Awkward Situations For Men

Have you noticed in recent years, just how difficult it is to be a man in these enlightened modern times?

I have. I sometimes feel like I spend my time literally lurching from one potentially embarrassing situation to the next, often without pause for breath in the middle.

Like the other night, when I inadvertently asked a friend of my wife if she could read. Really, I did.

Or a few weeks ago, when in the middle of a conversation with a colleague, I inexplicably managed to shout the words “Littlest Hobo” into the startled face of a young girl. In a wheelchair. In. A. Wheelchair.

Even if you, for some reason, don’t manage to fling yourself into the abyss of self perpetuated misfortune on a daily basis, fear not, for help is at hand. Or if not help exactly, at least a guide to how embarrassing someone else’s life can be.

Danny Wallace (bestselling author of Join Me and Yes Man), spent a year documenting all of his faux pas, so that we may read them, feast upon his misfortune, and try not to fall into the same traps that he does. Chances are though, that you’ll end up recognising yourself in them, possibly more than you’d like to admit.

For instance, what do you do when you find yourself following a woman down a dark street? Or turn up at a strangers party, early, and with no bottle of wine?

All these questions and more are answered in the sometimes cringe-worthy, often embarrassing, and always hilarious, Awkward Situations for Men, by Danny Wallace.

Go buy it, and try not to embarrass yourself when you do so. Or if you do, make it funny.

And then write a book about it, you’ll make a fortune. Maybe.

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