True story.
Last night, I checked into Papatzul after my event. Naturally, I check in on Foursquare. Lo and behold…a “H” had just checked in minutes before I had.
Now, this “H” character is friends with several of my friends. I know him via Twitter. I’ve been told several times that we should meet each other. But we’d actually never met IRL.
HOW DOES ONE GO ABOUT THIS??? What is proper Foursquare protocol?
Do I walk up to him and say
“HI. I’m not a stalking sociopath or anything, but I follow you on Twitter, and I’m friends with your friends…and then I noticed you checked in on Foursquare, so I thought I’d scour the restaurant to say HI.”
Awkward!!
Anyhow, after several badly timed @replies, about each other’s descriptions, my homegirl @lesleykat was the good social media samaritan and did a lap around the restaurant for me to look for him — but by that time, he had already left.
SUCH a close encounter!! Oh well…until next time, “H”!
What would YOU have done???
I almost went up to u when I saw u at Forever 21 but I didn’t want to be like Hi Heather, I read ur blog and follow you on Twitter. That might have been ackward but I was going to stage a walk by and double take kind of thing and be like Hey aren’t you Heather, I’m Eleazaida, we do the twitter thing and. I comment on your blog but you had left by the time I figured how to approach you in my head. But had you been at the bar you could have sent him a drink with a note ” to @h from @heatherpark”
It reminds me of flirting with people on aim and trying to drum up the coutrage to do so in real life.
HAHAHA…you totally should have said hi!!!