Mood: Kinda drowsy, but awake. iTunes: "Juicebox" by The Strokes (2005).

In the last couple of days I have been analyzing certain attitudes portrayed by people under certain circumstances, namely I have noticed this at the gym, but you could figure out that these attitudes might be found anywhere there are human beings roaming around.

So yes, I've been hitting the gym again. Its a franchise, so there's a lot of people who attend the business. And being so, I have seen a lot of known faces: From school, old jobs, random places, even movies and the internet. Have you ever been in a situation where you KNOW someone, but you either:

a) Don't remember form where.

b) Don't want to say hi.

c) Don't really know what to do.

In only a week, I have experienced all three.

a) Don't remember from where.

There was this girl, I knew i had acquainted with her somewhere, maybe school or what not. Then there was this guy, who came up to me, said, hi, how are you, how's life, so good you're here, and here I am oblivious to where the hell I had seen this person before.

Solution? Follow your instinct and just say yes to everything they say and you'll be good. Strive to get names out of them without seemingly being obvious as to how far away you seem as to why this person is talking to you. Works like a charm.

b) Don't want to say hi.

This is a doubled edged knife. Cause it might be that you don't want to say hi, or they are avoiding you.  If its you, just look into oblivion everytime they are looking at you. Or do like I do and take time to create this image of you minding over to some dimension to a point where people don't think your really paying attention to anything in particular. That way you can always say you where thinking of something else and didn't notice anybody. If its them, you could 1) play a part and just ignore them too or, like me and depending on the history, 2) go ahead to them, stare at them and make them look at you even though they are trying soooooooo hard to avoid contact. Depending on results, you will look very good and make them feel like shit. Works wonders afterwards.

c) Don't really know what to do.

This one happened to me in a meeting. I knew this guy as my ex-best friend's BF. So since I'm not friends with her (or so she has made it clear to me) I wasn't sure if I was allowed to talk to them, or really pretend nothing was going on. I ignored him in the lobby, but it turned out that they where were going to the same meeting as I did, which brought me to my next conclusion: Always say hi, never go unnoticed and always be charming. You never know when you'll be in need of a "friend" over the yard.

In all cases, please, protocol varies from place to place, form time to time. People will always pretend not to know you, specially in a society like ours, where its important to play faces and show masquerades everywhere you go. SPECIALLY regarding certain gender I will not be defining by name.

I have learned to just play along. In any case, the worst scenario will be that they will behave as they usually do, and all we have to do is turn the other cheek, put on the gloves, and hit them when they least expect it.

Thank God for hypocrisy :-D