The awkward moment when...

Okay, so this week has seen my good friend Sarah set me a new challenge each day. So far I've had to have silent rave, and visit her at work. Today, she asked me to post a blog about how life is one big awkward moment. So, here it goes...

My life is full of those little awkward moments that make you want to scream 'WHY ME?!" So, I figured I'd fill you in on a few of them...

In year 11 at school, I managed to fall over a single pea in the dinner hall, whilst carrying a cake and a bottle of water... I managed to save the cake, drop the water, and lose any dignity that I might of had. It was awkward.

Yes, this is a time when I broke down

So I'm lucky enough to be able to drive, and being a Young Single Adult in my Church, we sometimes travel pretty far around the country to go to dances, or activities. I've been driving for just under two years, and I've never really had too much trouble with the car. Until BAM! It's like 2:30am, I'm mega tired, and I'm dropping people off after going to Birmingham on a Friday night. I go to turn around a corner, and hear a noise that I know a car should NEVER make. I get out, check that I've not hit anything, there's nothing in my wheels or under the car. There wasn't. So I checked my engine wasn't on fire, which it wasn't, it was all good. I go to start the car again, it's a big fat fail, the car wasn't going anywhere.. That's when Candy and Kayla, plus a few drunk people pushed it to Candy's house. As if that wasn't awkward enough, the next day I was towed home by the RAC, and my cousin told me I'd broken the drive shaft. His words were something like... "It's the drive shaft, and I've never seen one as bad as that before." - I guess if you're going to do something, you have to do it properly, right? Anyway, that was awkward.

I study in Liverpool, a city that I really love. I love the feel there, and the fact that it's completely different to being at home. I love the fact that I can be myself there, and that I don't have to fit in. But, last week I was coming home from Uni at about 8:30pm. I got the bus into the city centre, and was walking to my next bus stop, everything was normal. But, then I seen two women, and a man. Well at least I think I did, after hearing one of the ladies talking, I took a second look, and realised it was a man in drag! It was just the best thing I'd seen all day as I'd been in the library ALL day. I wanted to laugh in their face, but had to control myself, I just felt REALLY awkward for them...

LOL at his comment..

Then, yesterday, I got an assignment and some feedback from my tutor. The essay wasn't the best thing I've ever written, there were mistakes all over the place, but that doesn't matter. I think I managed to get the most awkward comment on an essay EVER! I'd been writing about some guy called Oliver Fulton, only I fist called Olivia, and then I referred to him as 'she' throughout the paragraph... My tutors comment: "Oliver Fulton is a man in his 70s." I'm not going to lie, I felt a bit awkward, but, it made me giggle though the seminar.

When I first did the burn..

What it looks like now...

But today has to have seen one of the most awkward, stupid situations I've ever managed to get myself into. I have naturally curly hair, and straighten it regularly. Yesterday, my Nan had asked to borrow my straighteners, so I told her that she needed to be careful because they get really hot, and she could burn herself. Today, I was straightening my hair, but I wasn't really paying as much attention as I should have been, and the next thing, I managed to burn my neck. Now I have two nice burn marks which I can't really hide because my hair isn't long enough. It's awkward, and I now know I'm really stupid...

Life is full of lots of little awkward moments, and at the time we can want the ground to open up and swallow us, or we want to go into hibernation until all is forgotten. But, looking back at these awkward moments, I actually laugh, and think to myself, "If these awkward moments didn't exist, life could actually be pretty lame, and boring." When life throws you an awkward moment, look back at it a few months later, and have a good old laugh!