How to act if bump into someone you ghosted?

[Nightsunset3455]

First time I’ve ever had to ghost someone- it’s not my style. However this friend was quite nasty to another of our friends. I saw it first hand so friend I’m ghosting was def in the wrong.
Had witnessed a milder version of this to someone else before but had put it down to a bad day or whatever.
Since I’ve never ghosted anyone before, how do you act if you eg bump into them in a shop or something?
If she asked me outright I would say what it was but I feel she should know to be nicer!
Thanks in advance.

i've been ghosted by a friend.. still to this day have no clue why or what i did, but we live locally. whenever we bump into each other, share the same dentist for example, she just blanks me. I am always polite and say hello, but i don't push for a conversation, i just treat her like somone i know enough to greet! i don't let it bother me, i find her behaviour acutally pretty funny really

Depends - if I really dislike them I act like they're a complete stranger and because they're crazy i literally will run away or walk away blanking them.
If I'm just ghosting like your situation above - again stranger and if they try to talk a simple "no thank you" and step back but if they really start a scene I'd simply say that you don't talk to nasty people who do x y z and don't mix with them and again no thank you.

I don't really ghost, I move on and tell people I cba to deal with their nonsense and they know not to come at me. Sometimes they try and a strong firm no thank you tends to work 😂 what you've described I 100% have cut someone off for that. If they can do it to a mutual friend, they can do it to me. Nooooo thank you.

I ghosted and deleted all SM connections with a former friend for a very good reason. She knows why but plays the victim to anyone who will listen.
Ive seen her out an about and I look through her. She no longer exists in my world.

Did you call her out on it at the time and she knows why you don’t want to communicate or have you cut contact without telling her why?

Just say "hi" and move on.

Why do you ‘have’ to ghost them? Surely the next time they are in contact you just reply with ‘after how nasty you were to X, I really don’t feel comfortable talking to you.’

My best friend of 12 years ghosted me when I was having a bit of a hard time.
I was really hurt and didn't understand why.
About four years later, me and bf were walking along a narrow high street (near his and my home, nowhere near hers as far as I knew)
She walked directly into our path and our eyes met.
I gave her a smirk but totally blanked her. Feeling awful but not wanting to engage, assuming she was also embarrassed.
We reconnected through SM a few years late and she said 'do you remember when you saw me on Egham High street'
Like erm. What could I say? I told her I did and I was too hurt/ embarrassed to want to engage. I didn't mention the fact she did not try and say hello to me either.
She seemed to accept it but the whole thing was bizarre.

I don't ghost people in that I always tell them why I no longer want them as a friend. I had to do this with a work colleague a few years ago, we still see each other a couple of times a week. We treat each other like we would someone from a team don't know. A nod or good morning if physically close enough to require it. Totally ignoring if far enough away. It is t awkward because it isn't malicious, we jsut don't interact. Think about how many humans yoy naturally do this with in any given day and you then realise that it's fine.

the person that ghosted me, from what i gather was not too sure how to react.(i just wish they had been open and honest then we could of parted ways on good terms rather than the lies of being friends and then ghosting (if there was more to it all then i can understand but even then some sort of apology or reason would of been suitable to explain events)

I'd just be politely non committal.
If you've had to ghost someone its usually because you couldn't get anywhere with trying to explain issues.. so don't try now. Just be completely blankly polite. But boundaried. If she tries to 'have a talk' with you, just say no thankyou, firmly, and walk away.
I have had to do this.

This!
It’s very passive aggressive otherwise- Far better to tell the person why you are upset at their behaviour rather than the daft “ghosting” and blanking which is like a sulk.

Thanks for the replies so far. I think my plan as suggested above is- if I bump into her- say hi and move on, or if she stops for a chat, be very brief.
I didn’t call her out at the time as I was taken aback.
Thinking about it, I don’t think I should have to point out to her that she is being nasty- I think being nasty is a choice so she’s choosing to act that way.
Not sure what other folks thoughts are on that…

I haven't really bumped into the toxic friend group I ditched in the 8 years since we parted ways (have seen a couple of them at a distance but not enough for interaction). I'd probably say hi and keep walking. I've got absolutely zero interest in a chat, but I also can't be arsed to give it any negative energy. I just don't care anymore. My life improved as soon as I quietly faded out of it all, so I have no regrets at all. I'm not worried or upset at the thought of seeing them.

Cancel culture is popular, now ghosting, and no contact are all forms of this. I'm not a fan of this idea, I think it's better to deal with problems head-on and be honest. It's shunning, stonewalling on an industrial scale.
People aren't perfect, I'd just say hello and have a chat...

I’ve done it a couple of times - not nice people and I don’t acknowledge them or anything.

I think I would try and explain why. It's amazing how obtuse people can be about things they have done which seem glaringly obviously rude or mean to you, but not a big deal to them. Or they just "forget" about it. They only really learn if you call them out on it.

Yeah sure, my grandfather's son stole from him, let me just call and invite him for a chat 🙄 maybe he can try rob me too!
I value myself way too much to be nice to bad people. All my energy and time goes to good people I know won't have ill intentions. If someone shows me who they are, I will thank them for that. I always call people out but these sort of people lack self awareness and are selfish anyway because what normal people would steal from the elderly? What normal people would do nasty things to their friends? People you shouldn't waste your time on, those sort.
There's actually loads of nice people out there too, people who will have your back, show kindness, help and not want anything in return. I have too many of these and barely have time as is when I run into these people for a chat, let alone if I ran into nasty people and also gave them the time of day. For what? To be nice? They weren't nice.
Each to their own though, enjoy chatting to people who aren't worth much!