Ginger wants me to share my embarrassing subway story, so I guess I'll let everyone in on it. The other day I was coming home and it was rush hour and pretty crowded. At one of the stops this black guy (and I only mention that he's black because it's some what relevant to the story) and his friend get on, and since it's so crowded they are standing really close to me. The guy is facing me and his friend is standing between us with her back towards me. When they get on she's laughing really hard but trying to hold it in like you would at church or something and she's laughing so hard that she's tearing up. It was really funny and I started to smile and laugh a little myself.
So he looks at me and points and says something about her being embarrassing and how even I'm laughing at her. I look at them and say something back and we had our little moment of fun together and it was all very ha ha and funny. I thought that was the end of it, when I notice out of the corner of my eye that he reaches around her and puts his hand up in the air and at first I didn't think anything of it, but then he's just holding it there, so I'm thinking, "Oh no, he wants to give me some kind of dap or something."
The thing is I really don't want to high five or whatever. I'm just not the type to pretend that I'm even remotely cool enough to do that in public to a complete stranger and so I'm just kind of ignoring it, but his hand is still just hanging there so I'm thinking maybe I'll do it just to get it over with. All of a sudden his hand starts coming down towards me and now I'm thinking I have to meet him on this or I'm just going to leave him hanging, so I bring my hand up to do one of those homie, man handshakes and I completely whiffed... because... he was holding his hand up and reaching around his friend to let her know that he was going to give her a HUG before he left.
That's right, stupid me thought I was getting some love from my new best friend and reached up and swung for a big hand of air as he leaned in for... a hug. As soon as I realized what happened I was so mortified that I just started laughing and he looks at me and says, "Nah, man, I'll give you a tap." By this time though, I was so flustered I just kind of slapped his hand while he tried to grab it and it was just this awkward flailing of arms and hands on my part and I just continued to look ridiculous. So now you know.
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6 years ago
6 comments:
That's okay, Sam, Joe and I won't tell anyone. =)
Ha! You are cracking me up Sam. I can just see you pretending to be cool and then the guy gives you a courtesy tap! Funny stuff. You'd better just stick to your rule of not "tapping" in public!
I'm laughing so hard!! Now, if I could only be innocent of awkward moments like these... I've had my share. :0)
I've heard it before and I still laughed so hard I cried. Thank you for putting that in writing Sam, I'm going to tell all my friends.
That is so funny and awkward. I was embarrassed for you the whole time I was reading. Not too embarrassed to laugh out loud. But hey, you'll never see those people again. And it's a good story!
No matter how many times I hear this story, it kills me!! I love it so much and wish I was there to witness the awkwardness. These moments are so great!!
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