Avoiding People

It's that time of the year again folks: the streets are crowded, beer cans litter the grass, and parents are driving around like idiots. That's right, time for school. Although some people might be excited for classes to start, I am dreading tomorrow morning because I despise small talk.

This includes but is not limited to: returning from Summer, Winter, and Spring break, encountering people you know but haven't talked to in a long time at the store, running into former students, going to parties with lame people that you don't know, servers at restaurants, sales people, people you sit next to on planes, and neighbors that you don't know but don't intend on befriending because they play awful music and have boxing matches in the parking lot that end in them harassing your roomate.

But since this blog is not about the negative I decided to say that I like avoiding people.

It is indeed a glorious feeling when you successfully manage to avoid a potentially awkward social situation. Like when I was at meijer getting ingredients for strawberry shortcake after a few glasses of wine and I noticed that my least favorite student of all time was at the next self-checkout station. This dude was a complete sociopath; I had no idea how to handle his antics. There is no telling what he would have done or said if he had noticed me so I just froze in place and kept my head down, which now that I think about it probably made me stand out more but the point is that he didn't see me and I left the meijer unscathed.

Lucky for me, I am only taking one class this semester and it only has five people in it. Yay for being an antisocial nerd!