Um, weird

Coming from work, I dropped by the small grocery near our subdivision to buy something for my never-ending quest to drop a few pounds.

[Actually, the quest will end this Sunday, after my sister's wedding, and the quest is to shed a LOT of pounds. So yeah. Good luck right?]

I went inside the grocery, with my earphones blasting music, heading straight to the Coffee/Tea aisle.

[Yes, I was going to buy those herbal teas that make you go poo-poo. I was am desperate! I only have 6 days to go!]

But then I noticed the long lines at the cashiers -- meh. Herbal tea-drinking will have to start the next day then.

So I turned around, heading back to the door, when I heard some guy [faintly, I must say, since I was wearing my earphones] call my name.

"Shell. Shell. Shell!"

There was only one guy who can possibly be at the same grocery, and calling me by that name.

I turned to look where my name was coming from, and it was, of course D.

Here comes the weird part.

"Uy!"

And then a weird half-hi/half-bye wave. From both of us. And then a millisecond pause.

Then I took a step towards the exit with "Ang haba ng pila eh." And then another weird millisecond and then off I go.

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I spent almost 11 years with this guy, and what, we're reduced to that kind of interaction?

Although, there was really nothing to talk about anyways.

But gaaah. Why so awkward? [I may have been the only one who felt awkward though. I think it would be impossible for D to feel akward at all.]

I mean, that "encounter" with D felt so awkward compared to a chance encounter with a college acquaintance [who works in the same compound as I do, who I avoid because he greeted me with a snarky "ang LAKI ng pinagbago mo ah" around 2 years ago -- yes, i hold my grudges. Dearly] this same day -- I had a friendlier, more easy-going response when he called my attention as I was walking towards the center gate [I returned his "ang LAKI ng pinagbago mo" comment at him because he did got erm rounder].

I guess the weirdness and awkwardness felt overblown because it got compared to that encounter with the college acquaintance.

Again, I'm going to say it, but it's WEIRD how life works -- you spend a decade of your life with someone, and then, it's just a series of awkward hi's and hello's in the end.

IDK, TBH, DNW. But then, well, that's the way life goes. *shrugs*