Have you ever had that moment on the train or on the bus, where you spy someone out the corner of your eye that you haven’t seen for ages? Be it someone you used to go to school/college/work with…
That happened to me today as I was on the bus about 8am, struggling to keep awake, when on comes someone I once knew many years ago, though I didn’t know that at first. So I’m sitting there, trying to remember where I know her from and who the hell she is, all while trying not to act all creepy and stare. Then it dawns on me. Susan from college way back in 1997/98…
Hmmmm, now I’m faced with the daunting prospect of saying hello, but when is a good time? By now the bus has reached the final stop and, as fate would have it, she actually stops to let me out my seat (which is always a nice thing to do) so I say thank you and hello. Not a single sign of recognition whatsoever, well it has been about 5 years so I guess not everyone has as good a memory as me.
To be honest it was slightly disappointing but what can you do? Maybe I’ll see her another morning and maybe she’ll say hello to me. Maybe she’s sitting at work thinking she might have actually known me from somewhere. Probably not though.