| Am I bad at proper social etiquette?
In my college class, I am very quiet and I keep to myself a lot. There's this girl who is really nice and actually makes an effort to be nice and strike up a conversation with me. I was up late doing a paper and I was in a zombie-like state all day. As I was leaving class to go home, she holds the door open for me. I say "Thanks." She says "Hey" and I say "Hey" back. I take a step to go on my way and she pulls out her earphones and says "What are you talking about?" I got confused and thought that she didn't hear me say "hey" or she thought I said something else. I turn around and see there's a girl walking by and I assume she was talking to the girl, not me, and I walked away. As I pondered the situation I realized that I had, unknowingly snubbed her. She was talking to me. She was actually asking me what I was going to talk about in my speech. I couldn't go back and talk to her because I'd gone the other direction. I feel really bad. I don't talk to her in class.
I have class with her again this Thursday but we'll all be doing speeches and not able to socialize. I feel like I should apologize to her or explain myself. But I am afraid that she would think it was weird if I walked up to her without ever talking to her before and explaining that odd situation. She might just ignore me or forget the situation but I am deeply embarrassed and upset that I snubbed such a nice person.
How do I go about trying to explain what happened to her? Should I just forget it?  |