That Awkward Moment When: Mermaid Edtion!

[MermaidMichelle]

^ That awkward moment when you sell 'being a real mermaid' better than you could have imagined?

[Mermaid Wesley]

That awkward moment when a kid asks you if you breathe water or air and you say that you breathe air like a dolphin. And then said kid asks "so if we held you under water would you die?" Aaaahhhhhh........ Ummmmmm...... Yes.


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[Echidna]

^^so morbid.

[MermaidSasha]

Memo to self: Don't let that kid near me in the water

[Mermaid Sirenia]

TAMW you are talking to a friend about how you might possibly be performing in a traveling tank:
Her: so will you like, be in water?
Me: yes, I will be in a tank, there will be water.
Her: so will you need like, a separate tank to breathe in?
Me: *facepalms* no I rise to the surface for air..
Her: how?
Me: OH MY GOD


~Mermaid Sirenia~

[Seatan]

I just got this image of them thinking you are swimming in a water filled SCUBA oxygen tank and need another oxygen tank full of air next to your water filled tank to suck on. Honey I shrunk the mer?

[Fun123joker]

awkward moment when
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the universe knows and wont let you be anything else but a mermaid

[Naufra]

That awkward moment when you're in a gay bar waiting for a drag show to start (I was drinking Sprite) and while you're amusing yourself with mermaid vids on your phone, a small crowd gathers behind you to watch over your shoulder, which you don't realize until someone asks you to replay one from earlier.

[MermaidSasha]

Lol Zicoxite that's super funny!

[Mermaid Isabel]

that awkward moment when you dream about swimming in your tail….but you don't even have a mono fin yet :cry:

[Mermaid Sirenia]

That awkward moment when a guy messages you asking to perform at his daughters birthday.... And she's 18. LOL


~Mermaid Sirenia~

[Firemaid]

That awkward moment when a guy messages you asking to perform at his daughters birthday.... And she's 18. LOL


~Mermaid Sirenia~

I did a 21st last weekend!

[MermaidSasha]

Savannah that's awesome lol, what was your answer? And Isabel I'm sorry:'(

[Mermaid Wesley]

I almost think an 18th birthday would be MORE fun lol


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[MermaidMichelle]

It just might be, Wesley, but I just can't afford to think like that...lol

As for this:


awkward moment when
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the universe knows and wont let you be anything else but a mermaid

I've taken the test in that graphic and the result I received was ANGEL. In fact, I've taken a LOT of those tests over the years and always have gotten one of three things:

1. Angel
2. Mermaid
3. Dragon

So....SEE MY SIGNATURE! :mermaid kiss:

[Blaze]

I did a 21st last weekend!

What does a mermaid performer do at an 18 or 21st bday party? I'm super curious!

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That awkward moment when you try to login on your fb page and it refuses to work...

That awkward moment when you realise you typed "fluke" as your email/id!

[MermaidSasha]

Lol that's pretty funny

[Aquos Savar]

That awkward moment when your family knows you're a scuba diver, but nobody knows you have a tail.

[Lostariel Telrunya]

That awkward moment when your dad is cleaning up your computer, and you suddenly hear him yelling from the living room "WHAT THE HECK IS A MONOFIN?".

[Fun123joker]

the akward moment when you a first starting and just got informed about this topic and had to be corrected when you pronuced monofish as Mow-nofin [sounds like the mono in kimono]

[MermaidMila]

that awkward moment when you attempt to tell your friend you have a mermaid tail and you're just all like: "So, um, Yeaah..I have this... thing... that I... um.. swim with...its called a... mermaid tail and yeah." And waiting their reaction.

thankfully all my friends secretly love mermaids too!

[Mermaid Wesley]

That awkward moment when you would rather go to a meetup than a vacation so you keep making excuses for being unable to go oops

[mermaidsammi]

That awkward moment when you swim up to a little girl and say hi she bursts out crying and runs away, get the look or "how could you" on her mother's face and you realize you can do anything because your in a tail in the lake.



That awkward moment when a parent of the birthday girl says look that girl has a fake mermaid tail on ,and all the kids have a look of shock on there faces 😭😱

[Lostariel Telrunya]

That awkward moment when you're in a pool in a conversation between you and three other senior couples (including your grandparents),and when the topic of body image comes up, your grandmother comments "Yeah this little lady (you(/me)) would make the worst mermaid ever!". Thanks grandma...

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That awkward moment when a little girl mistakes your fart bubbles as mermaid bubbles!

That awkward moment when the little girl catches a whiff of said fart bubbles! (DIVE! DIVE! SWIM AWAAAAY!!!)

[Drake]

That awkward moment when, as you are transitioning out of the military, people ask you what your plans are, and you reply "I want to make tails" :jawdrop:

Ohh, the looks I received for that

[MermaidMichelle]

Drake, that is soo cool! A suggestion for next time might be....

"I'm going to engineer some projects for amphibious operations. There may be some shelling involved." :pearl:

[Mermaid Galene]

That awkward moment when you're exploring the top of the aquarium, and you suddenly get the urge to molt.

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[Mermaid Wesley]

That awkward moment when this....http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/15/qyrezyve.jpg is seeming to me like it's about oral. And also it's just awkward to begin with!

[Maethor]

That awkward moment when this....http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/08/15/qyrezyve.jpg is seeming to me like it's about oral. And also it's just awkward to begin with!
AHHH that's so uncomfortable!!

[Raayvhen]

I'm sure it's either about oral or aquaphilia.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That awkward moment when one realizes she's not as worldly as she thought...
That awkward moment when one has to google "aquaphilia" to see what it means and now wishes she hadn't!!

[Raayvhen]

Yeah, usually I find that most merverts fall into that category.


TAMW you have to teach your ipad that mervert is a word.

[SeaMansa]

Tht awkward moment when your new to the forums and you didn't know what the word "Mertender" was and briefly thought it was slang for food :P seriously. I remember in the chat I asked "Can someone tell me what a merternder is? Idk what it is but it sounds delicious" haha

[Mermaid Wesley]

Like a chicken tender shaped like a mermaid tail!!!! Omg

[Raayvhen]

Or more appropriately a fish stick.

[MermaidMichelle]

That awkward moment when you are pleased that, at 35 in the modern world, you are still so innocent that you did not take Craig Bohn's message to Mermaid Wesley at all sexually and assumed the joke was that his lungs were honed from lots of shouting...AS THAT IS WHAT HE WAS DOING EVEN IN THE FIRST TEXT MESSAGE...

....and then you find yourself obliged to look up "aquaphilia"....Is doing so trip-to-Confession-worthy?

[PearlieMae]

Craig used to send me those messages via facebook and I had to ignore/block him.

And confession-worthy only if you like messing with your priest...then you gotta go back to confession!

[Mermaid Jessica Pearl]

Craig sent Amelia and I that message too. He then followed up saying that it was something to do with hyperventilation.

[Mermaid Wesley]

well regardless its annoying as heck. ill block him if he keeps at it.

[MermaidMichelle]

Would this be auto-aquatic​ asphixiation, then?

[Raayvhen]

TAMW you're almost 23 watching the little mermaid and you still cry at the end.

In front if your boyfriend.

[MermaidMichelle]

I didn't even see the ending of the Little Mermaid until I was 21 (I saw it with my class when I was 11 or 12 but the lunch bell rang 5 minutes before the ending)! I finished the NES video game countless times in the interim however....

Personally, I would have dried your tears, hugged you close and thanked the LORD that I had a girlfriend with such a beautiful soul, but then I'm a woman who lived decades in the guise of a man so I'm not sure....

[Raayvhen]

His response was just as sweet.

Also, this morning he randomly sent me this...

Just wanted to let you know, you're an amazing woman. I'm lucky to have met you.

[PearlieMae]

That awkward moment trying to explain to the nice Asian fishmonger that you don't want to BUY the striped bass, you just want to study it for a minute to see if you can figure out how you'd use Pearl Ex to render the scale pattern in silicone.

"I don't want to EAT it, I just want to LOOK at it!"

[Fun123joker]

Akward moment when you catch your sister talking about how your mermaid hobby to her friend the gay stripper.

[SirenaEma]

The akward moment a child calls you out for not being a "real" mermaid XD

[MermaidSidian]

Been a while since ive been into this forum*

That awkward moment when you 1. initially go on the work computer to do studying 2. get distracted with mernetwork and amazon 3. get hungry for some twizzlers and 4. while reading this forum, almost accidentally choke on a pen because it was in the pile of twizzlers.

