This is awkward. You see them, and you know you know them – well, you think so. It’s that person from the club the other night. Or was it that house party? What was their name? How did you even get talking to each other? Does it even count as knowing them if you only met when you were both exceedingly bamboozled? It would probably just be best to stare intently at your phone pretending to be totally unaware of the situation and ignore them; there we go, much better.
Situations like these occur on a pretty regular basis for students, it seems as though you can’t spend a day on campus without walking past someone you’ve met. Whether it’s a neighbour who’s house you had stumbled into late one night, or some stranger you chatted nonsense with at a party, even worse if it’s someone who you had a heavy-petting session with.
The problem is when you see these people in sober/(real?) life it suddenly becomes very difficult to judge whether you should communicate with them or not. There’s a lot of uncomfortable fear in these chance encounters, the fear of whether they’ll remember you or not, the fear of feeling like a complete moron if they completely blank you and the fear of whether your hazy memory is correct in believing it’s even actually them.
Let me tell you straight, most of the time people remember each other. But the problem is they are just too scared of not being recognised to acknowledge one another. As inconvenient as it is, we should probably be… nice and say hello. I know it’s a lot to ask.
You’re really putting your testes on the train tracks by doing it but wouldn’t it be nice to make a friend? Because if you only speak to people when you’re at some alcohol-drenched social event, you’re never going to connect, because you won’t remember doing so even if you did at the time.
Of course said acquaintance could just deliberately blank you. But who cares, they’re just proving either they’re a stuck-up prude or just an absolute drunk.
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