Personally, I have alot of fun people-watching. Usually, I write down a long string of thoughts relating to the person I'm observing (it's especially amusing if the person you're watching realizes you're watching them); it helps one to pick up eccentricites of people and describe them more than: "he had brown hair. And was wearing a suit." Anyone have any people-watching scenarios they'd like to share?
I'll go first:
He's still talking on his cell phone, as he has been since I sat down. People walk through the door, and it seems to stir up the air in the entry; he moves to the center of the floor, and continues his conversation animatedly, looking intently at the tiles below his feet.
He listens now, the agitated speech balanced out by his standing stock still, looking out the window, though there's nothing particularly interesting out there, I'm looking outside too. He stands, looking straight ahead, hand on hip, phone to ear, much like the rest of the people around. He's pacing again, and looks up every once and a while, this time catching me looking in his direction. He talks faster, now in a punctuated voice and without a breath for the last four minutes now. Then a long pause.
He's not too far away, no more than twenty feet, but the background noise of the library and the stone construction of the entryway allow me to hear no more than muffled words. I wonder if he'd be honoured to know he's the first person I've observed. I wonder if he'd think it's weird. A curt goodbye, a snap of a cell phone, and I look up, but I can't see him anymore.
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