Stand-Up

Day 316 (50) – Awkward Face

Have you ever looked at someone at the exact moment they were making a really awkward face?  Like you look over, and they’re in the middle of a yawn or something, and then you look away?  So you don’t see the whole yawn, just a single snapshot of it, and in normal context it wouldn’t be that weird, but when it’s singled out, it’s the only way you can picture that person from them on?

I was walking through the hall at work today and as I rounded a corner, I looked over and saw someone in the middle of a sneeze.  Within a split second, I had turned the corner, so I could no longer see the person, and now my only frame of reference for that person is this really weird face.  Well I ran into this person a little later, and during our small talk about something, all I could think in my head was “Sneeze face… sneeze face… sneeze face…”  I have no idea what we talked about, I just had that image in my head.

What if that someone’s only mental image of you?  What if I’ve been sitting in my car and let out a yawn, and at that exact moment some hot girl looked over and saw me with my face all contorted, mid-yawn?  There could be people out there imagining that I ALWAYS look like that.

Of course this problem is only magnified when cameras are involved.  Some of the best pictures (of other people) are when they’re taken when least expected.  I mean, people could be walking around thinking you look like this.  Haha.