This may not even be that interesting to you, but I happened to be sitting in the Plaza (main part of town) and witnessed the most awkward exchange between the wife and husband who used to swing and are now split up.
The husband is standing outside the door of a popular coffee place, talking to a friend. Then I spot the wife (ex-wife?) coming from across the Plaza, clearly not seeing him, but walking directly towards him. (The friend the husband is talking to is blocking the husband from view.) As she's about 6 feet away from him she realizes he's there, but obviously can't turn back now because she's only 6 feet away from him and it would be really dramatic to do a complete about-face.
At this point, the husband sees her and peeks around his friend, smiles at her and says hi or something to that effect. (I'm too far away to get sound on this soap opera.) She literally walks right past him into the coffee shop as if he didn't exist. He then gives his friend a look like "I tried" and continues their conversation. Two minutes later she walked right back out and blatantly ignores him again.
I realize that this could fall under one of those "you had to be there" moments. But take a sec to think about seeing your husband (or bf or wife or gf) standing outside a Starbucks and walking right past them like they don't exist. And worse, imagine that you have to fear these types of run-ins all the time because you both live in a town the size of Gramercy Park.
I think I'd have a nervous break-down.
The husband is standing outside the door of a popular coffee place, talking to a friend. Then I spot the wife (ex-wife?) coming from across the Plaza, clearly not seeing him, but walking directly towards him. (The friend the husband is talking to is blocking the husband from view.) As she's about 6 feet away from him she realizes he's there, but obviously can't turn back now because she's only 6 feet away from him and it would be really dramatic to do a complete about-face.
At this point, the husband sees her and peeks around his friend, smiles at her and says hi or something to that effect. (I'm too far away to get sound on this soap opera.) She literally walks right past him into the coffee shop as if he didn't exist. He then gives his friend a look like "I tried" and continues their conversation. Two minutes later she walked right back out and blatantly ignores him again.
I realize that this could fall under one of those "you had to be there" moments. But take a sec to think about seeing your husband (or bf or wife or gf) standing outside a Starbucks and walking right past them like they don't exist. And worse, imagine that you have to fear these types of run-ins all the time because you both live in a town the size of Gramercy Park.
I think I'd have a nervous break-down.
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