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18 Things Every Third Wheeler Understands

Come hang out with us, they said. It will be fun, they said.

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1. Sometimes, it's not just third wheel. It can be fifth wheel, seventh wheel, ninth wheel...

2. You're always sitting alone on your side of the booth.

3. Honestly, any paired up seating arrangement is a joke

*slides chair into the end of the table*

4. You pay for your own meal.


5. You're always get set up with the awkward friend.


6. You're always being set up.


7. You should major in being a couples photographer.

8. But your friend always takes a picture with you too, so you're included.

9. You either walk in front of the couple or behind. Sidewalks aren't meant for three-people-wide walks.

10. Movie nights mean you sit in a chair while the couple takes the couch.

11. God forbid they make out or do anything that requires you to look at your phone and act distracted.

12. Going out isn't even a thing anymore.

13. When they fight, and you don't know if you should leave the room or look down or at your phone like, "oh God."

14. When the partner picks your friend up from class, so they also pick you up too.

15. Getting mad when they have alone time because you're basically a part of their relationship too.

16. Going anywhere with a dance floor that requires you to stand against the wall or awkwardly dance beside them.

17. Casually sitting in the backseat watching them hold hands in the front seat.

18. Getting relationship advice from the couple who acts like their life mission is to find you a soulmate when you are actually happy with your single, not-chained-down life

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