So, like any other day, I am commuting to work. I get off the train and wait on the subway platform when I see a familiar face. I study the man, and determine that he looks remarkily like a big shot CEO for the company that we rent our office space from. I keep my distance from the man, fearing that he might not be the person that I think he is, and we board the subway in the same car. I sit across from him, and he waves hello, but never says a word. I wave back and expect some sort of conversation to occur. The man typically talks to me in the office as I am his IT contact and he has been known to flag me across the office just to bullshit every once and awhile.
I typically get off at 23rd street as my office is at 19th street. The 28th street stop comes, and he gets off and mumbles, see ya to me. I thought that this was a bit odd, but perhaps he was going to a meeting or something? Who knows. I continue with my routine and get breakfast and proceed to the office. The CEO is there and says hello to me, and asked what took me so long. I said I got breakfast and you would have known that if you didn’t run off the extit before mine… 
I think that the age of ipods and other mp3 players have taken away the ability to strike up a conversation with a person that you know out of your element. The guy didn’t know what to do with himself so much, he left the subway a stop early, and I might add, it was really cold outside today.
Maybe I just have that effect on people, who knows…