Sociology in the Now

Hi
Got some thoughts to expel, so lets get to et.

More specifically, One Awkward Moment. Brought to you by PBS Kids.

Ok. So. I was at UTArlington [ugh] and I had finished meeting w/the honors college adviser. I asked her where I needed to go to turn in my AP scores. She said Davis Hall and literally pointed me in the "right" direction. So I wander around campus for a while. Sort of a long while..without really paying much attention to where I was going as it was hot and I had thought to wear my crimson cardigan so as to make a good impression. So in short, I made myself miserable. After circling the same building twice, which I was only made aware of as I passed the same average-looking guy smoking a cigarette by the entrance and giving me a hearty stare for the second time, I see a small group of adults I assumed to be teachers around the back of another building. It was a small man, an older woman with white hair, and this hauss of a lady with a frizzy plate of hair in a long ponytail down her back. I waited politely while they finished their conversation; the hauss looking at me from time to time. Then she started walking my way. I asked her where to find Davis Hall. She was nice and gave me clear directions. I thanked her and she assured me it was her pleasure and I said goodbye and we both started to go on our way when I find that her way is in the exact same direction as mine. So...we're walking silently next to each other about 6 feet away in the same direction, just starring ahead or to at the ground. After about a minute of this she enters a building.

It was really awkward. We had just finished being so polite to each other and we both probably would have walked away feeling dignified in our own cordiality when we then proceed to simply ignore each other for about a minute. It's just times like these that the quirks of the civilized human nature pops out at you.

There was another one but I've forgotten it.
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