u/Dull-Reason-7073

like someone says something weird or makes a bad joke that lands completely flat and instead of addressing it everyone just goes quiet for a second and moves on. no acknowledgement, no reaction, it just gets buried alive mid conversation and everybody acts like it never happened

its such a strange unspoken social contract. had this happen at dinner last week, one guy said something kinda tone deaf and all 3 of us just stared at our food for 3 seconds and I literally found myself opening my phone and pretending to check something just to have somewhere to look

who decided this was the move and why does literally everyone just instinctively know to do it