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In Amsterdam run ins usually happen when you’re biking so we are saved by speed and the busy streets. No time to stop = a hello, wave or nod. Perfect.

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Damn that’s very nice

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Jul 1Liked by Kareem Rahma

This is a great humor piece, but when I used to get high, long awkward hellos made me suicidal and made me withdraw to Eye Contact Prison.

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Larry David taught me a long time ago to just bow out of the “stop and chat” completely. I have to wrestle my way through Trader Joe’s on a Monday and you want to catch up? Not today, Satan.

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Am I annoying because I genuinely want to catch up with people 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Oh so he's an artist

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Could not agree more. A sizable chunk of autists, myself included, are in favor of the ol’ dad nod/keep walking. I see you, but I’m good and deep down you’re probably good, too. Let’s just not. It’s the best hello.

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At least you can escape some of the long hello if you're passing in the street, because you are by definition going somewhere. What I dread is the phone call to the old friend, or sometimes relative, that I am forced by custom to make, but understand that enough time has passed that the two of us--by this time basically strangers--must engage in a bit of how's-yer-mother before we can get to the point of the call. I don't hate them, I just know the conversation is pointless.

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Another "Suburbs" move is seeing someone familiar at the local grocery store but pretending NOT to have seen them. It's even better when it's obvious that they're doing the same. Long HELL-ohshit successfully avoided!

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Oh how I feel this!

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lol 100% agree, i am a serial "no hello"er

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Possible exception: What if the friend you see walking by is someone you haven’t seen or talked to in a while?

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That’s not a hello that’s a catch up

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Fair fair

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