Seth Kugel of The New York Times wrote an article on people-watching on October 16, 2006. The focus of the article was on people-watching in New York and prime spots and times to do so. It’s a well-written article and does a nice job of summarizing some people-watching stories. Here’s a snippet:
Or a man on a cellphone in Union Square tells what appears to be a blind date what he is wearing as he walks across the square. You follow. She doesn’t show. Or did she spot him from afar and flee? He fidgets. You leave. His problem, not yours. See, New York really is just one huge sitcom.
Two middle-aged couples having dinner together in a Thai restaurant shared stories about their ski trips. Conversation shifted to obnoxious snowboarders. One husband popped this joke on the foursome:
How does a snowboarder introduce himself to you?
“Hey dude, are you ok?”
Note: Turn your volume on and click Play! for the sad trombone.
There’s an elderly lady in the neighborhood who walks around the block everyday. She often stops mid-walk, and she people-watches. Highly encouraged behavior from PWiF, of course. But she people-watched me today. She watched me mow the front lawn. From start to finish. I could feel her not blinking. When I shut off the lawn mower, I found her still watching.
So I did the only thing I could do in such a situation. I watched back. Staring contest.
26 seconds felt like hours. I broke. She won. Not a single wrinkle on her face flinched. Might have to recruit her to post to the site.
This isn’t over, elderly neighborhood lady. Next time, double or nothing.
In California, you can’t talk on your cell phone without a hands-free unit and you can’t send text messages while driving on the freeway. Just saw a guy reading a book while driving. A book. Reading it. And it wasn’t a pamphlet. It was a novel. Safe driving on California freeways. Gotta love it.
A conversation between a fitness trainer and his trainee:
Trainee: Do you do yoga? Trainer: Nah, I foam-roll and meditate…it’s the same thing. Trainee: It is? Trainer: Well, yeah…I mean, technically they are a little different, but foam-rolling is the same as yoga. Well, actually, I guess, see with yoga you’re stretching the muscles and with foam-rolling you’re pushing out the knots in your muscles so that’s how they are different. They’re not the same.
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