learning that a LOT of kids had accidentally seen it and it was sort of a rite of passage. I mean it wasn't creepy or a pervert kind of thing, he was just honestly that reckless with his schlong... The men's restroom is a great and terrible place...
steelvenom2003 2 months ago
marking our Territory.......AHAHAHAHAHHA.......
I was just thinking about it when you said that :P
dhruvrajsinh1993 2 months ago
God your videos are soooooo goood.
MitenSoni 2 months ago 3
@MitenSoni Thanks! But you would probably feel differently if you saw all of the crappy parts that I have to edit out...Hahahahaha.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago 2
@LindseytheNerdiest don't listen to that @MitenSoni Character he crazy
sn4kp4k 2 months ago
@sn4kp4k Hahahaha. I'll try me best.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
@sn4kp4k My* I'm not sure why that came out like I was a pirate...
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
@LindseytheNerdiest yarrrrrrrrr
sn4kp4k 2 months ago
I don't get urinals. Why would anyone opt to show off their genitals in public when the stalls are right behind them?
As for elevators, when I'm in them I like to face the back wall just to weird everyone out.
INTPTT 2 months ago
@INTPTT *Usually,* you would have to make a conscious effort to see another guy's genitals at a urinal. If it seems like it might be an exception to this rule, I generally use a stall. Also, basic human shame tells us that seriously nobody wants to see that. When you stand at a urinal, you either glue your eyes to the tiles in front of you or you concentrate on your aim, because seeing another guy's junk is as bad as someone seeing yours. But urinals are faster, easier, and quieter.
steelvenom2003 2 months ago
On a crowded bus where you have no other choice but sit by strangers, if you ask to sit down, they look at you weirdly, like "Duh, of course you can. Why do you need to ask?" But if you sit down without asking, they look at you like, "I don't know you, why are you sitting here, at least ask." -_-
MidnightLavender9623 2 months ago
Oh another thing about restrooms, when you are waiting in line for a free box and there is one box with the door open that every other girl in front of you, you won't go check why there is probably one unused toilet, because most of the times you wouldn't wanna know. You just suppose that there is a good reason like pee everywhere, no toilet paper or worse things.
CharlineLikesC 2 months ago
Lindsey, why are you so fabulous? :) You're one of my favorite vloggers on Youtube :D
InUrNitemares 2 months ago
men's rooms are like that.
icesamurai8 2 months ago
That thing about meeting people on the sidewalk that you barely know, totally true! I go to a small college, there are a LOT of people I meet on the sidewalk or in the halls that I only sort of know. And even though it's a nice small townish like place, they're often more likely to pretend they don't see me when I wave to them. *sigh*
SMFortissimo 2 months ago
I apparently use the restroom like a dude. My own gender is an enigma to me, why would anyone want to talk when you're doing your business in a generally gross room?
MisfortuneLlama 2 months ago 3
@MisfortuneLlama I'm aa girl, and I feel the same way.
INTPTT 2 months ago
I think they're funny and dumb, all of these unspoken social rules.
I used to strive to follow each and every one of them. Then, when I realized that I had developed an acute case of social anxiety, I got some medicine, a counselor, and started breaking as many of them as I could without being deemed rude or crazy.
The best rule to break is the eye contact/smile one. If you make eye contact and smile, while still walking with intense purpose, you don't get weird looks. Just startled half-smiles.
eearthemayge29 2 months ago
"Such is the symptom of liquid brain."
MegaMelodiez 2 months ago
I take the bus a lot, and it's so funny all of the different unspoken rules on that thing. You don't look at anyone unless someone you know strikes up a conversation, at which point you act like nobody else on the bus exists so that you don't feel awkward about being the only people having a conversation. Also, when you get off the bus you can just get off silently, but if one person says "Thank you" or something to the driver, everybody behind them has to as well. I'm usually that person. XD
Kateydid3 2 months ago 2
An awkward moment for me in the bathroom is when I'm peeing and someone walks in and I know they can obviously here the sound of my piss. Even though it's completely natural and happens to everyone, it feels awkward XD.
