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paganel on March 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of th...

> or if I should wave to someone I've met twice if they're 15 feet away walking towards me.

To be honest, nobody knows for sure. I call these "Seinfeld moments", as in you could make an entire Seinfeld episode out of talking about it: should I have waived? If yes, I did waive, why didn't the other person waive back? Was it because he/she didn't see me? Was it because he/she did in fact see me but didn't like me? etc.

mkl on March 22, 2021 | [–]

"Wave". "Waive" is something entirely different: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waive

But maybe Seinfeld could have made an episode about your version too.

paganel on March 22, 2021 | | [–]

Thanks for that correction, non-native English speaker commenting before my usual morning coffee.

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