How do you react if you bump into someone from school?

[MariaLioness]

I'm going to preface this by saying that I've just turned 25. So yes I'm a lot younger than most of the posters here. I went to a selective mixed-sex private secondary school and stayed on at this very school for 6th form.

I'm making this thread because I've had a varied reaction when people from school see me these days. At uni a few people I went to school with went to my university. I even had a class with a few and we'd always greet each other in a friendly manner. I changed uni for master's and had someone purposely avoid me when they saw me.

Now occasionally I'll see people in central on public transport. I've had a former acquaintance come up to me, shake my hand and ask me how I'm doing. Someone a few years below me asked me for a job because they wanted to work in my industry.

I'm a friendly person and like saying hello. But I know not everyone is like that, so it doesn't bother me at all if someone gives me the cold shoulder.

Just wondering what experiences others have had.

You sound like you are massively overthinking a very minor almost non issue

You'll know people during your life from all different kind of contexts, when you bump into them you just say hi, wave across the street, smile or do nothing depending on the person and situation

It's not a complicated rule based scenario.

Why don’t you start a thread on what’s really going on in your life op?

Unlikely to bump into anyone from school as I live somewhere different now. But if I did it would depend if they were a bully or one if the clique types if I would say hello.