Meeting somebody from years ago !

finix

Like someone who was in your school/class etc and you bump into them on the street and then follows the 30 second arkward chat...Ah Jaysus how are you ? Hows the family ?/ What are you doing now ? etc and then the SILENCE, Followed by...Theres my bus, have to rush etc and you both part ways mumbling Wnker under your breath and just glad to get away.
I hate that ! but its funny later
PS Its even worse when you spot them from a distance and just know they have spotted you !

fr336

I ignore them as they greet me and continue pushing forward even if they get up in my face. Become robot like, even.

Holsten

"Alright".

And keep walking. Easy.

ciano1

Holsten wrote: »

"Alright".

And keep walking. Easy.

Karl Pilkington.. Is that you!?

fr336

ciano1 wrote: »

Karl Pilkington.. Is that you!?

I doubt it is.

finix

fr336 wrote: »

I ignore them as they greet me and continue pushing forward even if they get up in my face. Become robot like, even.

What Charm School did you drop out of ?

Santa Cruz

What about that tenner you owe me? or How are you fixed for a loan of a hundred till my dole comes through? should speed up these little meetings

wazky

fr336 wrote: »

I doubt it is.

As long as its not his fat mate we're ok.

fr336

finix wrote: »

What Charm School did you drop out of ?

The one I went to with these kind of people who are best ignored?

fr336

wazky wrote: »

As long as its not his fat mate we're ok.

I'm not fat I've just been letting myself go a bit for the winter!!!!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Are if you can't remember their name and have to resort to using pal/lad/bud/kid etc.

downonthefarm

Remember you used to make fun of my shoes......king hit

Muise...

I find dropping the hand smooths over the awkwardness.

castletownman

Even years after he used to bully and torment me in school, the same guy still takes my lunch money today.

He makes a good sandwich though to be fair.

fr336

castletownman wrote: »

Even years after he used to bully and torment me in school, the same guy still takes my lunch money today.

He makes a good sandwich though to be fair.

:D

wazky

Muise... wrote: »

I find dropping the hand smooths over the awkwardness.

'God, it's grown since you were in school right enough'

'Ah those stretch techniques work wonders, sir'

Legs.Eleven

I'm one of those ignorant people that pretends to have walked in the wrong direction and does a quick about turn and legs it the opposite direction or I walk straight by them looking directly ahead pretending I can't see them. I don't see why I have to put up with stupid, awkward conversations with people I don't want to talk to and I'm sure they feel the same.

fr336

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I'm one of those ignorant people that pretends to have walked in the wrong direction and does a quick about turn and legs it the opposite direction or I walk straight by them looking directly ahead pretending I can't see them. I don't see why I have to put up with stupid, awkward conversations with people I don't want to talk to and I'm sure they feel the same.

Your eleven legs must come in handy in such a moment

Muise...

wazky wrote: »

'God, it's grown since you were in school right enough'

'Ah those stretch techniques work wonders, sir'

"so that was you in the changing rooms that time."

Molester Stallone

Or an ex girlfriend stops you that you haven't seen in 20 years & starts chatting about the "old days" while all the time you're trying to remember her fckin name!

Menas

I am terrible at recognising people so simply walk around ignoring everyone.

Except when i go to my home town. There I put a stupid smile on and say hello to everyone for fear of offending someone I know but do not recognise.

hjkl

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

I'm one of those ignorant people that pretends to have walked in the wrong direction and does a quick about turn and legs it the opposite direction or I walk straight by them looking directly ahead pretending I can't see them. I don't see why I have to put up with stupid, awkward conversations with people I don't want to talk to and I'm sure they feel the same.

It's about 30 seconds out of your day. Why not just be nice and converse with them?

stefan idiot jones

frimpong wrote: »

It's about 30 seconds out of your day. Why not just be nice and converse with them?

They're probably Welsh in my case. Enough said.

finix

They always remember my name but I am like Mrs Doyle trying to guess the name of Father Todd Unctuous !