BTW great video, I thought the guy's bathroom "rules" was hilarious :)
AMessofPickles 2 months ago
When someone is obviously in need of help and you have to wait for someone else to do something before you can offer to help. My teachers are a perfect example. Everyone in my class talks and all they do is shush them unsuccessfully. So I always end up yelling "SHUT UP" because I like learning new things. Then people tell me I'm rude even though I know other people in there are thinking the exact same things I am.
JustTheAverageNerd 2 months ago
Before this 8th grade dance that I went to a long time ago, we ate at this Italian restaurant. All of the girls attempted to get me to go into the bathroom. I had no idea about what girls do in the bathroom before this story, so I just said no. They kept on asking me until I finally went into the bathroom, and they were taking pictures in the bathroom....
meghannmecrazy 2 months ago
I always start walking somewhere and then a while later realise I have gone the wrong way/forgotten something and need to turn around. However I think it will look completely crazy if after walking with such purpose in one direction I suddenly walk off in the opposite one. So I act like I have just remembered an important appointment or something and am now dismaying at my lack of memory skills as I slowly turn around. Ahhh, the things we do to avoid social awkwardness.
indiefairytale 2 months ago
@indiefairytale I do that all the time! Except half the i just turn around quickly and take the stares... for all they know I'm long-distance pacing :)
anmlsrcute 2 months ago
Oh and another thing when you're having those reading lips conversations with your friend from across the room and the person in the middle of you thinks you're talking to them and then they go on to tell their friends how stupid you look..
AvrilBritneySelena 2 months ago
What I hate is bus rides. When you get on a bus and you have nothing to do but look out the window, but you can't help it that your eyes drift off to what other people are doing and when they catch you looking they give you the death stare *shiver*.
AvrilBritneySelena 2 months ago 3
I always seem to be lost when you get into the situation of walking along and coming across someone walking toward you in the opposite direction. Usually both of you stop, you both awkwardly move to move around eachother (never making eye contact) stepping around eachother eventually and walking on. EVERYTIME I encounter this situation, I must miss some important cue, because I always succeed in slamming into the person after the stepping around eachother step....
halamaker 2 months ago
El Barto Was Here!! <--- Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
HonkyTonkBuffalo 2 months ago
When you're sitting on the floor and you move your leg and your shoe makes a farting noise, and you have to quickly make the awkward "it was my shoe!" comment before repeating the motion to prove your point, occasionally made worse when your shoe doesn't make the noise the second time round
LadyOldLittle 2 months ago 40
@LadyOldLittle I HATE it when the shoe won't squeak the second time!
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago 13
Things are a little different in the South...the codes are relaxed a bit...it is perfectly OK to smile and even say "Hi" to a stranger on the street...we don't worry about the buffer rule so much...and elevator conversations are a lot more common. Guys still don't have much in the way of conversation in the restroom, though. If someone violates the buffer rule without all the other urinals being taken, you get worried.
If you are still on exams, good luck!
spilperson 2 months ago
Your video reminded me of the giggle loop scene from Coupling.
StorytimewithAlex 2 months ago
you know that thing where people ask you how your are just as a formality? It happens a lot with people in the service industry(think cashiers), but also with acquaintances. I always say "fantastic". It makes them smile. I kinda want to know what that smile is about.
suburiboy 2 months ago
I actually did a social deviance experiment on the walking and smiling at people thing. I walked from one side of the campus to the other and said, "hello", smiled, or just general greetings. You would have thought I was trying to make them link arms and skip across campus with me the way people would speed off after a polite hello or wave.
Oh, well. It was funny seeing people's reactions.
A lot of them whipped their phones out to avoid me speaking to them any further.
Classy, classy.
GKTiffanyMariah 2 months ago 14
@GKTiffanyMariah I took a Social Psych class, and my favorite chapter was on social deviance. Well played, my friend.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
How did you learn our man secrets?!?!!?