Another awkward moment is when you buy 8 lbs of twizzlers because you are having a lonely night and you are on amazon.. that was two months ago.. still have four more pounds to go through xD}

That other awkward moment when one of the girls in your isle trips over your mono fin because you left it on the edge of your rack(bed)
that seemingly similar moment when you continue to forget to move your monofin from your rack(bed) and then get hit(as in a marked error) on it during inspection of your berthing

That awkward moment when you finally pull into a port and you cant swim in your monofin because you dont have your neoprene socks to fit it properly
that continuing awkward moment when you come back tot he ship, only to find said socks in the package you JUST looked at and realized they were underneath the 8 lbs of twizzlers the whole time.

That awkward moment when the Command Chaplain asks you the progress of your fabric tail(whats even more awkward is i didn't even tell him i was into mermaids! turns out, word gets around really quick on small ships)

[MermaidCelesteFL]

That awkward moment you look at a doctors/dentist's office fish tank and wonder if you could fit in there...

[Naufra]

That awkward moment when I'm at an anime convention cosplaying a lesser-known Marvel character who dresses like a bondage stripper (don't worry, I added a shirt to the costume), and a total stranger walks up to me and asks where my tail is. I explained that the character I was cosplaying doesn't have a tail, but then he said, "No, I mean your mermaid one. Don't you wear that with every costume?" Turns out the guy had seen my cosplay page on facebook, and remembered the mermaid pics more than all the ones where I have perfectly visible legs even though I only have pictures from two mermaid shoots on there and a lot more non-mer costumes. *shrug*

[Odette]

Ahem* awkward moment of the year
i'm in the pool preparing to flip my tail up
"alright, guys.:) Ready for something awesom-:jawdrop:AAAAuauiuisuuH!"
I put my hands out in front of me to stabilize and SNAP. My wrist has some terrible pain and they are laughing because I make the most ridiculous noises when i'm in pain. They thought that was the trick. Imagine a lama and a woodpecker singing a duo together. That's not a sirens call lol! I'm still laughing pretty hard at that.:rotfl:
Thank goodness that was just with a group of friends. Highlight of the night. LOL!

[Drake]

that awkward moment when... 23474

[MermaidMichelle]

WOW there have been some very impressive ones of late!

Raayvhen your boyfriend sounds like a keeper, if you don't mind me saying!

Zicoxite I would think a lot of superheroes dress like bondage strippers but the only one immediately coming to mind is Jean Grey when she was the Hellfire Club's Black Queen during the Dark Phoenix Saga. To whom were you referring?

Celeste I've done the same thing! :mermaid kiss:

Odette I hope you're alright!

FutureMermaidNaveh the cake is yours, no lie! Given your naval adventures, I want to call you Fishmael!

Oh, and finally Drake: I hope that has nothing to do with the Japanese legend that eating ningyo (merfolk) flesh grants immortality! (I say it only grants immorality!)

That Awkward Moment/Lifetime When you're forced to live as a male but refuse to give up on your dreams, so you act out some of your mermaid fantasies in a role-playing game...and need to explain to your players why Mermaid Tail is the first spell acquired and also grants a ludicrously-high Armour Class due to the scales on the tail....

...It's because I wanted the players to use it! Any Game Master worth their (sea)salt knows how difficult it is to get players in the water voluntarily!

[Naufra]

I was dressed as Typhoid Mary, she started out as a minor villain in Daredevil, was an anti-hero for some time, and is currently a primary villain in the current X-Men series as part of the Sisterhood of Mutants. Here's her Marvel Wiki page:http://marvel.wikia.com/Mary_Walker_%28Earth-616%29
I wore a variation of this outfit, which was modified to include a tank top so I wouldn't get arrested. (Warning: the following pic contains partially visible bewbage. No one needs to get in trouble on the school or office computers.) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Daredevil46.jpg
Getting arrested was not on my list of things to do at the convention.

[Naufra]

that awkward moment when... 23474

. . . And if we look just above it . . .

[Mermaid Adriel]

X.x

[Raayvhen]

And just below.

[Carolina Mermaid]

Where is this place?

[Mermaid Wishbone]

the awkward moment when your crush comments on a mermaid pic of you... even though he hasn't spoke to you in months

Haha, that's a good one! :lol: That awkward moment when fish decide to hang out in your hair and end up getting caught! If that ever happens, I mean ^/////^

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That awkward moment when you're rewatching all the mermaid videos, tutorials, first swim in tail, kids in tails etc, because you're still waiting for your new monofin and purple scale sequins to arrive.

[MermaidCelesteFL]

That awkward moment when you ask your friend to videotape/photograph you on one of your dives, and they need to take several breaths while you were on a single one.

Much apologizing on my part.

[Kishiko]

That awkward moment when you forget to bring one monofin sock so you have to wrap your spare panties around your foot to avoid blisters

[Gem Stone]

That awkward moment when you forget to bring one monofin sock so you have to wrap your spare panties around your foot to avoid blisters

Wow, just, wow.

[Raayvhen]

That awkward moment when you forget to bring one monofin sock so you have to wrap your spare panties around your foot to avoid blisters

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-58sN4uuVJo8/UVuQ2xSAmiI/AAAAAAAAF9o/UCjHZxmGl5Q/s1600/will+smith+shocked.gif

[Raayvhen]

When you're waiting for the fedex truck delivering your paints and you keep the windows in your room open so you can hear it even if that means fuzzy socks and two layers of clothes because you're cold.

[Azurin Luna]

That awkward moment you can't wait to move to your new house so you can start getting your stuff for a new tail.

[Mermaid Adriel]

That awkward moment when after a photoshoot you put your tail off and a little girl says sadly "Oh, she's not a real mermaid..."

[PearlieMae]

That awkward moment when you are putting the finishing touches on your silicone tail, trying it on alone in your living room and you have to fart.


And five minutes later, when you're taking the tail off, you end up getting hit with your own fart cloud! :surrender:

[Mermaid Crystal Shimmer]

:lol::lol: Omg, Jolene you made me laugh so hard!

[PearlieMae]

:) I'm just glad I was alone!

[Mermaid Adriel]

:lol:

[The Dark Moon Mermaid]

That awkward moment when you're swimming in a public pool, and can't see underwater and you swim straight into the wall. (I have really bad vision already, let alone underwater without my contacts in.)

[MermaidMichelle]

Oooo you have a really cool name! :mermaid kiss:

I also am rather nearsighted yet refuse to wear contacts; as a result I too am at risk of experiencing "Wall-eye" (fisherfolk will get this joke)!

[Echidna]

fisherfolk will get this joke

self-respecting mers aren't fisherfolk, they only drown them. :p

[MermaidMichelle]

Yes, that's what the Mermaids of Whitecap Bay tell me, but I'm the kind of mer who falls in love with fisherfolk; at least the One in the boat with them Who woke up to calm the storm!!! :mermaid kiss: :meditation:

[Raayvhen]

I would probably collect fishermen.. Go all Ariel's treasure cove on them...

[Princess Pearl]

That awkward moment when a twelve year old boy is fine having races with you, but gets all tongue tied in your presence after noticing you're wearing a seashell bra.


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[Odette]

That awkward moment when a twelve year old boy is fine having races with you, but gets all tongue tied in your presence after noticing you're wearing a seashell bra.


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lol That's a good one. Happened to me before.

[Odette]

That super awkward moment when the mermaid hunter at your event asks all the kids "Have you seen a mermaid?" He has a harpoon and an eye patch and I was told at the end of the night that all the kids would get wide eyed and point right at me. WTHEY, kids! lol The guy was awesome, but I can't believe the kids betrayed me so easily. lol
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[Amphitrite]

That awkward moment when your friend casually asks on a forum of non-merfolk that you want to be a mermaid and then you start rambling. On. and on. and on. :p

[Echidna]

@Odette, the kids probably didn't realize :p

they might have thought him a pirate or something.

[Anahita]

That super awkward moment when the mermaid hunter at your event asks all the kids "Have you seen a mermaid?" He has a harpoon and an eye patch and I was told at the end of the night that all the kids would get wide eyed and point right at me. WTHEY, kids! lol The guy was awesome, but I can't believe the kids betrayed me so easily. lol
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Wow, thanks kiddos. Lmao!

[Odette]

@Odette, the kids probably didn't realize :p

they might have thought him a pirate or something.
lol. he told them he was a mermaid hunter and said some other things i can't accurately quote. That would make sense if he didn't say it.

[MermaidMichelle]

It seems a tad unsporting to hunt a mermaid on land; I daresay it's like shooting fish in a barrel!

[Anahita]

It seems a tad unsporting to hunt a mermaid on land; I daresay it's like shooting fish in a barrel!

