Thursday, September 17, 2015

Mostly Awkward & a bit of Awesome

Awkward: elevator rides. No explanation is really needed for this one, but let me delve into this a little deeper: to push or not to push the close door button, to move to the back of the elevator when people get in or stand your ground, to get off before others or wait for them to exit first, to small talk or not to small talk, to hold your breath or gag from BO and/or cigarette smoke, to make eye contact or not to make eye contact, to go up 15 flights of stairs to avoid awkward elevator situations or to suck it up and deal.

Awkward: Seeing someone craning their neck to try to read your tattoo on your foot. I finally just told him "it says Live, Laugh, Love." To which he replied "interesting location." I said "yeah, better than my first thought of my wrist!" His response? "Speaking of bad tattoos, at least it's not a skull or something." Thank you random guy on the elevator for not only being awkward, but also sharing your opinions on my tattoo. I wish I had replied with "Oh, I have one of those on my lower back!"

Awkward: People who have disgusting toenails but still insist on wearing sandals.

Awkward: receiving this photo from your SIL late one night:


Why yes, that is my brother with a makeshift spear through the eye of the largest rat I have ever seen. I also received videos, but I will spare you from those. He said he measured it and it was 11 inches!!! Crazy! Apparently he wanted to wake my niece up to show her but my SIL told him no. I said they could have just told her the rat was sleeping and had pink eye if she asked. We're classy, I know...

Awesome: Today is Thursday...the week is almost over!

14 comments:

  1. AshleySeptember 17, 2015 at 10:09 AM

    I agree.. Elevators are awkward... My latest was getting the elevator all to myself - excited only to goto get off and a lady was blocking my way trying to get on... I thought it was common knowledge to let people get off the elevator first before people got on??

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  2. The Lowcountry MamaSeptember 17, 2015 at 11:02 AM

    I have a tattoo on my foot too. I ALWAYS get the question "What does it mean?" It doesn't mean anything. I just like it.. I should probably come up with some weird story to make them wish they never asked ha

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  3. UnknownSeptember 17, 2015 at 4:57 PM

    Oh you know how I feel about the tattoo questions. Annoying. And elevators are the worst. I used to work in a building on the 16th floor (out of 40) and it was like packed in the mornings everyone staring at their feet and whenever someone would say something it was like crickets. So so akward.

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  4. LitaSeptember 17, 2015 at 5:22 PM

    So many amazing things....where do I even begin? Your tattoo story is hilarious! What a brave man to look at you tattoo and then attempt for common ground by starting with "speaking of bad tattoos...". TOTALLY agree with you on the bad feet/sandals thing. #petpeeve. Hopefully I'm not guilty...

    Xo,
    Lita

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  5. Ashley StephensonSeptember 18, 2015 at 8:14 AM

    OMG that rat!! Our outside cat of 15 years just passed away and now we have a huge mice problem! I have lived in that house with my dad for 12 years now with my fiance for almost 2 and I have never seen a mouse in the house and we just caught the 7th baby mouse! Hopefully there are no more!

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  6. Emily @ Martinis | BikinisSeptember 18, 2015 at 10:22 AM

    I agree about elevator rides being awkward. I have to take one everyday and 95% of the time it's awkward lol . I do take the stairs too sometimes for excercise and to avoid the inevitable awkward interaction.

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  7. Candace ShifletSeptember 18, 2015 at 5:45 PM

    hahaha you are reading my mind with the elevator stuff. THEY ARE SO AWKWARD. for reals. Like do you look around or just stare at the ground?!!! And can we take a moment to gasp at that rat speared picture? first of all, I'm kind of impressed but the other half of me is grossed out haha. andddd what a jerk to imply you got a bad tattoo! At least you don't have a tramp stamp like him ;)
    xo, Candace | Lovely Little Rants

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  8. Jeans and a Tank TopSeptember 20, 2015 at 9:29 PM

    "Yes, speaking of bad tattoos - thank you, sir, by the way, for implying that my tattoo was bad - how ever did you find someone to tattoo your FACE like that? I hope you sued for damages!"

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  9. Melissa @ Always, LissaSeptember 21, 2015 at 2:05 AM

    Oh man. What a jackho!e. Anyone who tries to make rude comments about someone else's tattoos pissed me off. It's their body and their art. Ugh. And yes. Nasty feet in sandals skeeves me out.

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  10. Laura DarlingSeptember 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM

    Oh man, that is one nasty picture with the rat! At least he caught him!

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  11. Christina Lea LovesSeptember 22, 2015 at 9:32 AM

    Haha elevator rides area definitely always awkward - no way around that!

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  12. CassieSeptember 24, 2015 at 5:51 PM

    Love that you included the rat. I think it falls squarely in the awesome category ;-) lol

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  13. Katie ElizabethSeptember 28, 2015 at 3:02 PM

    OMG, I just shuddered looking at that rat - so gross! And I hear you on the elevators, I had to become a pro at small talk after living in Chicago for 5 years and having to take the elevator up and down from my apartment!

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  14. elle joOctober 1, 2015 at 3:37 PM

    I hate elevator rides....ick. People always think because I'm so small, well they can just cram me into a corner :(

    Oh oh my gosh that rat is HUGE!!!

    liz jo @sundays with sophie

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