1. Walk around too fast. People at airports tend to dawdle, to meander, to amble. Avoid this at all costs. Walking slowly allows you to be caught by people you might know. Walking very fast and appearing to be late, frazzled, nervous or just weird will help to keep people from looking at you with too much concentration. Your face will also be blurrier.
2. Keep your gaze at far above or far below eye-contact level. Look for your flight on the screens repeatedly. Read your book while walking if you’re me.
3. Loiter in bathrooms. Peeing is healthy for you.
4. If you do encounter someone you know, have excuses at the ready. Make sure to have booked a seat in advance so that you don’t have to chummily sit together on the airplane. Drink lots of water so you can duck out and go pee during the conversation. Postpone any duty-free shopping until last possible minute for same reason.
5. In order to avoid steps 1-4, stop being a big baby and deal with the option of awkwardness. Remember that you are able to converse like an adult, that you are good at asking questions, and that you actually aren’t as anti-social as you sometimes think you are. Remember that you are ridiculous, suck it up, and take a deep breath. Things will be fine.
6. If step 5 doesn’t work, repeat 1-4 until step 5 becomes necessary once again.
Slightly Ignorant 
Reblogged this on Travel Like An Expat and commented:
Not at El Nido Airport. 😉
a bit confused about what you have written. What is this for?
its not confusing, just good advice for the airport 🙂
Bahahaaa. Made me laugh. “Your face will be blurrier” and advice about peeing/hiding in the bathroom, especially. XD
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The same goes for awkward school hallway encounters, or seeing teachers at the shops!
I don’t know that I’ve ever had an awkward airport encounter, actually. I usually find myself making friends with people under the circumstances. Ha.
This is hillarious 🙂