The other day I was walking out of a building on campus, when I crossed paths with a guy I know from the French house on campus. He was walking into the building, and it was literally one of those brief moments where you only have time to smile and make some kind of brief exchange like, "hey, how's it going?" or "sup yo!" Super low-key interaction, right? Well, I had just come from Swedish class, so when the guy smiled at me and asked how it was going in French ("Salut! Ca va?") my brain got confused and this is basically what happened:
Except instead of spitting water I smiled and garbled out a word that kind of resembled "hey." And instead of stopping to chat and be friendly or at least laugh and explain how sometimes my Swedish and French get tangled up, I just booked it out of there on my merry little way.
Lesson learned and goal for the future: It's okay to stop and talk to people you know when you see them, so I'm going to do it more!
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