Don't you hate it when...

For those of you who are lucky enough to be able to attend college,  for those of you who are still in there (you poor bastard) and for those of you who don't even remember yesterday let alone college life you will relate either way. I didn't find this to be much of a problem until I got to school with acquaintances. You don't really start collecting them until you get to college. Usually in high school, you meet someone and then after that, you "know" them. When you see them on the street you speak and move on.  What I hate is the time it takes for an acquaintance to become a friend because for the time in between it just so ....awkward. Just like the spelling of that word. AWKward, haha. Anyway. So you meet somebody at some random function and you tell them your name and they tell you their name. For the rest of the time you are within reach of each other you talk and schmooze until you both part ways. But then next time you see each other in a more real world setting, let's just get crazy and say on campus the next day , what happens when they act like they've never seen you before? Never mind the fact they were high-fiving you to no tomorrow and the both of you were the champions at the ConnectFour table that night. You both shared a plate when they ran out them at the serving line for pizza. Swore up and down you would find each other on Facebook and hang out again. It was going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But now in the harsh light of the day, you see them and they see you but no greetings exchanged? What? Do you just pretend you don't know this person and that night never happened? Do you try to wave anyway, risking looking like a complete idiot if they STILL don't acknowledge you? Maybe they do this sort of thing all the time. Leaving people hanging at various functions only to move on to the next. What's up with this? Why do people pretend they don't know you after CLEARLY meeting and hanging out with you previously. I find that it's only when you are forced to be in really close quarters with this person or they happen to breeze into the office you work in asking where the so and so building is when you have to go,"Hey remember me, from that thing a while back?", that they are forced to go , "oh yeah, hey!" Like they knew all along. Hey, I get it, I can play that game too. I know how to not know somebody. We'll see, don't let me catch you out on the sidewalk, you buster......lol, just kidding. Call me lame but I bet you're mad.