ShogunRoninArtist 2 months ago 11
@ShogunRoninArtist Never underestimate the power of womanly wiles.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago 23
I was the kid who always had allergies. It always seemed that the worst allergy attacks that direly needed tissue happened during exams or silent reading time. And I forgot to bring tissue. So there's 4 choices. 1. make a horrible slurping noise sucking up the snot back up into your nose. 2. let the boogers drip. 3. surreptitiously use your sleeve (and then you have telling snail tracks on your sleeve all day). 4. make the walk to shame to the teacher's desk for tissue and then blow. sigh
K9Negative 2 months ago 3
@K9Negative This is why I always keep tissues in either my pocket, my backpack, or my purse. Hahahaha. I've been that kid MANY times.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
One thing I always thought was funny was people who worked in jobs where they usually dealt with angry or irritated people. They almost always sound harsh when you first start talking to them and then you get upset. I found that the second you compliment them though, they start doing you favors and helping you get things done faster. Or saying someone's name to get their attention even though you just read it off their nametags. People are funny about who they're nice to. I like it though.
forestheart713 2 months ago
Its awkward when you're in the iffy in between state, when you walk in a door and can't tell if you should hold the door open for the next person or not by their distance away. I don't want to be rude by not holding it, but also dont want to make them do the rush run forward. I could just be making a normal situation more awkward then it needs to be though
rbmmylife 2 months ago 4
i hate when somebody is saying grance and something really funny happenes and your trying not to laugh and you end up makeing that weird trying not to laugh but can't contain myself nosie and then you have to wait for grace to be over so that you can explain to everyone what happened so that they dont think you were just being disrespectful but its always the one day that grace goes longer and you cant help but think back to whatever happened and you end up laughing again. Its just tirible
1fishy2fishy 2 months ago
Whenever someone says hello to me and I'm not prepared for it, I always reflexively say the same thing back in the same tone of voice. Then I feel awkward and make my escape as soon as possible.
I also noticed that it's okay for girls to ask another girl to accompany them to the bathroom for no reason but it's not okay for guys to do it... It's also really awkward when you do accompany someone there and have to talk to them over the sound of their splashy urine.
deadstillcurious 2 months ago
How about after taking the final nobody wants to break the ice and be the first one to turn in their exam, so you sit in your seat pretending to check your answers until someone finally gets up- then there's this stream of people that follow and half the class disappears at once.
starlingfeathers 2 months ago 7
It's true that women are much more liberal with communication in the washroom - however what I find awkward in girls high school washrooms is trying to push past the crowd of make-up doers and hair straighteners just to wash my hands in the morning! Does no one get ready at home for heavens sake?
Claryce16 2 months ago
why were you on an elevator for 25 minutes?
xleezybee 2 months ago 4
@xleezybee I wasn't, actually. Hahahaha. That point was clearer before I had to edit the story down. We just kept talking when we got off of the elevator because neither of us was in a hurry, and the conversation wasn't over.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
Sitting for 2 hours in the rows of students waiting to graduate from University and having to go to the washroom. Everyone waits for the first person to get up and run for the door so that they can follow. Of course, it was me. I met 5 others headed for the washroom on my way back to my seat.
bloodandchocolate 2 months ago 2
Aaahhhhh Lindsey you are the best!! :D So funny
DoYouSmelThat 2 months ago
It's awkward when you're in a conversation with a group of people and it's going well and everyone's chatting. But then as soon as you start talking you realize no one's really listening to you and you just fade off and pretend you weren't even talking at all.
shamidkpzd 2 months ago 7
@shamidkpzd this happens to me a lot... :(
K9Negative 2 months ago
oooh, breaking social norms. Awesome!
freshie0708 2 months ago
I talk to people in elevators...haha, like all the time.
rflollipop 2 months ago
When you walk into a store and the alarm goes off. You have to do that exaggerated- What? That's crazy- look around.
Or maybe that's just me.