Sir Arthur Daley

Its hard to make small talk, i usually just go in whatever the nearest shop to avoid them rather than talk dung for 5 minutes.

ArnoldJRimmer

Years ago, I was approached in the Big Tree by a lad I apparently went to school with. Didn't have a notion who he was, but was quit drunk and didn't want to be impolite. Its amazing how long you can keep a conversation going with generic questions,

How's the family?,
Are you still friends with, oh whats his name? (wait until they mention random name), and say 'Thats the one'

20 minutes of asking these questions, and I eventually figured it out. IN fairness though, the guy had lost a lot of hair in the meantime

FollatonWood

I'd usually just blank them, I went to school with a bunch of muppets.

That said, I remember being out in Dub one night about 6 years ago and running into a guy who made my life hell in school; he came up with a bunch of lads, put his arm around me and went 'FW long time no see!!' as if we were best buds. I just looked at him blankly and responded 'sorry, what's your name again?'.

Funny thing is, I genuinely couldn't remember his name - but the burn was still classic

FollatonWood

frimpong wrote: »

It's about 30 seconds out of your day. Why not just be nice and converse with them?

If you don't like someone, why would you talk to them?

It's this 'polite' idle chit chat thing I really don't get.

Vincent Vega

The worst is when you're sitting on the train or bus and someone like that gets on and sits beside you to talk.

I think it shouldn't be considered rude to say something like "look, I think your an ok person and all, but we just don't have 45 minutes worth of things to talk about."

I hate smalltalk and I'd imagine i come off as a right prick sometimes in trying to avoid it.

FollatonWood

Vincent Vega wrote: »

The worst is when you're sitting on the train or bus and someone like that gets on and sits beside you to talk.

I think it shouldn't be considered rude to say something like "look, I think your an ok person and all, but we just don't have 45 minutes worth of things to talk about."

I hate smalltalk and I'd imagine i come off as a right prick sometimes in trying to avoid it.

That happens me sometimes with work colleagues. It's so fcuking annoying, it's like 'work's over man, get out of my face'. Happened again today but luckily he didn't seem to want to be stuck with me either, so I let him walk on ahead and I got in a different carriage.

fr336

FollatonWood wrote: »

That happens me sometimes with work colleagues. It's so fcuking annoying, it's like 'work's over man, get out of my face'. Happened again today but luckily he didn't seem to want to be stuck with me either, so I let him walk on ahead and I got in a different carriage.

I think a lot of the time it's just them trying to be polite too; it's an awkward situation all round.

Vision of Disorder

Molester Stallone wrote: »

Or an ex girlfriend stops you that you haven't seen in 20 years & starts chatting about the "old days" while all the time you're trying to remember her fckin name!

Be honest, how many ex-girlfriends reminisce about the old days with somebody called 'Molester'?

Knight who says Meh

My Class of 89 are planning a '25 years since the leaving' and Im half considering going. But the other hal of the consideration keeps insisting the if I didn't like em then why would I want to meet em now when they are greyer and fatter (like me)

Legs.Eleven

frimpong wrote: »

It's about 30 seconds out of your day. Why not just be nice and converse with them?

30 seconds me hole. What conversation lasts only 30 seconds! I don't want to and no one will get hurt if I don't. If the conversation is going to be awkward, we mustn't have much to talk about which must mean we were never that great friends to begin with or even got along. I hate awkwardness. Why put yourself in the position of talking to someone you'd rather not talk to? They'll never know if you do a legger before they see you anyway, so it's not a case of being nice or not nice. Nobody has to know!

It never happens anyway as I don't live in the country and haven't for years although there's people I've known briefly here that I'd rather not talk to again. Life is too short.

Legs.Eleven

FollatonWood wrote: »

If you don't like someone, why would you talk to them?

It's this 'polite' idle chit chat thing I really don't get.

Some situations it's obviously called for like family events or birthday parties of mutual friends but if you have the opportunity to avoid someone who doesn't want to talk to you and visa versa, why wouldn't you?

