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The Sneak #4

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The Crawl. This move is a bit desperate and can cause quite a lot of attention from bystanders.

If your Unwanted Greeter hasn’t seen you but is very close by, you can pretend to look at a can of tomato soup at the lowest shelf and slowly (SLOWLY) crawl out to peek if they’re gone.

When the coast is clear, you slowly stand up, act normal (if possible) and maybe mumble something like ”Those darned lower shelves. We’re not getting any younger, I should sue this shop” (thereby diverting the attention of bystanders from your behaviour to the shelves) and walk off.

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The Sneak #3

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The Shades. When you see someone you know or –  even worse –  their parents, right when you decided to shop for a year’s supply of cheap TP .

”I don’t want them to know I go to the toilet!”, you’re thinking, as the sweat trickles down your back. Then you realise mid panic that your old sunglasses are in your bag. Now it’s all about standing quietly and casually and wait.

It’s impossible to do a proper Hide and Sneak with so much toilet paper, forget about it.

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The Sneak #2

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The Hide and Sneak. Realising in time that you simply cannot say hello to this person, because you forgot if they were in your high school class, or if they’re a colleague from another department or just someone you talked to once at a flea market.

Hiding is nice, because the person will never know you saw them, if you’re talented enough. And thereby will not be offended or hurt that you didn’t say hi. However, other people will most likely wonder what you’re doing behind the butternut squashes.

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The Sneak #1

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The Greet and Sneak

I have this conversation with friends quite often:

Person A: I saw [Person C] at the shop today.

Person B: Did you say hi?

Person A: No, I totally did the sneak and ran off. I feel horrible!

Person B: That’s fine, I did it to [Person D] yesterday!

So why do we have this fear of meeting people we know around town? Basically, it should be harmless to at least say hi…

I discussed this phenomenon with a friend recently, and as we were talking I drew a bunch of doodles that made us both laugh, because we always feel stupid after sneaking off when we could just say hi to someone. So I’ll post these for fun, but it’s not intended as a guide like:

“How to never talk to people, ’cause people are gross”. Not the point.

I feel like the problem is mainly in the Sneaker’s head, and the Sneakee has less to do with it. Sometimes you want to say hi and sometimes you don’t, and it’s fine.

 

 

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