I think it is so rude and awkward when someone you know pretends they don't know you when you see them in public after a long time. I recently ran into a guy from the creative writing class I took, at a restaurant and he acted like I was a weirdo for calling him by his name. He looked at his name tag like that's where I got it from.
Then tonight at Walmart I was in the parking lot and an ex-coworker from Starbucks and her fiance looked right at me and then got very quiet and kept walking like she had no idea who I was. I could tell by her expression she didn't want to acknowledge me at all. Which is odd to me because we were becoming quite friendly almost to the point of hanging out outside of work several times before I had to quit.
Let me tell you it is way less awkward to have that whole, "How have you been? What are you up to now? Well have a nice day and take care" conversation than that "just glancing around looking at nothing in particular pretending to be busy" act.
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