Do you worry about bumping into old friends?

[BlueDays]

I worry about bumping into my old Boss and his wife who owned the store I used to work in years ago. I had to end up leaving because of severe depression, and they were the type of people that believe that you should be able to just "snap out of it".
So I constantly avoid going into a particular shopping plaza that I know they used to do most all of their shopping at.
I have walked past the both of them once at the harbour, (the wife said hello with a smirk on her face) and spent the rest of the day in a panicky state! Another time I saw the wife in a car park and I just pretended to look in my handbag for something and pretended that I did not see her.

 

[userremoved]

The reason I dont like bumping into people I haven't seen in a long time is because it feels like meeting a stranger for the first time and we have to go through the motions of introduction again. Asking the questions I hate to answer like "What have you been up to?" or "How have you been?".

 

[agoraphobickatie]

it doesn't always make me super anxious, i just hate awkward conversation... i mean, my main issue is more agoraphobia/panic disorder rather than social phobia, but i still don't like talking to random people i haven't seen in forever.. it always goes "hey! wow! how are you? it's been forever!" and they say how they've been and i say "yeahhhh, i haven't been up to too much, just trying to figure out what i want to do for the rest of my life " and they say "ohhh coool" ...and it's all a bunch of fake smiling until it's over all of a sudden, haha...

so yeah, i definitely ninja hide on them bitches and try to dodge the bullet haha

 

[Julesie]

I don't want to meet any of them again. They are all the reason I'm suffering with social phobia this bad in the first place.

 

[Corsendonk]

Yeah me too, it's one of my biggest worries about leaving the house.

mine too. I also ride certain routes to avoid 'bumping into them, even though they probably already moved elsewhere.

 

[Newtype]

I really don't want to bump into any old "friends". All of them were a bunch of idiots whose personalities changed once we reached college. One became a pot-smoking hippy, the other became a party boy and took pleasure in humiliating me in public to get the attention of girls. After six years, I just disappeared from their lives without even saying anything, so it would be really awkward if I bumped into them, which can be an easy thing to do considering we all live close to each other. One of them even has my Advent Children DVD but I don't care. He can keep it.

 

[market.garden]

so yeah, i definitely ninja hide on them bitches and try to dodge the bullet haha

Haha! Like diving into the nearest bush?

 

[Fighter86]

I absolutely hate it when it happens. My life though improving is still a disaster compared to my other 'friends'. And yes, looking at networking sites to trace their life is an absolute torture, it just depresses me for days.