“Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.” EL

There are some relationships with people that are always awkward. I ran into a few of this them weekend. 1) when you dont register the guy, whose calls you always ignore in your new phone, he calls and you answer and ask who is this?
2)An ex says your name while out, and you cant tell your friends who it is, till 20 min later (he had a hat on!)
3)Running into the guy that you've run into several times before however each time its weird. (so this time i chose to just ignore to avoid the newest awkward encounter, but i wonder if he saw me too and did the same thing)
I think the best thing to do is acknowledge the awkwardness in any situation, except maybe the phone one....with that one you both pretend to make plans for a coffee "soon", hang up and save that number under "awkward dont answer"