And the award for most awkward member of society goes to...

I just moved to a new city, and I'm trying to be social and make new friends.  But, if I'm going to be honest, I might as well just tell you... it's hard.  Really hard.  I just get so shy.

So my church has tons of activities for young single people around my age.  Thursdays they have a religious class with desserts and mingling after. My brother's been going for a while and I decided to tag along this last week.  About halfway through the class, this pretty attractive, scruffy guy in a plaid shirt walks in.  First of all, I love plaid. Secondly, I find scruff really attractive.  So, win-win.  But, of course, afterward the class ended, when it would've been a perfect opportunity to introduce myself and get to know him, my initial instinct was to book it out of there as fast as I could.

Well, as I was walking out the door, who should speed over to me and hold out his hand? Scruffy plaid-shirt guy!

"Hey!I don't think I've met you!" he said, shaking my hand, and being super friendly.

Well, naturally, my heart started pounding and I get all flustered.  NATURALLY.

And the following happened:

"Oh, I'm Anne," I said.

 "Anne? Nice to meet you, I'm [Scruffy-plaid-shirted-guy]. So are you new?" he asked.

"Oh no, I'm just Mike's brother," I said pointing to my brother who is now down the hall. I turned red. "I mean, sister.  I'm his sister...."

Then I became completely flustered and embarrassed and couldn't form any more complete sentences.  So he was super polite and was just like, "Okay, well, nice to meet ya..." and I walked away, a complete fool.

Ha! Good thing I can laugh at myself. But seriously. Talk about awkward.