Have you ever done something really pathetic to avoid meeting/encountering someone?

[Perhaps]

Like, for example, seeing someone you know in a shop/restaurant or street or something, and even though they're good people, you decided to wait or hide until they leave so you won't meet/talk with them?

[Merry]

All the time!

[Dougella]

Yep.

[gregarious_introvert]

It's never happened to me, my issue is that I don't notice people and they approach me before I've registered their presence, usually accusing me of ignoring or avoiding them. I can imagine that I would have done it in the past though, I used to find all human contact terrifying.

[BFG_]

Only with my gammon tory neighbour.

[biscuits]

^ did you put a slice of pineapple on him?

Yep, to get out of going on a night out. We were all waiting for the bus to go into town and when the bus arrived I hid in a bush as everyone else got on the bus and I just stayed there until the bus left.

[BFG_]

^ that would be far too exotic and foreign for him to cope with.

[Chess&Junkfood]

I can't think of any recent occasions. Although there was that time when I took refuge in a bus station toilet. That wasn't fun! I can still remember the smells! And the reason why I endured 15 minutes of unimaginable stench was because I didn't have the strength to chat with my incredibly chatty neighbour! Although it turned out that it was all for nothing! Because when I finally left my foul smelling sanctuary, my neighbour (aka my kryptonite) was still waiting for the bus! Then on the bus journey home with my neighbour, I started to have fond memories of that putrid smelling sanctuary!

Anyway, this post has given me an appetite for dinner! Which includes nibbles! Try again tomorrow!

[Lee S]

^ I had the dubious pleasure of Leeds bus station last year. The toilets were utterly disgusting And Leicester bus station (St Margaret's) had a drunk man shouting at random strangers. You really should stop doing that, Merritt



I've done all the usual SA avoidance stuff, like pretending not to see people in shops/the street, etc. Also made a lot of lame excuses to avoid socialising.

[Merritt]

That can't have been me, I do all my drunken shouting at the Charles Street bus station

[Lee S]

^

[Chess&Junkfood]

Preach, Lee! Although if you spend 10 minutes with my chatty neighbour, then that bus station bog will seem like a tropical paradise! You might even convince yourself that you are hearing the sounds of a tropical thunderstorm! When in reality it's probably the sounds of someone who has violent diarrhea!

Anyway, I've suddenly got an appetite for nibbles again! I will definitely try again tomorrow!

[gregarious_introvert]

Originally Posted by Lee S

Also made a lot of lame excuses to avoid socialising.

I wish I had the chance to do that - having opportunities for socialising would be a start

[sophie79]

I'm extremely avoidant, so I'm pretty good at this. Quite a few times I've turned all my lights off to pretend I'm not in if I suspect someone is going to come round.

[Shy_pretty_Angela]

These posts are making me giggle. Especially Biscuits hiding in a bush!! What did they say when you met them again? Unless you didnt!?
I have avoided a senior colleague when I was in my first job as a radiographer. She lives locally and I just couldnt face her because she was so bossy at work and I didnt know how to relate to her outside of work!
So I kind of kept moving between the ailes..so fearful of her spotting me!
It seems silly now but I was genuinely scared

[biscuits]

^ well, we’d only just met the night before in a bar and they invited me over to their place to go out the next night (that night being when I went in the bush). I just assumed because they didn’t really know me that they didn’t notice or thought I’d gone off with others. There were about 8 or so of them. It was freshers week, so pretty busy. They can’t have thought that strangely of me because they asked me to move in with them a few weeks later when one of their house mates moved out.

[Shy_pretty_Angela]

What did you study at University?

[Tembo]

Some neighbours were chatting outside, selfishly stopping me from leaving the house. How dare they!

So, I walked to the bottom of the garden and climbed over the fence to use the footpath. I may have teared my trousers a bit, and hurt my crown jewels, but it was worth it!*

* not really, I felt quite silly afterwards. They’re nice people too. Don’t really understand why I did it! Just wasn’t in the mood for talking

[BFG_]

^^Topiary access course

[Lee S]

Originally Posted by gregarious_introvert

I wish I had the chance to do that - having opportunities for socialising would be a start

It was mainly when I was younger and worked at a Ford dealership. They kept wanting me to go out drinking with them on Saturday nights. Only ever gave in once and hated it.

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by Shy_pretty_Angela

What did you study at University?

Originally Posted by BFG_

^^Topiary access course

Bush craft.

(psychology, really)

[biscuits]

By the way... No one will think we're pathetic when we apply our andvanced avoidance skills in the zombie apocalypse.

[Captain Crunch]

Originally Posted by biscuits

Yep, to get out of going on a night out. We were all waiting for the bus to go into town and when the bus arrived I hid in a bush as everyone else got on the bus and I just stayed there until the bus left.

[biscuits]

^ oh my gosh. I'm just glad it wasn't caterpillar season.

[Mr. Nobody]

I hate to admit that when my dad came to my house once having carried a big set of treble ladders about half a mile and banged on my front door and kept loudly shouting my name up towards my bedroom window,
It was all so loud and conspicuous that I just cowered on my bedroom floor and waited till he went away,
He kept shouting my name in front of the neighbours for about 5 minutes till he stopped (my car was in the driveway)
Argh,

[Sea]

Originally Posted by Perhaps

Like, for example, seeing someone you know in a shop/restaurant or street or something, and even though they're good people, you decided to wait or hide until they leave so you won't meet/talk with them?

If this is the definition of really pathetic, then I guess I am the most pathetic person to have graced this planet, lol. As I do this on a daily basis.

[T]

I used to do this in my teenage years avoided them in shops mainly but as i got older and abit wiser well just abit i've learnt to not avoid people and chat to them...

[Perhaps]

Originally Posted by Mr. Nobody

I hate to admit that when my dad came to my house once having carried a big set of treble ladders about half a mile and banged on my front door and kept loudly shouting my name up towards my bedroom window,
It was all so loud and conspicuous that I just cowered on my bedroom floor and waited till he went away,
He kept shouting my name in front of the neighbours for about 5 minutes till he stopped (my car was in the driveway)
Argh,

lol