KayleeCommons 2 months ago
@KayleeCommons Or when something didn't get desensitized when you're going out. >.<
sajoth 2 months ago
Social Codes that I find weird? Well I have Asperger's Syndrome so... all of them?
Dimbo 2 months ago
@rememberxjuly During one of my finals my body decided it needed to start hiccuping...for the entire testing period.
Emerezilion 2 months ago
Yeah, I had a conversation about the guys bathroom with a couple of guys once. It is more socially exceptible to pee on the wall. That is, unless there are barriers between the urinals. That's ok but it's still preferable to get a urinal at least one space away from the next person.
YouWannaNoWhatIHate 2 months ago
I think the worst is when you begin speaking at an inappropriate volume (whisper or shout) and then are obligated to break off what you were saying (either out of embarassment over being too loud, or because you weren't heard at all) and proceed to mumble awkwardly for a few words and then try again a minute later.
NectarWoods 2 months ago
I prefer to stand in a corner facing the wall. It provides amusing reactions from the other occupants.
SpicyMangoz 2 months ago 3
Another problem with greeting people you don't really know: saying 'hi' and having it come out as a whisper. Happens all the time. :S
HappiDoll 2 months ago 2
ALL OF THESE HAVE HAPPENED TO ME D:
Azami4117 2 months ago
When you have those raging sniffles and you have to get up to get a tissue every five seconds and if you're in a classroom it's just the worst and when you try to suppress the the wiping urge you just end up snotting yourself and you just have to keep standing up and getting another tissue.
justJtotheK 2 months ago
Loved this one. I gave up sleep instead of showers and make-up...and now it's all over and I'm the happiest nerd within a five mile radius.
ubelonginthedrkWTHME 2 months ago
Apparently there's a social code against singing to yourself in public..... I do it without realizing it, and then I'll look up and see someone staring at me like I've just heinously offended them. *sigh*
ShowerSinginShowGirl 2 months ago 7
How about finding a place to sit while eating. If you know someone it's okay, sit with them. If you dont know annyone, sit alone or ask if you can sit with someone and make some new friends, but if you only halfway know someone, it could be wierd to sit down next to them, sitting alone could make them think of you as anisocial or rude and aking if you can sit is the absolute worst because it makes you seem incedebly self conscious seeing as you kind of know them.
92ESPN 2 months ago
The best girls bathroom graffiti I ever saw was an incredibly drawn Velociraptor
mariahrose210 2 months ago 2
I am sooo guilty of the phone-move.
1pannekake 2 months ago
How about when you go to the salon and your are forced to break the awkward silence of a stranger caressing your hair by telling your whole life story. Haha
KarenAvonne7 2 months ago 2
@KarenAvonne7 Hahahahaha. That's so real.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
When I see someone I sort of know in the halls at school, I usually take a safe but awkward middle-ground--the eyebrow raise of recognition.
thiefsegreto 2 months ago
@thiefsegreto I'm more for the Nod, myself.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
the people who take pictures of themselves in the mirror of a public bathroom. I dont get it its so stupid
catdogawsome 2 months ago
they write there names on geocaches
ssbfan2 2 months ago
Here's what I'm thinking, why's is it that most people act like having a crush on someone is such a crime?
EmotionsNeverLie 2 months ago
Them's the rules. One pisser in between (Unless there are only two and there is a divider between those two)
THEBrandonBrownson 2 months ago
so here's what i'm thinking? D: WHERE DID IT GOOOOO
izzleinatizzle 2 months ago 4
@izzleinatizzle It's there, I promise. It's just after I figured out that my camera wasn't on.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago 9
@LindseytheNerdiest SO I re-watched the video, and yes, it is there.... I must be going insane. oh well :3
izzleinatizzle 2 months ago
This isn't really a social code, but i absolutely hate getting stuck behind people who are walking slowly. I'm tall and have a long stride, which makes me walk rather quickly. Nothing bugs me more than having to shorten my stride and awkwardly figure out how to get around a slowpoke in a narrow school hallway.
