What you looking at?

Popping out for my lunch today, I saw a woman on her mobile phone, chatting to her friend while absent mindedly staring through the window of a shop. So far so normal, except the shop was a Starbucks, and she was staring directly at someone sitting in the window trying to have a quiet cup of coffee and watch the world go by. I reckon they were about two feet apart, if that.

It’s amazing how uncomfortable a stare can make you, even when you’re not in the same room as the starer. The coffee drinker was shuffling and trying very hard not to look at Phone Girl, in the end settling for a 45degree stare at the ceiling with an added air of indifference. It didn’t work.

If I was younger (and therefore crueller) I would suggest this as sport. You could score based on how many people you got to move (with points being deducted if the staree didn’t notice).