Loitering, dallying, dawdling

Synonyms:
1. Loiter, dally, dawdle, idle imply moving or acting slowly, stopping for unimportant reasons, and in general wasting time. To loiter is to linger aimlessly: to loiter outside a building. To dally is to loiter indecisively or to delay as if free from care or responsibility: to dally on the way home. To dawdle is to saunter, stopping often, and taking a great deal of time, or to fritter away time working in a halfhearted way: to dawdle over a task. To idle is to move slowly and aimlessly, or to spend a great deal of time doing nothing: to idle away the hours. 1–4. loaf. 2, 3. delay, tarry.

Thanks to dictionary.com I now know that loiter, dally, and dawdle mean different things.

Yesterday I loitered in Oades Big Ten. I loitered for a long time. I had awkward encounters with an employee about my loitering, even admitting to it.

Needless to say, later that day at about 1 am after a long night of drinking my friends decided to migrate to a little Lansing bar called Stobers? Stovers? Stubers? I am still not quite sure of the name but the side of the building says that it is the coolest bar in Lansing. The point is that we walked in and the employee from Oades was there. At the bar. After I loitered my ass off on his watch. It was awkward.