Introvert refuges

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This list is from the Yahoo group Introvert Retreat. Someone started a list for people to post where they go to escape, it appears to be ongoing, but this is what they have so far:

Introvert Refuges:
25 (or more) good introvert refuges, urban and rural

1- Bathrooms
2- Corner seats or tables where one's back is to a wall
3- Libraries-esp. academic ones during summer vacation or non-exam weeks
4- Public Libraries or bookstores, esp. on off hours (not after school)
5- Large earphones that make it obvious you're not mentally present
6- Country roads (when it's not ATV or snowmobiling season)
7- Alcoves, crannies, booths in quiet restaurants or coffee shops
8- Out of the way break-rooms
9- Very top of a long flight of stairs in office bldg.
10- "Outside for a breath of fresh air/smoke" especially at crowded indoor parties
11. Quiet neighborhood parks.
12. Cemeteries. Great places to walk, unless there's a funeral goin’ on.
13. Most roads between 1am and 4am.
14. Sidewalks between 9pm and 6am.
15. Supermarkets between 10pm and 8am.
16. Malls between 8am and when the stores open at 10am, great for
walking, although there will be other mall walkers. But in PA nobody
tries to be your new best friend.
17. Small town airport, watching the occasional take-off and landing and reading a book.
18. Parking lot of a local Post Office all day Sunday.
19. Improve the conversation; enlarge on tangents that interest you.
20. My vegetable garden. Here in Texas, in the middle of summer.
21. I go into work at least an hour, sometimes two before I officially have to
be in the building. It is amazing how quiet it is that time of the morning and
I get so much work done without people interrupting me.
22. Or stay late at work, or on the weekends, when nobody's there.
23. I retreat to my truck in the parking garage during lunch and listen to NPR.
24. A basement car park at work and I like to take my book and sit in my car at lunch time.
There is no mobile phone reception down there either
24. lunch, all by myself, in my car, go through a drive-thru fast food place, eat in
the parking lot of the fast food place
25: Childhood retreats: very tops of tall junglejims/climbing playsets (see bullies coming)
-the far end of the playground, -empty classrooms during lunch in high school
-into my head by reading a good book
26. Childhood retreat: On my back in the grass in my back yard, with my dog,
looking up at the clouds.
27. Childhood retreat: Up a tree, the bare ground in a cluster of bushes, the attic at my house
28. My house.