15 Awkward Moments Every New Yorker Has Endured At Least Once
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Lea Monroe
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It’s no secret that when you’re living in New York, at some point or another you’ll endure some cringe-worthy moments. Some of these uncomfortable situations may be completely out of your control, but eventually you’ll learn to ride the waves and deal with these things as they come. Usually leaving you in a bit of a pickle, this list contains awkward moments that all of us have experienced at least once.
Secret spots are the best spots! So when we do add a geotag to our uploaded picture, it's because we don't want you knowing where it is we were. Try and try all you may, but we probably won't spill the beans on where we spent the day exploring.
Due to the fact that everyone in our state seems to have their own opinion over what Upstate New York actually is, confusion frequently arises over areas of this topic. One of the most cringeworthy things to witness is when a resident claims that they're from Upstate when they're not, only to be quickly corrected by someone who truly lives in the area.
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Anytime someone asks us where we're from and they hear New York as the response, they automatically assume we mean the Big Apple. No matter where it is we're traveling, these strangers are always hoping we're some exotic lively resident from New York City. But like we always say, there's so much more to the Empire State!
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Easily New York's most famous waterfall, not all of our residents are willing or want to make the drive out to America's side of Niagara Falls. So even though this famously known natural wonder attracts visitors from all over the world, not all of us have made the trip out there even though we've been living in New York our entire lives.
A question many of us are often asked, out-of-town friends seems to always want to know how close we live to Canada. But it frequently becomes an awkward situation once we remind them of how large New York is that and not everyone lives out that way.
Whether it be a town name or street, there's lots of locations in New York that are a bit of a tongue twister. And while it'd be easy enough to just tell the person how to pronounce the place, it's more fun to watch them try to figure it out for themselves.
There's nothing worse than someone showing up sporting a Boston Red Sox shirt, or really any New England team merchandise. Living in this state means you are almost certainly raised to love the Yankees and all of our other teams, knowing that the Red Sox and New England Patriots are teams you should never be rooting for!
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The holidays are meant to be experienced during weather and scenery that resembles the magical world of Narnia and such, not your ultimate green and vibrant vacation!
Both awkward and upsetting, it's no joyous feeling to look out your window at the pouring rain and remember that you left the windows in your car open. But thankfully because New York's weather is so wacky, we almost always have a spare hoodie in the back of a car to lay down on our seat to help soak up the moisture.
No matter how long we've lived in New York, there's always comes that moment where you forget that this small piece of metal has been sitting in the sun turning into the perfect little weapon. Making you shout out in pain, the awkward mistake is one that will forever be made
We're all guilty of it. We spend a considerable amount of time in the winter pleading for summer to show up early, only to then complain about how hot things get once summer finally does arrive!
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Stand at this one particular spot in town and you'll discover that your voice sounds as though it's entered a tunnel. An unexplained phenomenon that you can only hear for yourself, those passing by who don't know about the mystery spot will think you're simply shouting for no reason like a lunatic. To find out about the mystery spot, click here.
If you aren't from the Buffalo area or know that the General Mills factory is here in the area, you'd be quite confused once you began to smell Cheerios in the air. When we see this happen the next step is to decide whether you want to explain to them why they're smelling Cheerios or just let the out-of-towner think they're crazy for smelling this classic cereal.
What’s the most awkward moment you’ve experienced as a New Yorker? To reminisce on all the reasons why we love being New Yorkers, read about these 11 Reasons Why Small Town New York Is Actually The Best Place To Grow Up!
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