That made me laugh so much. :D

[MermaidMichelle]

^ :mermaid kiss:

[Odette]

Michelle- totally!
anahita -Oh goody! We are laughing! lol ^-^
I crave more funny now! =3

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAWM when you've realized you spent the entire day designing and sewing your latest tail instead of packing up the house. (We're moving house)
TAWM when you've finished the day feeling very sick and nauseous, only to also realize you spent the whole day looking down on super mega bright fabrics!
TAWM when you haven't eaten anything the whole day, not even a cup of tea, and you wonder why you're suddenly ravenous!

[The Dark Moon Mermaid]

Oooo you have a really cool name! :mermaid kiss:

I also am rather nearsighted yet refuse to wear contacts; as a result I too am at risk of experiencing "Wall-eye" (fisherfolk will get this joke)!

Yeah, I'm looking for some special underwater contacts, because mine just end up falling out.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW you are filling out a job application for Party Host, and in the skills section you put "I swim in a mermaid tail". Then the next part asks why, and you try many times to write it out so it doesn't sound like you've just escaped the loony bin!
TAMW when you go to Job Club the next week, and tell the trainer what jobs you've been applying for and you mention the Party Hosts one, and everyone in the job agency is either staring at you or trying to hide a giggle.

[Mermaid Sirenia]

That awkward moment when you become really excited and almost cry because your dad surprise bought you something. What is it? A wheelchair for moving in a tail [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


~Mermaid Sirenia~

[Princess Pearl]

That's awesome, Savannah! A wheelchair is on my mermaid wishlist.


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[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAWM when you're giving mermaid rides to your niece in the shallow beach end of another pool (that you plan to make your new splash home), and there is a queue forming up behind her.
TAWM when parents think you're part of the staff and they take out their cameras, phones etc, before you can stop them, they take pics of you.
TAWM when a lifeguard tells them you're not part of the pool.

[MermaidMichelle]

Now just imagine how awkward it would be if those all happened at the same time! ^ ;)

[Mermaid Jaffa]

I really really dread the event that I DO give my niece mermaid rides at the pool. After reading round here of the horror stories of kids jumping on people's backs and pulling their fins... Every time I think of the current house move and then finding a new pool to swim at, its terrifying and my heart won't stop pounding!

[Mermaid Wesley]

Well I've had a few kids hanging on me and as long as they're gentle it isn't so bad. They just have to know not to tug and only one kid at a time


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[Naufra]

That awkward moment when you're helping the sibling and the in-law move into their new apartment and the in-law suggests that you have the movers carry you into the second-floor apartment sitting on the couch in your tail. In-law suggests this very loudly in front of the neighbors AND the movers.

I weigh roughly 300lbs, so there was no way that could happen. The movers would have died.

And then, that awkward moment when the sibling explains to the movers that you're a mermaid.

[Mermaid Meara]

That awkward moment when your little brother tries to swim in your monofin and looks like he's having a seisure underwater and no gets why you think this is so funny.

That awkward moment when someone asks you how you don't drown and thinks your crazy when you say "you just wiggle".

That awkward moment when you have to refer to dolphin kicking as "wiggling" because the last time you said dolphin kick someone asked you if that was a dance move.

The awkward moment when you tell the real estate lady that you need a deck to paint tails on.

That awkward moment when everyone at works understands mer lingo.

That awkward moment when all your parents friends think your mermaiding is cool when you parents are embarrassed for them to know.

That awkward moment when a coworker offers to be your merguard even though she's terrified of water.

[MermaidMichelle]

Those are really funny, Meara...and it looks as though you've been through them all! Here's one I really need to stop doing:

That awkward moment when you realize that you automatically start holding your breath whenever you see a mermaid video out of a nigh-instinctive desire to "time yourself"!

[Mermaid Adriel]

^ This happens to me, too XD

[SeaGlass Siren]

.. when you have too many mermaid clothes to wear for your friend's mermaid party and decide to wear your tail BUT it's a super shitty tail... :| SOME MERMAID I TURNED OUT TO BEEE

[MermaidMichelle]

Stop saying that, Siren! You sound like a more genuine mermaid every time you speak of yourself! :mermaid kiss:

[SeaGlass Siren]

Aw michelle. :'| :hugs:

[Mermaid Nessie]

That awkward when you have to bring your mermaid tail on a high school bus, and then carry it around all day...

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW one goes to Profile to check up what one has posted in and doesn't recognize the name at the top...
TAMW one sits there for 15 mins and thinks "Who the hell is Mermaid Jaffa?? That's not my name!"
*starts panicking*
TAMW when one remembers the name change thread...

[Nyx]

TAMW you are craving a swim so much, that the local campus pond (covered in algae and geese) looks very VERY inviting.
TAMW a dorm-hall neighbor recognizes your NC-Merfest shirt and wants to take a photo because they once hired a mermaid in the area to freak out their coach in the middle of training at the local aquatic center. (said neighbor had one of those 'merpeople freak me out a little' faces on).
TAMW you are excited about the campus olympic pool . . . but then turns out they are going to be remodeling it for at least a year.
TAMW you are trying on your tails in the middle of your dorm living-room and your dorm mates decide to open the door for everyone in the hall to see while you are incapacitated by a huge green fish tail. They had a good laugh. I did too XD.

So far, college rocks!

[SeaGlass Siren]

that awkward moment you feel like Belle from Once and not a mermaid. UHHH......

[Aquos Savar]

That awkward moment you're swimming on the deepest part of the pool (20 ft) with your tail and every kid tries to swim that deep just to say hi, and the moment you come up for air, everyone jumps and starts swimming towards you and touch you

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That awkward moment you're swimming on the deepest part of the pool (20 ft) with your tail and every kid tries to swim that deep just to say hi, and the moment you come up for air, everyone jumps and starts swimming towards you and touch you

That's what happens when you swim in a public pool.

[MermaidMichelle]

TAMW you are excited about the campus olympic pool . . . but then turns out they are going to be remodeling it for at least a year.

That is what is happening currently with my local Aquatics Centre. On January 26th I was able to have my first swim since I ceased lifeguarding (8 YEARS EARLIER), it was my first-ever time monofinning, aaannd then the Centre closed down and is STILL remodeling. Thus I'm going from one homemade-monofin swim to full Merbella performance outfit/tail; 'tis a good thing I lifeguarded for so many years that I feel at home in the water even fully-clothed!

EDIT: For added fun, I stopped lifeguarding before transitioning via hormones; when I monofinned I was physically much weaker yet actually swum more easily....Such is the female form!

Now that I think upon it; ^ that was/is one huge AWKWARD MOMENT!

[Nyx]

Michelle that sounds rouughhh ugh. I'd cry. I was so exited to swim in a big pool again since I didn't have a chance to all summer, but alas, I will have to wait. Hopefully the aquatic center in uptown will let me use my tails.

[Talia]

That awkward moment you're swimming on the deepest part of the pool (20 ft) with your tail and every kid tries to swim that deep just to say hi, and the moment you come up for air, everyone jumps and starts swimming towards you and touch you

I can totally relate to that, and I sympathize. Although I wish my public pool was 20 feet deep. I have to get by with barely 8 feet.

That awkward moment when a young boy sees your seaweed silicone top and goes "Ooooh, what is that!?" and reaches out to touch it. You have to actually grab his hand and pull it away so he doesn't end up touching your boob.

The awkward moment that follows when a random adult dude is watching, finds it funny and says "Ha ha, the boy is smart, he knows how to get to the good part!".

[Mermaid Morgann]

That awkward moment when you're helping a mermaid get a tail on and just have to look at her and apologize before laying on top of her to get your arm down to the foot pocket because her foot is stuck.

Case and point, I think I need longer arms.

Also, that awkward moment when you're on a double date (along with another mer from your pod) and you walk past a restaurant aquarium, reach out to the tank, and whisper ¨my people¨ as a joke while your date, who doesn't know you're a mermaid, watches in utter confusion.

[PearlieMae]

That awkward moment when you overhear your boss making plans to go to the World Maker Faire in two days...with new clients, new clients whose 3D printer exhibit is in the same area where you are going to be exhibiting your mermaid tail process and spending the day ON DISPLAY IN YOUR NEWLY COMPLETED MERMAID TAIL.
:doh:

[Echidna]

uh no xD
I hope it's not too awkward :p

(and hopefully not any bad repercussions like which happened to others when they were found out)

[PearlieMae]

It's going to be awkward, for certain, but nothing that will get me into trouble. I work for a company that caters to hobbies, and even though he doesn't like to admit it, he's scared shitless of me.

