Walking to class is something some people may find as easy as 1-2-3. However, if you’re an anxiety-ridden girl who overanalyzes anything and everything (speaking for a friend obviously), the walk to class is anything BUT simple. With all the factors taken into account- weather, who you’ll run into, what you look like, what you did last night (hangovers? Never heard of them)- it’s no wonder that people like me wish they'd speed up the teleportation discovery. For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, here are a few of the cringiest moments most have experienced far too many times:
1. The “I wasn’t waving at you I was fixing my hair”
This classic move of pure humiliation is definitely up there in my favorites. Ya know when you walk by someone you know and you think they see you so you wave and they just keep walking past you with absolutely negative recognition of your existence so you just play it off by pretending to fix your hair? Yeah, that’s the one. C-R-I-N-G-E.
2. The “I wasn’t waving at you I was fixing my hair” on steroids
Thought number 1 was bad? How about when you wave at someone YOU THOUGHT you knew, but turns out you were highly mistaken. Nope, not the person you thought they were, not at all. They don’t know you, you don’t know them, and you’re left questioning how your parents were capable of producing such a cringe-worthy human.
3. Left, right, left, right
It’s 1pm, you’re full-blown mom-powerwalking to class, when BOOM there they are: A beautiful group of athletes chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool and suddenly you find yourself forgetting how to walk. You just gotta tell yourself “left, right, left, right” until you remember how the whole legs moving thing works.
4. Playlist panic
I do this every single day. Every. Single. Day. Am I Crazy? No. Do I maybe have OCD? I mean you’re not wrong. Anyways, the playlist panic refers to that moment you pop your headphones in, hit play, start bumping, until you think “wait, am I sure I plugged my headphones in?” See, as I’m writing this I just realized I probably sound insane because how would you be able to hear the music through the headphones if they weren’t plugged in… But hey, we all have our thing alright?
5. Save, no story
It’s a glorious day, the wind is dramatically wafting your hair about, and you start to think “honestly, I probably look really good right now”. You whip out the ol' cellular device, open up Snapchat, and oh HONEY you do not look good. Hair is flying every which way, eyes look puffy as hell, today is just not your day. It’s okay, we’ve all been there. Just maybe, you know, don’t post that on your snap story? And maybe, you know, delete it?
Now that you know what you’re in for, you’re ready to take on the challenge and walk to class like a champ! Or, if you’re like me, you will continue to do these things on nearly a daily basis. Good luck out there guys. It’s a cruel, cruel world.