Dat moment

Okay cakes, quickie right here.

I tweeted about this, but it kinda needs a whole post.

You know when you’re walking on a street and you see someone you know but not well enough?

I mean, if you’re good friends with this person you’d start a conversation with them or embrace or whatever, right?

But what if you don’t usually talk to this person? Kind of like how both of you know each other exist but are not really friends.

And you see them walking towards you. And you have to avoid eye contact if they’re too far away to say “hi”. It’s weird.

Where do you fucking look?

And you have to time your greetings perfectly; because if you say hi too early, there’s going to be this awkward silence when the two of you finally walk past each other.

Too late and it would seem like you didn’t want to acknowledge that person.

And even still, there doesn’t seem to be a proper way (to me, at least) to greet these ‘not-so-friends’ when we bump into them on the way to uni or where ever.

There’s still that moment where you absolutely must not make eye contact sometime before and after greeting them.

And there’s this list of ways that we greet these not-so-friends:

• The obviously forced smile while you walk past each other
• The smile with one hand raised (waving slightly) from a distance
• The nod + a conservative smile
• Double raised eyebrows (with optional silent ‘hi’)

I hope I’m not the only one doing all of these.

Chances are, if I don’t really know you, I probably greeted you with one of the above.

/sociallyawkwardpenguin

And yes Joel, if you’re reading this, I used the last one on you today.

So much effort required to be social.

j.