to think that this complete stranger should acknowledge me?

[nevergoogle]

I mean, FFS, for the past two years I have walked past this guy on my way to work, every single bleeding morning.
Then, on my way home, we pass each other again.
We live in a small town, there's never anyone else about yet he strides past with his head up and stares straight ahead as if I'm a figment of my own fucking imagination.
I think he works near my house, and i must work near his. It's a 10 minute walk.

Is it too much to expect a 'morning' or a 'fuck sake is it you again trying to get a reaction who the fuck do you think you are?'
fucking something surely!? it's very annoying

Haha. We have a neighbour who has put his head down when he walks past for 17 years.

A couple of years ago, he had a baby. Two months ago, he finally said 'hi'. I think he is really dreadfully shy so I have forgiven him

Can't imagine anything worse than someone I pass every day trying to initiate greetings. It's the morning. I'm going to work. leave me alone.

Ditto people from your work place who you only really know to say his to or make mind numbing work chat with sitting beside you on the train/bus home. I just finished work, I want to forget about it for the time being and we have nothing to talk about.

Has the OP actually said anything to him yet?
She just sounds a bit OTT because she's getting all unnecessary about his lack of response. I blame her husband, he's obviously not making her feel special enough and now she's reduced to planning ambushes on innocent and oblivious strangers.
Then when he says 'Piss off you mad witch' she'll be back with 'OMG that was, like. just soo rude'

Professor Goblin. Perhaps I should make myself a special hat.

Reading your last post ProfGob, I actually think you might have something

My Aspie strides around ignoring people, but he has a moody and magnificent brooding look about him that has already attracted some female attention.
It pisses him off unless they are interesting to talk to. I can see people like nevergoogle in his future, and I'm going to buy him a super soaker.

you do realise this is all just happening in my head prof.

you wouldn't know to look at me that i'm such an inward ball of fury and insecurity. i stride along just like a normal person might. i think so anyway.

so i leave the house and walk down the lane, and say good morning to the old boys by the newsagent who meet every morning for gentlemanly gossip. then the picture framer passes on his bike and says 'morning' (he wears bicycle clips), then the street cleaner greets me and possibly a comment on the weather or the burning down of the town hall, or the coffee bean spill all over the road (i liked that one) etc., i may pop into the bakers where i chat with the girls in there, then off the main street onto the long quiet road where the only other person is the man who makes no eye contact,... for two years. then into work and i forget all about it.

i think it's the groundhog day lifestyle that does this to me.

he is ignoring you because he has googled.

if only he would pull out a super soaker!
i'm leaving soon, i dearly hope he does that before i go.

I tell you, for someone who has no contact with anyone in RL (by choice), I keep abreast of events in our town by these tiny encounters with people I don't really know

Honestly, me not partaking in any gossip whatsoever, doesn't stop the flow

It can be juicy interesting though.

Someone I used to work with and despised with good reason travelled home with me on the tube for four stops once.

We stood up. He held the upright bar at the most convenient point for him meaning I had to reach above or below (it really wasn't an invitation for me to touch his hand).

He kept his sunglasses on. On the tube. And he wore his jacket even though it was boiling because he had undisclosed issues with his arms.

He talked about the current series of Strictly with Matt Di Angelo obsessively. See, I told you it wasn't an invitation to touch him.

People were staring at us. Some of them were clearly signalling with their eyes: 'Run now.'

Forever after I would flee the office on the dot at 6pm or hang around for ages to dodge him.

Not that I think OP is like that.

thanks.
i hate strictly.

Oh. Do you have any other conversational gambits?

I'm sure your arms are fine, btw

Had same experience and decided to do something about it. I say "good morning" in a really bright and breezy way now. He started off visibly cringing, but now can just about muster a grunted response and a fleeting attempt at eye contact. I really feel sorry for him. What happens to a person to make them so isolated inside.

Too many nutters trying to engage with them?

don't you say good morning to people you meet?

Not since I moved away from Trumpton.

You used to live in Trumpton??

Nice one.

Follow him home.....then knock on the door - and a little, old lady will answer. You say: 'Can I speak to the very tall man please?'

She'll say: 'No tall man lives here.....well, one did once - a looooooooong time ago but he died.'

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, I see dead people!

I'm an ex-Londoner, and I found it odd when the postman/binman/pensioner over the road started greeting me in the morning. Of course, I always said hello back, and I'm used to people being a lot friendlier here where I livenow but if they had never said anything to me, I would have never initiated the greeting.

"What happens to a person to make them so isolated inside."

Have enough friends in my own life, I don't want to start getting into some awful awkward greeting with someone who just happens to get the same bus as me/walks the same route. I like being left alone. Being left alone > forced inconsequential small talk with strangers for the sake of it.

even just a little nod, or a smile or hello?
hardly small talk.

Foot in the door, dude.