Restaurant stare-off
Today is catchup day (if I have anything to do with, and I should hope I do). I've got far too many notes to be good for me and I really can't be bothered to put them into a comprehensible order. Nevertheless I'll muddle through and see what I can pull out of my backside. So, strap yourself in for a bumpy ride, the journey might take me a while and we're having as few toilet stops as possible.....jeez you can tell I haven't written anything in a while. I can't even bring myself to finish this paragraph....there we go...I think.
Lets start off with events furthest behind. We went out for a birthday celebration, oooh a few weeks ago now (I know, I'm really far too far behind here). So we're in this non-smoking restaurant and the smokers are gettting a bit....you know how smokers get. There's a look in their eyes as soon as the thought switches on and they need to leave for a quick fag. Being the only non-smoker there I was left to amuse myself for some time. Staring through the windows I mused "Why can't you think of anything entertaining when your bored since it would be damn helpful?". While I sat there staring it dawned on me, it was right in front of me the entire time. Anyone who caught my somewhat glazed stare never returned it. In fact they looked the other way as quickly as possible...could this be a new game on the horizon? Hell yeah. For a good ten minutes I played against maybe 50 - 100 people.
The rules were simple, stare at a passer by, if they looked away then they lost, if they looked at you again and still couldn't hold the stare then that's two losses and so on and so forth. If they maintained eye contact for a decent amount of time then they won. Around 4 people won that night, which is good for me since I used to find it incredibly difficult to hold someones stare (and added to that there was a street full of pissed off football supporters that made up a large portion of the players in this game). I was so chuffed when I totally whooped this kid in the restaurant across the street. He got owned haha.
Post game analysis indicates that the elderly are the best at this game, and if you're planning on leaving the building any time soon then you really should stop playing early on. What makes the elderly so good at this game? They do seem generally more interested in other peoples business than the general population (the curtain twitcher generation as it were). Would different expressions help? I'm not entirely sure what expression I was pulling, boredom and occassional excitement probably. I would think that an aggressive expression would work on some people, but not others. It would also depend on how attractive you are I guess (therefore explaining why that one didn't factor in mine haha).
Oh, and before we leave the restaurant portion of this recapping, we got 10% off for playing hide and seek with meat in the so called vegetarian food (that's to say we found it, we didn't hide it, what do you think we are? Monsters? Well I may be, but I wasn't alone and putting them in my camp just wouldn't be fair on them). Nice (although not if you're the vegetarian that happened to find that little meaty pot of gold).
Now I know I said there'd be no toilet stops, but I think you've atleast earned a cuppa tea. Make me one while you're at it please :)
We'll get back to this night out when the kettles boiled.
Lets start off with events furthest behind. We went out for a birthday celebration, oooh a few weeks ago now (I know, I'm really far too far behind here). So we're in this non-smoking restaurant and the smokers are gettting a bit....you know how smokers get. There's a look in their eyes as soon as the thought switches on and they need to leave for a quick fag. Being the only non-smoker there I was left to amuse myself for some time. Staring through the windows I mused "Why can't you think of anything entertaining when your bored since it would be damn helpful?". While I sat there staring it dawned on me, it was right in front of me the entire time. Anyone who caught my somewhat glazed stare never returned it. In fact they looked the other way as quickly as possible...could this be a new game on the horizon? Hell yeah. For a good ten minutes I played against maybe 50 - 100 people.
The rules were simple, stare at a passer by, if they looked away then they lost, if they looked at you again and still couldn't hold the stare then that's two losses and so on and so forth. If they maintained eye contact for a decent amount of time then they won. Around 4 people won that night, which is good for me since I used to find it incredibly difficult to hold someones stare (and added to that there was a street full of pissed off football supporters that made up a large portion of the players in this game). I was so chuffed when I totally whooped this kid in the restaurant across the street. He got owned haha.
Post game analysis indicates that the elderly are the best at this game, and if you're planning on leaving the building any time soon then you really should stop playing early on. What makes the elderly so good at this game? They do seem generally more interested in other peoples business than the general population (the curtain twitcher generation as it were). Would different expressions help? I'm not entirely sure what expression I was pulling, boredom and occassional excitement probably. I would think that an aggressive expression would work on some people, but not others. It would also depend on how attractive you are I guess (therefore explaining why that one didn't factor in mine haha).
Oh, and before we leave the restaurant portion of this recapping, we got 10% off for playing hide and seek with meat in the so called vegetarian food (that's to say we found it, we didn't hide it, what do you think we are? Monsters? Well I may be, but I wasn't alone and putting them in my camp just wouldn't be fair on them). Nice (although not if you're the vegetarian that happened to find that little meaty pot of gold).
Now I know I said there'd be no toilet stops, but I think you've atleast earned a cuppa tea. Make me one while you're at it please :)
We'll get back to this night out when the kettles boiled.
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