When two strangers walking in opposite directions meet and in an attempt to avoid bumping into each other they move in the same direction. They proceed to sway side to side in a dance-like fashion until they both step aside and continue walking.
usually between sometime in middle school to high school (or if you're SUPER unlucky, college, whereas then you might just be an awkward person at that point) where you do socially unacceptable things and don't realize how unacceptable they are until you look back many years later and realize how nerdy/socially unacceptable/odd you were. symptoms include: public displays of white girls trying to act ghetto and shopping at wet seal and males with an uncanny obsession with a card/video game with fictional characters
Jenny: "Oh god, remember when Carrie dressed really ugly for that slutty sophomore Halloween party?"
Carrie: "Shut up Jenny. that was my awkward stage!"
A sign formed by holding arms above head in a vague tent shape. The Awkward Tent is where you go to hide when things getawkward. Inside is the Good Story Basket.