This week in Awkward Interactions:
Hey, you know those people who went to your high school that you didn't really know who they were, but somehow you still saw them everywhere you went throughout the school?
You had no real relationship with this person; you weren't even really sure of their name. But you recognized them, wherever you went, and you'd see them and think "hey, there's that guy I always see."
Well, isn't it awkward when you see them somewhere out in real life, years after you graduate? It's weird, because to you, they only belong in the context of the high school, and now you're faced with the reality of them existing elsewhere.
You also don't know if you should say hello to them, or if they have any cognizance of your existence whatsoever. Eventually, you just pass by and go "whoooooooaaa, that was weird."
And that was this week in Awkward Interactions.
What awkward interactions have you had this week?
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At work I'm constantly seeing people I went to high school with and I'm never sure if they recognize me or not. I was in the school yearbook and newspaper, so I'm much more familiar with people who had no reason to know I existed.
Typically I just pretend I don't know them and get on with sticking needles in them (I'm a phlebotomist at a plasma donation center).
YEAH. Happens all the time.
Sometimes I'll walk up to them and say, "Hey, I know this may seem random, but did you go to so-and-so, because I recognize your face?"
I don't live near my high school, so thankfully, I don't run into people from there. However, I had friends who were in all types of cliques, so I knew and interacted with those "quiet people in the corner" as well as the really popular kids.
happens to me now, i keep thinking i'm hallucinating and seeing my old fellow high school students around campus at college... ( i had a graduating class of like 300, yea i didn't know alot of people)
Most people don't remember me because...well I don't know they just don't so I don't say anything at all :X
A long lost uncle of mine sent me a check for $1000 today.
And he added me on Yahoo and then talked to me for like thirty minutes. o.O
@TakingxOverxMe@xanga - if that is your idea of an awkward interaction, then I must say that i would gladly welcome more awkwardness in my life, haha.
i don't mind saying what's up to people i barely know, but the issue is that I'm not sure if they'll know who I am, cause that would just be embaassing for both of us.
... My life is one giant awkward interaction. =/
This asshole who I went to elementary, middle, and high school with who now goes to my college too. I tried hanging out with him a few times last semester--he's not so bad to me, but he's just a big douchebag to other people. And all this week I've been seeing him all over the place when I used to never see this guy anywhere, even though we go to the same college. We just sort of ignore each other and avoid making any eye contact. It's very weird.
I hate it when that happens. And it happens. ALL THE TIME.
A few days ago I was talking on the phone with my bf and I said "Hello, love!" just as one of my wing mates walked out of her room. She stopped and waved at me, confused, because she thought I was talking to her.
I have never said one word to her. Ever.
@ColorGuardGoth89@xanga - wow that's crazy! I like that phrase though, haha, "died and gone to high school hell"
Ugh I had a couple of those this week, since it's spring break and I'm at home. I generally avert my eyes when I see these people. Ok, I always do. Sometimes I do it when I know the person if I know the conversation will be limited to awkward weathertalk.
After graduating high school, I remember seeing these two ex-classmates I never got along with when I was commuting to work, about 2 and a half months after my graduation. We made eye contact passing by each other, but never said a word to each other. I was expecting some more garbage talk and dumb comments from them, but luckily they didn't say a damn thing to me,as I didn't say anything to them either. It was really awkward cuz like, I never got along with them and was hoping to never see them again in my life, even for a brief 30 seconds.
Working restaurant business for majority of my life, working in car dealerships for 2 years, and living in the same town with the same graduating class since elementary school, yeah, I've seen a lot of people. I remember many names and faces from back in elementary school, and I passed by those same faces from time to time all throughout the years. Heck, there was someone 3 years younger than me with almost the exact same name as me and I kept seeing him outside of school at my family's restaurant and we started chatting for the fun of it. Weird stuff! LOL!
Nothing awkward recently... Except going to a little cafe concert thing... And before it started, the pianist singled me and my friends out as students who were there to write a paper on his work. He continued to mention about how "we have a couple of students here tonight..." and I kept thinking "damnit, he still remembers us. We can't leave until he finishes playing all of the songs for the night."
today, I walked by some girl in my anthro class, but I don't think she recognized me
I was driving and because of the small street, pulled over so the other car could go by. it was my ex.
then I drove by and saw the girl who introduced me to the aforementioned ex, and it was awkward because I was singing.
omgoodness i HATE those situations. thank you so much for describing that because i really thought i was the only one out of all my friends who felt that way!! seriously, how the heck are we supposed to deal?!