Seeing People You Went To School With

Volvoboy

What do you do??

May of been years since ya seen them, do ya make small talk or what?

Fella and a bird hopped into my taxi tonite only going up the road to another estate and through the beard he was the same fella, he was having a ''energetic'' discussion with yer wan so i didnt want to say who i was.


But what do ya do??? A simple nod of the head??

Kold

Pretty much, yeah. As long as you acknowledge them. Otherwise you run the risk of looking like a tool when they see you look at them, clock them and then immediately try and avoid making eye contact them. A nod suffices and if they seem hellbent on a chat, indulge, make your excuse and hurry off to do whatever imaginary thing you'd rather be doing.

minidazzler

A "How's it going, bud?" Suffices for me.

Sometimes I stop for a chat, but I try to avoid it.

GLaDOS

Depends if I like them.

An old friend I'll have a chat with.

Handsome Bob

I don't really have this problem as all my best mates are the same ones I had in school. Ditto on all of my acquaintances too. There are the odd few who, well, it was a simple case of personality clashes to the extreme. When I see those people, we conviently never seem to make eye contact. :pac: That's not to say I wouldn't have a chat with them if they approached me, I wouldn't totally blank them!

stovelid

I just ruminate sadly how old/fat/grey/bald they've become, while mentally convincing myself that I have magically become even younger and slimmer looking over the years.

ejmaztec

stovelid wrote: »

I just ruminate sadly how old/fat/grey/bald they've become, while mentally convincing myself that I have magically become even younger and slimmer looking over the years.

I hope you've got your portrait in a safe place:eek:

carolinespring

I was very badly bullied at school and feel sick any time I run into any of them. I try not to make eye contact and keep going. If i do meet them head on I give a big smile and say hi. While thinking die die die you rotten cow.....

admiralofthefleet

i say hello to some, ignore others

fletch...

Nah i'd say hello. even if its someone from school who ive had school punch ups with we would probably end up laughing about it over a pint.

Altho the last guy from school i saw was while driving up parnell street and i recognised the old class mate walking up the path, i taught to myself jaysus he's gone downhill the past 15 years - next thing he (now a junky) staggers and kind of sideways flies out onto the road, i hit the anchors stopping just inches from running him over. was such a near miss he used the bullbars to climb up off the road........the look on his face was priceless when i started shouting Kieth ye *** eejit, follwed by all his old school slaggings and the old nicknames he used to hate.

So theres a pointless story for ye :pac:

Fuzzy Clam

stovelid wrote: »

I just ruminate sadly how old/fat/grey/bald they've become,

And thats just the girls........

cosmic

I give a friendly wave (but not too friendly, otherwise they'll come over for a chat) and keep going on my merry way.

I hate small-talk

grimloch

I'd stop and have a chat, even if it's just random waffle for a few minutes

I definitely wouldn't ignore them and march past, jesus some of you people are unfriendly.

AckwelFoley

depends.

If it was the smelly kid that wiped his nose with his sleeve, no.

If it was the nacker that your mother warned you he'd be selling drugs when hes older.. no


If it was the extremely weird guy that looked like he should have a funny eye that all sexual predators have - well, i already talk to him in the mirror

arybvtcw0eolkf

Honestly I wouldn't remember 99.9% of 'em.

But in 2001 I kinda bumped into someone who bullied me in school, pretty bad too.

But in the intervening years I'd grown, I was jacked and was probably at my fighting best - I gave him an open handed bitch slapped and laughed like a 'tard at him crying.

School buds, most red heads like my good self would say 'fvck em'.

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tech77

carolinespring wrote: »

If i do meet them head on I give a big smile and say hi. While thinking die die die you rotten cow.....

"In my life, why do i smile at people who i'd much rather kick in the eye"
Heaven knows i'm miserable now, The Smiths.
Seemed apt.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

I was out in Cuba in Galway a couple of weeks ago and seeing as half my leaving cert class went to college there I kept running into people, ended up standing by the bar beside one of the girls, did the small talk thing "So how's college, been out home recently blah blah blah" and she said "Don't you just hate running into people from school, and having to do the smalltalk thing, even though both of ye know ye don't give a **** about anything the other person says?" and I was in the middle of replying "Yeah, it's pretty awkward" but she just walked off! Nice way to end a conversation.

Mr. CooL ICE

Would always try to salute them. Catch up? No.

I won't say anything more as last time there was a thread like this, I ended up offfending someone I went to school with whom I didn't know was a well-known boardsie

SoupyNorman

Bah, why bother...It'll just descend into a stop'n'chat scenario.

RxQueen

I ignore most of them tbh, biggest pack of bitches ever

Rebel021

Madelyn Wet Cellist wrote: »

Honestly I wouldn't remember 99.9% of 'em.

But in 2001 I kinda bumped into someone who bullied me in school, pretty bad too.

But in the intervening years I'd grown, I was jacked and was probably at my fighting best - I gave him an open handed bitch slapped and laughed like a 'tard at him crying.

School buds, most red heads like my good self would say 'fvck em'.

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lasair

I remember them all but to be honest we dont speak...I went to a different secondry school so we lost contact....secondry school there was like 15 in my lc year and by the time the debs came i think 5 were actually still talkin to each other....they all picked the same courses too for uni and still dont talk...

i came to uni with the intention of gettin to make new friends and was very successful at it!