I had to take the bus today, and it remimded me of something I had blogged about before.
I have discovered that if you are out on the street (or maybe going down a long corridor) , and you recognize someone coming towards you, you should pretend that you don't see them, look to the left, right, floor, anything until you are about 8 feet away, then look up and exchange pleasantries.
Otherwise you are facing the ghastly prospect of recognizing them all the way, nods, smiles, goofy faces, shrugging, etc. You can only do so much of that.
On elevators, you can only glance at people once, twice, makes people wonder about you, and three times then you become an elevator stalker. Same thing applies to public transport. If you do look at someone too much and they catch you, you have to pretend that you are kind of looking off to the side of them with a vacant kind of stare.
My eyes can glaze over pretty damn quickly when the have to.
These are the rules of a good society.
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So true!!!
I find you can totally make everyone on an elevator uncomfortable if you just turn around and face the "wrong" way. Freaks 'em right out. Try it sometime!
Ha! Unfortunately that would freak me out too.
Removed the last for brutal mispelling!
But, I have also mastered the eye glaze... you must follow it with a swift and casual shift of the eyes.
Sneezing works too.
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