Some of use came to the city to find a community of queerness. Unfortunately, a close community means unavoidable ex-girlfriends an ever present paramours. As a lesbian that know’s every other lesbian in music city, I have taken compiled a completely factual and unbiased list of the best places to run into your ex-girlfriend.

Cafe Coco in Midtown

Whether you are researching the history of veganism in queer bondage communities over a latte, or watching your friends late night pop-punk/radical-polka band take themselves too seriously, the likelihood of seeing a previous flame is high. Look forward to seeing them across the room, chowing down on an Italian sub, as you are haunted by their previous appetite for your muffuletta.

Turnip truck’s kombucha cooler

Your hand reaches for GT Dave’s Guava Goddess Kombucha, but it brushes another. Does she miss you? Is that why she went for Guava Goddess instead of her own home brewed ‘buch? It really is a shame she got to keep the SCOBY in the break up…

Turnip Green Creative Reuse

At the other turnip location, you try to mend your broken heart by taking up needle point. Sadly, while stocking up on slightly used aida cloth, you see them stocking up on tile for the apartment they got with the girl they met last week. Suddenly, the violent act of needle felting sounds more appealing.

Frothy Monkey 12 South

On a first date, nothing compares to an iced oat milk matcha latte and your former fuck buddy coming up to ask how you are doing in front of your tinder match. Its the circle of life really, and it only gets better if your ex then recognizes your new flame.

The Mark

Classic, simple, gay, running into your ex at the dungeon. If you stayed friends, its a genuinely good time. If you are seeing them get paddled by the person they left you for, you will not be playing that night. You will probably need a few more capri suns from the fridge.

Richland Park Farmers Market

The next morning, you might get to run into her at the market. Double points if she is selling you cheese, bread, or organically grown, pro-union rutabaga’s. She did you so dirty, but nevertheless you support local farmers. 

A zoom call for a micro justice initiative

Seeing her name and pronouns onscreen makes you seethe. How can someone so terrible in a relationship care so deeply about teaching accordion to disadvantaged youth in Nashville?

Belcourt Theater

You thought that was her at Fanny Mae Dee’s through the mosaic dragon, but now you know it is. A night of Bulgarian retro-futurist documentaries ruined by this hoe. Luckily, you have your friends Basil and Alexandrios there to support you.

Your friends Hyper-banjo, folk punk house show

The cost of friends is that Basil and Alexandrios are already friends with every queer person in Nashville… including your ex. While Basil shreds it on the digital harmonica, you can’t stop making awkward eye contact with your ex through the vape-clouded room. 

Lipstick Lounge

Both black out on the strongest drinks on this side of the Cumberland. You wake up in her bed, with a video of her singing Valerie by Amy Winehouse to the karaoke. She may not still be your ex.