RhubarbCrumble

I was at the gym recently and thought the woman on the machine opposite me looked familiar. She seemed to be having the same thought. A few minutes later and we'd discovered that yes, we used to go to school together. She used to be my Irish teacher!

Lando Griffin

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

I was at the gym recently and thought the woman on the machine opposite me looked familiar. She seemed to be having the same thought. A few minutes later and we'd discovered that yes, we used to go to school together. She used to be my Irish teacher!

TILF fap fap

RhubarbCrumble

Lando Griffin wrote: »

TILF fap fap

Erm we're both female . . . .

Muise...

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Erm we're both female . . . .

LG faps LOUDER!

PizzamanIRL

finix wrote: »

Like someone who was in your school/class etc and you bump into them on the street and then follows the 30 second arkward chat...Ah Jaysus how are you ? Hows the family ?/ What are you doing now ? etc and then the SILENCE, Followed by...Theres my bus, have to rush etc and you both part ways mumbling Wnker under your breath and just glad to get away.
I hate that ! but its funny later
PS Its even worse when you spot them from a distance and just know they have spotted you !

You must only meet people that you really hate.

Miss Mayhem

I got stalked my an old school friend once. Her name was Leanne. We did our leaving in '99 and I had no contact with her since then. Then one day – I’d just started a new job working for a transport company so it would have been sometime around late 2005 or early 2006 – I bumped into Leanne while I was out shopping. I hadn’t seen Leanne for 5 or 6 years at this point. Leanne asked me to have a coffee with her to “catch up” but I couldn’t so we exchanged numbers and arranged to meet up some other time.

A few weeks later, Leanne called me and I agreed to meet up with her and we spend the whole time talking about what we’d been getting up to after school and stuff that happened in school. It went okay so when she phoned me 3 or 4 months later I arranged to meet up again. The second time we meet up we had some more “remember when?” conversations and I caught Leanne up on what some mutual friends were doing that she’d lost touch with and vice versa.

On around the third time we met up, we’d exhausted the whole “remember when?” topic and found we’d nothing really in common anymore. There were just a lot of awkward silences and conversations. That's around the time I finally noticed that she'd changed a lot. Leanne was still a really nice, kind, sweet girl but she seemed really needy and a bit unstable. Plus she was into all this weird stuff and wouldn't shut up talking about it no matter how many times I tried to change the conversation. I couldn't wait to get away from her so I faked a "migraine" and told her I had to go. Leanne wanted to meet up again. I didn’t really want to so I told her I was really busy.

Leanne started constantly calling me and texting me. At first I took a few of her calls. Leanne would ask me to meet up with her again but I’d say I couldn’t because I’d already had plans, I was busy with work, just whatever excuse that popped into my head. Then I ignored her calls. I was hoping that after a while she'd get the message and back off. But she kept phoning me and phoning me. And when I stopped answering her calls, she started phoning me from different phone numbers. Eventually I had to change my phone number.

Then Leanne started phoning my parent’s house phone!! I never gave her that number. I think she must have still had it from when we were teenagers or got it from the phonebook or something. Leanne told my parents she was my "best friend" and pretended she'd lost my number and tried to get it off them. I'd told my mam all about her so they didn't give her my new number or any of my contact details. Leanne’s kept calling them and was really annoying my parents and driving them mad.

Leanne kept telling people we were "best friends". I found this out when I went into my local supermarket and there was this girl that was in school with us, Emma worked there, and she told me that Leanne had told her that she and I were "best friends" and "like sisters" and she thought it was weird because she thought we hadn't stayed in touch since school. I told her we hadn't, we'd just met up a few times and we hadn't really hit it off. I couldn't believe the crap she was telling people! We just meet up 3 times and had a few short phone calls over the course of a 9 months. That's it! I hardly knew the girl. It was really freaking me out!

