You’re speaking with a teenager.  Suddenly you can see they are uncomfortable with the conversation.  There is a pause.  They look at you as if you had a bright green ball of snot dangling from your nose and then they say in that long, drawn out, and especially obnoxious tone “awkwaaaaaaard...” Another particularly annoying and ubiquitous teenage reaction is this.  You’ll be in the middle of explaining something important, something that, if the kid would only listen, could really improve his or her life and then you get it.  “Whatever…”