[Echidna]

^^somehow, I'm not too surprised :lol:

[Naufra]

Nobody messes with Pearlie! XD

[Aquos Savar]

That awkward moment when you decide to swim with your tail at the beach, and some random guy throws a net a you and says: "What a nice catch"

[Mermaid Wesley]

That awkward moment when you decide to swim with your tail at the beach, and some random guy throws a net a you and says: "What a nice catch"

I swear to Poseidon I hear "catch of the day" so frequently it's ridiculous.

TAMW your mertender is as shy as you are and WONT MAKE THE CREEPERS GO AWAY. I need a scarier mer-curity guard.


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[SeaGlass Siren]

that awkward moment when youre working behind in the box office and you hear 'I WANNA BE WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE"

and you break out singing as if in a musical number...

"I WANNA SEE, WANNA SEE THEM DANCING!"

ONLY to have customers in line stare at you like ( :D...*GIRL BE CRAY* )


Only at the disneystore lol..

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW you leave the pool after taking off your tail in the water, to dry out on the bench because you've got blisters on your ankles.
TAMW ppl are openly staring at you whilst you are sitting with a big towel wrapped up, with your mermaid regalia scattered around your feet!
TAMW after you dry out, you think "should i go back in or not", then look at the clock and think "Carps that! I'm going back in with my TAIL blisters n all!"
TAMW you try to be smooth about it, shoving a huge monofin back into a wet soggy fabric tail, hoping it won't rip at the weak points cos you underestimated how much fabric you need there...
TAMW you put on your tail too far from the pool's edge and have to walrus wobble back into the water.

[Aziara]

That awkward moment when you take off your tail after swimming for 2 hours, and realise you have almost forgotten how to walk. Gah, shaky legs.

[Nyx]

Also, that awkward moment when you're on a double date (along with another mer from your pod) and you walk past a restaurant aquarium, reach out to the tank, and whisper ¨my people¨ as a joke while your date, who doesn't know you're a mermaid, watches in utter confusion.


Oh gosh Merin, I almost started laughing during class! I might borrow that joke from you, if that's okay ;).

TAMW you are trying to clean your dorm room with a (stuffed with pillows) mermaid tail in the middle of the way, and have to end up carrying it on your back while you try to pick everything up and get enough room to put it back down.

[Starfrit]

That awkward moment when your boyfriend comes home from work for his lunch break and walks into the bathroom to find you lying in the bathtub with a blanket wrapped around your legs and playing ocean sounds on your phone and you have literally no idea how to explain yourself as he just quietly backs out of the room and closes the door...

It's been a weird day for me.

[MermaidMichelle]

It also reminds me a lot of that scene in Splash!​ ^

[Mermaid Galene]

lol, Merin!

[Mermaid Sirenia]

TAMW you're doing a photoshoot at the beach and a giant wave crashes on you as you're grabbing onto a rock so you won't be thrown around by the water..

TAMW someone in your class starts yelling at you out if excitement about how jealous they are that you're a mermaid, leaving everyone else in class in a state of confusion

TAMW You find out from a guy you barely know that a group of guys have pictures of you as a mermaid saved to their phones...


~Mermaid Sirenia~

[SeaGlass Siren]

^ they probably want to use that against you.

be prepared to be like "aww you have my photos saved? thats so cute i'm flattered"
1) it will piss them off
2) they will delete it
or
3) they will use it to bully you further.

[Mermaid Wesley]

Yeah take it as a compliment Avd insinuate that you know they must want tails too. Either they'll get embarrassed and delete them to "protect their masculinity" or you create mermen bam pow


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[MermaidMichelle]

Bang, zoom, straight to the moon...-lit bay, where romantic mermaid adventures await! :mermaid kiss:

[SIF]

That awkward moment when you first get in the water and your fin is making bubbles >.<


I LOVE that moment with the "Tailfaaaarts"

[SIF]

An online friend, Richard http://r-h-maclanahan.deviantart.com/ has been helping me with these XD we're going to make a webcomic!

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Keep us posted on the Web-comic.

[MermaidMichelle]

That is kawaii and funny (and the antagonist's face turning into that of the "troll" was a clever touch)! :mermaid kiss:

Also, am I the only one who sees r-h-maclanahan and immediately thinks of the woman who played Blanche Deboureux on the Golden Girls?

[deepblue]

That awkward moment when your boyfriend comes home from work for his lunch break and walks into the bathroom to find you lying in the bathtub with a blanket wrapped around your legs and playing ocean sounds on your phone and you have literally no idea how to explain yourself as he just quietly backs out of the room and closes the door...

It's been a weird day for me.


It also reminds me a lot of that scene in Splash!​ ^

Yes, next time say, "Allen, will you make me some pancakes?" (Edited my spelling of his name, but it's too late! Pearlie already quoted me. :p)

[PearlieMae]

Yes, next time say, "Alan, will you make me some pancakes?"

:clap:

[MermaidMichelle]

In light of this, how about That Awkward Moment When you realize you sculpted/wrote an intricate Wiki page about Madison and yet never shared it on Mernetwork! Here you go:

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Madison

EDIT: To clarify, I wrote the Personality section/essay, the Abilities, and added all the pictures to the Gallery.

[SeaMansa]

This happened a few years back in like 2006 when the little mermaid got a DVD re-release with a special sneak of TLM3 that hadn't come out yet: "TAMW when you're in Walmart with your stepfather and across the way you see a television screen playing a Little Mermaid scene you've never seen before (it was the shake shake senora preview) and you have to conceal your excitement whilst trying to get your stepfather to walk in that direction discreetly because you know he will think your strange" :P I managed to get over there and had to glance out of the corner of my eye.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW the near by swim class is distracted by your tail swishing in lane next to them.
TAMW you are caught spying underwater at the Learn to Swim class.
TAMW you have to explain to the life guard that your nephew is in the swim class, and you just wanted to see how he was doing without him knowing you're there.

[Mermaid Adriel]

TAMW your mom's colleague discovers you are a mermaid and wants to know more about mermaiding.

[SeaGlass Siren]

This happened a few years back in like 2006 when the little mermaid got a DVD re-release with a special sneak of TLM3 that hadn't come out yet: "TAMW when you're in Walmart with your stepfather and across the way you see a television screen playing a Little Mermaid scene you've never seen before (it was the shake shake senora preview) and you have to conceal your excitement whilst trying to get your stepfather to walk in that direction discreetly because you know he will think your strange" :P I managed to get over there and had to glance out of the corner of my eye.

that's in the third movie, Ariel's beginnings :)

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW you realise how much of a mer addict you've become when you ignore household chores in favor of watching the Aquamarine DVD you found in the bargain bin, even after you read all the bad reviews about it!

[Mermaid Sirenia]

TAMW you realise how much of a mer addict you've become when you ignore household chores in favor of watching the Aquamarine DVD you found in the bargain bin, even after you read all the bad reviews about it!

Aquamarine is amazing! How could you not?


TAMW you are doing a photoshoot with a professional photographer, and find out she lives 3 houses down from you XD


~Mermaid Sirenia~

[Mermaid Jaffa]

It was a good movie, though a bit cheesy as the only other kids shows I watch is Mako Mermaids.

TAMW your 9 yr old nephews asks you why you like watching those shows and remarks, "But you're so old!"

[Genevieve]

Little kids think everyone is old. Once had a little guy ask me if I had any kids. I told him no. His response: "Are you suuuuure you don't have kids? Oh, wait, I know. They're probably in college already." I was 25 at the time.

TAMW you're flippin' your fins in the pool at the apartment complex and the landlord is giving this unsuspecting middle aged couple a tour. "And this... is... our outdoor... pool..."

[MermaidMichelle]

I clicked on the link in your signature, Gen, and as I remembered the episode it took me waaaayy back...to when I, myself, was 25! I have found that, especially in the modern world, it works like this:

-Children idealize teenagers, in part because most of the fiction they consume is about empowered teens who lead extraordinary existences; often these take place in the magical world of High School.

- Teenagers are eager to enter the 'real world' and thus fulfill all their burgeoning hopes and dreams which must remain entirely unrealized en ce moment; after all, who would wish to dwell in the socially-awkward confines of dreary High School?

- Twenty-somethings question their direction and the speed of that direction. Should I really be in university/college when internet enterpreneurs seem more successful than any graduate? Is what I thought I wanted as a teenager really viable, or even really what I wanted? Do I really have any business even thinking about marriage if I haven't the means to comfortably support a family? Does anyone even get permanently married anymore? I wish I could go back to being a teen and do it right this time; can't we just declare 30 the new 20?

