Subtle Avoidance

The art of subtle avoidance has lately been demonstrated to me by one Postie.  If you wish to avoid someone making absolutely sure that they’ll have no idea what you’re doing, do as follows:

1. Wear something eye-catching, like the Royal Mail orange waistcoaty jacket thing, and push around a big red Royal Mail trolley thing.
2. Stop spending so much time talking to someone you always used to spend ages talking to, and less encouragement of The Toddler is essential.
3. Start to completely ignore that same someone on occasions when she is alone.  Though not at all times.  We wouldn’t want it to be too obvious.
4. When seeing that someone ahead of you on the street, give a startled expression before bolting across the road at high speed.  A glance back at that someone, just to alert them to the fact that you definitely noticed them is essential.
5. Start cutting out a regular part of your postal route when that someone is going the way you intended to go.  Ensure this happens after she has caught you watching her over a tall wall at this exact spot.  Of course she won’t notice this sudden change at all.

I look forward to further lessons of subtle avoidance.  Of course, I could be wrong.  Maybe I’m being egotistical, or paranoid, or something like that, but I don’t think so.  Hmm.