Ignoring acquaintances: How do you deal with it?
You’re bound to run into someone that you know in New York. Though it’s a big city what happens is that most people gather in certain areas during certain times. Like let’s say the Lower East Side on Sundays for clothes shopping. Down the seedy peep-show establishments around the fashion district during a weekday afternoon. You know, the usual haunts.
So why do we continue to pretend that we don’t know each other? It’s always odd for me to meet someone’s girlfriend, for instant, and then see them and not say anything. I know she’s noticed me and I know I’ve noticed her, yet we just walk along to avoid one another. Does that mean that we don’t like each other? What does it mean? Is there no value to that relationship that we created at that one party we met? Guess not!
How do you deal with it? What do you do to avoid that person? That’s the other part of it, isn’t it? What’s going to look like the most authentic reason that you’re NOT speaking to that person. Phone? Indulged in your music? Something stupidly interesting happening in the opposite direction of the person?
Come on, out with it you fakers. I want to know.
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I find if you just stare at them with a quizical look works. They think you are nuts and then if you run into them at a later date you can say I thought I saw you at (insert location here) but wasn’t sure if it was you or not
Just tonight I ran into a vendor on the 34th street station. I noticed him and would have said hi to him but he was determined on not saying anything. Wanna know why? Because he hasn’t done the best job with his goods.
But he used the look away and glare into the far distance ahead of him, like a man determined to be walking. I also noticed him twitch his legs or do something funky like walk with a lean as if he was in pain and defenseless. Something crazy.