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The agonizing wait while holding your phone out for a friend, analyzing their face for the anticipated reaction.
Read full entry →The blinding, highly public humiliation of illuminating a dark room with your phone's LED while trying to check the time.
Read full entry →A digital crutch used when actual emotional intelligence fails, usually taking the form of a praying-hands icon.
Read full entry →The transparent disguise of intense relationship anger beneath a single, tightly clenched syllable.
Read full entry →A silent battle of endurance where two partners pretend to be asleep to avoid leaving the duvet.
Read full entry →The lethal feline strategy of executing a figure-eight around the ankles of a human holding boiling soup.
Read full entry →An unsolicited gift of a saliva-soaked tennis ball, usually delivered right as you dress for an event.
Read full entry →The instant evaporation of intent that occurs the second Google loads on a screen.
Read full entry →The paranoia that your podcast or music is secretly blasting out of your phone's main speaker on a quiet train.
Read full entry →The deceitful storage of a container holding only two drops of liquid, shifting the bin-trip to the next person.
Read full entry →The punishing consequence of forgetting to drink a hot beverage, consisting of lukewarm tannin and biscuit crumbs.
Read full entry →The tactical rerouting of a shopping trip through unhealthy territory to evade small talk.
Read full entry →A loud, flashing notification alerting the entire supermarket that you failed to correctly scan a carrot.
Read full entry →The bare minimum physical effort required to prevent a screensaver from betraying your lack of productivity.
Read full entry →A mirrored, side-stepping standoff where two pedestrians repeatedly fail to guess the other's path.
Read full entry →The deployment of flawless manners and dazzling smiles to express deep, unutterable contempt.
Read full entry →A malicious act of household laziness that legally transfers the responsibility of a cardboard cylinder to the next occupant.
Read full entry →The violent elastic retaliation of a bedsheet that refuses to encompass a mattress corner.
Read full entry →The insertion of unpowered earbuds into the ear canal to project an aura of total unapproachability.
Read full entry →A mutually understood social lie used to smoothly exit a street encounter with an old acquaintance.
Read full entry →The digital equivalent of walking away while someone is still talking, using a positive emoji as a weapon.
Read full entry →The tactical withdrawal of an unsent message out of fear it will clash with the incoming response.
Read full entry →The aggressive, unsolicited reorganization of dirty plates to prove a point about spatial efficiency.
Read full entry →The cowardly concession of allowing an ugly lamp into the living room to avoid a weekend-long argument.
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