So, I decided to show off a little at work today. My crush and I were in the break room, just casually talking about the weekend, and I thought I’d try to impress them. There was this huge stack of papers I needed to take to the printer, so I grabbed it all at once and strutted like I was some sort of office superstar. I was walking towards the printer when, of course, I tripped over the cord for the coffee machine, sending the papers flying everywhere. I couldn’t stop it, and the mug I had just filled with coffee toppled over, spilling everywhere. The whole break room went silent, and I just froze. My crush was staring at me in disbelief.
I spent the next 10 minutes picking up papers while trying to save face. I think I heard someone whisper, “Smooth move,” which made everything even worse. I can’t believe I actually thought that would impress them. Now I’m so embarrassed, I’m trying to figure out how to avoid eye contact with them for the next week.
Have you ever tried to look cool and ended up embarrassing yourself? How did you recover from it? I’m honestly wondering if I should just call in sick tomorrow to avoid the awkwardness.
TL;DR: Tried to impress my crush at work by carrying a big stack of papers, tripped over a cord, and spilled coffee everywhere. Now I’m mortified and unsure how to recover.
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she wasn’t impressed before and certainly isn’t now
Calling in sick will only make it worse. Own it. Go tell your crush you’ve been promoted to Chief Clumsy Officer or something funny.
Situations are only ever awkward if you make them awkward tbh. If that’s the most embarrassing thing to happen to you, you should be very, very happy lmao
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You need to speak to whatever authority it is that handles health and safety where you are… funny this time might not be so funny in the future.
Golden opportunity to impress your crush with your ability to roll with the punches and laugh at yourself. Own it.
if she was already attracted to you, this will not diminish her attraction to you, it’ll just be a funny story down the line if you two do get together.
If she wasn’t already attracted to you, depending on how you handled it you could’ve used it as an opportunity to try and change that by having her be impressed with how you handled it, with grace, good humor, if you’re jacked and you popped your shirt off to mop up the coffee lol etc…
Generally people are either attracted to someone or not, if they are attracted to you at all on first impression, you can increase or decrease their attraction based on how you carry yourself, but if they aren’t attracted to you at all on first impression normally nothing is going to change that.
“Oh wow look at that guy, he’s carrying ALL that paper by himself, I wish he would give me his children”
Said absolutely no one in the history of ever.
> I think I heard someone whisper, “Smooth move,”
That had better the fuck have been “smooth move, exlax”.
fyi, what country are you moving to, to start over in life? Bolivia?
😂😂😂😂
Nah, Own that shit “King Clutz”. Also where are you working where you can trip over a coffee maker cord taking paper to the printer? Fix that shit.
Never date someone at work.