24 Incredibly Awkward Situations People Had to Quickly Explain to a Stranger

One Redditor was minding their own business and rolling a cigarette when a nosy stranger not only accused them of smoking crack, but threatened to call the police on them. In a desperate attempt to stop her, the Redditor said, “This isn’t how crack is smoked,” which horrified the stranger further, but at least staved her off from calling 9-1-1. 

This is the kind of scrambling many Redditors have had to do in an awkward moment. Whether it was insisting they really weren’t looking at porn in a Starbucks or explaining why a child called them Satan, these situations really drive home the fact that without context, seemingly normal things can look hilariously abnormal — and really, really bad.