Hi Friends: I am working on a future column for the magazine I write for, and need your help with a “super scientific” little social psychology poll. PLEASE HELP ME! Read the options below and vote which you find the “most awkward.” Please feel free to also add your own write-in votes!

A) Deciding how long to wait before you acknowledge an acquaintance walking towards you (like on the sidewalk/ street or from afar).

B) When someone brings up a party/ event you are having that you haven’t invited them to or don’t want to invite them to.

C) Making fun of something/ saying you dislike something and then realizing someone in the conversation is included (i.e. “who would name their child Marvin? Oops… Sorry Marv, I meant… the other spelling…”)

D) Finding yourself on the same path walking somewhere with someone you know, but neither of you has anything to say to the other, so you walk silently alongside one another unless someone awkwardly changes pace, or comments on the weather, or breaks the awkward silence.

E) Being the first one at a party/ event when you barely know the host.

THANK YOU!
Meri