Joe90 wrote:
Lately, when I walk to work in the mornings, there has been big groups of school kids and college students waiting at a bus stop, and I always get a mild panic attack having to walk by them. I think the bus times have changed or something, because there never used to be anyone else about anywhere that time of the morning. I worry that soon they might pick up on the way I look shy or something, see it as a weakness, and start picking on me for it. I am not scared, I just can't be bothered with having to deal with all that from kids 10 years younger than me, on my way to work. When I walk by, I don't know where to look. I don't want to make eye contact, but I become all conscious of where I'm looking and what I'm doing with my hands, and my heart starts beating faster.
Does anyone else have trouble walking past groups of young people? How do you deal with it?
You could try and find a less crowded alternate route.
Also though I would imagine those kids have better things to do than pick on a random person that walks by them to get to work in the morning. They're probably on their smartphones anyways...I'd say just walk by like normal, there isn't really a reason to make eye contact with people you aren't trying to really interact with.
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06 Feb 2017, 6:05 pm
