I joke all the time about how Oklahoma City is the biggest small town in the country, but it's kinda true. Even though we are one of the most massive cities by land mass in the United States, it seems like anywhere you go, you're only 2 or 3 degrees away from everyone in the building on the 6 Degrees of Bacon Scale.
This can be maddening, especially if you're a blogger who spends most of their time alone and seeking to actively avoid awkward social interactions. Whether it's someone you went to high school with, a guy who met you at a bar one time and you forgot their name, or even an old friend that you haven't reconnected with outside of Facebook in about a decade, these moments are cringe-inducing. And there are a few particular places that make these situations even worse.
As a result, Patrick and I came up with a list of the 10 worst places to run into an acquaintance in the OKC metro. Check it out:
The Homeland on Classen
Even though they recently renovated this store, it still sucks. Yeah, they've got some more prepared foods and cheese, but they also basically bulldozed half of the already over-priced produce section to stock boutique sodas and junk that nobody really needs. It's my default grocery store because it's the closest to where I live, and nearly every single visit, I'll spy an acquaintance and do everything in my power to avoid a conversation: lingering on another aisle staring at soup cans, stealthily grabbing an onion while their back is turned, pretending like I'm too involved with what I'm listening to on my headphones.