- Thirty-something is where I'm at right now, and to be as succinct as possible I would say that we would be a lot happier if we weren't constantly bombarded with a media that assured us that we are well past our prime.

Does anyone my elder dare to add more? :mermaid kiss:

[Genevieve]

Just an "amen"!

[MermaidMila]

TAMW your at the pools edge at your local pool when you try to wait until everyone in the pool is busy and you try to put on your tail, and then someone sees and then soon enough everyone in the pool is starin' at you all like :jawdrop: and your all like "Oh.... hey there...sup?" btw I'm 11 and this was so weird.

[Miyu]

TAMW you have to find creative ways to alter a perfectly good photo because you've got "backwards mutant mer arms" in the photo (from trying to hold yourself up)... :cry:Seriously, the photo is so good but GEEZ that arm...

[Mermaid Adriel]

TAMW you have to explain your swimming trainer why you need to learn the dolphin kick.

[Raayvhen]

I'm 11

Don't you have to be 13 to register on here?

[PearlieMae]

I clicked on the link in your signature, Gen, and as I remembered the episode it took me waaaayy back...to when I, myself, was 25! I have found that, especially in the modern world, it works like this:

-Children idealize teenagers, in part because most of the fiction they consume is about empowered teens who lead extraordinary existences; often these take place in the magical world of High School.

- Teenagers are eager to enter the 'real world' and thus fulfill all their burgeoning hopes and dreams which must remain entirely unrealized en ce moment; after all, who would wish to dwell in the socially-awkward confines of dreary High School?

- Twenty-somethings question their direction and the speed of that direction. Should I really be in university/college when internet enterpreneurs seem more successful than any graduate? Is what I thought I wanted as a teenager really viable, or even really what I wanted? Do I really have any business even thinking about marriage if I haven't the means to comfortably support a family? Does anyone even get permanently married anymore? I wish I could go back to being a teen and do it right this time; can't we just declare 30 the new 20?

- Thirty-something is where I'm at right now, and to be as succinct as possible I would say that we would be a lot happier if we weren't constantly bombarded with a media that assured us that we are well past our prime.

Does anyone my elder dare to add more? :mermaid kiss:

- Forties, you panic that your life is nearly over and you still haven't gotten your shit together;

- Fifties, you laugh at all the crap the breeders are wasting their time on - all the posturing and game-playing; you realize that even though you know better and have great advice from years of life experience, no one is going to listen to you because you are a Old (can we say Cassandra Complex?); and you relax and realize how awesome life is and you don't give a damn what people think of you and your rubber fish suit.

:mermaid kiss:

[Mermaid Morgann]

That awkward moment when practically no one in the pool has noticed you swimming in your tail and then the lifeguard blows a whistle and asks everyone to get out of the pool, so you have to flop up onto the cement and let everyone stare as you struggle to reach your towel.

[MermaidMichelle]

Ooo that does sound awkward, Merin, especially in the Peacock Mantis Shrimp!

PearlieMae, this last century has been especially bad for not listening to elders, as the media peddles novelty and increasing rebelliousness. I don't know if this will cause you to feel any better, but scientific studies reveal that - in terms of memory, knowledge, wisdom, etc. - people are actually growing less intellectually capable, not more as those young whipper-snappers seem to think. I am happy to know there is a decade at which I might anticipate finally become mature! :mermaid kiss:

You dang li'l guppies, get back to your school and the HECK OFF MY POND!

[SeaGlass Siren]

TAMW mermaid comic on ohjoysextoy appears on mernetwork and gives you a female boner :| I'm just gonna go calm myself down now.

[StarrLaRoux]

That awkward moment when you are swimming around at a college pool party and a hot guy wades over to ask, "Would you be of-fin-ded if I were to touch your tail?"
Nope, not with those muscles. I'm not even offended by the cliche pun lol.

[Mermaid Leira]

hahahaha Coralia he must have been hot

[PearlieMae]

That awkward moment when you are swimming around at a college pool party and a hot guy wades over to ask, "Would you be of-fin-ded if I were to touch your tail?"
Nope, not with those muscles. I'm not even offended by the cliche pun lol.

:clap:

[Cerulean]

That awkward but kinda awesome moment where youre sorting through every single Lions Paw shell in Michaels and holding a few up against your chest and one of the workers walks idly by and nonchalantly says "Mermaid?" And you easily answer "Yuuuuuup!"

[deepblue]

^That is awesome. lol

[MermaidIndie]

That awkward moment when, you accidentally put your Monofin in your backpack instead of your binder and have to explain to your math teacher why you don't have your homework


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[Mermaid Galene]

That awkward moment when your sibling rivalry literally gets your knickers in a twist.

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[MermaidMichelle]

Lol, those pics are worth including seahorses as 'mermaids'! :mermaid kiss:

[Shourn]

awkward moment when you get caught combing your hair with a fork
cause you in an Ariel mood

also because your in an Ariel mood
awkward moment when you get caught trying on your sister lacy purple bra

[MermaidMichelle]

:mermaid kiss: ^
I was also in an Ariel mood after my first time monofinning, so here's another one from real life:

That awkward moment when you're trying to blow-dry your hair so as to better endure the sub-zero night air, and find yourself singing in minor frustration...

"What's a dryer, and why doesn't it - what's the word - ​WORK!!"

[Genevieve]

:mermaid kiss: ^
I was also in an Ariel mood after my first time monofinning, so here's another one from real life:

That awkward moment when you're trying to blow-dry your hair so as to better endure the sub-zero night air, and find yourself singing in minor frustration...

"What's a dryer, and why doesn't it - what's the word - ​WORK!!"

"What's with my perm? Couldn't I try, try shaking this mess 'til it's dry? Pantene Pro-V. That's what I need. Shampooed and curled."

[Mermaid Syaira]

That awkward moment when you mum tells you that your too old to be playing mermaid when she sees your tail that you just swam in drying...

[MermaidMichelle]

"What's with my perm? Couldn't I try, try shaking this mess 'til it's dry? Pantene Pro-V. That's what I need. Shampooed and curled."

:mermaid kiss: What a partner! Bravo...bravo...bravissimo! :mermaid kiss:

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[Azurin Luna]

That awkward moment when a colleague tells you, 'you should do a photo shoot in a mermaid tail on a motorcycle.'
I just started to learn how to drive one... I don't own one yet :P

[MermaidMila]

Don't you have to be 13 to register on here?
Sorry for taking so long to reply! But this is my mom's and she lets me use it (She wants to know more about mermaiding)

[MermaidMichelle]

In that case, until someone reprimands me for my leniency, welcome aboard! :mermaid kiss:

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That awkward moment at the hairdresser's when he asks you, "What color would you like done?", for a few minutes before I decided, I thought about a dark seaweed green!

That awkward moment when the pro swimmer in the next lane stops to look at you underwater because you've over taken him several times before he hit the other end.

That awkward moment when you've barely got your fins wet and you need to poo!

[Sherielle]

TAMW you are putting on your tail on a beach at a resort, with an employee there happily wanting to take pictures and asking the process, and you realize after spending a larger than normal amount of time getting into the tail that you have it on backwards.

[MermaidMichelle]

Ooooo ouch. I guess that offers further support for tails with dorsal fins!

[Sherielle]

Ooooo ouch. I guess that offers further support for tails with dorsal fins!Erm....it has a dorsal fin. :$ lol My husband had folded it down so far that I couldn't tell where it was.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

You could always say, its there to keep the merverts away... Hawhawhaw!

[Carolina Mermaid]

Same thing happened to me Merin. The lifeguard had blown his whistle just to see me try and get out...I just glared at him while my outmuscled arms tried to pull myself out.

[MermaidMichelle]

Wow; he was...unprofessional. I've found that when one is too weak or too tired to pull oneself out of the water with pure upper-body strength, a kick of your still-submerged tail fluke gives you all the extra force you need!

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW you've lost prescription inserts for your goggles in the pool.
TAMW you tell the life guard lady and she says, "We'll keep an eye out for them but we can't just dive in to look for it"
TAMW you have to think quickly what to do and then ask her to ask the noisy kids if they can help dive for them.
TAMW the kids ask...
"What color is it?"
I reply, "Clear"
"Oh that's gonna be hard"
Another kid, "What shape is it?"
*shows goggles*
Still another kid, "What material is it made of?"
"Glass. Try looking at the deep end too if you can dive."

TAMW 15 mins later, one suddenly feels itchy in the boob valley area (you know that part where the boobs meet, most call it cleavage but since I don't have cleavage, I call it boob valley!).
TAMW one goes to scratch it to find "lost" insert!!
TAMW one has to announce very loudly, "I FOUND IT!" and the girl next to me asks where and I show her, we both have a laugh!
TAMW one thanks all the nice kids and they ask, "where was it?" and another replies, "It fell into her bra! HAHAHAHA!"

