Role-Limited Interaction

A concept I found interesting and helpful in this week's reading was role-limited interaction which is when we might meet someone and we may become friends or acquaintances however due to not being able to see them often, we are unable to establish much of a bond with that individual. We are polite to one another however we "do not have enough personal knowledge of each other to engage in dual perspective, they tend to rely on general scripts and stereotypes" (Wood, 2010, pg.260). An personal example of a role-limited interaction is that there is this guy that I have known of for a little over two years now since he transferred here to state and he is about to graduate this fall. I have seen him a few times each semester on campus and when we see each other, we give each other a hug and have a conversation that lasts no longer than a few minutes. I know of him because he played on a sports team here that I help out with their events they have over the year and I have ran into him at those as well. We talk online here and there as well, however we still do not have each other's numbers, have never hung out, yet as the years have progressed, when we see each other, we are more comfortable around one another and we talk online more than we did a year ago. I have mentioned to hang before however since he commutes from a city that is about 15 minutes away and is on campus twice a week, and the days I do not have school, our schedules conflict, so it is hard to see each other. Our interaction with each other is limited. I am not sure if this is a hopeless situation or not. I would like to get to know him better, however am not sure if that is possible also if he would be willing to make the time as well.