Social Incompetence

Some days ago something weird happened. I walk to the train station mostly every day, it takes about 20 minutes and occasionally I've seen this woman walking in front of me. Seems she has the same morning walk routine. One morning she suddenly turned around saying hello to me. She looked pretty much like a friend's mum, but not entirely. Maybe she had loose some weight, and after all it was not as if she was walking next to me, I thought and said hello to answer. Then some mornings after that she actually waited for me to catch up and started to talk asking what I was doing now and what I was studying. It turned out she was not my friend's mum, unless she had gone through a very convincing plastic surgery. A more socially competent person would probably manage to ask her who she was in a very appropriate manner. But I just couldn't because I did not know what to say or even how to say it. So, I politely answered her questions, asking her about her occupation, and then we said goodbye as our paths separated. Still, I have no idea who she was and I haven't seen her ever since, and she did sound as if she knew me somehow.

And this morning I literary ran into a friend as I was walking towards the train (which was late because some other train had hit a horse or something), reacting by pure reflex sort of (or actually) punshing him in his stomach. I have to improve my social skills, this won't fly...