awkward Meme Generator
The lift home after a work do, and the person who sold you the "quick pint" is now very interested in the road. Nobody mentions what was said in the kitchen. The indicator ticks away like a countdown.
You and your flatmate both heard the neighbours arguing through the wall last night. Now you're in the lift together. The doors take forever. Someone says "anyway", and it settles nothing.
Your mum asks, in the car, "so, is there anything you want to tell me?" She has found the receipt. You have 40 minutes of dual carriageway left and no radio signal.
A friend's wedding speech lands a joke about the ex, and the ex is at table six. Everyone studies their prawn cocktail. The best man keeps going, as though momentum were a kind of forgiveness.
Why it caught on: the picture shows Peter and Lois Griffin, the central couple of Family Guy, the Fox animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane that began in 1999. Peter grips the wheel while Lois sits wary and silent beside him at night. People captioned it for any shared silence where both sides know something and neither will say it first, and it spread because everyone has been stuck in that seat.