Depressed, unemployed and attempting to avoid the internet, he carries around a large brown envelope, stuffed full of unanswered letters from his friend Andrew in Japan, intending to reply just "as soon as something good happens" to him.
Of course, not everyone looking to get across town is interested in sparking a romance, and attempting to avoid uncomfortable social situations is a fact of life for collaborative consumption companies like Airbnb, TaskRabbit and others.
But it has been nearly five years since the last America's Cup, and while the challengers for sport's oldest major trophy have been dueling under genuine pressure for genuine points since October, Team New Zealand has been conducting dress rehearsals and attempting to avoid the pitfall of learning its lines so well that it no longer takes much pleasure in saying them.
As previous studies highlight the existence of correlation between bus accident rates and acceleration behavior [2, 3, 5], research is necessary in the tendency of bus drivers to cross in yellow or red light, with one reason possibly being late and attempting to avoid further delays by stopping at the red light.
Delayed by the weather and attempting to avoid the landing craft as they ran in, the bombers had dropped their ordnance too far inland, detonating some landmines that were planted by the Germans, but having no real effect on the coastal defenses.
"The blockades happened very early in the morning, with groups walking through the hills and attempting to avoid surveillance, although sometimes running into the military or police on land and in helicopters," said one anarchist activist, who was arrested during a motorway blockade.
Pandemonium ensues when they mingle without knowing and attempt to avoid each other.
Worried, I measured the size of our heads and attempted to avoid relatives' gleeful tales of other gargantuan family births.
The leaderships of Europe's growing socialist parties were often worried by the threat of repression coming from governments and businesses, and attempted to avoid excessively confrontational demonstrations.
While he is ethnic Chinese, he prefers the term Tionghoa, which means "of Chinese descent" and attempts to avoid assumptions of links to the Chinese state, another prejudice sometimes thrown at the minority.
The chairman of Lloyds Banking Group on Monday faced criticism for the way the bailed-out bank handled mis-sold payment protection insurance and attempted to avoid liability for claims that have already topped £5bn.
