Saturday, 30 January 2010

People Watching........

Okay, so sat here at Lois Lane's work, watching people, sat at the counter near the window watching all the people, different kinds of people outside.

It started with me saying I would keep her company from 9am till 8.30pm while she worked alone. Of course I brought my trusty laptop.

So many different kinds of people doing a lot of the same thing in different kinds of ways.

It's snowing quite heavily now and watching people's reactions is quite entertaining on so many levels. Young "tough" men acting like the cold does not bother them because they are tough, hard and mean... when you can clearly see them shiver in agony when they think their friends are not looking. Young girls going to college dressed like they are going to a summer beach party complaining they are slipping in their heeled shoes. Teenage boys walking all cool and Californian "dude like", thinking they look like proffessional snowboarders. So many people thinking they are different and stand out from the crowd, when to watch them like I do right now you can clearly see clone after clone. This is better than your typical reality TV because these people have no clue they are being watched. One man recently walked by clearly having an heated discussion on the cell phone, not knowing he was being observed he was so comfortable in making these rediculous faces to show his anger even though the other person on the phone could not see him. He was pointing at the phone, it was quite amusing, but not as amusing as when he saw me and started to act completley different. People do change their personas when they are being "judged" or so they think by others.

I have been watching a young girl in her early twenties sitting at the bus stop now for almost 20 minutes, she has cried twice and had a conversation on the cell phone, and now she is texting and laughing out loud. I wonder, if she knew I could see her would she be laughing out loud?, Hmmm I wonder.

I also have a theory about people and cell phones, I believe that people only use them for one: They are bored, and two: it stops strangers from conversing with them. Ninety percent of the people I have observed today in the past six hours have ALL been talking on the cell phone when stood near someone else, and when that someone else walks away or gets on the bus the phone magically gets put back into the pocket. I wonder, are they really on the phone or are they just terrifed that a stranger may ask a simple question such as "Do you have the time?"

Have people become so hooked on chatrooms online they fear actually having a conversation face to face?

The snow is really coming down now.

There is an old man across from me, sat also at the bus stop, coughing (badly may I add) and smoking, this is his fourth smoke in nearly ten minutes. The lady beside him has only just arrived there yet had managed to check her watch many many times. All these people stood at the bus stop and all of them attempting to look busy and not making eye to eye contact for even a second. Why?

Hahahaha, I am sat here on my sixth hour of watching folk, listening to The September When (which is perfect music to go with this outside "movie".

How many more people are gonna fall?

Everybody is gone, the bus stop is empty, no cars,,, everything quiet. It's amost the end of school. Lots more people are due to arrive on scene soon.

Okay thats the third person to have bought ice cream today! What the feck?? haha. I must be missing something here.... they freeze outside, come in here an order ICE CREAM! Where is the logic?

The scenery out here looks amazing though, I am in the middle of nowhere and most of the snow is untouched. Looks like it's been mixed with glitter. Like something from a fantasy film. Amazing! It really does look beautiful.

The smell of burgers is really making me feel nausiated now. I have come to the conclusion that Lois is a legend, I could never ever work in a fast food place. The smell is just getting to be too much now. I know I will not for a very long time want, a Burger King, McDonalds or take away. My hair smells of grease. Eewww! Hahaha.

The snow has stopped.

Another five and a half hours and I get to go home, relax on the sofa and be warm and happy with HK. First of course I will do the housework haha.

Yes I feel tonight is a sit on the sofa and read my book kinda night listening to some excellent relaxing music, meaning Morten Abel or Michael Jackson, maybe both depending on how the book goes hee hee!

WOW!!!! A bus almost just crashed... that was surreal. All is good though, those roads must be slippy for that to have happened. I know I am currently just commented the non-happenings of my day and it's not very intresting, but I find people very very intresting and that is why I have done nothign all day than sit at a window and people watch! Gonna go for a short while now, get a hot chocolate or something.

I apoligise for all my recent typo's, I am a very tired individual! :-)

Toodlepip!

2 comments:

  1. I like this. It's very interesting, and you write in a way that I can almost see them all myself.

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  2. "Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion"

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