[Naufra]

That awkward moment when you're explaining your hobbies to a co-worker, and your co-worker asks repeatedly how the mermaid tail works. After the third time she asked, I figured out that my co-worker thought I was having sex in my tail. :jawdrop:

[SeaGlass Siren]

That awkward moment when your fobby Asian coworkers (I apologize for the lack of better wording) calls you fat indirectly by saying you have a tuna belly.

Tuna belly. TUNA BELLY.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That awkward moment when your fobby Asian coworkers (I apologize for the lack of better wording) calls you fat indirectly by saying you have a tuna belly.

Tuna belly. TUNA BELLY.

Show them how strong you've become, tuna belly and all!

[SeaGlass Siren]

Actually I'm not lol!!! Everywhere else is tiny but my belly is huge. (Not pregnant btw)

[Mermaid Jaffa]

Actually I'm not lol!!! Everywhere else is tiny but my belly is huge. (Not pregnant btw)

Me too ever since I started this type of swimming! Its how abs start. From belly fat to solid abs!

[Shimmer Mermaid]

TAMW you're in the process of making your fabric tail at your dads house because your step mom has a sewing machine and when you first put it on your father looks at you, looks at your boyfriend, looks back at you and says "Ya'll have the strangest fetishes...."

Ps. My father is 73. It was hilariously awkward.

[spottedcatfish]

TAMW you meet a guy at a party and add him on Facebook. Pretty normal except most of your friends on there are a part of the mermaiding community, as are many picture you have on there. So then you have to deal with them not just seeing you as yourself, but as a mermaid too. I guess this is fine, but they won't stop talking about it. It eventually defines you. ugh.

[Mermaid Harmony]

Not as awkward, and yes, if you have a bunch of 'normal' friends, you become the mermaid girl that people talk about, part of the job I think. But b/c I wear my elf ears so often with gigs and I don't bother taking them off for the day, I met a new friend last night and she was surprised my ears were normal, as she thought I had had them altered because the pics she sees/when she has seen me I have them on. Thought it was funny.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW a pair of young boys get kicked out of the lane pool for taking photos underwater.
TAMW you realise they were following you around for a good 15 mins before you even noticed them!
TAMW one considers asking the life guard what they took pictures of and when one finally does, one can see he is lying when he replies, "themselves"

[MermaidMila]

TAMW a pair of young boys get kicked out of the lane pool for taking photos underwater.
TAMW you realise they were following you around for a good 15 mins before you even noticed them!
TAMW one considers asking the life guard what they took pictures of and when one finally does, one can see he is lying when he replies, "themselves"
That is so funny you don't even know how hard I am laughing. Did this really happen?

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That is so funny you don't even know how hard I am laughing. Did this really happen?

Yes. It was earlier this afternoon at the pool. When I first saw them, I didn't know they had a camera. It was when I saw flashes underwater then I knew. I tried to get away, but they kept following me. I wouldn't have minded if they ask my permission first, but they didn't and just kept following and taking photos. Luckily, another swimmer reported them, and they got kicked out.

[Merman Jamie]

TAMW a pair of young boys get kicked out of the lane pool for taking photos underwater.
TAMW you realise they were following you around for a good 15 mins before you even noticed them!
TAMW one considers asking the life guard what they took pictures of and when one finally does, one can see he is lying when he replies, "themselves"

That's really funny Jaffa

[PhaylennMurúch]

sounds like it's time to search the web for a vague description of yourself and your location to see if they posted somewhere

[Mermaid Jaffa]

sounds like it's time to search the web for a vague description of yourself and your location to see if they posted somewhere
Oh I'm safe for now. The closest is my mermaid avatar showing up in the searches.

[Mer-gal]

The awkward moment when you and your mom are looking at old pictures of you in mermaid costumes from five years ago and your mom says, "Back then I thought it was just a phase."

The awkward moment when a new girl doesn't talk to you anymore because the first time you met she told you her name was Ariel and you went on a ten minute rant about mermaids. (sadly this happens a lot)

[Mermaid Alea]

That awkward moment when you go to the fabric store to get fabric for your first mermaid tail, and the lady at the desk asks you what the fabric is for. Then when you say it is for a mermaid tail, she thinks you are talking about a costume mermaid tail, which evidently a lot of people made for Halloween this year, so it seems normal to her. Then you wonder what she would say if you explained that you are making a swimmable mermaid tail and not just a mermaid dress or costume.

That awkward moment when you come up with an awesome tail design, then realize that it would be impossible to get it to work when done in fabric. Also you haven't had a tail yet, so you have to use fabric to start with for a while. So now you have to come up with a new tail design that can actually be done in fabric!

That awkward moment when JUST RIGHT NOW your mom says you look like Snow White, and you were not expecting that. Huh?? She says I look like the Kristen Stewart Snow White. (We watched Snow White & The Huntsman recently)

That awkward moment when you are set on using Jacquard Lumiere fabric paint after seeing how well it worked for Jadestone's fabric tail, and you go to several stores and they ask you twice what the paint is called and they have no idea what you are talking about! I felt like I was imagining this paint! Soo I just ordered it online instead. :p

[Fun123joker]

That awkward moment when you go to the fabric store to get fabric for your first mermaid tail, and the lady at the desk asks you what the fabric is for. Then when you say it is for a mermaid tail, she thinks you are talking about a costume mermaid tail, which evidently a lot of people made for Halloween this year, so it seems normal to her. Then you wonder what she would say if you explained that you are making a swimmable mermaid tail and not just a mermaid dress or costume

UUUUUUGGGGGGH I abosoutly hate that! when i was making my first tail my mom just said it and i was to shy and my mom is soooo bad at explaining things. i just asked for swimsuit fabric and left

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW one is with her niece in the Wave pool, and out of the corner of one's eyes, she can see the lifeguard doing butt squats!:lol:

[Mermaid Jaffa]

UUUUUUGGGGGGH I abosoutly hate that! when i was making my first tail my mom just said it and i was to shy and my mom is soooo bad at explaining things. i just asked for swimsuit fabric and left

I remember doing that before I started ordering everything online. I used to say it was for a mermaid swimming costume. And when they said I didn't need 6 metres of fabric, I just lied and said its in case I made mistakes, then I have extra fabric to start over.

Oh forgot to report last Sunday's swim...

TAMW one has a strange conversation with a young lifeguard. When I say young, he's in his 20s.

Lifeguard - "I like your mermaid tail"
Me - "Thanks"
Lifeguard - "Where did you get it?"
Me - "I made it"
Lifeguard - "Cool. How did you make it?"
Me - "With swimwear fabric and a sewing machine" At this point, I was seeing how far I could go with this silly chat!
Lifeguard - "Is the swimwear fabric like lycra?"
Me - "Yes"
Lifeguard - "I like your fins too. They're neat."
Me - *smiles*

Ooook... Time to swim away...:lol:

[Starfrit]

That awkward moment when your new Betta starts trying to dictate what you can and can't wear...

I got home from work today, took my coat off, and went into the living room to check on him and he IMMEDIATELY puffs up and starts flashing his fins at me all angry-like. Then I realized I was still wearing my neon-green work shirt. I took that off so I was just in the black undershirt and he calmed right down again!

I think my Betta has decided he's the fashion police...

... Fishion police??

[Mermaid Kelda]

"Neon green? With your skin tone? I think not."
*flips fins fabulously*

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That awkward moment when your new Betta starts trying to dictate what you can and can't wear...

I got home from work today, took my coat off, and went into the living room to check on him and he IMMEDIATELY puffs up and starts flashing his fins at me all angry-like. Then I realized I was still wearing my neon-green work shirt. I took that off so I was just in the black undershirt and he calmed right down again!

I think my Betta has decided he's the fashion police...

... Fishion police??

He probably thought you were another Betta, trying to move in on his territory!

[MermaidCora]

That awkward moment when you finally meet your birth-mom, go to tell her your a mermaid, and she already knows!!!

[Mermaid Sirenia]

TAMW you go to see the hobbit a second time, and about 2/3 of the way through the movie the power goes out. So during the 15 minutes of waiting for the power to come back a guy comes up and starts hitting on me.. really obviously.

Lol and when the movie started back up he abandoned his friend and sat by me the rest of the movie...AWKWARD

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW one surfaces to hear a little girl whisper to her friends, "See? I told you a mermaid lives here!"

