Awkward!

For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the awkward turtle is a hand gesture used to signal an awkward moment in a conversation or interaction with someone. The hope is that its use will cause a twitter of laughter throughout the group, therefore diffusing the awkwardness and restarting the conversation. It can also be used as a silent signal of awkwardness, unseen to the origin of the awkwardness. Someone has been kind enough to demonstrate the awkward turtle on YouTube: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SULsR9-lbw

For my kids and grandkids, I am trying to keep up with the times.....LOL!  I guess this has been popular with teens recently, but I have seen a couple of commercials lately using the word "awkward", and it just cracks me up.  I know I am a bit warped for an old lady.