People watching
 

I just spent the past 10 minutes watching a young, homeless couple wake up from their sleeping spot on the roof of the auto repair place across the street. They gathered some (but not all) of their stuff and headed off...climbed down the back of the building, and peed in the bushes before beginning their day.

I wonder where they're going next? And how they are ended up homeless?

*sigh*


Do you people watch? Invent stories for the stangers you pass on the street?

Please tell me I am not the only one!

Sometimes I'll do that. It's usually while I'm in the waiting room at my pulmonologist. I'll see the other patients waiting to see their doctors and I'll sort of let my mind wander and try and come up with what I think their situation may be and if perhaps they are going through similar things as me.

I hate to say it but I probably wouldn't let myself try and come up with a story for the couple you saw today. It's just so depressing to even think about that I guess I sort of block it out of my mind. I'm very ashamed to admit that.

I always people watch, just immersing in people, what they do (and don't) and why.

I don't make up stories or such, just watch (and sometimes perv).

Lord knows I do. My last trip I spent several hours in 2 different airports. There's a place you can see extremes on all sides of humankind!

I do. A lot of times when I've gone shopping with my wife, she'll keep shopping and I'll find a bench to just sit back and watch the people going to and fro. Not sure I've tried to imagine stories to go with those I see, but do sometimes wonder what they're shopping for or looking for. But, now that I have the idea, it might be fun to imagine a scenario with the person or people involved. :)

People are endlessly interesting. And sometimes it's hard to tell much about a person's background unless oyu really study them....I just wish I had time to do it more!

i'm also a people watcher, especially with my kids. well, the older one anyway. the boy can't sit still long enough. :p

someitmes we try to make up stories only 'cause i love to spark her imagination, expressive language skills and capacity for empathy.

I do people watch, especially at airports when I am waiting for my next flight. I am always impressed with the diversity of our world.

I love to people watch. I don't take enough opportunities to do so though.

I watch people all the time....... goes with the job, I guess!! Although, sometimes who/what I see can form the basis for a story, like the one I wrote last Xmas..........

.......it's here, somewhere!

DM

I people watch and YES I do make a story of their actions. In thinking about it it seems I usually make up stories about the sadder cases. Hmmmmm...I hadn't realized that till now.

I love to people watch. I find their subconscious movements and actions fascinating.


But it's not much fun after they turn the lights off. :(

Apparently...people watching has attracted the attention of someone else.


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Was anyone else holding their breath, hoping not to see a picture of their parents...or themselves? :yikes:

This morning, the people on the roof have a blue tarp over them and their stuff. It's raining. I wonder if it's warm under the tarp, and what they're doing in there. :hot:

I people watch, but my secret is that I look at crotches and wonder what is hidden behind the zipper.

that's really more crotch watching then, innit? :p:D

I thought this was about something else....and "yes" to that question too. :69:

I watch people all the time but I think it is in the hopes they will do something weird.

I had this girlfriend in University that was so quite and calm, but when we were having sex she was one of the loudest people I have ever heard. This was my first time with a really loud partner. I then started looking around me at all the quite woman I knew. I wondered if the were loud sex partners or not.

Now I have a confession to make. There were times at church, during a long and not that inspiring sermon, I would start looking at those around me and wondering how vocal they were in bed. In the heat of the moment did they say naughty words, because at church they were quite and reserved.

Well I have since developed into a quite reserved person in public, but expressive during the more intimate times. Maybe that just comes with getting older?

osuche,

Yes'm - whenever I have time on my hands at the airport or train station. You just KNOW there has to be a story behind these people in transit. :)

i confess i love people watching. And also, i have met many vagrants in my time and know how some of them came to be in their predicament (from having a very normal life originally). I even met one who allegedly got into the guiness book of records for the most drunk and disoderly offences.

Its a strange world we live in.

I think train stations and airports are really good places for a bit of people watching.

"Riding on the bus, playing games with the faces,
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy,
I said, 'Be careful, his bow-tie is really a camera'"

Paul Simon, "America"


Obviously, people watching is a long time-horored tradition...

I have a scheduled lab run that takes me in beside the ER of a local hospital. While I don't have time to linger, the people watching opportunities are popping up in front of me all the time, sometimes amusing, like the hefty braless woman walking briskly away with her bf maintaining a safe distance behind her, sometimes sad, like the woman who passed me in the hall with red eyes & running mascara...

I totally love people watching.

Like the woman I was watching in the grocery store a couple days ago that was wearing thin white stretch pants over bright floral print panties. :o :p

As an artist, I've always people watched. And this city alone is like a smorgasbord for my eyes. The variety of people here power my imagination and give me energy. And as a man, I love watching women especially, moreso for the same reasons and even moreso focusing on certain physical attributes that stimulate more than just my artistic imagination.


I hear you. The fashion faux pas people are the most fun to watch.

My constant fave here I always see, no matter what season it is, is walking behind wanna-be-cute women who have waist sizes a few tads too big for their low-rise jeans. Flesh and "coin slots" peek over the edges. Then some of them have no asses to fill anything up in and it looks like cereal boxes stuffed inside jeans trying to be an ass. Or they don't bother wearing belts and are constantly hiking their jeans up every half block because their ass-less hips can't make the jeans stick. The best is when they sit down and literally half their ass is sticking out. This is why God made silent-shutter, high ISO speed, no-flash, pocket sized, wafer-thin digital cameras.

It's all good, though. I don't judge people beyond amusement, I just like to look at them. I love the beauty of people.