WhatsBliss 2 months ago 4
(excuse me for my english, I'm from Argentina) I like you. so, because I like you, I'll tell you something: a) you don't stare exactly to the camera, so you should practice that a little because sometimes you can get a little bit scary. b) you are a pretty lady, but you would be way prettier if you carried you hair loose, over the shoulders with some nice haircut... c) that's it, you're awsome, love your videos!
hindue 2 months ago
I wonder if it's a Canadian thing, but I have random and usually brief and superficial conversations with people in elevators ALL THE TIME! :D
Gonna have to ask The Husband about the urinal buffer thing, though.
erisedstraeh1 2 months ago
I take public transport to uni - bus and train. Weird and awkward as hell when you feel like your knees MUST NOT TOUCH those of the person sitting opposite, whatever happens. It's also interesting how the single seats in the bus are always taken first.
Daphnegirl93 2 months ago
@Daphnegirl93 So true. It's the worst when you hit a bump or a turn, then you have to fight with every muscle you have not to lean in to the person next to you.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
when you are somewhere with food put out and no one can take the last of the food so the last bit sits there forever.
LoVeLoGaNaNdVeRoNiCa 2 months ago
@LoVeLoGaNaNdVeRoNiCa (forgive my bad english) haha when this happens to me and there just a bit of food left I go in to copetitive mood. "I will eat the last potato chip!" There is usally somebody how will try to allso eat the last potato-chip., It okey until the food is gone then were just embarrass, it even worce if the other people notice.
pamecrazyful 2 months ago
You should have a nerdy intro :D
crazyboutFAYZ12 2 months ago
@crazyboutFAYZ12 I would like to have a nerdy outro--and maybe a logo--but I'm not tech-savvy enough to know how to make one.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
Best thing i ever saw on a bathroom stall: "For the greater good... Hallows over Horcruxes" followed by the deathly hallows symbol. took a picture of that on my phone and had it as my background for like months lol.
fishdude77 2 months ago 11
@fishdude77 Ohmygoodness. That's the best!
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
loved this video. keep it up!
occlumencymaster 2 months ago
I hate those awkward encounters! Sometimes I flip around my backpack and shuffle through it until the other person passes. One behavior that I don't understand is why people always look at the ground when they walk. There is a huge range of vision that we just ignore.
myinnernerd 2 months ago
@myinnernerd Well, I look at the ground because I'm a supernaturally klutzy person. It minimizes the chance of injury.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
When a man violates the bathroom silence code, normally the person/s being spoken to has to laugh lightly and respond and then the conversation must be carried until one of them is done and leaves. Normally the whole bathroom experience is rushed when this happens and the flushing/washing part sometimes is skipped to minimize awkward. And you NEVER make a note of departure.
vex390 2 months ago
Oh god. What about the bodily-sounds rule during test-taking in a classroom? The horror of feeling that tickle in your throat...the compulsive swallowing to keep down that begging-to-be-free cough. Or knowing you didn't eat breakfast that morning and feeling the churning in your stomach, and the tension and mental pleading for it not to growl. And how you gotta wait for someone to break first and cough/sneeze, so that you're not the one that disturbs the dead quiet. But then everyone's coughing.
rememberxjuly 2 months ago 16
@rememberxjuly This is maybe my favorite comment thus far, and that's saying something. I HATE being that kid. Especially if it's the sniffles. Nobody likes the kid with the sniffles.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago 7
@LindseytheNerdiest I was the kid with the sniffles today. So not fun.
