Awkward: causing or feeling embarrassment or inconvenience.
Synonyms: embarrassing, uncomfortable, unpleasant, delicate, tricky, problematic, troublesome, thorny.
I don’t do well in awkward situations. Even on tv or the internet when I see something awkward I get nervous. I don’t know why, if it is happening to me that is one thing but when it happens to others, why do I get nervous? Let me give you an example; Sitting in a bathroom stall and the person in the next one over is reading something out loud! Awkward! Seeing a woman coming out of the bathroom with her dress tucked into her underwear. Awkward! Or pretty much walking through a Walmart, something is going to come up. Is that empathy or just nerves? I go to great lengths to avoid this type of situations and yet we would all agree, it is impossible not to be in one from time to time. Heck, they created a tv show which has run for about twenty years which takes these situations which are caught on camera and has the audience vote on which one is most embarrassing. Yes from time to time a cute one wins, but for the most part, our favorites are the ones which grandma’s teeth fly out or a guy gets hit in the groin doing stupid stuff. I from time to time will have to leave the room as they show one of the more embarrassing ones, perhaps my nerves are just are just connecting to a moment in my past in which I came close to accomplishing the same feat of stupidity. I sure am glad I grew up before the age of cell phone cameras!