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A Rider’s Guide to 5 Awkward Subway Encounters
How to ignore your fellow commuters without being a jerk.
Aboard the D.C. Metro one day, a friend who prefers to remain anonymous spotted a familiar face from her Alabama childhood: a high school friend’s father, comically wrestling an errant, large plant. All my friend could muster was awkward, flitting eye contact. She left the train without saying hi.
The next day, her friend called her on her ghosting behavior. “My dad saw you on the Metro yesterday,” he informed her.