Socially awkward moment of the day

[tired]

I figure if I just say it I can move past it faster. 

It's not even 7am and I've already had a moment where I talked too much. Nothing bad just told a long winded anecdote when it wasn't really a good time for it.  You know what I mean? Out of context wrong time. I feel dumb already. 

I also feel like I smell. Like I got something on me and if I only did laundry and showered I wouldn't have this happen. I showered last night and I'm at the gym so why shower before the gym.

This kind of thing actually makes me depressed .  Because I can be witty and pretty and fresh but sometimes I'm an idiot .

[Dutch Uncle]

I showered last night and I'm at the gym so why shower before the gym.

I can be witty and pretty and fresh.

[arpy1]

dear tired, i know how you feel when things like that happen, how hard it is to say to yourself that making a conversational blunder doesn't make you dumb, it just means you made a blunder.  that crabby old i/c, give it a slap!

(actually, i am a total hypocrite in this;  i used to teach my kids that failing at something doesn't make you a failure....  but i so fail to live up to that.... but it doesn't make me a failure...  doh!                 )

and if it's any consolation i never shower before going to the gym.  what's the point, i'm only gonna want another afterwards... just a quick cat lick  and go for it, witty and pretty will have to suffice, fresh can wait till i get home!!!

[cosmo79]

Even though this is an old topic, I felt like I had to respond -- it's such a great one! For me, I feel awkward whenever I speak to my assistant...or my supervisor, both of whom are nice, stable people.  I think it's the fact of the hierarchical relationships that's messing with my head. I have to hope that my own niceness makes up for the weird laughs, talking jags, silences, and other conversational gifts I bestow.

[Kizzie]

   Sometimes I get nervous and start blathering. I can hear myself saying "Stop talking Kizzie!" and then I trail off and there's that awkward silence that makes me wish I could  

[Dutch Uncle]

Isn't it great, at the same time, one is actually aware of this?
Confusing? Yes.
Awkward? Yes. Even more so, perhaps.

But to be aware of this. Isn't t a gift? Or possibly even: a Skill?