One of the bad things about being stuck in this place is that you run the very real risk of running into people you've dealt with at work when it didn't go well.
Like when I was doing my grocery shopping this morning and had to deal with a woman whose adoption application we denied last month. There was shrieking involved on her end and sarcasm involved on mine.
Because as it turns out, the appropriate response to near incoherent ranting about how dare we not let her take home that precious little puppy is not "So this is the first time you've heard 'no'? Learn it, embrace it, embroider it on a pillow. You'll hear it often."