Also known as the 'mingle escape'

'Can't comment at work so emailing my comment instead' seagreen regular comments:
"I know what you mean. :) The first conference I ever went to for work, I went off and cried on the fire escape cos I was so painfully unsure and shy. (I may have also been a touch premenstrual) And I am forever grateful to the round-shouldered pale-dumpling-skinned fundementalist christian man with the odd beard and cardigan who came up and talked to me when I made myself go back into the conference room."

She notes "I still see him at conferences from time to time".