Worst places to run into your Ex: In the “Happily Ever After” episode of How I Met Your Mother, Ted Mosby reveals that he has a map of New York City that he has carefully color coordinated to mark the places where he might run into his ex-fiancée Stella. He’s so determined not to see her that when his friends suggest a restaurant for dinner, he nixes it because it’s “too close to [her] mother’s hairdresser.”

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It’s funny to us as viewers because that near-instinctive desire to avoid your ex – the mere thought of which inspires some fight-or-flight panic in our stupid, prehistoric viscera – is so familiar to many of us.

As the modern sage Carrie Bradshaw once put it: “The odds of bumping into the one who broke your heart are incredibly high. The odds of bumping into [them] when you look like [doo-doo] are even higher.” We don’t spend our lives looking our most handsome, our most successful, or our most accomplished. Most of our time, we work towards projecting that image of effortless cool. When an ex catches you in the act, it’s especially embarrassing.

That is why we’ve compiled a list of the 15 worst places to run into your ex. These are places that don’t offer a quick escape or a built-in shield. They are places, in other words, where you can’t control all (or most of) the variables, which is the true reason running into your ex sucks. If you’re curious, read on, and next time you go to these places, for God’s sake, put on a clean shirt.

15. On A First Date With Someone New

“The best way to get over someone old is to get under someone new,” or so goes the ancient bro adage. There might be some truth to this, seeing as so many addicts pull the ole bait-‘n’-switch on one habit for another. If you’re brokenhearted about someone, entrust your ailing ego to someone new. Running into your ex while you’re in a new relationship is alright. You and your partner have, by that point, established a repartee. But when you’re on a first date acting like some museum-curated version of yourself, your cozy, comfortable ex is the worst possible buzzkill.