“Three horrible things happened to me yesterday,” Sashimi related to me today.

I smiled, knowing that this was going to be a hilarious story.

“First, my phone died and I couldn’t take photos! Second, I lost my bike. But the worst part was running into you!” he exclaimed.

We have the same job at the same company. We live within a block within each other. We have mutual friends. We got the same masters at the same university. And unfortunately we have similar extracurricular interests.

But we have different personalities, different comforts with privacy and social media, different perspectives on career paths and user experience, and differing attitudes toward friendship.

Yesterday, as I was eating dinner after a UX club, I glanced outside. To my surprise, I spotted him outside looking at the menu with a girl.

“Sashimi!” I exclaimed.

He looked at me in shock almost.

I said, “Remember you followed me here. I did not follow you!”

He must have grunted some kind of reply and turned…to flee.