Eventually she did stop and finally go away and I forgot all about this stalker incident and thought it was over. But that wasn't the case! I found out a year ago that Leanne died of cancer in 2011. What's worse is that apparently Leanne told her parents this "we were best mates, like sisters" story and kept pretending we were still friends all this time so now Leanne's mother is going around telling people about Leanne's best friend (namely me) who "abandoned" her when she found out she had cancer. Apparently she told all the people who we went to school with that went to Leanne's funeral this story. I only found out about all this when I went to our class' 15th year reunion last year. Fortunately some of the people (the ones that really matter) she's told this story to know its not true but a few people (ones I haven't had any contact with since school) really believed it. I don't know what to do about this situation!!!!!!! I don't like that people are spreading these untrue rumours about me but I don't know how to stop it. I did nothing to deserve this. I really regret agreeing to meet up with her. I wish I could go back in time and just ignore the girl when I bumped into her in Liffey Valley that day!

The motto of my story: IF YOU SEE ANY OLD PEOPLE FROM SCHOOL RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN. DON'T ATTEMPT TO TALK TO THEM AT ALL.

Molester Stallone

^^^^ what was her name again?

Miss Mayhem

I'm sorry if I went on and on about that but what that girl did still really makes my blood boil. I'm not saying she deserved to die of cancer. No one deserves that. I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy. And I'm sorry she died. But her parents must have known she was mentally ill. She wasn't all there. I figured that out early on. Why is her mam spreading all those lies about me?

fr336

Miss Mayhem wrote: »

I'm sorry if I went on and on about that but what that girl did still really makes my blood boil. I'm not saying she deserved to die of cancer. No one deserves that. I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy. And I'm sorry she died. But her parents must have known she was mentally ill. She wasn't all there. I figured that out early on. Why is her mam spreading all those lies about me?

I feel bad now; I didn't even read the full thing to be honest was just seeing her name lots

finix

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

30 seconds me hole. What conversation lasts only 30 seconds! I don't want to and no one will get hurt if I don't. If the conversation is going to be awkward, we mustn't have much to talk about which must mean we were never that great friends to begin with or even got along. I hate awkwardness. Why put yourself in the position of talking to someone you'd rather not talk to? They'll never know if you do a legger before they see you anyway, so it's not a case of being nice or not nice. Nobody has to know!

It never happens anyway as I don't live in the country and haven't for years although there's people I've known briefly here that I'd rather not talk to again. Life is too short.

I know where you live and am waiting outside to ''Doorstep'' you ! I am the guy who had bad acne. You used to call me ''mellow yellow'' and it hurt. See you soon for a pint !

shopaholic01

Miss Mayhem wrote: »

I'm sorry if I went on and on about that but what that girl did still really makes my blood boil. I'm not saying she deserved to die of cancer. No one deserves that. I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy. And I'm sorry she died. But her parents must have known she was mentally ill. She wasn't all there. I figured that out early on. Why is her mam spreading all those lies about me?

I'd imagine Leanne was a loner and probably tried to latch on to people all the time. Her parents were probably thrilled when she told them about her best friend (you). They must have wondered why they never met you, but were probably told all sorts of excuses.

Then Leanne gets sick and dies. Her parents reaction stems from grief. I wouldn't dwell on it to be honest, people who know you know the truth.

FollatonWood

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Some situations it's obviously called for like family events or birthday parties of mutual friends but if you have the opportunity to avoid someone who doesn't want to talk to you and visa versa, why wouldn't you?

Yeeaahh, even in those situations I still wouldn't waste my energy talking to someone I had no interest in.

I'm lovely:D

anncoates

If it's I don't really want to see, I just struggle through it if there's no chance of avoiding them without being seen. It's only a brief moment of awkwardness and why add even a small bit more rudeness to an already rude world.

ygolometsipe

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Are if you can't remember their name and have to resort to using pal/lad/bud/kid etc.

I like this but you can be sure as sh1t someone else you know
will appear at the moment asking "who's this"?

awkward silence.....

vitani

FollatonWood wrote: »

That happens me sometimes with work colleagues. It's so fcuking annoying, it's like 'work's over man, get out of my face'. Happened again today but luckily he didn't seem to want to be stuck with me either, so I let him walk on ahead and I got in a different carriage.

