Monday, June 18, 2012

out in the open

does anyone else try to avoid seeing people they know in public?

please tell me i'm not the only one.

don't get me wrong, i love chatting with peeps from the past and "catching up" in the 2 second conversation, but i hate awkward situations like that.

i'm the girl that will turn the channel, look away or squirm when i know that a awkward/weird moment is coming up in a movie or show. 
i'm not sure why i do it, but i guess i just hate those moments so much i just try to avoid them. i try really hard to not look like i want to run away and hide though. :)


i've experienced with many time in the last couple of weeks, it was horrifying.

one just the other day. i took my girls out to lunch. Evelyn chose a booth. the gentleman in the booth next to us looked familiar to me, i don't know him, but familiar. i try to get the girls to go to a different spot, but they were persistent. ugh.  i knew this was going to get awkward real quick.

my fears didn't disappoint.  just a few minutes later the wife of said gentleman came walking up to sit. of course i knew her and we said hi then she sat down in the booth next to me.  ugh. i wanted to run. i will say i'm glad i was facing away from their booth.

it has nothing to do with the people i see. especially the amazing person in this situation, i mean she is super fun, nice and just an all around spectacular person, i just hate the situations. i shutter again just thinking about it.


AAAAAWWWWKWARD.

3 comments:

  1. I do know what you mean. A lot of the time though, I just plain don't like the person I'm seeing. It's also the "out of your element" or an unusual place to see someone. Take last week. I saw someone at Ikea who if I were say, at a gathering of friends I totally would have talked to. But, seeing her in Ikea just plain freaked me out...

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  2. I totally agree!!! I love the first 2 seconds of catching up, and then I just feel awkward and think "okay, now what" and immediately start getting self conscious of everything I do or say after that. It's different at baby/bridal showers, receptions, or something similar when I know I will run in to people. But the random run ins when I'm caught completely off guard, HATE THEM!!

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  3. I would be the one who doesn't really want to talk - but I look at them too long trying to figure out if I really know them -- even more awkward!

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