ThaRatChick 2 months ago
@ThaRatChick You have my deepest sympathies.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
The social code that, in movie theatres when two guys get together and go see a movie they put a chair betweeen them but when two guys go with some girls to see a movie it's no problem that they sit together.
emmettcullenlover66 2 months ago
@emmettcullenlover66 I didn't know about that one! I may have to get a couple of guys to help me field test it. It sounds hilarious.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
The social code of being in a coffee shop and wanting to sit on a couch or comfy chair, but one person is there, thus deeming the entire group of chairs/couch taken.
sarahmaeis 2 months ago
@sarahmaeis Until that coffee shop is extremely full and someone else has sat there. If one person has already broken the comfy chair rule, then it is okay to be the third stranger in a group.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
one time I was in this very tight crowd of girls all trying to get an autograph from this band, and I had a nice conversation with a random person next to me. Then the person behind me bumped into me a lot in a way that made me practically hump the person in front of me. It was awkward.
uncool95 2 months ago 2
@uncool95 Hahahahaha. Sounds like it.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
That awkward moment when you physically run into someone you don't know, and you aren't sure if you should apologize or hope that they didn't notice...or if you're the one someone ran into, what are you supposed to say? There should really be a rule book for this type of thing.
masbuster 2 months ago
@masbuster Real life. Hahahaha.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
I love the graffiti in university bathrooms.
In schools (here up to the 12th/13th grade) the restrooms are shared with all the other, younger pupils.
So the graffiti is mostly done by 12-year-olds who want to proof themselfes to their clique.
Thus, you get a lot of "faggot this, call this number that, Professor so-and-so can suck it, etc."
I have actually found POETRY on university bathroom walls.
And great QUOTES of ancient masters.
HaploidCell 2 months ago 4
Well, I don't buy your excuses, Lindsay.
Clearly, you have a camera installed somewhere in a men's bathroom.
:D
HaploidCell 2 months ago
@HaploidCell Hahahahaha. I'm actually the world's most awkward person, so I don't have any problems with just outright asking guys what it's like in there.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
normally you can go with the polite head nod, that's what I usually do anyway.
K9affirmative 2 months ago
at first i thought you said "the black guys that come with not sleeping" because i was studying while listening to you and not watching the video and didn't see you gesture to your eyes and i was like "WHAT???" but then i rewound and was like "oh okay" ...i thought you were getting kinky and was very scared
yaba92 2 months ago
@yaba92 Hahahaha. That would have been a completely different kind of video. At least, it's attention-grabbing, I guess.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
I am the king of saying something awkward in a silent elevator and making the silence that much worse...
thevoiceofinsanity1 2 months ago
Park Benches. This might only be applicable to England, but even if you've been on your feet all day and you need a rest, you don't sit on a bench with someone already on it.
Also on Buses, unless theres no room at all no one ever sits next to anyone else.
BethNote 2 months ago
I'm a college age person who isn't in college. Every time I meet someone or see an aquaintance or friend of my parent's who doesn't know this yet, I have a horribly awkward time. Because instead of just asking the "how are you, what are you doing?" kinds of questions they always ask "so where are you at school" to which I must answer "I'm not" then rush through a summary of everything I'm doing and why it's not shameful that I'm not at college. Then they don't know how to respond.
nyanko08 2 months ago
I'm from the midwest and there we strongly believe in "personal space" and I went to Louisianna to got to teen camp. I walk in the door to the cafeteria sit down and I see some guy massaging some guys shoulders(in the straightest way possible) and I was panicing for the next 10 minutes looking over my shoulder to make sure it didn't happen to me
SemisonicNerdfighter 2 months ago
Also, I love your videos!
ImInAPickleJar 2 months ago
@ImInAPickleJar And thank you!
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
I always wonder why we say "Bless you" to someone who sneezes but when someone's coughing and hacking their lungs out we say nothing. I know the tradition of saying "Bless you" comes from the time of the Black Plague - they thought someone who sneezed probably had it (or something like that), but I think it's funny that the "blessing" is only reserved for sneezing. Also, it bugs me that everyone (including myself) asks, "How are you" after a hello even though we usually don't care.
ImInAPickleJar 2 months ago 2
@ImInAPickleJar That's a good point. Though sometimes I accidentally bless people when they cough. Then, when they look at me funny, I just say "I just felt like you needed to be blessed." Also, awkward.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
@ImInAPickleJar I've thought both of those things too! Actually, I've created a system to fix these. When someone coughs (like, a lot) I tell them "don't die" and when someone asks me how I am, I think for a moment and launch into a philisophical speech about "how AM I, really?". It throws people off guard, that's for sure.