[MermaidMichelle]

Jaffa, that is adorable!

Sirenia, that is annoying/secretly enjoyable as a reassurance of your feminine attractiveness! It is especially annoying as the movie conked out, and something like that happened to me, too; when I went to see The Hobbit: The Battle of All The CGI We Can Muster, it was in IMAX but the 3D projector was down!

[Merman Jamie]

TAMW one surfaces to hear a little girl whisper to her friends, "See? I told you a mermaid lives here!"

Thats cool and sweet jaffa

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW one realises one hasn't done any swim laps for weeks.
TAMW one just goes to the pool to hog a lane and float at the surface, occasionally doing a dive but spending most of her time, lounging in the pool in her tail!

[Mermaid_Jordyn]

I have a few okay

1. That awkward moment when a really cute boy asks you "what the fuck are you doing" :(

2. That awkward moment when your grandma doesn't approve of mermaiding

3. That awkward moment when you go on a 15 hour drive and forget your wet fabric tail in the back of the car... It grew lots of mold :(

4. That awkward moment when your friend face times you and you are in the bathtub with your tail

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[Azurin Luna]

Tamw, the mover asks why there is a fluke sticking out of the box.
tamw, you say that you are a mermaid and it takes the mover a moment to register your answer, on which he replies, 'oh really?'

[PhaylennMurúch]

Bathtub mermaids unite!


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[Naufra]

That awkward moment when you realize that it's become a common occurrence at work for customers to look at your name tag (mine says "Ariel") and ask if you're a mermaid.
That awkward moment when you realize that you always respond with "Only on my days off."
That awkward moment when you realize that an adult customer has taken what you said very, very seriously and asks how you turn into a human to go to work.
That awkward moment when you realize that a grown woman, a regular customer at your place of work, seriously, truly believes with all her heart that you're an actual, came-from-the-ocean, biological mermaid that turns into a human to work in a supermarket as a checker.



That awkward moment when you wonder if you'd do well in an acting career, or if perhaps this customer is the epitome of gullibility.

Wow.

I really hope she was just pulling my fin.

[deepblue]

Sounds like she has mental issues or is messing with you *very* well. :)

[Fun123joker]

awkward moment when your monofin sticks out from backpack (back when i had a really small monofin)
awkward moment when you drop said backback on the way to your seat on the airplane
awkward moment when a dude asked if you have a fish in your backpack

[Naufra]

Sounds like she has mental issues or is messing with you *very* well. :)

Indeed, perhaps *she* is the one who should go into acting. ^_^

[Mermaid_Jordyn]

Bathtub mermaids unite!


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YES!


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[deepblue]

Awkward moment when family is over for the holidays, and we're talking about the adolescent boy whose mom was embarrassed that he wanted to be a unicorn next Halloween. He was dressed as the MOST AMAZING octopus, and my family were talking about how unfair it is that it's assumed men can't be fantasy creatures, and that's when I said, "I know, it's like all the mermen I know online, they get so much crap from people."

Cue the awkward silence and me explaining about the mer community. I seriously thought my family knew this already. lol

[MermaidMichelle]

deepblue, now I'm reading your blog "The Dark Sea" and glad I am! :mermaid kiss:

That awkward moment when we realize that we've been discussing bathtub mermaids being interrupted for three posts and noone has yet mentioned the scene in Splash!
which defined it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y633FYH1Uuk

[Mermaid_Jordyn]

deepblue, now I'm reading your blog "The Dark Sea" and glad I am! :mermaid kiss:



That awkward moment when we realize that we've been discussing bathtub mermaids being interrupted for three posts and noone has yet mentioned the scene in Splash!
which defined it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y633FYH1Uuk

ACTUALY... My dad walked in because I was being completely silent and he was like "have you seen the movie splash?"


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[MermaidMichelle]

ACTUALY... My dad walked in because I was being completely silent and he was like "have you seen the movie splash?"


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I can only assume that the answer was "YES!" ;) :rolleyes::sweat drop::rollover:

[Mermaid_Jordyn]

I mean us know being a fetus the answer to CAN I PLEASE WATCH SPLASH was always no... UNTIL TONIGHT EFF YEA


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[PhaylennMurúch]

That moment when your SO comes into the bathroom looking for the computer and you're in the tub with your tail on and the computer is on the toilet lid with a mermaid video playing.


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[Mermaid_Jordyn]

That moment when you meant to send a snapchat to your friend of you in your tail but it goes on your story and everyone sees it


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[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW one is walking around the Chinese shopping mall on a very hot day, and exclaim loudly to her Mum, "I don't belong here! I need water!!"
TAMW when all the Chinese aunties, grandmas, granddads... EVERYONE turn around and look at you funny.

[PearlieMae]

Than awkward moment when you realize that a grown woman, a regular customer at your place of work, seriously, truly believes with all her heart that you're an actual, came-from-the-ocean, biological mermaid that turns into a human to work in a supermarket as a checker.


I wouldn't change into human form for anything less than manager.

...

That awkward moment when you are changing at the gym and a woman your age looks over at your prototype lexan monofin and asks what it is. once you're done explaining how it works, how it's used, how this is a prototype and that you are testing it, she asks "oh did your husband design it for you?"

I would have punched her right in the mouth except I was too busy picking my jaw up off the floor. Pardon me, but isn't this 2014?

[Fun123joker]

awkward moment when you look back at all those youtube mermaid tail videos and feel old

ok so im just a teenager and a few years ago when i watch those videos of 10 11 12 year olds swiming in thier first tails and making cheesy mermaid stories. i would be the same age as them. but now i look back at them and i feel so old. and i relies how bad the acting is in these videos.

like whoa O.O

EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE. I LOVE THE EXTREMELY FAKE WINKS AND HOW SHE SPAZZES OUT WITH THE CANDY FALLING OUT OF HER HANDS AS SHE IS BEING PUNISHED. IF I WAS GOING TO TURN INTO A REAL MERMAID THIS IS HOW I WANNA GO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmT1UsUtwHI)

[deepblue]

That awkward moment when you are changing at the gym and a woman your age looks over at your prototype lexan monofin and asks what it is. once you're done explaining how it works, how it's used, how this is a prototype and that you are testing it, she asks "oh did your husband design it for you?"

I would have punched her right in the mouth except I was too busy picking my jaw up off the floor. Pardon me, but isn't this 2014?

Omfg. "Yes, right after he put the wheel back on our buggy, shoed the horses, and came back from the barn raising."

Holy carp, people. Evolve, already.

[Mermaid_Jordyn]

That awkward moment when you finally see what you ARE NO ORDINARY GIRL IM FROM A DEEP BLUE UNDERWORLD LET US SEE THE WORLDS MY OCEAN IM THE PEARL NO ORDINARY GIRL (I'm a bit too obsessed with the show H2o)


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[MermaidMichelle]

That awkward moment when you are changing at the gym and a woman your age looks over at your prototype lexan monofin and asks what it is. once you're done explaining how it works, how it's used, how this is a prototype and that you are testing it, she asks "oh did your husband design it for you?"

I would have punched her right in the mouth except I was too busy picking my jaw up off the floor. Pardon me, but isn't this 2014?

Admittedly the idea of lexan has a bit of a "Shop" as opposed to "Home Economics" vibe to it, but with my feminist background I just need to add that women weren't exactly useless before 1963 (the official beginning of Women's Lib/2nd-Wave Feminism), and that fashion wasn't something dreamt up by men to restrain (except in such cases as Paul Poiret's hobble skirt) or torment women. Even unusual devices such as the crinoline/hoop skirt were invented by women (who at first received the same kind of ridicule that we mers must at times undergo), so if this woman you encountered had known anything about women's issues she wouldn't have suggested what she did even if it were 1814!

(Oh, and Jordyn, I sometimes find myself singing that song as well, and I haven't even seen all of the series! :mermaid kiss: )

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW one launches herself off the side of the pool and hears very loudly behind her...

Little girl: EXCUSE ME!

Because I was swimming away to dive under and into the next lane, the girl had to catch up to talk...

Me: Yes?

Girl: Why... do... you... swim... in... a mermaid tail *glub* *glub* *glub*

I so wanted to laugh but I just replied, "Its good exercise"

TAMW one is heard to be going, "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" as she lowers herself into the water!
TAMW one's tail sinks to the bottom of the deep end...
TAMW one has to make several fail attempts in legs to fish it out without looking so obvious!

Luckily, it sank by the heels so I was able to grab the fluke tip.

