At the gym, I saw this woman across the room wave and smile. I didn’t recognize her, but she looked directly at me. I smiled, waved back. She didn’t stop waving. So I kept waving.
She looked confused. I added a little double wave. She tilted her head and kept smiling.
Then a very tall man walked between us and waved back.
She was waving at him. Her boyfriend or something. This is so embarrassing, I know must experience this.
I’d been waving for what felt like an eternity. I wanted to melt into the floor. I just slowly lowered my hand, pretended I had an arm spasm, and stared at a treadmill like it was the Mona Lisa.
TL;DR: Thought a woman at the gym was waving at me. She wasn’t. I waved back for a solid 15 seconds like a golden retriever with no dignity.
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Shoulda just said “Sorry thought you were waving at me and I just didn’t remember meeting you.” Everyone’s done it. She’d have understood.
Well….you can never go back there
Time to look for another gym