Awkward Lockers

My locker sits next to the locker of a girl I don't generally talk to. We have a class together, and even though I usually end up sitting next to her, we don't talk. We're just not friends really... It's not a bad/good thing, it just is, you know? Well anyhow, having a locker situated next to someone whom you don't talk to can be quite awkward. Here are some real-life, wholly true examples:

The time: in between classes. As I'm stuffing my books and purse into my locker while simultaneously trying to grab the books I need for my next class, the girl with the locker next to mine walks up. She kneels to take some books from her locker and I think I hear something akin to "Hey." I don't register the noise until about five seconds later. Once I realize that she said something, I spend another two or three seconds figuring out if she actually said

something or if I'm just going crazy again. I reluctantly decide that she had said a greeting of some sort, so I said "Hey!" And that's when she looks at me like I'm insane. I mutter something like "Oh sorry, I thought you said hi, but whatever hi anyways!" And then silence. Luckily class started right then so I was able to run off before the situation got any worse.

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Howdy?

You know what I hate the most? When you're walking in a public place with people everywhere and you see someone you know, let's say a school campus. You know this person, let's call him Charles, enough so that you'd say hello but only if he said hello first. And he does! So then you wave and give a jolly "Howdy!" only to have him completely ignore you and hug the person behind you. He didn't notice you, or at least you hope he didn't, so you quickly lower your hand and keep walking. You're not hurt that he wasn't in fact saying hello to you, but more embarrassed by the fact that he wasn't and you thought he was. Because it was awkward.