Of all behaviors common to the college experience, the Perma-Snub is the most fascinating to me.
The Perma-Snub most often occurs when you have a class with someone, communicate with them a little during class, even work in some group projects together, and then the following semester you each ignore each other as if you have never met. But it isn’t just a “I don’t want to talk to that guy” thing, it’s more along the lines of a business relationship which has ended, and there’s simply no more need to communicate.
I’m currently pulling a Perma-Snub on like 3 girls (and they on me), but I wish there was some way to break the PS because I’m going to have a lot of group projects and it would be smart to ally my self with someone I already know. To my knowledge, however, no one has ever broken a Perma-Snub.
You see, the Perma-Snub is exactly like the Gordian Knot. You can’t find the ends in order to unbind it. Once the PS has been initiated and both parties have been duly snubbed a few times, it’s impossible to be like “Hey, how’ve you been since last semester?”, because you’ve each seen each other but said nothing, and you each know that you’ve each seen each other and chosen to say nothing.
Actually, now that I think about it, I’m coining the term Gordian Snub. You heard it here first.