Thisismyusername1010 2 months ago
@Thisismyusername1010 That is a good system! Yeah, when I answer the "how are you?" with a legitimate response, instead of just saying "fine," usually the person I'm talking with opens up quite a bit in return. Although, at the end of it we part ways a little bewildered because we didn't expect a conversation. :)
ImInAPickleJar 2 months ago
I've never laughed so hard, so true about guys restrooms
DCNTiki 2 months ago
I just found out I"m going to Have out of town company for mardi gras in New Orleans. Why do I automatically feel the need to pretend that these insane things are part of my everyday existence because company is coming in town. I'm a Lit. nerd who spends lots of time reading by myself. Bourbon street with a million(literally) other drunk people would not have been on the agenda. I guess I just don't want them to be disappointed in their trip to New Oreans
07clk350 2 months ago
At night when you're walking down the street and there's someone in front of you, what do you do? If you speed up they'll think they're about to get mugged, if you try and keep quiet at some point they'll hear you and then they'll think you're going to assault them! And taking a longer way home feels either dangerous depending on your neighbourhood, or like being forced off the streets, which isn't fair because you're not going to start mugging them; you're just scared they'll think you are.
experiment35 2 months ago 3
@experiment35 Bahahahahahaha. I literally just busted out laughing. Out loud. It was awkward.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
I usually try to avoid those awkward moments by wearing a pair of headphones, and not just ear buds, the big bulky ones that are nearly impossible to miss. Unfortunately, there are those few people who just don’t get the message and start carrying on a conversation while I'm listening to music. This in turn leads to another awkward moment when I have to take off the headphones and ask them what they have been talking about for the past several minutes.
yoyogirl891 2 months ago
I was in a public washroom the other day washing my hands when a man accidentally walked in. I don't think I've ever seen someone run in such terror before. I smiled and said hi and he took off as if he'd just seen the devil reincarnated as me.
I have also been wondering... what does your hair look like? You always have it pulled back but it looks like it would be so amazingly super curly, Would love to see it!!
Duessa2000 2 months ago
@Duessa2000 My hair is a giant, insanely curly mess. I mean, it looks okay when it's tame. but it takes way too much time and mousse to even consider doing it most days. I think the only time I've worn it down in the last five years was for my senior pictures. I can't promise that I'll wear my hair down, but maybe I'll include a picture of it or something.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
My Linguistics professor said that feeling of awkwardness when you're standing by someone but not talking is because humans are just naturally inclined towards communicating when there are two or more of them sharing a space.
klair716 2 months ago
I like how in the ladies' room, you can ask anyone (strangers, even) for just about anything (small), and if she has it, she will give it to you. I have been on the giving/receiving/observing end of makeup, hair ties, tampons, money, band aids...
qwrites 2 months ago
@qwrites Haven't we all? Sisterhood is a beautiful thing sometimes. Other times, girls just hate each other for little to no reason.
LindseytheNerdiest 2 months ago
I usually avoid lifts, not because I'm claustrophobic or afraid of them falling, but because I have this massive urge to laugh in awkward situations. And there is ALWAYS an awkward silence in lifts.
Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has the momentary panic upon entering a public bathroom.
HannahIsUnoriginal 2 months ago
How about the social code that girls have to practically apologize for eating anything that isn't celery? Like how a girl who's eating something that actually has some calories in it is supposed to say "Oh I really shouldn't eat this, I'll have to go to the gym later, I'm just going to eat half of it, blah blah blah", or go on and on about diets. It bugs the crap out of me. People have the right to eat what they want. They don't have to apologize.
crazypurplebutterfly 2 months ago 28
@crazypurplebutterfly I've never experienced that O.O
HannahIsUnoriginal 2 months ago
@crazypurplebutterfly i have never done that before xD i eat my cake/pie/cookie with pride :D
c1ickh3r3 2 months ago