[MermaidMichelle]

That does sound very awkward, Jaffa! As lifeguards, we were required at every inservice (qualification update, once every three months) to lift a 10-pound brick from the deepest part of the deep end (~12 feet) and carry it to the side without letting it go under. It takes practice sometimes, but by the end the other guards were calling me "The Statue of Liberty"...lol

[Mermaid Jaffa]

That does sound very awkward, Jaffa! As lifeguards, we were required at every inservice (qualification update, once every three months) to lift a 10-pound brick from the deepest part of the deep end (~12 metres) and carry it to the side without letting it go under. It takes practice sometimes, but by the end the other guards were calling me "The Statue of Liberty"...lol

Made even worse by my underwater perception's not very good. I thought it was merely centimeters away from me, when in fact I had to dive down very deep to fish it out!
I was also a little baffled why the rubber merfin would sink... Afterwards, I figured it would be because of the extra fabric from having the swimwear lining, and dorsal fin.

The deep end is 2.08 m, may not be very deep by US standards, but its deep to me as I've not swam in any other pool deeper than that.

[Fun123joker]

That does sound very awkward, Jaffa! As lifeguards, we were required at every inservice (qualification update, once every three months) to lift a 10-pound brick from the deepest part of the deep end (~12 metres) and carry it to the side without letting it go under. It takes practice sometimes, but by the end the other guards were calling me "The Statue of Liberty"...lol

yeah. my sister tried out for a life gaurd job in the summer. the bosses and manager really really really wanted to hire her thing is that she could do that part. it hard part was that you could dive for it you just had to sink to the bottom and grab it. no one in my family knows how to sink.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

yeah. my sister tried out for a life gaurd job in the summer. the bosses and manager really really really wanted to hire her thing is that she could do that part. it hard part was that you could dive for it you just had to sink to the bottom and grab it. no one in my family knows how to sink.

I'm a natural floater too.

[Echidna]

the deepest part of the deep end (~12 metres) and carry it to the side without letting it go under.

12 metres deep?!
Holy mackerel!
That's not a pool, that's a dive tower :lol:

Btw, it's normal for the human body to have a certain buoyancy in the first few metres under the surface.
Most diving regulations say the weights have to be so that your body will float up the last 3 metres (in case of an emergency).

Roughly, it goes like:

surface to 3-5 metres depth: humans float up
5m to 10m: neutral buoyancy (if someone loses consciousness in that range, they won't float up, but stay where they are)
10m + : freefall zone. If you don't swim actively upward in this depth, you will sink.

That is why bodies that are sucked that far down often never surface in deep lakes or the ocean, they will simply sink to the bottom.

[Mermaid Meara]

Thanks for that information Echidna. Explains why despite the fact I'm a natural sinker, it still takes 8 lbs of weights to sink me to the bottom of a 10 foot deep pool and keep me there.

[Mermaid Sirenia]

That awkward moment when you look outside and it's snowing... but you live in florida... it's been snowing here for 4 hours now lol, but it should be back in the 80s this weekend

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW you bang your fluke on the plastic lane things and for a split second you feel pain!

[Mermaid Kelda]

I hear you Jaffa! I swam in a pool with a rocky bottom and every time my fluke scraped the bottom I felt the vibrations and said "ow!"
If only I could control my tail as well as I "feel" its pain, maybe I wouldn't bang it into so many things xD But I guess it's sort of like driving a car! It takes a while to know how much space it takes up.

[MermaidMimi]

That awkward moment, when someone thinks what you do as a mermaid is a fetish thing. :/

[Naufra]

That awkward moment, when someone thinks what you do as a mermaid is a fetish thing. :/

Yeah, that's pretty awkward. I've had people assume that about quite a few of my hobbies. It's even more fun when they don't believe you when you tell them it has nothing to do with sex and they insist on talking about it loudly on the sales floor at your place of employment. There were some reeeeeeeaaaaally stupid people at my old job, but that particular one got canned that same night for sexual harassment.

[Yulia]

TAMW you're putting your clothes on after swimming, and another guest at the pool looks at your empty tail and says: "That... Looks a bit morbid when it lies there like that"

[Mermaid Jaffa]

TAMW you're putting on your tail poolside and the lifeguard walks past, you smile at him but he refuses to look at you, instead one can hear him muttering "mermaid"!
TAMW one realizes the money spent so far on fabrics, fins and tails, one could've bought a fancy Mertailor Flipper or competitor...
TAMW the instructors for the Swim Squad sets up shop next to your lane.
TAMW the swim squad is failing at the dolphin kick whilst you are swishing up and down the lane in your tail!
TAMW one of the instructors is seriously eyeballing you like he's got fireballs coming out of his eyes!

[Merman Jamie]

TAMW you're putting on your tail poolside and the lifeguard walks past, you smile at him but he refuses to look at you, instead one can hear him muttering "mermaid"!
TAMW one realizes the money spent so far on fabrics, fins and tails, one could've bought a fancy Mertailor Flipper or competitor...
TAMW the instructors for the Swim Squad sets up shop next to your lane.
TAMW the swim squad is failing at the dolphin kick whilst you are swishing up and down the lane in your tail!
TAMW one of the instructors is seriously eyeballing you like he's got fireballs coming out of his eyes!

those are cool Jaffa. good work on showing the swim squad how to do the dolphin kick

[Mermaid Alea]

That awkward moment when your feet have been hurting for the past few days, but you have literally done nothing to make them ache. Then you realize that maybe it is a sign that you are meant to be swimming in your tail instead of walking on your feet! I haven't gotten to try my monofin in the water at all yet.


That awkward moment when you look outside and it's snowing... but you live in florida... it's been snowing here for 4 hours now lol, but it should be back in the 80s this weekend
What? Really? I am in Florida too and I am close to Alabama so usually if it snows in Florida it happens here. I didn't know there was snow!? I guess for once we didn't get it. This winter is making me consider moving to a warmer spot in Florida. I don't like cold weather some people need to live where there are seasons but I think I would be happy with an endless summer.


TAMW you're putting your clothes on after swimming, and another guest at the pool looks at your empty tail and says: "That... Looks a bit morbid when it lies there like that"
Morbid? Weird when I see an empty tail it looks pretty to me.

[Mermaid Jaffa]

those are cool Jaffa. good work on showing the swim squad how to do the dolphin kick

Yea but the swim squad are just kids. So I dunno, maybe it wasn't nice to swim alongside in my lane every time they did it.
I tried to show one kid in the deep end that wasn't in the squad but had a loud mouth teacher screaming at him in Korean, them underwater how to do it properly, but the lady kept yelling at the poor kid. He really had to clue and the teacher wasn't any good, instead of showing how, she screamed at him until saliva came out of her mouth!

[Merman Jamie]

Yea but the swim squad are just kids. So I dunno, maybe it wasn't nice to swim alongside in my lane every time they did it.
I tried to show one kid in the deep end that wasn't in the squad but had a loud mouth teacher screaming at him in Korean, them underwater how to do it properly, but the lady kept yelling at the poor kid. He really had to clue and the teacher wasn't any good, instead of showing how, she screamed at him until saliva came out of her mouth!

teachers like that suck

[Juniper Summer]

That awkward moment when there's an adorable 2 yr old at the pool who believes your a real mermaid and when you get out, you have to scoot all the way across the concrete to the changing room so she won't see you take your tail off. :$

[MermaidMichelle]

Wow, Juniper! I admire your devotion to the child's fantasies! Now if only people would explain Santa Claus as "a real-life gift-giver who is in Heaven now but whose spirit and example help to inspire the gift-giving spirit of Christmas." Reindeer are optional.

As to mermaid fetishism, I am reminded of how earlier this week I ordered a replacement slip to go under the many long skirts I wear in the winter. It is technically a hobble skirt, yet has a kick pleat so that walking might be reasonable. I'm not using it as a fetish item, yet because of our oversexualized world even the hobble skirt is often seen as such. The same holds true for the mermaid tail (though it kicks it up from "hobble skirt" to "can't move skirt" status); it emphasizes the legs while rendering the wearer more vulnerable (at least on land) and feminine, and the undulating motions of mermaid swimming can be seen as sexual too...

...yet they certainly don't have to be! Just as I wanted a narrow skirt to keep people from ogling my legs if my skirts are blown upward (during an Awkward Moment, as it were), we all have our own reasons for wanting to be mermaids and (correct me if I'm wrong) they are very seldom (if ever) to titillate!

I shall end with...

That awkward moment when a child pulls on one of your pectoral fins and you instinctively say "ow!" Those little children who didn't believe before suddenly are wondering again....

[PearlieMae]

That awkward moment when the celebrity model keeps telling you how awesome your tail is while walking along with the tailmaker whose tail they will be modeling. :doh: