‘Forget elephants in the room: what’s a blue whale in the room you’ve seen go unaddressed?’ – 19 moments of enormous awkwardness

11.

‘Went on a lads holiday with my mates when I was younger, there was eight of us altogether and one of them had slept with another one’s’ girlfriend a few months beforehand. Everyone there knew about it and this was the first time the two of them had seen each other since it all came out.’
–Accomplished-Kale-77

12.

‘America has taken no time to mourn their Covid dead. It’s fucking wild.’
–WinglessJC

13.

‘When two people in the group clearly have something going on but they keep acting like we’re all blind, like babe, your eyes do the heart emoji thing every time he talks.’
–sunsetmothh

14.

This is not nearly as bad as some of the other ones, but I have a friend who I have confessed to that I liked them on two separate occasions, they said they felt the same, and then nothing happened in person, we both just ignored it (ON BOTH OCCASIONS).’
–heresjohnny_237

15.

‘Brexit in the UK. It’s the #1 driver of economic issues here right now and everyone in power is studiously ignoring it.’
–Thisoneissfwihope

16.

‘My friends and I stopped at a family restaurant in a road trip. We were tired and just wanted to eat something, we get our food, halfway through the meal we see a kid walk into the middle of a dining hall and take a dump. Nobody said anything.’
–StopthinkingitsMe

17.

‘I was at a baby shower for my cousin years back and her husband was there too, and everyone in the room except him knew that wasn’t his baby, including his family.’
–ericanicole1234

18.

‘Honestly, the biggest ‘blue whale in the room’ I’ve seen was at a family gathering where everyone knew my cousin had just gotten out of prison… and nobody said a word. Not a ‘how are you doing?’ or even a nod to the fact that he’d been gone for two years. Just awkward smiles and small talk about the weather while this huge, life changing thing hovered in the air. Sometimes people avoid discomfort so hard they pretend reality isn’t even happening.’
–justlunatits

19.

‘On a Zoom meeting with a client. Person on the client side giving a presentation, sharing their screen. They wrap up the presentation. But instead of stopping sharing he mutes and starts browsing gay porn. We are yelling ‘Tim, turn off sharing!’ but he must have turned off audio both directions. We finally killed Tim’s sharing and just continued the meeting.’
–Beeing_Bee_9517

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