It's amusing to listen to, though. I occasionally hear it on the train home - two people who clearly don't want to talk to each other forced to make awkward conversation.

Super-Rush

Miss Mayhem wrote: »

I got stalked my an old school friend once. Her name was Leanne. We did our leaving in '99 and I had no contact with her since then. Then one day – I’d just started a new job working for a transport company so it would have been sometime around late 2005 or early 2006 – I bumped into Leanne while I was out shopping. I hadn’t seen Leanne for 5 or 6 years at this point. Leanne asked me to have a coffee with her to “catch up” but I couldn’t so we exchanged numbers and arranged to meet up some other time.

A few weeks later, Leanne called me and I agreed to meet up with her and we spend the whole time talking about what we’d been getting up to after school and stuff that happened in school. It went okay so when she phoned me 3 or 4 months later I arranged to meet up again. The second time we meet up we had some more “remember when?” conversations and I caught Leanne up on what some mutual friends were doing that she’d lost touch with and vice versa.

On around the third time we met up, we’d exhausted the whole “remember when?” topic and found we’d nothing really in common anymore. There were just a lot of awkward silences and conversations. That's around the time I finally noticed that she'd changed a lot. Leanne was still a really nice, kind, sweet girl but she seemed really needy and a bit unstable. Plus she was into all this weird stuff and wouldn't shut up talking about it no matter how many times I tried to change the conversation. I couldn't wait to get away from her so I faked a "migraine" and told her I had to go. Leanne wanted to meet up again. I didn’t really want to so I told her I was really busy.

Leanne started constantly calling me and texting me. At first I took a few of her calls. Leanne would ask me to meet up with her again but I’d say I couldn’t because I’d already had plans, I was busy with work, just whatever excuse that popped into my head. Then I ignored her calls. I was hoping that after a while she'd get the message and back off. But she kept phoning me and phoning me. And when I stopped answering her calls, she started phoning me from different phone numbers. Eventually I had to change my phone number.

Then Leanne started phoning my parent’s house phone!! I never gave her that number. I think she must have still had it from when we were teenagers or got it from the phonebook or something. Leanne told my parents she was my "best friend" and pretended she'd lost my number and tried to get it off them. I'd told my mam all about her so they didn't give her my new number or any of my contact details. Leanne’s kept calling them and was really annoying my parents and driving them mad.

Leanne kept telling people we were "best friends". I found this out when I went into my local supermarket and there was this girl that was in school with us, Emma worked there, and she told me that Leanne had told her that she and I were "best friends" and "like sisters" and she thought it was weird because she thought we hadn't stayed in touch since school. I told her we hadn't, we'd just met up a few times and we hadn't really hit it off. I couldn't believe the crap she was telling people! We just meet up 3 times and had a few short phone calls over the course of a 9 months. That's it! I hardly knew the girl. It was really freaking me out!

Eventually she did stop and finally go away and I forgot all about this stalker incident and thought it was over. But that wasn't the case! I found out a year ago that Leanne died of cancer in 2011. What's worse is that apparently Leanne told her parents this "we were best mates, like sisters" story and kept pretending we were still friends all this time so now Leanne's mother is going around telling people about Leanne's best friend (namely me) who "abandoned" her when she found out she had cancer. Apparently she told all the people who we went to school with that went to Leanne's funeral this story. I only found out about all this when I went to our class' 15th year reunion last year. Fortunately some of the people (the ones that really matter) she's told this story to know its not true but a few people (ones I haven't had any contact with since school) really believed it. I don't know what to do about this situation!!!!!!! I don't like that people are spreading these untrue rumours about me but I don't know how to stop it. I did nothing to deserve this. I really regret agreeing to meet up with her. I wish I could go back in time and just ignore the girl when I bumped into her in Liffey Valley that day!

The motto of my story: IF YOU SEE ANY OLD PEOPLE FROM SCHOOL RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN. DON'T ATTEMPT TO TALK TO THEM AT ALL.

Like dis if u cryd.