Do you ever catch yourself making a terribly awkward face? For example... maybe it's that funny movie you've seen 30 times with your friends, and the lead character just made (yet another) humorous reference to breasts... so you laugh. "LoL!"

Approximately 1.3 seconds later the joyous smile has faded from your face... but with your eyes glued to the set unaware of everything but the flashing phosphorus in front of you, there remains a shitty "mouth halfway open semi smile" awkward face. Who gives a damn right? Well then you catch a slight movement out of the corner of your eye. Your animal instincts kick in! You look over to see what it was... but it was just your friend moving in his seat.

Too bad y'all made eye contact and he got a full-on view of your shitty awkward ass face. Whoops!

It happens. A corollary to this phenomenon is the "look over to the car next to you at a stop light" accidental eye contact. Do you look away quickly hoping they didn't notice you? Do you wave? Give them the finger?

Of course a cute girl definitely deserves a wink or at least a smile... and a douche bag looking back at you deserves a mug... but what about less obvious cases? Contextual sensitive and situational evaluation is necessary.

So stop yourself from time to time... and look at your face. Does it convey the feelings of your soul? Or is it just shitty looking? Think about it.

-B. S. Valosek, awkward face avoider