Avoidance is the key

Probably like more people than you'd expect,
I don't like talking to peope that I don't really want to talk to.

I'd go so far as to cross the road to avoid them.

So when a person from my past, with epic amounts of 'previous' contacted me over the marvellous world of social networking to tell me they'd seen me at the train station that morning, and didn't know what to say to me, but intended to talk to me the next day,
my heart sunk, somewhere to about three feet below where my actual body was.
So instead of accepting my inevitable awkward unwilling chattering fate,
I decided to find a different route to work.
Now this route took a lot longer,
and
It cost me £3.50 on top of the travelcard that I've already got.

So here comes the hook.
Do I continually get the alternate journey, for an extra 17.50 a week?
or look the devil in the eye?

fellow Superstars and readers of WS, help me!
especially Jean